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• Houston’s Rothko Chapel Starts Big Expansion Project

  23-04-2024 23:31 via artnews.com
  
  Over the next two years, the site will see construction of an administration and archives building, a new program center, a guest bungalow for visiting speakers and fellows, a plaza for events, as well as a meditation garden. – ARTnews
  
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• First Prize In This Year’s Venice Biennale

  23-04-2024 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective, which consists of four Māori women artists. – ARTnews
  
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• Why Many Of Us Are Going Back To Pre-Digital Analog Tools

  23-04-2024 22:31 via theconversation.com
  
  From vinyl records to film cameras, all manner of apparently written-off technologies have been making a comeback, including modular synthesizers – one of the earliest types of this now-ubiquitous electronic instrument. – The Conversation
  
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• On The Influence Of Small Magazines And Big Ideas

  23-04-2024 22:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Another meaning of the word “magazine” is a store of munitions. My own addition to the arsenal of the free press, Standpoint, was founded in 2008. I was editor for just over a decade, during which we made the magazine essential reading across the political and cultural spectrum. – The Critic
  
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• The Women Who’ve Founded Dance Companies In The US Since 1929

  23-04-2024 21:30 via dancedataproject.com
  
  “Keeping track of these female-founded ballet companies is vital in understanding the pivotal and often unknown role of women in shaping the American ballet sector,” said DDP Research Consultant Aanika Khansaheb. – Dance Data Project
  
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• What’s The Logical Endpoint Of Pop Culture’s Insane-And-Dangerous-Ballerina Trope? A Ballerina Vampire, Of Course!

  23-04-2024 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “Unlike Black Swan, the darkly funny Abigail — which follows a band of kidnappers as they discover that their prisoner, supposedly an adolescent ballet student, is actually a centuries-old vampire — doesn’t aim for profundity. But entertainment-world depictions of ballet, even in campy romps like Abigail, carry weight.” – The New York Times
  
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• Fatal Error: Universities Have Stopped Teaching HOW To Think

  23-04-2024 20:32 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one’s conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as he goes along; mediæval education concentrated on first forging and learning to handle the tools of learning. – The Critic
  
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• Florentines Begged Me To Run For Mayor, Says Former Uffizi Gallery Director

  23-04-2024 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Eike Schmidt) said he felt compelled to throw his hat into the ring … after being encouraged to run for mayor by Florentines, who he said stopped him in the street to vent their frustrations over issues such as rising crime, a shortage of affordable housing, graffiti, … overtourism — and fast-food stands.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Last Small Town Movie Critic (Great Read)

  23-04-2024 19:31 via poynter.org
  
  “He fulfilled his dreams, save for being Spider-Man. He wanted to write and direct plays and movies. He wanted to do stand-up comedy. He wanted to be Roger Ebert. He just did it in one place.” – Poynter
  
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• Another Way AI May Completely Change (Or Even Ruin) The Web As We Know It

  23-04-2024 19:04 via msn.com
  “The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences. To understand why, you must understand publishing” — not mean “publishing” as in producing books and magazines, but any online mechanism for bringing content to users. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Bring Caravaggio to those of us outside the M25 | Brief letters

  23-04-2024 18:54
  
  Cultural divide | A slice of delight | Surgery song choices | Beard prejudice | Carer’s allowanceI’m so pleased to see that the National Gallery exhibition The Last Caravaggio is free (Review, 16 April). Now all I have to do is navigate the byzantine system needed to book a train ticket, get to a mainline station, and book an overnight stay in London. If only there was a way such exhibitions could be held in more central areas of the country, cheaper and more convenient for many of u
  
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• Publishers Have Found An Interesting Way To Fight Children’s Book Bans

  23-04-2024 18:34 via fastcompany.com
  Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into a rallying cry to publish even more diverse characters and points of view. – Fast Company
  
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• St. Louis Public Radio Claims Immunity From Lawsuits For Defamation. You May Not Believe The Reason.

  23-04-2024 18:02 via riverfronttimes.com
  
  Sovereign immunity. St. Louis Public Radio claims immunity from lawsuits as an arm of the state of Missouri. – Riverfront Times (St. Louis)
  
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• Actors Unions Make Deal For “Ethical Use” Of AI Voices

  23-04-2024 17:25 via variety.com
  
  The deal also sets a minimum rate for AI replication of session singers’ voices, in the amount of three “sides” per project. (A “side” is equivalent to the payment for one audio track lasting up to 4 minutes and 30 seconds.) – Variety
  
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• All The Ways A New Play Changes In Previews

