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• Merriam-Webster Breaks The Internet Over Grammar Change

  27-02-2024 23:23 via npr.org
  
  “It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with,” the dictionary publisher said in a post shared on Instagram last week. – NPR
  
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• More Music Removed From TikTok

  27-02-2024 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  TikTok says up to 30% of what it calls “popular songs” could be lost. But some industry estimates say up to 80% of all music on TikTok could be muted. – BBC
  
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• A Surge In Online Book Clubs Followed By New Friendships In Real Life

  27-02-2024 22:32 via wsj.com
  User numbers of an app called “Bookclubs,” designed to help organize clubs, grew 240% from 2020 to 2021. Since then, its user base has been roughly doubling annually, the company says. The app currently has just under one million users with accounts. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Refined Art Of Campaigning For An Oscar

  27-02-2024 22:04 via newyorker.com
  
  To campaign for an Oscar, as for the Presidency, you need a narrative—some compelling story, decided on by a combination of the nominee, campaign strategists, and the media, that gives voters a warm, happy, check-the-box feeling. – The New Yorker
  
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• Mick Moon obituary

  27-02-2024 21:47
  
  British painter whose work was admired for its physical depth and beauty, giving it lasting appealThe British painter Mick Moon, who has died aged 86, had a sophisticated understanding of the functions of an artwork – its ability to represent a range of subjects and experiences while remaining a unique object in its own right. His output ranged from pieces of calico or canvas that had been moulded around studio props, walls or floorboards, to his early “strip paintings” –
  
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• Maps Show Us Not Only Where We Are But Who We Are

  27-02-2024 21:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Cartography has become one of the most successful technologies we have developed for understanding the world around us. At the same time, maps have become important cultural and artistic objects that we value greatly. – The Conversation
  
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• Literary Festivals Are Now Having To Worry About Safety And Risk Management

  27-02-2024 21:05 via theguardian.com
  
  For instance, moderators at the Perth Festival Writers’ Weekend in Australia were sent a memo titled “Facilitator safety tips.” Among those tips: discussing with panelists in advance what are off-limits topics and ending (or simply forgoing) audience Q&As if they risk becoming too inflammatory. – The Guardian
  
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• Rockport Music Seeks President & CEO

  27-02-2024 20:42 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe President & CEO will report to the board of trustees to enhance Rockport Music’s artistic and operational vision through executing the strategic plan. This will include building the revenues and brand by highlighting its quality to pique both domestic and international audience interests and motivate active local participation. The Artistic Director, in a co-equal reporting relationship with the board of trustees, will be responsible for the vision and artistic grow
  
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• Why Is Debate On College Campuses So Difficult These Days?

  27-02-2024 20:29 via wsj.com
  The fact of the matter is that the problem is not our students. It is us: faculty and administrators who are too afraid—of random people on social media, hard-core activists, irritable alumni, assorted “friends” of Harvard—to allow a culture of open debate and dialogue to flourish. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Assistant Ticket Services Manager (Box Office)

  27-02-2024 20:26 via artsjournal.com
  ABOUT THE JOBThe Wallis is seeking a service-focused professional to join our team as Assistant Ticket Services Manager to demonstrate exemplary leadership in patron service standards and assistant manage the ticket services team and day-to-day operations. Reporting to the General Manager, this role holds responsibilities in ticketing, administration, and customer service, as well as leadership and supervisory responsibilities. If you have innate people and communication skills, combined with ad
  
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• Today in dynamic pricing

  27-02-2024 20:17 via artsjournal.com
  I have a chapter on dynamic pricing in my old book. In a nutshell: dynamic pricing is where the seller adjusts the current price upwards or downwards based upon the most recent information on market conditions. This is not the same as a cinema having discount Tuesdays, since it will offer that each week as a result of known factors about the demand for tickets. Dynamic pricing is where you make changes on the go, where the price change might be up or down, depending.
  I suggested in the book tha
  
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• For Its 30th Anniversary, An Oral History Of “Schindler’s List”

  27-02-2024 20:04 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Speaking to those who labored to get the film onscreen — including stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, composer John Williams, agent Michael Ovitz and Martin Scorsese … — what follows is the most complete telling of one of the most important movies not just of Spielberg’s career.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Philosophy, Folk Wisdom, And Rethinking Values

  27-02-2024 19:35 via aeon.co
  
  I still believe in philosophy’s capacity to seek truth, but I’m conscious that I’ve tethered myself to an academic heritage plagued by formidable demons. – Aeon
  
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• Jonathan Jones was right about the John Singer Sargent show at Tate Britain | Brief letters

  27-02-2024 19:13
  
  Art criticism | Council funding | Cuckoo confusion | A cracking teacher | Dominic Raab’s career Cally Blackman’s support for the curating of the Tate’s John Singer Sargent exhibition is very strong and firmly based in her extensive scholarship in fashion history (Letters, 23 February). But I think she has misunderstood Jonathan Jones’s critique. The show is about Sargent paintings, and Jones’s critique is not based on snobbish old ideas of art appreciation. It is ab
  
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• The Photographer Whom Kirill Serebrennikov Calls “A Russian Cartier-Bresson”

