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• What If Porgy Happens to be White? — Celebrating the Art of Lawrence Tibbett

  19-03-2024 23:23 via artsjournal.com
  
  Lawrence Tibbett as Verdi’s Simon BoccanegraLawrence Tibbett as Gruenberg’s Emperor JonesGeorge Gershwin chose Lawrence Tibbett to make
  
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• New Zealand’s Museums Are In Crisis

  19-03-2024 23:01 via thebigidea.nz
  What the research revealed was an overworked workforce overly reliant on volunteers, snowballing costs and shrinking funding. Small museums and galleries in the provinces and rural communities are barely being propped up by community goodwill. – The Big Idea
  
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• Artistic Director – Alabama Shakespeare Festival

  19-03-2024 22:23 via artsjournal.com
  Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) seeks an inspiring, collaborative, and engaging Artistic Director to help guide its next chapter. A leader whose passions include artistic excellence, openness to new people and ideas, and a strong desire to connect with and serve ASF’s many communities will help this important organization continue to thrive. This position reports directly to the Board of Directors and serves as the company’s co-leader, working in close collaboration with the Execu
  
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• What LitBlogging Turned Into

  19-03-2024 22:01 via thereadingexperience.net
  In short, the literary weblog may have prepared the way for a critical writing about literature online that not just rivalled but eventually exceeded both in quantity and depth what had been available in general-interest print publications, but in the end it has reconstructed the apparatus that makes literary commentary an elite practice. – The Reading Experience
  
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• Warhol Museum Director To Step Down

  19-03-2024 22:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Patrick Moore joined the Warhol Museum as the director of development in 2011, and assumed other leading administrative roles at the museum before being appointed director in 2017. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Report: Many Of World’s Biggest Museums Have Recovered To Pre-COVID Visitor Numbers

  19-03-2024 21:29 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019 to just 54m in 2020. Although the total number of visitors to the top 100 museums was 176 million in 2023, our survey shows that many of the world’s largest museums are now close to their 2019 visitor numbers. – Art Newspaper
  
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• Tim Page Remembers Byron Janis

  19-03-2024 21:01 via washingtonpost.com
  For years, Mr. Janis was one of the best-known classical musicians in the world, playing major stages from Philadelphia to Paris. – Washington Post
  
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• Theo Matoff obituary

  19-03-2024 20:49
  
  My husband, Theo Matoff, who has died aged 92, was a lecturer in architecture who rose to become head of the schools of architecture at two polytechnics – in Plymouth and then Leicester.Theo was born in Vancouver, Canada, to Miriam (nee Lando) and her husband, Conrad, and went to Magee high school in the city. His parents jointly owned a fur company, but when he was 19 they moved to Los Angeles to run a department store and he went with them. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Are An Increasing Number Of Writers Okay With Censoring Other Writers?

  19-03-2024 20:24 via nytimes.com
  
  The spectacle of writers refusing to entertain the work of other writers in the name of freedom never fails to dispirit, though at this point it no longer surprises. – The New York Times
  
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• Choreographer Arlene Phillips Is Still Working Full-Time At Age 80

  19-03-2024 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Her) 60-year career … has included choreographing stage musicals, including Starlight Express and We Will Rock You, and films such as the 1982 version of Annie. She has created routines for music videos for a ridiculous number of superstars, including Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Elton John and Freddie Mercury.” – The Guardian
  
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• Site Clones 3000 Deepfake Pop Voices For Use In Music

  19-03-2024 19:29 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  The site, which has described itself as the “#1 platform for making high quality AI covers in seconds,” has become big enough to warrant being the only voice-cloning tech to be called out by name by the Recording Industry Association of America. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• Why tree planting is a growing challenge | Brief letters

  19-03-2024 19:06
  
  The ‘Plant a tree in ’73’ campaign | Mark Redhead | Decor choices in hospitals | Tory leadership | Wildlife photographyThe “Plant a tree in ’73” campaign (Weatherwatch, 15 March) was successful because, at that time, councils could afford to employ their own highly qualified grounds maintenance staff, arboriculturists and landscape officers, of which I was one. Young trees had a higher rate of survival because council staff provided the aftercare and were resp
  
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• Peak TV Is Not Yet Over In Europe

