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• Theatre’s Labor Shortage Woes Are Growing

  22-06-2023 23:32 via americantheatre.org
  
  Put simply, it has become extremely difficult for theatres to find enough competent craftspeople, even to recruit untrained laborers who can hammer sets, paint flats, or sew costumes for professional regional theatres—least of all folks experienced in the sub-specialty of theatre work. – American Theatre
  
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• Will Atmos Revolutionize The Way We Listen To Music?

  22-06-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  For Dolby, the audio company that developed Atmos, and Apple Music — which has invested heavily in it — the technology could lead to the most dramatic shift in audio in 65 years. – The New York Times
  
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• Stoppp!: There’s Way Too Much Streaming

  22-06-2023 22:32 via wired.com
  
  To the average consumer, streaming companies have maneuvered with what appears to be only rapid growth and blind excess in mind. Sure, we reap the fruits of that near-impossible ethic, but is it what we want—or even need? – Wired
  
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• Berlin Biennale Postpones 2024 Edition: Too Much Going On

  22-06-2023 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  “Because other international biennials were also postponed to 2024 due to the pandemic, a competition for resources can be expected, which will ultimately result in the capacities of artists and their availability,” the Foundation said. – ARTnews
  
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• Sweden Building World’s Largest City Of Wood

  22-06-2023 22:02 via fastcompany.com
  Mass timber—panels and beams made from layers of wood stacked together for extra strength—avoids the massive carbon footprint of standard construction materials like concrete and steel. – Fast Company
  
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• Why Today’s “Best” Writers Don’t Have Readers

  22-06-2023 21:24 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Want to be a novelist here in 2023? Well, there are thousands of people on hand to encourage you, tutor you and wave you on your way. Unfortunately, you are liable to end up writing for the very audience most writers want to avoid — people like yourself. – The Critic
  
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• The Problem With “It’s Pablo-Matic”? The Exhibition Itself Doesn’t Agree With Hannah Gadsby About Picasso

  22-06-2023 21:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Well, besides Gadsby’s “‘neener-neener-you’re-a-weiner’ style of commentary.” Ben Davis: “After spending four hours in it, I started to suspect that what makes the show so strange and strained is that it is actually trying to work against (Gadsby’s) arguments — but without ever admitting that this is what is happening.” – Artnet
  
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• Museum Attendance Is Down All Over The World. Is There A Lesson?

  22-06-2023 20:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Anecdotal evidence suggests that, post-Covid and the other assorted turmoils of the past couple of years, galleries and auction houses around the world have returned to the status quo ante; the numbers, however, show that this is far from the case. – The Critic
  
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• An Unknown, Unfinished Novel By Françoise Sagan Arrives On Shelves

  22-06-2023 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “The Four Corners of the Heart … was discovered seven years after Sagan’s death in 2004 by her son, and ends on a cliffhanger. … Despite the suggestion that a novelist such as Leïla Slimani or Anne Berest might finish it, it has been published in its incomplete state.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Emotional Toll Of Dying Onstage Every Night

  22-06-2023 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “Halfway through the Broadway run, I started to feel the weight of doing this every single day. Everything was tight, so I talked to a physical therapist.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Unsung Hero Of Wes Anderson’s Movies? The Key Grip.

  22-06-2023 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s a rough job, pushing and pulling a camera mounted on a dolly — a setup weighing up to 900 pounds — along hundreds of feet of track built for a scene, and Sanjay Sami has engineered, invented and refined it into an art form.” – The New York Times
  
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• Disney Used AI For Opening Credits Of The New Marvel Movie. Backlash Ensues

  22-06-2023 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In an interview with Polygon on Wednesday, director Ali Selim confirmed that AI operated by a company called Method Studios produced the opening sequence to the new series, which stars Samuel L Jackson as Marvel fixture Nick Fury. – The Guardian
  
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• They’ve Put Up A Geodesic Dome At The Dalí Museum in Florida. Here’s Why.

  22-06-2023 18:04 via tampabay.com
  
  “We now have the answer: ‘Dalí Alive 360°,’ a new immersive experience showcasing the Spanish surrealist’s works. It opens sometime this summer.” – Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Curator of Contemporary & Traditional Chinese Art

  22-06-2023 17:59 via artsjournal.com
  Job no: 531927Work type: Officer of AdministrationLocation: Eugene, ORCategories: Architecture/Art/Design, Arts/Theater/Museum, Foreign Languages/Linguistics, International Studies Department: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA)Appointment Type and Duration: Regular, OngoingSalary: $65,000 – $75,000 per yearCompensation Band: OS-OA08-Fiscal Year 2022-2023FTE: 1.0 Application Review Begins July 4, 2023; open until filled. Special Instructions to Applicants For consideration, please submit
  
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• Evelyn Hofer/ Johny Pitts reviews – secs and the great big pulsing city

  22-06-2023 17:50
  
  ★★★★☆ / ★★★☆☆
  The Photographers’ Gallery, London
  When Hofer left Britain, her work exploded with the colour and energy of urban America – while Pitt’s Black Britain odyssey took him from Edinburgh to Dover and beyondAn umbrella and a bowler hat sit on a windowsill in a pub – patiently waiting, it seems, for their boozing owner to return. This striking black and white vignette of British culture is an unusually pl
  
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• Artistic Exodus From Seattle — Seattle Opera Head Is Latest To Go

  22-06-2023 17:23 via seattletimes.com
  
  Christina Scheppelmann’s departure announcement comes amid leadership vacancies, or impending vacancies, at other high-profile Seattle arts organizations. – Seattle Times
  
