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• How French Museums Are Addressing The Mental Health Of Their Visitors

  06-10-2023 23:28 via lemonde.fr
  
  “The aim is not to cure, but to empower, outside of the medical framework.” When it comes to relieving depressive episodes, discouraging suicidal thoughts and supporting people with autism spectrum disorders, the art world does not claim to replace medicine but, more simply, to play its part. – Le Monde
  
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• Do Movie Awards Still Matter?

  06-10-2023 23:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Perhaps understandably, the heads of the two organizations who put on the biggest award shows in the film world have put up a solid defense about the value of the ceremonies and the awards themselves. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How Ratmansky Became Ratmansky

  06-10-2023 22:29 via wsj.com
  
  Prolific and astonishingly versatile, he has absorbed a wide range of Western styles, from the fleet-footedness of Balanchine to the physicality and casualness of contemporary dance. He has also revitalized some of the great 19th-century story ballets. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Conductor Jonathon Heyward’s Rising Star

  06-10-2023 22:01 via time.com
  
  Heyward, 31, is Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s first music director of color and the youngest current music director of any major U.S. orchestra. To that, he says, “Challenge accepted.” – Time
  
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• Michael Lewis At A Crossroads?

  06-10-2023 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he doesn’t control? – The New York Times
  
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• U.S. Theater Is In Crisis? Not In Branson, Missouri. Maybe There’s A Lesson To Be Learned There.

  06-10-2023 21:05 via theconversation.com
  
  “Approximately eight times a week, 40 weeks a year, Broadway-sized crowds watch (the musical) Queen Esther in a town of 12,000 people in the Ozark Mountains.” Theater/dance historian Joanna Dee Das writes that this success isn’t about dumbing down — there are key factors here that big-city theaters are neglecting. – The Conversation
  
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• One Seattle Theatre Adopts Another’s Scene Shop As It Goes Out Of Business

  06-10-2023 20:25 via seattletimes.com
  
  “We’re all trying to figure out what it is that makes people get off their couch, come through the rain and show up at an event together, right? It feels like there needs to be some real magnetic attraction, something that they will truly miss if they don’t see it. – Seattle Times
  
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• How Lisa Simone Made Peace With Brilliant, Tormented (And Tormenting) Mother Nina

  06-10-2023 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun, loving and nurturing. And she was always in awe of the inspirational artist and activist. … Now, 20 years since Nina died, Lisa regards herself as keeper of the flame.” – The Guardian
  
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• Study: Working Conditions At US Museums Are Terrible

  06-10-2023 19:33 via latimes.com
  
  68% of art museum workers have considered leaving the field, 74% cannot always cover basic living expenses, and it takes an average of 12 years before a worker receives a promotion. Turnover is high — art museums lost 30% of full-time employees hired between 2020 and 2022. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• American Tourist Attacks Two Ancient Roman Statues In Jerusalem

  06-10-2023 19:06 via apnews.com
  
  “Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues (at the Israel Museum) because he considered them ‘to be idolatrous and contrary to the Torah.'” – AP
  
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• Campaign Director

  06-10-2023 18:39 via artsjournal.com
  Status: Full-time Exempt
  Reports to: Bryan de Boer, VP & Chief Advancement OfficerPosition SummaryThe Jacksonville Symphony is seeking a Campaign Director to lead and execute all aspects of the Symphony’s multi-faceted, multi-year, multi-phased campaign. As a key member of the Development team, the Campaign Director will work collaboratively with the Development staff, the President/CEO, senior leadership, volunteers, Campaign Committee members, Board of Trustees, as well as fundraisin
  
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• From Paper to Pixels: Data from the Shift to Digital Program Books

  06-10-2023 18:34 via artsjournal.com
  Many arts organizations continue to have questions about the relationship between printed programs and digital program books. To provide the best answers to these questions, we turned to our clients.In February 2022, InstantEncore launched InsideGuide, a new platform for creating and delivering digital program books. We invited our InsideGuide clients to complete our second annual survey on digital and printed programs. We asked 14 questions:
  Do you provide a print option in addition to your di
  
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• Remembering Parterre’s James Jorden

  06-10-2023 18:32 via van-magazine.com
  
  Here was a zine, and then a website, dedicated to “remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way again.” – Van
  
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• Revisiting The First Book Banned In The United States

  06-10-2023 18:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn’t the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton’s book The New English Canaan back in 1637. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• When Theatre Is Ailing, What Should Be The Role Of The Critic?

