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• Norman Lear At 100

  22-07-2022 23:31 via variety.com
  
  “I think the big secret is never forgetting to wake up in the morning. It starts with getting out of bed,” Lear says. “But there isn’t a day when there aren’t stories to tell — exciting, relevant and of the moment stories.” – Variety
  
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• US Copyright Office Declines To Target Web Aggregators

  22-07-2022 23:01 via mediapost.com
  
  The U.S. Copyright office, contrary to the approach taken in Europe, has declined to add an ancillary copyright for publishers to protect them from use of their content by aggregators. – MediaPost
  
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• A New Hotel That’s All Broadway

  22-07-2022 22:32 via washingtonpost.com
  All through the hallways and suites and lounges of the Civilian, a new 27-story, 203-room hotel a block from Times Square, guests can face everything about Broadway except the music. It’s a veritable shrine to Broadway design. – Washington Post
  
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• Why Is San Francisco Opera Presenting An Opera On The Wrong Side Of History?

  22-07-2022 22:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision stripping away decades’ worth of well-established abortion rights, “Frau” feels more problematic than ever. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• ‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

  22-07-2022 22:00
  
  Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decadesA previously unknown and dark chapter in the life and work of Sidney Nolan is in the spotlight, with the unveiling of early paintings documenting the horrors of Nazi Germany – which the Australian artist never wished to be shown in his lifetime.The obscenity of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps haunted the ar
  
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• Netflix Is In Trouble

  22-07-2022 21:31 via vulture.com
  
  Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out at around 220 million. – New York Magazine
  
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• Six Months After Firing Its Artistic Director, Toledo Ballet Hires A New One

  22-07-2022 21:03 via toledoblade.com
  
  Eric Otto, who has danced and choreographed at companies throughout the eastern and Midwestern US, begins his term this fall.  Much of the Toledo Ballet’s activity is focused on teaching, and Otto literally grew up at a successful ballet school, one run by his mother. – The Blade (Toledo, OH)
  
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• The Epic Battle For Control Of A Legendary Music Club

  22-07-2022 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom patrol. One longtime resident describes the area as a ring of desert fiefdoms. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The World’s First Graphic Memoir Has Been Found — And It Dates From World War I

  22-07-2022 20:10 via artshub.com.au
  
  Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner’s 1978 A Contract with God. What’s just turned up is Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland, by a new immigrant in Australia sent to an internment camp there during WWI. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Hollywood Flocks To Eastern Europe

  22-07-2022 19:32 via latimes.com
  
  Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in production rebates are quickly granted — Hollywood is setting its sights on lesser-known corners of the globe. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Guardian view on street art: on the rise in Leicester and beyond | Editorial

  22-07-2022 19:04
  
  The tallest mural in Europe, completed this week, is a welcome addition to a growing national portfolioBritish street art has been on something of a journey since its edgy, graffiti-led beginnings in the 1980s, when New York trailblazers became role models for guerrilla artists in UK cities. Back then, as part of a crackdown on illegal tagging in Bristol, British Transport Police raided an “aerosol art project” that later counted Banksy among its alumni. Earlier this month, Banksy wa
  
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• A Visit To Beeple’s New $10 Million Studios

  22-07-2022 19:04 via vulture.com
  
  Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike Winkelmann has set up a workshop where he’s making physical sculpture as well as stuff for screens and generally getting serious about art. – New York Magazine
  
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• The Writers Using AI To Help Them Create

  22-07-2022 18:32 via theverge.com
  
  Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. The tool was called Sudowrite. – The Verge
  
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• London’s West End Has Its First New Theatre In 50 Years

  22-07-2022 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, “sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no noise from the nearby transport network. … Although the opening production will be staged in the round, the space is flexible enough to accommodate several configurations.” – The Guardian
  
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• Kaija Saariaho On Life As A Composer

  22-07-2022 17:31 via npr.org
  Today it’s different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today, when there is so much more equality — and of course, there still could be and should be more — we could finally speak about music. – NPR
  
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• ‘Hypnotic and bursting with life’: VR version of Artemisia Gentileschi’s life – review

  22-07-2022 17:25
  
  Burghley House, Lincolnshire
  This technically perfect and thrillingly flamboyant re-enactment of the extraordinary artist’s life is a great way to discover the pain and triumph of her often savage workThis stately home is so venerable, it makes other great piles such as Blenheim Palace or Chatsworth look nouveau riche. Burghley House was built by Elizabeth I’s chief adviser William Cecil in the Renaissance. His descendants created a stupendous art collection and one of them, on his G
  
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• Playwright Christopher Durang Diagnosed With Progressive Aphasia

  22-07-2022 17:05 via broadwaynews.com
  
  Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer’s disease described thus by one of Durang’s medical specialists: “instead of starting in the memory parts of the brain, it’s starting in the language parts of the brain.”  His long-term memory and executive function are, so far, unaffected. – Broadway News
  
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• Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to Botticelli painting

  22-07-2022 16:52
  
  Members of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) attach themselves to frame’s glass to protest without damaging artworkEnvironmental protesters have glued themselves to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera which is on display at an art gallery in Florence.The activists, from the climate activist group Ultima Generazione (Last Generation), said the protest was the first in “a new season of actions” targeting museums. It appeared inspired by Just Stop Oil activ
  
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• Why Is Adapting Jane Austen For The Screen So Tricky?

