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The Met Gala arrives into an unusually hostile climate. The Bezos sponsorship is drawing real anger amid a surge of anti-rich sentiment in New York and nationwide (The New York Times). Which sharpens an awkward question raised over the weekend: what is the Costume Institute, exactly, if not the party that funds it? (The New York Times). And just for ballast, The Conversation wonders whether fashion is art at all (The Conversation) — a question the red carpet will settle.
Other institutions in mid-wobble: The Boston Globe editorializes that the BSO board’s austerity memo has triggered the fundraising collapse the austerity was supposed to prevent (Boston Globe). Venice scraps the Golden Lion for a People’s Choice prize and quietly readmits Russia and Israel — what could possibly go wrong (Hyperallergic)? Anish Kapoor would like the US shown the door next (The Guardian).
And a three-alarm fire broke out Monday morning at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, home of The Book of Mormon (Playbill).
All of our stories below.
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