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• How Writers For TV Became Just Another Cog In The Machine

  21-07-2023 23:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Over time “you get this tiered work force of prestige workers and lesser workers” — fewer officers, more grunts. The writers’ experience shows how destabilizing that change can be. – The New York Times
  
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• Dallas Arts Leaders Say They Need Significant Help From City, Not Just Token Support

  21-07-2023 23:01 via keranews.org
  
  Arts leaders say the city is treating the needs of cultural institutions like paper cuts, when the issues they’re facing are more like bleeding, gaping wounds. – KERA
  
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• Study: Turns Out There Are Effective Strategies To Counter Bullshit

  21-07-2023 22:28 via nautil.us
  
  Turns out, the interventions do help. Reminders to think about accuracy, tips on digital literacy, and effective crowd-sourced accuracy ratings improve the information hygiene of people around the world. – Nautilus
  
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• Reinventing Hubbard Street Dance For The Next Generation

  21-07-2023 22:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Audience numbers had dropped off well before the pandemic, leaving some in the administration to question if they could continue to support a home season at the 1,500-seat Harris Theater for Music and Dance. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Hollywood CEOs Have Fallen For Tech’s “Magical Thinking”

  21-07-2023 21:31 via msn.com
  It’s not, ultimately, technology that’s at the root of the problem. It’s that the studio executives both new and old have embraced the powerful — and ultimately disastrous — magical thinking pumped out by Silicon Valley for the last 10 years. – LA Times (MSN)
  
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• Ken Jennings’s Travel Guide To John Milton’s Paradise

  21-07-2023 21:05 via lithub.com
  
  “You’ll arrive at a realm ringed by a crystal wall and enter through the blazing portal of its golden-hinged gate — which will open and close for you automatically, like at a grocery store. … Then turn and follow the broad road into heaven, paved with stars and golden dust. From beneath, you once knew […]
  
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• A Vanishingly Small Number Of International Plays Are Produced In The US. Why?

  21-07-2023 20:28 via americantheatre.org
  
  Theatre scenes in scores of countries around the world are every bit as sophisticated as ours in the U.S. (and in many cases far better funded). So why are U.S. theatres generally so unconnected to what’s going on in the non-English-speaking theatre world? – American Theatre
  
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• Don’t Fret, Book Lovers: ChatGPT And Other AI Programs Will Not Destroy Literature

  21-07-2023 20:01 via wired.com
  
  “For years, venture capitalists have promised to upend books and the structures around their creation and consumption. … For the most part, despite tech’s sometimes drastic effects on other industries, book- and reading-related startups failed to alter much at all. People are still buying books — in fact, they’re buying more than ever.” – Wired
  
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• Do Hollywood Studios Realize They Are Ultimately On The Same Side As The Unions?

  21-07-2023 19:29 via wired.com
  
  “My experience working in Hollywood has led me to believe that if studios are smart, they will understand that their interests are aligned with those of writers, directors, and all creative people. Silicon Valley is coming for their profit margin.” – Wired
  
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• A 24-Year-Long Restoration Of 16th-Century Tapestries Is Finally Complete

  21-07-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “On Thursday, the final tapestry in the set of 13 Gideon tapestries (at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire) was unveiled on the wall of the long gallery, the culmination of a painstaking effort to clean and handstitch the huge pieces one at a time, at a cost of £1.7m.” – The Guardian
  
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• Children’s TV Has Evolved Into Something Entirely Different

  21-07-2023 18:32 via wired.com
  The YouTube era of children’s programming represents a marked shift in what and how young kids watch video. For decades, children’s television was appointment viewing on a handful of broadcast networks. – Wired
  
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• Even Librarians And Parade Organizers In Florida Are Relieved As Court Blocks DeSantis’s Anti-Drag Law

  21-07-2023 18:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Librarians who feared fines for hosting drag queen story hours and Pride parade organizers who worried about citations for including drag performers can breathe easier now that a judge has ruled that his injunction blocking Florida’s anti-drag law extends to all Florida venues.” – AP
  
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• London’s Royal Opera House Orchestra Votes To Authorize Strike

  21-07-2023 17:31 via operawire.com
  
  The members are asking for their salaries to return to pre-COVID level. According to reports, the Royal Opera House orchestra was asked to make a number of concessions during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to keep the company afloat whilst live performances were halted for public health reasons. – OperaWire
  
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• Despite Rhetoric And Good Intentions, Arts Orgs In Australia Haven’t Done Much To Diversify Their Audiences

  21-07-2023 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Of the 184 cultural organisations surveyed, and 1,011 individual responses from those working within arts organisations, more than half the respondents conceded they had made little or no changes to their programming or outreach programs to attract audiences from different cultures, age groups, geographic locations and gender identities.” – The Guardian
  
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• Flooding Near The Taj Mahal May Actually Be Beneficial

  21-07-2023 16:34 via bloomberg.com
  Heavy monsoon rains this summer have swollen the Yamuna River in Agra right up to the Taj’s walls. There might be slight damage to the mausoleum’s white marble, but the moisture is strengthening the building’s wooden foundation and support rafters, which had been weakened by a prolonged drought. – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• Why Would Disney Sell Off ABC? And Who’d Buy It?

