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• Louis Armstrong, Media Star

  01-11-2023 23:01 via thenation.com
  
  “He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent movies, he then made pioneering appearances in film, radio, and television. In many cases, he was the first African American to have featured billing in these new industries. – The Nation
  
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• Increasingly London Theatre-Goers Are Complaining About Rising Ticket Prices

  01-11-2023 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Theater is becoming very elitist. The minute there’s a well-known person in a play, it’s unaffordable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why An Artist Acquired 6000 Copies Of “Da Vinci Code, Pulped And Turned Them Into “1984”

  01-11-2023 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  It all began in 2017, when a thrift store in Wales, put a notice in its window imploring people to stop donating copies of “The Da Vinci Code.” On average, the shop was receiving one copy per day. The plea went viral, catching the eye of the British artist David Shrigley… – CNN
  
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• How California Became A Hotbed Of New Music

  01-11-2023 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Ara Guzelimian, who grew up in Los Angeles and now leads the Ojai Music Festival nearby, described California’s classical music culture as “the lingering positive presence of the pioneers heading West and looking to escape a kind of conformity.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Did HGTV Come To Define Our House Aesthetic?

  01-11-2023 21:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  These bundled aesthetic commonalities aren’t just coincidences, and they can’t be entirely described as trends—at least not in the sense of bottom-up collective favor that the word tends to evoke. – The Atlantic
  
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• A North Carolina School District Removes Popular Sarah Maas Books

  01-11-2023 20:32 via thedailybeast.com
  
  A favorite on TikTok’s “BookTok” community, the series has sold over 13 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 37 languages, according to Bloomsbury. A Hulu TV adaptation is in development. – The Daily Beast
  
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• It Comes As No Surprise That Henry Winkler’s Charming, …

  01-11-2023 20:04 via msn.com
  “It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap, unforgiving and petty. … Winkler doesn’t so much nurse a grudge as midwives one — if necessary, for eternity.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Britain’s Ruling Conservatives Seem To Have No Plan For The Wayward Arts Council

  01-11-2023 19:27 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Conservatives used to be intelligent patrons of the arts. In the 1930s, you had the most sophisticated cultural operation of any political organisation in a democratic country. – The Critic
  
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• The Stone Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Once Collectors’ Favorites, Now Struggle To Keep Their Work Going

  01-11-2023 19:05 via theworld.org
  
  Stonecarving is a centuries-old craft among the Shona people, and it thrived until the start of this century, when the violent turmoil caused by Robert Mugabe’s government kept tourists and foreign collectors from traveling to Zimbabwe. But sculptors are hanging on somehow. – The World
  
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• The Greatest Poet Was a Great Word Thief

  01-11-2023 18:50 via artsjournal.com
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• We Have Forgotten How To Disagree In The Arts

  01-11-2023 18:32 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The list of such fundamental divisions is long, and it is synonymous with multicultural liberalism. For this, many democracies maintain two-party parliamentary systems. Goading one side to drop its claims in favour of the other, as the arts who univocally espouse left politics do, is anti-democratic. – The Critic
  
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• Norman Lebrecht Goes To A Yuja Wang Concert And Sees The Future Of Music

  01-11-2023 18:27 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  That triggered a subversive thought: why can’t all solo recitals be like this? Why won’t Carnegie Hall enhance its pianists with works of Pissaro or Picasso from the Metropolitan Museum? And why can’t we have live video close-ups of hands, face, hairstyle and legs in the recapitulation section of every over-long sonata? – The Critic
  
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• Are OpenAI-Written Broadway Musicals Coming? No — They’re Already Here.

  01-11-2023 18:06 via msn.com
  Peter Marks: “How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge the other night at an off-Broadway theater. … Living, breathing actors performed the musical, but no human brain put the words in their mouths.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Great Contemporary Novels Are Being Turned Into Story Ballets

  01-11-2023 16:59 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet vocabulary to retell the works of great writers is fraught with potential pitfalls. But the medium of dance can also illuminate a book afresh.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• California Musicians Across The State Celebrate California

  01-11-2023 16:31 via sfcv.org
  The 100-plus participating organizations, some large and wealthy, others neither, include professional orchestras, choruses, opera companies, youth orchestras, and educational institutions. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Hollywood Studios Are Deciding That Filming In L.A. Is Just Too Much Trouble

