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• US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers

  27-03-2024 22:55 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to other projects. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Is It True That Quality TV Is Done For?

  27-03-2024 22:31 via bbc.com
  
  “There’s definitely been a contraction after years of it feeling like TV was undergoing this crazy expansion.” – BBC
  
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• How The Head Of Juilliard’s Dance Program Is Shaking Things Up

  27-03-2024 22:01 via npr.org
  
  In 2018, she became the prestigious New York conservatory’s first woman of color to head the dance program — and the youngest person to do so. Graf Mack, 45, is shaking up what is taught and how to make art dance more relevant. – NPR
  
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• How Two Amsterdam Museums Managed Hyper-Demand For Blockbuster Shows

  27-03-2024 21:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could have easily sold two million tickets. That’s something I didn’t expect.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Inside San Francisco Symphony’s Budget Issues And What They Say About Priorities

  27-03-2024 21:01 via sfcv.org
  Given these “significant financial pressures,” where does the multimillion-dollar Davies renovation project stand, certain to pose challenges even if the cost of application and licensing is covered by donation? – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• How Steppenwolf Theatre Reimagined Its Educational Mission

  27-03-2024 20:32 via americantheatre.org
  
  It seemed that the education department functioned as a sort of nonprofit running within another nonprofit, having separate conversations about programming. – American Theatre
  
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• Meet The Organist For The Boston Red Sox At Fenway Park

  27-03-2024 20:05 via msn.com
  “It’s (Josh) Kantor’s job to punch up the action when it’s going well on the field and soothe fans’ frayed nerves when it’s not. Through … social media, he interacts with fans in real time, taking requests. … He’s made himself an integral part of the Fenway experience.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• For The Second Time Since 1987, Vinyl Records Outsold CDs Last Year

  27-03-2024 19:31 via theverge.com
  
  People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs sold in 2023, marking the second time since 1987 that’s happened and reflecting the steady 17-year-running growth of vinyl sales. – The Verge
  
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• Michael Ondaatje On His First Poetry Collection In 25 Years

  27-03-2024 19:02 via lithub.com
  
  “The real question I had “was could I write poems anymore? … I didn’t want to miss out on a certain pensiveness, and a certain relationship with language, that only poetry can demand.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Molten magnificence: how Richard Serra’s giant steel sculptures bent time and space

  27-03-2024 18:39
  
  The American’s mighty masterpieces – straight, curved or set at thrilling angles – sucked everyone nearby into their mysterious gravity. Our critic pays tribute to art’s legendary man of steelRichard Serra – obituaryRichard Serra – a life in picturesWhat could seem more out of step or more timeless than Richard Serra’s work – with its obdurate metal blocks and curving steel walls that can feel as threatening as the side of a ship that curls above y
  
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• There Are Lots Of Music Subscription Experiments Going On. How About This One?

  27-03-2024 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The term “blockchain” has dropped out of the public consciousness since the calming of the NFT frenzy of the early 2020s. But the technology – essentially data hosting by verified authors – offers a simple solution for fans wanting to demonstrate their investment in a musician’s work. – The Guardian
  
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• Making Dementia-Friendly Theatre

  27-03-2024 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Designed in collaboration with people living with dementia and their carers, these performances are specifically adapted for their audience, allowing them to have a rollicking night out in a safe, tailored environment, free of the fear of disturbing a standard show.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Obnoxious’: sculptures and installations that have divided opinion

  27-03-2024 17:46
  
  Statues in St Pancras station and Newbiggin-by-the-Seaendure despite opposition from publicIt was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it. But the faceless sculpture of Prince Philip outside a Cambridge office block, which is to be taken down years after it appeared, is not alone as a work of divisive public art.Here we take a look at other sculptures and inst
  
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• ‘Eye-wounding erection’: UK public art that is loved or hated

  27-03-2024 17:46
  
  The faceless sculpture of Prince Philip is not the only work to have split public opinion. Here are some other installationsIt was described by one council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted and has attracted so much controversy that no artist has admitted to making it. But the outside a Cambridge office block, which is to be taken down years after it appeared, is not alone as a work of divisive public art.Here we take a look at other sculptures and install
  
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• Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?

  27-03-2024 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as a producer/cosmic facilitator, and an account of the spirituality that defines his method. – The Atlantic
  
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• Algerian Officials Rebuke TV Stations For Too Many Ads And “Immoral” Programming During Ramadan

  27-03-2024 16:58 via apnews.com
  
  The communications minister’s complaints were about some of the prime-time soap operas that draw massive viewership as people break their Ramadan fasts in the evenings. (One serial, for instance, showed characters using alcohol and cocaine,) He also griped that ads take up more time than programming does. – AP
  
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• Richard Serra obituary

  27-03-2024 16:44
  
  Sculptor whose monumental steel forms transformed public spacesRichard Serra, who has died aged 85, was a remarkable cultural figure – a sculptor who belonged to the generation of American minimalists, was associated with process art and made experimental films, yet evoked something of an earlier, more heroic age. The critic Robert Hughes described him as “the last abstract expressionist”.Although this statement stretches the point, Serra’s interest in the processes
  
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• AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction

  27-03-2024 16:31 via msn.com
  Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern Language Association, better known as the MLA. In Australia, only 8.6 percent of high-school seniors were studying a foreign language in 2021—a historic low. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• “Information Is Power” — Dance Data Project’s Founder Talks About Five Years Of Collecting Information About Gender Inequity

