Conductor Fired From Venice’s Opera House Speaks Out
Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director of Teatro La Fenice was greeted with an avalanche of criticism that she was unqualified, hired only because...
Media’s “Find Us” Problem
Broadcast once provided a predictable, repeated structure built into daily life. As the “tune-in” habit has eroded, we haven’t been deliberate enough in designing...
What We Lose When “The Late Show” Goes Away
The cancellation of Colbert’s show right before a deal that needed government approval has given his exit an additional resonance. - The New York Times
Study: Relocating New Orleans Needs To Start Now Because Of Climate Change
The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded...
Leon Botstein To Retire As Bard College’s President Following Epstein Revelations
The 79-year-old music historian and conductor will step down in June after 51 years leading the small liberal arts college in New York’s Hudson...
Just How Long Should An Arts Leader Stay?
As one artist told ArtsHub: ‘Artistic director and executive director jobs are so few and far between in Australia that it is no wonder that...
The Tiniest Particles In The Universe Don’t Tell You What The Universe Is
We are taught from a young age that matter is made of atoms, built from particles such as electrons, and electrons are not built...
What Happened To The Viral Kid Dance Stars?
Watching these dancers online was like looking into a crystal ball: There was the future of dance. But did that promise bear out? -...
Boston, Cape Cod, Central Mass. Public Radio Outlets To Merge
“WGBH Educational Foundation and New England Public Media plan to formally merge operations by the summer of 2026. ... The merger will combine Boston-based...
AI Actors, Scripts Won’t Be Eligible For Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with...
Personal Encounter: Music That Reflects Back Grief
"Having my own churning emotions echoed back to me in this way was a stunning experience, one that, perhaps paradoxically, lifted me out of...
Nicole Hollander, The Acerbic Cartoonist Who Created Sylvia, Has Died At 86
“Hollander made Sylvia, who got her own strip in 1980, a tart-tongued, witty, loquacious single mother who held court — sometimes from her bathtub...
BBC’s Newsroom Will Be Hit Hardest By Job Cuts
“The division, home to about a quarter of all BBC staff, is being saddled with one of the highest cost-cutting targets as the corporation...
Days Before Opening, Iran Withdraws From Venice Biennale
“On Monday, in a statement, Biennale organizers announced that Iran had dropped out and would no longer be exhibiting its planned pavilion. The announcement comes …...
Backstage Workers’ Union Files Charges Against Kennedy Center Over Layoffs
“The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has filed charges (with the National Labor relations Board) against the Kennedy Center, accusing management of permanently cutting...
Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor” Wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize For Music
“The work, … premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Marin Alsop in March 2025. … is based on an original story inspired by...
2026 Pulitzer Prize For Drama Goes To Bess Wohl’s “Liberation”
“Liberation centers on a group of women who gather to talk, during the second wave feminist movement of the 1970s, about changing their own lives...
Architecture Critic Mark Lamster Of Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Lamster won for a series of columns about downtown Dallas that sparked civic debate and revealed how past decisions have shaped the present. A...
2026 Pulitzer Prizes For Books Go To Jill Lepore, Yiyun Lin, Amanda Vaill, Daniel...
Kraus’s Angel Down took fiction honors; Goldstone’s There Is No Place for Us won for general nonfiction; Lepore’s We the People took history honors;...
The Boston Symphony’s Castigated Blueprint Makes Sense
Today’s online “Arts Fuse” carries a piece of mine commenting yet again on the Boston Symphony firestorm, which pits enraged musicians against the management and board – and turns Andris Nelsons, the outgoing music director, in a martyr. Excerpts follow. The read the whole thing, click here. A 14-page “State
Backlash Mounts To Met Gala Because of Bezos Sponsorship
Opposition to the Bezoses started almost immediately after they were announced as financial sponsors in February, and comes amid a surging anti-rich sentiment nationwide and in...
Mass Author Walkout Imperils Prestigious Australian Publisher
At least 17 authors have ended their contracts with UQP or vowed not to work with the publisher again, after a series of events...
Study: Western Music Is Becoming Simpler And More Repetitive
A recent study found that Western music is not only starting to sound more alike but is also becoming less structurally complex than in the past....
Could The Met’s Costume Institute Survive The Los Of Its Gala?
Along with this year’s inauguration of the new Condé M. Nast Galleries in the Great Hall, which will house the Costume Institute’s blockbuster shows, the endowment...
Study: The Links Between A Talent For Math And A Talent For Music
A study of young adults with backgrounds in mathematics or music found that individuals with better mathematical abilities tended to have better musical abilities...
