Gustavo Dudamel is settling into New York and describing the city’s tempo as “prestissimo” — a conductor’s way of saying everything moves faster here (The New York Times). Arts funding, unfortunately, is not keeping pace Illinois Governor Pritzker’s proposed arts budget is flat — and a 20% increase would only restore it to where it was two decades ago (WBEZ). In Australia, the picture is arguably worse, with organizations warning that funding precarity is driving artists out of the sector entirely (Artshub).
A lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of systematically altering historical information in national parks — erasing history in the very places charged with preserving it (ARTnews). The Venice Biennale Danza has awarded its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Bangarra Dance Theatre — the first time the honor has gone to a company rather than an individual, added to a lineage that includes Cunningham, Bausch, and Tharp (Limelight).
And a new critical edition of Thomas Kyd’s works has nearly tripled his known canon — with several plays previously attributed to Shakespeare and Marlowe now reassigned to the Elizabethan who arguably invented revenge tragedy (The Guardian). Authorship: still unsettled after 400 years.
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