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• Examining Shakespeare’s Words

  26-03-2024 23:01 via newcriterion.com
  To praise Shakespeare is also to praise his audience. Not just the one that filled the Globe during his lifetime, but the subsequent generations, too, that have cherished and preserved him, that have commented on him and imitated him. – New Criterion
  
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• Sundance Loses Its Leader After Only Two Years

  26-03-2024 22:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Joana Vicente came to Sundance from the Toronto International Film Festival and arrived as COVID had pushed the festival online for 2021 and again in 2022. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How Censorship Changed Opera

  26-03-2024 22:01 via english.elpais.com
  
  How did the opera get past censorship, when it utilized the same script of Hugo’s banned play? Well, this was thanks to the genius of Giuseppe Verdi. – El Pais
  
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• The Trolls Unleashed By Gutenberg’s Printing Press

  26-03-2024 21:32 via publicbooks.org
  
  Nowadays when we speak of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, we mostly refer to its more reputable side. But similar to the proliferation of rumors and falsehoods on social media platforms, the printing press also facilitated the circulation of rumors and fake news in sensationalist pamphlets and broadsides. – Public Books
  
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• Large Warhol Silk Screen Painting Missing From College

  26-03-2024 21:01 via latimes.com
  
  The print was inspired by U.S. President Nixon’s trip to China to meet Chairman Mao Zedong, ending years of diplomatic isolation between the U.S. and China, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Warhol created 199 silkscreen paintings of Mao in five scales between 1972 and 1973. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The UK Arts Sector Has Been Damaged By Tory Budget Cuts. Time To Rebuild

  26-03-2024 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The Tories have been weaponising the arts for their own purposes in the culture wars – an incredibly cynical and damaging thing to do, needlessly pulling arts organisations into enervating, debilitating rows as they fend off accusations of “wokery”. – The Guardian
  
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• “As Frighteningly Relevant As Ever”: Margaret Atwood On Stephen King’s “Carrie”

  26-03-2024 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s one of those books that manage to dip into the collective unconscious of their own age and society. … Underneath the ‘horror’ … is always the real horror: the all-too-actual poverty and neglect and hunger and abuse that exist in America today.” – The New York Times Book Review
  
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• What Australian Arts Managers Are Noticing In Their Best Workers

  26-03-2024 19:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  They “are noticing in their best workers right now is the ability to recognise where opportunities and/ or learnings can be found in otherwise challenging situations, and use those perspectives to fuel new ideas for the whole team to consider.” – ArtsHub
  
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• Germany’s Much-Vaunted Culture Has Turned Rotten

  26-03-2024 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Many Berliners are growing estranged from the cultural institutions our taxes fund. Hard as it is for someone like me to admit, economic hardships and the dwindling number of unclaimed spaces have forced many of us to be far more conservative than preceding generations. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Nashville Will Restore The Arts Grants It Announced And Then Withdrew

  26-03-2024 19:04 via nashvillebanner.com
  
  “Surplus funding of $3 million from Metro’s FY23 budget, on top of $2 million that was already promised, will be directed to Metro Arts to pay off a ‘mounting deficit’ and fully fund grant commitments made to independent artists and arts organizations this year.” – Nashville Banner
  
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• Study: Link Between Formal Music Training And Working Memory

  26-03-2024 18:27 via psypost.org
  Study author Maria Chiara Pino and her colleagues noted that people with formal musical background i.e., individuals who had formal musical training tend to show better working memory functioning. – PsyPost
  
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• ‘Dalí’s were unfilmable’: the astonishing story of Hitchcock’s lost storyboards – found in a bric-a-brac sale

  26-03-2024 18:10
  
  Five decades ago, a fan picked up a set of the director’s meticulous storyboards for just $50 – including the lost Spellbound dream sequence by Salvador Dalí in which Ingrid Bergman turns into antsIt is Los Angeles in the early 1970s and the critic John Russell Taylor is driving around the San Fernando Valley, checking out the goods on offer at various yard sales. It’s usual for locals to put their bric-a-brac out on their lawns, hoping to raise some cash. What’s l
  
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• The Long-Lost Broadway Script That Turned Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” From A Flop To A Classic

