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Mayor Wu moves to rein in a City Council faction going rogue over her proposed FY 2027 budget, Lee Pelton’s departure as the Boston Foundation’s president and CEO signals a changing of the guard for New England philanthropy, and LA28’s milquetoast Cultural Olympiad announcement reveals how Boston is failing to include the arts in what it hopes will be a door-buster summer for tourism.

As the Venice Biennale opens amid protests, austerity, and talk of a collapsing global order, artists and critics debate whether the national pavilion format is obsolete or newly relevant. Back home, Boston’s budget fights continue, Michelle Millar Fisher heads to Cooper Hewitt, young people eye the exits, and La CASA opens in the South End.