The Kennedy Center is not only a performing arts venue of national and international repute; it is also a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy, likely the Oval Office’s most articulate advocate for the arts in our nation’s … » Read

After 44 years, the Alexander String Quartet has decided to disband. Long a fixture in San Francisco, it will offer its final performance there on May 4, after which it will head to the East Coast for a series of final concerts. Formed in 1981 in … » Read

The Juilliard School says it plans to raise $550 million and make the school tuition-free for all students. Fund-raising has begun but has a long way to go—$180 million has been pledged, most of it from the board of directors. The school … » Read

From July 18 through September 13 the 2025 BBC Proms will feature 86 concerts in London, Bradford, Belfast, Bristol, and Gateshead. Fifteen female conductors, a record number that represents a marked improvement from a decade ago , will ascend … » Read

The Kronos Quartet embraces a constantly changing repertoire that includes works by a multitude of composers and performers. But until now, what hasn’t changed in over 40 years are the four musicians who comprise the San Francisco-based … » Read

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America (VOA) while a number of law suits by employees are adjudicated. On April 22, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the … » Read

Barry Kosky, the 58-year-old Australian theater and opera director, is a man of many enthusiasms, loving everything from the Muppets and pop music to Vivaldi and Wagner. All that matters, he tells The Guardian , is “whether it touches the … » Read

After a year of negotiations aimed at maintaining the Welsh National Opera (WNO) as a full-time company and stopping a proposed 15 percent pay cut to the orchestra, 97 percent of the musicians of the Welsh National Opera (WNO) have voted to … » Read

In 2012 three Romanian art thieves stole seven paintings and drawings signed by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Lucian Freud, and Meyer de Haan from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. The three were caught and in 2013 confessed to the theft in a … » Read

“It’s frustrating... just gone overnight.” This terse lament from a student at Jacksonville University (JU) sums up the feelings of students impacted by the April 15 announcement of a dramatic reconfiguring of the school’s … » Read