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• Jerry Lee Lewis, 87

  28-10-2022 23:28 via variety.com
  Lewis ultimately transcended category. With typical arrogance, he would frequently declare that there were only four real stylists in American music: Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and, of course, Jerry Lee Lewis. – Variety
  
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• All About The Chemistry: What Makes A Stradivarius Extraordinary? New Study Suggests…

  28-10-2022 23:02 via artsjournal.com
  That quest for answers got a boost from Italian researchers in a paper published by the American Chemical Society that outlines the findings of their chemical analysis of two venerable violins. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Politics In Art – There Really Is A Role

  28-10-2022 22:29 via aeon.co
  It seems reasonable to pose the question of art’s relation to politics in the context of the specific crisis that democracy seems to have entered within the past 10 years or so. The dominant intellectual responses to this crisis have, if anything, pushed the arts further outside the sphere of political relevance. – Aeon
  
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• Quixotic? One Man Tries To Recreate The Orchestra Mahler Would Have Heard

  28-10-2022 22:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  Mahler would be appalled at the recorded perfectionism of the modern Vienna Philharmonic. He changed his mind from one rehearsal to the next. His music is about living in the moment. That’s what Steinaecker’s Toblach ensemble achieved. – The Critic
  
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• Broadway’s New Hot Play? About A Man New Yorkers Love To Hate

  28-10-2022 21:29 via bloomberg.com
  Starring Ralph Fiennes as Robert Moses, the play has churned up considerable interest: Performed in a 500-seat theater, it’s already sold out for the entire two-month run, and tickets are reselling for as much as $2,000. (Don’t despair entirely, though: There’s a waitlist.) – Bloomberg
  
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• Did She Introduce Eastern Spirituality To America Or Merely Hoodwink People? The Tale Of Madame Blavatsky

  28-10-2022 21:03 via mentalfloss.com
  The answer to that question is “yes.” – Mental Floss
  
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• ‘You do see a bit of Jackson Pollock in it’: the country pub with a striking Nicky Winmar artwork

  28-10-2022 21:00
  In a new series sharing stories of artwork in Australian homes and businesses, Pat Furze shows the painting by the AFL great that has a special place in his regional pubGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYou’d expect the walls of a country pub to be decorated with sporting memorabilia or old photos – and, to a large extent, Castlemaine’s Bridge Hotel, in regional Victoria, is just like that.But on the wall, in the back room, hangs a striking abstract work of art. Contin
  
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• What Museum Directors Think About The Climate Change Protesters

  28-10-2022 20:29 via artnews.com
  “We shouldn’t be vehicles for political protest and we shouldn’t be vehicles in and of itself for political change. I regard museums as civic institutions playing their role in society as providing a frame and context for the political and social discussions while remaining highly trusted.” – ARTnews
  
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• A New Director For The Restive Paris Opera Ballet

  28-10-2022 20:04 via nytimes.com
  Taking the helm of an unhappy company is José Carlos Martinez, a 53-year-old Spaniard, who spent 23 years dancing therey, 14 of them as an étoile, before retiring from the stage in 2011 and serving for eight years as director of Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza. – The New York Times
  
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• Which Way Up? Museum Discovers Its Mondrian Had Been Hung Upside Down For 75 Years

  28-10-2022 19:33 via artnews.com
  The first clue that the painting, an adhesive tape version of the similarly named New York (which hangs right-side up in Paris at the Centre Pompidou), was hung incorrectly came from a photograph of the artist’s studio in taken in 1944, shortly after he passed away. ARTnews
  
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• Has History Finally Moved Ahead Of The Manchurian Candidate As It Turns 60 Years Old?

  28-10-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  “John Frankenheimer’s thriller … managed the neat, eerie trick of looking prescient for multiple decades following its 1962 release. … Watching the movie now, it’s striking to see how some of its dynamics have been reversed in US politics.” – The Guardian
  
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• Just What Did Elon Musk Buy In Twitter?

  28-10-2022 18:28 via wsj.com
  As of early last year, just one in five U.S. adults said they ever use Twitter—a slice that plateaued by 2018. The research shows Twitter’s general user base skews left-leaning and relatively young and that just one quarter of U.S. adult users produce 97% of Americans’ tweets. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Schirmer To Publish Hundreds Of Scores By Jewish Composers Silenced By The Nazis

  28-10-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  “The list of music to be published includes more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music pieces, 50 orchestral works and other pieces, in genres including classical, opera, jazz and film music. The first works will be published next spring.” – The New York Times
  
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• Not Creepy At All: Disney Wants To Integrate Your Data Across All Its Businesses

  28-10-2022 17:28 via wsj.com
  Once the company unites data collection capabilities between its various divisions, “we can give you a better experience in the park, because we know what your preferences are in terms of viewing and a better experience on Disney+ because we know what your affinities are.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Power Of Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction

