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• If Your Musical Flops On Broadway, Why Not Just Restage It – At The Met?

  16-11-2025 22:30 via nytimes.com
  Especially if you are, let’s say, a wealthy celebrity musician. “For Sting, 74, this is a chance to play in one of New York’s most storied halls for a second time, and to break a barrier in the process.” – The New York Times
  
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• How The Internet Became A Misery Machine

  16-11-2025 22:00 via theatlantic.com
  “Sometimes you gotta use the dark arts, right? In benevolent ways, and just get people to care.” Ouf. – The Atlantic
  
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• Netflix House Is Temu Disneyland, In A Mall

  16-11-2025 21:30 via slate.com
  “Let’s say you are a Netflix fan, as anyone making a pilgrimage to Netflix House is sure to be. What, then, are you a fan of? … Netflix has been on a relentless campaign to become a fandom hub, a never-ending Comic-Con celebrating itself.” – Slate
  
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• The Return Of A Night At The Natural History Museum

  16-11-2025 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “Children ran, some of them in stocking feet, through the displays, with abandon. (Running had been discouraged in the safety lecture, but this did not dissuade a young boy who shouted ‘I have to look for the animals that will hunt us in the night.’)” – The New York Times
  
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• Man Who Stole A Banksy Print To Pay Off Drug Debt Sentenced To Prison

  16-11-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  He “was seen on CCTV waiting outside the gallery for about 10 minutes on 8 September last year, before repeatedly smashing the glass door with a heavy blunt object.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Palm Springs Art Museum Trustee Revolt: Just What The Heck Is Happening Here?

  16-11-2025 20:00 via msn.com
  Basically, “without consideration of multiple outside candidates, the search committee had in effect become simply a hiring committee for an in-house nominee.” That in-house nominee might be great – but that doesn’t fix the hiring process. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Musician Who Played The Trumpet For 25 Hours Straight

  16-11-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “It was relentless. But I love the trumpet, and that love carried me through.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Writers On The Gulf Between Books And Screen

  16-11-2025 19:00 via lareviewofbooks.org
  Viet Thanh Nguyen: “When poets write, the only thing that it costs a poet is their life. … But when you make a TV show or a film, it costs tens of millions of dollars, and then everybody cares.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Marina Lewycka, Author Of A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian, Has Died At 79

  16-11-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  The author was born in a German refugee camp after the war, and her tragicomic first novel was an unexpected literary hit. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• SAG Awards Are Now, Simply, Named The Actor Awards

  16-11-2025 17:30 via nytimes.com
  It’s a very clear, and useful, switch. “The union said on its website that it hoped to make clearer for its domestic and global audiences what its show entailed. The show has reached a much wider audience since Netflix began streaming it in 2024.” – The New York Times
  
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• Does ‘Sinners’ Have A Path To Win Some Major Oscars?

  16-11-2025 16:00 via vulture.com
  “Making the case for Sinners as Oscar-worthy isn’t hard. For one thing, it had a massive audience — at $297 million domestic, it’s the fifth-highest-grossing movie of the year — and pretty much everybody who saw it loved it.” But, vampires. – Vulture
  
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• As Poet Andrea Gibson Was Dying At Home With Their Wife, A Filmmaker Recorded Nearly Everything

  16-11-2025 15:30 via nytimes.com
  Gibson was “interested in chronicling their cancer experience in a way that was beautiful and artistic. They were writing, podcasting and even performing when their health allowed, yet they were having trouble being creative.” – The New York Times
  
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• How To Find Music You Love – Hopefully Written And Performed By Humans – Without Relying On The Algorithm

  16-11-2025 15:00 via archive.ph
  “Just like everything else on the internet, music has its influencers.” – The Verge (Archive Today)
  
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• Yvonne Brewster, One Of Black British Theatre’s Godmothers, Has Died At 87

  16-11-2025 14:30 via nytimes.com
  In Britain, she was told she’d never succeed because of her race. So she started theatre companies in Jamaica, and also in London. “In her focus on all-Black casts and re-workings of classics, … Ms. Brewster’s motivation was always artistic, she said.” – The New York Times
  
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• AI Is Dominating Streaming Services

