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• Australia’s National Gallery On The Edge Of A Financial Cliff

  15-12-2022 23:31 via smh.com.au
  The National Gallery of Australia is headed for a financial cliff next year and contemplating drastic measures including forced redundancies, the closure of the Canberra building two days a week and the possible reintroduction of entry fees. – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Are Public Protests Undemocratic?

  15-12-2022 23:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  The fact that people protest when they don’t accept the outcome of the democratic process is a rather clear sign that protests are a non-democratic activity at best, and at worst an attempt to override and undermine democracy itself. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Museums Are Trying To Make Their Collections More Inclusive. Why Is Progress So Slow?

  15-12-2022 22:32 via news.artnet.com
  Why haven’t we seen greater change after all that effort? The simple answer is that most institutions have thousands of works in their collection but only collect dozens per year. – Artnet
  
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• Yet Another String Quartet Calls It Quits

  15-12-2022 22:01 via thestrad.com
  The Orion quartet was formed in 1987 by violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, brothers who share the first violin chair equally, and cellist Timothy Eddy with the original violist Catherine Metz. – The Strad
  
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• A Great Year For Books About Dance

  15-12-2022 21:30 via wendyperron.com
  Biographies of Nijinska, Balanchine, Graham and others. Wendy Perron’s annual survey points you to the must-reads. – Wendy Perron
  
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• How George Balanchine Made Classical Ballet American

  15-12-2022 21:02 via thenation.com
  Jennifer Homans: “He was absorbing modernism from Europe and interest in the motorcar, the airplane, the train, the speed, … the idea that there (would) be a transformation of society. He took everything from the Russian Revolution to Bauhaus to Diaghilev to Weimar culture. Then in America, he absorbed popular culture.” – The Nation
  
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• AI-Created Art — Democratizing Creativity Or Replacing Artists?

  15-12-2022 20:29 via theatlantic.com
  A reasonable reaction to generative AI is concern; if not even the imagination is safe from machines, the human mind seems at risk of becoming obsolete. – The Atlantic
  
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• “Flimsy, Paper-Thin Architecture Held Together With Tape”: The Guardian’s Architecture Critic Has At The New Orange County Museum Of Art

  15-12-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  “The ruptured, splintered aesthetic goes beyond the sculptural moves alone. Sheets of buckled steel are screwed crookedly against the edge of the undulating façade, hastily cut tiles have been fitted with wonky abandon, while other parts of the building are literally held on with tape.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘I became more and more violent’: shocking testimonies of abuse from IDF veterans

  15-12-2022 19:37
  Horrifying military abuse is recounted in a new video project that aims to highlight how US funding is aiding violence in IsraelSgt Gil Hillel flinches, awareness written across her face, as she looks to the camera and describes how the power of life and death over another human being changed her.“Over time I became more and more violent. I went through a crazy transformation in that job. From a very calm and relaxed person to a very violent and aggressive person who takes their frustratio
  
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• Artists Revolt Against AI Images On Artist Platform

  15-12-2022 19:29 via vice.com
  To many artists on ArtStation, the juxtaposition of AI-generated images with their own work is degrading and undermines the time and skill that goes into their art. – Vice
  
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• Every Autumn, Madrid Is Littered With Sculpture Knockoffs Of “Las Meninas”, And Madrileños Are Sick Of It

  15-12-2022 19:01 via artnews.com
  “The fifty figures scattered throughout the city include a Menina Wonder Woman, a military Menina, a Menina painted with skulls, another wrapped in aluminum, another adorned with the Visa logo, and still another representing Volvo.  … For many Madrid residents, the yearly project is a source for ubiquitous scorn.” – ARTnews
  
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• Is The Familiar Cable TV Model Simply Reorganizing Itself Around Streaming?

  15-12-2022 18:32 via deadline.com
  Short for “free, ad-supported television,” FAST is a live, linear and growing area of the streaming universe that has emerged as a complement to on-demand offerings. The multibillion-dollar sector is inhabited by an eclectic range of purveyors, content owners and connected-TV players. – Deadline
  
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• For The First Time, There’s Sondheim, In Spanish, In Spain, Courtesy Of Antonio Banderas

  15-12-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster fare usually seen in Spain. And he’s now fulfilled a longtime dream, directing a Spanish-language Company and starring as a 50-year-old Bobby. – The New York Times
  
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• Library Acquires Archives Of The Famously Secretive Thomas Pynchon

  15-12-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  The archive includes correspondence relating to the publishing process, the library said, but no private letters or other personal material. And no, there are no photographs of Pynchon either. – The New York Times
  
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• Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To Lead It

  15-12-2022 16:35 via news.artnet.com
  Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office.  Lula wasted no time in restoring the department, and he’s appointed as minister renowned singer Margareth Menezes, who founded a major cultural nonprofit in her home state of Bahia. – Artnet
  
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• Despite Its Paralyzed Box Office, The Met Opera Keeps Going, And Audience Members Keep Coming

