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• Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Perform “Under Protest” Without A Contract

  20-09-2023 23:28 via inquirer.com
  
  They took a jab at CEO Matias Tarnopolsky, claiming his pay went up by 111% from 2019 to 2022, at the same time they said the musicians took $4.6 million in pay cuts to help the ensemble. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Musicians’ Contract Expired A Year Ago. What’s Happening?

  20-09-2023 23:01 via sfcv.org
  Negotiations began over a year ago, going into formal sessions on Sept. 15, 2022, ahead of the contract’s expiration, with the Musicians Union Local 6 representing the SFS players. But to date, there is nothing known to have been settled, except for health care provisions. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Key To The Metropolitan Opera’s Future: Contemporary Work

  20-09-2023 22:28 via apnews.com
  
  Aiming to rebuild its audience from post-pandemic lows by attracting younger and more diverse ticket-buyers, the company is devoting fully one-third of 18 staged productions to contemporary works. – AP
  
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• The UK Film Industry Has Been Thriving

  20-09-2023 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  According to the British Film Institute (BFI), spending on such productions reached a record £6.27bn last year, with most of that money coming from overseas. – BBC
  
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• New York’s Live Performance Industry Convenes Its First Meeting

  20-09-2023 21:28 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Mayor Eric Adams convened the inaugural meeting of the first-ever Live Performance Industry Council, which features a mix of leaders representing the theater, music and dance industries from the city’s arenas, cultural institutions, unions, nonprofit sector and city government. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Gloria Steinem Remembers The Debut Issue Of Ms. Magazine

  20-09-2023 21:04 via lithub.com
  
  “I didn’t know what the response would be, especially on newsstands, with no precedent or place for a women’s magazine that wasn’t about home, family, and children. The response was shocking. (The first issue) sold out in eight days. Soon, bags of mail began arriving in our offices.” – Literary Hub
  
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• The Highly Unusual Dance Career Of Choreographer Trajal Harrell

  20-09-2023 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “This late starter — he turned to dance after graduating from Yale in the 1990s — has never taken formal classes in the techniques that have most influenced him, which include vogueing and Japanese Butoh. Instead, he observed them from the outside, and took from their ‘theoretical underpinnings,’ he said.” – The New York Times
  
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• How To End Doom Scrolling (It’s A Design Issue)

  20-09-2023 19:29 via wired.com
  
  Like the perspectival evolution that occurred when frescoes affixed to walls gave way to portable paintings, shrinking the screen down to the size of a smartphone altered the content coming through it and our sense of free movement within it. – Wired
  
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• John Bradbury obituary

  20-09-2023 19:18
  
  My former husband John Bradbury, known as Brad, who has died aged 75, was a talented sculptor and artist. He specialised in stone carving and architectural ornament and worked from 1978 to 1980 on Westminster Abbey, including sculpting a life-sized figure of William Caxton in stone.He also produced distinctive work in pastels, acrylic and watercolours, and in later life developed a new and contemporary style of sculpture. Continue reading...
  
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• Double-Barrelled: From Rainbows to Gunboats

  20-09-2023 19:14 via artsjournal.com
  On Sept. 11, 2023, from a perch above the
  
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• TikTok Stars Are The New Saviors Of The Cookbook Industry

  20-09-2023 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Several TikTok creators, many of them with little or no professional cooking experience, have gone from tinkering in their home kitchens to topping best-seller lists in a remarkably short time. In the process, they’ve shot a jolt of energy into a sagging cookbook market.” – The New York Times
  
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• Minnesota Dance Theatre Director Steps Down After 30 Years

  20-09-2023 18:31 via startribune.com
  
  After nearly 30 years as artistic director of Minnesota Dance Theatre, Lise Houlton is passing the reins. And it will be kept in the family. – The Star-Tribune (Mpls)
  
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• City Of San Francisco Appoints Its First-Ever Drag Laureate

  20-09-2023 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “D’Arcy Drollinger …, who was initially caught off guard by the nomination, has found herself at the forefront of a long-brewing culture war. With anti-trans legislation spreading across the US and bills banning drag performance being passed in various states, her first months in the role have been a whirlwind.” – The Guardian
  
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• What Shocking Sudden Losses By One Of The Art World’s High End Dealers Says About The Art Market

  20-09-2023 17:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  These are unusual blows to one of the largest and most smoothly run art businesses in the world, and they have incited plenty of trade gossip. But more interesting are the insights they offer into the high costs and higher stakes of competing at the top of the private art market. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• An Exhibition Curated By ChatGPT Is Reviewed By ChatGPT

  20-09-2023 17:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  “In an unprecedented fusion of technology and art, … this ambitious undertaking harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to curate an immersive journey through the digital realm. While not without its challenges, the exhibit offers a unique and thought-provoking experience that pushes the boundaries of traditional curation.” – Artnet
  
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• The Italian Opera House With Two Rival Superintendents

  20-09-2023 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “The drama currently playing out at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples … has all the elements of high drama — conflict, tension, perhaps even vendetta — and is playing out like a farce, or, in the words of some Italian news outlets, ‘un pasticcio‘: a mess.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hilary Mantel’s “Final Book” To Be Published Next Month

  20-09-2023 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing will feature four decades of Mantel’s work across a range of subjects, from her health struggles as a young woman and her time living in Saudi Arabia to the themes that fed into novels, including revolutionary France and Tudor England.” – The Guardian
  
