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• Where Should Privately-Owned Art With Murky Provenance Go? Universities

  22-02-2024 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  The best stewards for these privately held collections, I believe, are university museums openly committed to provenance research, repatriation, and public education about cultural heritage and museum ethics. – ARTnews
  
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• A Call For Philanthropic Investment In Culture

  22-02-2024 23:01 via ssir.org
  
  While some grassroots organizations and organizers do integrate culture into their efforts, the potential to build power in under-resourced and marginalized communities by harnessing culture is not well understood or supported by funders. – Stanford Social Innovation Review
  
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• Hollywood Report: Leadership Of Women In Top 100 Movies In 2023 Was Down

  22-02-2024 22:31 via artsjournal.com
  Despite the $1.4bn success of Barbie, last year’s top 100 films saw just 30 feature a female lead or co-lead, the worst result since 2014 according to a new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. – The Guardian
  
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• Coming back

  22-02-2024 22:03 via artsjournal.com
  I haven’t posted in awhile. Or been active online.But now I’ve been posting on Facebook, and thought I’d put one of those posts here, one of a series I’ve done on the unwritten — and, most likely, never to be written — history of American orchestras.I’m curious to see who reads it here. I’ll have to promote the blog again, of course. But I’ll just start with this post. You can comment, if you see it!
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  Sometime in the 1990s, the Columbus (O
  
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• As Traditional Journalism Struggles In Canada, Journalists Take To TikTok

  22-02-2024 22:01 via cbc.ca
  
  They’re demonstrating that there is a demand for watching someone deliver the news when the traditional local TV news landscape is diminishing. But media experts say though some audiences have shifted to less conventional options, local TV news reporting isn’t easily replaced once it disappears. – CBC
  
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• New Lawsuit Charging Sexual Abuse At San Francisco Conservatory

  22-02-2024 21:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  Two women say they were assaulted by former professor of violin and chamber music Axel Strauss. – Van
  
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• “Not Every Giselle Has To Be Fragile And Petite”: New English National Ballet AD Aaron Watkin

  22-02-2024 20:57 via msn.com
  “A lot of people in the culture have grown up with a certain physical ideal. The more traditionally minded are bound to the idea that certain characters have to be small, innocent looking blondes. But … it’s not only small women who have their hearts broken.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• Long Lost Gershwin Musical Manuscript Found

  22-02-2024 20:31 via mlive.com
  
  The approximately 800 pages of material included the musical’s complete orchestration, with parts for flute, cello, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, bass and piano. – Michigan Live
  
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• With Two Of L.A.’s Major Film Festivals Now Gone, A Streaming Company Launches A New One

  22-02-2024 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Though this is arguably a great time for SoCal’s cineastes, there’s been trouble sustaining big events: Outfest collapsed last year, and the Los Angeles Film Festival closed back in 2018. So indie-film presenter Mezzanine and streaming platform Mubi have organized the new Los Angeles Festival of Movies. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• The Critic’s Enthusiasms: Joan Acocella

  22-02-2024 19:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Acocella’s attention is fixed first on the lives of her readers. She doesn’t neglect to tell us a writer’s best book and is never above saying when someone was born. She has always surveyed the literature, read the footnotes, seen the painting in real life; the reader can trust her. – The New York Times
  
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• Berlin Taxi Drivers Put On A Makeshift Film Festival In The Backs Of Their Cabs

  22-02-2024 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The TaxiFilmFest is in part a protest against the august Berlin Film Festival, currently in full swing, which signed an exclusive agreement with Uber to ferry participants between cinemas. But it’s also a celebration of “the taxicab’s iconic place in the urban landscape.” – The New York Times
  
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• Eurovision should have a Palestinian entrant | Brief letters

  22-02-2024 18:35
  
  Bridging cultural divides | William Mitchell murals | Grapefruit and blood pressure medication | Early cinema visit | BirthdaysCreative Community for Peace, which opposes a cultural boycott, argues that “unifying events such as singing competitions are crucial to help bridge our cultural divides” (Gene Simmons, Helen Mirren, Boy George sign open letter supporting Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision, 15 February). That being the case, Eurovision should include a Palestinian entrant
  
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• How We Picture Sound In Our Minds

  22-02-2024 18:31 via nautil.us
  
  ​​​​If you think of a sound, such as a dog barking, a loved one’s voice, or a favorite tune, to what extent can you hear that sound in your mind? Not at all? As vividly as actually hearing it in real time and space? Somewhere in between? – Nautilus
  
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• How One Of Metro DC’s Best Stage Directors Came Back From A Catastrophic Highway Crash

  22-02-2024 18:02 via msn.com
  After midnight on Nov. 30, 2022, Synetic Theater co-founder Paata Tsikurishvili was sitting in traffic when another car rear-ended his and knocked it into the HOV lane, where it was hit at full speed by a third vehicle. Astoundingly, he was back at work in under a year. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Machines That Can Read Minds Are Teaching Us About Ourselves

  22-02-2024 17:28 via nature.com
  
  Results are overturning assumptions about brain anatomy, for example, revealing that regions often have much fuzzier boundaries and job descriptions than was thought. – Nature
  
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• “The City Hall Powerhouse Shaping London’s Cultural Landscape”

  22-02-2024 17:05 via standard.co.uk
  
  Meet Justine Simons, Mayor Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for culture. – The Standard (London)
  
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• Why The Neighbors Are Not Happy That The Burned Herculaneum Scrolls Are Being Deciphered

  22-02-2024 16:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  The news that a team of students, using AI on digital scans, has deciphered the text on one of the scrolls carbonized in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius was greeted with excitement in many places — but not among the current residents of the site. – Artnet
  
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• Defending Musical Theatre…Against Itself

  22-02-2024 16:33 via artsjournal.com
  Last week, I found myself at coffee with a friend who had seen one of the industry presentations of Anne of Green Gables the musical, on which I had worked.He adored it, showering it with praise.One of the funniest compliments he gave me, though, was that he really enjoyed the show and identified with the themes and the characters despite having “not seen a musical in years” and “not really liking musicals to begin with.”If anyone reading this knows me or my writing at a
  
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• When And Where Did The First Indo-European Language Develop? There’s A New Argument About That.

