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• Why All The Broadway Theatre Standing Ovations?

  12-04-2024 23:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Some have attributed the trend to the tourists who fill many of the seats at Broadway shows; they may be less familiar with theater and therefore especially enthusiastic. But standing ovations are the default even at shows and plays that attract few tourists. – The New York Times
  
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• The Downside Of Outsourcing Skills To AI

  12-04-2024 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Making thoughtful and defensible decisions requires practice and self-discipline. And this is where the hidden harm that AI exposes people to comes in: AI does most of its “thinking” behind the scenes and presents users with answers that are stripped of context and deliberation. – The Conversation
  
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• A Short History Of Artists Sneaking Work Into Museums

  12-04-2024 22:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the museum applauded the mischievous initiative. “We think this is funny and would like to know the artist,” a spokesperson wrote. “So get in touch! There will be no trouble. Word of honor.” – Artnet
  
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• Why Studios Make Movies And Sometime Don’t Release Them

  12-04-2024 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Near-complete movies have been mothballed, underperforming shows pulled from streaming libraries. – The New York Times
  
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• A New Fellowship For Rising Young Theatre Critics

  12-04-2024 22:01 via americantheatre.org
  
  Critical Insight is “a new generative arts journalism fellowship that will bring the best in the field to early-career and aspiring critics through mentorship, professional insight, arts experiences, and an immersive regional theatre retreat.” – American Theatre
  
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• An AI-Powered Salvador Dalí, Answering Your Questions Via A Lobster Telephone

  12-04-2024 21:06 via forbes.com
  Yep, that’s pretty surreal. – Forbes
  
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• Pappano: People In The UK Are Embarrassed By Opera

  12-04-2024 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “Here it’s looked on with great suspicion. That drives me nuts, I have to tell you. England is a haven for culture whether it is pop culture or classical culture, literary culture, theatrical culture, this is one of the great addresses and yet we’re embarrassed by it.” – The Guardian
  
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• 4-D Theatre About Irish Peat Bogs (Wait, What?)

  12-04-2024 20:05 via msn.com
  “Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat,” Luke Casserly’s Distillation “is not easy to pigeonhole. It’s part TED Talk, part community-building and part campfire story, during which Casserly speaks at times in the voice of the bog.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Josh Kosman To Retire

  12-04-2024 19:32 via sfchronicle.com
  On April 30, Kosman will flip his critic’s notebook closed for the final time, retiring from the newspaper at a crucial juncture for classical music in the Bay Area. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• A Connecticut Civilian At A Pilobolus Workshop

  12-04-2024 19:07 via lithub.com
  
  “Emily told us to ‘start walking’ — all of us, in any direction, or all directions, as she and Matt called out instructions. … With everyone gradually picking up on the same gesture and then letting it transform, by the end of this ever-morphing exercise we were dancing en masse, already unified.” – Literary Hub
  
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• What It Costs To Attend Coachella (Thousands of $) And Why These Fans Say It’s A Bargain

  12-04-2024 18:31 via bbc.com
  
  Many people are willing to lay out a lot of money for the experience and party in the VIP section, but it’s possible to get by on a budget, too. – BBC
  
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• Salman Rushdie Reads From His Memoir About Being Stabbed Onstage

  12-04-2024 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing towards me was, ‘So it’s you. Here you are.’” – The Guardian
  
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• How Our Obsession With Self-Improvement Is Harming Us

  12-04-2024 17:32 via vox.com
  
  A consequence of the cultural obsession with self-improvement is the hyperfixation on the self. From elaborate skin care regimens to the culling of “toxic” friends from your social circle, some will go through extreme lengths in the name of self-preservation and betterment. – Vox
  
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• The Power Players In Arts And Culture In New York City

  12-04-2024 17:02 via politicsny.com
  
  This inaugural list by Politics NY includes the obvious (directors of prominent institutions like the Morgan Library, Roundabout Theater, BAM, both Mets), the famous (Alan Cumming, Fran Drescher), the officials (government and union types), and the hip. – Politics NY
  
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• SPECIAL POST: Rewarding Bad Nonprofit Theater Behavior By Using Trickle-Down? Just Say No.

