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• Survey: Half Of Professional UK Musicians Earn Less Than £14,000

  11-09-2023 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The census finds that despite high levels of education and training among professional musicians – 70% have a degree or higher, and 50% have a music degree – more than half the respondents have to cobble together a living through a variety of jobs. – The Guardian
  
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• Is The South Dakota Symphony The Future Of Classical Music?

  11-09-2023 22:22 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  South Dakota’s may plausibly be considered the most genuinely innovative, most inspirationally forward-looking professional orchestra in the United States. It is also the happiest professional orchestra I know, and the most engaged. Fulfilling Theodore Thomas’s credo, it “shows the culture of the community.” – The American Scholar
  
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• Caught Between Two Worlds: Writers, Actors Strikes Looking For A Model That Fits The Times

  11-09-2023 21:52 via npr.org
  
  “That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the amount of episodes per season from six or eight or ten, that used to be 22 to 28, and you cut back on the amount of seasons that make up a series, that old residual model is ineffective.” – NPR
  
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• Politics Intruding – More And More, Art Is Running Afoul Of Politics

  11-09-2023 21:48 via apnews.com
  
  The cycle of outcry, removal and reflection seems to be repeating itself more frequently. Proponents of artistic freedom say the current political climate has made more topics than ever controversial and emboldened more people to voice their complaints. Cities are forced to reexamine how they choose art. – AP News
  
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• Disney, Charter Sign Deal And ESPN Returns To Cable

  11-09-2023 20:47 via variety.com
  
  The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even as Charter agrees to pay Disney for making some of its streaming services available to customers. – Variety
  
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• AI Art Piece Wins Big Competition. Problem – It Can’t Be Copyrighted

  11-09-2023 20:08 via creativebloq.com
  
  The artwork was created using Midjourney, a platform that features in our pick of the best AI art generators. The judges apparently didn’t realise that when they named it the winner of the digital art category at the Colorado State Fair, but the US Copyright Office isn’t so easily fooled. – Creative Blog
  
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• Curators Test To See If AI Can Curate And Organize A Show. Here’s What Happened

  11-09-2023 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  “We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university have spent the past six months teaching ChatGPT how to do their jobs. – The New York Times
  
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• Nuclear war is a fear that can’t be faced | Brief letters

  11-09-2023 19:10
  
  US nuclear weapons | Theresa May’s portrait | Hidden holiday fees | The wrong tern | Liz Truss’s tome I know we’ve been overwhelmed with bad news of late, but I’ve yet to read of any concerns about the greatest threat of all – nuclear war (Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia, 5 September). One worry too much?Jenny HaynesHorkstow, Lincolnshire• Emma Brockes remarks that a portrait of Theresa May “combines a Bloomsbury-era
  
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• The Sad Real Reason Apple Bought Tiny BIS, The Classical Label

  11-09-2023 18:32 via honest-broker.com
  
  Apple Music is now eight years old, but there’s no indication that the business is profitable. They need strategies to reduce costs, and substituting cheap music for expensive music is the most obvious way of doing this. – The Honest Broker
  
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• Blitz firefighters’ wartime paintings to go on display in London churches

  11-09-2023 17:49
  
  Initiative marks 300 years since death of Christopher Wren, many of whose churches were bombed in second world warIt became known as the second great fire of London, the worst night of the blitz in the British capital during the second world war.On the night of 29-30 December 1940, more than 100,000 bombs were dropped on London, causing widespread fires and destroying many buildings including 13 of Sir Christopher Wren’s churches. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia Is Destroying Ukrainian Heritage Sites. How Can It Still Be In Unesco?

  11-09-2023 17:40 via wsj.com
  
  Russia, a Unesco member, has a delegation in Riyadh because it is on the World Heritage Committee. This is a travesty. For its deliberate targeting of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, Russia needs to be expelled from Unesco. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Agatha Christie Pilgrims Have A New Stopping Point

  11-09-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The author of 66 novels and 15 short-story collections gets her own (seated) statue in the town where she lived for more than four decades. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Fiber Art Is Flourishing Again

  11-09-2023 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Not that it ever went away, but the “fine art” world is taking notice of the feminized and thus less important “craft” once more. – The New York Times
  
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• AI Is Not Actually Hollywood’s Biggest Problem

