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• TV Ads Are Fading. Where Will That Money Go?

  13-10-2021 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though total TV advertising is set to top $60 billion this year, according to media agency Zenith, the market is expected to shrink by 4 percent in 2021, which creates an incentive to stop digital giants from stealing business. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• You’re A Budding Choreographer. How Do You Land Commissions, And What Do You Do When You Get One?

  13-10-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A couple of working contemporary choreographers offer ideas about how to get a foot in the door — and then what to consider in order to actually create in the piece in the two or three weeks you’ll probably have. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Jim O’Quinn, 75, Founding Editor Of American Theatre Magazine

  13-10-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The magazine’s mandate was to cover not only the nation’s nonprofit theatre scene but, as O’Quinn promised in his first editor’s note, to shine a light also on “Broadway, international theatre, and a wealth of related art forms.” – American Theatre
  
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• The Most Influential Science Fiction Books In History

  13-10-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, the obvious candidates are here — Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1984, Dune, Asimov, Bradbury, Octavia Butler — along some you perhaps didn’t know about because they weren’t originally written in English and some you might not realize count as science fiction. – Book Riot
  
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• How Today’s Environmental Challenges Will Change The Art World

  13-10-2021 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These crises are emerging out of environmental challenges and social justice challenges that are very present. Going back to business as usual is going to sound unconvincing.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• AI Recreates Three Lost Gustav Klimt Paintings In Glorious Color

  13-10-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Faculty Paintings — three allegorical works titled Philosophy, Medicine, and Jurisprudence — were likely destroyed in a fire near the end of Word War II; all we have today are black-and-white photos and some verbal descriptions. Here’s how Google and Vienna’s Belvedere Museum recreated the artworks. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• From concealed penises to Barbra Streisand: how Frieze got its mojo back – review

  13-10-2021 18:57
  
  Regent’s Park, London
  After decades of fun, noise, fame and money, the London art fair has found its soul. But there’s still plenty of outrage and sleaze at the grown-up FriezeI was relieved when I finally found the hidden willies. At times, the first post-pandemic Frieze art fair is so relaxing you could fall asleep in one of its classy lounges. So it was good to see Lindsey Mendick flying the flag for subtle outrage. At the Carl Freedman Gallery booth I come across her lustrous, de
  
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• University Of Hong Kong To Remove Tiananmen Commemoration

  13-10-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 23-foot tower of naked bodies twisted together, some mid-scream, was created by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt and is the last remaining Tiananmen commemoration on Chinese soil. – Washington Post
  
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• “The Worst Idea In History” — ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ At 50

  13-10-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That phrase is how one potential investor rejected Andrew Lloyd Webber’s proposal to stage the rock opera he wrote with Tim Rice. (That’s why it first appeared as a concept album.) Here’s how Superstar got to Broadway— and what happened when it did. – The New York Times
  
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• How Your Brain Constructs You

  13-10-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just as your memory is a construction, so are your senses. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is the result of some combination of stuff outside and inside your head. – MIT Technology Review
  
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• Nathalie Stutzmann Named Music Director Of Atlanta Symphony

  13-10-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stutzmann, a former contralto from France who’s currently principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will start an initial four-year term at the ASO’s helm next fall. She’ll be the only woman currently serving as music director of a year-round orchestra in the US. – The New York Times
  
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• Some Early Good News From The WBEZ-Chicago Sun-Times Merger

  13-10-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a Q&A, two senior executives at Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) say that they no plans to reduce the newspaper’s seven-days-per-week print schedule and that, far from imposing layoffs, they expect to hire 40 to 50 new staffers. – Medill Local News Initiative
  
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• Portrait of the artist: critics cast doubt on Boris Johnson holiday snap

  13-10-2021 16:15
  
  The PM, caught unawares, pursuing his Churchillian hobby. Some wonder whether the image is too convenientIt’s a busy time for the prime minister, as he faces multiple crises including rocketing energy prices, container ships turned away from British ports and a standoff with the EU over the Northern Ireland protocol.But Boris Johnson still found time to emulate his hero Winston Churchill by fitting in a spot of painting while holidaying in Marbella. Continue reading...
  
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• Inside The Rebuilding Of The New York Philharmonic’s Hall: Will The Acoustics Finally Be Good?

