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• Why We Particularly Need Bad Reviews

  29-08-2023 23:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  In some ways, more culture writing circulates than ever before, but with fewer resources invested in any individual piece of writing. What you get is a great sense of redundancy and thinness. – Artnet
  
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• Recalculating The Enviromental Impact Of Music Festivals

  29-08-2023 23:01 via completemusicupdate.com
  After audience travel, by far the largest source of emissions is food and drink, which on average accounts for just over 34%. This is significantly reduced at events that have adopted plant-based policies. – Complete Music Update
  
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• Toronto Theatre’s Audience Problem

  29-08-2023 22:32 via thestar.com
  
  As entertainment centres like Toronto become increasingly diverse, theatres that continue to program works with only their ever-shrinking base of traditional patrons in mind may fade into irrelevancy among the pool of potential audiences they need to attract, she added. – Toronto Star
  
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• One Way To Look At It: Get Rid Of Ill-Tempered, Indulged, Larger-Than-Life Conductors And Classical Music Suffers

  29-08-2023 22:01 via spectator.co.uk
  
  Replace charismatic leadership with technocratic good manners and the whole edifice comes tumbling down. Fine by me, but just beware of what this means. Fewer recordings, fewer concerts, fewer subsidies, fewer jobs. – The Spectator
  
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• YouTube Could Face Billions Of Dollars In Fines Over Ads Targeted At Children

  29-08-2023 21:32 via arstechnica.com
  
  Child advocacy groups now suspect that a second FTC probe into YouTube could result in a fine that dwarfs that 2019 record penalty. Their letter suggested that if millions of COPPA violations are discovered through the FTC probe, “the Commission should seek civil penalties upwards of tens of billions of dollars.” – ArsTechnica
  
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• The Architects Returning To Wood, Stone, And Brick

  29-08-2023 21:05 via slate.com
  
  Two separate developments are driving the trend: the advent of computer-controlled robots which can drill ornate designs quickly, precisely, and relatively cheaply; and the impetus to return to traditional building materials which are less carbon-intensive than steel, cement, and curtain-wall glass. – Slate
  
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• The Oh-So-Complicated Power Dynamic Between Artist And Patron

  29-08-2023 20:32 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Given the vast difference in agency prevailing between artists and patrons, is an intellectual, artistic, ethical discussion on equal terms even possible? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Frank Rich Gathers The Oral History Of How Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Was Created

  29-08-2023 20:04 via vulture.com
  
  It was a big surprise when word came down that not only had Sondheim finished his long-rumored adaptation of two Luís Buñuel films, he had authorized a production. Here’s an extended conversation between Rich, playwright Davd Ives, and director Joe Mantello about how Here We Are came together. – New York Magazine
  
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• ‘Telling truths about this moment’: climate change author Jeff Goodell curates vital exhibition

  29-08-2023 19:58
  
  The acclaimed writer takes on a new challenge with his first art show, bringing together work and writing that tells a long history of environmental change“Climate change is a very complex topic that is not just about data and information and physics, it’s about culture and politics and psychological responses,” the author and newly minted museum curator Jeff Goodell said to the Guardian. “It’s about how we choose to live, what we value. The science part of it is a
  
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• Eminem Stops Ramaswamy From Using His Music As Theme Song

  29-08-2023 19:28 via bbc.com
  
  “What Vivek is doing is trying to align himself with the struggle of overcoming adversity. From what I know of Vivek’s policies, objectives and goals, they’re not in alignment with Eminem at all.” – BBC
  
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• Gustavo Dudamel Reunites With The Orchestra He Grew Up Conducting

  29-08-2023 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He became director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela when he was 18, and he’s known many of the players since they were all children enrolled in El Sistema. Yet, until this past Saturday at the Edinburgh International Festival, he hadn’t conducted them since 2017. – The New York Times
  
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• Anselm Kiefer’s Large ‘Winter Forest’ Up Close

  29-08-2023 18:36 via artsjournal.com
  A mere detail from the central panel of the
  
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• Criticism As A Creative Act…

  29-08-2023 17:29 via thepointmag.com
  
  Here lies the difference between viewing criticism as a passive medium of arbitration versus an act of creation—one that requires the critic to take a stand, to use her influences as materials, rather than be used by them. – The Point
  
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• Have US Ballet Companies Been Performing More Works By Women Choreographers? Yes And No.