  19-03-2024 19:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “While the U.S. TV business has seen a sharp downturn, with a drop in the number of shows commissioned and broadcast and headline-making layoffs across the major studios, European TV production is still on the upswing, according to a new (industry) report.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• British Museum Had Record Number Of Visitors In 2023

  19-03-2024 18:32 via bbc.com
  
  Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its best-ever year, with a 22% increase in visitors to 5,688,786. The most-visited outdoor attraction was Windsor Great Park, which is managed by the Crown Estate, with 5,487,856 visitors, which was a 3% decline on 2022 figures. – BBC
  
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• The Latest Challenge For European Publishers And Translators: Younger People Are Reading In English

  19-03-2024 18:04 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “A panel yesterday at the London Book Fair addressed the threat of English-language editions cannibalizing or otherwise supplanting sales of translated books, as the TikTok generation is increasingly happy to read in English.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The 20-Year-Old Transcribing Performances Into Detailed Notation

  19-03-2024 17:29 via nytimes.com
  
  George Collier takes snippets of videos from live performances by well-known artists like Wynton Marsalis and Celine Dion, or bedroom musicians who’ve posted clips online, and adds detailed directions for what’s being played. He turns sounds into wildly detailed notations and shares the results. – The New York Times
  
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• Is TikTok Really An Agent Of The Chinese Government? In Today’s China, It’s Not That Simple

  19-03-2024 17:02 via theconversation.com
  
  “Simply put, there’s no clear line between the state and society in China in the same way that there is in democracies. The Chinese Communist Party – which is synonymous with the Chinese state – both owns and is the nation. And that goes for private enterprises, too.” – The Conversation
  
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• ‘The trick is to get out of your own dead body …’

  19-03-2024 16:38 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/03/the-trick-is-to-get-out-of-your-own-dead-body.html" title="‘The trick is to get out of your
  
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• A Statistical Portrait Of Artists In Canada

  19-03-2024 16:31 via statsinsights.hillstrategies.com
  
  The 202,900 professional artists in Canada represent 1.0% of the national labour force. A finer analysis shows that 1 in every 102 Canadian workers is an artist. – Hill Strategies
  
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• ‘We don’t need more small-penis energy’… Sharon Stone on why she swapped acting for art

  19-03-2024 16:22
  
  At 66, Stone is no longer offered roles worthy of her talents – so she paints up to 17 hours a day. She opens up about Hollywood, her tough upbringing and letting her ‘creative faucet flow’One day a close friend of Sharon Stone’s went for dinner with her family. The friend’s father-in-law counselled that she should not choose pizza, since she had just had a baby and ought to lose weight. This incident inspired one of Stone’s paintings, It’s My Garden, As
  
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• Actors From The Bombed-Out Theatre In Occupied Mariupol Return To The Stage

  19-03-2024 16:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “A small group of actors and staff from the theatre have resurrected the troupe in Uzhhorod, in the far west of Ukraine. Performances take place in the vast, boxy auditorium of the city’s main theatre, which has offered its stage for the Mariupol troupe. There are also occasional tours.” – The Guardian
  
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• Putin Has Sent His FSB To Go After Russian Artists

  19-03-2024 15:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The (secret police) have reportedly searched at least 30 artists’ homes and studios across at least eight cities. … Among those targeted were members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot, members of the art activist project Party of the Dead, Yav Art Group members, and renowned conceptual artist Anatoly Osmolovsky.” – Artnet
  
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• For The First Time, A Full Wagner “Ring” Cycle With Historical Instruments And Singing Practices

  19-03-2024 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “In 2026, it will be 150 years since Wagner premiered the full Ring at his festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Each year until then, (Kent) Nagano and Concerto Köln … are touring installments of their historically informed Ring operas,” based in large part on Wagner’s own writings about performance. – The New York Times
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Marketing – Drive for Image First; The Road to Revenue Follows

  19-03-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Or, Drive for Money First; The Road to Oblivion Follows  
  Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels
  Over the last couple of columns, we’ve talked about the coming war. I need a break from that, and I’m sure you do, too. Let’s head back over to the land of the living, at least for the moment, and help them support your work. In your nonprofit arts organization, the person leading that effort is the marketing director.
  I’m always surprised when longtime executive and artistic d
  
