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• Thousands Of People Demonstrate In Support Of Union Workers At Philadelphia Museum Of Art

  15-07-2022 23:28 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “Unionised workers and museum administrators remain at odds and the PMA union has gone without a contract for 23 months.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Sanctuary Cities, Sanctuary Theatre

  15-07-2022 23:02 via publicbooks.org
  
  How useful is sanctuary theatre anymore? “The confessional genre of sanctuary theater places a labor demand—for a coherent, affectively productive story—on an already distressed migrant. This gig becomes only the latest in an endless string of temporary, contingent jobs.” – Public Books
  
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• Cheaper Netflix, With Ads, Is Coming

  15-07-2022 22:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Those ads will come from a partnership with Microsoft. “It’s very early days and we have much to work through, … but our long-term goal is clear.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Victory Gardens Debacle Is A ‘Dire’ Warning To Regional Theatres

  15-07-2022 22:01 via thestage.co.uk
  “The Victory Gardens train wreck brings to the fore important questions of where the primacy in institutional theatres lies when dissension grows too great: Is it with the professional leadership, the volunteer board, the affiliated artists, the donors, or the audience?” – The Stage (UK)
  
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• How To Keep A Music Festival’s Sound Pristine

  15-07-2022 21:32 via sfcv.org
  
  Hire engineer/producer Da-Hong Seetoo, whose dad “fostered a second career for his son by letting him tinker with a 1947 General Electric tube radio and a reel-to-reel Telefunken tape recorder, with which he could preserve the sounds of borrowed classical music LPs.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• What Led Josephine Baker To Become A Spy And A French War Hero?

  15-07-2022 21:03 via lithub.com
  
  It wasn’t only loyalty to France for having accepted her and taken her to heart.  She had some personal experience with Nazism. – Literary Hub
  
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• The BBC Made A Lot Of Money Last Year

  15-07-2022 20:31 via variety.com
  
  Rather jaw-dropping, really. “The BBC has declared a record income of £5.33 billion ($6.4 billion) for the 2021/2022 period, up from £5.06 billion last year, and a surplus of £206 billion.” – Variety
  
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• “Princess Mononoke” Is A Brilliant, Complicated, Gorgeous Film, And Was A Huge Hit In Japan. Why Didn’t It Catch Fire In The States?

  15-07-2022 20:02 via bbc.com
  
  Perhaps, as some in Japan say, because America has such a black-and-white, good-versus-evil mindset. Perhaps because Hollywood thinks animation is for kids and therefore must be simple. It could be an epic snafu with the English script. Or it could be, as Neil Gaiman says, “Harvey Weinstein being petty.” – BBC
  
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• The Art Fund’s Museum Of The Year Completely Reconfigured Itself During The Pandemic

  15-07-2022 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  And the effort paid off: The Horniman’s “values are woven through everything it now does, with a passionate team breathing life and meaning into every object, performance, plant and animal. In many ways it’s the perfect museum.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A Paris Neighborhood Tries A Generally Un-Parisian Thing: Making Friends With All The Neighbors

  15-07-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  In what the organizers call la République des Hyper Voisins (the Republic of Superneighbors), up to 2,000 people regularly gather for meals (including one at a 700-foot outdoor table seating 648), cultural events, oral history gatherings, etc., as well as mutual aid both in person and online. – The Guardian
  
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• Inside LA’s Center Theatre Group As It Methodically Searches Out A New Leader

  15-07-2022 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It’s a deliberate process. “We are not starved for folks being able to select shows and communicate with artists and keep those programs running. … But the thing we’re predominately lacking in the role of the artistic leader is a singular point of truth.” – Yahoo (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• American Presidents A Dirge for Their ‘Greatest’ Racist Hits

  15-07-2022 18:12 via artsjournal.com
  “One shocking. grotesque. and racist revelation after another reveals a history of the bigotry of American presidents and how complicit they were in legitimizing American racism.” — Randy Berman
  Click to view the video.by Randy BermanCreated for the University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University exhibition: "Why Shouldn't We Talk about these Things at the Table?: A Community Based Conversation with South Florida Artists (a Virtual Exhibition)," curated by Adrienne Rose Gi
  
