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• San Diego Opera In Its Best Financial Shape Ever

  02-07-2021 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company’s endowment, which was $4.8 million when Executive Director David Bennett arrived in 2015, has nearly doubled to $8.8 million. – San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Tik Tok – Now Three Times As Long?

  02-07-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rather than 60-second video limit, TikTokkers will have three minutes. Will that make them more or less creative? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Hollywood Battles With Insurers Over COVID Claims

  02-07-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fireman’s Fund gives the example of a nonessential crewmember having face-to-face contact with a movie director and then reporting infection, requiring a costly shutdown for 14 days. Who pays? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Does It Matter Where Arts Funding Comes From?

  02-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems artists are now welcome to protest about funding arrangements. But this is a no-win situation for the artists. – ArtsHub
  
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• Yeah, Well — We’re A Sucker For Those Dancing Robot Videos – This Time With BTS

  02-07-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “While Spot’s smooth dance moves might bring a frisson of worry to any K-pop fans thinking that K-pop boy-bands might be the next industry that Boston Dynamics is targeting for its robots to replace human workers in, right now it seems that BTS isn’t too worried about the competition. – The Verge
  
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• The New Hotness In Exotic Dance? Lesbian Doms Performing For Straight Women

  02-07-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[They] are pioneering a new style: masculinized lesbian stripping that appeals both to the LGBTQ community and to a straight female crowd — the type who generally show up to more mainstream and much whiter male strip shows like those by the Chippendales.” – Slate
  
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• Discovered: Evidence Van Gogh Was A Founder Of A Brass Band (Still Playing Today)

  02-07-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1884 Vincent van Gogh helped set up a band in the village of Nuenen, where he was living with his family and developing his skills as an artist. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’

  02-07-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When adversaries in politics go low, one has no choice but to go equally low, if not lower, in order to have the same visceral impact [on] the same number of people. And what was revealed to me under the previous administration was that the fate of our whole democracy might hang on your wit and your ability to use obscenity and travesty and mockery effectively.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• New York Times Experiments With Insta/Twitter To Focus Stories

  02-07-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You have the copy of the tweet, a couple of lines in the card, and then it’s just a lot more information and context, and everyone knows that context can be lacking on social.” – NiemanLab
  
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• This Flight Attendant Wrote A Hair-Raising Novel By Jotting It On Cocktail Napkins

  02-07-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Author T.J. Newman: “I said [to a pilot friend], ‘What would you do if your family was kidnapped and you were told that if you didn’t crash the plane, they’d be killed?’ I knew by the look on his face that I’d struck a nerve. He was terrified. He didn’t have an answer. And I knew I had a story.” – The New York Times
  
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• So Yale Theatre School Tuition Will Be Free. Is This A Good Thing?

  02-07-2021 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The fascinating idea is that the free tuition even can expand exponentially to help yet more artists. It’s an interesting argument, rarely applied to philanthropy in education. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Bollywood Isn’t Nimble Enough To Have Made COVID Films Already, But This Indian Film Industry Is

  02-07-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Malayalam-language cinema, based in India’s best-educated state, Kerala, has managed to produce compelling dramas dealing with the pandemic — from a two-hander shot entirely inside a car to a loose adaptation of Macbeth set on a rubber plantation — despite lockdowns and cash crunches. – The Guardian
  
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• Martha Nussbaum And The Striving In Structures

  02-07-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  For her entire career, Nussbaum, now seventy-four, has blazed a trail for women in philosophy, a field that historically has not welcomed female thinkers. – New York Review of Books
  
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• How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’

  02-07-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Director Keith Warner assembled a cast made up entirely of opera singers, headed by such major names as John Tomlinson, Thomas Allen, Kim Begley, Louise Alder, Emma Bell, and Susan Bullock — several of whom studied drama seriously as young adults and have been wanting to try this for some time. – The Guardian
  
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• How Charleston Is Finally Reckoning With Its History In The Slave Trade

  02-07-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the Old Slave Mart on Chalmers Street to historic plantations and downtown mansions to the new International African American Museum to walking tours for visitors, the Holy City is facing up to ugliness that it long tried to decorously ignore. – National Geographic
  
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• A Deep Dive Into The Ancient Egyptian Tombs At Saqqara

  02-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once the necropolis for the Pharaohs’ capital city of Memphis, Saqqara has lately been the most exciting and productive archaeological site in Egypt. Here’s an in-depth look at the location’s riches and how they were found. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• It’s The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th Birthday, And Socialist Realism Is Back

  02-07-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not only are they reviving classics of the Cultural Revolution like The Red Detachment of Women, new works celebrating the Party’s achievements are being written for and performed by opera houses, ballet troupes, orchestras, choirs, and even Chinese hip-hop artists. – The New York Times
  
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• Poet Slash Artist review – if this show is art’s future, it looks good to me

  02-07-2021 15:07
  
  Home, Manchester
  A show about the relationship between seeing and reading feels like a return to romanticism – a belief in the passionate expression of the spiritPoets and artists have been influencing each other ever since the Renaissance versifier Angelo Poliziano said to Sandro Botticelli: “Why not do a painting about spring?” At least that is a Eurocentric way of looking at it. One of the first things you notice in Poet Slash Artist at the Manchester international festival
  
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• Chicago Tribune Puts Theater Critic Chris Jones In Charge Of Editorial Page

  02-07-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The move follows the paper’s loss of 40 journalists since Alden Global Capital bought the Tribune earlier this year. Jones says he’ll continue to review “the major shows” in town. – Robert Feder
  
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• Tracey Emin finds her inner voice and raging architects build a revolution – the week in art

  02-07-2021 14:50
  
  Artists and poets present a manifesto in Manchester, Amilton Neves captures the magic of Mozambique and a towering talent arrives in London– all in your weekly dispatchPoet Slash ArtistThis joyous and visionary exhibition brings together artists, poets and poet-artists, including Lubaina Himid and Tracey Emin, in a manifesto for sensitivity and the inner voice.
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• Composer Louis Andriessen Dead At 82

  02-07-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  He combined Philip Glass-style minimalism with influences ranging from jazz to Baroque music to Stravinsky to hard rock, not to mention leftist politics. He also taught two generations of notable composers, including Missy Mazzoli, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang. – NPR
  
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• Daniele Gatti To Succeed Zubin Mehta In Florence

  02-07-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fired from Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2018, Gatti then had a stint as chief conductor at the Rome Opera. He now succeeds the 85-year-old Mehta as music director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which includes the city’s opera house and orchestra as well as the famous May festival. – Opera Wire
  
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• Stolen Picasso, Mondrian Found In Ravine In Greece

  02-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In custody is not a gang of thieves who planned a Hollywood-style heist, but a 49-year-old construction worker, with the Twitter name ArtFreak, who was arrested on Monday. – The New York Times
  
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