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• Baltimore Symphony Cancels Ten Of Next Season’s Concerts Due To Low Attendance

  11-07-2022 23:31 via baltimoresun.com
  “In response to a precipitous slide in attendance during the 2021-22 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has canceled 10 concerts originally scheduled to be performed next season at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. … By the end of last season, attendance at BSO performances was averaging about 40% of capacity.” – The Baltimore Sun
  
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• After 56 Years As The Toronto Star’s Classical Critic, William Littler Writes His Farewell Column

  11-07-2022 23:03 via thestar.com
  Bill remembers the myriad performers who came from abroad and his trips overseas covering Canadian ensembles: in Prague in 1968, weeks before the Soviet tanks rolled in, and in China in 1978, when everyone still wore Mao hats. Plus his North American odyssey trying to interview Luciano Pavarotti. – Toronto Star
  
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• Construction Of New Cultural Facilities Has Come Roaring Back: Study

  11-07-2022 22:34 via news.artnet.com
  
  The sixth annual Cultural Infrastructure Index, produced by AEA Consulting, has found that “after a predictable dip in 2020, due to broader pandemic lockdowns, 2021 showed an extraordinarily robust rebound in new buildings and projects.” – Artnet
  
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• The Problem With Remote And Hybrid Work, And How To Solve It

  11-07-2022 22:02 via msn.com
  
  Remote work may be good for efficiency but it’s deadly for team-building. So, just as the development of multi-location businesses led to the creation of the middle manager, whose role was to keep far-flung operations coordinated, the rise of hybrid in-office/remote work will require a new profession. – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Surprising Good News: New Indie Bookstores Are Opening, Doing Good Business, And Serving Diverse Populations

  11-07-2022 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Many of them opened during the pandemic shutdown, such as The Salt Eaters Bookshop in L.A. County and Socialight Society in Lansing, Mich., oriented toward Black women; Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, Pa., a “queer, feminist indie bookstore”; and Yu and Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown. – The New York Times
  
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• Australia’s Beloved Skywhale Balloon Gets Torn In High Winds

  11-07-2022 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Skywhale and her companion, Skywhalepapa, were to appear at an event in Ballarat, a historic town 72 miles WNW of Melbourne that’s notorious for unpredictable and turbulent weather. Winds put a three-foot gash in Skywhale’s underside, and she’s gone back to the National Gallery of Australia for repair. – The Guardian
  
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• All Those TikTok Viral Dance Challenges?  This Is Not The First Time America Has Done That Sort Of Thing.

  11-07-2022 20:33 via zocalopublicsquare.org
  
  “A century later, the animal dance craze — and the issues it raises around body autonomy and regulation — is part of the legacy of social dancing that continues to this day, embodied now through these viral dance challenges like the one to (Lizzo’s) ‘About Damn Time.'” – Zócalo Public Square
  
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• Here’s Who’s Replacing Beanie Feldstein And Jane Lynch In “Funny Girl” On Broadway

  11-07-2022 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  After Labor Day, Lea Michele, who has famously wanted the role for years, will play Fanny Brice, and Tovah Feldshuh will play her mother, Lynch’s role.  In August, Feldstein’s understudy, Julie Benko, will take the title role, and she’ll continue it on Thursdays after Michele’s arrival. – The New York Times
  
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• Edouard Louis, His Mother, And The “Archaeology Of The Destruction Of A Smile”

  11-07-2022 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Not long ago, the 29-year-old French memoirist (The End of Eddy) found an old snapshot of his mother at age 20 with a bright, hopeful smile.  He always remembered her as tough and grim, and he decided to find out what happened to that smiling young woman. – The Guardian
  
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• This Couple Bought Their Small Newspaper Back From Gannett

  11-07-2022 19:05 via npr.org
  Amy Duncan was editor and publisher, and her husband, Mark Davitt, managing editor, of The Record-Tribune in Indianola, Iowa, and when they heard that Gannett wanted to sell some of its smaller titles, they leapt at the chance.  They’re publishing in hard copy weekly and operating online daily. – NPR
  
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• Old Redlined Neighborhoods In New Haven Have Become Havens For Black Artists

  11-07-2022 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “A community of artists — many of color — has blossomed in unassuming districts with names like East Rock, Newhallville and Fair Haven. Most are Yale alumni who chose to stay. … New Haven’s appeal over larger cities may not be self-evident, but it makes sense.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• What Gives Some Peoples The Strength To Fight And Overcome Far Stronger Adversaries?

