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.
The 79th Tony Awards nominations, announced May 5, 2026 by Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss, fill five Best Featured Actor in a Play slots with a striking mix of film transplants and stage veterans.
The Pulitzer Prizes 2026, announced May 4, 2026, gave the Fiction medal to Daniel Kraus's 'Angel Down,' the Drama prize to Bess Wohl's 'Liberation,' and the History award to Jill Lepore's constitution chronicle.
Every spring the Library of Congress names 25 recordings to the National Recording Registry — a process that begins with anyone, anywhere, typing a nomination into a website.
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.