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• The Delicate Politics Of Firing Your Funder

  04-06-2024 23:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Under pressure from activists, both Hay and the Edinburgh international book festival have sacked their main sponsor, the investment fund Baillie Gifford, blowing a mighty hole in their finances. Why? The anti-capitalist group Fossil Free Books has started a campaign against it… – The Observer
  
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• Is Queen’s Song Catalog Really Worth $1 Billion?

  04-06-2024 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  If the group achieve the $1 billion price tag, it will be the biggest deal of its kind, surpassing the $500 million (£393 million) that Sony paid to acquire Bruce Springsteen’s catalogue in late 2021. – BBC
  
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• NY Times Sues Worldle Over Its Wordle-Sounding Name

  04-06-2024 22:32 via bbc.com
  
  The creator of Worldle is vowing to fight back on the grounds that there are many other games with similar titles. “There’s a whole industry of [dot]LE games,” he told the BBC. “Wordle is about words, Worldle is about the world, Flaggle is about flags,” he pointed out. The New York Times disagrees. – BBC
  
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• The Orchestra Messiah?

  04-06-2024 22:00 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  His Decca recordings of Sibelius and Stravinsky are unconvincing — ceviche in patches, if not totally raw. His live concerts are perhaps more exciting, but the potential is priced above the tangible product. How four fine orchestras put their future in such soft hands is a mystery, unless they all bought into the same brand. – The Critic
  
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• Time To Ban Smartphones In Schools

  04-06-2024 21:28 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Children do not use cellular technology; the technology uses our children—by monetizing their data and converting their attention into advertising revenue. – The Walrus
  
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• Even More Trouble For The Philly Pops: A Lawsuit By Its Former Jazz Director

  04-06-2024 21:05 via msn.com
  “In the latest in a string of financial and legal battles, the Philly Pops is being sued in a federal racketeering lawsuit by its former artistic director of jazz, Terell Stafford, who alleges he wrongfully lost his job and is owed money under his contract.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• The Pitfalls Of Today’s Movie Criticism

  04-06-2024 20:32 via thesmartset.com
  
  The biggest flaw for film writers, I began to realize, was that often writers are told to draft superfluous articles about celebrities to satisfy a publication’s advertisers and investors. In return, writers and editors make enough to pay their bills. – The Smart Set
  
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• Vice President of Development – Segerstrom Center for the Arts

  04-06-2024 20:09 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunitySegerstrom Center for the Arts (“the Center”) seeks a collaborative and experienced leader to join their team as Vice President of Development. This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented and compassionate fundraising professional to advance and support the work of the skilled team that is in place. The VP will bring a mentor’s mindset and a talent for coaching and supporting a team that is successful and committed to the significant impacts the Center h
  
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• Hugues Gall, Civil Servant Who Reformed The Paris Opera, Is Dead At 84

  04-06-2024 20:06 via tinyurl.com
  
  After 15 years running Geneva’s opera house, he returned to Paris to restore the national opera after years of shrinking audiences, administrative turmoil, the flight of top-tier singers, and the difficult opening of the Opéra-Bastille. He had more success than most observers had dared hope for. – Forumopera (France) (via Google Translate)
  
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• Be Prepared: A Weird Summer For Movies

  04-06-2024 19:29 via theatlantic.com
  
  Last weekend’s failures may mark the beginning of an unusual summer packed with Pyrrhic victories and well-reviewed but overlooked projects. Still, a bad Memorial Day weekend doesn’t mean that the movie industry is in free fall. – The Atlantic
  
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• Audiobook Sales In The U.S. Reached $2 Billion In 2023

  04-06-2024 19:04 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “The most avid audiobook listeners consumed an average of 6.8 titles in 2023, the survey found, marking an increase from 6.3 in 2022. Among a broader survey group, which included those who had ever listened to an audiobook, the average number of audiobooks listened to last year was 4.8.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Alternatives to Higher Education Are Proliferating

  04-06-2024 18:31 via persuasion.community
  
  “Programs that address this discontent exhibit a remarkably consistent set of characteristics. They are interdisciplinary, integrating methods and perspectives—from, say, engineering and the social sciences—that are normally kept apart.” – Persuasion
  
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• Discover Degas & Miss La La review – the death-defying trapeze artist who transfixed a master

  04-06-2024 18:09
  
  National Gallery, London
  This ingenious high-wire act of a show is a thrilling celebration of French impressionism, Black women and modernity – boasting an aerialist who could lift a cannon with her teethThe National Gallery is pulling out the stops to celebrate its bicentenary – but an old-school circus? With dancing dogs, clowns and elephants? Yet that’s what greets you in its ingenious and thrilling show about French impressionism, Black women and modernity.You walk in expec
  
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• The Louisiana Librarian Who Sued The Wingnuts That Said She Was Giving Kids Porn

  04-06-2024 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “Amanda Jones vividly remembers the time she received her first death threat. … Jones lost 50 pounds, took medical leave from work and watched in disbelief as chunks of her hair started to fall out. Knowing something had to change in the spring of 2023, she filed a lawsuit and wrote her book.” – The Guardian
  
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• A White Canadian Journalist Just Published A Book About Traveling The US In Blackface