  16-11-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Disgusting. “What you have here is 50,000 tracks a day that are competing with human musicians. You have a new, hyperscalable competitor and, moreover, this competitor that was built by exploitation.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• British Church Architecture Is, Frankly, Cold On The Inside

  16-11-2025 13:30 via wired.com
  How to solve this problem? Heat pumps, of course. – Wired
  
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• At Broadway’s Flea Market, A Cross-Section Of New Yorkers Search For Theatrical Treasure

  16-11-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  There are the married couples who make sure to grab tear-away underwear, the person who has a collection of playbills, and so, so many more folks looking for pieces of Broadway history. – The New York Times
  
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• Kaneza Schaal talks about the America 250 season at Detroit Opera

  15-11-2025 19:47 via artsjournal.com
  Kaneza Schaal, Theater & Opera Artist & Director, talks about the extraordinary upcoming America at 250 season at Detroit Opera and its impact for audiences and community.
  
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• Plastic paradise: on the frontlines of the fight to clean up pollution in Bali – in pictures

  15-11-2025 15:00
  In January the island’s beaches were inundated with waves of plastic pollution, a phenomenon that has been getting worse by the year. Photographer and film-maker Sean Gallagher travelled to Bali to document the increasing tide of rubbish washing up on beaches and riverbanks, and the people facing the monumental challenge of cleaning up. His portraits are on show now as part of the 2025 Head On photo festival at Bondi Beach promenade until 30 November Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The speeding car created the perfect, eclectic scene’: Demétrio Jereissati’s best phone picture

  15-11-2025 12:00
  Initially drawn by the distinctive architecture, the Brazilian photographer struck lucky on a morning run in CubaAs a marathon runner and amateur photographer, Demétrio Jereissati has taken to the streets of his home town of Fortaleza, Brazil almost daily for the past two decades. “Each morning I head out early for a run – observing and storing the city in my memory,” Jereissati says. “Every day reveals new angles and unexpected scenes. For me, these early hours ar
  
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• ‘He was quite a private person’: expansive auction shows Gene Hackman as actor and artist

  15-11-2025 11:02
  Bonhams is selling over 400 items from the estate of the late Oscar-winning actor, from a draft script of The Silence of the Lambs to his own unique artworkHe was Lex Luthor to Christopher Reeve’s Superman. But could he have been Hannibal Lecter to Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling?The intriguing prospect is raised by an unlikely 33-page draft script for The Silence of the Lambs lurking in a collection of the late actor Gene Hackman’s possessions that goes up for auction later th
  
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• The Running Man to David Hockney: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  15-11-2025 07:00
  Stephen King’s dystopian novel gets an Edgar Wright reboot with Glen Powell, while the prolific British master is back with new paintingsThe Running Man
  Out now
  Edgar Wright directs this reimagining of the 1987 sci-fi cult classic based on Stephen King’s 1982 novel, which envisioned a fictional America of 2025 sliding into totalitarianism. Glen Powell stars as the contestant attempting to survive a deadly televised game. Continue reading...
  
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• Judge Approves $7 B. Purdue Pharma Settlement, Potentially Ending Years-Long Legal Saga

  15-11-2025 00:22 via artnews.com
  Purdue Pharma’s years-long saga in the courts may finally be coming to a close. On Friday, federal bankruptcy judge Sean Lane approved the pharmaceutical company’s new deal to settle thousands of lawsuits related to its promotion of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin.Purdue, founded and owned by the Sacklers, created and sold OxyContin beginning in the 1990s. Purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019 amid over 2,500 lawsuits by states, local governments, hospitals, and individuals a
  
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• Met Repatriates 18th Century Painting Taken from Buddhist Temple After Korean War

  14-11-2025 22:12 via artnews.com
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an 18th-century painting to a Korean temple that once housed a vast depiction of hell.The painting, titled The Tenth King of Hell, dates to 1798 and was made during the Joseon Dynasty. It’s one panel of a 10-part piece known as Siwangdo formerly sited at Sinheungsa Temple in Sokcho, the head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. Each of the panels depicts a king of the afterlife.According to the Yonhap news agency, the painting was &ldquo
  
