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• Why Peter Gelb Needed Saudi Money For The Met Opera

  20-05-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  His supporters blame the Met’s issues on opera’s declining cultural currency and an operating structure that puts it at a unique disadvantage among arts organizations. “He has tried absolutely everything to keep his art going,” says Barbara Tober, a decadeslong patron. “He is held prisoner by the situation that confronts him every day.” – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• YouTube Now Has, On Average, More Daily Viewers Than Netflix

  04-06-2026 16:02 via theguardian.com
  “Average daily usage per YouTube account (worldwide) rose from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, according to analysis conducted by the Digital i agency across 20 international markets. The figure for Netflix dropped from 100.5 to 93.4 minutes.” – The Guardian
  
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• New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University

  04-06-2026 15:35 via newjerseyglobe.com
  “A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months after New York PBS outlet WNET declined to renew its contract to run the New Jersey outlet. – New Jersey Globe
  
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• Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations

  04-06-2026 15:01 via coloradosun.com
  
  “Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a business while ensuring they retain creative control over their work, which can include everything from songs, paintings and poems, to less obvious output, like creative coursework.” – The Colorado Sun
  
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• Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes

  04-06-2026 14:36 via apnews.com
  
  https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063
  “Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” &ndas
  
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• Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56

  04-06-2026 14:00 via deadline.com
  
  She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in Paris, she went on to direct other films, animated and live-action, and publish graphic works, and remained a lifelong advocate for the rights of Iranians, particularly women. – Deadline
  
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• Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?

  04-06-2026 09:29 via artsjournal.com
  The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.
  
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• Juilliard Flunks the Government’s New Math

  04-06-2026 07:29 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Education Department wants to judge college programs by what their graduates earn — and by that measure, Juilliard fails. So do Yale’s master’s programs in visual arts and music, and Harvard’s in museum studies (The New York Times). Programs that flunk could lose access to federal student loans entirely (ARTnews). It’s the purest version yet of a familiar demand: culture, prove your worth on somebody else’s terms.The New School is cutting roug
  
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• The Composer-Conductor Who Pioneered European Opera In Japan

  03-06-2026 21:03 via bachtrack.com
  
  Manfred Gurlitt was reluctant to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power, but he ultimately had to flee and ended up in Tokyo. By 1941 he was music director of the Tokyo Philharmonic; a decade later, he had founded his own opera company and taught most of Japan’s opera singers. – Bachtrack
  
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• The New School Makes Some Painful Cuts

  03-06-2026 20:32 via chronicle.com
  The New School will employ 65 fewer full-time faculty members in the fall than it did last year, Kessler said. Based on the most recent federal data, that reduction would amount to roughly 36 percent of its 2024 full-time faculty work force. – Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• Radio Station Says New Data Center Has Forced It Off The Air

  03-06-2026 20:01 via insideradio.com
  
  “Rainey Broadcasting has told the FCC that development surrounding a massive data center and semiconductor manufacturing project forced gospel WFQY Jackson, MS (970 AM) from its longtime location. Yet … a rival broadcaster (is) arguing the Commission should determine whether the station had already been silent before the site was lost.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Getting Students Inside Dance

  03-06-2026 19:44 via nytimes.com
  “That’s the entire mission of the school Not ‘You come to us’ but ‘We bring dance to you.’ And we want people in the room who can say, ‘I was just like you and now I’m out in the world dancing.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Will The Smithsonian’s Smallest Museum Survive?

  03-06-2026 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Anacostia, since renamed the Anacostia Community Museum, was the first federally funded museum focused on Black history, as well as the first federally funded community museum; it is still the only Smithsonian to archive and document daily life in the nation’s capital. – The Atlantic
  
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• A Story Of Gay Life In Early America

  03-06-2026 19:31 via artsfuse.org
  
  The two women lived openly as a same-sex couple from 1807 to 1851 in Weybridge, VT, where they ran a successful tailoring business. Despite some local misgivings, they were largely accepted. Neighborhood children apprenticed with them, and Sylvia served as a deacon in the local Congregational Church. – ArtsFuse
  
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• Stadtlichter Presse Makes My Heart Beat Stronger

  03-06-2026 19:28 via artsjournal.com
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• Here’s What Trump’s Washington Arch Would Look Like

  03-06-2026 19:15 via washingtonpost.com
  Much of the public debate around the arch has centered on how it would affect other nearby memorials, particularly the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. – Washington Post
  
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• A New Wave Of Women’s Ragebait Lit

  03-06-2026 19:04 via harpersbazaar.com
  
  “These books may have inspired more than their share of hot takes … but the conversations around them allow us to question where we are and what our feminist ideals have become … (now that) so many of the problems that felt like they were somehow close to being solved … have become drastically worse.” – Harper’s Bazaar
  
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• Ben Folds: The National Symphony Is In Peril

  03-06-2026 18:44 via variety.com
  
  The NSO doesn’t even know if it has a home, given the previously announced two-year closure of the Kennedy Center. This is a very bad sign. Further, the tools for survival are entangled in the Kennedy Center’s legal and financial troubles. – Variety
  
