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• Studies: Music Is The Universal Language

  13-03-2024 23:00 via ludwig-van.com
  
  When it comes to its effects on our emotions and bodies, a new study suggests that music truly is the universal language of humanity. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Collector Gives $300 Million Collection To Seattle University

  13-03-2024 22:30 via seattletimes.com
  
  Richard Hedreen, 88, is gifting his entire collection, comprising more than 200 artworks and estimated to be worth about $300 million, to Seattle University. He’s also donating $25 million in seed funding to develop a museum to house the collection. – Seattle Times
  
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• Is Social Relevance At The Core Of The Arts?

  13-03-2024 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  Thanks to Arts Council England’s recently published analysis on opera and music theatre, ‘relevance’ is back on the agenda. But the report and its conclusions do not show true understanding of art and artists. – The Stage
  
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• Cincinnati Ballet Gets A New Leader After a Year Of Upheaval

  13-03-2024 21:32 via cincinnati.com
  
  Artistic director Jodie Gates left after just 14 months on the job, followed six days later by then-president and CEO Scott Altman announcing that he would leave at the end of 2023. –Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• “Bayadère” Is Awash In Cultural Appropriation. Should It Be Canceled?

  13-03-2024 21:01 via danceaustralia.com.au
  
  Like so many of the 19th century ballets, it has been subject to some controversy in recent years. Set in a fanciful Hindu temple, choreographed by a Russian to music by an Austrian (Ludwig Minkus), it is accused of colonialist attitudes and insulting stereotypes. – Dance Australia
  
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• UNESCO Ponders How To Preserve Intangible Cultural Heritage

  13-03-2024 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  unesco is best known for its prestigious list of World Heritage sites. But its most interesting endeavor might be a survey of humanity’s cultural practices. – The New Yorker
  
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• Pro Basketball Has A Set Of Dance Teams Made Up Of Dancers Over 40

  13-03-2024 20:04 via msn.com
  Both the NBA and the WNBA have, in addition to their “regular” dance crews (the Raiderettes, the Laker Girls, etc.) with members in their 20s, a number of teams with “mature” dance crews. Here’s a visit with the Ole Skool Crew, which performs for the WNBA’s L.A. Sparks.” – The Cut (MSN)
  
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• The Guernica Magazine Mess – An Essay About The Israel Military Action Roils Staff

  13-03-2024 19:32 via msn.com
  The magazine, once a prominent publication for fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction, with a focus on global art and politics, quickly found itself imploding as its all-volunteer staff revolted over the essay. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Should Crossword Puzzles Test Our Knowledge? No, They Should Expand It

  13-03-2024 19:05 via msn.com
  While women played key roles in the development of crosswords in the US, by the late 20th-century, puzzle-constructing was dominated by college-educated white guys, and clues reflected that. Today the puzzling world, gradually becoming more diverse, can help create a common cultural vocabulary in a diverse society. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Gabriel García Márquez Didn’t Want His Last Book Published. This Week It Was. Is That OK?

  13-03-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The novel was published this week, unleashing a backlash from scholars, writers and fans who’ve taken exception not with the novel itself, but rather with what they see as an act of betrayal that endangers García Márquez’s legacy. – The New York Times
  
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• Matt Connors: Finding Aid review – fearless exhibition full of unexpected pleasures

  13-03-2024 18:06
  
  Goldsmiths CCA, London
  The American painter makes a fascinating curator, bringing together 21 artists’ works – from cracked pots to sensual paintings – into a diverting displaySeeing as we’re here, I think I’ll go for the English breakfast. Or maybe the keftedes – or even the grilled “shieftalia”. Hmm. How about “Mini hot-dog and french fires”? Or jacket potato with “bolognaise sause and cheeese”? Decisions, decisions. Hang
  
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• The Ex Whom Picasso Tried To Destroy Is Getting Her Own Room In His Museum

  13-03-2024 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Ten years after a renovation, the Musée Picasso (in Paris) – which holds the world’s largest collection of Picasso’s work – has installed a new permanent exhibition … in 22 rooms. The Françoise Gilot exhibition in room 17 on the third floor is temporary but expected to be in situ for a year.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Competition For Playing Chopin? It Has No Credibility

  13-03-2024 17:32 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Giving marks to people playing a Chopin polonaise is no different from deciding on medals in gymnastics, dressage and judo at the Olympic Games, as we shall see again in Paris this summer.The spectacle is governed by invisible rules that connect to no verifiable reality. – The Critic
  
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• Philadelphia Has A Brand-New Music Festival Opening This Weekend

  13-03-2024 17:06 via msn.com
  “Everyone in Philly is always walking by these incredible buildings, including gorgeous houses of worship, but going inside is something we don’t usually get an opportunity to do,” said John Walthausen, artistic director of the first Philadelphia Organ Festival, running March 15-23 in various parts of the city. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Hair-plaiting for the Iranian resistance: Hoda Afshar’s best photograph

  13-03-2024 16:40
  
  ‘This was inspired by a daily ritual in which female fighters in the mountains plait each other’s hair while chanting: “Woman, life, freedom.” It was a response to the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in Iran’ I was born in Tehran but have been living in Australia since 2007. This was taken as the uprisings in Iran were unfolding, following the 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini, a Kurdish woman who was arrested by the country’s morality police, igniting prote
  
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• Are Auction Sales Guarantees Fair?

