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Toxic Lead Levels in Paris’s Palais Garnier Opera Delays Renovation

07/03/2026

The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical adaptation)—has “throw[n] a …

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New York Mayor Mamdani Announces Record $323.8 M. in Culture Funding

07/02/2026

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of …

Метки : бюджет#культуранью-йоркфинансированиехудожникикризис доступности

Manhattan Borough President Plans to Use His $50 M. Budget Toward the Arts

06/24/2026

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced Tuesday that he will dedicate $50 million, the entirety of his discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, toward the arts, reports the New York Times. Hoylman-Sigal, who assumed office in January, told the …

Метки : искусствоманхэттенбюджетгранты#культураполитика

Congress Proposes Cutting Department of Education’s Arts Grant Program

06/17/2026

The US House Appropriations Committee, chaired by Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma, advanced a budget proposal that could cut funding from the Department of Education’s only arts grant. Erin Harkey, CEO of the advocacy nonprofit Americans for the Arts, told …

Метки : грантыискусствообразованиебюджетполитиканекоммерческие организации

House Proposes $0 For Department of Education’s Lone Arts Grant Program

06/17/2026

House Proposes $0 For Department of Education’s Lone Arts Grant Program The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee on June 9 requested that Congress allocate $0 to theDepartment of Education’s Assistance for Arts Education program for fiscal year 2027, effectively seeking to …

Метки : искусствообразованиегрантыбюджетполитикасокращения

Iran’s Participation in the Venice Biennale Still Uncertain

05/14/2026

Iran’s Participation in the Venice Biennale Still Uncertain A public contradiction aboutIran’s participation in the 61stVenice Biennalehas emerged after Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director general of visual arts at Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (MCIG), wasinterviewedby the Iranian …

Метки : иранвенецианская биеннале#культураполитикабюджетдипломатия

The New School Plans to Lay Off 15% of Staff By June

03/28/2026

The New School Plans to Lay Off 15% of Staff By June Per a faculty-wide email,the New Schoolin New York City plans to lay off 15 percent of its university’s full time faculty and staff,Hyperallergicreports. The cuts are set to …

Метки : образованиесокращениябюджетпрофессурапрофсоюзыньюйорк

Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget

03/24/2026

Chile’s New Far-Right President is Slashing the Culture Budget Chile’s freshly-inaugurated president, the far-right politician José Antonio Kast, has announced a budget cut of 3 percent across all ministries; this is just one facet of what Kast calls his“emergency” government, …

Метки : чили#культурабюджетполитикаправые движенияпротесты

Vienna closes museums and cuts opening hours amid austerity

01/22/2026

Austria’s capital Vienna will temporarily close several museums dedicated to famous composers this year as part of city-wide budget cuts, officials announced on Wednesday. The closures affect sites including the apartment where Franz Schubert died, the residence of Johann Strauss, …

Метки : венамузеишубертбюджет#культураискусство

English Heritage Boss Steps Down After Troubled Reign

06/27/2025

The chief executive of English Heritage, the British conservation charity, has stepped down from his role having only joined at the beginning of 2024.English Heritage said in a statement that Nick Merriman resigned for personal reasons linked to family health. …

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Vancouver Art Gallery Lays Off 30 Unionized Employees

06/27/2025

The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) will lay off approximately 30 unionized staff members, according to the Art Newspaper. A spokesperson described the staff reductions in a statement as “the difficult but necessary process of reducing its operating budget to ensure …

Метки : ванкуверискусствобюджетсокращениясотрудники.галерея

Institute of Museum and Library Services Faces Defunding in 2026

06/04/2025

The proposed 2026 federal budget plans to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with an allocation of only $6 million for the year, significantly diminished from its current $313 million fiscal budget, Book Riot reported. The allocated …

Метки : бюджетimls#культуратрампфедеральные расходыбиблиотечные услуги

Trump Aims to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities

05/03/2025

The Trump administration issued a 2026 budget proposal on Friday afternoon that would eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and other federal agencies that support culture and the arts. If passed …

Метки : трампгуманитарные наукиискусствобюджетnehimls

Trump Names New Head of Museum Agency He Moved to Dismantle Last Week

03/21/2025

Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides critical funding to museums, libraries, and archives. Now, less than …

Метки : иностранные новостиполитика#культурамузеибиблиотекибюджет