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• Broadway’s Big Presidents Day Box Office Boost

  20-02-2024 23:57 via deadline.com
  
  The Presidents Day Weekend was like a little Christmas gift for Broadway, with grosses for the 23 productions posting a hefty 27% increase over the previous week, topping out at $26,946,864. – Deadline
  
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• A Staggering $100M Canadian Art Fraud

  20-02-2024 23:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. – Smithsonian
  
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• Bellevue Arts Museum Declares A Crisis, Says It Might Have To Close

  20-02-2024 22:32 via seattletimes.com
  
  “We’re at the place where the straw breaks the camel’s back,” Kate Scher said. She called the crisis a “combined product” of the museum’s lack of long-term funding, the pandemic, and shifts in audience habits and philanthropic priorities. – Seattle Times
  
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• The Systematic Destruction Of Gaza’s Buildings

  20-02-2024 21:55 via theconversation.com
  
  Since October 7 2023, the bombardment of Gaza is reported to have damaged more than 100 historic sites and destroyed 69,700 homes. – The Conversation
  
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• Pro-Palestine Protestors Take Over MoMA

  20-02-2024 21:32 via thenation.com
  
  MoMA had shut down completely. It would not reopen until the following day. Visitors were ferried to the exits. Outside, a soft-spoken museum employee was assisting would-be museumgoers with refunds. “They’re protesting Gaza—our trustees are funding it,” he explained. “We can’t let you see the artwork. There are too many protesters.” – The Nation
  
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• At 61, Jodie Foster Is Finally Unclenching And Letting (Some Of) Her Guard Down

  20-02-2024 21:06 via theatlantic.com
  
  “At a certain point, the survival tool, which has kept you safe and kept you warm, which has kept you with your family, it’s allowed you to exist in the world — you gotta cut that fucking thing off,” she said. “You gotta cut that thing off, because it’s killing you.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Big Hong Kong Arts Complex Designed By Norman Foster’s Firm Is Running Out Of Cash

  20-02-2024 20:01 via artnews.com
  
  The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, which operates M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum as well as a traditional Chinese opera center and a black-box theater, was created by government statute but receives no government subsidies — and the initial endowment established when WKCDA was created will be gone next year. – ARTnews
  
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• Ways Of Looking At Art

  20-02-2024 19:28 via vox.com
  
  In a YouGov survey released in 2023, nearly half of Americans said they didn’t consider themselves artistic. At 58 percent, even more respondents said they weren’t familiar with famous artistic movements or styles. – Vox
  
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• Trying To Learn To Cry On Cue, The Way Actors Do

  20-02-2024 19:04 via vulture.com
  
  Journalist Rachel Handler talks to a somatic psychotherapist, an acting coach to major stars, that coach’s son, and several actors and directors, all in a quest to learn how to summon the tears. – Vulture
  
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• Debunking Reasons For Looking At Art

  20-02-2024 18:31 via salmagundi.skidmore.edu
  Art, I have preached, is for bildung, self-development, especially within the context of an undergraduate education. Art helps you to become a deeper, freer version of yourself, etc., etc., blah blah blah, you’ve heard the song a thousand times. So what’s the difference between that and “art is good for us”? – Salmagundi
  
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• Merging American Sign Language Into Choreography Aimed At General Audiences

  20-02-2024 18:02 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “(There’s) a wider shift in the performing arts, one that is more artistically fulfilling for Deaf and ASL-fluent artists and that also repositions accessibility: Rather than something tacked on to and separate from the performance, (ASL) is something deeply ingrained and integrated.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• ‘I go crazy in the presence of beauty’: the colourful confessions of photographer Walter Pfeiffer

  20-02-2024 17:48
  
  For decades, no one cared about the Swiss photographer and his hyper-hued images. But the social media explosion has made him the toast of the Insta generation. Our writer takes tea with a cult hero who triumphed over endless put-downsWalter Pfeiffer’s hands have trembled ever since he was a little boy at primary school. The problem, recalls the Swiss photographer, only intensified as he aged. “It amuses me,” he says, “when people call me a genius for using flash from the
  
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• Alonzo King: Attaching Dance To The World

  20-02-2024 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  That prospect of dance having a life and an urgency beyond an arrangement of steps has fueled King’s path as a dancer and a choreographer. – The New York Times
  