  13-03-2024 16:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  How does this practice affect the market? The art market is self-regulating, and since 2010 the practice of offering works at auction with third-party guarantees has seeped into almost every sale category where objects sell above $500,000. – The Critic
  
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• Putin Signs New Law That Will Starve Independent Media

  13-03-2024 16:03 via themoscowtimes.com
  
  “President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a bill that bans advertisers from working with ‘foreign agents,’ a move widely expected to make it next to impossible for independent media outlets hit with the designation to earn money.” – The Moscow Times
  
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• Merchant Ivory Productions Was A Much Shakier, And Sketchier, Operation Than You Probably Knew

  13-03-2024 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “If you were asked to guess which prestigious film-making duo spent their career scratching around desperately for cash, trying to wriggle out of paying their cast and crew, ping-ponging between lovers, and having such blood-curdling bust-ups that their neighbours called the police,” you probably wouldn’t pick Merchant and Ivory. – The Guardian
  
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• Thieves Grab $1.3 Million Worth Of Gold And Jewels From Italian Museum

  13-03-2024 15:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “A horde (sic) of jewelry and gold statues … worth €1.2 million was stolen last week from the Museo d’Annunzio Segreto (near) Lake Garda in northern Italy. A gang of thieves (took) all but one of the exhibits from a show dedicated to the 20th-century Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni.” – Artnet
  
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• Lyric Opera Of Chicago Extends Enrique Mazzola’s Contract As Music Director

  13-03-2024 14:35 via apnews.com
  
  The 55-year-old Spanish-Italian conductor succeeded Andrew Davis in 2021, with a five-year contract. That agreement will now run for an additional five seasons, through the summer of 2031. – AP
  
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• Roman Polanski Sued By Accuser For Different Case Of Alleged Rape In 1970s

  13-03-2024 14:01 via yahoo.com
  
  “The trial is scheduled to take place on Aug. 4, 2025, following a lawsuit that accused Polanski of giving a (13-year-old girl) alcohol and raping her at his Benedict Canyon home. The complaint was filed last June in Los Angeles County Superior Court.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Vandalism Soars At England’s Historic Sites

  13-03-2024 13:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “From York stone” — still valuable as a building material — “gouged from a 200-year-old bridge to graffiti sprayed on a medieval chapel, there has been a rise in theft and vandalism at the nation’s most cherished historic sites, with the cost of living crisis expected to only worsen the problem.” – The Guardian
  
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• Mo Yan, China’s Only Nobel-Winning Author, Sued For Insulting Communist Party, “Heroes” And “Martyrs”

  13-03-2024 13:00 via apnews.com
  
  “Patriotic blogger Wu Wanzheng, who goes by ‘Truth-Telling Mao Xinghuo’ online, sued under a law that carries civil penalties and (occasionally) criminal punishments for perceived offenses against China’s heroes and martyrs. Wu claimed Mo’s books have smeared the Chinese Communist Party’s reputation … and insulted former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.” – AP
  
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• Palette to paycheck: the Lagos gallery helping children make a living from their art

  13-03-2024 09:00
  
  The Children’s Art Gallery supports young Nigerian artists from low-income families, helping them sell their work around the world and build a better lifeOn a whitewashed wall at the back of the gallery, seven landscape paintings are on display. The artist, Fiyinfoluwa Adeniji, hopes his collection will sell well. Last year, he made 1m naira ($650) from the sale of two paintings – an impressive achievement for an 11-year-old who first picked up a paintbrush when he was seven.“I
  
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• Vice President of Communications, Marketing, & Sales

  13-03-2024 04:20 via artsjournal.com
  MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS (MIDLAND, MI)
  is in search of a Vice President of Communications, Marketing, & SalesJamie Grant has been engaged to work with our Human Resources Department to conduct the search. Interested applicants may submit resume and cover letter to [email protected]: $120,000-$150,000ABOUT MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTSA cultural destination in the heart of Michigan, the Midland Center for the Arts is on a dynamic course of growth and change, includi
  
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