After decades of hiding in plain sight, Banksy has apparently been unmasked. A Reuters investigation took reporters from Ukraine to London to Manhattan, and claims to have found more than just a name (Reuters).
Bodytraffic, one of LA’s finest contemporary dance companies, is closing after 20 years — its founder burned out on fundraising (Los Angeles Times). The Boston Philharmonic will shutter after next season when Benjamin Zander, now 87, finally retires (Boston Classical Review). Classical Music magazine, going since the late 1970s, is done (Slipped Disc). And Richard Grenell is out at the Kennedy Center, which he leaves “drastically changed, and in many ways diminished” (The New York Times).
Something that should have happened sooner: Harvard finally surrendered the oldest known photographs of enslaved people — 1850 daguerreotypes — to the International African-American Museum in Charleston, after a seven-year legal fight (AP).
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