Institutions Rethink Centralized Models, Betye Saar Dies at 99

Several institutions are reinventing their operational models. Alabama's WLRH dropped NPR programming and saw audience growth, while public media discovered a donor base after losing federal funding. In Australia, four regional performing arts centers pooled resources to produce major theatre works. Buffalo's AKG Art Museum split its director role into two co-directors for the first time. A critical essay questions why 'ancient history' still defaults to Greece and Rome. The Kennedy Center is reportedly empty enough that volunteer tour guides have become the story. Betye Saar, influential assemblage artist who worked with discarded materials for 70 years, died four days before her 100th birthday. Emily Wilson reviewed Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' for the London Review of Books.