  04-06-2024 17:30 via cbc.ca
  
  That publishing decision is not being met with glee in either the U.S. or Canada. “‘It’s hard to simultaneously draw the ire of black people, white people, conservatives, AND liberals… But I think you’ve just done it,’ rapper and podcaster Zuby replied on X.” – CBC
  
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• How Broadway’s Latest Revival Of “Cabaret” Became A Red-Hot Ticket Despite (Or Because Of) Wildly Divergent Reviews

  04-06-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  For every rave like Entertainment Weekly‘s (“jaw-droppingly gorgeous from start to finish”), there’s a critique like this from The New York Times (“too often a misguided attempt to resuscitate the show breaks its ribs”). Director Rebecca Frecknall and stars Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin consider why. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Exit Interview: Stoner Winslett On Her 44 Years As Artistic Director Of Virginia’s Richmond Ballet

  04-06-2024 16:33 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “In the decades since she founded Richmond Ballet in 1980, she has grown the organization from a local troupe of 12 dancers with an operating budget of $164,000 to a 20-dancer-strong, internationally recognized company with a budget of just under $7 million.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Edinburgh’s Arts Community Up In Arms As One Of Its Favorite Venues Is Put Up For Sale

  04-06-2024 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “Summerhall, … (a) complex of galleries, theatres and a cinema … housed in the city’s former veterinary school, has earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative and critically acclaimed venues since it was set up 12 years ago by a wealthy benefactor, Robert McDowell.” – The Guardian
  
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• Faced With Declining Attendance, Some U.S. Museums Are Trying “Radical Hospitality”

  04-06-2024 15:36 via nytimes.com
  
  That’s the term SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford uses; Hirshhorn Museum director Melissa Chiu calls it “radical accessibility.” Ted Loos reports on how those two institutions and Atlanta’s High Museum are putting the idea into practice. – The New York Times
  
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• Sometimes There’s a Pretty Good Reason to Swim Upstream

  04-06-2024 15:35 via artsjournal.com
  For nonprofit arts organizations, the choice to use the art as a final product is the easiest way to swim downstream.
  Unfortunately, there are times when swimming with the current can be fatal. Like now. (Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash.com)
  Oh, before I forget.
  If June 30 is a special date for your company and you need/want/are being forced to raise a bunch of money before then with a big campaign, here’s an email to print out and show your various bosses:Don’t force people to
  
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• Ruth Reinhardt Named Music Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic

  04-06-2024 15:04 via pizzicato.lu
  
  A former assistant conductor at the Dallas Symphony and Dudamel Fellow at the L.A. Philharmonic, the 36-year-old German takes up her position in the fall of 2025. Robert Spano will remain Principal Conductor through this coming season and then become Principal Guest Conductor. – Pizzicato
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Strikes A Monet At The Musée d’Orsay

  04-06-2024 14:32 via apnews.com
  
  “The activist targeted (Monet’s) ‘Poppy Field’ …, affixing a sticker that covered about half the painting with an apocalyptic vision of the same scene. The group said it’s supposed to show what the field would look like in 2100, ‘ravaged by flames and drought,’ if more action isn’t taken against climate change.” – AP
  
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• More Public Radio Layoffs, This Time In Louisville

  04-06-2024 14:00 via insideradio.com
  “Louisville Public Media … says it has an operating budget deficit of $755,000. To make up for the shortfall, it’s laying off six full-time staff and two part-time staff. It’s also eliminating two unfilled positions. The stations feeling the impact include WFPK Independent Louisville, WUOL Classical Louisville and WFPL News.” – Inside Radio
  
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• My National Gallery review – comforting celebration of the UK’s cherished art collection

  04-06-2024 10:00
  
  Museum staff and familiar faces discuss their favourite paintings as the National Gallery turns 200, in a film that offers personal stories over scholarly pronouncementHere is a warm, civilised, and at points quite moving film about the National Gallery’s art collection, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of its founding in 1824. It essentially consists of a series of talking-head interviews – mostly National Gallery staff, but also a scattering of outsiders, including a ha
  
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• UK galleries rushed to diversify art after Black Lives Matter, artist says

  04-06-2024 09:00
  
  South Africa-born painter Gavin Jantjes says institutions tried to buy work they ignored decades earlierBritish arts institutions deployed “kneejerk” and “stopgap” responses in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement as they attempted to avoid criticism for the lack of diversity in their collections, according to the artist Gavin Jantjes.The South Africa-born artist, who was a key figure during the British black art movement of the 1980s, told the Guardian that u
  
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• Development Director – Marin Theatre

  04-06-2024 01:52 via artsjournal.com
  Marin Theatre is seeking an experienced Development Director or a highly knowledgeable fundraising professional ready to independently operate their own department. The Development Director will lead our fundraising efforts and cultivate relationships with donors, sponsors, and supporters.
  This role plays an essential part in advancing our mission by developing and implementing comprehensive fundraising strategies to support our artistic endeavors and growing the audience.This is an in-person or
  
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• Canada’s Film Industry Is Struggling To Survive

  04-06-2024 00:01 via cbc.ca
  
  Because despite success at Cannes — and a few unforgettable notes at the Oscars — Canadian films and filmmakers still make up a small sliver of the box office, and a dismal ripple in a sea of streaming platforms. – CBC
  
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