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• Activists Attacking Art – Forcing Us To Consider Our Values

  07-11-2022 23:14 via artsjournal.com
  By attacking a famous and high-value cultural target like Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring — it even starred in its own movie — the protesters are asking us to examine our values. – The Conversation
  
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• Splat! The Museum Food-Fight, continued: “Wall Street Journal” Weighs In (& so do I)

  07-11-2022 22:49 via artsjournal.com
  In a nauseating story that just won’t die, the Wall Street Journal today chimed in (to the tune of
  
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• The Inimitable Mr. B (A New Biography)

  07-11-2022 22:28 via nytimes.com
  Balanchine is an unusual subject for what critics like to call, and I’ll go there, a magisterial biography. He was a shy, somewhat receding figure. He had a facial tic, a nervous fluttering under one eye, that got him called “the rat” as a child. – The New York Times
  
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• The Dreariness Of Book Clubs

  07-11-2022 21:44 via artsjournal.com
  I read and write about books for fun. And yet, time and again, my mind goes blank during book discussions, and all I can muster up is “Er, I thought the book was good, because …” – LA Review of Books
  
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• Art As Difficult Conversation? That’s Rather Limiting, Isn’t It?

  07-11-2022 21:00 via salmagundi.skidmore.edu
  Art is now viewed as a pretext for collective discourse, raising “issues” that provide the raw material for op-eds, Twitter threads, college seminars, and conference panels, not to mention (dreaded word) post-performance “talkbacks.” But not just any kind of collective discourse. – Salmagundi
  
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• New Orange County Museum Disappoints

  07-11-2022 20:14 via wsj.com
  With the museum, designed by Thom Mayne, obviously the headliner, OCMA might have shown off its collection as the main exhibition, with perhaps a tangy traveling topical show as an enlivener. Instead, it went with staging a new edition of one of the institution’s heretofore well-regarded series. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Toronto’s Habourfront Theatre: Exec Director Leaves, Board Resigns, So What’s Next?

  07-11-2022 19:28 via artsjournal.com
  Last week, mere days after long-time director Gaëtane Verna left for a bigger job in the United States, board members resigned en masse, saying interference from Harbourfront made it impossible to fulfill its duties. – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• David Duchovny, Playwright?

  07-11-2022 18:44 via lareviewofbooks.org
  Duchovny has moved fluidly between social circles, careers, and media. He was well into graduate school, preparing the fancifully titled (but never written) PhD dissertation, “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry,” when he took an interest in playwriting. – LA Review of Books
  
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• A Hula Renaissance

  07-11-2022 18:02 via artsjournal.com
  Real hula is primal, archetypal, esoteric and ever- evolving. And it’s now shared digitally all over the world. This is a good thing, because it helps authentic hula spread, not just via more hula schools but also through conferences, theatrical performances and festivals in the 50th state. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Time To Get Rid Of Oscar’s Best Foreign Film Category?

  07-11-2022 17:32 via variety.com
  Every year, the Academy tweaks the rules, trying to improve the controversial and oft-criticized process by which the international nominees are selected: But they won’t get it right until the Academy rethinks the flawed logic behind the category. – Variety
  
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• Where Many Have Faltered, Boston Dance Theatre Aims To Step On Sure Ground

  07-11-2022 17:00 via wbur.org
  “Unlike the members of the Boston Ballet, who are on season-long salary, local contemporary troupes pay their dancers by the hour for rehearsals and performances.” BDT’s founder “hopes to put the six-member troupe on salary by next year and hire a development director and a booking agency.” – WBUR
  
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• Opening A Small Town Bookstore At The Height Of The Pandemic Wasn’t Easy

  07-11-2022 16:30 via lithub.com
  But Roman philosophers helped a lot. Truly. – LitHub
  
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• Danny Boyle Says Brits Just May Not Be Very Good At Making Movies

  07-11-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire said, “As a nation, our two art-forms are theatre, in a middle-class sense, and pop music, because we are extraordinary at it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Calibrating complexity