  23-04-2024 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “‘The key learning moments for a playwright,’ says writer David Eldridge, ‘are when you first hear actors read the script, and when the play meets an audience. We’re incredibly rigorous in the rehearsal process. But somehow, when you put it in front of an audience, it exposes unnecessary overwriting.'” – The Guardian
  
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• Italy’s Government Blacklists Minneapolis Institute Of Art For Loans

  23-04-2024 16:33 via artnews.com
  
  “The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has become musea non grata to the Italian government after a yearslong dispute over a Pentelic marble copy of a lost bronze by the ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos depicting the ‘spear-bearer’ Doryphoros.” – ARTnews
  
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• A New Leader For The Musée D’Orsay In Paris

  23-04-2024 16:05 via artforum.com
  
  Variously titled president or chairman in different news reports, the new head of the Orsay and its sister institution, the Musée de l’Orangerie, is Sylvain Amic, most recently director of the museums in the city of Rouen. He has quite a job ahead of him. – Artforum
  
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• San Antonio’s Tobin Center Names A Resident Orchestra — And It’s Not The New San Antonio Philharmonic

  23-04-2024 15:36 via sanantonioreport.org
  
  The SA Phil is the fledgling orchestra founded by members of the San Antonio Symphony (which had been a Tobin resident) after that group’s board shut it down. The other group is called The Orchestra San Antonio (TOSA), and only 10 of its 60 members live locally. – San Antonio Report
  
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• PEN America Gives Up, Cancels Its 2024 Literary Awards

  23-04-2024 15:04 via apnews.com
  
  “Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the event, which was to have taken place next week.” – AP
  
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• The Mellon Foundation Did a Nice Thing. Next Time, Look at Where the Action Is.

  23-04-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  If the Mellon Foundation would start to look at the next-level budgets, they’ll find transformation is the purview of better-run organizations.The best arts nonprofit arts organizations in the United States are not the ones who receive the most grant money. But they should be.A local nonprofit arts organization realized that it had never received a donation from the town’s most successful lawyer.
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• U.S. House Passes TikTok Sell-Or-Be-Banned Rule — In Way That May Force Senate To Pass It

  23-04-2024 14:32 via npr.org
  
  “While lawmakers in the House advanced a similar bill last month, this effort is different for two reasons: It is attached to a sweeping foreign aid bill providing support for Ukraine and Israel. And it addresses concerns from some (Senators) by extending the deadline for TikTok to find a buyer.” – NPR
  
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• What Is The Deal With LACMA’s Plan To Share Art With An As-Yet Unbuilt Museum In Las Vegas?

  23-04-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “Rather than enlarging its physical footprint, LACMA aims to broaden its cultural reach, influence and presence in the West, and globally — a benign Manifest Destiny for the California visual arts scene.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Expressionists review – the vivid premonitions of Europe’s wildest-eyed geniuses

  23-04-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Tate Modern’s survey of Kandinsky, Münter and the rest of the avant garde Blue Rider group is an exhilarating riot of colour – but also abounds with anxieties about the coming conflicts of the 20th centuryWithin the bright colours of this exhilarating survey of the Blue Rider group of avant garde artists, who worked in Munich and the Bavarian Alps in the years before the first world war, horror lurks. Look at Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings of the medieva
  
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• Are the Arts Inimical to our Democratic Ethos?

  23-04-2024 07:41 via artsjournal.com
  
  The starting point of my new book The Propaganda of Freedom is the core tenet of the cultural Cold War as prosecuted
  
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• ‘Beacon of the world’: ex-Uffizi chief vows to save Florence if elected mayor

  23-04-2024 06:00
  
  Backed by Giorgia Meloni’s party, Eike Schmidt says cracking down on burger stands, crime and overtourism will help restore statusThe former director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence has promised a crackdown on crime and burger stands in his quest to restore the Tuscan capital to is former status as a cultural “beacon of the world”.German-born Eike Schmidt, 55, is standing in the city’s mayoral election on a civic list backed by the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s
  
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• Biggs Museum seeks their next Executive Director

  23-04-2024 05:49 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director will serve as the chief executive officer of the museum, providing comprehensive strategic leadership working in concert with the board and the staff in support of the museum’s founding principles. They will ensure The Biggs achieves its vision and goals within the standards and best practices as an American Alliance of Museums accredited institution, including championing the next phase of expansion.
  The Executive Director will embrace DEAI and articulate a comprehe
  
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• Things We Learned From The World’s Largest Music Company’s Annual Report

  23-04-2024 00:01 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  Much of the publication obviously focuses on UMG’s extraordinarily successful 2023: A year in which it posted USD $12 billion in total revenues, with annual adjusted EBITDA just north of USD $2.5 billion. But there’s a bundle of other interesting facts and figures revealed within the report. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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