  28-10-2022 17:02 via newrepublic.com
  “His novels alternate restlessly from an East Africa of the past to the Britain of the present, as if they comprise two parts of a puzzle — parts that do not quite fit — that it will take a lifetime of writing to solve.” – The New Republic
  
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• The Climate-Activist Stunts In Museums Aren’t Just Badly Targeted, They’re Downright Embarrassing

  28-10-2022 16:35 via msn.com
  “We don’t know the protests are effective, and we do know they’re likely to cause financial problems for many museums. Here I’ll add my own concern: The activists look so silly. … The soup-and-superglue movement fails an important test of youthful, radical politics: It does not look cool.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• France’s National Railroad Refuses To Allow Double-Bass Players To Travel With Their Instruments

  28-10-2022 16:03 via thestrad.com
  Says one musician: “We are afraid of not being able to arrive at the place of the concert, of losing our (paid) commitments. Traveling with these old, fragile, expensive instruments is already stressful, but at the moment, anxiety dominates when buying an SNCF ticket.” – The Strad
  
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• Parenthood Is Treacherous Territory For Stand-Up Comedy

  28-10-2022 15:31 via nytimes.com
  “Jokes about raising children make an easy connection with certain sleepy-eyed audiences, but that can be its own parent trap. This is well-trod ground. … The primary challenge of stand-up on this subject is that it risks cheap sentimentality. Nothing smothers comedy faster.” – The New York Times
  
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• UN Agencies Are Doing Satellite-Based Tracking Of Russia’s Damage To Ukraine’s Culture And Heritage

  28-10-2022 15:04 via apnews.com
  “Geneva-based UNOSAT and UNESCO, the Paris-based educational, scientific and cultural agency, announced Wednesday that they are finalizing a database of cultural sites that compares ‘before and after’ images bought from private-sector satellite companies.” – AP
  
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• The Smithsonian Selects Sites For The Proposed National Latino And Women’s History Museums

  28-10-2022 14:32 via msn.com
  The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the African-American Museum, and the other is directly around the corner, facing the Tidal Basin. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Andy Warhol work not seen in public for 15 years could fetch $80m at auction

  28-10-2022 14:27
  White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) to go under the hammer in New YorkSix months after a vivid image of Marilyn Monroe smashed records when it sold for $195m, a rather more dark and brutal work by the cult pop artist Andy Warhol may also be about to fetch a large sum.White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) – repeated graphic black and white images across a huge canvas measuring 12ft tall and 6ft wide – is expected to sell for at least $80m in New York next month. Continue rea
  
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• The Latest Target Of The Self-Gluing Climate Protesters Is Vermeer

  28-10-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in “Just Stop Oil” t-shirts walked up to Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring; one tried to superglue his head to the painting, then the other poured tomato soup over him.  The art is undamaged; the vandals have been arrested. – The Guardian
  
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• A beheaded monarch, subversive ceramics and oil drilling in Gateshead – the week in art

  28-10-2022 13:00
  Celebrate Halloween with an executed King Charles, clay like you’ve never seen it and a taste of Kurdistan in Tyneside – all in your weekly dispatchExecutions
  A gory Halloween history lesson that includes relics of the beheaded Charles I, as well as 18th-century death-cell portraits and an axe or two.
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• Senior Accountant (Budget)

  28-10-2022 03:20 via artsjournal.com
  Title: Senior Accountant (Budget)
  Department: Finance
  Reports to: Director of Budget and PlanningSummary:Reporting to the Director of Budget and Planning, the Senior Accountant will assist in all stages and aspects of the budget and forecast process to support the mission and activities of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. (“POKC) and its subsidiaries POA/AOM/KCI. This position will provide guidance and support across the organization to department budget managers, help mai
  
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• Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra seeks Executive Director

  28-10-2022 03:17 via artsjournal.com
  The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in early 2023.The Organizationhttp://www.syso.orgFounded in 1942, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) is one of the largest and most highly regarded youth orchestra training programs in North America. The organization creates access to music education for more than 1,800 young people each year and its membership reflects the rich diversity of the greater Seattle commun
  
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• Director of Performing Arts Operations

  28-10-2022 03:12 via artsjournal.com
  Lynn University seeks an experienced performing arts center administrator who
  will bring forward creative ways for the university’s cultural facilities to operate effectively and efficiently, finding new avenues of inter-departmental communication and collaboration through arts activities, and increasing attendance at all cultural concerts and performances.The new Director will coordinate facility scheduling and operations, the overall usage and maintenance of the Wold Performing Arts Cent
  
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• Executive Director- Levitt Pavilion Denver

  28-10-2022 03:08 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director is the Chief Executive Officer of Friends of Levitt Pavilion Denver, the 501(c)3 that operates the Levitt Pavilion Denver. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors and is responsible for the organization’s consistent achievement of its mission and financial objectives. Partnership and communication are key to collaboration between the board, the Executive Director, and the community.
  While the performing arts are an important part of t
  
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