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• A German Town Creating An Artwork That Won’t Be Finished

  14-09-2023 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Wemding’s citizens are assembling at a rate of one six-by-four-foot block every decade. There are 116 more to add before the “Time Pyramid” will be complete, when it will stand 24 feet tall. That won’t be until 3183 A.D. – The New York Times
  
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• The Art Inspired By The Webb Telescope

  14-09-2023 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  “We designed the telescope to wow the scientists,” Mike Menzel agreed. Now, he said, “We’re here in an art show, watching some images that we helped produce becoming things that are almost iconic.” – The New Yorker
  
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• The Dangers Of Storytelling As A Learning Device

  14-09-2023 22:01 via ian-leslie.com
  
  Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories which gain attention and make ‘impact’. But anyone in the business of reporting on reality – scholars, scientists, journalists – ought to be suspicious of narrative, even if they use it. – Ian Leslie
  
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• Managing Director & Principal Operations Officer- Guthrie Theater

  14-09-2023 21:43 via artsjournal.com
  Guthrie Theater invites applications for The Managing Director & Principal Operations Officer, the highest administrative and operations officer of the organization. As described, this position is the second most senior leader within the organization after the Artistic Director (who serves also as the Principal Executive Officer). Guthrie Theater has engaged Management Consultants for the Arts to facilitate this important search, and a full position description may be found here: https:
  
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• George Benjamin On The Art Of Writing Opera

  14-09-2023 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Every note, every rhythm, every dynamic, every timbre, every expression, every slur: you must imagine it all to perfection in your inner ear. That is the job of a composer.” – The Guardian
  
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• Revisiting The Birth Of Drag As America Knows It Today

  14-09-2023 21:05 via curbed.com
  
  Queer historian Hugh Ryan describes the scene in Manhattan’s then-cheap East Village, which started in the early 1980s as scrappy do-it-yourself performance art, was almost wiped out by AIDS, and was reborn in the ’90s as persona-driven comedy and cabaret — all in dingy rock-n-roll dives. – Curbed
  
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• John Baldessari Estate Embroiled In Lawsuits

  14-09-2023 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  In one, the estate accused its former gallery and an insurance company of having damaged artworks, some beyond repair. In the other, the estate was sued by a production company who claimed that a tense back-and-forth with Baldessari’s descendants ultimately led to the cancelation of a Gagosian gallery show. – ARTnews
  
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• The Scrappy Independent Publisher That Established English As A Language Of Indian Literature

  14-09-2023 20:04 via lithub.com
  
  In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali) founded the publisher still known as Writers Workshop, dedicated to Indian writing in English, which gave a start to many authors now famous worldwide. – Literary Hub
  
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• Badge Of Honor: Eight Writers Talk About What It Feels Like To Have Their Books Banned

  14-09-2023 19:32 via harpersbazaar.com
  
  “I find talking about the ridiculousness of the bans sometimes brings laughter, in the ways our people have learned to laugh to keep from crying. We do what we need to do: we resist, we inform, we amplify, we write.” – Harper’s Bazaar
  
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• Inigo Philbrick’s Former Partner-In-Crime Reveals The Tricks They Used To Defraud Art Collectors

  14-09-2023 19:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Art dealer Robert Newland, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a massive fraud scheme with imprisoned dealer Inigo Philbrick, has just filed bombshell new documents in a U.S. District Court ahead of his sentencing in New York next week.” – Artnet
  
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• How Pacific Northwest Ballet Became One Of The Most Diverse Ballet Companies In America

  14-09-2023 18:32 via crosscut.com
  
  While Boal emphasizes that changes at PNB go beyond numbers, the numbers do reflect the company’s cultural shift. PNB’s current roster of 45 dancers (expanding to 47 in November) is now more than 50% Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). – Crosscut
  
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• Belarus Free Theater Sets Up Shop In Warsaw To Help Out New Exiles

  14-09-2023 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  The company’s co-founders fled the Lukashenko regime in 2011, settling in London and leading clandestine rehearsals in Minsk via Skype. Now that the rest of the company has left Belarus, they’re working out of Poland’s national opera house with other exiled Belarusian and Ukrainian artists. – The New York Times
  
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• The Cable TV Bundle Is Falling Apart. Long Live The New Bundle!

