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• Securities & Exchange Commission Investigates Hedge Fund That Invests In Broadway Shows

  10-11-2022 15:32 via bway.ly
  A marketing document from the Broadway Strategic Return Fund claims that the fund’s value quadrupled from January 2016 through September 2021, a period that included the COVID shutdowns — this in an industry notorious for losing investors’ money.  And now the SEC has noticed this. – Broadway Journal
  
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• One-Person Shows Are Having A(nother) Boom — And Not Just Because They’re Cheap To Produce

  10-11-2022 15:04 via thewrap.com
  There have been other periods when stage monologues were big on New York stages.  The difference this time is the audiobook and podcast boom; solo shows are easy to adapt, and companies such as Audible are actively producing such pieces to record them. – TheWrap
  
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• “Absurd”, “Insane”, And “Not Doable”, Says English National Opera CEO About Moving To Manchester

  10-11-2022 14:31 via bbc.com
  Stuart Murphy: “We looked at the money. We spoke to people the Arts Council hadn’t bothered to speak to in Manchester, from across the opera world, and our staff — and it’s just not doable. … These are skills that can’t just be learned in the three years we’ve been given.” – BBC
  
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• Gal Costa, Legendary Brazilian Songstress, Is Dead At 77

  10-11-2022 14:05 via apnews.com
  “The soprano with wild curls of dark hair was … an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly six-decade career.” – AP
  
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• Meet Step Artist and Founder of Step Afrika!–C. Brian Williams

  10-11-2022 12:00 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In today’s podcast, C. Brian Williams talks about the art of stepping—defining and historicizing the art form and discussing its deep connection to African-American fraternities and sororities. (He learned to step when he was accepted into a fraternity at Howard University). He talks about the creation of Step Afrika! which began in 1994 as a dance festival in South Africa and grew into an education and performing arts organization and in now one of the top 10 U.S. Black dance compa
  
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• The dark side of the moon: the art of Marcel Dzama

  10-11-2022 09:00
  The Canadian polymath’s lush illustrations have long combined innocence with menace. But now, in traumatic times, he wants to put ‘something beautiful out there’The Canadian artist Marcel Dzama cannot stay in one lane. While studying art at the University of Manitoba in the mid-1990s, he played in bands, and lots of them. Among others, there was Professor Moriarty for heavy rock, Tumbleweed for country music and Danceatron for, well, dance music. That freewheeling spirit has co
  
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• ‘Pull back the shroud of mystery’: Joan Didion’s revealing estate sale

  10-11-2022 08:06
  The often secretive author’s belongings will be available to bid for at an expansive and eye-opening auctionEverybody wants to be Joan Didion. Even those brave few who play the dinner party game “Joan or Jones?” and self-identify as team Bridget secretly want to be Joan Didion.Until her death last year at age 87, Didion was never not a role model, especially to a cohort of young female writers who tried, and still try, to replicate her detached, cool-eyed prose and proto-Olsen
  
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• Digital Benin reunites thousands of objects scattered after British looting

  10-11-2022 06:30
  Comprehensive database of Benin bronzes held by museums raises questions about where they belong by charting provenanceCheerfully gnashing their magnificent fangs as they stand side by side, the two bronze leopards look back on a journey that was as adventurous as it was cruelly absurd.Looted by British soldiers on a punitive expedition to the west African kingdom of Benin in 1897, the bronzes were shipped to the UK, where they spent some time guarding the fireplace of army captain George Willia
  
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• Digital Benin project reunites bronzes looted by British soldiers

  10-11-2022 06:30
  Comprehensive database of Benin bronzes held by museums raises questions about where they belong Cheerfully gnashing their magnificent fangs as they stand side by side, the two bronze leopards look back on a journey that was as adventurous as it was cruelly absurd.Looted by British soldiers on a punitive expedition to the west African kingdom of Benin in 1897, the bronzes were shipped to the UK, where they spent some time guarding the fireplace of army captain George William Neville’s Weyb
  
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• Biggest art sale in history as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection fetches $1.5bn

  10-11-2022 06:29
  Works by Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Gustav Klimt each sell for more than $100m, with more set for auction on ThursdayDozens of works by artists including Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh fetched a total of $1.5bn at an auction of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s vast collection of paintings and sculpture.The total represented the highest amount ever collected at a single art auction, according to the auction house, Christie’s in New Yo
  
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• What The Famed Suzuki Method Really Taught

  10-11-2022 00:02 via newyorker.com
  The Suzuki story turns out to be a fascinating study in the hybrid nature of human culture, tracing a remarkable cross-century triple play—European music to Japanese discipline, ending with a putout at a first base manned by mad American parental ambition. – The New Yorker
  
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