Cutting Arts Coverage, Other News

Things are not so good in Atlanta, where the daily paper is cutting arts critics. Conductor Robert Spano writes a letter to complain. Tyler Green's thoughts.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts loses director William Griswold (below) after just 18 months. Griswold heads to New York's Morgan Library and Museum.

"A craptastic finish to what could have been a nice series."

Braniac covers Hitchens on Falwell's death.

Allen Brisson-Smith for The New York Times