  21-07-2023 16:01 via thewrap.com
  
  “The decline of the linear TV business model has been apparent for years. But even so, the idea that ABC — not to mention well-known cable brands like Disney Channel, National Geographic and FX — are no longer vital assets to Disney marks a step toward a bleak future for legacy television.” – TheWrap
  
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• Just Before A Strike Vote, Backstage Union IATSE, Broadway Producers, And Disney Agree On A Contract

  21-07-2023 15:35 via gothamist.com
  “The Broadway League and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees say a tentative agreement has been reached among the two parties and Disney Theatrical, averting a strike that IATSE members were in the process of voting to authorize.” – Gothamist
  
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• Tony Bennett, 96

  21-07-2023 15:02 via msn.com
  “Few entertainers have had such a remarkable second act. He had his first top-selling hit in 1951 with ‘Because of You,’ then topped the charts again more than 60 years later, collaborating with Lady Gaga to become the oldest person ever to have a No. 1 album.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• New Haven Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Perry So

  21-07-2023 14:33 via newhavenindependent.org
  “So” — who begins his term in the fall of 2024 — “isn’t a stranger to New Haven. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he attended Yale as an undergraduate, where he studied literature, founded an orchestra and conducted the undergraduate opera company.” – New Haven Independent
  
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• David Byrne Named Artistic Director Of London’s Royal Court Theatre (No, Not That David Byrne)

  21-07-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “David Byrne, an award-winning playwright and director who has built a powerful reputation at a small studio theatre in London” called New Diorama, “is to be the new artistic director of the Royal Court. … He succeeds Vicky Featherstone, who (departs) early next year after more than 10 years.” – The Guardian
  
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• The best of Grayson Perry, a chicken and egg situation and Black erasure – the week in art

  21-07-2023 13:00
  
  The artist takes his smash hits to Edinburgh, a tiny sculpture garden opens and Gary Simmons traces racial history – all in your weekly dispatchGrayson Perry: Smash Hits
  A retrospective of the eloquent artist’s works in clay, textiles, printmaking and more.
  • National, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22 July-12 November. Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy, Hirst and Emin come to town: an arty weekend in Newmarket, Suffolk

  21-07-2023 08:00
  
  The three big names and dozens more artists will be taking the reins in the home of horse racing for the largest contemporary art exhibition in the UK this yearNewmarket in Suffolk is the home of British horse racing, with equine attractions aplenty. There are the two race courses, the Rowley Mile and the July Course; the gallops where the horses are exercised; the National Stud, where they are bred; and Tattersalls, where they are bought and sold. There is plenty of art, too, but it is largely
  
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• From Melbourne streets to the APY Lands: $100,000 Hadley’s Art Prize – in pictures

  21-07-2023 05:40
  Hadley’s Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize for Australian landscape art that is believed to be the richest in the world. Selected from 30 finalists, Yankunytjatjara artist Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan has won for her painting Ngayuku Ngura (My Country).The prize is presented by the Hadley’s Orient hotel in Hobart, where all finalists will be exhibited until 20 August. Below is a selection of works.Continue reading...
  
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• Australian art dealer Tim Klingender found dead in Sydney Harbour following boating incident

  21-07-2023 05:30
  
  Police recovered the body of Klingender, who was employed by Sotheby’s for two decades, off Watson’s Bay in Sydney on ThursdayFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian art world is in shock after the body of art dealer Tim Klingender was recovered from waters off Sydney’s Watsons Bay on Thursday morning.NSW police’s Marine Area Command found a man’s body floating
  
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• Executive Director – Shakespeare Theatre Company

  21-07-2023 03:31 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary Reporting to the board of directors as a co-leader alongside the Artistic Director, the Executive Director will be responsible for the business operations of the organization, and the leader of its financial and strategic planning for its evolving business model. This will include overseeing all aspects of STC’s administrative operations, including financial management, […]
  
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• Manager of Music Education (Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras-JSYO)

  21-07-2023 03:29 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION DESCRIPTION Position Title: Manager of Music Education (Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras-JSYO)Status: Full-Time ExemptReports To: Lory Doolittle Endowed Vice President/ Music Education & DEI Initiatives Position Summary The Manager of Music Education (JSYO) is an important member of the education and community engagement (ECE) team, which creates and produces innovative educational programs rooted in symphonic […]
  
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• Small Indie UK Presses Are Leading The Publishing Industry Right Now

  21-07-2023 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The argument runs something like this: because commercial pressures at large houses encourage cautious commissioning, nimbler indies – operating with tighter margins – step into the void and give choice-starved readers the books that corporate imprints deem unsaleable or otherwise risky. – The Guardian
  
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