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• Why We Should Read Old Books

  18-11-2022 23:29 via washingtonpost.com
  The great books are great because they speak to us, generation after generation. They are things of beauty, joys forever — most of the time. Of course, some old books will make you angry at the prejudices they take for granted and occasionally endorse. No matter. Read them anyway. – Washington Post
  
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• Elon-Twitter Is Melting Down. Time To Fly The Coop To… Tumblr?

  18-11-2022 23:01 via artsjournal.com
  For those disgusted or confused by Musk’s antics, there is an alternative: Just go back to Tumblr, where the antics are better. – The Atlantic
  
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• Woolly Mammoth Theatre Calls On Other Theatres To Protect Artists And Artistic Mission

  18-11-2022 22:32 via washingtonpost.com
  The Victory Gardens crisis was unsettling enough to spark conversations among board members at other nonprofit theaters, worried about the message sent to artists and staff members who might be wondering about their own companies’ loyalties. – Washington Post
  
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• Beneficiaries Of The UK’s Arts Funding Readjustments?

  18-11-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  Disabled people often face barriers in the arts world, and this funding will help the organisation in supporting creatives at all levels, including those starting out.  – The Guardian
  
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• The Luxury Of Believing That Nothing Is True (Tired Yet?)

  18-11-2022 21:32 via aeon.co
   Thinking that some things are true would no longer be an unquestioned assumption: we would understand why we ought to think that some things are true. – Aeon
  
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• Associate and Full Professor/Chair-Department of Theatre & Dance

  18-11-2022 21:03 via artsjournal.com
  University of California San DiegoPosition overviewPosition title: Associate and Full Professor/Chair for Department of Theatre & DanceApplication WindowOpen date: November 7, 2022Next review date: Thursday, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
  Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.Final date: Tuesday, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
  Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered i
  
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• Dancer Has Leg Amputated, Then Carries On Dancing

  18-11-2022 21:02 via people.com
  “After my amputation, it’s kind of the same way. I don’t look the same as other 21-year-olds my age, but I can still make my body look beautiful, I can still do the things that other kids do.” – People
  
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• New AI Tools Are Changing How We Think About Images

  18-11-2022 20:24 via wired.com
  Our machines have crossed a threshold. All our lives, we have been reassured that computers were incapable of being truly creative. Yet, suddenly, millions of people are using a new breed of AIs to generate stunning pictures. Most of these users are not professional artists, and that’s the point. – Wired
  
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• Brazil’s National Museum, Destroyed By Fire Four Years Ago, Is Overhauling Its Approach To Indigenous Peoples

  18-11-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered and presented without context. “The destruction was also a chance to start over and try something radical: asking Indigenous peoples what they wanted.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• One More Reason To Hate TicketMaster: Site Shuts Down After Being Swamped By Taylor Swift Fans

  18-11-2022 19:29 via nytimes.com
  Millions of fans were locked out. In a later deleted blog post published by Ticketmaster on Thursday, the company said that 3.5 million people registered for the Verified Fan program, and around 1.5 million of them were given a special access code and “invited” to the sale for Swift’s tour. – The New York Times
  
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• Condé Nast’s CEO Talks About How He Wants To Make The Venerable Magazine Publisher Into A Hollywood Power

  18-11-2022 19:04 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Roger Lynch … inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. … Three-and-a-half years into the job, Lynch has tried to unify the company … and has shifted investment toward digital and video, turning a storied magazine-company brand into a leading multiplatform player.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Gentle Ukrainian Film Critic, Become Soldier, Become Vivid Chronicler Of A War

  18-11-2022 18:31 via nytimes.com
  War has always provoked remarkable writing. Anton Filatov’s blog posts on Facebook are a 21st-century version of this, and they have gained him a growing audience. – The New York Times
  
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• Audie Cornish Talks About Her Not-What-She-Had-Expected Transition From NPR To CNN

  18-11-2022 18:01 via vulture.com
  “The piloting process has been fun, but it’s complex when you’re navigating an incredibly interesting moment in our business. Even if CNN wasn’t having its own moment, podcasting is going through some growing pains, and I made my leap in the middle of all that.” – Vulture
  
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• Composer Ned Rorem, 99

  18-11-2022 17:30 via washingtonpost.com
  “By the time he was 40, he had written more than 400 art songs, as well as three symphonies, several one-act operas and a great deal of chamber music. … By this point, however, Mr. Rorem was at least as well known for his diaries as for his music.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Fort Worth Opera Has Another New General Director

