Art and Culture

The Nashville Symphony announced Sept. 29 that Mark Cantrell has stepped down as president and CEO amid the organization's "financial emergency."Mark Tillinger was appointed by the board of directors to replace Cantrell, who took the…
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This story has been updated to clarify the extent of the furloughs.The Nashville Symphony has declared a state of "financial emergency," suspending the 2026-27 season effective Oct. 18, as well as furloughing roughly half their staff and…
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In the early 2000s, The Boston Globe published a series of bombshell articles that exposed the cover-up of abuse within the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The series was one of the more consequential pieces of journalism this century,…
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Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced today. Workers at the Whitney Museum approved strike action…
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Lookingglass Theatre has appointed David Catlin, a longtime ensemble member and a Northwestern University faculty member, and Ericka Ratcliff, most recently the literary manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, as its new co-artistic…
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Drexel says that while it appreciates the William Penn Foundation’s “public suggestion that it assist in temporarily keeping the Academy’s museum open,” they have “not received a formal proposal with a defined level of financial…
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For months, two-thirds of Cuba had no electricity at night. Some neighborhoods in the capital of Havana have been without running water for more than two weeks. Transportation is scarce and eggs, bread and cooking oil are hard to find.…
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The late 19th century saw a wave of American towns building what they called opera houses. They presented all kinds of entertainment, from plays to vaudeville to lectures to magic shows (and yes, occasionally touring opera and classical…
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I’ve been watching part of a movie in nonsequential, two-minute clips on my TikTok feed.…
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I am a sick man. I have skipped Friday night plans to spend hours repositioning the speakers in my living room, by inches and degrees. I have squandered small fortunes on silver and black boxes that most people couldn’t identify, whose…
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