  15-12-2022 16:03 via nytimes.com
  A week after the cyberattack which has paralyzed its ticketing and payroll operations, the company has not missed a single performance.  And with its offer of any unsold seat for $50, fans come flocking.  The resulting scene is, despite the difficulties and necessary improvisation, rather orderly. – The New York Times
  
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• The Long HarperCollins Strike Will Have A Real Effect On What Books People Get To Read

  15-12-2022 15:31 via msn.com
  “The outcome of the strike, which began Nov. 10, … may have a ripple effect on jobs across the publishing industry. Its impact may be seen in the quantity and diversity of books that are published for years to come.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Warner Bros. Discovery Expects To Write Off $3.5 Billion-With-a-B In Content Costs

  15-12-2022 15:04 via variety.com
  “The company said it now expects to incur total pre-tax restructuring charges” — that is, charges related to the merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery — “of $4.1 billion to $5.3 billion. … The new estimate includes $2.8 billion to $3.5 billion of content impairment and development write-offs.” – Variety
  
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• France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Offshoot, With The Winner Chosen By Prison Inmates

  15-12-2022 14:32 via nytimes.com
  “Some prisons have organized their own literary prizes, but the inmates’ Goncourt” — Goncourt des détenus, as it’s called in French — “is unprecedented in size and reach, with about 500 people detained in 31 prisons taking part. It is also prominently backed and promoted by the French government.” – The New York Times
  
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• English National Opera Will “Definitely” Move Out Of London, Says CEO

  15-12-2022 14:05 via bbc.com
  Following the stern directive from Arts Council England, the government funder, to leave the capital, “(Stuart) Murphy said he had been contacted by MPs or mayors in about 10 locations to express an interest in hosting the ENO’s new headquarters, but declined to reveal where they are.” – BBC
  
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• Ashley Bickerton obituary

  15-12-2022 13:58
  Neo-geo artist who satirised the get-rich-quick 80s and later how people treat the natural worldIn the 1980s Ashley Bickerton conquered the New York art world, leading a pack of artists who included Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach in the neo-geo movement, a style that critiqued rampant consumerism. His series of aluminium-and-steel wall sculptures Tormented Self-Portraits (1987-88), lacquered with corporate logos from Fruit of the Loom to Citibank, became totemic of this get-rich-quick era.Bickert
  
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• Michael Arthur Williams review – essential explosion of working-class cliches

  15-12-2022 13:56
  Dundee Contemporary Arts
  Delving into his identity using nude portraits, family photos and found footage of Jamaica and Stoke-on-Trent, Williams explores compelling truths about immigrant labour and the meaning of homeThis show puts you face to face with the artist right away. The portrait, hung on a grass-green wall, depicts Matthew Arthur Williams naked and leaning forward, elbows on his knees and his arms interlaced in front of his torso. The shutter release is in his hands as he stares at us
  
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• Matthew Arthur Williams review – essential explosion of working-class cliches

  15-12-2022 13:56
  Dundee Contemporary Arts
  Delving into his identity using nude portraits, family photos and found footage of Jamaica and Stoke-on-Trent, Williams explores compelling truths about immigrant labour and the meaning of homeThis show puts you face to face with the artist right away. The portrait, hung on a grass-green wall, depicts Matthew Arthur Williams naked and leaning forward, elbows on his knees and his arms interlaced in front of his torso. The shutter release is in his hands as he stares at us
  
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• How did a giant sculpture end up gathering moss in a field?

  15-12-2022 12:30
  Keith McCarter’s 1969 mural was a beacon of postwar optimism. But efforts to find a new home for it have proven fruitless. Now it can be yours for free – but you’ll need a very big wall to exhibit it At the bottom of a field in Milton Keynes, a concrete mural has lain dismantled and covered in moss for the past 10 years. Unless it finds a new owner soon, the 34-tonne sculpture will be taken away and broken into rubble. Local art enthusiast Tim Skelton is on a mission to find it
  
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• Best designs of 2022: ‘This work is a beacon of hope’

  15-12-2022 11:48
  Finnish tables, Nigerian ceramics and fabrics made out of oranges – our panel of experts pick their design favourites of the year What was your favourite design of 2022? We asked creatives and design world insiders for the exhibitions, architecture, furniture and innovations that made this year just a little bit better. Here are their answers. Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director & President – The Academy of American Poets

  15-12-2022 04:31 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary The Executive Director & President of the Academy of American Poets will be an experienced leader with a deep appreciation of poetry and an understanding of the literary landscape. This is a full-time position, reporting to the Board of Directors. In addition, the Executive Director serves as an ex-officio, non-voting member of the […]
  
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• Could Cleveland Become America’s First Big “15-Minute-City”?

  15-12-2022 00:01 via fastcompany.com
  “We’re working toward being the first city in North America to implement a 15-minute city planning framework, where people—not developers—are at the center of urban revitalization. – Fast Company
  
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