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• State Of The Publishing Industry

  26-09-2023 23:28 via publishersweekly.com
  
  In addition to rising costs, topics discussed at the daylong conference included the renewed postpandemic threat of work moving off-shore, sustainability concerns, the shift from offset to digital printing, and labor shortages. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Portland’s Artist Repertory Theatre Pauses – Audiences Down 20-50 Percent

  26-09-2023 23:01 via opb.org
  
  “So when people attend, they engage, they connect and then they give. So when the audience isn’t coming back, isn’t seeing the shows, then they’re not as motivated or connected to make that additional donation.” – Oregon Public Broadcasting
  
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• Group Files Suit To Stop Construction Of New Memphis Art Museum

  26-09-2023 22:32 via commercialappeal.com
  
  That piece of land is referred to as “the promenade.” According to the descendants of Memphis founders, who are referred to as the “heirs” in legal documents, the city should not be building on the property since it belongs to the citizens. – Memphis Commercial Appeal
  
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• Semyon Bychkov On Authenticity In Music

  26-09-2023 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  “I think the greatest challenge for us as interpreters today is to find authenticity of spirit in the music we interpret, and that’s a cultural thing. There are two ways to do it. One is as a tourist and the other one is a native. – BachTrack
  
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• Poof! Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Folds. But Why?

  26-09-2023 21:31 via therecord.com
  
  “Before the pandemic, we had 8,000 subscribers. As of today, we have 2,000 subscribers. That’s a huge difference.” – Waterloo Record
  
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• Pole Dancing Is Catching On Even in Egypt

  26-09-2023 21:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “In many Western countries, pole dance classes achieved mainstream popularity years ago. Egypt’s pole-dancing culture has been slower to grow — partly due to the country’s conservative society. … Though social media has helped Egyptian pole dancers tackle taboos, misunderstandings persist.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Survey: Australian Arts Participation Study Released

  26-09-2023 20:33 via limelightmagazine.com.au
  
  Many of the results show consistency with the last survey in 2019: 97% of Australians engage with the arts, 84% acknowledge positive impacts of arts and creativity, 73% believe that First Nations arts and culture are an important part of Australia’s culture and 61% agree culture and creativity should receive public funding. – Limelight
  
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• This Baritone Was Singing The Role Of God. He Had A Heart Attack And Died Onstage.

  26-09-2023 20:06 via classical-music.uk
  
  At the Ambronay Festival in France, Alejandro Meerapfel, a 54-year-old Argentine, was performing in an oratorio called Il Dono della vita eterna (The Gift of Eternal Life). The concert was being telecast live on France TV’s Culturebox. (And that’s not the strangest part of all this.) –Classical Music (UK)
  
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• A Crisis At UK Universities

  26-09-2023 19:28 via wsj.com
  
  While U.S. universities charge ever higher tuition in an arms race for the best facilities and research, leading to a soaring student debt crisis, U.K. universities have the opposite problem. They aren’t able to charge enough. They are cutting back on everything from research to teacher salaries to dorm rooms. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Writing Is At A Devastating Crossroads

  26-09-2023 19:04 via salon.com
  
  Writers have to ask themselves if they’re “willing to sell their creative souls for the convenience of a hand clap … to take the easy-lazy path that requires no deep investigation, no deep learning, where you drive up, place your order, and pick up a short story to go.” – Salon
  
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• Showing support for young asylum seekers | Letters

  26-09-2023 18:39
  
  Readers on the colouring book that cartoonists created for refugeesI was heartened to read Harriet Sherwood’s article on the production of a colouring book by the Professional Cartoonists Organisation (Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government, 22 September). This is a counter to the mean-spirited actions of Robert Jenrick, who had a mural of cartoon characters at a migrants’ reception centre painted over as he considered it too welcoming for children.
  
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• A Plan To Reconstruct San Francisco’s Davies Hall

  26-09-2023 18:33 via sfcv.org
  “A plan is being formulated to reconstruct Davies and some of its environment (such as the large outdoor parking lot on Franklin Street), including reducing the number of seats to 2,100 and adding new facilities to venue, as if the three Zellerbach Rehearsal Halls in the building were not enough.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Elect Us And We Will More Than Triple Arts Funding, Canada’s Liberal Party Tells One Province’s Voters

  26-09-2023 18:02 via cbc.ca
  
  “The Manitoba Arts Council would receive $20 million in funding annually — up from $6 million a year — if the Liberals are elected on Oct. 3, (provincial party leader Douglas Lamont) said.” – CBC
  
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• An AI Finished My Story. The Story Went Viral. It Was Really Good. Does It Matter?

