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Arts & Culture
September 16, 2026
Balanchine’s, JEWELS, PITHOPRAKTA and More Set for New York City Ballet 2026 Fall Season

New York City Ballet’s 2026 Fall Season will bring together landmark works, new commissions and significant revivals across four weeks of performances beginning September 22. The season opens with George Balanchine’s Jewels and continues with repertory by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, and Alexei Ratmansky. At the annual Fall Fashion Gala on October 1, the Company will present three world premieres by Jennifer Archibald, Justin Peck, and Alysa Pires, created in collaboration with leading fashion designers. Support from Emily Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation is making possible Peck’s new pas de deux, featuring costumes by Simone Rocha and an original score by Gabriel Kahane. The season will also mark the return of Balanchine’s rarely performed Pithoprakta, staged by Suzanne Farrell for its first New York City Ballet performances since 1969. It concludes on October 18 with a farewell performance honoring Principal Dancer Adrian Danchig-Waring after more than 23 years with the Company.

Blavatnik Archive
September 16, 2026
Meet the Fall 2026 Blavatnik Archive Research Fellows

Six scholars were awarded the Fall 2026 Blavatnik Archive Research Fellowship for research projects incorporating our collections. These projects cover a wide range of topics, including the politics of Jewish life in the early 1900s, experiences of Latvian Jews who fought in the Red Army during World War II, the circulation of antisemitic motifs in Germany and Romania, World War II military propaganda leaflets, Soviet depictions of wartime family life, and literary texts published in pre-1917 Russian Jewish periodicals.

Blavatnik Awards
September 16, 2026
Finalists announced for the 2026 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences today named 18 Finalists for the 2026 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The Awards recognize scientific advances made by researchers in the United States across the following disciplines: Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. The 2026 Blavatnik National Awards Laureates will be announced on October 6, 2026, during the Blavatnik Awards ceremony at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Each Laureate will receive a prize of $250,000 — the largest unrestricted scientific award available to early-career scientists in the United States. The remaining 15 Finalists will each receive $15,000 in recognition of their outstanding achievements. This year's Finalists were selected by an independent jury of distinguished scientists. In total, 372 young scientists were nominated, representing 187 academic and research institutions across 43 states and the District of Columbia.

Higher Education
September 15, 2026
USC School of Cinematic Arts Plans Expansion at 625 W. 32nd St.

A $25 million gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation is supporting USC School of Cinematic Arts’ planned Blavatnik Center for Virtual Production in University Park. The proposed 20,000-square-foot facility at 625 W. 32nd Street would replace a surface parking lot between the Cinematic Arts Center and the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts. Plans call for two stages with wraparound LED walls, performance-capture, camera-tracking and lighting systems, along with classrooms and labs equipped for 3D design. Designed by Bastien and Associates, the contemporary two-story building would feature painted plaster and metal finishes, with courtyards connecting it to neighboring facilities. The project remains subject to City of Los Angeles approvals, but would further expand USC’s capacity to educate students in emerging production technologies.

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