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• Trump Administration’s Plans To Cancel Student Loans For Almost All College Arts Programs

  03-06-2026 18:33 via nytimes.com
  Yale University’s master’s programs in visual arts and music would fail. Harvard University’s master’s degree in museum studies would fail. The Juilliard School’s undergraduate and graduate programs in music would fail. – The New York Times
  
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• Crystal Bridges Completes Major Expansion

  03-06-2026 18:15 via dezeen.com
  This component of a long-running plan for the site adds two galleries and 114,00 square feet (10,590 square metres) of space for a recent major gift and the subsequent reinterpretation of its collection. The museum’s footprint has expanded by half since its opening in 2011. – Dezeen
  
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• Second-Generation Cambodian-American, Trained Only In U.S., Becomes Skilled Teacher Of Khmer Classical Dance

  03-06-2026 18:02 via dance-teacher.com
  
  Peter Veth has never studied in Cambodia — only in his hometown of Lowell, Mass., a center of the diaspora. But from sixth grade on he took classes with visiting Cambodian masters and at Lowell’s Angkor Dance Troupe, where he now teaches the art form to younger dancers. – Dance Teacher
  
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• London’s Royal Opera House Is Embracing AI. Some Musicians Aren’t Happy

  03-06-2026 17:44 via the-independent.com
  
  “We started programming SHIFT because there is a bit of a crisis in the performing arts with regards to machine learning. There’s absolute panic. And in fact last year, when we announced it, some leading people in the arts were describing AI as evil and as the devil.” – The Independent
  
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• Report: Australian Arts Participation At Highest Level Ever

  03-06-2026 17:31 via creative.gov.au
  
  More Australians are attending live arts events and festivals, with 2025 the highest level of attendance recorded. While some art forms have seen shifts back towards more frequent pre-COVID-19 attendance patterns, others have not fully recovered. – Creative Australia
  
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• Carl Schachter, Influential Music Theorist, 93

  03-06-2026 17:15 via theviolinchannel.com
  
  His groundbreaking work as a music theorist primarily advanced Schenkerian theory by integrating rhythmic, metric, and harmonic dimensions into linear voice-leading analysis, while emphasizing how these elements interact to form structural coherence in tonal music. – The Violin Channel
  
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• Painter Of Dallas Whale Mural Painted Over For World Cup Promo Sues FIFA

  03-06-2026 17:01 via apnews.com
  
  The 17,000-square-foot mural, one of artist Robert Wyland’s popular “Whaling Wall” series, had been on view in downtown Dallas since 1999. Wyland is suing international soccer’s governing body and the building’s owners for $25 million under the federal Visual Artist Rights Act, saying the mural was covered without his knowledge or consent. – AP
  
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• Dito Von Reigersberg, Aka Martha Graham Cracker, Philadelphia Arts World’s Favorite Drag Queen, Is Dead At 53

  03-06-2026 16:33 via msn.com
  As Martha, he hosted a highly popular monthly cabaret and collaborated with, among others, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Philadelphia. He also had a notable career, under his own persona, as an actor and theatermaker, most notably as a cofounder of Pig Iron Theatre Company. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Brazilian Police Say They’ve Identified Mastermind Of Matisse Robbery In São Paulo

  03-06-2026 16:05 via artreview.com
  
  Last December, thieves stole 13 prints, including eight by Matisse, from the Biblioteca Mario de Andrade in São Paulo. Two suspects accused of the robbery itself were identified soon afterward; police have now named the alleged ringleader, who is currently in prison on other charges and has a considerable criminal history. – ArtReview
  
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• New York State Adds $150 Million To Theater Production Tax Credit — But Is It Going To Shows That Really Need It?

  03-06-2026 15:36 via news.bloomberglaw.com
  
  “The program … faces criticism from budget watchdog groups, state lawmakers, and even theatrical insiders who say the tax credits don’t support shows most in need of financial support. Many that have received state aid had the backing of major production companies,” including Disney. – Bloomberg Law News
  
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• James Murdoch Buys “New York” Magazine And Vox

  21-05-2026 14:01 via apnews.com
  Rupert Murdoch’s younger, more liberal-leaning son has purchased, for a reported-but-unconfirmed $300 million, roughly half of the current Vox Media: New York magazine and its verticals (among them Vulture, The Cut, and Curbed), the Vox.com website, and the Vox Media Podcast Network. – AP
  
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• Executive Director – NXTHVN via TOC Arts Partners

  21-05-2026 06:57 via artsjournal.com
  About the Opportunity
  NXTHVN seeks an Executive Director to provide visionary leadership at a defining moment in the organization’s evolution. Founded in 2018 by acclaimed artist Titus Kaphar and impact investor Jason Price, NXTHVN has grown rapidly into a nationally recognized institution that weaves together residencies and fellowships for visual artists, professional advancement, exhibitions, and community-rooted economic development. The next Executive Director will partner with the f
  
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