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A Visit To Africa’s Largest Contemporary Dance Festival
“Founded in 1997, the African Dance Biennial has spent nearly three decades rotating across African cities — most recently Maputo, Mozambique, in 2023 —...
Conductor Fired From Venice’s Opera House Speaks Out
Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director of Teatro La Fenice was greeted with an avalanche of criticism that she was unqualified, hired only because...
Leon Botstein To Retire As Bard College’s President Following Epstein Revelations
The 79-year-old music historian and conductor will step down in June after 51 years leading the small liberal arts college in New York’s Hudson...
Boston, Cape Cod, Central Mass. Public Radio Outlets To Merge
“WGBH Educational Foundation and New England Public Media plan to formally merge operations by the summer of 2026. ... The merger will combine Boston-based...
BBC’s Newsroom Will Be Hit Hardest By Job Cuts
“The division, home to about a quarter of all BBC staff, is being saddled with one of the highest cost-cutting targets as the corporation...
Days Before Opening, Iran Withdraws From Venice Biennale
“On Monday, in a statement, Biennale organizers announced that Iran had dropped out and would no longer be exhibiting its planned pavilion. The announcement comes …...
Backstage Workers’ Union Files Charges Against Kennedy Center Over Layoffs
“The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has filed charges (with the National Labor relations Board) against the Kennedy Center, accusing management of permanently cutting...
Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor” Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize For Music
“The work, … premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Marin Alsop in March 2025. … is based on an original story inspired by...
2026 Pulitzer Prize For Drama Goes To Bess Wohl’s “Liberation”
“Liberation centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives...
Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Lamster won for a series of columns about downtown Dallas that sparked civic debate and revealed how past decisions have shaped the present. A...
2026 Pulitzer Prizes For Books Go To Jill Lepore, Yiyun Lin, Amanda Vaill, Daniel...
Kraus’s Angel Down took fiction honors; Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us won for general nonfiction; Lepore’s We the People took history honors;...
Six Elite Ballet Dancers On What They Did After Retiring From The Stage
One became a kindergarten teacher and social worker; another became a midwife. One lucky fellow got to be artistic director of a company; another...
The Struggle To Protect Mauritania’s Medieval Library Town
Chinguetti developed as a trading post on the trans-Sahara caravan route to Timbuktu — and, as in Timbuktu, over the centuries Chinguetti families came...
Pay-To-Play: Rich People Are Hiring Themselves Orchestras To Conduct
“These experiences allow people with money but little musical ability to roleplay composer and conductor — for a price. This development flows naturally from...
An August Wilson Play In Italian? Yes, And With African-Italian Actors
“Renzo Carbonera, an Italian filmmaker, is making his theatrical directing debut with a production (of Jitney) that he says will be the first Italian-language...
Check Out The Plans For Putting An Actual Park In The Middle Of Park...
“A century ago, the median down ... Park Avenue was much more welcoming than it is today, a place with seating and substantial plantings...
City Of San Francisco Names Its First-Ever Arts And Culture Czar
“Longtime arts and city government veteran Matthew Goudeau has been named San Francisco's first executive director of arts and culture. … To that end, Goudeau will oversee...
Another Judge Throws Another Wrench Into The Onion’s Takeover Of Alex Jones’s Infowars Website
“The Onion’s plan to take over the Infowars platforms that Alex Jones built into a bullhorn of conspiracy theories and turn them into parody sites was in...
Artist Georg Baselitz Dead At 88
“Baselitz pushed figuration beyond recognizable form into abstraction — ultimately, and famously, flipping the medium itself: his experiments culminated in his signature upside-down portraits...
Streaming And Cable Subscribers Sue To Stop Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
“Paramount subscribers, in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in federal court, allege the acquisition will substantially reduce competition in streaming, news and theatrical distribution...
Money Troubles And Layoffs At California Academy Of Sciences In San Francisco
“The museum and research center … plans to lay off 53 employees and scale back some programs as it grapples with a growing budget deficit driven...
The Entire Venice Biennale Jury Has Resigned
“(The move was made) just nine days before the world’s oldest and most important contemporary art fair opens, amid tensions over Russia’s participation and the panel’s...
The English Heiress Who Masterminded The IRA’s Biggest Art Heist
“By her mid-30s, Rose Dugdale had burned every bridge to the world that made her. She gave away her inheritance, stole money from her...
Louisville Ballet CEO Steps Down After 3½ Years Of Turning The Company Around
When Leslie Smart took the helm in early 2023, the company’s existence post-COVID was in doubt. She undertook both cost-cutting and fundraising campaigns, and...
Well, At Least The Australian Ballet Lost Fewer Millions Than It Did The Year...
The company’s operating loss for 2025 was AU$4.7 million, down from AU$6 million in 2024. Losses are due to the costs of a temporary...