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• Lot Watch: The 16(ish) Top Works Hitting the Block at the November Marquee Sales

  14-11-2025 21:17 via artnews.com
  Even in a market defined by caution and recalibration, the November marquee sales in New York still generate their own gravitational field. Trophy works have become rarer, and bidders more selective, but when the top houses muster genuine blue-chip material, the season pivots around it.This year’s upper bracket is striking for both its concentration—Sotheby’s dominates the top end almost entirely—and its breadth across major 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century names. From a tr
  
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• ‘They Want to Kill Art’: The French Art World Is Up In Arms Over a Proposal to Impose New Taxes on Art

  14-11-2025 21:08 via artnews.com
  In an attempt to increase revenue, two French parliamentarians are proposing that the government put in place a new tax regime on art in its 2026 budget. The French art world has risen up to oppose it, including issuing a lengthy statement with 27 signers, including leading fair company Art Basel, which just held the fourth edition of Art Basel Paris; auctioneer Drouot; visual artist rights management organization ADAGP; the Association for the International Diffusion of French Art (ADIAF), whic
  
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• Sotheby’s CEO Says Supply Is ‘Catching Up With Demand’ as Fall Auctions Target $1.4 Billion

  14-11-2025 21:03 via artnews.com
  Sotheby’s CEO Charles Stewart said the art market has entered a new phase this fall, with supply finally “catching up with the demand” after months of strong bidder activity. The comment, made recently to CNBC, comes as New York’s marquee auction houses prepare for sales expected to total more than $1.4 billion, a jump of roughly 50 percent from last year and a possible turning point after three consecutive years of declines.The November auctions will test
  
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• Can Paris’s Iconic Zinc Rooftops Be Adapted To An Ever-Hotter Climate?

  14-11-2025 20:50 via smithsonianmag.com
  Some four-fifths of the city’s roofs are covered in the lightweight, malleable, low-maintenance metal. Many of them now need replacing — to prevent leaks in more intense rainstorms and because high summer temperatures turn the rooms below them into ovens. Parisian artisans are finding ways to address these problems. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• African Publishers And “The Wakanda Problem”

  14-11-2025 20:31 via publishersweekly.com
  “When we listen to audiobooks produced in the West, they have a Wakandan accent,” said Eghosa Imasuen, executive director of Narrative Landscape Press in Lagos, Nigeria.“Nobody talks like that on the continent.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• University of Leicester Updates Its Trans-Inclusive Museum Guidelines, Despite Legal Threats

  14-11-2025 20:11 via artnews.com
  The University of Leicester in England made updates to its guidance on trans-inclusivity for museums and galleries last month. The university made the change, despite receiving litigation threats from the campaign group Freedom in the Arts (FITA).The 44-page document in question was “regularly reviewed and kept up to date”, the university told Arts Professional, following a series of updates last month.Earlier this year, in an August 7 letter, FITA threatened to sue the universi
  
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• Mali’s Capital City, Beset By Jihadi Militants, Cheers Itself Up With Marionettes

  14-11-2025 20:03 via apnews.com
  Bamako, a city of 3 million, is being squeezed by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militia which has blocked fuel imports and made travel beyond the capital dangerous. Yet Bamakoans recently raised their spirits with a three-day festival celebrating puppetry, which has deep roots in Mali. – AP
  
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• Creator Of The AI Actress Tilly Speaks Out

  14-11-2025 19:44 via variety.com
  “As a creative, I have really enjoyed creating her,” she says. “It’s been just like a writer creating characters. You fall in love with your characters when you’re writing them. It’s a wonderful process. It wasn’t like I just made her in a second, and that was it. You know, it took a long time.” – Variety
  
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• Man who stole Banksy print to pay off drug debt given 13-month sentence

  14-11-2025 19:27
  Larry Fraser, 49, burgled Grove gallery in London, stealing limited edition print from Girl With Balloon seriesA man who stole a Banksy print from an art gallery to pay off a drug debt has been given a 13-month prison sentence.Larry Fraser, 49, stole the limited edition print from the street artist’s Girl With Balloon series after breaking into the Grove gallery in Fitzrovia, central London, last September. Continue reading...
  
