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• Software That Allows Conductor To Change Music Musicians Play On The Fly

  11-08-2023 23:27 via post-gazette.com
  A DJ will be able to adjust what musicians are playing what melodies and licks to create a unique arrangement on the spot. This will allow the DJ to manipulate instrumentation and assign solos on the fly in response to the crowd’s energy. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Ukraine Sets Up Database Of Artwork Owned By Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

  11-08-2023 23:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  Now accessible through the embattled country’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is a new “War & Art” database of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that have been bought and sold by sanctioned Russians since 2014, when the Russian-Ukrainian war began. – Artnet
  
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• Why Are Rappers Finding A Home With Right Wing Media And Politicians?

  11-08-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  In discussions about money, gender identity, public health and a variety of social issues, rappers and rightwingers have a lot more in common than you’d immediately think. – The Guardian
  
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• I Helped Write “Suits.” This Summer It Became A Big Netflix Hit. Here’s What I Earned For That

  11-08-2023 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here, when you write for a show that becomes an unprecedented success, there is no such windfall. There is only a check for $259.71. – Yahoo (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• U.S. Ballet Companies’ Budgets Dropped By Almost A Third In FY2021

  11-08-2023 21:06 via ddp-wordpress.storage.googleapis.com
  The first full fiscal year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a drop in aggregate spending by the largest 150 classically-based companies of 31.62% from FY 2020 and 39% from FY2019. – Dance Data Project
  
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• Why Has The Symphony Orchestra Endured In Such A Compelling Way?

  11-08-2023 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The reason the symphony has maintained such heft since then is because it supposedly represents timeless values. It has a tricksy ability to tread a line between repelling meaning – ie it’s pure music, not about anything except music – and attracting meaning like iron filings to a magnet. Not just any old meaning, though. – The Guardian
  
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• Australia Will Be The Only Country With Holocaust Museums In Every State And Territory

  11-08-2023 20:03 via tabletmag.com
  In 2019, the country’s right-wing Liberal-National government, encouraged by then-Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (a descendant of survivors), pledged millions of dollars to fund the building or renovation of a Holocaust museum in every capital city, from Darwin to Canberra to Perth to Melbourne and Sydney. – Tablet
  
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• Studios Are Saving Billions While The Actors, Writers Strikes Are On

  11-08-2023 19:29 via msn.com
  Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday the strikes will contribute to a projected $3 billion reduction in film and TV production costs this year. – Bloomberg
  
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• Preserving Nigeria’s History by Digitizing Its Newspapers

  11-08-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “A nonprofit startup called Archivi.ng is attempting to digitise every edition of every newspaper – 50 in all – published in Nigeria since 1 January 1960, the year of independence from Britain. The archive will launch its first tranche of documents in September.” – The Guardian
  
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• Owner ‘mortified’ Margate gallery was closed when Pedro Pascal turned up

  11-08-2023 18:57
  
  Hollywood star had come to see an exhibition featuring 17 images of his face, but found the door lockedThe owner of an art gallery featuring an exhibition dedicated to Hollywood star Pedro Pascal said she was “mortified” the gallery was closed when the actor turned up for a visit.Jessica Rhodes Robb, who owns and runs the venue with her partner, Gavin Blake, was bemused to discover Pascal, 48, had turned up to the Rhodes Gallery in Margate on Sunday to find the door closed. Continue
  
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• Retro As A Business – A New Newspaper On Newsprint Across America

  11-08-2023 18:44 via airmail.news
  
  The first issue of their 20-page, print-only broadsheet, which bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper,” went on sale last week in selected bookstores, record stores, coffee shops, and dry-goods emporiums across all 50 states. – AirMail
  
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• Why August Wilson Matters

  11-08-2023 18:31 via latimes.com
  
  Through high-profile revivals and star-studded screen adaptations, Wilson’s work lives on powerfully and prolifically. Patti Hartigan’s book reminds us what it took for the man to become a monument. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• “Hamilton” Has Now Become A Sims-Style Video Game

  11-08-2023 18:04 via apnews.com
  
  “In the Hamilton Simulator, players use their own avatars as they rub shoulders with the musical’s characters through 10 levels set during the Revolutionary War. It starts at the New York docks and the goal is to free the city from the British yoke” — using the musical’s songs as weapons. – AP
  
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• How To Capture The Magic Of Tanglewood: WGBH

  11-08-2023 17:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Broadcasts from Tanglewood particularly bristle with presence — you can hear every detail of the orchestra, and sometimes even the stubborn starlings chirping in the rafters of the Shed. – Washington Post
  
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• A New Music Director And New Approach At Dallas’s 102-Year-Old Classical Radio Station