  29-08-2023 17:05 via ddp-wordpress.storage.googleapis.com
  Dance Data Project’s research on this past season found that 32% of ballets presented by the largest 150 classically trained companies were by women, up from 29% in 2021-22. But for the 50 largest of those companies, the figure fell from 27% to 23%. – Dance Data Project
  
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• Anna Wintour Is Raising Money To Offset Cuts To Arts Funding In London

  29-08-2023 16:30 via bbc.com
  
  Wintour, who organizes the annual Met Gala in New York, has planned an event called Vogue World for the start of London’s Fashion Week next month. Her intent is to make up for money lost because of Arts Council England’s decision to shift funds to organizations beyond the capital. – BBC
  
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• Some Of The Objects Stolen From The British Museum May Never Be Located. Here’s Why.

  29-08-2023 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “Ittai Gradel, (the) antiquities dealer who uncovered the suspected thefts of items such as gold jewellery, semiprecious stones and ancient glassware, said he had been told hundreds of missing objects had never been properly cataloged by the museum, making it difficult to prove they belonged to its collections.” – The Guardian
  
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• Suddenly, There Are Big Questions Around Hilma af Klint, From Control Of IP Rights To Whether She Did All Those Paintings

  29-08-2023 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s a struggle in Sweden over control of her foundation, and recent discoveries suggest that one of her fellow mystics painted some of the canvases in the big Guggenheim exhibition — and that, possibly, all the abstract work attributed to her was painted by a group. – The New York Times
  
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• An Iowa School District Banned “Friday Night Lights” Because ChatGPT Flagged It

  29-08-2023 15:01 via msn.com
  “The short-lived ban … was part of school officials’ attempts to comply with a new state law that requires books available to Iowa students to be ‘age-appropriate” and free of ‘descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act'” and held teachers personally liable for violations. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• London Police Remove Four Audience Members From “Grease” As Everyone Else Cheers

  29-08-2023 14:33 via theguardian.com
  
  “Footage posted online shows eight police officers and staff from the Dominion Theatre lining the stairway in the balcony as audience members chant ‘out, out, out!’.” – The Guardian
  
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• In A Rush To Remodel Cairo, Egypt’s Government Is Demolishing Historic Buildings, Cultural Centers, And Green Space

  29-08-2023 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “‘If you were being invaded, all what you’d care about is your monuments, your trees, your history, your culture,’ said Mamdouh Sakr, an architect and urbanist. ‘And now, it’s all being destroyed, without any reason, without any explanation, without any need.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Artistic Director – Alberta Ballet

  29-08-2023 02:18 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the Board of Directors alongside the President and CEO, the Artistic Director will be responsible for conceiving, developing, and implementing a dynamic, creative, and exciting artistic vision, that resonates with audiences and maximizes ticket sales. Serving as the organization’s public face and spokesperson, they will be an active community presence, cultivating and deepening relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, while activating the organization&r
  
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• The Arts (Nonprofit and Otherwise), Labor, Strikes, and the Real Issue

  29-08-2023 02:01 via artsjournal.com
  Labor Day is not a marker for the end of summer; it’s not about mattress sales; and it wasn’t created as an excuse to break out the barbecue.
  (Public domain photo of 1919 Actors Equity Association Strike, New York, New York)
  This will not be a history lesson. You can look up for yourself why Labor Day (or, alternatively, Labour Day) exists.
  Today, we won’t talk about nonprofit arts organizations in 2023, except to say that many are signatories to union contracts for their worke
  
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• The Need To Fail Better

  29-08-2023 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  What if we could learn to habitually reframe failure as a source of discovery and personal development? What if we could face problems and setbacks with honesty, determination and a healthy sense of realism? What if failure, as a token of our shared humanity, provided us with feelings of inclusion, not ostracism? – The Guardian
  
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