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• How Britain’s Labour Party Can Fix The Arts Funding System That The Tories Have Wrecked

  19-03-2024 14:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “Labour’s first easy (and free) win would be to talk proudly about arts and culture – and especially the biggest cultural powerhouse the country possesses, the BBC. That would be a good start. But in the longer term, here are the more concrete matters it should focus on.” – The Guardian
  
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• Even 34 Years Later, Tips Still Come In About The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery

  19-03-2024 14:04 via msn.com
  “About 20 tips (were) reported to the museum over the past year from people who thought they saw one of the two most recognizable stolen paintings, (Rembrandt’s) “The Storm” or Vermeer’s “The Concert,” in homes across the country that were staged for … real estate listings.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• Andrew Crispo, Gallery Owner Involved With Murders And Financial Crimes, Is Dead At 78

  19-03-2024 13:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Though he lacked formal training in art, he was widely respected for his exacting eye, which he used to identify promising young painters. … (Yet he was) brought low by a long series of tabloid-worthy scandals, including tax evasion, extortion and implication in (a) grisly 1985 murder.” – The New York Times
  
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• EU Passes Landmark AI Legislation, And Will Regulate Use Of Copyright Material

  19-03-2024 13:00 via billboard.com
  
  The act places a number of legal and transparency obligations on tech companies and AI developers operating in Europe, including those working in the creative sector and music business. – Billboard
  
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• Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017

  19-03-2024 13:00
  
  Exclusive: Three sculptures exhibited in galleries around world were artificially aged, sources claimThree Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the Guardian has found.The trio of works, made by preserving a dove, a shark and two calves, have in recent years been exhibited in galleries in Hong Kong, New York, Munich, London and Oxford as examples of works from the
  
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• ‘So dehumanising’: Prem Sahib on making an artwork out of a Suella Braverman speech

  19-03-2024 11:39
  
  The artist, who took lockers from a gay sauna into galleries, has turned the former home secretary’s speech about the illegal migration bill into a sinister sonic maelstromPrem Sahib’s most disconcerting sculptures include a giant flea, a pair of hoodies suspended in the jaundiced glow of a sodium street lamp, and a cracked obsidian mirror which emits real-life hate speech recorded in a gay chatroom. His latest work is inspired by a figure arguably more sinister than anything he has
  
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• ‘A narrative of triumph’: a powerful 17-acre site in Alabama remembers enslavement

  19-03-2024 10:13
  
  The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park is an expansive new experience that aims to pay an honest tribute to courage and resilience as an American equivalent to a Holocaust memorial“The morning after our whipping, we all had to go to work, as if nothing had happened. I was so sore I could hardly do anything,” recalled James Matthews, who, like many enslaved people after a severe whipping, ran away into the woods. “I have known a great many who never came back; they were whipped so
  
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• ‘People are anaesthetised to seeing rubbish everywhere’: the book unearthing waste in our seas

  19-03-2024 09:00
  
  East Yorkshire artist Mandy Barker has found a way to make us look again at pollution – cataloguing fibres from fast fashion in the style of a Victorian book about British algaeWhen Mandy Barker stumbled upon a fragment of colour in a rock pool while walking near Spurn Point, East Yorkshire, in 2012, she was bewitched. “I thought it was a piece of seaweed with lovely colours on it – greeny-browny – but when I went to pick it out, I saw that it&nbs
  
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• Booze, jigsaws and rainbows: revisiting Ray’s a Laugh – in pictures

  19-03-2024 08:00
  
  First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, a new version of Richard Billingham’s seminal photobook features fresh images and the same stark depiction of poverty that feels more relevant than ever Continue reading...
  
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• ABA Seeks Senior Director of Business Development

  19-03-2024 06:42 via artsjournal.com
  The Advisory Board for the Arts is looking for a highly motivated Senior Director, Business Development, to join our dynamic team and play a crucial role in growing our network of clients. As Senior Director, Business Development at ABA, you will be responsible for acquiring new clients, helping grow ABA’s footprint in North America and driving revenue growth.You will operate in a fast-paced, for-profit, start-up environment, with a fully virtual team based across the world. Joining at the
  
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