  12-04-2024 16:43 via artsjournal.com
  The latest bill wasting resources right now is on the floor of the Senate and House. It will never pass. Thank goodness.
  Go to your blackboard and write this 1,000 times.
  Nonprofit arts leaders: I don’t want to pee on your birthday cake or anything, but this idea is ludicrous.
  The New York Times reported recently that Senators Peter Welch (D-Vermont), John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), and Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) have proposed legislation entitled the “Supporting Theater and the Art
  
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• All That Money Being Spent On The Downtown L.A. Arts District — What Exactly Is It Paying For?

  12-04-2024 16:35 via msn.com
  Buildings and facilities, mostly. There’s the Grand, the $1 billion apartment/hotel/retail complex, designed by Frank Gehry, which opened across the street from (Gehry’s) Disney Hall in 2022. Then there’s the $100 million expansion of the Broad Museum and an addition, also designed by Gehry, to the Colburn School. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• How The O.J. Simpson Trial Changed Television News

  12-04-2024 16:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “All of a sudden, TV news … wasn’t just about war and peace, elections and Supreme Court decisions. The salacious, it turns out, rates just as well, and opinions about the news (in this case, daily arguments during the trial) were just as enticing to viewers as the news itself.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Who killed Caravaggio and why? His final paintings may hold the key

  12-04-2024 15:51
  
  A killer himself, Caravaggio died at 38 – desperate, disfigured and on the run from the Knights of St John. His greatest works – with which he bargained for his life – cast light on one of art’s darkest mysteriesThe National Gallery’s haunting new exhibition The Last Caravaggio has at its heart a sepulchrally toned painting called The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Caravaggio includes himself in it as a witness to a brutal murder – a pale, bleak farewell of a self
  
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• Beautifully Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Frescoes Uncovered In Pompeii

  12-04-2024 15:36 via bbc.com
  
  “Mythical Greek figures … are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall. … It was likely the walls’ stark colour was chosen to hide the smoke deposits from lamps used during entertaining after sunset. In the shimmering light, the paintings would have almost come to life.” – BBC
  
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• AGMA Accuses Miami City Ballet Of Union-Busting Campaign

  12-04-2024 15:03 via musicalartists.org
  “Miami City Ballet management has begun an aggressive, coordinated union-busting campaign against their dancers, the majority of whom are fighting to unionize. … Furthermore, MCB management is trying to circumvent the legal process by denying their dancers the right to a union election.” – American Guild of Musical Artists
  
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• Early Reactions In The Mediasphere To The NPR Editor’s Essay Accusing The Network Of Liberal Bias

  12-04-2024 14:37 via thewrap.com
  
  Some came to Uri Berliner’s defense, notably including one former senior NPR executive; others accused Berliner of using straw men or bad-faith arguments. A few pointed out that NPR’s apparent lean away from conservativism in recent years is due to changes in conservatism, not NPR. – TheWrap
  
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• New York Philharmonic To Tour China This Summer

  12-04-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  The five-concert tour to Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai, led by outgoing music director Jaap van Zweden and running from June 27 to July 3, will be the first visit by a full U.S. orchestra to the People’s Republic since 2019. – AP
  
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• Death-defying darkness, thought-provoking pop art and unrepentant nudes – the week in art

  12-04-2024 13:00
  
  Caravaggio proves haunting, Yinka Shonibare brings colonial figures down to size and Monica Sjöö photographs the goddess feminism – all in your weekly dispatchThe Last CaravaggioThe despair and darkness of Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula will hold you transfixed.• National Gallery, London, 18 April-21 July Continue reading...
  
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• What’s Behind The Comeback Of Vinyl Records?

  12-04-2024 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Where barely one million new vinyl albums were sold in the United States in 2006, that figure has grown every year since, soaring to just over 49 million units in 2023. – The Conversation
  
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