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• TV Industry Contracts And Talent Scrambles For Jobs

  21-02-2024 23:31 via deadline.com
  
  On top of fewer shows and virtually no pilots, the available acting gigs pay less than they used to amid rising cost of living, talent sources say. – Deadline
  
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• The Unwinding Of Art Publisher Louise Blouin

  21-02-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Blouin plowed resources into an art news site, ArtInfo, staffing it with young journalists. She also moved into philanthropy with the founding of the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international nonprofit organization. – The New York Times
  
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• The “Art Crime” Professor And The State Of The Art

  21-02-2024 22:32 via artnews.com
  
  “I am frustrated by how often repatriation activists have to reinvent the wheel, which is another reason that I think social media has been so important.” – ARTnews
  
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• Inside The Sausage Factory: The Pianist/Influencer Peeling Back The Curtain

  21-02-2024 22:01 via sfcv.org
  What if I showed up as a human experimenting with classical music? Would that make classical music more human? This was a long time ago, but now everybody does it, so I guess it works. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Explaining The Censorship Scandal At The Hugo Awards

  21-02-2024 21:04 via salon.com
  
  The controversy is over nominations for the 2023 awards: the ceremony was held for the first time in China, in Chengdu. Memos leaked afterward show that, in an act of anticipatory censorship, several titles with enough votes to be finalists were declared ineligible out of fear of offending China’s government. – Salon
  
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• Antilogic And The Ancient Art Of Suspending Judgment

  21-02-2024 20:31 via psyche.co
  
  Antilogic was a form of contradiction that caused a person to simultaneously believe opposite things about a single event or phenomenon, without any way out or means of resolving the contradictory views in which they had become ensnared. – Psyche
  
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• A First: Man On Trial For Streaming Music Fraud

  21-02-2024 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “A Danish man has gone on trial in the city of Aarhus over accusations that he fraudulently made 4.38m kroner (more than $635,000) in royalties on music-streaming sites. … Prosecutors allege … the huge numbers of streams required to generate that amount of money could not have (come from) genuine users.” – The Guardian
  
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• 18 Shows Are Opening On Broadway This Spring. Too Many?

  21-02-2024 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The density of late-season openings — 11 plays and musicals over a nine-day stretch in late April — has producers and investors worried about how those shows will find enough ticket buyers to survive. – The New York Times
  
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• Smart Glasses Provide Live Captioning For Plays

  21-02-2024 19:01 via msn.com
  Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Co. is offering hearing-impaired patrons the use of high-tech eyewear that displays real-time captions, adjustable for placement, size and color. People’s Light in nearby Malvern (which introduced them in 2019) and Arden are currently the only US theaters to offer the glasses. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Why The Village Voice Worked

  21-02-2024 18:31 via villagevoice.com
  People showed up straight from college, because working at the Voice had always been their dream, despite substandard wages and word rates, paltry expense budgets, and barely habitable offices. – Village Voice
  
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• Russia Arrests Los Angeles Ballerina, A US Citizen, On Charge Of Treason

  21-02-2024 18:06 via nbcnews.com
  Ksenia Karelina (also known as Ksenia Khavana), a 33-year-old native of Yekaterinburg who holds both Russian and US citizenship, had been visiting her hometown since early January. Her alleged act of treason: donating $58 to a Ukrainian charity. – NBC News
  
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• Could The NY Times Win Its Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI?

  21-02-2024 17:32 via arstechnica.com
  
  Unlike Google’s search engine, generative AI models sometimes do produce creative works that compete directly with the works they were trained on. And this puts these defendants in a weaker legal position than Google was in a decade ago. – Ars Technica
  
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• The Alabama Radio Station Whose 200-Foot Transmission Tower Was Stolen Is Back On The Air

  21-02-2024 17:03 via insideradio.com
  
  WJLX (1240 AM) in Jasper has an FM-frequency repeater, but without the AM station’s tower providing the original signal and programming, the repeater was useless. Then an exec from the country’s largest radio broadcaster, iHeartMedia, came to the rescue, offering use of the HD3 signal from WDXB in Birmingham. – Inside Radio
  
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• Alvin Ailey Company Performance In Birmingham, Alabama Cancelled Mid-Show Due To “Cold Temperatures Backstage”

  21-02-2024 16:32 via abc3340.com
  
  The performance on Feb. 17 began 40 minutes late, the company did one piece, then there was another 40-minute wait before the audience was told the show was over. The dancers’ contract requires a backstage temperature of 72°F.; the venue claims the temperature was 68°F to 70°F. – WBMA (Birmingham, AL)
  
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• Britain’s Second City, Effectively Bankrupt, Announces Elimination of All Arts Funding

  21-02-2024 16:04 via birminghammail.co.uk
  In Birmingham, which faces a long-brewing cash crisis, “grants to regularly-funded arts organisations will face 50% cuts this year and 100% next financial year.” This includes, among others, the City of Birmingham Symphony, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham REP Theatre, IKON Gallery, and Birmingham International Dance Festival. – Birmingham Live
  
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• The Terrifying Logistics Of Getting An Entire U.S. Symphony Orchestra Packed Up And Onto The Plane For A European Tour

  21-02-2024 15:31 via msn.com
  “(It’s) a finely tuned and precisely orchestrated operation, requiring months of advance planning and permitting, a crew of nearly a dozen workers and an all-hands effort by the musicians themselves.” Michael Andor Brodeur watches as DC’s National Symphony prepares and sets off. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Another Frank Gehry Arts Center Is Under Construction In Downtown L.A.

  21-02-2024 15:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Preliminary work has begun on a $335-million expansion of the Colburn School of performing arts designed by Gehry that includes a mid-size concert hall he expects to be in near-constant use for events put on by students, professional artists and academics.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Cairo Restores And Reopens A Large Portion of The Saladin Citadel

  21-02-2024 14:36 via reuters.com
  “Cairo’s citadel, one of the Egyptian capital’s most prominent landmarks, opened another wing housing two semi-circular towers to the public on Sunday. … (The 12th-century fortress) was the base of Egypt’s government for over 700 years.” – Reuters
  
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• The Titles Most Often Stolen From San Francisco Public Libraries, And A Possible Solution

  21-02-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  It turns out that the volumes most frequently pilfered from SFPL shelves aren’t, say, bestselling thrillers; they’re books about addiction and recovery. So city officials want to start giving such books away for free. – AP
  
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• The State Of Today’s Culture

  21-02-2024 08:29 via honest-broker.com
  
  The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity. – Honest Broker
  
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• Opera in South Africa: “You Get What You Deserve”

  21-02-2024 05:48 via artsjournal.com
  
  One of the most remarkable developments in classical music today is the profusion of gifted Black South African
  
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• Berkshire Museums seeks Chief Financial Officer

  21-02-2024 05:44 via artsjournal.com
  The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will provide strategic, financial, and operational leadership across the museum, ensuring proper financial accounting, internal controls, safe and compliant facility operations, and successful customer service in the visitor experience. Reporting to the Executive Director, the CFO will serve as a thought leader and trusted partner and have under their purview the departments of finance, human resources, guest services, gift shop, information technology, physical
  
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• The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art

  21-02-2024 01:01
  
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonFrom an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and paintingHands on hips, feet apart, head up and tilted to one side, her eyes closed in concentration, Thomas J Price’s monumental, gold-patinated bronze black woman towers over us. Oblivious to our presence and our gaze, she’s spotlit against a dark wall. Stilled in a perpetual moment, it is as if sh
  
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