  18-11-2022 17:03 via fortworth.culturemap.com
  “In a surprise announcement that comes one week before Afton Battle’s last day as Fort Worth Opera general and artistic director, the company has named Angela Turner Wilson its new leader. Wilson is a Fort Worth-based opera singer” and chair of the Vocal Arts Division at Texas Christian University. – CultureMap
  
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• New York State Starts A Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Basic Income For Arts Freelancers

  18-11-2022 16:35 via news.artnet.com
  “The Creatives Rebuild New York initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 artists and other creatives living across the state. Lasting for 18 months, these cash payments come with no strings attached.” – Artnet
  
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• Curtis Institute Of Music Is Launching Its Own Record Label

  18-11-2022 16:02 via tinyurl.com
  Curtis Studio, as the label will be called, will feature artists in residence as well as student ensembles.  The inaugural album, to be released on December 6, is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, played by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under conductor Osmo Vänskä. – Gramophone
  
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• The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Just Making The Problem Worse, Says Art Historian/Climate Activist

  18-11-2022 15:34 via theguardian.com
  “Do these attacks not reveal the fragility of what we hold dear? Do they not make us think about what we want to save for the next generation? Yet the answer to these questions is mostly no. Instead, these attacks feel part of a helpless careering towards climate chaos.” – The Guardian
  
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• English National Opera Will Close Next April If It’s Not Given Money To Stay In London, Says Board Chairman

  18-11-2022 15:01 via standard.co.uk
  “There is no relocation,” Harry Brünjes told a group of MPs this week about Arts Council England’s decision to defund the company unless it leaves the capital for a city such as Manchester. “This is closing ENO down. This is losing 600 jobs from London.” – London Evening Standard
  
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• ‘A friend of mine accosted him’: a Ken Done napkin doodle drawn for a superfan

  18-11-2022 15:00
  In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Sweetie Zamora shows her collection of Ken Done paintings and one very special servietteWhen Sweetie Zamora was growing up in Sydney, her mum’s taste was “quite tonal, very subtle. Back then, my doona covers were white with embroidered flowers.” Meanwhile, Zamora’s friends slept under the joyful and riotous colours of Australian artist Ken Done. She wanted in. It was the start of a sustained passion for the art and products o
  
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• Jacob’s Pillow Will Rebuild The Burned-Down Doris Duke Theater

  18-11-2022 14:33 via nytimes.com
  The dance festival’s second stage was destroyed by a fire almost exactly two years ago. A lead grant of $10 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, plus insurance payouts and further donations, will fund a new $30 million theater to open in 2025. – The New York Times
  
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• Award For Playwright Caryl Churchill Is Withdrawn Because Of Her Pro-Palestinian Views

  18-11-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  Last April, a theatre in Stuttgart named Churchill the winner of its 2022 European Drama Award, worth €75,000. When the jury discovered that she’s a vocal critic of Israel and supporter of the BDS movement, it cancelled this year’s award entirely. – The Guardian
  
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• Harland Miller’s dreams, Ken Kiff’s sensuality and the magic of Gainsborough – the week in art

  18-11-2022 13:00
  Dream paintings of book covers, Magdalena Abakanowicz’s tangles, the art of Ken Kiff and a restored museum in Suffolk – all in your weekly dispatchHarland Miller: Imminent End, Rescheduled Eternally
  Paintings of book covers that evoke the reveries of readers who dream of writing.
  • White Cube Bermondsey, London, until 22 January. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s undoubtedly going to have a big impact’: inside three Arts Council funding cases

  18-11-2022 09:00
  In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art CentreThrilled, relieved, perplexed: responses to ACE cutsBallet Black, which nurtures the talents of Black and Asian dancers who have been historically underrepresented in classical ballet, saw its annual grant almost double to £424,000. Artistic director Cassa Pancho, who founded the company in 2001, said continued Arts C
  
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• ‘It’s undoubtably going to have a big impact’: inside three Arts Council funding cases

  18-11-2022 09:00
  In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art CentreThrilled, relieved, perplexed: responses to ACE cutsBallet Black, which nurtures the talents of Black and Asian dancers who have been historically underrepresented in classical ballet, saw its annual grant almost double to £424,000. Artistic director Cassa Pancho, who founded the company in 2001, said continued Arts C
  
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• Modern pianists: Will they be everything to everybody? Hope not.

  18-11-2022 05:37 via artsjournal.com
  Pianists don’t come in complete packages anymore, or maybe never did. Artur Rubinstein and Clifford Curzon possibly fooled us into thinking that there could be a single classical pianist that you would turn to, from Mozart to Granados, for the duration of your musical life. Among current pianists, Paul Lewis can be trusted with nearly everything and delivers the kinds of peaks that come more from modern specialists than the generalists of times past. But he’s the exception.Pianists i
  
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