  07-11-2022 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  Managers of all sorts, including arts managers, frequently have to decide about complexity. When we select technology tools, rent/build/buy buildings, make policy, build teams, or develop work processes, we’re calibrating how complex those things need to be against how much time, attention, and money our audiences and organizations actually have to navigate them. If a solution is too simple, it gets flummoxed when it meets reality. If it’s too complex, it unnecessarily exhausts the o
  
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• When Book Props Flash Warnings Of What’s To Come

  07-11-2022 15:45 via slate.com
  On the second season of the hit White Lotus, the secret’s in the books, if you’ve only read them. – Slate
  
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• Putin Sets The Stage For Cultural Looting Of Ukraine

  07-11-2022 15:30 via news.artnet.com
  Martial law declaration “grants the country the power to ‘evacuate’ items of economic, social, and cultural significance. Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk are the four regions specified in Putin’s decree.” – Artnet
  
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• Rebecca Godfrey, 54, Who Wrote With Generosity Toward Teenage Murderers

  07-11-2022 15:15 via nytimes.com
  Mary Gaitskill called Godfrey’s Under the Bridge “‘a remarkable piece of investigative journalism,’ adding that Ms. Godfrey ‘allows us to almost see what is essentially unseeable.'” – The New York Times
  
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• The LAPD Officer Who Covered For Les Moonves Highlights Issues For Victims

  07-11-2022 15:00 via latimes.com
  Hours after the victim went to the station “to report that Moonves had sexually assaulted her in the 1980s … LAPD Capt. Cory Palka called a CBS executive to alert him to the existence of the report.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Northern Ireland Aims To Remain A Hot Filming Destination

  07-11-2022 14:45 via bbc.com
  It’s not just Game of Thrones, but Line of Duty, The Fall, and more to come. Why? Says one production manager, “Thirty minutes from Belfast you can be on a beach, you can be halfway up a mountain, you can be at any number of locations.” – BBC
  
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• In Texas, The Most Competitive Season May Be Mariachi Competition Time

  07-11-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  A first-place trophy at the Mariachi Vegas Extravaganza gives the bands rights to call themselves “national champions.” But post-pandemic, whew. It’s been a lot of work. – The New York Times
  
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• Rising Star Xochitl Gomez On Dealing With The Trolls

  07-11-2022 14:15 via latimes.com
  When she was on The Babysitter’s Club, the Latina teen got a ton of online hate from people who expected a blonde, blue-eyed character. So she battled back with her own slightly devious, but fun, social media plan. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Yes, You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover

  07-11-2022 14:00 via cbc.ca
  After all, publishers spend a fair amount of time on it. “Whether the genre is romance, thriller or fantasy, artists, designers and authors who collaborate on book covers say they’re more critical to a book’s success or failure than most people understand.” – CBC
  
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• Douglas McGrath, Actor And Director Whose One-Person Show Just Opened Off Broadway, 64

  07-11-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  His director, the actor John Lithgow, said, “He was a dream to direct. … None of us had ever worked with someone who was so happy, proud and grateful to be performing his own writing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Disney Drops Vaccination Requirements On Its TV Shows

  07-11-2022 13:30 via latimes.com
  The “Return to Work” protocol has been extended through January of 2023 with the unions on board, and “other protocols including masking and testing will remain in place, a person close to the matter said. Disney may still require vaccines for some productions.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Bruce Russell obituary

  07-11-2022 13:20
  My friend and fellow artist Bruce Russell, who has died aged 76, was one of the most original and admired abstract artists of the 1970s and 80s. His paintings will be remembered for their startling vivacity, their verve, their jazzed-up cubism. In 1977 he wrote that he loved “chemical, candy, culinary, ‘untastefully’ synthetic colours, in dissonant combination with earth pigments”. He sourced his motifs from “vorticism, Bauhaus, Art Deco, those interestingly awful &
  
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