The running news file on American cultural institutions: leadership changes, prize shortlists, grant decisions, canceled seasons and new programming. Items are short, dated and sourced. Useful for curators, publicists, grantmakers and readers who need to know what shifted in the arts this week.
Every Monday afternoon the Broadway League releases the numbers that decide which shows live and die — here is how to read them like an insider, with the 2025–26 season still on the board.
With the first major Raphael retrospective in the United States open since March 29, 2026, and the Costume Institute's 'Costume Art' set for May 10, the Met is running a two-front exhibition season.
The 48th Kennedy Center Honors gathered a boxer, a country traditionalist, four face-painted headliners, a disco survivor, and a Broadway original in Washington on December 6–7, 2025.
Rabih Alameddine's fiction win and Omar El Akkad's nonfiction win at the 76th National Book Awards on November 19, 2025, confirmed a literature that refuses to stay in one lane.