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• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Settles Wrongful Termination Suit With Former Director Nathalie Bondil

  20-01-2022 23:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  Bondil’s claim alleged the board “orchestrated, led, and continues to lead an intentional campaign of defamation and destruction of her reputation.” Now, the museum has walked back its criticisms of its former leader. – Artnet
  
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• Can Theatre Learn Something About Value From Professional Soccer?

  20-01-2022 23:01 via thestage.co.uk
  At a time of a public health emergency, more people appear to have prioritised football than theatregoing. We should ask why. The answer is likely to be less about price and more about perceived value. – The Stage
  
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• Auction Of Nelson Mandela Personal Items Is Blocked

  20-01-2022 22:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  The South African government objected to the sale, which was scheduled to take place later this month, arguing that several items on the block, including the key to Mandela’s prison cell, had been illegally exported from the country. – Artnet
  
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• Ancient Cynicism Was Empowering. The Modern Version Is Paralyzing Us

  20-01-2022 22:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  What was satire then is ideology today: Cynicism—the belief that people are generally morally bankrupt and behave treacherously in order to maximize self-interest—dominates American culture. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Oakland Symphony After Michael Morgan’s Death

  20-01-2022 21:31 via sfcv.org
  
  Morgan’s leadership — which was characterized by people who knew and worked with him as values-based, community-oriented, and energetic — left no doubt among those at the Oakland Symphony about what the identity of the organization moving forward would be. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Dutch Government Will Buy A Rembrandt For €175 Million From An Offshore Tax Haven, Angering Public And Lawmakers

  20-01-2022 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The Standard-Bearer (1636) is being purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust in the Cook Islands which is owned by a holding company in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines — this while the government’s official policy is (supposed to be) to crack down on tax avoidance. – The Guardian
  
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• Streaming Boom Has Been A Career Boon For Older Actors

  20-01-2022 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  It’s no secret that Hollywood has faced accusations of ageism, seeking younger audiences at the expense of older players both in front of and behind the camera. Yet the priorities and business model of streaming, and the abundance of content that it has created, appears to be tinkering with that math. – CNN
  
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• A New TV Dance Competition Will Restage Set Pieces From “Dirty Dancing”

  20-01-2022 20:03 via deadline.com
  
  The series, titled The Real Dirty Dancing and debuting on Fox on February 1, will feature eight celebrities learning routines from the film at the lodge where the original was shot. – Deadline
  
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• What America Listens To: Mostly Oldies (Is That A Problem?)

  20-01-2022 19:32 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  According to MRC Data, old songs now represent 70% of the US music market. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species known as the working musician—have to look on these figures with fear and trembling. – Ted Gioia
  
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• Dutch Theaters, Concert Halls, And Museums Offered Haircuts And Workouts Because That Was The Only Way They Could Open

  20-01-2022 19:05 via france24.com
  
  Following a full lockdown over Christmas, salons, gyms, and brothels were allowed to reopen this week while arts venues had to remain shuttered. So the Van Gogh Museum offered manicures, the Mauritshuis held fitness classes, and the Concertgebouw gave haircuts as Susanna Mälkki conducted Ives’s Second Symphony. – France 24
  
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• LA Review of Books Founder Talks About The Challenges Of Running A Literary Publication

  20-01-2022 18:33 via lithub.com
  
  We had to learn to insert ourselves into social media conversations, and that will continue to be a series of moving goalposts. Facebook, for instance, was still free when we started, but they now actively shut down any attempts to spread word if you aren’t paying for it. – LitHub
  
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• England Ends Mandatory Protective Rules Introduced After Omicron — And Performing Arts Folks Are Relieved

  20-01-2022 18:02 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  COVID passes will no longer be required to attend performances, and while many venues will continue to ask patrons to remain masked, that will no longer be mandated by the government. – Yahoo! (Press Association UK)
  
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• America in Crisis review – photographs of a country on the brink of civil war

  20-01-2022 16:06
  
  Saatchi Gallery, London
  The sorry state of the nation is spelt out as images of robotic stormtroopers at the George Floyd protests stand next to those taken during the turbulent 60sOn 30 May 2020, photographer Philip Montgomery captured a police charge during protests in Minneapolis against the killing of George Floyd. The cops look like giant metal insects, every human part of them hidden. You can’t see faces through the glinting visors, or flesh under their robotic armour as they approac
  
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• Robbie Williams to sell three Banksy artworks for up to £10m

  20-01-2022 13:00
  
  Singer puts versions of Kissing Coppers, Girl with Balloon and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) up for auctionOne of the most successful British pop stars of the past three decades is putting up for auction works by one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists.Robbie Williams, who has built a huge fortune from record sales and concerts, is selling three works by Banksy, the anonymous street artist whose partially shredded painting Love is in the Bin fetched a record £18.5m last
  
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• ‘I have a responsibility to speak about it’: a wrongfully imprisoned artist making art from his ordeal

  20-01-2022 07:38
  
  Sherrill Roland was sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now exonerated, he’s created an exhibition using only materials available on the insideSherrill Roland could not touch his daughter until she was nearly a year old. He had spent 10 months in prison for a crime he did not commit.“It was the first time I finally got out again and got to choose which clothes I actually put on and the first time I got to hold her,” he recalls by phone. “She gave me a big s
  
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