  22-02-2024 16:01 via knowablemagazine.org
  
  “Most linguists think those speakers were nomadic herders on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia about 6,000 years ago. Yet a minority put the origin 2,000 to 3,000 years earlier, (in agricultural) Anatolia. … Now a new analysis, using techniques borrowed from evolutionary biology, has come down in favor of the latter.” – Knowable
  
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• Finally We’ve Gotten Around To Recognizing That Some of The “Monuments Men” Were Women

  22-02-2024 15:36 via apnews.com
  
  “The Dallas-based foundation honoring the group updated its name … to recognize their contributions, highlighted their work in a new exhibit …, and is set to publish for the first time in English a memoir in which one of the women describes spying on the Nazis while working at a Paris museum.” – AP
  
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• Revisiting Isabel Wilkerson, Author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist

  22-02-2024 15:28 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In honor of Black History month, we’re revisiting this 2011 conversation with author and 2015 National Humanities Medalist Isabel Wilkerson  In this tuneful podcast, Wilkerson discusses her acclaimed book “The Warmth of Other Suns,”  exploring the profound impact of the Great Migration on American culture. This migration saw six million African Americans relocate from the rural South to the urban North from post-WWI through the 1960s, drastically transforming the cou
  
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• Did A Moscow Auction House Just Sell A Painting Looted From A Ukrainian Museum?

  22-02-2024 15:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  The work in question, sold for roughly $1 million early this week, is Ivan Aivazovsky’s painting Moonlit Night. Ukraine’s prosecutor-general tweeted that the item had been looted from the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore. The auction house claims that it sold a different Aivazovsky work with the same title. – Artnet
  
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• Dallas Arts Groups Nervously Hope Voters Will Approve Ballot Measure With New Arts Funding

  22-02-2024 14:32 via keranews.org
  
  “Dallas residents will vote on a $1.25 billion bond package in May, which includes one of the largest allocations for cultural facilities in decades. The Dallas City Council allocated $75.2 million of the package last Wednesday for cultural facilities or a little over 6% of the package.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Cash-Strapped Metropolitan Opera Has Cut Back On Productions

  22-02-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  “(The company) will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81.” There’s only one completely new production (Michael Mayer directing Aïda), plus five which are new-to-the-Met, four of those being contemporary works. – AP
  
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• Mind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize – in pictures

  22-02-2024 08:00
  
  This year’s shortlist for the prestigious award includes work from a radical feminist trailblazer and a series about people who have gone missing during global conflicts Continue reading...
  
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• Herd of puppets to trek 20,000km to highlight urgency of climate crisis

  22-02-2024 08:00
  
  Team behind Little Amal puppet hope to create ‘visceral engagement’ with issues caused by climate emergencyThe production team behind the Little Amal puppet, which raised awareness about the plight of the refugee crisis in Europe, hope their next project – a herd of animal puppets going on a 20,000km trek – will start a new global conversation about the climate crisis.Amir Nizar Zuabi, the Palestinian artist who helped launch the Amal project, said The Herd – which
  
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• Francis Bacon portrait of lover George Dyer to go on sale

  22-02-2024 07:00
  
  Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s openingIt is one of the most intimate and psychologically charged portraits that the artist Francis Bacon painted of his great love, George Dyer. So special was it to him that he personally selected it to appear at his first major retrospective at Paris’s Grand Palais in 1971.But what should have been a monumental occasion celebrating Bacon’s
  
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• Managing Director – Stages

  22-02-2024 02:21 via artsjournal.com
  Stages is looking for its next Managing Director, someone to set and execute organizational strategies in close collaboration with an artistic partner and Board that will lead Stages to accomplish its key goals and objectives. The Managing Director co-leads the company in partnership with the Artistic Director and reports directly to Stages’ Board of Directors.
  The Managing Director will serve as a clear and present leader in all actions, thoughts, and deeds. Management Consultants for the
  
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• ‘Nature will have her way’: how a desolate Perth shopping mall has been transformed into a sprawling wetland

  22-02-2024 01:23
  
  Perth festival is offering a last chance to spend time in the abandoned Carillon City before it is demolished. It’s not as you remember itAs a fresh-faced 16-year-old in mid-2000s Perth, one of my favourite pastimes was to spend the day at Carillon City. I’d catch the 34 bus into town and loiter around its labyrinth of shops — circling its elaborate golden balustrades, trying on clothes and eating sushi on the shiny tables of its 80s-style food court.Visiting the desolate, shop
  
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• AM Radio Is Dying. Bernie Sanders And Ted Cruz Want To Save It

  22-02-2024 00:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  According to Ford’s internal data gathered from some of its newer vehicles, less than 5 percent of all in-car listening is to AM radio. Which is perhaps why Ford decided last year to drop AM from all of its vehicles, not just EVs. – The Atlantic
  
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