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• David Geffen Hall Reimagined

  06-12-2022 23:32 via architecturalrecord.com
  Does a concert hall with great natural sound matter anymore? – Architectural Record
  
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• Libraries As Activist Organizations?

  06-12-2022 23:01 via newcriterion.com
  The condemnation of the history of the American library, by its own gatekeepers, has done more than bring “Drag Queen Story Hour” to every children’s reading room. It has also upended the traditional role of the library as an organization primarily dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, and circulation of books. – New Criterion
  
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• UArts – Internationally situated Dance MFA

  06-12-2022 22:59 via artsjournal.com
  Our approach relies on experimental pedagogies and the gathering of relational communities. The program moves against conventional thinking about academic learning environments utilizing the University of the Arts School of Dance’s long-standing relationships to and connections with world-recognized artists, scholars and cultural institutions. Program begins each summer in Montpellier, France in residence at the ICI-CCN. […]
  
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• Executive Director (Silkroad)

  06-12-2022 22:57 via artsjournal.com
  Job Title: Executive DirectorReports to: Board ChairLocation: Northeast United States (Preferred)FLSA Status: Full-time, ExemptSalary Range: $200,000 – $250,000 WHO WE ARE: Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998 as a reminder that even as rapid globalization resulted in division, it brought extraordinary possibilities for working together. Seeking to understand this dynamic, he began to learn about […]
  
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• Digital Programming Producer, College of Visual and Performing Arts

  06-12-2022 22:47 via artsjournal.com
  The George Mason University, College of Visual and Performing Arts seeks qualified applicants for a Digital Programming Producer. George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment. About the […]
  
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• Closing Of A Literary Magazine Demonstrates The Perilous Nature Of Literary Magazines

  06-12-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
   Its short existence offers insight both into what is possible for a literary magazine to accomplish and into the tenuous place such publications occupy in the American publishing landscape. – The New York Times
  
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• London’s National Gallery Cancels Exhibition With Pushkin Museum

  06-12-2022 22:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  Although it was never publicized, the two institutions were to have jointly presented next year’s exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, but the arrangement was abruptly terminated following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Steven Dietz: New Theatre Is More Important Now Than Ever

  06-12-2022 21:23 via americantheatre.org
  “We quit on the theatre much more readily than the theatre quits on us. I am aware now—as a working artist in my 60s—that the theatre has outlasted all my teachers and mentors and heroes; that the theatre will outlast me, and all my students; everyone I’ve ever known, and everyone I am yet to […]
  
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• Pantone’s Color Of The Year Gets The Assessment It Deserves

  06-12-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  The color company used AI to create an “endless new ecosystem to be explored, called ‘the Magentaverse’.”  Well.  As the subhed puts it, “Say hello to Viva Magenta, the color no one asked for, coming to a world where no one lives.” – The New York Times
  
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• Woman Arrested For Spraying Fake Blood On Toulouse-Lautrec Painting in Berlin Museum

  06-12-2022 20:28 via artnews.com
  The incident was reminiscent of recent climate actions at European museums, however the prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it has been deemed an isolated attack unconnected to any climate protection group. – ARTnews
  
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• Timbuktu Isn’t The Only Place With Badass Librarians.  They’re Heroes In Ukraine, Too.

  06-12-2022 20:02 via theguardian.com
  “The brutal material horrors of the struggle, might make any cultural reading of the conflict seem fantastical or glib. But at its core, and from its origin, this Ukrainian conflict has been a war over language and identity. And Ukraine’s libraries are the key.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Why Theatre Isn’t Just For The Privileged

  06-12-2022 19:29 via americantheatre.org
   We have to collect the stories and inspire people, rather than fighting hipsters and fighting people who are gentrifiers—people don’t really understand how gentrification works. It’s not about white people coming in; Latinos can gentrify too. – American Theatre
  
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• Climate protesters told to pay National Gallery £1,000 for damaging painting

  06-12-2022 19:19
  Just Stop Oil’s Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable’s The Hay WainTwo climate protesters have been ordered to compensate the National Gallery after they were found guilty of causing more than £1,000 of damage to the Hay Wain, probably John Constable’s best-known painting.In July Just Stop Oil supporters Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eben Lazarus, 22, taped printed posters of a dystopian reimagining of the landscape over its canvas, befor
  
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• When Good Oral History Demystifies Hollywood, What Do We Really Learn?

  06-12-2022 19:04 via newyorker.com
  “For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals — all these things have more in common with candle-making and knitting than they do with creating art in the romantic, visionary sense.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Theatre That Redefines “Disabilities”

  06-12-2022 18:32 via theguardian.com
  “Disability theatre is not all cute little community projects. I know that sounds like I’m dissing community projects, but that’s not what I mean … We exist, too. We can be professionals. We can be just as much angels or devils as everyone else. We can have the same kinks or non-kinks as everyone else.” […]
  
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• A Battle Over Whether John Neumeier’s “Othello” Is Racist Rocks The Royal Danish Ballet

  06-12-2022 18:01 via www-ndr-de.translate.goog
  Neumeier’s adaptation includes a dream sequence which takes the Venetians’ stereotypes of Othello to their limit, with the Moorish general doing an “African hunting dance.”  A number of the Copenhagen dancers found that offensive; subsequent disputes seem to have led to Neumeier’s banning from the company. (in German) – NDR (Hamburg)
  
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• Teachers At The Mannes School Are On Strike. Here’s Why

  06-12-2022 17:33 via van-magazine.com
  Our base salary is some $70 per hour, as opposed to other parts of the university, where the average is about $130 an hour. Somebody might say, “$130, that’s incredible!” But this includes hundreds of hours of preparation, grading, and writing recommendations. – Van
  
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• Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic

  06-12-2022 08:00
  The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic studyThe voices in her head told Hilma af Klint she would be a great artist. They weren’t wrong. Born in 1862, she was unusual from an early age. Growing up in austere Lutheran Sweden, Af Klint studied art at university: a rare feat for a woman. Even less common was her insistence on practising as a professional after graduation. In the face of a society &n
  
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• Summer in the City: your what’s on guide to the best events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and more

  06-12-2022 05:36
  We’re handpicking the most unmissable arts, festivals and gigs in every major city all through December, January and February. Whether you’re looking for free things to do in Sydney today, family-friendly shows in Melbourne this weekend or what’s coming up this month in Brisbane or Perth, search our guide to find what’s on near youWe’re sure you feel it too. After years of *gestures broadly at everything*, we need this summer to be the best one ever. Live arts, big
  
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• Summer in the City: your ultimate what’s on guide to the best events and things to do in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and across Australia

  06-12-2022 05:36
  We’re handpicking the most unmissable arts, festivals and gigs in every capital city all through December, January and February. Whether you’re looking for free things to do in Sydney today, family-friendly shows in Melbourne this weekend or what’s coming up this month in Brisbane or Perth, search our guide to find what’s on near youWe’re sure you feel it too. After years of *gestures broadly at everything*, we need this summer to be the best one ever. Live arts, bi
  
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