For the nine months from September 2025 to May 2026, the Balourdet Quartet will serve as the first-ever string quartet in residence for the Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS). The four members—violinists Angela Bae and Justin DeFilippis, … » Read

On May 18, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, held a long-anticipated meeting in London to reset U.K.-E.U. relations in the … » Read

For flashes of Zen insight, George Balanchine’s collected sayings rival or surpass Yogi Berra’s. Did the founding choreographer of the New York City Ballet truly once propose that all ballets should be called Swan Lake because then … » Read

Once upon a time, Republicans embraced private giving as a way to replace government assistance. In 1988, George H. W. Bush put forth the idea of “a thousand points of light” in his acceptance speech as the Republican nominee for … » Read

When the National Endowment of the Arts withdrew a $25,000 grant awarded to support the Virginia Opera’s world premiere of Loving v. Virginia , by composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo, a chorus member in the production, … » Read

The Metropolitan Opera increasingly relies on co-productions as a means to cut costs and, in most cases, give new stagings an “out of town tryout” before coming to the Met. The current season’s John Adams’s Antony and … » Read

At a White House dinner meeting of the Kennedy Center board on May 19, Richard Grenell, whom Trump installed as interim head of the Center, reported that a financial review had “found $26 million in phantom revenue, fake revenue.” … » Read

I am deeply troubled by the false allegations regarding the management of the Kennedy Center being made by people without the context or expertise to understand the complexities involved in nonprofit and arts management, which has been my … » Read

This year marks the 60 th and, if the Trump administration has its way, the last anniversaries of the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH). The two agencies, along with the Institute for Museum and Library Services … » Read

Lincoln Center is planning a $335 million makeover of its west edge, which for six decades has presented a fortress-like wall to its Amsterdam Avenue neighbors, including the Amsterdam Houses, a 1947 public housing project; LaGuardia High School; … » Read