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• She’s A Painter, A Writer, And The Only Woman Ever To Dump Pablo Picasso. Meet Françoise Gilot, Now An “It Girl” At Age 100

  21-01-2022 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “It has been unsettling, if not entirely unwelcome, to find herself courted in recent months by art world pundits and curiosity seekers. … ‘I am not going to make a big deal of being more than what I am,’ she said. ‘Or less.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Aussie Arts Desperately Need An Insurance Scheme During COVID Uncertainty

  21-01-2022 19:32 via artshub.com.au
  The CEO of Live Performance Australia says the Omicron variant has dashed hopes of a live arts sector bounce back in 2022, and that while various State government schemes are providing much needed support for local productions, a national insurance framework is desperately needed. – ArtsHub
  
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• Getting Duke Ellington Into The Orchestral Canon

  21-01-2022 19:04 via sfcv.org
  
  Thomas Wilkins has been conducting Ellington with leading orchestras for some years now, including this weekend and next with the LA Philharmonic. He says that projects like that prompt publishers to print clean scores and parts, which is what will really make a difference. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Deborah Cullinan Is Leaving Yerba Buena To Be Stanford University’s First VP Of Arts

  21-01-2022 18:32 via artsjournal.com
  She explained that her job will be less about individual programming decisions, which will remain the prerogative of those programs’ leaders, and more about providing overarching vision and making the arts a vital part of the broader university. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Was Terry Teachout The Last Of The Conservative Arts Critics?

  21-01-2022 18:02 via thenation.com
  
  “For him, conservatism signaled a commitment to tradition, to persevering and building on past achievement. It was a conservatism of memory, not of grievance and spite. … With his death, this strain of conservatism seems not only rare but perhaps even extinct.” – The Nation
  
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• The Myths Of A Common Language

  21-01-2022 17:31 via psyche.co
  
  If the confusion of tongues is not the primary source of human conflict, might the corollary be true: that resolving conflict doesn’t require a common language? – Psyche
  
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• How Many Composers Ever Get To Have Two Operas Premiere In New York At The Same Time?

  21-01-2022 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “One new opera demands an enormous amount of attention, but two is downright invasive,” says Ricky Ian Gordon. His Intimate Apparel (adapted by Lynn Nottage from her play) is at Lincoln Center Theater, while New York City Opera is producing The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. – The New York Times
  
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• A Lot Of Broadway Shows Have Closed Temporarily. Could That Become A Standard Business Model?

  21-01-2022 16:33 via theatermania.com
  
  The highly contagious omicron variant has given productions a reason to shut down for what happen to be the slowest two months of the year (when many shows die even in ordinary times), reopening in March as tourists start coming back. Could that practice work out long-term? – TheaterMania
  
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• The Newbery Award Has Been Honoring Children’s Books For 100 Years. Not All Of Them Hold Up.

  21-01-2022 16:01 via slate.com
  
  People tend to give books that win classic or canonic status, presuming that a Newbery medalist from decades ago will always be good for today’s kids. That isn’t true, of course. So what should, and shouldn’t, do we do about the winners that seem benighted these days? – Slate
  
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• The Abuse Lawsuit Against UNCSA Is Even Bigger Than You Thought

  21-01-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Most of the reporting about the case has focused on sexual abuse of students in the dance division, but the allegations (and the defendants) also include violent physical abuse and bullying and reach into the theater and music programs as well. – The New York Times
  
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• Large Limestone Sphinxes Unearthed In Luxor

  21-01-2022 15:02 via artnews.com
  
  “A German-Egyptian team of researchers, led by archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian, discovered the artifacts half-submerged in water during their restoration of the funerary temple of the pharaoh and the Colossi of Memnon, two monumental statues in his likeness.” – ARTnews
  
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• A Film Studio In Space? That’s The Plan — And Within Three Years, No Less

  21-01-2022 14:35 via variety.com
  
  A company called Space Entertainment Enterprise intends to open a space station containing both a film and TV studio and a sports/performance arena for clients who want to produce work in a micro-gravity environment. The scheduled completion date is December 2024. – Variety
  
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• Pioneering Black Conductor Everett Lee Dead At 105

  21-01-2022 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  He was the first African-American to be a music director on Broadway (On the Town, 1945) and the first to conduct an orchestra in the American South (Louisville Orchestra, 1953). He earned respect from critics and musicians, but nevertheless had to make his career in Europe. – The New York Times
  
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• A gorgeous Gainsborough returns, street art goes AR and monuments are remade – the week in art

  21-01-2022 10:00
  
  Gainsborough’s Blue Boy ends his 100-year absence, Kaws takes over a gallery and your phone while Jeremy Deller rethinks statues post-Colston – all in your weekly dispatchGainsborough’s Blue Boy
  One of the most famous portraits ever painted in Britain returns from the US for the first time in a century.
  • National Gallery, London, 25 January to 15 May Continue reading...
  
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• Could End Of The BBC’s License Fee Spell The End For Public Broadcasting?

  21-01-2022 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The licence fee announcement needs to be seen as part of a wider legacy in which the government has questioned the relevance of the whole idea of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) and its role in the 21st century. – The Conversation
  
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