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• A Talk With Yasuhisa Toyota, The Great Concert-Hall Acoustician

  07-07-2023 21:05 via bachtrack.com
  
  The man responsible for the sound at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the Philharmonie de Paris talks about vineyard-versus-shoebox shape, multi-purpose auditoriums (not a fan), cathedral-like acoustics (ditto), and the most stressful day for an acoustician. – Bachtrack
  
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• New York City’s New Old Hangout: The NYC Public Library

  07-07-2023 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  An ongoing $200 million renovation of the 1911 landmark has sought to open its doors and world-famous collections to more people — and not just the scholars and authors that have long traipsed through its marble halls — as the demand for public space in a crowded city has soared since the pandemic. – The […]
  
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• A March On City Hall For Arts Funding (!)

  07-07-2023 20:02 via bbc.com
  
  In Bristol, England, cultural organizations expected to have their upcoming grants from the local government confirmed by the end of last October; now, they’re told, they must wait until March of 2024. Warning that the delays mean that they can plan nothing, the arts groups are on the march. – BBC
  
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• Dance Everywhere (Except On A Stage)

  07-07-2023 19:28 via ladowntownnews.com
  Each performance produced by Duckler and her company, Heidi Duckler Dance, transforms spaces not traditionally used for dance into something new, as the choreography engages with themes of that environment. – LA Downtown News
  
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• England’s Libraries Generate At Least £3.4 Billion In Economic Activity Every Year: Study

  07-07-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Libraries in England generate at least £3.4 billion in value a year through services supporting children’s literacy, digital inclusion and health, a study has found. Researchers … discovered that the services that a typical branch provides in a year are worth £1 million.” – The Guardian
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel’s Slow-Motion Departure From LA

  07-07-2023 18:31 via lamag.com
  Celebrity has a tendency to reduce talent, even of the most prodigious kind, to a series of narrow gestures, a sort of mimeograph of itself. The Dude sure seemed to embrace the L.A. lifestyle, to take quickly to Soho House and Osteria Mozza, and having a hot dog at Pink’s named in his honor. – Los […]
  
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• Those Unknown Rembrandts Discovered This Past Spring Have Sold For $14.2 Million

  07-07-2023 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  “A pair of previously unknown and ‘exceptionally rare’ portraits by Rembrandt sold for over £11.2 million ($14.2 million) Thursday after they were discovered in a private collection in the UK. Depicting relatives of the Dutch master, the intimate paintings are the last Rembrandt portraits still in private hands” – CNN
  
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• The Fascinating Dance Around Remaking America’s Busiest Train Station

  07-07-2023 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  If all this still seems dizzying, the bottom line is that the next year will decide the station’s fate. Perhaps not since the demolition of the original McKim, Mead & White building has there been similar momentum and a similar alignment of the political stars. – The New York Times
  
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• “Here Lies Love”, The Imelda Marcos Disco Musical? Filipino-Americans Have Feelings About It

  07-07-2023 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  For immigrants, it’s seeing their own history on a Broadway stage; for their children, it’s a major lesson. (“Growing up, the only thing I really knew about Imelda was her shoe collection.”) For the all-Filipino cast, it’s revisiting “a past that’s hardly in the rearview mirror.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dingo traps, saddles and a 1934 silver birthday cake for Melbourne: the long-lost treasure found in a Queensland shed

  07-07-2023 17:00
  
  How the Centenary of Melbourne Birthday Clock Cake ended up thousands of kilometres away remains a mysteryWhen the Harths bought their four-hectare block in Cawarral in central Queensland last year, it came with the contents of two garden sheds and a yard full of ornaments and oddities.Cathy and Phillip Harth were not to know then, nor for some time yet, that among the dingo traps and copper pots, old-fashioned clothes irons and metal shoe stretchers, at the back of a shed full of horse blankets
  
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• Little Girl Wanted: Acting, Directing, and Details With Jenn Thompson

  07-07-2023 16:38 via artsjournal.com
  Katie checks in with former actor (Annie, Little Darlings) and current acclaimed director (Annie National Tour, Drama Desk and Lortel nominations, Mint Theatre Company, Goodspeed Opera House, Pioneer Theatre Company), Jenn Thompson.
  
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• Does The Karaoke Disco Musical About Imelda Marcos “Trivialize The Suffering Of Millions Of Filipinos”?

  07-07-2023 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Here’s what to know about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, the People Power Revolution of 1986 and the controversies the show” — Here Lies Love, now on Broadway after runs Off-Broadway and elsewhere — “has faced.” – The New York Times
  
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• ABT’s Gabe Stone Shayer Publicly Calls Out The Company For Seeing Him As Black Before It Sees Him As A Dancer

  07-07-2023 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Nothing bothered me more than being cast in Lifted, a ‘groundbreaking’ show designed to feature only ABT’s Black dancers. … I trained to be an elite dancer, not a Black elite dancer. Emphasizing my race before my skill infantilizes me; there’s no such thing as a Caucasian-American dancer.” – The New York Times
  
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• Unruly Bodies review – grotesque breasts, gaping orifices … but where’s the soul?

  07-07-2023 15:58
  
  Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London
  A show by 13 women and non-binary artists presents the body as abject, disgusting and objectified – to alienating effectBodies are porous, weird and gross, much as we might try to forget it. Unruly Bodies at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) reminds us just how grotesque they can be. Working from the assumption that the “unruly” body is implicitly female, Black, disabled, queer or other, the exhibition is made up of work
  
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• Cultural Centers Are Burned, Bombed, And Looted In Sudan’s Savage Civil War

  07-07-2023 15:32 via artnews.com
  
  Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings and collections remain have holes caused by artillery in their roofs and walls — this as the rainy season is coming on. – ARTnews
  
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• On The First Day Of Threads, 30 Million Users Signed Up. Could The New App Really Take Out Twitter?

  07-07-2023 15:03 via wired.com
  
  “Threads, the latest of Meta’s copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. … But Threads comes with big potential, thanks to its polished tech, built-in user base, and a reputation for better moderation that’s likely to please big-money advertisers.” – Wired
  
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• Mario Vargas Llosa Is In The Hospital With COVID (Again)

  07-07-2023 14:35 via cnn.com
  
  The 87-year-old Nobel-winning novelist was hospitalized on July 1 in Madrid. This is his second bout of the respiratory illness. – CNN
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director

  07-07-2023 14:00 via ashland.news
  
  As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival’s associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds Nataki Garrett, who departed in May after an extremely challenging four-year tenure which included COVID closures, wildfires, and financial crises. – Ashland.news
  
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• Sculpting words and war, and a show of two halves – the week in art

  07-07-2023 13:05
  
  Doris Salcedo and others weigh their words, Tim Shaw memorialises the Iraq war and Tino Sehgal arranges a big match for different kinds of creativity
  – all in your weekly dispatchThe Weight of Words
  A look at the relationship between poetry and sculpture starring Doris Salcedo, Tim Etchells, Shilpa Gupta and more.
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• The real thing

  07-07-2023 00:44 via artsjournal.com
  For all the stages an author experiences in seeing the draft of a manuscript through edits and proofreads, nothing really matches the day you receive delivery of a box of hard copies. Details are here. The cover is a nod to the Hoosier state, who a hundred years ago or so decided that towns, even […]
  
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• How Photography Has Changed The Ways We See The World

  07-07-2023 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means photography has a number of overlapping histories: as a technology of seeing, a social document and an aesthetic practice. – The Conversation
  
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