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• Museums Are Trying To Make Money On NFTs

  25-03-2022 23:01 via artsjournal.com
  Cash-poor museums to generate money by selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Last year, NFTs, usually pegged to the high-flying but volatile Ethereum cryptocurrency, took the market for art and collectibles by storm, with sales estimated in the tens of billions. – The New York Times
  
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• Scientists Are Trying To Shape Dreams. Creepy? Or…

  25-03-2022 22:31 via harpers.org
  
  The Dormio enables a limited shaping of the images that appear during sleep’s first stage. Yet this is enough to give bite to the question, to render it slightly less abstract. Why would I want to shape my dreams? What kinds of things can you do with dreams? – Harper’s
  
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• Pandemic Has Forced A Rethink Of Creative Uses Of Public Spaces

  25-03-2022 22:01 via artshub.com.au
  
  The regeneration of cultural destinations and tourism is a key objective, but more so, the pandemic has prompted a critical rethink on pressing concerns including placemaking, accessibility and how people are engaging with cultural infrastructure. – ArtsHub
  
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• Have We Reached Peak Podcast?

  25-03-2022 21:26 via insideradio.com
  
  “Because we have seen so much growth over the last few years, the No. 10 show is getting more downloads than the No. 10 show did a few years ago – it’s not really an apples-to-apples thing to say the new shows are not hits.” – Inside Radio
  
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• After 40 Years, SFJazz Director To Step Down

  25-03-2022 21:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Randall Kline was the driving force behind the opening of the $64 million SFJazz Center at Franklin and Fell streets, which opened its doors in 2013 as one of the only major venues in the country devoted to jazz programming. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• What Artists Say Versus What They Do (Climate Change, For Example…)

  25-03-2022 20:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  Renee Fleming’s comment that, as a singer, she doesn’t travel as much as instrumental soloists came just a few minutes after mentioning that she had seen Yannick Nézet-Séguin open the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season and Carnegie Hall’s season—commuting to Paris for concerts in between. – Van
  
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• Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre – Executive Director

  25-03-2022 20:28 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationJosé Mateo Ballet Theatre (JMBT) has forged a new model for a ballet organization through innovative programming, artistic excellence, an inclusive approach, and extensive community outreach. Founded in 1986 by Cuban-born choreographer José Mateo as a professional company and an affiliate school, the organization has grown to be one of the largest dance organizations in the region. JMBT operates through four interconnected pillars: ballet training, performance, outreach
  
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• Dance Magazine Editor in Chief

  25-03-2022 20:20 via artsjournal.com
  Dance Media is looking for an editor in chief for Dance Magazine. The Dance Magazine eic is part of Dance Media’s senior leadership.Dance Magazine is Dance Media’s flagship brand, inspiring and informing the dance field for more than 90 years. Through its robust ongoing digital transformation, including website, social channels, live and virtual events, as well as its print publication and more, the brand reaches students, professionals and dance lovers around the world. Written by a
  
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• Artistic Director – Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

  25-03-2022 20:13 via artsjournal.com
  Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF) is the professional theatre company on the campus of DeSales University in Center Valley, PA. With a hard-earned and well-deserved reputation for excellence, PSF produces a summer season of Shakespeare, other classics, musicals, and family-friendly works. Over the past 30 years, PSF has grown into one of the country’s major theatre festivals, presenting up to nine productions in its summer series to the enjoyment of over one million attendees to date
  
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• The Music, And Music Criticism, Of The Terezín Concentration Camp

  25-03-2022 19:57 via inquirer.com
  
  David Patrick Stearns looks at “a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians” titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann, Illustrations by Terezín Artists. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• New Shakespeare Theatre Based On 1629 Design To Open

  25-03-2022 19:31 via bbc.com
  
  Prescot is believed to have been the site of the only purpose-built Elizabethan theatre outside London, built in 1593. No plans of the original have survived, so the new venue is a replica of the Cockpit-in-Court, designed for Charles I by architect Inigo Jones at Whitehall Palace in 1629. – BBC
  
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• The Splendiferous Din Of Italian Futurist Music

  25-03-2022 19:03 via publicdomainreview.org
  
  “What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the sensory, spiritual, and political affinities and ambitions behind Italian Futurism’s radical new music.” – The Public Domain Review
  
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• Why Did Two “Civilians” Steal A $160M de Kooning?

  25-03-2022 18:31 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  For all intents and purposes, Rita and Jerry Alter were a totally normal couple living in the New Mexico suburbs—except for one thing. They had a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth $160 million hanging behind their bedroom door. – Smithsonian
  
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• Can Fairy Tales Explain The (Lack Of) Progress In Russia’s War On Ukraine?