  06-10-2023 17:31 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  “I ask myself whether, as so many theater companies grapple with ongoing pandemic-related challenges, I should reconceive my role. What ought arts criticism look like when the art can feel like it’s barely hanging on?” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• The Gay Neo-Hula Master Of San Francisco Who Just Won A MacArthur “Genius Grant”

  06-10-2023 17:00 via slate.com
  
  The MacArthur Foundation’s citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a “cultural preservationist,” but it’s not that simple. “I don’t take traditional dance elements and turn them on their head. But there’s no law against creating a hula to Roberta Flack’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.'” – Slate
  
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• Switch genders and don’t tidy up! How to make a modern family portrait

  06-10-2023 16:34
  
  A new show focuses on 50 years of groundbreaking portraiture, from babies in messy bathrooms to a grandmother explaining race to her granddaughterJJ Levine’s Alone Time 19, taken in 2021, appears to be a conventional portrait of a traditional nuclear family: mother, father, two children, all gathered in a living room. We know the little girl is a little girl because she’s in a floral dress and has a pink bow plonked on her head. The little boy wears blue jeans and a backwards basebal
  
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• Meet One Of Hollywood’s Most Revered, Most Ingenious, And Most Obsessive Set Designers

  06-10-2023 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a producer does recruit him, his work will be expensive, labor-intensive, and very, very detail-oriented. It will also be brilliant. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• UNESCO Is Developing A Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts

  06-10-2023 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million virtual museum should open in 2025. Visitors will be able to navigate a succession of virtual spaces containing detailed 3D images of the artefacts.” – The Guardian
  
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• A watch, a necktie and a pearl ring: the small paintings that ‘cancel all the other noise’

  06-10-2023 16:00
  
  In our series on the artworks in Australian homes, Daniel Browning shows us a triptych that reminds him of life’s endless flowRead more Wall storiesGet Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle emailDaniel Browning is a keen observer of emerging visual arts talent in Australia. As a widely published critic and long-time presenter of Radio National’s The Art Show, it is his job to be.In 2015 he came across a small collection of photo transfer paintings by the Japanese-b
  
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• Dallas Theater Center’s “Rocky Horror Show” Is Now Part Of The Resistance

  06-10-2023 15:35 via msn.com
  Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas’s flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of opposition to the state law S.B. 12, which regulates any performance that “appeals to the prurient interest in sex.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Photographic enigmas, chewing gum paintings and ice-skating clergy – the week in art

  06-10-2023 15:31
  
  Explore the large-format photographer who shot Dalí and Diana, a new Turbine Hall installation and endangered street art – all in your weekly dispatchHiroshi Sugimoto
  Eerie, captivating photographs of a stilled and silent world by this true artist of the camera.
  • Hayward Gallery, London, 11 October to 7 January Continue reading...
  
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• Industry Leaders In Theater, Dance, And Music Talk About What’s Changed In New York Post-Pandemic

  06-10-2023 15:04 via gothamist.com
  “(WNYC’s Sean) Carlson spoke to Casey York of the Off-Broadway League, Anna Glass of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Jake Rosenthal of Elsewhere in Bushwick. Their conversation covered everything from how fewer office workers affect the city’s culture to why big stars aren’t necessarily the future of show business.” – Gothamist
  
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• Sexual Harassment Has Lessened In Hollywood, But It’s Definitely Not Gone: Survey

  06-10-2023 14:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The latest WIF survey found 59% of respondents agreed the culture around sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood workplaces had improved in the (past) year. … At the same time, 46.2% of respondents said they or someone they knew had experienced abuse or misconduct … in the last year.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Otobong Nkanga For Work That “Resonates Across Continents”

  06-10-2023 14:01 via msn.com
  The 49-year-old Nigerian is the first winner from Africa and the first since the award changed from annual to biennial. The $100,000 prize is the only one dedicated specifically to sculpture. – MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
  
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• Poppers, phallic food and a soiled royal: inside Ridykeulous’s ridiculous art show

  06-10-2023 13:47
  
  The ever-humourous LGBT+ collective have amassed works from big names, cult artists and ‘frenemies’ for their first European outingOn first entering Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos, which takes over the entirety of the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery this autumn, visitors encounter Rush Stadium: a prototype for a giant, arena-size space in which the audience would watch, via a monitor attached to each seat, the entirety of the world’s video art.I
  
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• Experience: I make the smallest sculptures in the world

  06-10-2023 11:00
  
  I use threads of spider web for glue, and eyelashes as paintbrushes Growing up as a kid in Wolverhampton, I was fascinated by insects. When I was five, my dog destroyed an ant nest and I was devastated. Trying to make it up to them, I started building little houses for the ants, using wood splinters and leaves.I then moved on to making little cups and saucers from silver foil, thinking leprechauns would come to use them at the bottom of the garden. When my mother saw my work, she told me that th
  
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• North Carolina Station Will Air Met Opera Broadcasts After All

  06-10-2023 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “It was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the music director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in an interview. “It’s been a hard day and a hard week.” – The New York Times
  
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