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• Auction Houses Tapping into Jewelry Boom, Brooklyn Public Library Launches Art-Lending Program, Paris Photo Returns: Morning Links for November 14, 2025

  14-11-2025 18:50 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesSTAY CALM AND KARAT ON. As auction houses increasingly lean on the luxury market to offset sluggish art sales, Christie’s incoming global head of jewellery, Max Fawcett, is optimistic. The house kicks off its London Jewels sale on Friday, and he predicted it will be “one of the best London sales we’ve had in a long time,” crediting the strength of the pieces offered online, including period jewels worn by Alice, Viscountess Wimborne, in portraits by Sir Cecil
  
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• Cousin of Suspected Robber in Louvre Museum Heist Speaks Out

  14-11-2025 18:48 via artnews.com
  A cousin of one of the suspected robbers in the Louvre heist recently spoke out in an interview with ABC News.A man identified as Mehdy, who claims to be the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, told ABC News‘ James Longman in an exclusive new interview for the television special “Impact x Nightline” that his cousin “was someone who did small jobs” and “worked in a place where they sell fruit, things like that, who tried to get by. And who had kids.&
  
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• Artnet and Artsy Owner Andrew Wolff Forecasts the Future of Art Market Data and Decision-Making

  14-11-2025 18:44 via artnews.com
  After acquiring Artnet and taking it private and procuring a controlling stake in Artsy, Beowolff Capital CEO Andrew Wolff has set his sights on the digital future of the art market and the culture that surrounds it. On the occasion of his inclusion in the Observer’s “Art Power Index,” Wolff talked to the publication in an interview about his plans—over the short and long term—to consolidate access to data while aiming to “amplify” the knowledge of marke
  
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• Drag Wrestling Show Apologizes for ICE-Themed Skit at Brooklyn Art Center

  14-11-2025 16:52 via artnews.com
  Choke Hole, a drag wrestling show, apologized on Friday for a controversial ICE-themed portion of a performance staged at Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn art center.“We created a traumatic environment for many of our audience members and are deeply sorry for this,” Choke Hole wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “Our attempt to engage with this very real violence through satire was offensive and inconsiderate and we missed the mark completely.”The event, titled ARMAGEDDON,
  
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• David Shrigley’s Latest Installation is a $1.3 M. Pile of Old Rope at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London

  14-11-2025 16:43 via artnews.com
  An upturned urinal, a spade hanging from the ceiling, an unmade bed, a banana duct-taped to a wall… and now a load of old rope. British artist David Shrigley’s conceptual installation, consisting of ten tons of discarded rope heaped on Stephen Friedman Gallery’s floor, is the latest work to question the value of art.Titled “David Shrigley: Exhibition of Old Rope,” the solo show opened on Thursday in London. The artist, who is known for his overtly simple paintings
  
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• Almshouse in Dorset discovers its 15th-century Flemish triptych is worth £3.5m

  14-11-2025 16:06
  Artwork that hung for centuries at St John’s Almshouse in Sherborne will be sold to raise funds for social housing“The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and He adds no sorrow with it,” so says the Bible, Proverbs 10:22.On Friday, a church almshouse was counting its blessings after discovering that a triptych painting that has hung in the chapel for centuries is a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece worth £3.5m. Continue reading...
  
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• Maggi meets Sarah, Anish Kapoor takes on Ice and Suffolk seduces Spencer – the week in art

  14-11-2025 13:00
  Hambling and Lucas join forces, Roger Fry gets a rare show and an aerial daredevil captures stormy Scotland – all in your weekly dispatchMaggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas
  These two very different artists became friends after meeting at the Colony Room (where else?) and now show together in an encounter of British art generations. • Sadie Coles HQ, London, 20 November to 24 January Continue reading...
  
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• Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s US national park posters – in pictures

  14-11-2025 11:03
  Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...
  
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• Dorothy Waugh’s epic 1930s national park posters – in pictures

  14-11-2025 11:03
  Between 1934 and 1936, artist Dorothy Waugh was commissioned to create 17 posters for the National Park Service, a groundbreaking opportunity for a female designer at the time. Her designs, which were both accessible and avant-garde, are being celebrated in an exhibition for the first time at New York’s Poster House. Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters is on display until 22 February 2026 Continue reading...
  
