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Public Radio Organizations Form Consortium To Operate Satellite Distribution; NPR Sues To Stop Them
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in one of its last grants, awarded $57.9 million to a new consortium called Public Media Infrastructure to cover...
Naxos, World’s Largest Indie Classical Label, Sold To Chinese Corporation
The landmark deal, announced on September 25, gives Beijing-based Kuke Music Holding about 70% ownership of Hong Kong-based Naxos Music Group through two simultaneous...
North America’s Largest Repertory Theatre Company, Stratford Festival, Names New Artistic Director
“Jonathan Church, known for his work as a director and producer on multiple hit shows in London’s West End, and as the leader of...
Syracuse University Pauses Admissions For 20 Undergrad Majors, Most Of Them Arts And Humanities
The decision was made by the institution’s senate in its first meeting of the 2025-26 academic year without faculty input. Among the majors affected...
University Of Oxford To Open New $250 Million Arts Center
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, opening on October 13 and built for £185 million ($250 million), includes a 500-seat concert hall, a 250-seat theatre,...
Why The Latest “Cabaret” Revival Was A Smash In The West End But Crashed...
The London production of Rebecca Frecknall’s staging, for which the theatre was remodeled into a seedy Kit Kat Club, is going strong after four...
San Francisco Contemporary Dance Institution ODC Names New Co-Artistic Director
Mia J. Chong, a choreographer and currently a staging director for ODC, will succeed 83-year-old founder Brenda Way. The 54-year-old dance organization encompasses a...
Oklahoma Eliminates Arts Requirement For High School Students
“Starting with eighth-graders this year, Oklahoma won’t require fine arts credits to earn a high school diploma. ... The decision to offer fine arts curriculum...
Vancouver Art Gallery Selects Architects For Its Second Attempt At A New Building
“After previously picking Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron to design the building, the project was scrapped last year when its budget reportedly ballooned...
Orange County Museum Of Art Officially Acquired By University Of California Irvine
“UC Irvine will oversee the OCMA’s 53,000-square-foot, $98 million facility, which opened in 2022, within the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus in the...
Judge Suspends Plan For Mass Firings At Voice Of America
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for...
Maker Of “The Sims” Bought By Jared Kushner And Saudi Arabia
“Electronic Arts Inc., the maker of Madden NFL and The Sims, is set to be acquired for about $55 billion … (in) the biggest...
Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia Leaves Kimmel Center
“Anne Hagan, the group’s executive director, said it had become ‘difficult for us to keep up with payments’ for Kimmel base rent and the...
Behold The St. Louis Symphony’s Newly-Renovated Home
They’ve left the classic façade (and the acoustics) of Powell Hall intact and built around it the gleaming new Jack C. Taylor Music Center,...
Stephen King Says He’s Now The Most Banned Author In The United States
"I am now the most banned author in the United States — 87 books," he tweeted. "May I suggest you pick up one of...
New York Times Names Jesse Green “Culture Correspondent”
In July, as part of a widely-reported sweep which affected high-profile critics in three other disciplines as well, the newspaper removed Green as chief...
Social Media Has Made Dostoevsky A Hot Property
“Fyodor Dostoevsky — rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul — is having a moment. The American ‘new right’ has enlisted the...
How June Squibb Handles Being A Movie Star At Age 95
She was a career stage actress who took her first film role at 60 and her first lead at 94. Since then, she’s starred...
Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Arts Center Settles Into A New Home
“The first floor, equipped with lighting and a sound and video projection system, will be home to poetry readings, film screenings, open mics, and...
The Intricacies Of Casting Audiobook Actors
“Now, with more than 10,000 regularly working narrators, audiobooks are at the height of diversity casting, but the product can no longer be for...
New York Public Radio Offers Free Programming To Other Public Radio Stations Deemed “At...
The Station-to-Station Programming Project will waive distribution fees for programs produced or syndicated by NYPR — among them Radiolab, The New Yorker Radio Hour,...
Venice’s Opera House Appoints New Music Director; Musicians And Staff Revolt
This week the management of Teatro La Fenice, evidently at short notice, named as music director the 35-year-old conductor Beatrice Venezi, reportedly an associate...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Makes Its Final Grants To Local Stations Before Shutting Down
The $7.1 million being distributed is left over from the previous year’s pool of grant money; it had been allocated for grants which, in...
Crowd Of Log Cabin Republicans Show Up To Heckle Guitarist At Kennedy Center
Yasmin Williams, whose email to new Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell got a notoriously vicious response, performed there last week. Shortly before curtain, she...
Newly-Discovered John Singer Sargent Portrait On View At Paris’s Musée d’Orsay
The striking 1882 portrait Madame O’Connor reveals how Sargent was already experimenting with some of the same styling ideas that would go on to define...
