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• Sorry, But Paris Is Dead

  19-04-2022 23:59 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Paris is dead, and many people like it that way. Living in the ruins of an old Cathedral, Parisians are the ivy that overtake it, the vandals who paint their names on the side of it, and the squatters inside who reinforce its cracking walls. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Streaming Subscription Fatigue Taking Hold In The UK?

  19-04-2022 23:31 via deadline.com
  
  Just 3% of UK households signed up to a new video streaming subscription in Q1 2022, compared to 4.2% during the same period in 2021 when the pandemic was keeping more people home. Fifty-eight percent of households (16.9 million) now have at least one paid subscription, down 215,000 quarter-on-quarter. – Deadline
  
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• Immersive Theatre Company Punchdrunk Signs Worldwide Representation Deal

  19-04-2022 23:01 via deadline.com
  
  Founded in 2000 by Felix Barrett, the British firm has developed a passionate fanbase thanks to its unique form of immersive theater, which leaves audiences free to choose what to watch and where to go in vast, decorated spaces. – Deadline
  
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• Special Challenges For Some Participants In The Venice Biennale

  19-04-2022 22:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  For artists and curators from countries that have been hit hardest by Covid-19 or those that have struggled most to foot the bill—presentations require around $100,000 to $300,000, according to several commissioners we spoke to—it’s been a race against both time and resources. – Artnet
  
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• The World’s Biggest Arts Event Returns — But Has It Learned To Manage The Crowds?

  19-04-2022 22:00 via scotsman.com
  
  A record-breaking 3841 Fringe shows were registered in 2019, consequently, like many in Edinburgh I enjoyed having ‘my’ city back in the summer of 2000; seeing it in all its breathtaking glory, while wandering through empty streets, soaking in the history. – The Scotsman
  
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• Cohen Clone: The Reemergence (at Sotheby’s) of Steve’s Acquavella-Exhibited Picasso

  19-04-2022 21:49 via artsjournal.com
  Katya Kazakina claimed a scoop last week in identifying (via Artnet) hedge-fund mogul/mega-collector Steve Cohen as the owner of
  
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• A Makeover Of A San Diego Contemporary Museum Defies Critics’ Concerns

  19-04-2022 21:31 via latimes.com
  
  The redesign, led by the firm’s founder, Annabelle Selldorf, has gracefully unified a jumble of buildings from various eras, added 30,000 square feet of gallery space and reoriented the entire structure to the stunning feature it had long turned its back on: the Pacific Ocean. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Are Netflix’s Glory Days Over?

  19-04-2022 20:57 via artsjournal.com
  Globally Netflix announced it expected to add only 2.5 million new subscribers in the first three months of the year, well down on the 4 million in the first quarter of 2021. The news has helped wipe almost $45bn (£33bn) from its value as investors worried Netflix’s glory days were over. – The Guardian
  
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• Flameout: When Pop Stars’ Careers Suddenly End

  19-04-2022 20:35 via theguardian.com
  
  The writing on the wall is only easy to read in hindsight. At the time, it’s all a blur. – The Guardian
  
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• What Makes The Difference Between A Dialect And A Language? Depends On Who’s Answering The Question

  19-04-2022 20:01 via theconversation.com
  
  For governments, the quip that “a language is a dialect with an army and navy” is more-or-less true — so Czech and Slovak, Hindi and Urdu, Serbian and Croatian are different languages. For linguists, dialects are mutually intelligible and languages are not. So what of Cantonese — or Ukrainian? – The Conversation
  
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• How The World Is Uncoupling From Russian Artists And Culture

  19-04-2022 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Few places now seem to epitomise Russia’s cultural decoupling from the west better than the large, empty walls of GES-2, created as Moscow’s answer to Tate Modern. – The Guardian
  
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• A Critic’s Lament For The Humana Festival Of New American Plays

