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February 23, 2026
Architecture Prize Responds After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface
A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation.
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February 13, 2026
Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait
The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled. Now he wants the National Portrait Gallery to commission a new one.
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February 6, 2026
White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display
Administration officials met with staff at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and discussed putting multiple artworks of the president in a section of the museum.
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January 29, 2026
Wynton Marsalis, Founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, to Step Down
After 40 years with the organization, the trumpeter and impresario will end his role as managing and artistic director in July 2027.
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January 23, 2026
For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, has named Darren Walker as president and chief executive.
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December 16, 2025
Watching ‘Liberation’ With a Women’s Movement Pioneer, My Mom
In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.
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December 2, 2025
Inside the Museum-Style Home of Michael Ovitz, an A-List Collector
He is best known as a former Hollywood power broker, but Ovitz has filled his Beverly Hills home with a collection that shows how serious he is about art.
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