  26-09-2023 17:33 via wired.com
  
  When the essay, called “Ghosts,” came out in The Believer in the summer of 2021, it quickly went viral. I started hearing from others who had lost loved ones and felt that the piece captured grief better than anything they’d ever read. – Wired
  
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• Five Brief Stanzas from a Scottish-born Poet

  26-09-2023 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  <img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/belknap/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Drawing-by-Malcolm-Ritchie-2018border-360x528enh-150×150-1.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Drawing by Malcolm Ritchie
  
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• ‘You only spent 10 minutes looking at my paintings?’ Superstar artist (and terrifying interviewee) Julian Schnabel

  26-09-2023 17:31
  
  As the irascible New Yorker unveils his new velvet paintings, he talks about global disasters, sending Trump a resignation speech via Ivanka – and teaching Johnny Depp how to paintJulian Schnabel is agitated. The artist and director has just walked into his new exhibition at the Pace gallery in Manhattan and is fixated on the folding table I’m standing behind. “What’s that?” he asks the PR person. “It’s … a table,” she replies. “I thou
  
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• ‘I taught Johnny Depp how to paint!’ Superstar artist Julian Schnabel on his new works – and most famous pupil

  26-09-2023 17:31
  
  As the irascible New Yorker unveils his new velvet paintings, he talks about global disasters, sending Trump a resignation speech via Ivanka – and why what happened to Depp was a tragedyJulian Schnabel is agitated. The artist and director has just walked into his new exhibition at the Pace gallery in Manhattan and is fixated on the folding table I’m standing behind. “What’s that?” he asks the PR person. “It’s … a table,” she replies. “
  
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• Sydney Opera House: 85,000 oyster shells tell of site’s true story in major public artwork

  26-09-2023 17:00
  
  Quandamooka artist Megan Cope oversaw the hand-polishing, threading and mounting of the shells in a collaborative work that recognises the recent and ancient history of Bennelong PointSome 85,000 oyster shells have been hand-polished, drilled, threaded and mounted to create three large-scale public works now open at the Sydney Opera House forecourts.Quandamooka artist Megan Cope’s new installation, titled Whispers, recognises the history of the Bennelong Point site – namely the plund
  
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• Libraries In Northern Ireland Are Now So Underfunded That They Can’t Buy Books

  26-09-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Libraries will also operate with reduced opening hours. The service said the funding situation is presenting ‘significant challenges’, and that the board’s decision to reduce operating hours was not taken lightly.” – The Guardian
  
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• Conductor John DeMain Announces Retirement From Madison Symphony Orchestra

  26-09-2023 16:35 via captimes.com
  
  “The 2025-26 season marks the Madison orchestra’s 100th anniversary. The symphony will conduct a search for a new leader, and DeMain intends to depart after that season” — his 32nd with the orchestra — “ends,” at which point he will be 82. – The Capital Times (Madison, Wis.)
  
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• SAG-AFTRA Members Vote To Authorize Another, Different Strike

  26-09-2023 16:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A motion by the actors’ union to authorize a strike against video game companies passed with 98% of votes cast. The previous Interactive Media Agreement, which covers members working on video games, expired last November; it included no provisions regarding AI. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Actors’ Equity Moves To Unionize Broadway Production Assistants

  26-09-2023 15:31 via deadline.com
  
  “Many PAs, the union (says), are early-career stage managers, and PAs ‘are among the only Broadway workers without current union representation.’ The new bargaining unit includes both current PAs working on about ten productions as well as about 100 who have worked on Broadway the last two years.” – Deadline
  
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• With A Week’s Warning To Students, The Last Remaining Campuses Of The Art Institutes Are Closing

  26-09-2023 15:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “The system had suffered from low enrollment since the coronavirus pandemic began. Previous challenges included a $95 million settlement after fraud allegations in 2015 and a loss of accreditation that led to the shuttering of nearly 20 other locations in 2018.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fire Destroys An Entire Building At Bösendorfer Piano Factory

  26-09-2023 14:34 via classicfm.com
  
  A large part of the archives of the historic company, which was founded in 1830, was destroyed in the blaze at the facility just outside Vienna. Firefighters were able to control the fire before it spread to the manufacturing floor. – Classic FM (UK)
  
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• Actor David McCallum, Star Of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” And “NCIS”, Is Dead At 90

  26-09-2023 14:02 via apnews.com
  
  As the mysterious secret agent Ilya Kuryakin on Man From U.N.C.L.E., the Scottish character actor became a major American TV star and teen heartthrob. 35 years later, he attracted a new generation of fans as medical examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS. – AP
  
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• After 33 Years, André Bishop Announces Retirement From Lincoln Center Theater

  26-09-2023 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Bishop, 74, said he is choosing to leave at the end of the 2024-25 season because that is when his current contract (as producing artistic director) ends, and because that will allow him to join in that season’s celebrations of Lincoln Center Theater’s 40th anniversary.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It’s like an excavation’: the powerful black paintings of Pierre Soulages

  26-09-2023 11:10
  
  The French artist’s game-changing use of paint is celebrated at an exhibition commemorating the first anniversary of his deathKnown for years as France’s greatest living artist, Pierre Soulages created pulsating black paintings that have been a mainstay of museums around the world. He is often grouped with abstract expressionism for his dedication to exploring the medium of paint itself and for the extraordinary textures on his canvases. The first anniversary of Soulages’s deat
  
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• Ren Faires vs Basements: How Risky Is Nonprofit Art When No One Dies If You Fail?

  26-09-2023 02:01 via artsjournal.com
  (Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay)
  I’ve had this completely wacky, unfounded theory of the production of art on a stage. It’s called, for lack of a better name, “Ren Faire vs Basement.”
  The theory goes that “Ren Faire” art (art presented at a Renaissance Faire, Fringe Festival, or by buskers, improv groups, and standups) uses approximately the same process during respective creations. The key is: they don’t finish. They never really finish the proce
  
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• Why Do Public Intellectuals So Often Talk Down To Their Audiences?

  26-09-2023 00:01 via yalereview.org
  
  If the academic humanities too often address only siloed experts, then pop philosophy too often addresses an audience of imagined idiots. – Yale Review
  
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