  11-08-2023 17:06 via msn.com
  WRR Classical 101, long owned by the city of Dallas, is now run by public radio outlet KERA: there are sponsorship announcements rather than advertising and nonclassical paid programming is gone. Music director Emilio Alvarez aims to deepen ties with the community off- and on-air. – MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
  
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• Virtual Restitution: Activist Group Takes Scans Of Rosetta Stone And Benin Bronzes And Makes Digital Replicas For Egyptians And Nigerians

  11-08-2023 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  A collective called Looty “seeks to give people from former colonies who are unable to travel to the West three-dimensional replicas and knowledge of their stolen treasures. Their aim is to end Western museums’ monopoly over the narrative and give the public a more complete picture.” – The New York Times
  
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• Meet Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah)

  11-08-2023 16:13 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) is a brilliant artist, marine biologist, and advocate for cultural preservation, Native lifeways, and environmental stewardship. In this podcast, James-Perry talks about the intersection of art and science and explains how these two passions inform her work.  She discusses the vital role of the Atlantic Ocean in the Northeast and its significance to tribal communities,
  
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• The New Yorker Has Chosen Peter Schjeldahl’s Successor As Art Critic

  11-08-2023 16:05 via mediapost.com
  
  “Jackson Arn has written several pieces for The New Yorker, including reviews of a Georgia O’Keefe show at MOMA and a van Gogh exhibit at the Met. … In addition, Arn also written for Art in America, The Drift, Artforum, and The Nation.” – MediaPost
  
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• Cleveland Institute Of Music Clears Conductor Carlos Kalmar Of Sexual Harassment

  11-08-2023 15:31 via ideastream.org
  
  “(An administrator wrote that) ‘the specific allegations against Carlos Kalmar did not violate the Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Sex Non-Discrimination Policy Under Title IX.’ About 30 students, faculty and staff were interviewed as part of the investigation by former U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon.” – Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)
  
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• Former Curator Sues Worcester Museum Of Art In Massachusetts For Discrimination

  11-08-2023 15:02 via wbur.org
  
  “Rachel Parikh alleges she was ‘mocked and ridiculed because she is a brown-skinned South Asian’ Indian woman and ‘subjected to a hostile and offensive work environment.’ She resigned from her job as associate curator of the arts of Asia and the Islamic World last fall.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• Writers Guild And Studios Finally Resume Negotiations As Strike Continues

  11-08-2023 14:34 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The return to formal negotiations was announced Aug. 10, nearly a week after both sides met in an exploratory meeting about the talks between the two parties. It marks the first step in what may be a long road to the parties reaching a resolution.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Disney Loses Subscribers, Reports Mixed Earnings

  11-08-2023 14:00 via thewrap.com
  
  Disney+ reported a total of 146.1 million subscribers for the quarter, a decrease of 11.7 million from 157.8 million in the previous quarter. – The Wrap
  
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• Edinburgh’s art takeover, sensational saris and a punk icon passes – the week in art

  11-08-2023 13:30
  
  The city’s art jamboree rivals its theatre and comedy onslaught, the traditional garment gets a playful makeover and a tribute to Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid – all in your weekly dispatchEdinburgh art festival
  Alberta Whittle, Jesse Jones and Grayson Perry lead the exhibitions threaded through Edinburgh, while outside the city at Jupiter Artland is a boozy installation by Lindsey Mendick.
  • Various venues, Edinburgh, until 27 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Natsiaa 2023: Keith Wikmunea wins $100,000 art award for ‘exemplary’ and joyful sculpture

  11-08-2023 10:00
  
  The 55-year-old Aurukun artist has taken out the First Nations art prize in Darwin, for a playful work that was praised for its ‘remarkable execution’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA vibrant, joyful sculpture hewn from a north Queensland milkwood tree has won one of Australia’s richest art prizes, at the 2023 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards (Natsiaa).It is the first art prize win for 55-year-old Aurukun artist Keith Wikmunea, who has been p
  
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• Executive Director – The Knights

  11-08-2023 03:25 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION SUMMARYThe Executive Director of The Knights is a strategic, entrepreneurial leader who works in tandem with The Knights’ Artistic Directors and Board of Trustees to provide leadership and drive revenue growth, managing the artistic, human, and financial resources of an ambitious and creative orchestral collective at home in New York City and on tour across the US and abroad.Reporting to the Board of Trustees and Artistic Directors, the Executive Director oversees an annual budget
  
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• How The Freewheeling Edinburgh Fringe Deals With Cancel Culture

  11-08-2023 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  “When you look back at what the fringe has turned out, surely a wee bit of it somewhere can be allowed to upset. It’s an open access Fringe, the most famous open access Fringe in the world. The other parts of the Fringe are going along fine. – BBC
  
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