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• Disney And DeSantis Settle Their Differences

  29-03-2024 23:01 via politico.com
  Disney on Wednesday reached a settlement in Florida and will no longer seek to retain its self-governance of Walt Disney World, a stunning turn in a battle with DeSantis that stretched more than two years. – Politico
  
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• Podcasting Audience Grows To 100 Million

  29-03-2024 22:31 via insideradio.com
  Podcast listening continues to set new records as nearly 100 million American adults now say they listen to podcasts on a weekly basis. – Inside Radio
  
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• Theatre And Journalism Are In Trouble. So Who’s Talking?

  29-03-2024 22:01 via americantheatre.org
  
  Amid these daunting financial and industry realities, what does forging a path in theatre criticism even look like these days? Where does one go to learn best practices? To learn how to craft an expert pitch? Is it all learning by doing? If so, how and where do you get started? – American Theatre
  
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• The World’s 100 Most-Popular Museums For 2023

  29-03-2024 21:28 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  This year we can finally answer: things are back to normal. Mostly. Our exclusive survey reveals that in 2023 many of the world’s largest museums recorded very similar numbers to those of 2019, the last full year before the Covid lockdowns began. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Cultures Of Theatre Censorship

  29-03-2024 21:01 via thestage.co.uk
  In recent months, there have been concerns both in the UK and in Europe that legislation ostensibly designed to address hate speech might also place limitations on free speech. – The Stage
  
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• NY Museum’s Former Financial Officer Files Suit Over Firing Over Expense Claims

  29-03-2024 20:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  According to the lawsuit filed by Denise Lewis, who worked at the museum from 2017 until her firing in January of this year, the museum’s director sought to use the institution’s funds to pay for personal expenditures during a vacation in Mexico last October. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Ten Typical Behaviors Of Creative People

  29-03-2024 20:31 via psychologytoday.com
  Creative people are uncomfortable with the status quo. For them, a creative life is one of options, opportunities, and alternatives. They do not always accept what others do; rather, they seek multiple responses and views. – Psychology Today
  
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• The Artist Who Makes His Inks And Pigments From Guns

  29-03-2024 20:04 via cnn.com
  
  “For more than five years, (Thomas) Little has performed this kind of alchemy, purchasing handguns and automatic rifles from pawn shops and dissolving the iron-heavy parts in acid to form iron sulfate, the basis for writing inks and artists’ pigments in deep blacks, rusty reds and warm ochres.” – CNN
  
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• Protecting Michelangelo’s “David”

  29-03-2024 19:32 via apnews.com
  
  The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director, Cecilie Hollberg, has positioned herself as David’s defender since her arrival at the museum in 2015, taking swift aim at those profiteering from his image, often in ways she finds “debasing.” – AP
  
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• Hiring Party Operatives As Paid Pundits For TV News — Has It Become More Trouble Than It’s Worth?

  29-03-2024 19:05 via apnews.com
  
  Well, obviously not for Fox News, but otherwise, NBC News’s rapid hiring-and-firing of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel after an on-air staff rebellion (because she peddled 2020 election disinformation) makes observers wonder if hiring a professional election-denier “is just too costly for a self-respecting newsroom with a public service charter.” – AP
  
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• We Are Now Accepting Entries To The 17th International ARC Salon Competition

  29-03-2024 18:53 via artsjournal.com
  When talking about competitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, the International ARC Salon is the largest in the world. With over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through partnerships with prestigious magazines, galleries, museums, and more, don’t miss your chance to compete. Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens.* Ov
  
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• John McWhorter: How To Teach Hard Lessons

  29-03-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Note that all of these centerings would be about things most consider good, and even crucial, but the question would be why the university, as a general rule, should make any of those things the essence of what an education should consist of. – The New York Times
  
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• At 60, Alessandra Ferri Prepares To Leave The Stage For Good — And Start Running The Vienna State Ballet

  29-03-2024 18:01 via bachtrack.com
  
  On retiring: “At this stage in my life, dancing takes up the whole day, for my body, the training. I have the energy for one thing or the other.” On becoming the boss: “I’m actually really enjoying the management part, … which for me is quite surprising!” – Bachtrack
  
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• Trend? Titles That Seem Familiar

  29-03-2024 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Perhaps the frisson of cleverness (I know where that’s from!), or the flip-side cringe of ignorance (I should know where that’s from!), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search-optimized headline compels you to click a link. – The New York Times
  
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• Without Warning, A Linchpin Of The Entire U.S. Indie-Publisher Ecosystem Has Closed

  29-03-2024 17:06 via kqed.org
  Small Press Distribution, founded in 1969, was the country’s only not-for-profit literary distributor. It served roughly 400 small. independent presses and was known for getting unknown or experimental books to stores and to readers. Titles it distributed won over 100 literary awards in the last five years alone. – KQED (San Francisco)
  
