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• A Major Ancient Cave Art Discovery

  15-09-2023 23:31 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “Once we began the proper systematic survey, we realized we were facing a major cave art site, like the ones that can be found elsewhere in Cantabrian Spain, southern France or Andalusia, but that totally lack in this territory.” – Smithsonian
  
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• Report: Majority Of US Museum Workers Want To Quit

  15-09-2023 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month. The top reasons? Burnout and low pay. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Another US Regional Theater Company Drops The Traditional Directorship Model

  15-09-2023 22:32 via msn.com
  “Crowded Fire is taking what might be its boldest step yet by dissolving its traditional hierarchical management in favor of a seven-person shared model where all have ‘leader’ in their titles. Mina Morita, (outgoing) artistic director, … was adamant about building a more sustainable workplace for her team.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• No More History Musicals From Lin-Manuel Miranda

  15-09-2023 22:01 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  “I’ll give you a scoop: I don’t think I’m writing another history musical ever f – – – – – g again. You think I can top this?” said Miranda, visiting to promote the return of his worldwide smash and the aforementioned untoppable “Hamilton.” – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• A Call For Public Radio To Step Up Their News Operations

  15-09-2023 21:32 via insideradio.com
  The paper, which has been endorsed more than 120 leaders across public media, calls for “bold investment” by local organizations to expand their newsrooms in order to build them into “anchor institutions” that connect a diverse array of news providers and hyper-local creators. – InsideRadio
  
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• “Disaster Was My God” — The Short, Wild, Obnoxious Life Of Arthur Rimbaud

  15-09-2023 20:55 via theneweuropean.co.uk
  “One hundred and fifty years ago this week, holed up at his family’s farm in the Ardennes, 19-year-old Arthur Rimbaud … had reached the end of a wildly chaotic four years of dangerous excess that also encompassed one of the greatest, shortest and most precocious literary careers in history.” – The New European
  
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• Hollywood Stars Working On System To Manage AI Versions Of Themselves

  15-09-2023 20:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Metaphysic claims that this system could effectively help actors to use generative artificial intelligence algorithms to create their own face, voice and performance data over time, as well as help “manage” how it is used by third parties, including consent, compensation and the thorny issue of copyright. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Julie Kent, Houston Ballet Co-Director, On Beauty In Dance

  15-09-2023 20:05 via papercitymag.com
  “(It’s) the artist’s willingness to be completely vulnerable on a stage. … Tutus and tiaras — that’s a very, very dated and small idea of what ballet is. Beauty in ballet is that willingness to share for the sole purpose of making somebody feel something that they’ve never felt before.” – PaperCity (Texas)
  
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• Placemaking? – Is That A Typo?

  15-09-2023 19:27 via dezeen.com
  
  I have a confession to make: I have no idea what “placemaking” is. The more I hear the word, the less I understand it. What is placemaking? The word, for one, does not feature in any English dictionary and, until recently, was underlined by Microsoft Word as a spelling mistake. – Dezeen
  
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• Sculptor Fernando Botero, 91

  15-09-2023 18:58 via artnews.com
  
  Botero’s paintings of Colombian governmental officials and clergy are now known the world over. He said that when he first started making them, in the 1950s, there wasn’t much other art like it in his home country, where European modernist painting was not widely seen at the time. – ARTnews
  
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• Fernando Botero obituary

  15-09-2023 18:53
  
  Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over, including Paris, Madrid and LondonThe rotund, colourful men and women painted and sculpted by Fernando Botero, who has died aged 91, made him perhaps the most popular Latin American artist of his generation and also one of the most commercially successful.For years, art critics looked down on what the Colombian himself called his “fat people”, dismissing them as a trademark gimmick. But museu
  
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• Jann Wenner Defends The Rock Generation

  15-09-2023 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  As befits a man who has been held up as an avatar of his generation’s achievements and failings, Wenner has left behind a complex legacy. But it’s one that he’s happy to defend. – The New York Times
  
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• The “Severe” Financial Crisis At Sacramento’s Public Radio Stations Isn’t Just About Listenership And Donations

  15-09-2023 18:06 via msn.com
  “CapRadio’s problems are much deeper than a shifting media landscape, former employees and current management say: three costly construction projects combined with falling revenue have pushed the nonprofit media organization to the financial brink.” – MSN (The Sacramento Bee)
  
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• For Years Saudi Arabia Waged War On Video Games. Now They Want To Be A Center Of Them

  15-09-2023 17:31 via wsj.com
  
  For years, this kingdom’s Islamic clerics waged a war on videogames, banning popular titles such as “Pokémon” for promoting blasphemy, violence and laziness. Now, Saudi Arabia is pouring $40 billion into a bid to become a world leader in a videogame industry beloved by its booming youth population. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Kazuo Ishiguro’s Next Book Will Be A Bunch of Song Lyrics

  15-09-2023 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent will be published on 7 March 2024 by Faber, featuring 16 sets of lyrics alongside specially commissioned illustrations by Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli and an introduction by Ishiguro.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘I just can’t throw anything away’: Madelon Vriesendorp on turning plastic junk into art

  15-09-2023 17:03
  
  The Dutch artist’s new show at London’s Cosmic House showcases her compulsive knack of transforming trash into magical creations and her creative partnership with the house’s late resident Charles Jencks“I just can’t throw anything away,” says Madelon Vriesendorp. “I would feel so guilty chucking out all this beautiful milky plastic.” The Dutch artist is standing near a row of plastic milk bottles that, during the pandemic lockdowns, she sliced, sp
  
