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• A New Era In Arts Activism

  11-11-2022 23:56 via artshub.com.au
  This shift in activism reflects a new generation of players whose futures, and those of their sports, are dependent upon climate mitigation. – ArtsHub
  
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• How Three Seattle Arts Groups Are Coping Post-PPP Money

  11-11-2022 23:32 via seattletimes.com
  A lack of PPP funding has left a large hole in their revenue, but 2022 ticket sales or enrollment numbers generally still aren’t what they were pre-pandemic. Instead, they’re relying on the generosity of the community, as well as creative business models, to push them along. – Seattle Times
  
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• Inflation, Changing Audience Behavior Are Muting A Broadway Rebound

  11-11-2022 23:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Amid the spate of new shows, producers are facing higher costs due to inflation and extra understudies, as well as the added stressors of unpredictable and changing audience behavior. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Man Repatriates Artifacts After Reading Newspaper Story

  11-11-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  John Gomperts, who lives in Washington, realised that the ancient pieces worth up to £80,000 – including two seventh- and eighth-century BC Cypriot vases – that he had inherited from his grandmother could have come from illicit excavations because they have no collecting history. – The Guardian
  
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• SFMoMA’s New Director Lays Out A New Direction For The Museum

  11-11-2022 22:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Now after nearly six months in charge, Bedford is beginning to lay out his vision for SFMOMA and announcing his first initiatives as director. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Wow This Is Hard: How To Get Comfortable With Ambiguity

  11-11-2022 21:32 via artsjournal.com
  In this classical view of the world, all fundamental entities are either one or the other. To my undergraduate brain, this simply made sense. But in the quantum view, all objects have properties of both. – Nautilus
  
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• “Symphony Of Sirens”: The Mammoth, Raucous 1922 Concert That Would Have Made The Itialian Futurists Weep

  11-11-2022 21:03 via bbc.com
  Arseny Avraamov’s work, written and performed in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan for the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution, “included the entire Caspian flotilla, cannons, locomotives, artillery regiments, hydroplanes, factory sirens, bells, foghorns, brass bands and a massive choir. Avraamov wasn’t just conducting an orchestra, he was conducting a city.” – BBC
  
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• An English National Ballet Dancer On The Clarifying Impacts Of The COVID Shutdowns

  11-11-2022 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Prescious Adams credits the time spent training in lockdown with giving her technique more clarity – “I think of my body as this geometrical puzzle; the physics of dance makes much more sense to me now” – and says the pandemic humanised the ballet world. – The Guardian
  
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• The Plays Of Henrik Ibsen, Where Women, Philosophy, And Theater Intertwine

  11-11-2022 20:02 via psyche.co
  “The male philosophers in Ibsen’s plays do not fare well. In fact, they are a bunch of ramshackle figures – either adding sheer comedy or making audiences cringe. … His women characters play out ideas and positions on stage, and often pay the costs of their male counterparts’ rigidly conceived projects.” – Psyche
  
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• New York’s New Wage Transparency Law Exposes Art’s Low Wages

  11-11-2022 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  In some cases, the new law has served to expose just how meager some salaries in the cultural sectors remain. As museum workforces across the country continue to unionize, a popular rallying cry has emerged among workers: “You can’t eat prestige.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Philadelphia’s Merriam Theater Was, Well, Problematic. As The Miller Theater, It’s Getting Fixed

  11-11-2022 19:04 via inquirer.com
  Well, partially fixed: even the planned $30 million renovation can’t address all the issues from decades of deferred maintenance.  But leaks will be fixed, bathrooms updated, murals cleaned, seats replaced. And you won’t have to walk through offices to gets to some of the seats anymore. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Paul Allen Art Sale Exceeds $1.6 Billion

  11-11-2022 18:32 via cnn.com
  Spanning 500 years of art history, art from Allen’s collection was offered on Wednesday and Thursday, with all proceeds going to philanthropic causes. Christie’s had initially estimated that the 150-plus works would sell for a combined $1 billion, but it was exceeded before the conclusion of day one. – CNN
  
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• Julie Kent Has Made A Huge Difference For The Washington Ballet

  11-11-2022 18:03 via washingtoncitypaper.com
  “When Kent arrived in Washington, she brought a radiant star power that was undeniable. … While praise for Kent is uniform in the dance community, it’s not clear that the company has always risen to her expectations, or that audiences have been able to grasp her vision.” – Washington City Paper
  
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• The Complicated Seattle Arts Legacy Of Billionaire Paul Allen

  11-11-2022 17:31 via crosscut.com
  When Allen was alive, critics categorized his funding, at times, as based on whims. Some local artists and nonprofits still have flashbacks from 2014, when the foundation’s giving suddenly stopped without explanation. – Crosscut
  
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• Amélie’s Recent Drawings What Seahorses and Birds Have in Common

  11-11-2022 17:10 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2022/11/amelies-recent-drawings-what-seahorses-and-birds-have-in-common.html" title="Amélie’s Recent DrawingsWhat Seahorses and Birds Have
  
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• Watching The Decline Of Social Media

  11-11-2022 16:35 via msn.com
  “Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people. … Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has caused advertisers to pull spending and power users to shun the platform. It’s never felt more plausible that the age of social media might end.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• The Reason Deaf People Were Historically Excluded Wasn’t That They Couldn’t Hear

  11-11-2022 16:31 via historytoday.com
  “Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of deaf exclusion throughout history. People who were born deaf, or were deafened before they learned to speak (prelingually deaf) were placed in a special category” — typically one that treated them as infants or as cognitively disabled. – History Today
  
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• ‘We fight propaganda with art’: the Georgian festival hitting back at Putin