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• The AI-Created Junk Polluting Our Culture

  29-03-2024 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s unclear what the ethical line is between scam and regular usage. Some A.I.-generated scams are easy to identify, like the medical journal paper featuring a cartoon rat sporting enormous genitalia. Many others are more insidious, like the mislabeled and hallucinated regulatory pathway. – The New York Times
  
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• “My Three Right Hands” — Without These Women, Holst Could Never Have Composed “The Planets”

  29-03-2024 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  As amanuenses, copyists, assistants, rehearsal pianists, and performers, Vally Lasker, Jane Joseph and Nora Day did the countless necessary parts of the work of composition which Holst, who suffered from neuritis in his hands, was physically unable to do. – The New York Times
  
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• Hong Kong’s Enormous New Arts Center Needs To Find New Funding, And Soon

  29-03-2024 15:34 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The 99-acre West Kowloon Cultural District was given a start-up fund (called an “endowment” there) of HK$21.6bn (US$2.8bn) by the enclave’s government in 2008. That fund is projected to run out one year from now, potential rental income is limited, and no further state funding has been announced. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Actor Louis Gossett Jr., 87

  29-03-2024 15:02 via apnews.com
  
  He was the first Black man to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (in 1983 for playing the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman), and won an Emmy for his role as Fiddler in the 1977 series Roots. His last screen role was in the 2023 remake of The Color Purple. – AP
  
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• Life Magazine Is Being Revived (Yes, As A Print Publication)

  29-03-2024 14:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Bedford Media, the holding company founded by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her husband, investor Josh Kushner, has acquired the publishing rights to Life from Dotdash Meredith. Bedford says that Life will be relaunched as a print magazine, with a ‘vibrant’ digital and video presence.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Artist Robert Moskowitz, “A Rare Bridge Between Abstract Expressionism And Minimalism,” Has Died At 88

  29-03-2024 14:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Beginning in the late 1970s, (he) began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and over through the decades, … (with) the shimmering, self-contained quality of letters or numbers.” – The New York Times
  
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• Workers’ Strike Closes Toronto’s Largest Art Museum

  29-03-2024 13:36 via cbc.ca
  
  “Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations, union members … voted to reject the gallery’s latest contract offer, saying it doesn’t address wage increases, protections for part-time workers and contracting out positions.” – CBC
  
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• Another Boston Public Media Outlet Warns Of Layoffs

  29-03-2024 13:00 via msn.com
  Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of national PBS shows, says it is “facing financial headwinds. … While final decisions have not yet been made, layoffs are not off the table.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• Artistic unicorns, protest ceramics and queer art from Morocco – the week in art

  29-03-2024 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Greenham Common inspires a new generation, designer Enzo Mari gets playful and Perth Museum dedicates its first exhibition to a mythical beast prized since antiquity – all in your weekly dispatchUnicorn
  Medieval bestiaries, Renaissance art and narwhal horns make for a fascinating first exhibition in this impressive new Scottish museum.
  • Perth Museum, Perth, 30 March to 22 September Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Made to be destroyed’: the unexpected appeal of butter moulding

  29-03-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From cowboy boots to Le Corbusier armchairs, miniature sculptures made of butter are having a moment• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Easter bunny is waiting in the wings and the hot cross buns are ready to be toasted. But have you moulded your butter into the shape of a Doric or Ionic pillar yet? Thankfully, there is still time.Butter moulds and sculptures are enjoying a moment – the sky’s the limit and butter maestros have shared pict
  
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• Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations

  29-03-2024 05:44 via artsjournal.com
  San Francisco Conservatory of MusicThe Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations (AVP) reports to the Vice President of Advancement (VP) and serves as a member of the Advancement leadership team. The AVP is responsible for leading administrative and financial operations, database use and management, data integrity, software use and management, and development of procedures, protocols, and processes. This position requires a strong commitment to SFCM, unquestioned integrity, a keen sense
  
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• Executive Director, Institute for Contemporary Art

  29-03-2024 05:37 via artsjournal.com
  Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
  Executive DirectorVirginia Commonwealth University and the VCU School of the Arts (VCUarts) invite nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA).The ICA has become a focal point of Richmond’s energetic arts district, serving as a nexus for creativity and inclusion, where innovative thinking and transformational ideas are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines.
  
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• Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance

  29-03-2024 05:33 via artsjournal.com
  University of California San DiegoPosition overviewPosition title: Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance
  Salary range: A reasonable salary range estimate for this position is $88,600-$111,200.
  The posted UC Academic salary scales set the minimum pay as determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position here: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t1-l.pdf. Please refer to the 10/1
  
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