  13-10-2021 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Renovation is a weak term for this undertaking. … Acousticians scrutinized every block and beam in the auditorium and the architects bent their design to the properties of sound.” Justin Davidson looks into what made David Geffen Hall’s sound problematic and how it’s being fixed. – New York Magazine
  
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• A feel-good family funeral

  13-10-2021 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review two Broadway transfers, Chicken & Biscuits and Is This a Room. Here’s an excerpt.
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  Douglas Lyons’s “Chicken & Biscuits,” the third of an unprecedented eight shows by Black playwrights that are set to open on Broadway this season, bills itself as “a feel-good comedy that will feed your soul.” This production, which is extremely well directed by Zhailon Levingston, originated at a t
  
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• Merch! Netflix Does Deal With Walmart To Sell Lots Of Branded Stuff

  13-10-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hoo-boy. “The new Netflix Hub at Walmart will bring Netflix-branded gadgets, clothes, music and games to Walmart’s online store exclusively. … (It) will also include programs … like a crowd-sourcing feature called ‘Netflix Fan Select’ that allows fans to vote on which merchandise they’d like to see.” – Axios
  
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• LA’s Center Theatre Group Promises All-Female-Playwright Season Next Year (And Gets ‘Slave Play’ Back)

  13-10-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After criticism for programming few plays by women this season, culminating in Jeremy O. Harris pulling Slave Play from the schedule there, CTG says that the entire 2022-23 season at Mark Taper Forum will be plays by female or nonbinary writers, mostly BIPOC. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Paddy Moloney, Founder Of The Chieftains And Hero Of Irish Folk Revival, Dead At 83

  13-10-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  For nearly 60 years, playing his tin whistle and uilleann pipes, he and his supergroup brought Irish traditional music to the world, making nearly 40 albums, winning six Grammys, and selling many millions of concert tickets and records. – The Washington Post
  
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• A Temporary, Prefab Concert Hall At A Disused Power Plant On The Edge Of Town — Can It Work?

  13-10-2021 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s what they’re hoping for in Munich, where the Gasteig has closed for a multiyear renovation. Both the city’s orchestra’s will be performing at the Isarphilharmonie, assembled for only $46 million but custom-designed with (very successful) acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota. – The New York Times
  
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• Snapshot: Chuck Jones receives an honorary Oscar

  13-10-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chuck Jones receives an honorary Oscar from Robin Williams in 1996 for his work in the field of animated cartoons:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• From the archive: How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective – podcast

  13-10-2021 13:00
  
  We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2018: Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert. By Samanth Subramanian Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Museums overlooked these artists’: celebrating the forgotten women of abstract art

  13-10-2021 08:06
  
  In a new exhibition, the female abstract artists between 1930 and 1950 whose work was sidelined at the time finally get their space in the spotlightIn 1934, the abstract painter Alice Trumbull Mason wrote her sister, Margaret Jennings, a letter, noting that she was eager to resume painting, which she had temporarily stopped in order to raise her children.“I am chafing to get back to painting and of course it’s at least a couple of years away,” Mason wrote. “The babies are
  
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• K-boom! How the unstoppable stars of K-pop went gunning for the art world

  13-10-2021 07:00
  
  First came K-cinema, then K-pop and K-TV. Now South Korea’s young stars are conquering the world with K-art. But what do their dark visions say about their nation’s psyche – and ours?Ohnim is having a blue period, just like Picasso. Over Zoom from a gallery in Seoul, the Korean rapper Song Min-ho, better known as Mino to K-pop fans but Ohnim in the art world, shows me a painting he finished the previous evening in collaboration with artist Choi Na-ri. It depicts a blue crouched
  
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• Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President & General Manager

  13-10-2021 04:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Position Title: Vice President & General ManagerReports to: President & CEODirect reports: Manager of Operations, Orchestra Personnel Manager, Stage Manager, Principal Librarian, and Ballet CoordinatorPosition SummaryThe Vice President & General Manager (GM) is a member of the senior leadership team and has overall responsibility for the management of orchestra operations including creation of an annual orchestra handbook, concert production, budgeting for orchestra costs, touring, r
  
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• Time To Abandon The Idea Of Generational Cultures

  13-10-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For one thing, there is no empirical basis for claiming that differences within a generation are smaller than differences between generations. – The New Yorker
  
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