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• Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Completes Expansion, Will Reopen With A New Name

  23-11-2022 23:31 via nytimes.com
  A $20 million commitment from New York State, announced Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul, completes the Buffalo museum’s $230 million capital campaign, believed to be the largest for a cultural institution in the history of western New York. – The New York Times
  
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• Orchestras Are Beginning To Tour Again

  23-11-2022 23:01 via sfcv.org
  With the mass introduction of vaccines, the decline in infections, and the lifting of travel restrictions, orchestras have already taken to the road, with many others just waiting to take off. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• New Women Directors At Three Big Ballet Companies

  23-11-2022 22:32 via dancemagazine.com
  As three celebrated, longtime directors depart these companies, the entrance of women is proving that female directors are staking a firm claim in a professional terrain that has traditionally favored men. – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Number Of College Students In America Is About To Fall In A Precipitous Decline

  23-11-2022 22:01 via vox.com
  In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. – Vox
  
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• In Praise Of Monotony

  23-11-2022 21:29 via 3quarksdaily.com
  As one gets older and realizes that most of life’s good stuff is contained between two ledger entries, one sees that if it weren’t for dreams, for stories and for art, for inventing personas and writing books through their hands and eyes, life would be insufferable. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why Do People Keep Willingly Humiliating Themselves In Interviews With The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner?

  23-11-2022 21:02 via danieldrezner.substack.com
  Many have seen how the foolish and unwary “intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding. … This raises a question that many ask on social media: Why does anyone ever agree to be interviewed by Chotiner in the first place? I can speculate on some possible answers.” – Drezner’s World
  
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• The Theatre World Never Really Understood The Subversive Side Of Lorraine Hansberry

  23-11-2022 20:29 via theatlantic.com
  The subversive intent of Hansberry’s art and activism has long been underestimated. Early reviews of Raisin, which debuted in 1959 and made Hansberry the first Black woman with a show on Broadway, were quick to domesticate her. – The Atlantic
  
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• In And Around Charleston, History Tourism Is Moving Away From “The Hoop-Skirt Experience”

  23-11-2022 20:03 via bbc.com
  The soon-to-open International African American Museum will be the flagship of efforts, beginning in the 1990s, to stop trying to ignore the history of slavery and to properly incorporate the Black people who built the city into the stories Charleston tells about itself to both visitors and locals. – BBC
  
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• Controversy: Did Bob Dylan Actually Sign The Copies Of His Book Fans Paid For?

  23-11-2022 19:31 via nytimes.com
  Justin Steffman, a professional authenticator who runs a Facebook group for collectors, said the autograph was most likely created by an autopen. The machine, which recreates signatures, is used by universities, celebrities and, most notably, the White House. – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub Dead At 89

  23-11-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  “Straub … and his wife, Danièle Huillet, worked together as filmmakers for more than 30 years. Straub-Huillet, as they were often called by French critics, broke away from accepted notions of realism, disengaged from bourgeois values and questioned the primacy of narration.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Remarkable Sphinx Organization Turns 25

  23-11-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  Perhaps Sphinx’s most fundamental and meaningful achievement has been its simplest one, the part that crying mother caught onto: creating a community of people who had thought they were the only one of their kind, or close. Forming what those in the Sphinx network call “la familia.” – The New York Times
  
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• Singing And Playing Wind Instruments May Spread COVID Less Than Speaking Does

  23-11-2022 18:04 via smithsonianmag.com
  A Princeton University study involving singers and orchestral players from the Met found that “musical professionals have such fine control over their breath that they emit weaker airflows during singing and playing than they and others do while speaking and breathing” — so aerosol-borne pathogens don’t travel as far. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Ukrainian art convoy defies Russian bombs to go on display in Madrid

  23-11-2022 17:54
  Rare artworks make hazardous journey from Kyiv for major exhibition of Ukrainian avant-garde artA secret convoy of two trucks containing 51 rare works of art slipped out of Kyiv early last Tuesday, hours before waves of Russian missiles began raining down on the capital and other cities across Ukraine.A mission to transport the works west to Lviv, across the border to Poland and then 3,000km across Europe to Madrid was unexpectedly hazardous, even for wartime. Much of the country was plunged int
  
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• Orchestra Impresario Bruce Coppock, 71

  23-11-2022 17:32 via startribune.com
  “It is no exaggeration to say that no single person had a greater role in the SPCO’s artistic trajectory over the last 20 years than Bruce Coppock,” SPCO artistic director and principal violin Kyu-Young Kim said. – The Star-Tribune
  
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• With An Immersive Theater Piece, Irina Brook Emerges From The Huge Shadows Cast By Her Parents

  23-11-2022 17:02 via nytimes.com
  After a lifetime “blindly” following the path of her parents — director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry — Irina realized she was in “the wrong business.” Since then, she’s been creating House of Us, “a permanent moving work in progress … (so) insanely personal that it becomes insanely universal.” – The New York Times
  
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• Leader Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Restoration Says We’ll Be Shocked When We See The Cleaned Walls

  23-11-2022 16:35 via theartnewspaper.com
  Yes, “a shock” is the term used by the army general overseeing the project for visitors’ anticipated reaction to the interior stonework once centuries’ worth of dirt and smoke have been peeled away, adhering to a coat of latex which cleaners are spraying on and then removing. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• ‘Elves and witches would fit right in’: the paintings that capture the primal paradise of Sussex