  25-03-2022 18:02 via theconversation.com
  
  “Several weeks in, it’s clear many overestimated the Russian army’s will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army’s will to resist an opponent superior in number, equipment and positioning.” Two professors attribute this to the Russian and Ukrainian mindsets, as manifested in the countries’ fairy tales. – The Conversation
  
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• ‘Free Anna Delvey’: Anna Sorokin’s art show features works inspired by fake heiress

  25-03-2022 17:35
  
  The subject of Inventing Anna is fighting deportation and will use some of the proceeds of her sales for her legal defenseThe drawing depicts a woman in a red Alexander Wang dress and blue prison socks. A thought bubble next to her reads: “Send bitcoin.” The chair in which she sits has “Wanted” written on its back.The woman is Anna Sorokin – the notorious fake German heiress whose scams of high society were exposed in a Vanity Fair article and then turned into the h
  
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• ‘Free Anna Delvey’: Anna Sorokin show features art ‘inspired’ by fake heiress

  25-03-2022 17:35
  
  The subject of Inventing Anna is fighting deportation and will use some of the proceeds of her sales for her legal defenseThe drawing depicts a woman in a red Alexander Wang dress and blue prison socks. A thought bubble next to her reads: “Send bitcoin”. The chair in which she sits has “Wanted” written on its back.The woman is Anna Sorokin – the notorious fake German heiress whose scams of high society were exposed in a Vanity Fair article and then turned into the h
  
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• The Importance Of Skepticism For Democracy

  25-03-2022 17:30 via aeon.co
  
  The sceptical way of life, on Sextus’ presentation, follows a certain rhythm. You feel puzzlement about something. You search for knowledge about it. You arrive at two equally weighty considerations about what is happening. You let go trying to find an answer. – Aeon
  
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• It’s Not Easy To Make A Story Ballet About Evita Perón

  25-03-2022 17:04 via pointemagazine.com
  
  Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she has done many objectionable things and completely avoiding Andrew Lloyd Webber’s show. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• EU Passes Sweeping New Rules For Big Tech

  25-03-2022 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  With these actions, Europe is cementing its leadership as the most assertive regulator of tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. – The New York Times
  
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• Some Folks Want To Do Away With The Woman-In-Danger Subgenre Of Thriller Fiction.  Bad Idea.

  25-03-2022 16:01 via crimereads.com
  
  Nancy Allen: “I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I’ve written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally inspired by actual crimes committed in the Ozarks, where I live. And the reason I write these stories is simple. Women are in peril here.” – CrimeReads
  
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• Bowen Yang’s Immigrant Parents Could Not Comprehend His Making A Career In Comedy

  25-03-2022 15:35 via vulture.com
  
  No, it’s not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living by telling people jokes you made up. Of course, now that he’s on television every week (Saturday Night Live), it makes more sense to them. – Vulture
  
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• This Couple Helps COVID-Clobbered Arts Workers Transition Into Tech

  25-03-2022 15:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “About a week after Broadway shut down, Scott and Catherine Ricafort McCreary launched a support group for artists interested in making a career switch. ‘We thought: If your job is gone, there’s never a better time to learn what we did.” The group? Artists Who Code. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• COVID Has Cost Us A Generation Of Theatermakers

  25-03-2022 14:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “The collective pause spurred an unprecedented reflection on what they weren’t getting from their prepandemic jobs and what precarious elements they had tolerated. … Some are leaving the door open to return to theater someday. Others say they’ll never go back. Here are 10 of their stories.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Sunderland betting shop replica is a glass act

  25-03-2022 14:29
  
  Ryan Gander recreates high street mainstay, with everything down to carpet tiles and plants made from glassYet another betting shop has appeared on one of Britain’s high streets, full of screwed-up betting slips, little pens, newspaper race cards and discarded sweet wrappers. A pile of unopened post suggests the place has been abandoned.So far, so depressing. But this bookie’s in Sunderland is different. Titled Ghost Shop, it is remarkable because everything down to the sticky carpet
  
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• After Decades Of Misuse And War Damage, The Ruins Of Ancient Babylon Are Being Repaired

  25-03-2022 14:03 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Funded by the US Embassy as part of the World Monuments Fund’s 15-year Future of Babylon project, the current work includes stabilization and conservation of the Lion of Babylon statue, the Ninmakh Temple, and the famous Ishtar Gate, which will be completed this summer. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Ghosts haunt the Square Mile and a digital punk comes to Glasgow – the week in art

  25-03-2022 13:41
  
  Artists’ innermost visions go on display in London, Rana Begum shows off her ethereal magic and Ilona Szalay gets introspective – all in your weekly dispatchRadio Ballads
  Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Ilona Sagar and Rory Pilgrim collaborate with people from Barking and Dagenham to create socially engaged artworks.
  • Serpentine Gallery, London, from 31 March. Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director- TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

  25-03-2022 04:33 via artsjournal.com
  Reporting to the Board of Trustees in a co-leadership model with the Artistic Director, the Executive Director will provide administrative and financial oversight of all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the organization. They will collaborate closely with the Board and Artistic Director to establish a long-term vision and strategy that is effective, achievable, and sustainable and will co-lead its implementation. Guided by TheatreWorks’ mission and values, this individual will be re
  
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• Next Round in the Artists’ Resale Royalties Battle: Can Fairchain Succeed Where Others Have Failed?

  25-03-2022 04:10 via artsjournal.com
  Fairchain, a self-described new platform for “granting artists tradable residual rights [emphasis added] to their creative product” is “gaining
  
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• From Adut Akech to the Queen: faces of Australian portraiture – in pictures

  25-03-2022 02:01
  
  Featuring more than 200 works by Australian photographers, Who Are You is the first exhibition to bring together the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Who Are You: Australian Portraiture is on at the NGV in Melbourne until 21 August 2022 Continue reading...
  
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