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Salzburg Festival Fires Artistic Director Markus Hinterhäuser
“An Austrian pianist who turns 68 on Monday, Hinterhäuser became artistic director on Oct. 1, 2016. The festival announced in April 2024 that he had...
Despite Initial Denial From White House, Bill Maher Will Receive Mark Twain Prize For...
“After The Atlantic cited anonymous sources saying he was, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called it ‘fake news.’ But today the Kennedy Center made it official.”...
Trinity Rep Names A New Artistic Director
Meredith McDonough, formerly associate artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville and, before that, director of new works at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, takes...
This World-Famous Concert Hall Lets Students In To Study While Musicians Play For Them
“The study sessions were first organized during the COVID-19 pandemic by Entree, the youth association of (Amsterdam’s) Concertgebouw, to help students improve their concentration...
Arts Funding By Local Governments In Britain Has Fallen By Half Since 2010
“Analysis by the Autonomy Institute shows spending has dropped from £1.19 billion in 2010 to £539 million in 2024 to 25. The data covers local authority...
The People Getting Falsely Accused Of Using AI Because They Write Too Well
Everyone is trying to figure out who is LLM and who is human, and sometimes we’re getting it wrong. In particular, people who learned...
How The London Review Of Books Is Making Money Despite Losing Circulation
The independently-owned title has seen sales decline from a post-pandemic high of 91,000 copies in 2021 to about 78,000 currently. But the LRB has...
One Of America’s Best Minimalist Art Collections Is Sitting In An Old Philadelphia Rowhouse
The collection, and the home near Rittenhouse Square, belonged to Henry McNeil Jr. (son of Tylenol magnate Henry Slack McNeil), who died last July at...
One Of Chicago’s Leading Black Theaters Was Secretly Dissolved By Its Board, Say Actors
“’We were never notified,’ said Monifa Days, co-founding ensemble member (of Congo Square Theatre Company). ‘Our lawyers were never notified. How we found out...
Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director Announces Departure
“Rafael Bonachela will step down in the middle of 2028, marking 20 years at SDC. Under his leadership, the company has emerged as a...
Tracy Kidder, Author Of Award-Winning Nonfiction Bestsellers, Has Died At 80
“(He) turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers. … Kidder won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book...
Chicago’s Raven Theatre Chooses Steppenwolf Veteran For Producing Artistic Director
“Jonathan Berry, a longtime Chicago director and former artistic producer at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, will take the helm at Raven Theatre, a 43-year-old...
Jury Finds Meta And YouTube Liable For Deliberately Designing Addictive Apps
“Jurors (in Los Angeles) found the tech companies to be both negligent and having failed to provide adequate warnings about the potential dangers of...
BBC’s New Director-General Is A Senior Exec From Google
“Matt Brittin, 57, who has a background in tech, rather than traditional broadcasting, spent almost two decades at Google, becoming the company’s president in...
This Chicago Symphony Musician Took Her Baby On An Orchestra Tour
Second flutist Emma Gerstein didn’t want to miss Klaus Mäkelä’s first tour with the CSO, which was to the East Coast last month. Neither...
“I Miss The Amateur Spirit” — Willem Dafoe On His Theatre Programming At The...
“His goal (is) to platform voices that many audiences won’t be familiar with — and to push back against a theater landscape he feels...
This Dancer Is Ending A 53-Year Stage Career With San Francisco Ballet — But...
“Since 1980, Val Caniparoli” — for decades SFB’s principal character dancer — “has dedicated most of his energies to a much-lauded choreography career, and...
Staff At Australia’s National Broadcaster On 24-Hour Strike As Network Airs BBC Programming
“At 11am, the ABC News channel switched to broadcasting the BBC News channel as staff walked out in protest. The ABC News channel filled the schedule...
Robert White, America’s Favorite Irish Tenor, Has Died At 89
“He built a serious and wide-ranging classical career, collaborating with major artists like Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Yo-Yo Ma, without stinting the traditional...
Tacoma’s Leading Arts Organization Shutters, Prepares To Sell Its Home
“Tacoma Arts Live has filed for receivership, a court process similar to bankruptcy. ... TAL announced earlier this year that it would close for good this summer...
How Iran War Is Disturbing Publishing Industry’s Global Supply Chain
Shipping costs are rising; freighters are being re-routed, interfering with schedules; one shipment was on a vessel struck by a missile. Perhaps worst: insurance...
Here’s The Winner Of The First-Ever Hilary Mantel Prize
“The newly established award, launched to honour the legacy of the late Booker Prize-winning novelist, aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers across the...
OpenAI Shuts Off Its Video-Generating App — And Disney Now Has A Problem
“OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation app it launched last year, without providing a reason for the decision. … The announcement comes...
Zurich Transfers Ownership Of All Its Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
Two of the 11 pieces have been sent back to Nigeria; the other nine will remain at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg on loan. - ARTnews
Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 Million Galleries For African Art
“The institution’s new Arts of Africa galleries, … a 6,400-square-foot home for its 4,500-piece African art collection, … will open in Fall 2027, presenting 300 African...