  27-03-2024 16:05 via classicchicagomagazine.com
  “We are here to provide data and analysis which journalists, funders and advocates can deploy to create a more interesting dance world. Artistic-director candidates have used our reports to demand pay equal to their male peers. Dancer representatives say they negotiated a 40% salary increase based on our work.” – Classic Chicago Magazine
  
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• Richard Serra Made Modern Sculpture Exciting — By Creating The Feeling That It Might Fall On You

  27-03-2024 15:33 via msn.com
  Sebastian Smee: “As an artist, he was no bully. Rather, he was a physicist. He wanted you to know, and to feel in your bones, that weight isn’t just a thing — it’s a force. It’s mass times acceleration. As such, it carries an inherent threat.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Smithsonian Misused Federal COVID Relief Funding, Finds Internal Audit

  27-03-2024 15:05 via artnews.com
  
  “The Smithsonian’s internal Office of the Inspector General last month released a report saying that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million it received in COVID relief funds from the 2020 CARES Act.” – ARTnews
  
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• Amid air raids and electricity shortages, a Ukrainian artist paints the Russian invasion

  27-03-2024 15:00
  
  For Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, art-making became a compulsive way to process the anxiety of living in a war zoneTo look at Sana Shahmuradova Tanska’s paintings is to sense that something is awry, without quite knowing why. A series of canvases hanging in Artspace in Woolloomooloo as part of the Biennale of Sydney depicts strange, fantastical scenes that walk a line between Dionysian and dystopic: naked female figures in molten, fiery landscapes; mussels with moony faces swimming next to pro
  
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• Ohad Naharin On Ballet Ireland’s Cancellation Of His “Minus 16” Because He’s Israeli

  27-03-2024 14:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  “From the abyss of my sadness witnessing the ongoing catastrophe … I am writing to you. If the act of cancellation would have helped the Palestinians’ cause I would boycott my own show. It is obvious that this cancellation does nothing to reduce the suffering of people in our region.” – The Irish Times
  
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• Boston Public Radio Station WBUR Is Offering Staff Buyouts

  27-03-2024 14:02 via msn.com
  As management looks to cut 10% of the budget, it “hopes the plan will help reduce some expenses, but … the station expects to still cut more jobs or freeze hiring. Anyone hired at least three months ago can take the buyout.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• Arts Funding In Hawaii Is Saved By State Senate Committee

  27-03-2024 13:34 via hawaiipublicradio.org
  
  The state’s percent-for-art law, the oldest in the US (1967), requires 1% of the construction or renovation costs of state buildings to go to Hawaii’s arts agency. A bill from the state House would have removed renovations from that requirement, reducing the agency’s income by two-thirds. – Hawai’i Public Radio
  
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• Sagrada Familia In Barcelona Will Be Finished (Sort Of) In 2026

  27-03-2024 13:06 via cnn.com
  
  With the completion of the Chapel of the Assumption in 2025 and the last and highest of its six towers the following year, construction of architect Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece will conclude after 140 years, just in time for the centennial of his death. Well, complete except for the enormous, controversial staircase. – CNN
  
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• Rare show of sculptor Constantin Brâncuși’s work opens in Paris

  27-03-2024 10:39
  
  Exhibition features more than 120 sculptures by Romanian who revolutionised the art formA rare retrospective of Constantin Brâncuși, who revolutionised sculpture in the early 20th century but whose works can be extremely tricky to transport, opens in Paris on Wednesday.Born in Romania in 1876, Brâncuși arrived in Paris at the age of 28 and soon after joined the workshop of another historic sculptor, Auguste Rodin. Continue reading...
  
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• Cambridge council orders removal of ‘poorest quality’ statue of Prince Philip

  27-03-2024 10:21
  
  £150,000 abstract sculpture described as worst ever submitted was erected without planning permissionA faceless sculpture of Prince Philip, once described by a council planner as “possibly the poorest quality work” ever submitted, will be taken down years after it was erected without planning permission.Standing outside a Cambridge office block, the 4-metre bronze statue depicted the late queen’s husband in academic robes with an abstract face resembling a twisted owl mas
  
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• Richard Serra, 85

  27-03-2024 05:10 via nytimes.com
  
  Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. – The New York Times
  
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• What’s an Orchestra For? — Mulling Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Resignation from the San Francisco Symphony

  27-03-2024 04:23 via artsjournal.com
  
  The resignation of Esa-Pekka Salonen as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony is dominating classical-music news because Salonen made
  
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• Richard Serra – a life in pictures

  27-03-2024 02:31
  
  The famed artist, who has died of pneumonia aged 85, was once described as ‘the best sculptor alive’ and known for his monumental steel works Continue reading...
  
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• ABA Seeks Member Advisor

  27-03-2024 02:31 via advisoryboardarts.com
  Position SummaryMember Advisors play a critical role in managing and deepening relationships with ABA member organizations. These individuals serve as the primary point of contact at ABA for member organizations and are responsible for ensuring organizations receive the highest value possible from their membership.About UsThe Advisory Board for the Arts is the world’s largest research-based network of arts and cultural organizations, with 100 long-term client partnerships in 11 countries a
  
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• Richard Serra, uncompromising American abstract sculptor, dies aged 85

  27-03-2024 02:09
  
  The Californian artist, who died of pneumonia, was known and eventually loved for his massive rusting steel structures now housed in museums around the worldRichard Serra, the American artist known for bending the boundaries of sculpture, has died at the age of 85.Serra died at home on Tuesday at his home in New York. The cause of death was pneumonia, his lawyer John Silberman confirmed to the New York Times. Continue reading...
  
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