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Click below to access articles by academic year.
2025–26
Worcester Magazine – ‘Room of Wonders’ exhibit opens at Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross – Jun 16, 2025
2024–25
The Arts Fuse – Review: Sphinx Virtuosi play Joplin, Coleridge-Taylor, Skye, Stewart, Becenti, Carreño, and Taylor – Apr 2, 2025
Holy Cross Magazine – Jeffrey de Caen Named Director of the Prior Performing Arts Center – Mar 27, 2025
Holy Cross Magazine – Student Composers Get Immersive Opportunity With Grammy Artists – Mar 24, 2025
Worcester Magazine – ‘A sense of community’: Anxious constituents bond at Jim McGovern town hall event – Mar 4, 2025
MassLive – Worcester artist residency program expands, looking for applicants – Feb 11, 2025
Worcester Magazine – Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play ‘Ufot Family Cycle’ begins Boston-performances – Nov 7, 2024
Holy Cross Magazine – Fenwick Scholar Aims to Amplify the Voices of Women in Jazz – Oct 24, 2024
2023–24
WBUR – Composer Osvaldo Golijov’s new concerto, ‘The Given Note,’ inspired by Irish Poet Seamus Heaney – May 23, 2024
Holy Cross Magazine – Grammy-Winning Composer Osvaldo Golijov Premieres New Concerto – May 8, 2024
Holy Cross Magazine – Enhancing the Arts through Philanthropy – May 3, 2024
Telegram & Gazette – Worcester Cultural Coalition, Holy Cross set for creative residencies at The Prior – Apr 4, 2024
Holy Cross Magazine – Inside the Uncommon Commons: The Prior Performing Arts Center – Jan 9, 2024
Telegram & Gazette – Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross to present varied season of acclaimed artists – Aug 8, 2023
2022–23
Telegram & Gazette – View from Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross looking good for arts and inclusion – Apr 21, 2023
Boston Business Journal – These projects are helping remake Mass. college campuses – Mar 9, 2023
Holy Cross Magazine – Cantor Art Gallery to Showcase the Famed Chertsey Tiles and the Visual Culture of Medieval Europe in ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’ Exhibition – Jan 30, 2023
Holy Cross Magazine – Inside the “Uncommon Commons:” The Prior Performing Arts Center – Jan 2, 2023
Dezeen – Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates performing arts centre on Massachusetts campus – Nov 24, 2022
The Architect’s Newspaper – Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Prior Performing Arts Center at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester puts the arts on top – Nov 9, 2022
STIR – DS+R designs an “uncommon commons” with Prior Performing Arts Center – Oct 19, 2022
Wallpaper* – DS+R Prior Performing Arts Center is designed as a public commons – Oct 13, 2022
Metropolis Magazine – Holy Cross’s New Prior Performing Arts Center Overflows with Cultural Energy – Oct 5, 2022
Building Design + Construction – The College of the Holy Cross completes a $110 million performing arts center – Oct 3, 2022
ArchDaily – College of the Holy Cross Prior Performing Arts Center / Diller Scofidio + Renfro – Oct 2, 2022
Holy Cross Magazine – Photo Gallery: Visitors Experience Prior Performing Arts Center at Community Day – Sep 26, 2022
Spectrum News 1 – Inside the new Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross – Sep 20, 2022
Holy Cross Magazine – Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross—a New Facility Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro—Welcomes the Campus Community This Fall – Sep 12, 2022
The New York Times – A Panorama of Design: A New Massachusetts Theater Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain – Sep 1, 2022
Worcester Business Journal – Holy Cross’ $110M Prior Performing Arts Center opens for fall 2022 semester – Sep 1, 2022
Holy Cross Magazine – Prior Performing Arts Center to Welcome the Campus and Local Communities During Community Day – Sep 1, 2022
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