  01-11-2023 16:04 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of fees forthe use of drones or helicopters, street closures, etc. Says one location manager, “It makes people think, ‘Why don’t we shoot this in Canada?'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Building A New Arts Center At The Far Northern End Of Manhattan

  01-11-2023 15:32 via timeout.com
  
  Okay, he’s not building it, or even funding it, entirely by himself, but the foundation run by the actor-playwright and his father is the lead backer of the The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante on West 206th St., expected to open in 2025. – Time Out New York
  
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• A Visit To The Real-World Inspiration For Brian Friel’s Village Of Ballybeg

  01-11-2023 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Laura Collins-Hughes travels to Donegal, in the northwestern corner of Ireland, to visit Glenties — not Friel’s own hometown, but that of his mother and aunts (think of the five women of Dancing at Lughnasa), where he spent childhood summers and is now buried. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘We never thought we’d have a Monet on our farm’: $174m artwork heads to regional Australian gallery

  01-11-2023 15:00
  
  An impressionist masterpiece is being displayed in the Tweed Valley as the National Gallery shares its collection around the countryIn late October an armoured van traveled through the flat cane fields of the Tweed Valley, in northern New South Wales. Carrying its precious cargo past tractors ploughing the earth after the cane burn-off, the fortified van came to a stop in what was, until relatively recently, a cow paddock.It was here in this bucolic setting that a $174m impressionist masterpiece
  
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• Salman Rushdie Asks: “What Does The World Of Fable Have To Tell Us About Peace?”

  01-11-2023 14:35 via newyorker.com
  
  “The news is not very good,” goes part of his answer, given last month in his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. “If my work has been influenced by fables,” he continued later, “there is also something decidedly fabulist about a peace prize.” – The New Yorker
  
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• French Authorities Arrest Alleged Leader Of Major Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Operation

  01-11-2023 14:01 via artnews.com
  
  “Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of a suspected Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, was arrested in Germany and transferred to France. … The 80-year-old dealer is believed to be behind the sale of smuggled Egyptian antiquities to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective €60 million.” – ARTnews
  
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• A Look Inside The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead

  01-11-2023 13:36 via nytimes.com
  
  “A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but a compendium of some 200 ritual spells and prayers, with instructions on how the deceased’s spirit should recite them in the hereafter.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Did Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor For Organ Become The Emblematic Spooky Music For Halloween?

  01-11-2023 13:00 via theconversation.com
  
  After all, Bach knew nothing of Halloween, and to him the organ was an instrument for church worship. (Never mind the fact that some musicologists don’t think it was Bach who wrote the piece.) No, the spooky associations of the music come straight from Hollywood. – The Conversation
  
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• General Director – Seattle Opera

  01-11-2023 01:45 via artsjournal.com
  Seattle Opera is looking for a visionary leader to serve as its next General Director. The new General Director will represent Seattle Opera across the opera world, continuing to build its reputation as one of the nation’s most respected performing arts institutions. This person will set the artistic vision for the company and lead a team of talented and dedicated staff to produce opera at the pinnacle of the art form.
  They will engage audiences through new interpretations and innovative p
  
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• Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra seeks President & CEO

  01-11-2023 01:42 via artsjournal.com
  The Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra invites applications and nominations for the position of President and CEO, available in the Fall of 2023.Founded in 2011, the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra (HSO) is Hawaiʻi’s premier professional orchestra and is a cultural cornerstone of the Hawaiʻian island community. The HSO’s 2023/2024 season is comprised of nine Halekulani Masterworks concerts, five HapaSymphony concerts featuring local artists from Hawaiʻi, four Lexus Films
  
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• David Hockney review – a dazzling victory parade from a boundless lover of life

  01-11-2023 01:01
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  Whether channelling Picasso, depicting Celia Birtwell or capturing Harry Styles, the artist communicates profound joy – and his most recent paintings really boom with energy and hope
  Enjoying life sounds like a simple, even banal aim. Yet the art of David Hockney shows what an achievement it really is to stick with that goal and raise it to an ideal. He has dedicated his gifts to the pursuit of pleasure since the 1960s and, in the bubbly, enthusiastic new
  
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