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• The Tenth Anniversary of an Arts System Map: How Are We Doing?

  08-09-2022 23:45 via artsjournal.com
  A decade ago this month, for the first time in its history, the NEA announced a five-year research agenda dedicated to examining the arts as an ecosystem. What factors influence the health of that system, we wanted to know; of what discrete and measurable parts does the system consist, and what types of outcomes result when the system is in action?
  Hang on, you think—this is the arts we’re talking about, right? If my questions sound hyper-schematic, try the NEA’s 2012 publicat
  
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• How COVID Changed The Gallery Opening Reception

  08-09-2022 23:31 via hyperallergic.com
  “If we do three smaller events around an opening, it’s just that much better for the artist and for my team to be able to reconnect with people and be able to talk, instead of the one big blow-out type of celebration. But there are going to be artists that want that.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Minefield Of Staging Shakespeare Today

  08-09-2022 23:01 via thestage.co.uk
  “It is a feeling of being in a minefield where some things are permitted and some not, but you don’t know which, or that certain lines are ‘meant to be funny’, but you don’t find them so – that Shakespeare’s intentions are in some mysterious sense to be honoured, even though no one truly knows what they were.” – The Stage
  
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• Tom Stoppard At 85

  08-09-2022 22:33 via nytimes.com
  At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.” The house Stoppard shares with his third wife, the charming Sabrina Guinness, is exactly what you would expect: elegant, erudite, fey and library-quiet. – The New York Times
  
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• Has Roger Norrington Finally Unlocked The Mozart Code?

  08-09-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  “I’ve tried to play Mozart well for 60 years now. When I started I had little clue. How fast should it go? (There are no metronome marks as in Beethoven.) What kind of sound? What note lengths were implied by the various editions? But by 1970, luckily for my generation, help was at hand.” – The Guardian
  
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• Sundance’s Next Leader

  08-09-2022 21:24 via nytimes.com
  Hernandez, who currently serves as the senior vice president of Film at Lincoln Center, the executive director of the New York Film Festival and the publisher of Film Comment, will join the Sundance Institute’s leadership team in November, upon conclusion of the New York festival. – The New York Times
  
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• Peter Straub, Author Of Horror Classics “If You Could See Me Now”, “Ghost Story”, And “Shadowland”, Dead At 79

  08-09-2022 21:02 via msn.com
  “One of the most celebrated writers of tales of horror, psychological thrillers and stories, … he was the winner of numerous prizes, including the Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement in 2006, and was named an International Horror Guild ‘living legend’ in 2008.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• The Avant Garde: I Used To Be A Contendah!

  08-09-2022 20:28 via artsjournal.com
  An avant-garde likes to present itself as insurgent and radical, yet the logic of the metaphor suggests that a new group will soon be coming along to replace it. Today’s avant-garde is always liable to congeal into tomorrow’s orthodoxy. – The Nation
  
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• World’s Second-Biggest Movie Theater Chain Files For Bankruptcy

  08-09-2022 20:03 via apnews.com
  Cineworld, which owns Regal Cinemas in the US and Cineworld and Picturehouse theatres in the UK, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in US federal court in Houston.  The company will continue operations and expects to be reorganized by early next year. – AP
  
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• What Luck In War Teaches Us About Your Odds In Life

  08-09-2022 19:32 via psyche.co
  It is not just in war and sport that luck plays such a great part. In our interconnected global economy, every business operates in a high-variable environment. This is not new. – Psyche
  
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• Bernard Shaw, CNN’s First Chief News Anchor, Dead At 82

  08-09-2022 19:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “(He) was the cable news channel’s lead anchor for two decades until his retirement in 2001.  During his tenure, Shaw anchored major breaking news events, like the attempted assassination of President Reagan in 1981, the Tiananmen Square student revolt in 1989 and every presidential election.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• When Goethe’s House Was Destroyed In WWII, Rebuilding Became Controversial

  08-09-2022 18:31 via historytoday.com
  As Goethe later recalled in his autobiography, it was to the house that he owed his literary awakening. It was there, gazing at his family’s prints, that he had learned to love Italy, antiquity and nature; there that his passion for drama was first fired; and there that he wrote some of his most famous works. – History Today
  
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• The Odesa Philharmonic, And The American Who’s Been Conducting It For 30 Years

  08-09-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  Hobart Earle, who’s currently helming the orchestra on a special visit to Berlin: “I never imagined that I would be a long-term music director.  And I certainly never planned on being a music director in a time of war.” – The New York Times
  
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• Canada’s Griffin Prize For Poetry Goes International

  08-09-2022 17:31 via theglobeandmail.com
  In announcing this shift, prize founder Scott Griffin said that Canadian poets are capable of competing on the world stage. “Yes, Canadians will not have this automatic prize each year. But in a sense, there is a statement here that’s saying Canadians can hold their own.” – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• National Geographic Cuts Six People From The Top Of Its Masthead