  19-04-2022 19:03 via americantheatre.org
  
  Jeremy Gerard: “There are so many reasons to mourn its passing, but I will dedicate my Kaddish to this: We critics tend to be solo fliers. … We rarely play well with others. But the Festival was an exception, demanding collegiality.” – American Theatre
  
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• John Henderson obituary

  19-04-2022 18:26
  
  My father, John Henderson, who has died aged 79, was an artist whose paintings concentrated on scenes familiar in the landscape of Cornwall, where he lived. Haystacks, tyres, cows in a field, the innumerable greens of hedgerows and their contrasting flowers, as well as quayside ropes and static caravans, all became subjects of years of close work.He exhibited widely in the 1970s and 80s with solo exhibitions at DM gallery in London and the Newlyn Orion gallery in Cornwall. His work was included
  
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• The New York Times Names Its Next Top Editor

  19-04-2022 18:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Joseph F. Kahn, currently managing editor (the number-two position in the newsroom), and previously Beijing bureau chief and then international editor, will succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor this summer.  (Kahn is the oldest son of Leo Kahn, co-founder of the Staples office supply store chain.) – The New York Times
  
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• Ballet Companies All Do “Swan Lake”. What Makes One Version Different From Another?

  19-04-2022 18:02 via observer.com
  
  “The story is old, the steps are old, and that’s all part of Swan Lake‘s endurance – it’s a classical ballet. So how does a ballet company make their Swan Lake different from the Swan Lake next door?” Here’s how four prominent choreographers have differentiated their versions. – New York Observer
  
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• American Conductor Quits Post At Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre

  19-04-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “There’s no way I could ever be in denial of what is happening in Ukraine,” he said during a series of interviews over the past week. “Russia is not a place where I want to raise my son. It’s not a place where I want my wife to be anymore. It’s not a place I want to be anymore.” – The New York Times
  
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• “Spain Is Ugly”, Says An Editor At The Country’s Largest Newspaper

  19-04-2022 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrés Rubio, travel editor at El País, has just published a book arguing that Spain’s natural beauty and historic cities and towns have been blighted by hasty, often chaotic real estate development with architecture that’s often hulking, dull and even downright repugnant. – The Guardian
  
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• At Most American Universities, The Struggle Over Ideas Is Not Free-Speech-Versus-Woke Censorship. Not At All.

  19-04-2022 16:30 via slate.com
  
  Lucas Mann, an English professor at a UMass branch campus: “For a professor at a school like mine, … the trick isn’t convincing students to drop their dogmas. It’s convincing them that the stuff we’re talking about could matter in lives already complicated by many other things.” – Slate
  
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• Hundreds Of Italy’s Historic Theatres Are Closed And Becoming Derelict

  19-04-2022 16:03 via gramilano.com
  
  “428 in all are closed, half of which are publicly owned. … The (Ministry of Culture) has financed €420 million for performances in 2022, but nothing for infrastructure. The separate Reconstruction and Resilience Plan in Italy has not allocated anything for theatres, and many are waiting to collapse.” – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• Really Bad Look: San Antonio Symphony Fires Music Director Emeritus For Conducting His Orchestra

  19-04-2022 15:35 via tpr.org
  
  The orchestra’s board made the surprise decision — the stated cause being breach of contract — after Lang-Lessing announced that he will conduct the San Antonio musicians, who have been on strike since late September, in two benefit concerts next month. – Texas Public Radio
  
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• Culture-War Censorship Bleeds From School Libraries Into Public Libraries

  19-04-2022 15:02 via msn.com
  
  “Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries’ governing bodies, rewrite or delete censorship protections, and remove books outside of official challenge procedures.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• ‘A glorious cacophony of Black female voices’ – Sonia Boyce’s soul train hits Venice

