Seattle Symphony’s Home To Close For Renovations This Summer
“Benaroya Hall, the longtime home of the Seattle Symphony …, will close for six weeks beginning in July for the final phase of a...
Architectural Drawings Of Trump’s Planned White House East Wing Released
“The drawings picture the East Wing volume extending well into the White House lawn. At roughly 90,000 square feet, its footprint is more than...
Internal Kennedy Center Email Reveals Details Of Planned Renovation Work
“The renovations are more modest in scale and scope than what President Trump has publicly outlined for the revamped arts center, and it is...
Black Actress Sues Harvard’s American Repertory Theater For Discrimination, Alleging Permanent Scalp Damage
Nike Imoru said that for last year’s staging of The Odyssey, she was told to get cornrows but was not provided with a competent...
Peter Gelb, Controversial Met Opera Boss, Announces Retirement Date
The company’s general manager — who drew widespread praise in his first few years but has recently come under fire as the Met has...
Met Operas’s Next Season Will Be Its Smallest Since The 1960s
During its 2026-27 season, the Metropolitan Opera will present only 17 productions, the fewest in a full season since (at least) the company moved...
Why Does Bernini’s Beloved Elephant Sculpture In Rome Keep Losing The Tip Of Its...
Because people keep knocking it off — most recently, this past weekend, when police found the four-inch marble fragment from the left tusk on...
Vertical Dance: A Brief History
How a cross between rock climbing, rappelling, circus aerobatics and contemporary dance turned into a performing art of its own. - The Mercury News...
Almost Everything We Knew About Mayan Culture Turns Out To Be Wrong
Outsiders’ power over the story of the Maya is written into the people’s very name. After their arrival in the early 1500s, the Spanish...
Outsourcing Publishing Decisions To Influencers
Bindery Books, a startup founded by publishing veterans, uses social media book influencers as acquiring editors to champion underrepresented authors and build engaged reader...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Stage New “Game Of Thrones” Prequel
George R.R. Martin, author of the series of novels at the heart of the franchise, says that the RSC was the ‘obvious choice’ to...
Children’s Vocabularies Are Shrinking In Shift From Reading To Screens
“So many children are now falling behind,” Dent said. “The vocabulary gap is getting bigger and there is a real perception that vocabulary development...
V&A Museum Acquires First-Ever YouTube Video
“The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” a V&A spokesperson...
Marketing To Chatbots
The rise of chatbot marketing is happening as A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini hit mass adoption. OpenAI has said that 800 million...
Could The Pipeline Of Venezuelan Classical Musicians Start Running Dry?
Graduates of the country’s El Sistema program can be found on concert stages and in top-flight orchestras all over the world; conductor Giancarlo Guerrero...
Metaphor? Leader Of US Constitution Center Steps Down As America’s 250th Birthday Begins
The first and only museum dedicated to the US constitution has been plunged into turmoil over the sudden departure of its president, a legal scholar widely...
Without Big New Musicals This Broadway Spring Will Look Different
In the first third of 2026, we’ll see 11 plays and only six musicals on Broadway. And many of the musicals that will open share a...
Taliban Burn Hundreds Of Musical Instruments
Afghanistan’s National Television, a broadcaster controlled by the Taliban, reported on Tuesday that morality police in Parwan had gathered the instruments over the past...
A New York Times Obituary Writer Contemplates The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
“To begin with, a Book of the Dead is a misnomer, applied by 19th-century Western scholars. A more accurate translation of the title would...
Powerhouse Indie Studio Neon In Talks To Sell A Piece Of Itself
“Department M, a production company founded two years ago by Mike Larocca and Michael Schaefer, is in talks to acquire a significant stake in Neon,...
David Hays, Founder Of National Theater Of The Deaf, Has Died At 95
On top of a career designing sets and lights for more than 50 Broadway productions and over 30 George Balanchine ballets, he became, in...
Radio Free Asia Resumes Broadcasting To China Following Trump Administration’s Attempt To Eliminate It
“Bay Fang, RFA’s president and chief executive, wrote in a post on LinkedIn on Wednesday: ‘We are proud to have resumed broadcasting to audiences...
Pennsylvania Re-Orients Its Arts Funding Guidelines Toward Economic Development
“The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is rebranding its granting operation as a new entity called Pennsylvania Creative Industries. The new granting guidelines are...
California Classical Radio Stations Adopt A Single Statewide Identity
“Classical California has launched a unified statewide brand, consolidating KUSC, KDFC and nine additional stations under a single identity. The move follows the unification of...
José Van Dam, One Of 20th Century’s Greatest Lyric Baritones, Is Dead At 85
“For more than four decades, he was a central figure in European opera, admired not for flamboyance but for integrity, stylistic intelligence, and a...