  22-07-2022 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn’t that (the new, much-criticized Persuasion) takes liberties — every iteration does; that’s practically the point — but what sort of liberties those are.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Evelyn Glennie’s Brain Works: The Neuroscience Of Deaf People’s Experience Of Music

  22-07-2022 16:03 via nautil.us
  
  “Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual’s vibrotactile sense may fill in for the loss of hearing will vary. Either way, vibration communicated through touch offers a wealth of musical subtlety that researchers are now quantifying.” – Nautilus
  
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• Want A Career In Classical Music?  You Need To Be Either Rich Or Very, Very Lucky

  22-07-2022 15:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  “It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic requirement that it may as well not matter. People don’t win by being good at it, they win by being able to foot the bill.” – Van
  
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• King Kong statue unveiled in Birmingham for Commonwealth Games

  22-07-2022 15:27
  
  Statue is recreation of pop art installation by Nicholas Munro displayed in city centre in 1970sWhen British pop artist Nicholas Monro was asked to make a public sculpture for Birmingham in the 1970s, he raised a few eyebrows when he produced an 18ft fibreglass statue of King Kong.“It was really just a finger up to the system. They wanted something typical and boring, so he gave them a massive gorilla,” said Monro’s son, Claude. “I think there was a certain amount of &lsq
  
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• King Kong statue returns to Birmingham for Commonwealth Games

  22-07-2022 15:27
  
  Statue is recreation of pop art installation by Nicholas Munro displayed in city centre in 1970sWhen the British pop artist Nicholas Monro was asked to make a public sculpture for Birmingham in the 1970s, he raised a few eyebrows when he produced an 18ft fibreglass statue of King Kong.“It was really just a finger up to the system. They wanted something typical and boring, so he gave them a massive gorilla,” said Monro’s son Claude. “I think there was a certain amount of &
  
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• Executive Director, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra

  22-07-2022 15:15 via artsjournal.com
  SRJO SEARCHES FOR FULL-TIME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND MAKES MICHAEL BROCKMAN FULL-TIME ARTISTIC DIRECTOR(For more information, visit http://www/srjo.org)Now entering it’s 28th concert season, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra is the Pacific Northwest’s only permanent and professional big-band orchestra. It was founded in 1995 by Brockman (saxophonist/arranger) and Clarence Acox (drummer). Since its founding, Brockman and Acox have been co-Artistic Directors of the non-profit organi
  
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• Cal Shakes Director Eric Ting Resigns

  22-07-2022 15:04 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  “Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a dynamic, artistically vibrant seven-year tenure that has given the Bay Area some of its finest theater in recent memory.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• HarperCollins Staffers Stage One-Day Strike, Demanding Less-Appallingly-Low Pay

  22-07-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company’s corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages, better family leave benefits and a stronger commitment to diversity from the company.” – The New York Times
  
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• Record Number Of New Cultural Buildings In 2021

  22-07-2022 14:05 via aeaconsulting.com
  211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 – $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016 (and by some margin). Last year only 104 projects were completed with a value of $5.7 billion. – AEA
  
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• Two foiled smugglers, a VR old master, and Bruegel goes sketching – the week in art

  22-07-2022 13:00
  
  Explore the excesses of Colombian carnaval, get real with Artemisia Gentileschi, see the unseen with Frank Auerbach and learn how a pipe not being a pipe still influences design today – all in your weekly dispatchEdinburgh Art festival
  Vincent van Gogh, Tracey Emin and Burke and Hare can all be found in this sprawling visual answer to the fringe, along with canalside commissions and community projects.
  • Edinburgh venues, from 28 July until 28 August Continue reading...
  
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• Hadley’s art prize 2022: Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin wins Australia’s richest landscape prize

  22-07-2022 04:08
  
  The senior Pitjantjatjara artist is the first woman to win the $100,000 award since its inception in 2017Senior Pitjantjatjara artist Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin has become the first woman to win Australia’s richest landscape prize since its inception in 2017, with her work titled Antara.Announced in Hobart on Friday, Goodwin’s work was chosen from among 35 finalists for the $100,000 acquisitive Hadley’s art prize, with the works exhibited across two galleries in the city’s his
  
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• Director of Arts Programming – University of Pittsburgh

  22-07-2022 01:20 via artsjournal.com
  Bradford, PennsylvaniaCOME LOVE WHERE YOU WORK!The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (“Pitt-Bradford”) seeks an energetic and creative Director of Arts Programming to succeed Patricia Colosimo who retires in early September.The Director is responsible for the vision, administration and planning of all activities of the university’s performing arts center and oversees operations of the Marilyn Horne Museum and Exhibit Center. This includes programming, facility scheduling an
  
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