  11-11-2022 16:08
  In a giant former Coca-Cola factory, Georgian and Ukrainian artists united for Culture Week Tbilisi, a show of defiance and solidarity that captured the harrowing reality of life under siegeHigh on a hill above Tbilisi stands a cathedral-sized monument called the Chronicle of Georgia. On the stone floor between its vast, Stonehenge-style pillars, people are pasting 128 large printouts of black-and-white photographs of children’s faces. The children are all refugees, mostly from Russia&rsqu
  
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• California Voters Approve Major Arts Education Ballot Initiative

  11-11-2022 16:02 via kpbs.org
  “With the overwhelming approval of Proposition 28, California will now lead the nation in funding for the arts in every classroom. … The passage of the proposition guarantees as much as $1 billion every school year for arts education taken from the state budget without raising taxes.” – KPBS (San Diego)
  
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• Something in the water: Tuscan town delights in ancient finds

  11-11-2022 15:56
  San Casciano dei Bagni’s fortunes expected to change after opulent Etruscan-Roman sanctuary foundSince she was a child, Martina Canuti has been venturing down the steep hill flanking the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni, known by local residents as “the sacred mountain”, to take a dip in the two rustic ancient hot springs famed for their therapeutic benefits.But little did she know that just a few metres away lay a sanctuary built by the Etruscans in the second century BC
  
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• ‘It’s as if we found oil’: Tuscan town savours discovery of spa trove

  11-11-2022 15:56
  San Casciano dei Bagni’s fortunes expected to change after opulent Etruscan-Roman sanctuary foundSince she was a child, Martina Canuti has been venturing down the steep hill flanking the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni, known by local residents as “the sacred mountain”, to take a dip in the two rustic ancient hot springs famed for their therapeutic benefits.But little did she know that just a few metres away lay a sanctuary built by the Etruscans in the second century BC
  
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• Jury Finds Filmmaker Paul Haggis Liable For A Rape In 2013

  11-11-2022 15:34 via variety.com
  “The jury deliberated for nearly six hours and the unanimous panel of four men and two women awarded the plaintiff, Haleigh Breest, $7.5 million in compensation and recommended punitive damages, which will be decided Monday.” – Variety
  
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• HarperCollins Workers Are Officially On Strike

  11-11-2022 15:01 via apnews.com
  “Some 250 copy editors, marketing assistants and other employees at HarperCollins Publishers went on strike Thursday, with the two sides differing over wages and benefits, diversity policy and union protection.” – AP
  
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• Museum Directors Warn Climate-Protesting Art Vandals: The Art Is Much More Fragile Than You Think It Is

  11-11-2022 14:33 via theguardian.com
  “Climate activists targeting masterpieces around the world are not fully aware of how delicate the artworks are, the directors of almost 100 galleries have warned, saying they have been ‘deeply shaken’ by the attacks.” – The Guardian
  
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• Brueghel’s Cambridge carnival and modernism’s female pioneers – the week in art

  11-11-2022 14:28
  Turner-winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, Richard Long heads to Dartmoor and north London gets a medieval makeover – all in your weekly dispatchElizabeth Price: Underfoot
  The often gothic Turner prize-winner Price applies her imagination to Glasgow’s industrial heritage.
  • The Hunterian, Glasgow,until 16 April. Continue reading...
  
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• Now The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Coming After Classical Music

  11-11-2022 14:05 via classicfm.com
  At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam last week, members of the activist group Extinction Rebellion interrupted Verdi’s Requiem, shouting “We are in the middle of a climate crisis and we are like the orchestra on the Titanic that keeps playing quietly while the ship is already sinking.” – Classic FM (UK)
  
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• Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts reopens with crooked painting and green cat

  11-11-2022 12:54
  Curators introduce playful touch to confound expectations about how art should be displayedFrom the outside, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp looks like the epitome of convention. First opened in 1890, the grand neo-classical monument, modelled on a Greek temple, bears all the pomp and circumstance of its age. Yet behind the imposing facade are some playful and surprising touches.In one room, a painting hangs at a crooked angle. In another, a luminous green cat sits menacingly in a cage
  
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• The Berlin Philharmonic dares us to love it – and we do

  11-11-2022 07:28 via artsjournal.com
  Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, sometimes subtitled “Song of the Night,” is the composer’s most wayward symphony. It’s not one of the pretty ones. With five seemingly mis-matched movements, the 80-minute piece doesn’t cooperate with itself, with the manner of other Mahler symphonies and certainly not with the history of western music. The final movement can be so bewildering that Esa-Pekka Salonen (one of the smartest conductors out there and a fine composer himself)
  
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• Climate activists attacking art ‘severely underestimate’ fragility of works, gallery directors warn

  11-11-2022 06:39
  Protesters have thrown soup and glued themselves to famous artworks around the world, prompting response by high-profile galleries including Moma and the LouvreClimate activists targeting masterpieces around the world are not fully aware of how delicate the artworks are, the directors of almost 100 galleries have warned, saying they have been “deeply shaken” by the attacks.This year, famous artworks have been attacked by protesters from various activist groups demanding action on the
  
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• General Manager – ZACH Theatre

  11-11-2022 03:08 via artsjournal.com
  ZACH Theatre seeks experienced process-oriented arts administrators to apply for a newly structured role of General Manager. An integral member of the senior leadership team, the General Manager sits at the intersection of the artistic, production, and administrative departments of the organization.
  This position oversees ZACH’s day-to-day operations, including IT, facilities, and rentals, strategizing and streamlining systems for efficiency and effectiveness. The General Manager also lead
  
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