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• ‘Everyone has a story about Hotel Hollywood’: art show invites Sydney upstairs at iconic pub

  15-09-2023 17:00
  
  The beloved art deco pub in Surry Hills has opened the untouched apartment above to showcase work from more than 100 artists – and offer a rare glimpse into old SydneyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn the corner of Foster Street, Sydney – between the boutique hotels, “contemporary office spaces” in converted warehouses, the assisted living facility and the fancy cocktail bars – sits the Hotel Hollywood. “Everyone has a story about the Hollywood,&rd
  
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• Watercolour slamdown, changing Chanel and Ofili’s Grenfell mural – the week in art

  15-09-2023 16:51
  
  Turner and Bonington duke it out, a fashion icon gets a major show and Chris Ofili tackles the burning tower with swirling emotion – all in your weekly dispatchTurner and Bonington
  Two great artists of the Romantic age go head-to-head in this comparison of their intense watercolour landscapes.
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• David Adjaye’s London Office Will Reportedly Lay Off Half Its Staff; Former Employees Describe Poisonous Work Culture

  15-09-2023 16:32 via architectsjournal.co.uk
  
  “Allegations of sexual misconduct against David Adjaye … sent shockwaves through the profession and led clients to cancel a string of projects. Now, his practice is making redundancies while former employees allege that a toxic culture permeated what was once one of the world’s most revered architecture studios.” – Architects’ Journal
  
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• Ireland Slaps TikTok With $367 Million Fine

  15-09-2023 16:05 via variety.com
  
  “TikTok has been fined €345 million — about $367 million — by (Ireland’s Data Protection Commission), which ruled the app violated the EU’s data-privacy laws with respect to processing information on children users.” – Variety
  
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• Three Works By Egon Schiele Seized By Manhattan D.A. From Out-Of-State Museums

  15-09-2023 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  “The artworks were all previously owned by Fritz Grünbaum, a cabaret performer and songwriter who died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941. (They were) seized Wednesday from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio.” – AP
  
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• Joe Lycett and mum Helen stage joint exhibition Lycett and Mummy

  15-09-2023 15:17
  
  Presenter Joe Lycett and retired graphic designer Helen Lycett will show their work in London with proceeds to go to charityTake a comedian and his somewhat unwilling parent, send them on a roadtrip, throw the pair in amusing situations, and you have a winning TV format. Unless you are Joe Lycett.Lycett and his mum, Helen Lycett, decided against a sheep-herding, cheerleading-filled travel documentary series, and announced instead their second collaborative exhibition, aptly named Lycett and Mumm
  
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• Joe Lycett and mum Helen stage joint art exhibition Lycett and Mummy

  15-09-2023 15:17
  
  Presenter Joe Lycett and retired graphic designer Helen Lycett will show their work in London with proceeds to go to charityTake a comedian and his somewhat unwilling parent, send them on a roadtrip, throw the pair in amusing situations, and you have a winning TV format. Unless you are Joe Lycett.Lycett and his mum, Helen Lycett, decided against a sheep-herding, cheerleading-filled travel documentary series, and announced instead their second collaborative exhibition, aptly named Lycett and Mumm
  
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• “A Breathtaking $500 Million Gamble”: The New Perelman Performing Arts Center At Ground Zero

  15-09-2023 15:03 via msn.com
  “A lot of what drove the programming decisions was where there was that emotional hook,” said artistic director Bill Rauch. “What does it mean to do X, Y or Z at the World Trade Center? You walk by that North Memorial Pool on your way in and out. It’s right there.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• In “Precipitous” Move, Spoleto Festival USA Replaces Music Director

  15-09-2023 14:36 via postandcourier.com
  Mena Mark Hanna, who became the festival’s general director in 2021, has replaced longtime chief conductor John Kennedy with a new music director, Timothy Myers of Austin Opera. Kennedy said the decision “was no surprise,” but the absence of a “caring, respectful transition plan” was disappointing. – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Why Were Two Medieval Stained-Glass Panels From Notre-Dame Auctioned Off At Sotheby’s?

  15-09-2023 14:00 via msn.com
  That’s what French authorities are investigating. The two medallions were taken from the Paris cathedral during its last renovation, in 1862, and were sold to an unnamed buyer in 2015, 153 years later. The auction house says it did nothing illegal or improper. – MSN (AFP)
  
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• Nicolas de Staël exhibition aims to put art back at centre of tragic artist’s story

  15-09-2023 12:07
  
  Works by painter, whose turbulent life often overshadowed his short career,go on display in ParisThe life of the Russian-born French artist Nicolas de Staël was short, turbulent and ultimately tragic.Forced into exile by the 1917 revolution, orphaned, a loner who was hopelessly romantic but unlucky in love, De Staël died at the age of 41 after he threw himself out of the window of his Côte d’Azur atelier after the woman with whom he was obsessed rejected him. Continue readi
  
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• Director of Development – United Arts of Central Florida

  15-09-2023 05:28 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityUnited Arts of Central Florida, the leading resource for arts and culture in Central Florida, seeks an energetic, goal-driven fundraising professional to lead a well-supported and highly successful development team as the agency’s new Director of Development. This is a wonderful opportunity for a seasoned development professional who is eager to support the community’s broader arts and culture ecosystem by ensuring the institutional sustainability and effectivene
  
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• Museum of Modern Art Raises Admission Price To $30

  15-09-2023 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  For nearly a dozen years, the adult ticket has been $25. But the museum has since dramatically expanded its footprint in Midtown Manhattan, adding 47,000 square feet of gallery space in 2019 at a cost of $450 million. – The New York Times
  
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