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Indianapolis’s Arts Agency Asks City Council To More Than Double Its Funding
For a decade until 2019, local lawmakers kept Indy Arts Council's budget stagnant at $1 million, and there were only small increases and some...
The Industry Told Gabriela Ortíz Her Music Was Too Exotic. Now It Seems To...
For most of the past 40 years, teachers told the 59-year-old Mexican composer her works were too exotic. Critics found it too big and...
Microsoft Announces Big Layoffs At Xbox
"Microsoft Gaming will lay off approximately 650 employees, or 3% of the Xbox owner’s global workforce, in a new round of eliminations following last...
For The First Time In Centuries, You Can Walk The Walls And Ramparts Of...
"Visitors to Carcassonne in south-western France will be able to walk a full 1.3 km circuit of its upper ramparts — the first time...
After 30-Year Hiatus, London City Ballet Makes Successful Return
One of director Chris Marney's plans is to spend considerable effort and time touring regional Britain, where ballet companies rarely appear. "What we're finding...
Why Won’t Directors Guild Of America Include Directors Of Animated Films?
"The DGA has long kept animation directors out of the guild. And the chasm between the benefits afforded to live-action directors and animation directors...
Why Climate Protesters Chose Art Vandalism As Their Medium (And Why It Isn’t Working)
The group Just Stop Oil, which started the practice of vandalizing artworks in the name of stopping climate change when two students threw tomato...
Angela Gheorghiu Interrupts Another Singer Mid-Aria, Is Booed Off The Stage
During a performance of Tosca in Seoul last weekend, tenor Alfred Kim was singing an encore when Gheorghiu (who objects to encores) marched onstage,...
Arts Workers In Slovakia Threaten National Strike
"The ultimatum follows the culture ministry’s firing the heads of the Slovak National Theater and Slovak National Gallery in August. … The movement, known...
Rebecca Horn, Sculptor And Installation Artist, Is Dead At 80
"(She was) known for her surreal and sensual 'art machines' incorporating musical instruments, bird feathers and mechanical engineering." - The Guardian
Li-Young Lee Wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Lee, whose books include The Dressing and The Invention of the Darling, joins such previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin and Joy Harjo....
After DeSantis Eliminated State Funding, Arts Organizations In Miami Face County Funding Cuts As...
"The proposed budget cuts nearly $2.5 million from Miami-Dade County’s current $25.5 million budget for art grants. … As Miami bolsters its reputation as...
Art Institute Of Chicago Gets $75 Million Gift For New Building
"The funds — which amount to the single largest naming gift the museum has ever received — come from longtime art collectors Aaron I....
New York City Opera Tries Again For Revival With New Director
"Constantine Orbelian was promoted Tuesday to executive director of the largely dormant New York City Opera, which hasn’t given a staged performance since 2022...
Lincoln Center Theater Appoints Lear deBessonet And Bartlett Sher Its Next Leaders
The new directors will take up their posts when current artistic director André Bishop retires next summer after 33 years. Sher, as executive producer...
Orlando Ballet Hires New Executive Director From Joffrey
"Bradley W. Renner … comes to the position after serving as General Manager and then Director of Development at the Joffrey Ballet for the...
Italy’s Culture Minister Is Out After Giving His Ex-Mistress A Job
"Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, had faced a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur, said last month she had...
In Staging A Script About Sri Lanka’s Civil War, A Playwright Suddenly Learns About...
S. Shakthidharan, born a Sri Lankan Tamil, was a toddler when his family fled the fighting and settled in Australia. When he asked his...
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry To Step Down In 2025 After 30 Years As Director
"He has held the top post since 1995. When it was revealed in 2018 that he planned to continue through 2025, (when his contract...
In A Painful Profile, Kathy Bates Says That Her Current Role Will Be Her...
Bates — who said she'll retire after finishing the title role in the reboot of the TV series Matlock — was having a very...
Apple Must Pay Ireland $14.4 Billion In Back Taxes, Rules EU’s Highest Court
Finally closing a case that started in 2016, the European Court of Justice agreed with the European Commission (the European Union's executive branch) that...
LACMA’s New Building Won’t Be Opening Until 2026
The new home for the museum's permanent collection, designed by starchitect Peter Zumthor and named the David Geffen Galleries, was initially scheduled to open...
Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized For Emergency Heart Surgery
The disgraced film producer and convicted-then-unconvicted rapist was rushed to New York City's Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island, where he is being held pending...
2024 Praemium Imperiale Awards To Maria João Pires, Shigeru Ban, Ang Lee, Doris Salcedo,...
The 15 million yen (roughly $105,000) prize, intended as an arts equivalent of the Nobel prizes, go to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, Oscar-winning...
Interim No More: Peter Oundjian Appointed Colorado Symphony’s Music Director
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet), Oundjian stepped in as principal...