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• Treasure of the Faroes: my amazing underwater drive through a Viking-tinged artwork

  20-02-2024 17:19
  
  A tunnel has opened up more than 150m below the Atlantic, boasting a six-mile-long art installation complete with its own spectral soundtrack picked up by car radio. Our writer has the ride of his life‘This is bigger than going from A to B,” says Edward Fuglø. “This is a route into another world.” Fuglø is a Faroe Islands artist who has created the paintings decorating the arching interior of a new tunnel snaking beneath the north Atlantic. Glowing, stylised
  
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• This Upstart Has Surpassed Netflix To Become Africa’s Number-One Streamer

  20-02-2024 17:05 via restofworld.org
  
  “Showmax — (a South African company) spun out of Africa’s largest entertainment (conglomerate), MultiChoice, in 2015 — had 2.1 million subscribers on the continent at the end of November 2023, as compared to 1.8 million for Netflix. … Showmax’s market share rose to nearly 39%, while Netflix dropped to 33.5%.” – Rest of World
  
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• France Has Expanded Eligibility For Its “Talent Visa” To Include Performers and Artists

  20-02-2024 16:30 via euronews.com
  
  The “passeport talent,” launched in 2017 for certain highly-skilled individuals, now includes entrepreneurs, investors, and staff employees (as well as freelancers) judged likely to make a significant contribution to France’s culture or economy. It allows holders to live and work in the country for up to four years. – Euronews
  
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• The Oldest Rock Art In South America Is Far Older Than Was Thought

  20-02-2024 16:03 via english.elpais.com
  
  “After more than a decade of work, scientists from Argentina, Chile and the United States have successfully dated the Huenul 1 cave paintings in Argentina’s Patagonia region. … The oldest paintings in the cave date back 8,200 years, several millennia earlier than previously suggested.” – El País (Spain) (in English)
  
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• Ron DeSantis Is Now Backing Away From All The Book Bans He Helped Start In Florida

  20-02-2024 15:36 via newrepublic.com
  
  “Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday came out in support of a proposal to limit book bans in schools. … In a press conference, DeSantis tried to claim that accusations that he has enabled book bans in the state of Florida are ‘a fraud’ and ‘a big hoax.'” – The New Republic
  
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• Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Lays Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff

  20-02-2024 15:01 via pressherald.com
  
  “The 13 layoffs include salaried and hourly employees on (the) roughly 100-person staff. Front-line support staff … will not be impacted by staff reductions.” In addition, museum director Mark Bessire is taking a voluntary 20% reduction in his annual salary. – Portland Press Herald
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Just Land the M*****F***** Plane!

  20-02-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Changing direction is hard enough. Changing while continuing to not change is ridiculous.
  Stop trying to fix the plane while in flight.
  The book is now available everywhere, even as an eBook. And if it’s not, please let me know.
  My new book, Scene Change: Why Today’s Nonprofit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact is now on the shelves, be they internet shelves or real ones, in the UK and the US. If your bookstore isn’t carrying it (yet), plea
  
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• Inside The Rural Alabama Radio Station Whose Entire Transmission Tower Was Stolen

  20-02-2024 14:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “Many in Jasper, a city of about 14,000 (located) 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, fear the culprits have taken more than a heap of steel. Listeners describe WJLX as a trusted source …, breaking through the noise of a cluttered (media) landscape … with something that felt distinctly theirs.” – The New York Times
  
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• Verbier Festival Hires A Second CEO

  20-02-2024 14:07 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  Hervé Boissière, a former senior executive at Naïve Records who went on to found Medici.TV, where he is CEO, and who’s also executive director of the European classical cable TV channel Mezzo, will join Verbier Festival founder Martin Engstroem as the helm of the summer event in the Swiss Alps. – Gramophone
  
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• Sargent and Fashion review – tragicomic travesty is a frock horror

  20-02-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Sargent’s gloriously rich and subtle paintings can’t be reduced to dreary facts about hats, dresses and opera gowns. Sadly, that’s just what’s happenedThis is a horrible exhibition. The American painter John Singer Sargent is a great artist of identity, fascinated with the nature of social being. He paints people not in isolation but as players in a social world in a way that is startling, modern and so truthful it hurts. Trained in 19th-century Paris
  
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