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Antiquities-Trafficking Prosecutor Wins Art History Award
Matthew Bogdanos, founder and chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the New York District Attorney’s office, has been awarded the Marica Vilcek Prize in...
Three Sexual Assault Lawsuits Against Author Neal Gaiman Are Dismissed
“Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in February 2025, accusing Gaiman of multiple sexual assaults while...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Chief Of Staff And CFO Resign
“Maggie Fairs, who was promoted to chief of staff last year by former director and CEO Sasha Suda, will leave the museum at the end...
Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Loses Its Music Director
“The departure of the respected conductor, pianist and educator (Jeffrey Kahane) comes as the orchestra, formed from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony, finds...
Buffalo’s Classical Radio Station Plans To Go Commercial
“Buffalo Toronto Public Media has filed an application with the FCC to convert WNED-FM to commercial status, a move which would allow it to...
As ICE Roils Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Radio’s Numbers Soar
“(The network) finished the fourth quarter of 2025 as the No. 1 local public radio outlet in the United States in terms of web...
Japanese City Cancels Major Cherry-Blossom Festival Because Tourists Behave So Badly
City officials in Fujiyoshida, not far from Mount Fuji, said residents had been littering, entering private homes to use the bathroom, and even defecating...
“& Juliet” — How A Jukebox Shakespeare Musical That Flopped In Britain Became An...
“Today, (after almost four years in New York,) the musical is still packing in crowds, a feat for a show that isn’t a revival...
Pianist And Conductor Tamás Vásáry Has Died At 92
“The Hungarian pianist … was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the second half of the 20th century. He also...
Farewell To The Mass-Market Paperback Book
First introduced in the 1930s, mass-market books (once called “pulps”) sold in huge quantities for decades. Yet sales have been slowly-but-steadily sinking since the 1990s,...
Los Angeles To Host Major New Jazz Festival
Concert promoter and former city councilman Martin Ludlow always wondered why a city full of excellent musicians had no equivalent of the big jazzfests...
Minnesota Orchestra Reports Record Earned Revenue — And $4.2 Million Deficit
In fiscal year 2025, earned revenue (ticket sales, hall rentals, concessions) reached a record high of $12.1 million. Orchestra Hall reached 82% paid capacity,...
“Great American State Fair” To Replace Smithsonian Folklife Festival On National Mall This Summer
The Folklife Festival normally brings artisans and performers from various spots to the Mall for several weeks. This year, the Smithsonian says it will...
Buffalo AKG Art Museum Gave Its Director A Low-Interest $335K Loan For A House....
“Janne Sirén, director … since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home — more than half of which remains unpaid,...
Newspaper Bloodbath Continues As Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lays Of 15% Of Its Staff
“About 50 AJC employees (will) be losing their jobs, with about half of the cuts coming from the newsroom.” - SaportaReport (Atlanta)
Washington Post Lays Off Art Critic Sebastian Smee And Entire Photography Staff
All eight of the paper’s in-house photographers have lost their jobs, as has the Pulitzer Prize winner Smee, who has been with the Post...
Boosterism? Why, It Made America What It Is Today!
“Boosters don’t describe real things so much as what they hope will become real things, often presenting growth as inevitable and betting on optimism...
The Difference Between Human Hierarchies And Other Primate Hierarchies
Evolutionary anthropologist Thomas Morgan: “People can be coercive, but unlike other species, we also create hierarchies of prestige – voluntary arrangements that allocate labor and decision-making...
A.O. Scott Annotates The Court Order Freeing The Five-Year-Old Held By ICE
“Judge Biery’s decision … is much more than dry judicial reasoning. It’s a passionate, erudite, at times mischievous piece of prose. … In fewer than...
The Blazing Avant-Garde Theater Actress Who Up And Disappeared
Libby Howes came to New York in 1975 and fell in with The Wooster Group. Her work there thrilled viewers, and Helen Shaw was...
Audiences Singing Along At Broadway Musicals — Is It Getting Out Of Hand?
"Encouraging audience enthusiasm while upholding basic theater etiquette has become a tricky balance, but attracting fans itching to sing along is also a badge of popularity. …...
“Resistance Theater” Spreads As Trump’s Second Term Goes On
“The Unquiet series, organized by Sara Candela, a poet, is part of a larger movement in which artists, writers and theater groups across the...
What Gustavo Dudamel Told Domingo Hindoyan About L.A.
Dudamel is the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Hindoyan is the incoming music director of Los Angeles Opera; they have known...
Sony Spent $457 Million To Buy The “Peanuts” Franchise. Now What Will The Conglomerate...
It’s going to “leverage the iconic IP across music, film and global distribution platforms,” as one would expect. On the music side, this means...
30th Anniversary Performance Of Michael Flatley’s “Lord Of The Dance” Canceled And Then Uncanceled...
Amidst ongoing lawsuits between Flatley, creator of the Irish step-dancing spectacle, and Switzer Consulting, whom he contracted to manage the show’s touring operations, Switzer...
