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• Wall Street’s “Fearless Girl” Sculpture Lawsuit Settles

  02-05-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The 250-pound bronze statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors to express its support for gender diversity in the corporate world. State Street sued the artist, Kristen Visbal, in 2019, alleging that she had committed breach of contract and trademark infringement by selling replicas of the sculpture. – The New York Times
  
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• ACT Seattle Loses Its Artistic Director

  02-05-2024 23:01 via seattletimes.com
  
  Throughout his time in Seattle, John Langs has become known as a champion of new work, an advocate for local artists, and a director who values long, collaborative working relationships.  – Seattle Times
  
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• The Atlantic Magazine Is Profitable And Gaining Readers. Here’s What’s Been Learned

  02-05-2024 22:01 via pressgazette.co.uk
  “Our editorial model is to publish not nearly as many stories as many of our peers but to every now and then, as best as we can, publish stories that lots and lots of people talk about.” – Press-Gazette
  
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• Study: A Neuroscience Technique To Learn Choreography

  02-05-2024 21:28 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  The technique uses a wave-like visualization of model dancers, enabling learners to anticipate and execute dance moves without prior rehearsal. – Neuroscience News
  
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• The Entire Country’s Different Styles Of Roller Skating Have Descended Upon Atlanta

  02-05-2024 21:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “That commingling has Atlanta’s stalwart skaters concerned about keeping their distinctly energetic and percussive style alive. They say Atlanta’s newer skaters, who have wide access to regional variants, increasingly practice a hybridized type of skating that’s not rooted in any one tradition.” – The New York Times
  
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• Keith Haring And Defining Art And Artists

  02-05-2024 20:32 via bookforum.com
  
  “I arrived in New York at a time when the most beautiful paintings being shown in the city were on wheels,” Haring wrote. This was 1978. His infatuation with the graffiti enveloping the city’s trains and buildings was hardly anomalous. – BookForum
  
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• The Most Revealing Bits From Franz Kafka’s Uncensored Diaries

  02-05-2024 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Max Brod, the friend who disregarded Kafka’s dying request to burn all of his writings, heavily bowdlerized the author’s personal journals before he published them. A new, complete edition “reveals Kafka warts and all – as a sexual, troubled, sometimes self-loathing, literary experimenter and a man knowingly compromised.” – The Guardian
  
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• Eurovision, High Camp, And Opera

  02-05-2024 19:29 via van-magazine.com
  
  Opera, too, is no stranger to intersections of camp and politics, and some of Eurovision’s campest entries have been sung by opera singers. – Van
  
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• The Beloved Walk-Through Heart At Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Is Closing For Six Months

  02-05-2024 19:03 via msn.com
  “Don’t worry, this sudden cardiac arrest is not in vein. The Giant Heart will reopen in November as the centerpiece of a new, permanent exhibit about the human body, … one of six (such) exhibits that are planned to replace 12 existing ones.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Universities’ Free Speech Crisis Is A Problem Of Their Own Making

  02-05-2024 18:35 via theatlantic.com
  
  The challenge universities are confronting is not just the law but also their own rhetoric. Many universities at the center of the ongoing police crackdowns have long sought to portray themselves as bastions of activism and free thought. – The Atlantic
  
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• Why It’s Impossible To Get Restaurant Reservations In New York City

  02-05-2024 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore… Reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of SoHo, Aspen, and East Hampton, who likely saw the place on some list, or while doomscrolling TikTok or Eater. – The New Yorker
  
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• A Week With A Youth Orchestra And Gustavo Dudamel

  02-05-2024 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The superstar conductor, currently of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soon to be of the New York one, spent spring break week with a specially assembled orchestra of 95 students from public schools across New York City, and reporter Javier Hernández was there. – The New York Times
  
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• Laurence Broderick obituary

  02-05-2024 17:53
  
  Sculptor of The Guardian, known popularly as The Bull, which stands in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centreThe sculptor Laurence Broderick, who has died aged 88, was known for a single work, although that work was both widely loved and hard to miss. Standing nearly three metres high and weighing seven tonnes, The Guardian, known popularly as The Bull, has stood in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre since 2003. In that time, it has become the city’s mascot, a symbol of its b
  
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• The Complications Of Collecting Rare Books

  02-05-2024 17:28 via theatlantic.com
  
  A book’s demand, condition, publishing history, whether it is signed or inscribed, and even the timing of when a book enters the market are all factors that affect its value. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Resurrection Of “Death, Sex And Money”

  02-05-2024 17:03 via cjr.org
  
  Last year WNYC cancelled the popular podcast and laid off its staff, which actually planned out a sort of funeral. But Slate picked up Death, Sex & Money and relaunched it last month. In a Q&A, host Anna Sale talks about the move and what she’s been learning from it. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• Let’s Dance, with Ixchel Cuellar

  02-05-2024 16:49 via artsjournal.com
  This week on the podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down (in person) with Broadway dancer extraordinaire (Mean Girls and Finding Neverland on Broadway; Mean Girls First National Tour; Hamilton (“and Peggy”) National Tour), Ixchel Cuellar. I have wanted to interview Ixchel since I worked with her back in January (on the Anne of Green Gables workshop). I couldn’t take my eyes off her when she was onstage — she definitely has “it,” whatever that mea
  
