The company is repurposing a century-old golf-course clubhouse along the city’s Beltline into the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts. The complex will include an immersive theater, a recital hall, offices, film and costume facilities, classrooms, and a café. Opening is expected in fall 2027. - Atlanta Magazine
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes in the development team and wider organisation’. Revelations regarding staff reduction come a year into artistic director and joint chief executive Nadia Fall’s tenure.” - Arts Professional (UK)
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at Versailles in 2024. ... He was deputy director of the Louvre’s department of graphic arts from 2006 to 2012.” - The Guardian
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after an independent review was triggered by the discovery of ‘financial irregularities’ and then identifying $600,000 specifically that was stolen.” The case has been referred to federal prosecutors. - 11 Alive (Atlanta)
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of inadequate security, and the broad-daylight theft of French crown jewels, Laurence des Cars has stepped down, effective immediately. - AP
“They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’ mix candy-type store where there is something here for everyone, whether it’s the Harlequin romance novel or something very pulpy like a sci-fi or horror novel that you could quickly get.” - The Guardian
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia — to eight, including Arden of Faversham (previously thought to be partly by Shakespeare) and portions of history plays Henry VI Part 1 and Edward III. - The Guardian
A different dark vision of society has emerged. Suddenly, we seem to be living in the age of Epstein. We tell ourselves that by understanding his rise to power we might understand the world. - The New Yorker
There’s soft coercion, where they are providing an incentive structure where they will not fund projects unless they have a social-justice angle. - Chronicle of Higher Education
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem to Lucinda Childs to Twyla Tharp. The 2026 Golden Lion has gone to Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s pioneering indigenous dance company. - Limelight (Australia)
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” - AP
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” - ARTnews
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. - The Strad
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. - WBEZ