  14-09-2023 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Already, many cord-cutters are piecing together their own bundle, subscribing to a mix of services including Netflix, Max and Hulu. The deal between Disney and Charter has made it clear that cable providers — which often provide broadband internet service — are eager to put together streaming bundles for them. – The New York Times
  
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• Argentine Police Make “Historic Seizure” Of Nazi Propaganda And Shutter Local Publisher

  14-09-2023 17:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Argentina’s Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during Tuesday’s raids in the town of San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires.” – AP
  
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• Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Next Artistic Director Is, For A Change, From New Zealand

  14-09-2023 16:31 via stuff.co.nz
  
  After 11 years under three successive leaders from overseas — Ethan Stiefel, Francesco Ventriglia, and Patricia Barker — and a certain amount of discord under the last two, the company has appointed Ty King-Wall, a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who was, for a decade, a principal at the Australian Ballet. – Stuff (New Zealand)
  
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• Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse

  14-09-2023 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm wants an arena and conference centre being built next door to be called the Sage in a £10m naming rights deal.” – The Guardian
  
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• Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election

  14-09-2023 15:34 via cnn.com
  
  “New York City’s pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the Fox News parent company failed shareholders by allowing the right-wing channel to recklessly spread lies about the 2020 election that opened it up to … defamation cases.” – CNN
  
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• Meet poet, hip-hop artist, actor and teaching artist Emmett Phillips

  14-09-2023 15:14 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Emmett Phillips is a hip-hop artist,  actor, poet, and teaching artist based in Des Moines, Iowa. In this podcast, Emmett shares his journey from his early days in hip-hop through his time in the military to becoming a teaching artist who empowers youth through the arts, specifically hip-hop. Emmett discusses hip-hop as a cultural movement that uplifts people, amplifies the voices of the oppressed, and expresses ideas and values with creativity and style. He talks about his personal growth
  
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• 2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré

  14-09-2023 15:02 via finestresullarte.info
  
  The five recipients of the Japan Art Association’s 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, sculptor Olafur Eliasson, painter Vija Celmins, stage director Robert Wilson, and architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of last year’s Pritzker Prize. – Finestre sull’Arte
  
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• The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To Alexandre Kantorow

  14-09-2023 14:36 via nytimes.com
  
  The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can’t be applied for, and candidates don’t know they’re being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious company: among previous winners are Igor Levit, Kirill Gerstein, Piotr Anderszewski, and Leif Ove Andsnes. – The New York Times
  
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• Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement

  14-09-2023 14:00 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The company’s fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud will conclude his somewhat controversial tenure at the end of this season, two years before the expiration of his contract. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Mahsa Amini and a year of brutality and courage in Iran – in illustrations

  14-09-2023 11:00
  
  This weekend marks the first anniversary of the death in custody of the 22-year-old, who was detained allegedly for not wearing a headscarf properly. Her killing led to the largest wave of popular unrest for years in Iran. Roshi Rouzbehani, an Iranian illustrator, tells the story in a series of powerful images Continue reading...
  
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• New York Youth Symphony seeks Executive Director

  14-09-2023 03:11 via artsjournal.com
  The New York Youth Symphony welcomes nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director, available in the Fall of 2023.New York Youth Symphony
  http://www.nyys.orgFounded in 1963, the Grammy Award winning New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) is nationally recognized for its Orchestra, Jazz Band, Chamber Music, Composition, First Music, Musical Theater Songwriting, and Apprentice Conducting programs, all of which provide opportunities for talented young musicians to develop their full m
  
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• Chief Executive Officer-Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey

  14-09-2023 03:06 via artsjournal.com
  Photo by Mike StrongKansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey (KCFAA) invites applications from strong leaders to serve as their next Chief Executive Officer. The CEO reports directly to the Board of Directors through the Chair. The key elements of responsibilities include the following:
  Fully embrace KCFAA’s three-part mission as a presenter, educator, and unifier.Develop and maintain a strong collaborative relationship with the Chief Artistic Officer – working with them to develop a broa
  
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• Arts Leadership Shakeups In Portland, Oregon

  14-09-2023 00:01 via orartswatch.org
  
  The opera, symphony and several other organizations have new leadership. It’s a changing of the guard familiar now in many American communities. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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