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• Momentum Gains with Small-Scale Studies about the Arts and Mental Health

  02-05-2024 16:33 via artsjournal.com
  One spring day in 1840, on the bank of Goose Pond in Massachusetts—not far from Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau would make his stand—Ralph Waldo Emerson and the poet Jones Very were admiring the interplay of wind and water. “I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists,” Emerson was moved to say. His more empirically-minded companion noted: “See how each wave rises from the midst with an original force, at the same time that it pa
  
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• Someone Is Stealing Rare Editions Of Pushkin From Libraries And Replacing Them With Copies

  02-05-2024 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Since 2022, more than 170 books valued at more than $2.6 million … have vanished from (national and university libraries across Europe). The books are worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars each. In most cases, the originals were replaced with high-quality copies that mimicked even their foxing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Biden Cancels Billions In Student Debt To Bankrupt Art Institute Chain

  02-05-2024 16:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  “President Joe Biden has cancelled $6.1 billion in loans taken out by students at the Art Institutes, the network of for-profit colleges that shuttered in September 2023, … (at which point its remaining campuses were) in Miami, Atlanta, Tampa, Virginia Beach, … Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.” – Artnet
  
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• EU Court Approves Italy’s Attempt To Seize Looted Greek Statue From Getty Museum

  02-05-2024 15:32 via apnews.com
  
  “‘Victorious Youth,’ a life-sized bronze dating from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., … was pulled from the sea in 1964 by Italian fishermen and then exported out of Italy illegally. (It) was purchased by the Getty in 1977 for $4 million and has been on display there ever since.” – AP
  
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• Texas School Superintendent Who Tried To Cancel Production Of “Oklahoma!” Is Ousted

  02-05-2024 15:04 via msn.com
  The Sherman, Texas school board finalized a separation agreement with former superintendent Tyson Bennett, who had forbidden a high school production of Oklahoma! that included a transgender student in the cast. The cancellation was reversed after heavy pushback from students and parents. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• House Republicans Launch Investigation Of NPR For Alleged Political Bias

  02-05-2024 14:30 via insideradio.com
  “Funding of public radio has long had critics in conservative circles, but the recent controversy involving allegations of political bias at NPR is giving new energy to the effort to cut off taxpayer dollars. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have opened an investigation into (the organization).” – Inside Radio
  
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• New York Philharmonic Musicians Suspended Over Sexual Assault Allegations Sue Orchestra And Union

  02-05-2024 14:06 via nypost.com
  
  “The orchestra’s associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang, are each suing the Philharmonic and the musicians’ union Local 802 after being ousted for the second time in four years.” – New York Post
  
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• Yan Wang Preston review – gloriously confronting art history in the nude

  02-05-2024 13:02
  
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  The artist braved the freezing Pennines to cast a Romantic painting in a bold new light, while her restaging of Manet’s Olympia is wonderfully subversiveA woman stands majestically on a rocky, icy precipice; she looks out at a vast frosty tract, covered in thick, flawless snow. Her back is turned to us, the mood is contemplative. She surveys her domain, straight-backed, black hair licking the back of her neck.It’s a photograph by the UK-based Chinese artis
  
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• Beauty, filth, violence and death: why still life art is more subversive than you think

  02-05-2024 10:00
  
  Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clearStill life is the lowest form of art. So declared the French Academy when it established its Hierarchy of Genres in the 17th century. Historical scenes and portraiture were the noblest genres, whereas landscapes and still lifes were considered lowly. According to the art institute, biblical frescoes required a higher level of mastery; an inanimate fruit
  
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• ‘They look sad’: Tony Cragg scraps audio guides for Castle Howard exhibition

  02-05-2024 09:00
  
  Sculptor says he wants visitors to form their own relationships with art, without ‘anyone else interfering’They are ubiquitous at art galleries across the world: the audio guide telling shuffling visitors the full story of what they are looking at and occasionally how they should feel.In the eyes of Sir Tony Cragg, one of the world’s leading sculptors, they are a “terrible” modern scourge that “mess up” the enjoyment of art. “I think they look sad,
  
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• LA Philharmonic Taps Dallas Symphony CEO As Its New Leader

  02-05-2024 02:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Kim Noltemy’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for the L.A. Phil, which must find someone to take the reins as the organization’s music and artistic director when Gustavo Dudamel leaves for the New York Philharmonic in 2026. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Outreach Coordinator-Dance Data Project®

  02-05-2024 00:16 via artsjournal.com
  Organization DescriptionFounded in 2015, Dance Data Project® (DDP) is a global resource for the study and analysis of major national and international dance companies, venues, and choreographic awards. In addition, DDP surveys competitions, festivals and scholarship programs worldwide. We provide resources for those seeking information about female choreographers, set, costume & lighting designers, as well composers of classically inspired dance music. In addition, we produced the onlin
  
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• Has Taylor Swift Transcended Critics?

  02-05-2024 00:01 via newyorker.com
  
  There has long been a disconnect between how music critics and Swifties consume Taylor Swift’s work, but never before has that split been so pronounced. – The New Yorker
  
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