  08-09-2022 17:02 via msn.com
  “High-level (layoffs) are unusual for any established magazine, and they are unprecedented for National Geographic, which has enjoyed stable editorial leadership since its founding by the nonprofit National Geographic Society of Washington in 1888.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Lea Michele And Her Six Standing Ovations: An Eyewitness Report From Her First Performance In “Funny Girl”

  08-09-2022 16:35 via vulture.com
  “After a decades-long, controversy-filled history of desperately wanting to play Fanny Brice, Lea Michele was finally in the role on Broadway. At the first performance, the audience was there to cheer on the greatest star, though you could put any part of that fervent sentiment in air quotes.” – Vulture
  
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• Calder Gardens — After 25 Years Of Start-And-Stop, A Space Dedicated To The Sculptor’s Work Will Be Built In Philadelphia

  08-09-2022 16:20 via inquirer.com
  Located on Benjamin Franklin Parkway just opposite the Rodin Museum and Barnes Foundation, Calder Gardens will include both a building (designed by Herzog & de Meuron) and landscaped outdoor spaces to display a rotating selection of Calder’s mobiles and stabiles. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• “For Such A Small Venue, The Variety Of Spaces Is Remarkable”: Inga Saffron On Calder Gardens

  08-09-2022 16:03 via tinyurl.com
  “At a time when Philadelphia architecture rarely rises above the goal of extracting money from land, Calder Gardens promises to be a work of art itself. Ideas about Calder’s creativity and Philadelphia’s history are embedded in every detail. Yet the design is no mere intellectual exercise.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Sculpture By Three Generations Of Calders In Philadelphia

  08-09-2022 15:31 via tinyurl.com
  Already there are famous mobiles and other pieces by “Sandy” Calder at the Museum of Art, PAFA, Federal Reserve Bank, and Free Library, plus major works by his father (the fountain in Logan Square) and grandfather (the statues on City Hall, including of William Penn on top). – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Scholars Discover Hidden Images In Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid”

  08-09-2022 15:04 via news.yahoo.com
  “Advanced scanning techniques revealed that beneath the plain white wall that makes the milkmaid’s bright yellow and blue clothes stand out, Vermeer had originally painted extra details,” including a wooden jug rack and a basket. – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• New York City Ballet Dancers’ New Contract Has Some Real Changes

  08-09-2022 14:32 via nytimes.com
  Not only does the new labor agreement include a 6.7% pay raise and restoration of benefits suspended when the pandemic arrived, the company formally committed to hiring an intimacy coordinator and allowing tights to match a dancer’s skin tone. – The New York Times
  
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• What Can The UK’s Arts Sector Expect From New Prime Minister Liz Truss?

  08-09-2022 14:05 via news.artnet.com
  It’s hard to say just yet — partly because she’s so new and partly because she has a reputation for changing positions on almost anything.  But there are hints to be gleaned.  One: she’s talking about cutting taxes on rich people, so there will probably no increase in arts funding. – Artnet
  
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• America shows its true colours: early Mitch Epstein – in pictures

  08-09-2022 08:00
  The pioneering photographer depicted his colourful home country during an era of sexual liberation and crippling war in VietnamContinue reading...
  
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• Deputy Director, Philanthropy and External Relations- The Newark Museum of Art

  08-09-2022 03:00 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Deputy Director, Philanthropy and External Relations (DDPER) will lead overall contributed and earned income strategies for NMOA that maximize philanthropic and earned revenues, leverage institutional marketing and communication opportunities, and ensure a welcoming and engaging visitor experience. Reporting to and partnering with the Director and CEO as a member of the senior leadership team, the DDPER will be deeply involved in the engagement, identification, cultivation, a
  
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• Do the circling sharks now stand for Trump? Winslow Homer: Force of Nature – review

  08-09-2022 01:01
  National Gallery, London
  His paintings could be strangely clunky yet his vision was staggering– which is why this passionate artist, who captured an America in perpetual peril, still speaks to us today
  The black sailor lies back on his broken, doomed craft. All around him, the sea chomps and shudders. And there is a storm coming, to judge from the spinning column of grey water on the horizon. A ship is ploughing through these troubled waters but will it care enough to help? The sharks seem
  
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• Australia Is Having An Extraordinary Debate On Cultural Policy

  08-09-2022 00:01 via artshub.com.au
  ‘When you get it right, it affects our health policy, our education policy, our environment policy, foreign affairs, trade, veterans’ affairs, tourism… A nation with a strong cultural policy is a nation where we know ourselves, know each other and invite the world to better know us.’ – ArtsHub
  
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