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• Why Did Coreen Simpsons’s Stylish Pictures of Exuberant Black Life Fail to Reach a Wider Audience Until Now?

  14-11-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Front cover of Coreen Simpson: A Monograph (Aperture, 2025); cover image: Coreen Simpson, Jamien, 1982, from the series ‟B-Boys.”Courtesy the artist.The photographs in Coreen Simpson’s new monograph are nearly all frontal shots. Whether taken on the street, in the studio, in clubs, or at home, those whom she has pictured scarcely turn away. One outstanding portrait among her early work—titled Cooking Is My Game (Lady Chef), Velma Jones (1977)—shows a genial woman h
  
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• Why Did Coreen Simpson’s Stylish Pictures of Exuberant Black Life Fail to Reach a Wider Audience Until Now?

  14-11-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Front cover of Coreen Simpson: A Monograph (Aperture, 2025); cover image: Coreen Simpson, Jamien, 1982, from the series ‟B-Boys.”Courtesy the artist.The photographs in Coreen Simpson’s new monograph are nearly all frontal shots. Whether taken on the street, in the studio, in clubs, or at home, those whom she has pictured scarcely turn away. One outstanding portrait among her early work—titled Cooking Is My Game (Lady Chef), Velma Jones (1977)—shows a genial woman h
  
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• Metallica Guitarist Sells Painting of Conan the Barbarian—With a $10 M. Asking Price

  13-11-2025 21:35 via artnews.com
  Bidding starts at $10 million for a painting of Conan the Barbarian that Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett bought from artist Frank Frazetta for $1 million in 2009. The work, titled Conan the Berserker (1967), served as cover art for a paperback edition of Robert E. Howard’s novel Conan the Conqueror, and is being offered up in Heritage Auctions’ “Hollywood/Entertainment Signature Auction” December 9–10.Conan looks more than a little triumphant in the painting,
  
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• Getty Trust Adds Glenn Lowry and Lionel Sauvage to Board of Trustees

  13-11-2025 21:28 via artnews.com
  The J. Paul Getty Trust has appointed Glenn D. Lowry, the former director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Lionel M. Sauvage, a French philanthropist and collector, to its board of trustees. Both will begin as trustees in 2026.“It’s an honor and delight to welcome Glenn and Lionel to Getty’s Board of Trustees. Both have a lifelong commitment to the arts, and deep and varied experience. Their contributions will benefit Getty in countless ways,” Katherine E. Fl
  
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• The Book That Shaped The Modern Revival Of Wicca

  13-11-2025 21:04 via publicdomainreview.org
  
  In 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland published, with the help of Roma Lister, Aradia, or the gospel of the witches, which purported to record an ancient tradition of female-led sorcery in Italy. In the 1950s, “mother of Wicca” Doreen Valiente used the book to shape Wicca as it exists today. – The Public Domain Review
  
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• University Decides ROI On Investment In Its University Press Is Insufficient And Closes It. Others To Follow?

  13-11-2025 20:31 via insidehighered.com
  
  Bucknell University Press is on track to shut down by the end of this fiscal year. Demise of the press is raising broader questions about the future of university publishing as higher education institutions across the country face financial hardship and pressure to prove their return on investment to an increasingly skeptical public. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• Chicago’s Unofficial Arts Czar Is A Daughter Of The City’s Most Famous Political Dynasty

  13-11-2025 20:02 via wbez.org
  
  “Amid (Trump-era) turbulence, Nora Daley — who generally prefers to avoid the spotlight — has quietly built a reputation as one of the city’s most effective cultural brokers. … In recent years, that has meant retooling the state’s cultural arm, the Illinois Arts Council, where she led a full overhaul of grantmaking as board chair.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• As We Prepare To Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, Is There A Recognizable American Classical Music?

  13-11-2025 19:44 via post-gazette.com
  
  Is there a unifying theme around the kinds of music being written in the classical world that could indicate an “American style?” (And, as an aside, can we take pride or ownership as a nation in something if we can’t define it?) – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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