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• Amsterdam Hermitage Art Museum Cuts Ties With The St. Petersburg Mother Ship

  04-03-2022 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  “Due to our carefully built relationship,” said a statement from the Dutch satellite, “we had access to one of the world’s most famous art collections that we could use to complement our exhibitions. … The recent attack by Russia on Ukraine means that neutrality is no longer tenable.” – ARTnews
  
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• Valery Gergiev, Political Cautionary Tale?

  04-03-2022 20:33 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  What is happening here represents just the latest, though perhaps the most glaring, iteration of an age-old conundrum. What expectations do we have — should we have — for artists and other ostensibly nonpolitical actors in a time of crisis? Is it incumbent on literally everyone to declare their allegiances? – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Does Every Broadway Show These Days Have To Grapple With The World’s Pressing Issues?  Can’t Some Shows Just Be Fun?  (A Debate)

  04-03-2022 20:04 via theatermania.com
  
  “Critic Hayley Levitt … now finds herself in a state of bafflement when a comedy is just for laughs. Critic Zachary Stewart loves a good political play, but lately thinks a lot of creatives have gone too far in putting fashionable politics onstage — often in a cynical way.” – TheaterMania
  
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• Star Russian Conductor Suspended For Starting Performance With A Wish For Peace

  04-03-2022 19:32 via artsjournal.com
  Before the performance, conductor Ivan Velikanov — a star on the Russian music scene hailed as “the new Teodor Currentzis” — came on stage, gave a short speech calling for peace and led the orchestra in Beethoven‘s “Ode to Joy.” The opera followed. – DW
  
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• One Of The World’s Largest Pipe Organs, Once A TV Star, Has Been Taken Apart, Fixed Up, And Returned To California

  04-03-2022 19:01 via apnews.com
  
  “Hazel” (formally, the Hazel Wright Organ) was the instrument of the Crystal Cathedral, from which Rev. Robert H. Schuller once hosted the Sunday morning show Hour of Power. After years of repair, Hazel is back home in what’s now Christ’s Cathedral in the Catholic Diocese of Orange County. – AP
  
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• Famous Hollywood Celebrity Biographer Dishes On Herself

  04-03-2022 18:29 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Regardless of one’s opinions about Kitty Kelley, or her methodology, there can be no denying that her brand of take-no-prisoners celebrity journalism — the kind that in 2022 bubbles up constantly in social media feeds in the form of TMZ headlines and gossipy tweets — was very much ahead of its time. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• If You Find Dickens’s Novels Too Melodramatic, Try Reading Them The Way He Read Them To Audiences

  04-03-2022 18:04 via newyorker.com
  
  “His health was failing, but he gave every reading his histrionic last ounce. … As Ruskin explained it, Dickens ‘chooses to speak in a circle of stage fire.’ The reason the books are melodramatic is that they are melodrama. If you’re looking for something else, read Anthony Trollope.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Behind The Scenes Of Furious Debates About Changing The Oscars Broadcast

  04-03-2022 17:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which will leave the network with more time to restore the sorts of ratings-drivers that were glaringly absent from last year’s telecast. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old Sculptures Smashed By ISIS Restored And Returned To Ancient City Of Hatra

  04-03-2022 17:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The ruins of the Parthian city, located 70 miles southwest of Mosul, were occupied by ISIS from 2015 to 2017; as usual, they destroyed every ancient statue they could get their hands on.  Three large Hatra sculptures have now been pieced back together, with more in progress. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• For The First Time, A Ballet Company Brings In An Intimacy Coordinator

  04-03-2022 16:35 via scotsman.com
  
  Consultants who “choreograph” sex scenes and ensure actors feel safe performing them are becoming common in film, TV, and theatre, but this production at Scottish Ballet is thought to be a first for classical ballet.  And for this piece, Kenneth MacMillan’s The Scandal at Mayerling, it makes sense. – The Scotsman
  
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• This May Be The World’s Largest Puppet