  26-03-2024 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 1926 dramatisation by Owen Davis, a Pulitzer prizewinner, opened to rave reviews and became a hit that contributed to the novel’s success, bringing Fitzgerald substantial royalties and fame. But the original script had long since been lost. Now a copy has been rediscovered and will be published.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• How War In Gaza Is Breaking Up The German Arts World

  26-03-2024 17:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now had been easier to ignore. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Harkens back to the Aids quilt’: using art as protest for the trans community

  26-03-2024 17:18
  
  With an increase in US anti-trans legislation, this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility will see impactful art and a drive to validate a powerful communitySince its inception in 2009, Transgender Day of Visibility – which occurs every year on 31 March – has been a focus point for greater awareness of the challenges faced by transgender people in the United States, as well as a celebration of the community’s strength and diversity. In 2015, for instance, a selfie campaign
  
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• U.S. House And Senate Approve Over Half A Billion Dollars For Public Radio And TV

  26-03-2024 17:06 via insideradio.com
  “(Congress has) approved $535 million in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in fiscal year 2026. The funding, included in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024, upholds the two-year advance appropriation for public radio and television.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Province Of Alberta Invests $103M In Calgary Arts Commons

  26-03-2024 16:32 via calgaryherald.com
  
  The province’s contribution to revamp Calgary’s live theatre and arts hub will be spread out over seven years, with the majority of funds distributed in the next four-year budget cycle. – Calgary Herald
  
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• Could Classical European Ballet Actually Return To Iran?

  26-03-2024 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The Iranian National Ballet, founded under the Shah in 1958, was disbanded by the new Islamist regime in 1979. The story of one of the company’s last dancers has been adapted into a new work by choreographer Tara Ghassemieh, who hopes, yes, to bring it to Iran someday. – The New York Times
  
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• Composer Peter Eötvös Has Died At 80

  26-03-2024 15:31 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  A tireless advocate for contemporary music over a six-decade career, Eötvös came to international attention as a member of the Stockhausen Ensemble (1968-1976). He later served as music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony (1995-98). Between 1997 and 2023, he published 14 operas. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Facing Pressure To Keep Salonen, San Francisco Symphony Leadership Defends Itself

  26-03-2024 15:03 via msn.com
  “We would love nothing more than to be able to immediately restore the number of SoundBox performances, semi-staged productions, and new commissions; to resume touring; and to reinstate Concerts for Kids. The limiting factor prohibiting us from doing so … is solely a lack of immediate financial resources.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Items From Brooklyn Museum’s Period Rooms Sell For An Excellent Price

  26-03-2024 14:34 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Four period rooms that the Brooklyn Museum put up for auction (went) for as much as 30 times their low estimates.” The items were sold to free up exhibition space for parts of the museum’s collection, such as African art and Native art, that have never had permanent galleries. – Artnet
  
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• L.A. Times Arts Columnist Carolina A. Miranda Steps Down

  26-03-2024 14:02 via latimes.com
  
  “Earlier this month, I accepted a buyout from the company; Friday was my last day. It’s been a great ride. … I’ve been craving some focused time for a book I intend to write about the time I spent in Chile following the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Con Is On – Raising Emergency Money at the Expense of Everyone Else Is Not a Heroic Act

  26-03-2024 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Especially when you leave the premises just before the devastation and claim victory
  That sucking sound you’re hearing is money being siphoned off to the black hole of nonprofit arts emergency campaigns.
  I can’t believe that this is not only still happening, but that you’re allowing it to happen.
  The San Francisco Bay area is geographically and demographically large. Stretching across nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sola
  
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• France’s Most Popular Living Singer Will Perform At The Paris Olympics — And This Is A Major Controversy

  26-03-2024 13:37 via nytimes.com
  
  “The possible choice for the opening ceremony of Aya Nakamura, a superstar French-Malian singer whose slang-spiced lyrics stand at some distance from academic French, has ignited a furor tinged with issues of race and linguistic propriety and the politics of immigration.” – The New York Times
  
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• Streamers’ Cancellation Policies And Apparent Greed Are Leading People To Threaten Revolt

  26-03-2024 13:00 via huffpost.com
  
  Old-school revolt, though: “When you consider the original stories we’ll never see because studio execs don’t believe they’re profitable, that’s frustrating as a viewer flipping through the TV and seeing more of the same. It makes you feel like you might as well just get cable again.” – HuffPost
  
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