  11-09-2023 16:00 via latimes.com
  
  So says Cord Jefferson, director of Toronto International Film Fest favorite American Fiction. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Chinese Singer Went To Mariupol’s Bombed-Out Theatre And Sang A Patriotic Soviet Song

  11-09-2023 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The theatre, which had been a civilian shelter, is “a symbol of Russia’s war crimes,” says the city’s exiled mayor. “To turn the theater into a tourist destination and to sing on the bones of the dead is incredible cynicism and disrespect.” – The New York Times
  
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• Scorsese’s Project Is Deconstructing Misogyny

  11-09-2023 15:30 via lithub.com
  
  You might not think it from his movies about violent men, but you can see it masterfully done in the 30-year-old Age of Innocence. – LitHub
  
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• Former Dancers Say The UK’s Top Ballet Schools Constantly Body-shame Students

  11-09-2023 15:15 via bbc.com
  
  More than 50 former students told the BBC about issues, saying they had developed eating disorders, “while some said they had been left with mental health problems.” – BBC
  
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• The Movie ‘Poor Things’ Wins At Venice

  11-09-2023 15:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  Emma Stone is Frankenstein’s monster, but a feminist one. – Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• What’s Scarier, Doing A One-Woman Show Or Riding A Coney Island Roller Coaster?

  11-09-2023 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Ask actor Rachel Brown (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), who’s performing in a show about existential dread for work, and riding for fun. – The New York Times
  
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• Did Yeats Ever Say The Quote Engraved On Dublin Marathon Finishers’ Medal?

  11-09-2023 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  Twenty thousand finishers of the marathon are set to receive a medal reading, “There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet.” – LitHub
  
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• What We Look Like When We Look At Art

  11-09-2023 14:15 via orartswatch.org
  
  It’s not all selfies: “People are still engaging, if only for a moment, with what’s hung on the wall or placed in courtyards and parks.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• What Hollywood Folks Are Doing To Make Ends Meet

  11-09-2023 14:00 via npr.org
  
  Hand-cutting 3D-printed houses for snow globes, giving Hebrew lessons, living with their parents … and walking their unions’ picket lines. – NPR
  
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• Drew Barrymore’s Show Is Going Ahead Without Guild Writers

  11-09-2023 13:45 via vulture.com
  
  She writes, “I want to be there to provide what writers do so well, which is a way to bring us together or help us make sense of the human experience.” What that has to do with writers and actors on strike, no one knows (but the writers are picketing). – Vulture
  
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• Is Google Search Now Just Sneaky, Janky Ad-Filled Spyware?

  11-09-2023 13:30 via wired.com
  
  Possibly! The trial starts Tuesday. – Wired
  
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• The Artist Using Coloring Books To Push Back On How We Understand Punishment

  11-09-2023 13:15 via latimes.com
  
  Sable Elyse Smith:”The system itself is insistent. The fact [is] that these things persist and keep developing and repeating themselves, kind of replicating the next generation.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Balanchine Thought His Ballets Would Dissipate Quickly

  11-09-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Instead, “they have become classics, cornerstones of the international repertory, … danced everywhere by all the major ballet companies and most of the minor ones, too.” – The New York Times
  
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• New horizons: music, art, books and more to get out of a rut

  11-09-2023 11:00
  
  From hit novels by late bloomers to artists turned chess masters, our critics select culture that revels in reinventionFor a band who have experienced their fair share of internal hard times, US pop-rock titans Paramore have always found ways to bounce back. Although their permanent lineup hadn’t quite solidified on 2013’s self-titled album, it was chockful of songs that nodded to the restless need for change, with Moving On, Grow Up and Future all noting the urge to strive forwards
  
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• A new start after 60: My job threatened to make me ill – so I moved out of London and started a magazine

  11-09-2023 08:00
  
  Mich Maroney, 61, moved to West Cork and launched Swerve, a literary and arts magazine, in 2022. Now her cottage in Skibbereen has become a creative hubMich Maroney has always known what she wanted. As a little girl, she loved painting and told her family she was going to be an artist. “I was so young that I didn’t even know what it meant,” she says. “But my dad had this huge book on art and suddenly I knew, yes, this is what I’m going to do.”Maroney, 61, was
  
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• “Shosakovich in South Dakota” P. S.

  11-09-2023 05:12 via artsjournal.com
  
  I cannot resist this postscript to my 7,000-word manifesto, in the current American Scholar, about the South Dakota Symphony.
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