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• Genius Versus Hierarchies And Freedom

  04-04-2024 23:32 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The contemporary fixation on extolling “freedom” as a cornerstone of artistic expression stems from a flattened understanding of history. Those for whom this is the jam and butter often reveal a particular obsession with power dynamics. – The Critic
  
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• How Did British Cultural Institutions Become So Ideologically Driven?

  04-04-2024 23:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Britain’s institutions are now beset by wokery, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Britain’s museums. – The Critic
  
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• Did Beethoven Have A Secret Code?

  04-04-2024 22:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Something in his brain shifted; later, he would tell people that it was as if someone had turned over a deck of cards to reveal the hidden faces behind the plain backs. Over the next several years, he would come to believe he had discovered Beethoven’s secret code. – The Atlantic
  
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• One Of World’s Oldest Books Is Being Sold

  04-04-2024 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  A single scribe is said to have written the codex, which is made up of 52 leaves – or 104 pages – over a period of 40 years at a monastery in upper Egypt. – CNN
  
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• Pitchfork Had A Huge Audience But It Closed. What Does This Mean For Music Journalism?

  04-04-2024 21:31 via bostonreview.net
  This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. But it’s in times like these that prefigurative visions come more clearly into focus. – Boston Review
  
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• Job Alert: Baltimore School for the Arts, Foundation Director

  04-04-2024 21:31 via artsjournal.com
  Edgility Consulting is excited to support the Baltimore School for the Arts’s search for a Foundation Director.The Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation is the fundraising partner of the Baltimore School for the Arts. The Foundation is a 501c(3) organization that works closely with the community to fund the arts, academic, and community initiatives that make Baltimore School for the Arts one of the top five public arts high schools in the country.The Director will work with the BSA Exec
  
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• Canada’s Indigo Books Bought By Investment Fund

  04-04-2024 21:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  The Trilogy firms—which are controlled by Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz, an Indigo board member and the husband of Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman—already own 60.6% of all of Indigo’s shares. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Executive Director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

  04-04-2024 21:28 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) will guide and deliver on its mission and vision as a global center at the intersection of the arts, science, and technology. They will be accountable for a strategic direction, business model, and adaptive change that are in alignment with the Institute’s Rensselaer Forward plan, including the goal to create the most welcoming and inclusive community possible for facult
  
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• With A Permanent CEO, New Leadership At Cleveland Ballet Intends To Turn The Page

  04-04-2024 21:05 via news5cleveland.com
  
  “(Larry Goodman), interim president and CEO, announced Tuesday he would permanently fill the position. Goodman was formerly on the company’s board of directors when it launched an investigation into its workplace culture and practices.” – WEWS News 5 Cleveland
  
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• Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters

  04-04-2024 20:32 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  During her 16 years at Random House, Morrison wrote hundreds of rejection letters. Usually typed on pink, yellow, or white carbonless copy paper, and occasionally bearing Random House’s old logo and letterhead, these are now filed among her correspondence in the Random House archives. – LA Review of Books
  
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• So, Who Invented The Modern Lending Library?

  04-04-2024 20:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Benjamin Franklin, who founded the Library Company of Philadelphia In 1731. “(It) allowed members — at first, largely male artisans of modest means — to purchase (low-cost) shares in the library. … After early successes, the Library Company soon began allowing non-shareholders to borrow books, too, requiring only a small fee as collateral.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• We’re Obsessed With Stories About The End Of The World. But Then We Always Have Been

  04-04-2024 19:32 via literaryreview.co.uk
  Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. – Literary Review
  
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• This Show Is A Cross Between A Diner And A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Play

  04-04-2024 19:06 via timeout.com
  
  “The Worst Cafe in the World, a new, creatively interactive Off-Broadway production, … actually gives audience members a menu of theatrical moments to choose from, and based on their selections, the cast will piece together the show.” – Time Out New York
  
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• Manchester theatre restores cancelled Palestinian event after artists protest

  04-04-2024 18:51
  
  Home theatre apologises for upset caused by cancelling of Voices of ResilienceThe organisers of a Palestinian literature event cancelled by a Manchester theatre last week, say they are “hugely grateful” the venue has agreed it can go ahead after a surge of support.Home theatre apologised for the upset caused by cancelling Voices of Resilience, due to be held on 22 April, citing “recent publicity” and safety concerns for the organisers and those attending. Continue reading
  
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• Is This Drawing On A Villa’s Kitchen Wall A Michelangelo? After Five Centuries, It’s For Sale

