Lincoln Center has appointed Shanta Thake, a longtime force of New York’s Public Theater, as its new chief artistic officer, a groundbreaking move that places a woman of color in the highest ranks of the city’s cultural establishment.Thake, who identifies as mixed race, will spearhead the artistic strategy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and its constituent organizations, including Lincoln Center Theater, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and the Juilliard School., among others.The new position – the formal title is the Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer – replaces Lincoln Center’s Artistic Director role occupied by Jane Moss for 26 years before she stepped down in 2020.According to Lincoln Center, Thake will lead
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