  23-11-2022 16:23
  From the cliffy coastline to the woodlands of the weald, Sussex has been home and sanctuary to author and horseman Julian Roup, who finds its magical landscapes perfectly captured in a new showWhen my wife Jan and I arrived in Sussex in 1980, we started riding the South Downs on moonlit nights. The white chalk paths reflected the light and made the going easy, despite the steep drops and our night-wary horses. Once on the crest, you could see the lights of ships coming up the Channel to one side
  
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• A Straight Up Thanksgiving — It’s a Tradition

  23-11-2022 16:06 via artsjournal.com
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• Best International Feature Oscar Gets A Big Change In Its Nomination Process

  23-11-2022 16:03 via variety.com
  In previous years, participating Academy members would rate the films they saw on a point scale ranging from 7 to 10. Now they’ll rank their preferences from 1st down to 15th.  It’s expected that this change will lead to some surprises when the five nominees are revealed on December 21. – Variety
  
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• “Everything Everywhere All at Once” And “Tár” Lead 2023 Independent Spirit Award Nominations

  23-11-2022 15:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Everything Everywhere All at Once received eight nods: best feature, director, screenplay, and editing, as well as four acting nominations.  Tár garnered seven nominations: two for acting (Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss), plus cinematography, editing, screenplay, editing, and best feature. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Lucerne Festival Artistic Director Announces His Departure Date

  23-11-2022 15:04 via switzerlandtimes.ch
  Michael Haefliger will have run the summer event for 26 years when he allows his contract to expire at the end of 2025.  Over that time, he has increased the festival’s breadth and prestige to the point that it’s now considered a peer of the august Salzburg Festival. – Switzerland Times
  
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• National Portrait Gallery to get new wing as part of revamp

  23-11-2022 14:32
  Blavatnik Wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits when London institution reopens in 2023The National Portrait Gallery will get a new wing as part of its refurbishment when it reopens in 2023, after the institution received a £10m gift.The Blavatnik Wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the London gallery’s Inspiring People project. Continue reading...
  
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• Marcelo Gomes Will Be Directing Dresden’s Ballet Company

  23-11-2022 14:32 via danceforyou-magazine.com
  With Semperoper Ballett artistic director Aaron S. Watkins leaving this summer to take over English National Ballet, Gomes — who’s been coach and ballet master at the Semperoper since he resigned from ABT in 2017 — will fill Watkins’s post for, at least initially, the 2023-24 season. – Dance for You
  
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• Italy May Have To Raise Museum Ticket Prices Because Of The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals

  23-11-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  “Following a climate protest in which activists threw flour on a Warhol-painted BMW in Milan, Italy’s cultural minister warned that museum admission prices could rise as museums increase security measures put in place to foil future climate protests.” – ARTnews
  
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• Fashion, fine art … and Hitler: the turbulent career of Erwin Blumenfeld – in pictures

  23-11-2022 08:00
  His fashion career was disrupted by the second world war, but that didn’t stop the Jewish photographer from sneaking fine art into his later workContinue reading...
  
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• ‘It’s a bit Mary Poppins’: Lina Ghotmeh to design 2023’s Serpentine pavilion

  23-11-2022 07:00
  The Beirut-born architect is aiming for the smallest possible carbon footprint with an African-inspired ‘great shelter’ for meeting in Kensington GardensA slender wooden parasol will unfurl in Kensington Gardens next summer in London, its radial ribs supporting an expansive, low-slung canopy beneath the trees. It is the elegant vision of Lina Ghotmeh, the Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect who has been announced as the designer of the 22nd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion.“
  
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• ‘Back where they belong’: sacred Tasmanian rock carvings to finally return home

  23-11-2022 04:09
  Sawed off crudely in the 1960s, the 14,000-year-old petroglyphs have been in museums for decades. After years of negotiations, they are on their way back to countryFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastOn a remote stretch of private beach on the far north-west coast of lutruwita (Tasmania), a sacred object is about to finally come home.For decades the Tasmanian Aboriginal community has been requesting th
  
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• Executive Director- Vermont Arts Council

  23-11-2022 03:58 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director will serve as a dynamic and collaborative leader for the Vermont Arts Council and for the state’s creative sector to ensure everyone has access to the arts and creativity in their lives and communities. This individual will develop an inclusive strategic vision to strengthen the resiliency and sustainability of arts, cultural, and creative sector organizations and individuals across the state.
  The Executive Director will collaborate with the Board of
  
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• Teaching in Higher Education Certificate for the Creative Disciplines

  23-11-2022 03:56 via artsjournal.com
  Temple University’s Teaching in Higher Education Certificate for the Creative Disciplines is a nine-credit certificate program that is designed to help grow teaching professionals in art, design, dance, music, creative writing, media arts, theater and related disciplines into great educators by developing their pedagogical knowledge and educational technology skills to improve classroom and studio learning for students.MORE
  
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• New Entertaining Bios Of Mary Rodgers And Stephen Sondheim Demonstrate The Power Of Voice

  23-11-2022 00:01 via latimes.com
  Two new brazenly entertaining works of theatrical biography are a reminder that “voice” is as essential to the stage as it is to a work of literature. – Los Angeles Times
  
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