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• Second City Will Open Its New York Outpost This November

  20-09-2023 15:31 via msn.com
  “The improvisational comedy enterprise … will house its new nearly 12,000 square-foot entertainment complex in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Set to open on Nov. 16, the venue will feature two cabaret-style live theaters, seven Training Center classrooms, and a full-service restaurant and bar.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Disney Co. To Pour $60 Billion Into Its Theme Parks And Cruise Line

  20-09-2023 15:06 via reuters.com
  
  “(The conglomerate) says it has more than 1,000 acres of land for future development at its six existing theme park sites around the world. It … also plans to nearly double the capacity of its cruise line, adding two ships in fiscal 2025 and another in 2026.” – Reuters
  
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• Lisetta Carmi: Identities review – radical photography reveals Italy’s outsiders

  20-09-2023 15:00
  
  Estorick Collection, London
  Carmi’s 1960s photos of marginalised people, from sex workers to stevedores, have a piercing humanityShe was an accomplished concert pianist who later became a devoted yogi, but Lisetta Carmi is best known for the 18 years she spent taking photographs. Her carefully observed, quietly sensational pictures had a subtle power to them: they reckoned with Italy’s traditional, patriarchal society.Carmi’s piercing humanism is the focus of this concise, luci
  
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• Roger Whittaker, “Wandering Minstrel” Pop Star Of The 1970s And ’80s, Is Dead At 87

  20-09-2023 14:33 via msn.com
  “(He) sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide, becoming a staple of easy-listening charts while cultivating a sunny and often sentimental folk-pop sound. Although he was considered a one-hit wonder (‘The Last Farewell’) in the United States, he had a devoted fan base across Europe.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Takashi Murakami on failed NFTs and making art during Covid: ‘I got deep into crypto’

  20-09-2023 14:00
  
  The Japanese artist’s solo exhibition in San Francisco spans three decades of his work, including his tryst with flopped NFTsIn a new solo exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami presents Unfamiliar People, a new series of cartoonish DayGlo portraits with crazed kaleidoscopic eyes, fangs and balloon-like heads. Completed in 2022, they symbolize how prolonged exposure to social media’s “relentless feedback loop of attention&rdquo
  
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• Remember That Artist Whose Piece Was Literally “Take The Money And Run”? The Court Rules He Has To Give The Money Back

  20-09-2023 14:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Jens Haaning sometimes incorporates actual currency in his works, and in 2021 a Danish museum gave him the equivalent of about $76,000 to recreate two of those pieces. Instead, he kept the cash and turned in two blank canvases titled Take the Money and Run. The judge is not amused. – Hyperallergic
  
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• London church unveils artwork to commemorate African-born abolitionist

  20-09-2023 13:56
  
  Che Lovelace paintings in St James’s church are first permanent art commission to honour Quobna Ottobah CugoanoA permanent artwork to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, one of Britain’s most important abolitionists, has been unveiled at a church in central London.The paintings by the Trinidad-based artist Che Lovelace, displayed at St James’s church, Piccadilly, are the first permanent art commission to commemorate Cugoano, a significant
  
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• London church unveils artwork of African-born abolitionist

  20-09-2023 13:56
  
  Che Lovelace paintings in St James’s church are first permanent art commission to honour Quobna Ottobah CugoanoA permanent artwork to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, one of Britain’s most important abolitionists, has been unveiled at a church in central London.The paintings by the Trinidad-based artist Che Lovelace are the first permanent art commission to commemorate Cugoano, a significant but largely forgotten figure in the history of Bla
  
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• Marina Abramović has broken a 255-year-old glass ceiling. Why did it take so long?

  20-09-2023 12:45
  
  The Serbian performance artist is the first woman to have a solo show in the Royal Academy’s main galleries – a telling indictment of the hurdles faced by female artists todayAt the Royal Academy, from Saturday until New Year’s Day, the artist Marina Abramović will be present. Or rather, her work will be, as part of a retrospective taking in her half-century career. Abramović is a worthy subject for a major solo show at such a prestigious institution. Through the like
  
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• Study: Australians Have Slowed Down Their Consumption Of Arts Events

  20-09-2023 09:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  Among them, this year’s survey finds that while the same proportion of Australians attended events and festivals as in 2019 and 2022, they are now attending less frequently. Weekly attendance has dropped across all art forms, with Australians choosing only to attend every few months. – ArtsHub
  
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• Subscription and Group Sales Manager

  20-09-2023 04:18 via artsjournal.com
  Harvard University05-Sep-2023
  Subscription and Group Sales Manager
  American Repertory Theater
  63711BRJob SummaryThe American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University is a leading force in the American theater, producing groundbreaking work that is driven by risk-taking and passionate inquiry. The Marketing and Communications department is responsible for building brand awareness and driving attendance to performances and other programming, generating more than $5.5+ million in annual ear
  
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• The Enduring Power Of Fairies

  20-09-2023 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  The Flower Fairies’ influence has endured: they continue to be popular around the world – big in Japan and in Italy, where Gucci released a children’s range featuring Barker’s prints in 2022. Billie Eilish recently had Flower Fairies tattooed on her hand, while their whimsical, floral aesthetic can be seen in the TikTok “fairycore” trend. – BBC
  
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