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Miami-Dade Arts Groups Are Fighting Mayor’s 52% Cut In Arts Funding
In her 2025-26 budget, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has proposed a 52% reduction in funding for cultural events and the elimination of the city-county Department...
Arts Magnet High School In San Antonio To Close
“The Henry Ford Academy: Alameda School for Art + Design ... is officially closing its doors on Aug. 31. Superintendent Jessica Rae Sánchez informed...
Dance Data Project Ranks America’s Largest Ballet Companies 2025
This latest list of the 150 largest (by expenditure) U.S. ballet and classically-based companies includes comparative rankings by company revenue, and surplus or deficit...
Federal Court Strikes Down Key Parts Of Florida’s Book-Banning Law
“A federal judge has struck down key parts of a Florida law that helped parents get books they found objectionable removed from public school...
San Diego Opera Renews General Director David Bennett For Five More Years
“David Bennett, who has served as San Diego Opera’s general director for the past 10 years, will carry on at least through the 2029-30...
Leonard Tow, Philanthropist And Cable TV Magnate, Dead At 97
“Besides (the 131-seat Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, he) funded a performing arts center at Brooklyn College; journalism programs at Columbia University and City...
Rising Sea Levels Could Endanger Easter Island’s Ancient Statues: Study
“By the end of the century, rising sea levels could push powerful seasonal waves into Easter Island’s 15 iconic moai statues, according to a new...
Why Are These People Claiming There’s A Man Trapped Inside Anish Kapoor’s Bean?
The accusation first surfaced on July 31, during the opening day of Lollapalooza: as a small group of protesters dressed in black gathered in...
Amitav Ghosh’s Next Book To Be Kept Unpublished Until 2114
“The next manuscript by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh will not be read for 89 years, as he becomes the 12th author to contribute to...
Despite Gentrification And Declining Membership, Brooklyn’s Black Church Choirs Are Hanging On
“According to Pew Research Center data, between 2019 and 2023, Black Protestant monthly church attendance fell from 61% to 46% — the largest decline...
Why It’s The Hands That Make All The Difference In Dance
“Hands not only guide the eye but are the body’s finishing touch. ... They also offer a way into how to look at a...
A New Wave Of Old Performers At The Edinburgh Fringe
“This year offers a ‘brigade of old gits’, as the actor Andy Linden says, some of them veterans such as Miriam Margolyes, who first...
Native American Tribal Radio Stations Try To Figure Out A Future Without CPB Funding
“Now, after Congress took away $9.4 billion in previously allocated public media funding and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting subsequently announced it will shut down, the future of...
We’ve Made Luigi Mangione Into The Latest Great American Celebrity Outlaw
His astounding social media fame has inspired a musical, Saturday Night Live skits, stand-up routines, academic inquiries into the regulation of health care algorithms and the psychosocial...
Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” To Undergo Restoration Early Next Year
The work on the monumental fresco behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel is intended to protect it from the effects of large-scale tourism....
NPR “Founding Mother” Susan Stamberg To Retire After 54 Years
“Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a national evening news program, hosted All Things Considered for 14 years before taking the helm of Weekend...
Chicago’s New Chamber Music Venue Is A Former 7-Eleven
At the CheckOut, Access Contemporary Music “aims to put on two or three chamber concerts a week, mostly self-produced. There are incipient plans for...
The Top Online Video Creators Are Building Systems That Mimic, And May Eventually Rival,...
“They're building production studios that stand toe-to-toe with Hollywood facilities and spending lavishly on higher-quality programming. Some of these stars, from MrBeast to Michelle...
Minnesota’s Arena Dances Changes Its Programming Model Away From Founder’s Works
For 30 years the Twin Cities-based company has focused on the choreography of its founder and artistic director, Mathew Janczewski. Beginning this season, Arena...
William The Conqueror’s Castle Reopens After $37 Million Restoration
“After five years and a $37 million restoration, Norwich Castle — one of England’s most iconic Norman fortresses — is reopening its doors with...
The Strange Things That Broadway Fans Send To Stars With Their Fan Mail
“A customized black track suit. Papier-mâché Little Shop of Horrors fly traps. Friendship bracelets in a range of colors and designs. … Fans are...
George C. White, Founder Of Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Is Dead At 89
“Mr. White had an immeasurable impact on the theatre industry through the Center, kickstarting the careers of countless playwrights, performers, directors, composers, and more.”...
Iranian Filmmaker Who Made Dramatic Escape Last Year Considers Going Back
Mohammad Rasoulof (Oscar-nominated The Seed of the Sacred Fig): “Over the 15 months I have been in exile, … so many bizarre events have...
Spain Is Roiled By Another Questionable Restoration Of Art In A Historic Church
This case isn’t as egregious as “Beast Jesus,” but it has happened to a far more prominent artwork: a statue, known as “la Macarena,”...
The Cuts DOGE Has Imposed On Public Libraries Are Affecting The Entire Book Publishing...
The funding freeze at the Institute of Museum and Library Services has left many public libraries without the bedrock federal grant money that keeps...
