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• Change In Rules Opens Up Investment For West End Theatre

  15-03-2024 23:03 via forbes.com
  “This is a once in a generation transformational change that will ensure Britain remains the global capital of creativity,” stated composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber. – Forbes
  
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• Philanthropy As A Business Model

  15-03-2024 22:31 via dicktofel.substack.com
  
  First, and most simply, philanthropy is most certainly a business model, or at least the core of such a model, because it is at the heart of financing nearly every private university and almost all of the country’s leading cultural institutions, from museums to the performing arts, as well as most organized religious institutions. – Second Rough Draft
  
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• Government Regulators Need AI Experts. They Just Can’t Pay (Well) For Them

  15-03-2024 22:01 via wired.com
  
  As governments spin up new AI programs, regulators around the world are urgently trying to hire AI experts. But some of the job ads are raising eyebrows and even chuckles among AI researchers and engineers for offering wages that, amid the current AI boom, look pitiful. – Wired
  
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• Personality Typing Is A Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. Why Do We Want To Be Typed?

  15-03-2024 21:32 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  The self has never been more securely an object of classification than it is today, thanks to the century-long ascendence of behavioral analysis and scientific psychology, sociometry, taxonomic personology, and personality theory. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Reframing The History Of Modernism Outside Of Its Eurocentric Story

  15-03-2024 21:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “The main issue is Eurocentric modernism and its history, which can be dealt with by redefining modernism and re-writing its history. How can this be achieved when Eurocentric modernism is persistent in its domination of the art world with all its institutions”? – Hyperallergic
  
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• Sweden Is At The Forefront Of Music Technology. Is There Something In The Water?

  15-03-2024 20:32 via bbc.com
  
  Some music tech entrepreneurs argue the speed at which AI tools are growing globally is also putting pressure on Stockholm’s well-oiled music tech ecosystem. – BBC
  
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• Ballet Dancers Are Not All Anorexic (Anymore) And Other Myths Busted

  15-03-2024 20:06 via scmp.com
  
  A principal dancer and the director of Munich’s Bavarian State Ballet explain that dancers are athletes as well as artists, they’re thin because they’re exerting themselves for at least eight hours every day, and “ballet is a competitive sport in an artistic guise.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Defining The Great American Novels

  15-03-2024 19:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  In setting out to identify that new American canon, we decided to define American as having first been published in the United States (or intended to be—read more in our entries on Lolita and The Bell Jar). And we narrowed our aperture to the past 100 years. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Frida Kahlo You Probably Didn’t Know About

  15-03-2024 19:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  Yes, we know she was intelligent and gifted, leftist and patriotic, long-suffering physically and emotionally. She also scorned the New York elites feting Diego, had to terminate a pregnancy in Detroit, and absolutely despised the French Surrealists who championed her work. – Artnet
  
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• The Fierce, Frustrated Life Of The Real-Life Inspiration For Strindberg’s Miss Julie

  15-03-2024 17:59 via aeon.co
  
  Victoria Bruzelius Benedictsson, marooned in a stifling Swedish village, began writing and publishing books and stories under the name Ernst Ahlgren, left her family for a gender-fluid life (half-Benedictsson-half-Ahlgren) of literary celebrity in Copenhagen, and then, rejected in love, committed suicide — whereupon Strindberg immediately co-opted her life as subject matter. – Aeon
  
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• Meet Gary Bartz: Saxophonist and 2024 NEA Jazz Master

  15-03-2024 17:55 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this tuneful podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, collaborations, and the philosophical underpinnings that have guided his artistic journey.
  Born in Baltimore in 1940, Gary’s musical journey began in a segregated America, where he found music to be a universal language that could transcend societal barriers. He discusses his early encounters with music which were deeply influenced by his family’s
  
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• Josh Kosman: Sizing Up Salonen’s Time At The San Francisco Symphony

  15-03-2024 17:31 via sfchronicle.com
  Even after regular concerts resumed in earnest that fall, there was still that faint shadow across the proceedings, a sense that we had all gotten off on the wrong foot together. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Meet The Last Of Venice’s Artisan Gold-Beaters

  15-03-2024 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Three hundred years ago, the city had around 300 battilori hammering out gold leaf using traditional techniques. Today, Marino Menegazzo’s family workshop is the last, and one of only a few in all Europe. Here’s a look at how he and his daughter do their work. – The New York Times
  
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• Who Might Replace Salonen At The San Francisco Symphony?

