How Ideologues Infiltrated the Arts

The trouble began for Lincoln Jones, as it did for so many in the summer of 2020, with the black square. Jones, 47, is a longtime and celebrated Los Angeles–based choreographer. For 11 years he has run the American Contemporary Ballet company. His work has been featured regularly in The New York Times and Los Angeles Magazine, which called his 2012 ballet Serenade in A “a multifaceted snapshot of beautiful choreography crisply integrated with music.”