In the position, which runs for the next two seasons, the beloved composer for Studio Ghibli animated features will get a major commercial recording, curate a contemporary music concert series, provide mentorship for composition students, and conduct the world premiere of his Piano Concerto in spring 2027. - Moto Perpetuo
Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously worked at the National Archives, said he was ordered to resign from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. He had declined to turn over one of Eisenhower’s own swords so Trump could present it to Charles III while on a state visit to the UK. - CBS News
After more than two years of negotiations, 90% of union members voted to approve a potential walkout. Most employees of the museum earn an hourly rate between $16.20 (Chicago’s minimum wage) and $20, and they’ve had no raise since 2022. - WBEZ (Chicago)
Halilaj — at age 39, the youngest-ever winner of the award — is donating the prize money to a foundation he and his sister formed to support artists in his native Kosovo. - KERA (Dallas)
His hugely consequential three decades as director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art ended in September. For now he has consulting gigs in Saudi Arabia and India, and he’s giving a lecture series at the Louvre under the title “I Want a Museum. I Need a Museum. I Imagine a Museum.” - Artnet
There are so many other things that I could be doing to accomplish my longtime goal of bringing more equity and awareness of ballet’s lack of diversity, and finding ways to meet people where they are in communities like I grew up in. That started to override how I felt about being onstage. - Dance Magazine
“While Vancouver offers a wealth of contemporary-dance companies and high-caliber ballet schools, ‘no one is bringing classical ballet here beyond a touring Nutcracker, or producing it on a professional level,’ Beamish says. (The well-established Ballet BC performs mainly contemporary repertoire off-pointe.)” - Pointe Magazine
Across the country, the number of untethered readings disconnected from a specific publisher or magazine has skyrocketed over the past couple of years. These series act as dedicated, consistent spaces for people to come together and listen. - Electric Literature
“The way Tina’s fans are reacting really tells you something,” the mayor said. “All this passion, whether they love the sculpture or have some critiques, isn’t just about the art. It shows how incredibly special she is to them and to music history.” - The New York Times
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has recently struck a licensing deal with Hollywood production company Galisteo Media to bring Wright’s story to the big screen as a movie. - Fast Company
There are three surviving versions of The Lute Player: one in the Wildenstein collection, one at the Hermitage, both authentic, and one in Britain, known as the “Badminton Lute Player”, which was long considered a copy. An AI analysis now says that the Badminton is genuine and the Wildenstein is a copy. - The Guardian
In June, Musk raised eyebrows by promising to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,” using his Grok AI. That’s the same one with a nasty habit of heil-Hitlering. - NiemanLab
Musicians have become influential activists and symbols of political resistance, just as they were in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has repeatedly tried to suppress the music scene and punish its leaders, a sign that Putin seems to understand the danger they pose. - The Atlantic (Yahoo!)
The huge contemporary art museum, in the old factory town of North Adams in Massachusetts’s northeast corner, is launching Mass MoCA Records, which will feature both music recordings from studio sessions, live concerts, and museum residencies as well as spoken-word performances and sound art appearing at the museum. - Artnet