  04-04-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  News that the drawing is going on the market is likely to expand what has until now been a rather low-key, academic debate over the authorship of a work that has remained in private hands, and mostly out of the public eye, for the past five centuries. – The New York Times
  
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• Butoh Master Ushio Amagatsu, Founder Of Dance Company Sankai Juku, Is Dead At 74

  04-04-2024 18:03 via asahi.com
  He founded Sankai Juku, which did more than any other troupe to spread butoh in the West, in 1975 and had led it ever since. “Butoh performances are characterized by slow, intense and sometimes contorted movements. The dancers often appear with white body paint and shaved heads.” – The Asahi Shimbun (in English)
  
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• Charlotte Symphony Quietly Raises $41M For The Future

  04-04-2024 17:25 via msn.com
  “This campaign is going to solve a major problem that the symphony has wrestled with for years, of not having a big enough endowment to help balance its budget. It’s giving us future stability in a way that we’ve never been able to enjoy before.” – Charlotte Observer
  
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• Performing Arts “Crossover” Strategies Fail to Diversify Core Audiences, According to New Report

  04-04-2024 17:10 via artsjournal.com
  “Organizations should frankly assess whether they seek to expand audiences or whether they seek to expand audiences strictly for their artistic priorities, because these can be in tension. Organizations can choose to do either or both but should not conflate the two.” 
  — Francie Ostrower, PhD, In Search of a Magic Bullet: Results from the Building Audiences for Sustainability Initiative
  Barely a page into Ostrower’s magisterial report for the Wallace
  
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• Why Orlando’s Performing Arts Center Has Put Its Expansion Plan On Hold

  04-04-2024 17:04 via wftv.com
  
  “The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts can’t build its $175 million third phase until Orange County and the city of Orlando provide most of the funding, said arts center President and CEO Katherine Ramsberger. The center cannot raise that much money by itself, she added.” – WFTV (Orlando)
  
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• On Bravery, with Stefanie Londino

  04-04-2024 16:44 via artsjournal.com
  I had an absolute blast chatting with actor (My Name is Asher Lev; the National Tours of A Bronx Tale, Fiddler on the Roof, and Annie) and musician (West Side Waltz; the Voxies) Stefanie Londino a few weeks ago for the podcast. As noted, Stefanie is currently touring the country, and likely coming to a city near you, as Miss Hannigan in the National Tour of Annie on which I worked. Because of that connection, I obviously knew her long before we recorded the pod, and we had worked side-by-side a
  
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• What The Bookseller Of Kabul Did After The Taliban Destroyed His Shop And Archive

  04-04-2024 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Well, first he spent two weeks considering suicide. Then he realized that, with today’s technology and his international contacts, he could set about recreating the books he lost. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Broadway Tickets Are So Insanely Expensive These Days

  04-04-2024 16:05 via gothamist.com
  “Industry professionals say soaring ticket prices are due to various reasons, including rising production costs, a changing industry and the rise of celebrity headliners. Many of the shifts they cited have been in the making for decades, but have been exacerbated by the pandemic,” – Gothamist
  
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• Forger Gets Four Years In Jail For Passing His Woodblock Prints Off As 15th-Cntury Originals

  04-04-2024 15:31 via usatoday.com
  
  “(Earl Marshawn) Washington … was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. He was also ordered to pay restitution to victims in the total amount of $203,240.90 and serve a three-year term of supervised release after his imprisonment.” – USA Today
  
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• WBEZ/Chicago Public Media Closes Its Podcast Studio And Lays Off 14 Staffers

  04-04-2024 15:06 via insideradio.com
  
  Four of the eliminated positions are in the business office of the Chicago Sun-Times, which merged with WBEZ in 2022. The remaining ten come from the radio station’s now-closed podcast unit and from Vocalo, a subchannel featuring indie jazz, hip-hop and R&B along with programming in Spanish. – Inside Radio
  
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• Metropolitan Opera’s New Chorus Director Is Tilman Michael Of Frankfurt Opera

  04-04-2024 14:33 via apnews.com
  
  “Michael, 49, was chorus master at the National Theater in Mannheim, Germany, then has held the same job at Oper Frankfurt since 2014-15. He spent 10 years assisting the chorus master at the annual Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth.” He replaces Donald Palumbo, who has retired after 17 years. – AP
  
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• Ukrainian Museum Identifies Over 100 Looted Artworks Shown In Russian Video

  04-04-2024 14:00 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Kherson Art Museum, which was looted by Russian forces in November 2022, says it spotted the items in its collection in a video shot at the Central Museum of Tavrida in Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014. – Artnet
  
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