Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs, Drops Sports and Books Sections
“Executive Editor Matt Murray … said the Post will shutter its sports desk, while keeping some sports writers who will write feature stories. It will likewise close...
National Symphony Execs Say It Won’t Be Shut Down Or Laid Off As Kennedy...
The orchestra’s board chair and executive director told musicians and staff that they would remain employed, that the Kennedy Center would maintain its funding...
Pope Orders Removal Of Italian Prime Minister’s Face From Restored Church Fresco
Eyebrows were raised at reports that a restored fresco in Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina had an angel with the face of...
Antwerp’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is Saved (For Now)
After a wave of criticism, the culture minister of the Belgian region of Flanders has reversed her plan to move the Antwerp museum’s entire...
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling To Get A Three-Month Cleaning
The first major restoration since 1994 of The Last Judgment (as the fresco is titled) a film of microparticle buildup — a “widespread whitish...
The Challenge For Disney’s New CEO: Become The Face Of Disney
Since Walt Disney first created the company, the CEO has been a highly visible presence not only in Hollywood and on Wall Street, but...
How GenZ Is Using AI
Our survey reveals that Gen Z’s relationship with AI is more pragmatic than personal. While headlines suggest young people treat chatbots as confidants and...
Explaining That Weird Delivery Poets Use When They’re Reading Their Work Aloud
“Good poets exploit that musicality the same way good rappers do, favoring one word over another for the way it interacts with the words...
Big Drop In Female Winners At This Year’s Grammys
Our analysis reveals that women and female bands sustained a dramatic fall in winners compared to last year. They received less than a quarter...
The Most Influential Book Critic Is Found On TikTok
You will not find any submissions of his languishing in the LRB slush pile. Instead he posts on BookTok and BookTube, the social media planes concerned...
New Artistic Director For Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre
Brandon Weinbrenner, currently the associate artistic director at the Alley Theatre in Houston, will succeed Vincent Lancisi, who is stepping down at the end of...
Study: For Now, Humans Beat AI In High-Level Creativity. Next Week?
The AI's "all outperformed the average human. However, when they measured the average performance of the top 50 percent of human participants, it exceeded...
The Political Left Case For Teaching The Great Books
The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems,...
Judge Rules For Arbitration In Philadelphia Museum Director Firing
A judge has ruled that the messy conflict between the Philadelphia Art Museum and its former director and CEO, Sasha Suda, who was dismissed in November, will go...
Glasgow’s Centre For Contemporary Arts Goes Bankrupt And Shuts Down
“The venue and office space, on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street, fell into the hands of liquidators on Friday, with the building immediately shut down and...
French Museums Would “Empty Out” Under Proposed Repatriation Law
Restituting artefacts will be crucial to improve France’s relations with its former African colonies, many of which have broken off military co-operation with Paris....
Kennicott: What’s At Stake At The Kennedy Center
It certainly seems possible that the 1971 building, designed by architect Edward Durrell Stone, could be partially or completely erased. And with it, the...
Essa-Pekka Salonen Gets A New Job
The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Monday, Feb. 2, that the Finnish conductor and composer will serve as director of the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music in...
Disney Reveals Bob Iger’s Successor As CEO: Theme Parks Chief Josh D’Amaro
“The appointment marks the second time in six years that Disney has selected a successor to Iger — his previous pick in parks boss...
New Federal Theatre Founder Woodie King Jr. Is Dead At 88
King launched the Off-Broadway company in 1970 to produce work by Black playwrights and give employment to Black theatermakers. Playwrights Ntozake Shange, Charles Fuller,...
Was Alexei Ratmansky’s New Ballet Inspired By Trump? Not Exactly.
The choreographer had the idea for The Naked King, based on the old fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and premiering this week at New...
The Kennedy Center Closure Announcement Is An Even Bigger Mess Than You Thought
Many people who should have been apprised of Trump’s plans before they were announced were not, including several Kennedy Center board members. And evidently...
The Real Reason Trump Is Closing Kennedy Center Next Season? No Programming, Says Source
“The Kennedy Center does not have a 2026-2027 season,” a source told CNN Inside Politics host Dana Bash. “There would not have been any...
Trump Promises He Won’t Tear Down The Kennedy Center — But …
… he said that about the East Wing of the White House, too. And what Trump did say sounds worrisome: “I’ll be using the...
Here Are The 2026 Winners of Grammy Awards For Classical Music
The biggest winner was composer Gabriela Ortiz, who took three prizes — Best Choral Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Classical Compendium —...