  15-03-2024 16:31 via sfcv.org
  While American orchestras have a propensity for pursuing and hiring conductors from abroad, MTT’s success here might lead SFS to consider hiring an American. And while women are still all too rare among today’s U.S. music directors, the orchestra might follow San Francisco Opera’s example and appoint a woman to the position. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Argentina’s New Right-Wing Populist President Is Defunding The National Film/TV Agency

  15-03-2024 16:04 via variety.com
  
  “Javier Milei is forging ahead with his administration’s plans to defund the country’s film-TV institute INCAA, which will adversely impact national film festivals such as the Mar del Plata and federal aid for national film releases, state-run cinemas and film schools, among others.” – Variety
  
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• Who’s Putting Together A Bid To Buy TikTok? Trump’s Former Treasury Secretary

  15-03-2024 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker who founded his own private equity firm after leaving Washington, says he’s gathering a group of investors to buy the video app if the Senate passes the House bill requiring its current owner, the Beijing-based corporation ByteDance, to sell it. – AP
  
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• How The Economist (The Economist?!) Is Pulling In Young Readers

  15-03-2024 15:05 via pressgazette.co.uk
  It’s with the app called Espresso, whose 2023 subscriber numbers were up 64% from 2022. Says marketing VP Nada Arnot, “It’s a snack-size version if you will, but it’s not in any way a diluted version. It’s not a substitute to the core product.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• The Priest Who Ordered 300-Year-Old Frescoes To Be Painted Over

  15-03-2024 14:36 via theguardian.com
  
  A contrite Father Héctor Lunar, a Venezuelan refugee on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands, says he had no idea that the murals of his church were heritage-listed. “No one told me about it. All I wanted to do was add another coat of paint … to get ready for Holy Week.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Bill That Just Passed The U.S. House Does Not Ban TikTok

  15-03-2024 14:02 via msn.com
  The legislation would just require the app’s owner, the Chinese corporation ByteDance, to sell it to some other entity that isn’t under the ultimate control of the Chinese Communist Party. ByteDance (and the Party) should be fine with selling TikTok for a few billion, shouldn’t they? – New York Magazine (MSN)
  
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• Ranking U.S. States By Arts Vibrancy

  15-03-2024 13:33 via culturaldata.org
  
  “Key insights: States with higher proportions of rural population tend to have lower levels of arts vibrancy – with some notable exceptions. States ranking higher on arts vibrancy generally have lower poverty rates; but having low levels of poverty doesn’t guarantee a top arts vibrancy ranking.” – SMU Data Arts
  
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• Play-Doh photos, Emin’s studio show and Munch-drunk love – the week in art

  15-03-2024 13:08
  
  Plus 500 years worth of children land in Derbyshire and a baroque zealot flatters his King in oil paint – all in your weekly dispatchWe Do Not Sleep
  Tracey Emin and friends in a group show at her Margate studio complex and school. Lindsey Mendick and Vanessa Raw are among the artists exhibiting alongside Emin.
  • TKE Studios, Margate, until 19 May Continue reading...
  
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• National Theatre In London Is Planning A $160 Million Renovation

  15-03-2024 13:00 via timeout.com
  
  “(The project’s) number-one priority will be to ‘support urgent infrastructure updates to the National Theatre building’. … This will free up the NT’s technical staff from constantly patching things up, allowing the creation of a new National Theatre Skills Centre, which will train over 5,000 technical staff a year.” – Time Out London
  
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• ‘Everywoman’ and horse sculptures chosen for display at London’s fourth plinth

  15-03-2024 10:30
  
  London mayor’s office hopes works for Trafalgar Square will continue tradition of fostering debate over artA bronze sculpture paying homage to a woman of colour; and a hollow, lifesized person on a horse cast in a slime-green resin will be the next two artworks installed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.The works by Tschabalala Self and Andra Ursuța were selected from a shortlist which included Veronica Ryan, Thomas J Price, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Gabriel Chaile and Ruth
  
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