  19-04-2022 15:00
  
  British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
  Reflecting her own childhood yearning for a sense of belonging, the British artist’s multiscreen spectacular – some of it filmed at Abbey Road – is like a music-mad teenager’s bedroom wallVoices rise and fall, picking their way through songs and wordless sounds. They break and bend, whisper and tremble. There are cries and ululations, gentle bluesy riffs, operatic moments and open-throated roars, as well as moments when singers are gropin
  
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• ‘A glorious cacophany of Black female voices’ – Sonia Boyce’s soul train hits Venice

  19-04-2022 15:00
  
  British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
  Reflecting her own childhood yearning for a sense of belonging, the British artist’s multiscreen spectacular – some of it filmed at Abbey Road – is like a music-mad teenager’s bedroom wallVoices rise and fall, picking their way through songs and wordless sounds. They break and bend, whisper and tremble. There are cries and ululations, gentle bluesy riffs, operatic moments and open-throated roars, as well as moments when singers are gropin
  
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• The New York Times Appoints A Classical Music Editor

  19-04-2022 14:34 via nytco.com
  
  Rachel Saltz, who joined the newspaper in 2003 and became dance editor in 2015, will now supervise classical music coverage as well. Her predecessor, Zachary Woolfe, was named the staff classical music critic earlier this month. – The New York Times
  
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• A Painting Languishing On A Rural Australian School’s Wall Turns Out To Be A Dutch Golden Age Still Life

  19-04-2022 14:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  The artwork spent 150 years at a school in the Blue Mountains that’s now owned by the National Trust of Australia, which sent the painting for conservation. Once the varnish was removed, conservators discovered the signature of Gerrit Willemszoon Heda (1624-1649), and the painting is worth several million dollars. – Artnet
  
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• ‘They told me I was a savage’ – the unstoppable painter Everlyn Nicodemus

  19-04-2022 07:00
  
  She grew up in the shadow of Kilimanjaro and never knew racism until moving to Europe. As the ‘clandestine artist’ finally gets her due, she looks back on a rich life lived in defiance of conventionAt night, when her daughter was tucked in and her husband had nodded off, Everlyn Nicodemus would make her way to her studio, turn the lights on and begin to paint in the silence. Like a scene from Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, she would craft nocturnal art in her house in Åkersberg
  
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• Composer Harrison Birtwistle, 87

  19-04-2022 05:23 via npr.org
  Birtwistle’s work was widely championed by many notable conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Christoph von Dohnányi and Oliver Knussen, as well as soloists like violinist Christian Tetzlaff (who premiered his Violin Concerto in 2011) and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. – NPR
  
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• Pianist Radu Lupu, 76

  19-04-2022 05:20 via npr.org
  Lupu had retired from public performances in 2019, after several years of canceling many engagements due to poor health, and had not recorded since the mid-1990s. – NPR
  
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• Executive Director – SPACE on Ryder Farm

  19-04-2022 03:20 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunitySPACE on Ryder Farm seeks its next Executive Director to lead the organization into a new era: one marked not solely by the return from COVID, but by the opportunity to live and thrive in adherence to the organization’s recent strategic plan, as well as align the financial resources necessary for the organization to support its people and programs in an equitable, sustainable fashion. The Executive Director should be equally comfortable leading high-level vision, advoc
  
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• President of the Harlem School of the Arts 

  19-04-2022 03:14 via artsjournal.com
  New York, New YorkThe Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) seeks a strategic, innovative, and inspiring President to lead the school as it embarks on its next chapter. HSA is a beloved, inspirational, and impactful cultural institution that offers interdisciplinary curricular offerings and programming rooted in music, dance, theater, visual arts, and design. For almost sixty years, HSA has provided equity of opportunity for every student, regardless of their socioeconomic status. This organization ha
  
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• What’s The Point Of Canceling Russian Artists?

  19-04-2022 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  “Cultural boycotting as an acceptable collateral consequence of war is egregious. There’s no reason to discriminate against individuals. Thousands in Russia, as well as in countries under the Russian yoke, like Belarus, have risked considerable retribution by speaking out against the war.” – The Walrus
  
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