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Pulitzers Land, Institutions Wobble

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This year’s Pulitzers were announced. Bess Wohl’s Liberation took Drama (Playbill). Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor, premiered last year by the Philadelphia Orchestra, won Music (Philadelphia Inquirer). Mark Lamster of the Dallas Morning News won Criticism for his architecture columns about downtown Dallas (Dallas Morning News). The book prizes went to Lepore, Li, Vaill, Kraus, Goldstone, and Spahr (Literary Hub).

The wobbles, meanwhile: the BBC’s newsroom is taking the deepest cuts in what will be the broadcaster’s biggest downsizing in 15 years — 2,000 jobs in total (The Guardian). IATSE has filed labor charges against the Kennedy Center over union layoffs ahead of its Trump-ordered renovation (TheWrap). Boston’s GBH and New England Public Media are merging into one statewide network (Inside Radio). And Leon Botstein is stepping down at Bard after 51 years, following new revelations about his ties to Epstein (AP).

Elsewhere: the Academy of Motion Pictures ruled AI actors and screenplays ineligible for Oscars (TechCrunch). Beatrice Venezi, fired from La Fenice opera house, says Italy’s right “used me and threw me away” (Moto Perpetuo). And Iran withdrew from the Venice Biennale days before opening, organizers offering no explanation (Artforum).

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