  11-07-2022 18:03 via aeon.co
  
  “Throughout history, those willing to sacrifice for cause and comrades … have often prevailed against more powerful forces that mainly rely on material incentives such as pay and punishment. … Yet little scientific attention is paid to understanding why this is so or what to do about it.” – Aeon
  
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• The Afterlife Of Public Art

  11-07-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Should public art, once removed from its original space, go to a museum – or to a Dumpster? – The New York Times
  
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• Jafar Panahi One Of Three Filmmakers Arrested In Iran

  11-07-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Award-wining director Mohammad Rasoulof and colleague Mostafa Al-Ahmad were taken into custody for posting a statement on social media urging members of the Iranian security forces to lay down their weapons.”When Panahi went to prosecutors’ offices out of concern for the other two, he was also arrested. – The Guardian
  
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• Letter: Gerda Rubinstein obituary

  11-07-2022 16:57
  
  For many years the sculptor Gerda Rubinstein gave “open studio” classes in Lewisham and Greenwich, south London. Working alongside her students, often with a life model, she inspired local people of all ages, experience and abilities. Not only a joy to take part in, they resulted in enduring friendships, and provided a very profound learning experience. A number of her students went on to professional careers in sculpture.Gerda’s teaching and her mastery of techniques important
  
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• The Artist Who Reveals Los Angeles’ Tongva Heritage

  11-07-2022 16:29 via latimes.com
  
  Mercedes Dorame’s work, “in quiet ways, illuminates how Indigenous life and thought remain present in Los Angeles and its landscapes.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Beanie Feldstein Is Leaving Broadway’s “Funny Girl” Two Months Early

  11-07-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so … has been a great joy and true honor.  Once the production decided to take the show in a different direction, I made the … difficult decision to step away sooner than anticipated.” – The New York Times
  
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• Best Director Winner Thinks Netflix, Losing Subscribers, Will Be More Picky About Funding

  11-07-2022 15:45 via bbc.com
  
  Jane Campion, who directed the artsy Power of the Dog and won Best Director for it at the 2022 Academy Awards, is worried. “I do think they’re going to be more picky about other projects or, maybe, what’s sad is not taking risks on people without names.” – BBC
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Doghouse

  11-07-2022 15:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “The Civic Center [in Marin County] will now be the permanent home of Wright’s smallest structure, a doghouse he drew on the back of an envelope at the request of 12-year-old Jim Berger so the family could accommodate their new golden retriever in style.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Nevada Artists Join Forces To Get A Mountain Range Labeled A National Monument

  11-07-2022 15:15 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Artists might more normally be working in the studio, but “though artist-as-intersectional-avatar is not an unusual circumstance, the curators’ efforts go above and beyond what typically occurs in an arts and activism role.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• An Ode To Bookstores, And To Promiscuous Reading

  11-07-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Bookstores, like wines, have different notes, different flavors, each one distinct. There are the musty, quirky ones with haphazard piles and dusty rows, usually with both used and new books. There are the small indie stores, quaint, cozy and scrappy.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are Those Identification Apps Good For Anything But Music – And Big Databases?

  11-07-2022 14:45 via slate.com
  
  Well, they’re also good for stealing a sense of wonder, or any sense of self-reliance in the wild. But hey, also, “Do not eat anything just because a plant ID app doesn’t say it’s toxic.” – Slate
  
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• Another Theatrical Shout-Out To The Legendary Peter Brook

  11-07-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Friends and colleagues who worked with him on this side of the Atlantic, and theater makers who never met him but look reflexively to his tenets — including openness and presence in the moment — spoke … about Brook’s impact as an artist and a human being.” – The New York Times
  
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• Skywhale grounded after Ballarat winds rip ‘quite big’ gash in balloon sculpture

  11-07-2022 09:24
  
  Artist Patricia Piccinini says she is in ‘absolute shock’, while National Gallery of Australia says a dedicated team is working to repair damagePatricia Piccinini’s much-loved Skywhale was grounded in Victoria over the weekend after strong winds in Ballarat ripped a gash in the balloon – but according to the National Gallery of Australia, her wounds are not serious.The hot-air balloon sculpture has been regularly taking to the skies across Australia, as well as Japan, Ire
  
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• ‘It’s manic!’ Turner-winner Mark Leckey’s dream comes true as he opens an art school in Cornwall

  11-07-2022 09:00
  
  Redruth, one of the most deprived areas in Britain, has become a beacon for isolated West Country artist. And this is just the beginning, says Leckey, as he eyes other outposts in the northIt’s a bright summer Saturday in the old Cornish mining town of Redruth. White clouds are scudding picturesquely over Carn Brea, the hilltop monument that looms above town, but Liam Jolly has no time to admire the view.“It’s manic!” says the artist, as he ducks into the darkness of Auct
  
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