  04-03-2022 16:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Percy the Porcupine, the two-story creation, is covered in 2,000 foam quills and has an articulated nose the size of a 2-ton Volkswagen. And that’s just the animal’s head. The five fabricators (at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop) … decided to leave the body out of the equation.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Times Of Trouble Are Not Over At New York Public Radio

  04-03-2022 15:31 via cjr.org
  
  After several years of well-documented turmoil, WNYC had a new president and needed a new top editor. The newsroom badly wanted someone, preferably of color, who knew both the city and public radio deeply. They got a white Californian who’d spent her whole career at commercial newspapers. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• Saving Atlanta’s Independent Arts Journalism Website When The Board Wanted To Shut It Down

  04-03-2022 15:04 via artsatl.org
  
  Executive Editor Scott Freeman: “In the summer of 2020, we were in another bad spot and it became obvious that our board planned to shutter ArtsATL. … (Patti Siegel) suggested we put together a new board of directors and take over the publication. And that’s exactly what we did.” – ArtsATL (Atlanta)
  
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• Putin’s Government Shuts Down Russia’s Last Independent TV And Radio Stations

  04-03-2022 14:32 via niemanlab.org
  
  “Russia has blocked TV Rain (also known as ‘Dozhd,’ Russian for ‘rain’), its last independent news network, along with Echo of Moscow, one of its oldest radio stations, declaring them to be foreign agents.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Clement Crisp, Doyen Of Dance Critics, Dead At 95

  04-03-2022 14:05 via tinyurl.com
  “For more than 60 years, his prose distinguished the arts pages of the Financial Times, always with eloquence, panache, expertise and astounding wit.” His colleague Alastair Macaulay describes him as “brilliant, outrageous, erudite, shocking, hilarious, mercurial.” – Financial Times
  
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• New Himid, old Hirst, Mandela’s window and impossible rollercoasters – the week in art

  04-03-2022 13:00
  
  Lubaina Himid’s paintings explore time, Damien Hirst’s animal vitrines still shock, Mandela’s jail window becomes an NFT and Jesse Darling builds antigravity roads to nowhere – all in your weekly dispatchJesse Darling
  Sprawling multifarious installations that mock social structures and systems of power.• Modern Art Oxford from Saturday until 1 May Continue reading...
  
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• Ukraine’s Pain: How the Artworld Has Responded (and how you might too)

  04-03-2022 05:12 via artsjournal.com
  For the past week, I’ve been paralyzed by blogger’s block, unable to focus on artworld controversies that seemed inconsequential
  
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• Call for applications: MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School

  04-03-2022 02:35 via artsjournal.com
  Applications for the MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School in NYC now being accepted!The MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the School of Drama at The New School in NYC reimagines traditional conservatory training to prepare actors, writers, directors, and multidisciplinary artists to thrive as theater-makers in a changed world. The curriculum is designed with a unique approach to MFA-level training where devising, multidisciplinary collaboration, and perform
  
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• Executive Director at The O’Shaughnessy

  04-03-2022 02:23 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummarySt. Catherine University and the Office of Institutional Advancement invite applications for the position of the Executive Director at The O’Shaughnessy.The O’Shaughnessy is one of the Twin Cities’ premiere venues for the performing arts. While performances in its 50-year history have represented many genres, in recent years the focus has been primarily on dance companies, most led by women and artists of color. O’Shaughnessy artists represent high artisti
  
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• ‘Audiences will be delighted’: major Picasso exhibition set for Melbourne in June

  04-03-2022 01:00
  
  The National Gallery of Victoria’s exclusive show will also feature more than 100 works from Picasso’s contemporariesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastSeventy works by Picasso and more than 100 by 50 of his contemporaries will be heading to the National Gallery of Victoria, in an exclusive new exhibition that will open 10 June as part of the Winter Masterpieces program.Several years in the making, The Picasso Century will be curated by the deputy di
  
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• A Year Ago A Beeple Sale Started An NFT Gold Rush. So Has It Changed The Artworld?

  04-03-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In the 12 months since, something like $44 billion has been spent on about six million NFTs, usually issued to certify digital creations but sometimes for physical objects like paintings and sculptures.
  
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