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• North Carolina’s Triad Stage Is Closing Its Doors

  22-06-2023 17:02 via greensboro.com
  
  “This spring, the professional regional theater in downtown Greensboro stopped selling tickets to shows while examining its options amid financial struggles. The group’s volunteer board had hoped to find a path to save it as other regional theaters across the country shuttered in recent years.” – Greensboro (NC) News and Record
  
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• A Depressing Report On Freelancing In The British Theatre Industry

  22-06-2023 16:35 via variety.com
  
  “A comprehensive report published by Freelancers Make Theatre Work … reveals significant disparities in pay between male and female workers, amounting to a gap of 37.4%. … The sobering picture painted by the report continues, with average earnings for freelancers in the industry falling 17.5% below the U.K. national average salary.” – Variety
  
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• 2011 MacArthur Fellow,2021 National Book Award Winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

  22-06-2023 16:18 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Tiya Miles is best known as a historian and the author of the National Book Award winner All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake. But Tiya had preceded All That She Carried with a novel The Cherokee Rose, published in 2015, which she has revised and has just been […]
  
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• San Francisco Has Changed Its Arts Funding Priorities, And Some Groups Have Gotten Quite A Shock

  22-06-2023 16:03 via msn.com
  
  “Many arts organizations,” including such flagships as the San Francisco Symphony, “have seen their city funding reduced drastically or eliminated altogether. At the same time, up-and-coming theater companies and visual arts groups … are getting their first crack at a piece of the city’s largesse.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• Invasion of the cool-girl ceiling-smashers: why I love the revamped National Portrait Gallery

  22-06-2023 15:59
  
  From Tracey Emin to Jann ‘Sgt Pepper’ Haworth, this London landmark’s new additions are game-changers. The result is a thrilling, uplifting gallery that reflects a Britain I am proud to be part ofArtists in conversation with boxers; playwrights next to composers; royalty juxtaposed with protestors; pop stars talking to Tudors; abolitionists facing suffragettes; pop jostling with expressionism; collage communicating with painting.Last week, I went to visit the National Portrait
  
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• David Erdos: ‘Under Sea and Sky’—A Poem of Survival

  22-06-2023 15:33 via artsjournal.com
  Offered in tribute to the crew fighting for their lives at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Motion Picture Academy Changes Rules For Best Picture Oscar

  22-06-2023 15:31 via yahoo.com
  
  “Under the new rules, … a film will need to continue its run beyond the current requirement, a one-week theatrical release in one of six U.S. qualifying cities, … to add an additional run of seven days, consecutive or nonconsecutive, in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors 2023 To Renée Fleming, Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Barry Gibb

  22-06-2023 15:04 via apnews.com
  “You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you. That’s what happened to Billy Crystal. … Also selected for the lifetime artistic achievement award are rapper/actor Queen Latifah, opera singer Renée Fleming, 1970s music icon Barry Gibb and prolific hitmaker Dionne Warwick.” – AP
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra-Kimmel Center Asks Court To Throw Out Philly Pops’ Lawsuit

  22-06-2023 14:32 via msn.com
  
  “With an outstanding $1 million debt and a ‘long history of contractual default and related broken promises and commitments,’ the Philly Pops is trying to ‘force its way back into Verizon Hall,’ the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. alleged in a court filing Tuesday.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• ‘If I didn’t say something, nobody else was going to’: Zinzi Minott on making art about the Windrush scandal

  22-06-2023 14:01
  
  On the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking, the artist talks about dancing, sampling David Lammy and building a sound system filled with bloodWhen the Windrush scandal began to surface after 2017, Zinzi Minott was struck by how the country seemed to fall silent. In the first days after the news broke, she says, people and institutions were too afraid to speak up. “No one did anything quick enough, it was really ugly,” the London-based artist recalls. “I was like: &l
  
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• France’s Highest Court Clears Filmmaker Luc Besson Of Rape Charge

  22-06-2023 14:00 via variety.com
  
  The ruling by the Court of Cassation “marks the fourth and final judicial instruction in this case. The legal battle started with (actress Sand) Van Roy’s police complaints filed in May and July 2018. The case was dismissed by the Paris prosecutor … in 2019, citing a lack of evidence.” – Variety
  
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• King Charles honours ‘immeasurable’ impact of Windrush generation

  22-06-2023 09:48
  
  Comments come in foreword of book of portraits to celebrate 75th anniversary of Windrush crossingKing Charles has said it is crucially important to recognise the “immeasurable” difference the Windrush generation has made to Britain.His comments are in the foreword of a book which accompanies a display of portraits that celebrate the Windrush generation in the week marking the 75th anniversary of the crossing. Continue reading...
  
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• Windrush generation celebrated in a series of 10 portraits – in pictures

  22-06-2023 08:01
  
  The Windrush generation is being celebrated in a series of 10 new portraits that will go on public display for the first time from Thursday 22 June at Edinburgh’s Royal Palace. Commissioned by King Charles in 2022, the special display commemorates the positive contributions these pioneering men and women have made to the UK. The portraits were created by black artists personally selected by the king.The Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation display is included as part of a visit t
  
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• From the Troubles to glam rock: through the eyes of Brian Aris – in pictures

  22-06-2023 08:00
  
  The British photographer started off covering civil unrest and ended up shooting the Queen – a new exhibition takes you on the wild rideContinue reading...
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Billion-Dollar Machine

  22-06-2023 00:01 via cbc.ca
  
  “If the current spending pace continues through the end of the tour, the Eras Tour will have generated an estimated $5 billion [US] in economic impact, more than the gross domestic product of 50 countries.” – CBC
  
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