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• Peter Brook Supported Theater Critics — And Set Them A High Standard

  15-07-2022 18:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Lily Janiak: “Brook sympathizes with artists’ complaints about critics — they’re wrong; they’re mean-spirited and ‘disapproving’ — but then he issues a warning: ‘An art without critics would be constantly menaced by far greater dangers. For instance, a critic is always serving the theatre when he is hounding out incompetence.'” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Janeane Garofalo, True To The Gen-X Ethos, Never Sold Out

  15-07-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  A trailblazer for years, “Garofalo didn’t just help shift the comedy scene away from clubs. Her style represented a sea change from the polished, tight and desperately relatable bits ready-made to translate into a sitcom or a late-night appearance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Breakdancing Is A Freeform Art.  How’s It Getting Organized As An Olympic Sport?

  15-07-2022 17:05 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “While breakers around the world ramp up their training, the organization recognized by the IOC to conduct the program, the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), faces the unprecedented challenge of bringing a dance form to the Olympic stage.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Alleged Mysterious Manuscript Thief May Manage To Avoid A U.S. Trial

  15-07-2022 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated numerous authors, agents, and others in order to obtain unpublished manuscripts — for reasons nobody yet understands. Now his first court date has been postponed while a deferred prosecution request is considered. – The Guardian
  
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• Thieves Returned A Precious Medieval Chest Said To Contain Relics Of Christ To “The Indiana Jones Of The Art World”

  15-07-2022 16:06 via bbc.com
  
  The ornate gold-and-lapis lazuli vessel, which houses vials said to contain blood that flowed from Jesus’s body as he was crucified, was stolen on June 1 from Fécamp Abbey in Normandy.  When the thief realized it couldn’t be sold, he had it returned to famed Dutch art detective Arthur Brand. – BBC
  
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• Why do people attack artworks? We ask an expert

  15-07-2022 16:00
  
  It depends, says art historian Noah Charney. Certain pieces can trigger a response in people who have an agendaThis year, a man disguised as a frail, elderly woman jumped out of a wheelchair and smeared cake on the Mona Lisa, protesting about the attention given to art in the face of climate breakdown. The painting was undamaged, defended by glass installed in 1956 when someone threw a rock at it. This month, climate protesters also covered – and glued themselves to the frame of – Jo
  
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• In Ukraine, The Phrase “Culture War” Is Not Metaphorical

  15-07-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “With Russia actively trying to erase Ukraine’s national identity, this country’s music, literature, movies and monuments are not recreations. They are battlefields. The true culture war of our age is the war for democracy, and Ukrainian culture, past and present, has become a vital line of defense.” – The New York Times
  
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• Angel Blue Withdraws From Verona Opera Festival Because Anna Netrebko Is Singing Aïda In Blackface There

  15-07-2022 15:04 via classicfm.com
  
  The American soprano was going to make her Arena di Verona debut as Violetta in La Traviata — until a furor arose over Netrebko’s photos of herself in dark makeup and her Aïda costume and Arena di Verona management defended the makeup as part of a historical staging. – Classic FM (UK)
  
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• Actor’s Equity Blacklists Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky

  15-07-2022 14:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The actors and stage managers of (Paradise Square) asked for Drabinsky to be put on the ‘Do Not Work’ list due to ‘outstanding payments and benefits, and a continued pattern of abuse and neglect that created an unsafe and toxic work environment.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Apparently, There’s A Rampant Violin Playing Scam In The United States

  15-07-2022 14:05 via ludwig-van.com
  
  Scammers ruin everything, including violin skills: “At its most basic, it’s someone who is busking with a violin, apparently playing, while they’re actually faking it — the music comes from a hidden recording.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Sublime seascapes, 3D Bowling, female truckers and portals to beyond – the week in art

  15-07-2022 13:00
  
  Frank Bowling makes a switch to sculpture, Milton Avery creates ‘Rothkos with people in them’ and the Tardis opens its doors – all in your weekly dispatchFrank Bowling and Sculpture
  This mighty abstract painter of history and sorrow reveals his sculptural side.
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