  27-02-2024 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Dmitri Markov’s) subjects were always the most vulnerable in society: orphans, alcoholics, addicts, homeless people, the very old and dying, conscripts and children. It was a side of Russia absent from bombastic official narratives under Putin, but one that was instantly recognisable to most Russians.” – The Guardian
  
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• In 1995 A Crowd Gathered To Describe Data On The Internet…

  27-02-2024 18:32 via aeon.co
  
  By the end of the long weekend, the eclectic crowd had created a radical system for describing and discovering online content that still directly powers web search today, and which paved the way for how all content is labelled and discovered on the open web. – Aeon
  
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• North Carolina Theatre In Raleigh Cancels Season And Files For Bankruptcy

  27-02-2024 17:58 via msn.com
  “The theater’s board announced the decision Friday, citing ‘external forces during and after the pandemic,’ including higher production costs, the loss of corporate and personal sponsorships, a decline in sales and a slow return of audiences to live venues.” – The News & Observer (Raleigh) (MSN)
  
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• How Disney Built The Disney Adult Industrial Complex

  27-02-2024 17:31 via newstatesman.com
  Whether Disney adults are embarrassing or enchanting is largely a matter of opinion. What is missing from endless comment sections is the fact that they are a creation of the Walt Disney Company – a character constructed just as carefully as Elsa or Donald Duck. – New Statesman
  
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• John Waters Is Making His First Movie In 20 Years

  27-02-2024 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The film, set to begin shooting in Baltimore (of course) later this year, is an adaptation of Waters’s 2022 novel Liarmouth (subtitled “A Feel-Bad Romance”). Aubrey Plaza will star as a compulsive liar and scammer named Marsha Sprinkle. – The Guardian
  
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• Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Pleads Guilty To Soliciting Sex From A Minor

  27-02-2024 16:34 via bbc.com
  
  Prosecutors say the 70-year-old was chatting, first on an dating app and then directly on WhatApp, with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old but was in fact an undercover officer. He was arrested last month at the coffee shop where he had arranged for them to meet. – BBC
  
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• My parents are much cooler than me – as I discovered this week | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

  27-02-2024 16:08
  
  I spent much of my 20s working for a feminist magazine, but as a show at the Tate reminded me, my mum and auntie got there firstI often joke that my mum, dad and auntie will forever be cooler than I am, even as they head into their 60s. The latest evidence of this was when I started receiving pictures of my mum and auntie, “the twins”, taken at the Tate’s landmark exhibition of feminist art, Women in Revolt!, showing them on the front cover of a radical zine called Shocking Pin
  
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• Simone Young Extends Contract As Chief Conductor Of Sydney Symphony

  27-02-2024 16:02 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  She began her initial term in 2022, and it was set to expire at the end of this year. With her contract ending in 2026 (at the earliest), she will get to see through the SSO’s four-year project performing Wagner’s Ring cycle in concert. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Looking At The Financial State Of Dance In the U.S.

  27-02-2024 15:35 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Multiple reports published since last summer have shed long-awaited light on the fiscal health of the country’s dance sector. What those numbers say isn’t simple to summarize. … (For instance,) even when the changes in dollar amounts appear positive, adjustments for inflation erase most gains (and deepen losses).” – Dance Magazine
  
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• War Is Coming. You ready?

  27-02-2024 15:27 via artsjournal.com
  This is not a metaphor. Real war. In the nonprofit arts sector, it will force you to act.
  It’s coming soon, to a community near you. (“Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine (War Ukraine)” by Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.)
  Before we talk about war, death, destruction, and irrelevance, let’s talk about my new book, because I’ve always been a fan of theater of the absurd.
  My new book is now available everywhere, even as an eBook.
  
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• Another Week, Another Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Allegation

  27-02-2024 15:01 via apnews.com
  
  “(A) 53-year-old (set) decorator alleges that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for Les Volets verts, or The Green Shutters, lawyer Carine Durrieu Diebolt said Monday. Other people intervened to stop him, the lawyer added.” – AP
  
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• West Virginia Bill Would Let Museums Be Prosecuted For Displaying “Obscene” Artworks

  27-02-2024 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  House Bill 4654, now in the state senate, would “remove exemptions for criminal liability from schools, libraries, and museums, allowing them to be criminally charged for the distribution and display of ‘obscene’ matter to minors.” (The bill does not define “obscene.”) – Artnet
  
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• Texas High School Cancels Student Production Of “The Laramie Project”

  27-02-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  When notifying parents, school district leaders in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller gave no reason for cancelling the docudrama about the 1998 murder of gay student Matthew Shepard; a spokesman later said administrators wanted a play like previous productions of Mary Poppins and White Christmas. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Do You Want More Audiences and Donors? Two Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences

  27-02-2024 03:38 via artsjournal.com
  What will it take to bring audiences and donors back? Find out in Toronto, June 25-26, or New York City, July 23-24. Sign up by March 15 and get the lowest price and bring 2 colleagues for FREE! (3-for-1).NEW WAYS FORWARD https://artsreach.com/conferences_list.phpFor the past 23 years, Arts Reach, the Association of Arts Management, Marketing and Development Professionals, has gathered the best speakers from across North America for these 2-day hands-on learning experiences that will have a
  
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