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• Big Media Stocks Have Had a Rough Time While Tech Soars

  03-07-2024 23:56 via variety.com
  
  Media heavyweights are likely due to endure more pain as the year goes on. The political and regulatory environment for mergers and acquisitions is so volatile that there’s little hope of getting a horizontal combination in any form among Paramount, WBD or Comcast/NBCUniversal approved. – Variety
  
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• The Politics Behind Canceling New Jersey’s Pompidou Center

  03-07-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The mayor of Jersey City and a major supporter of the museum, blamed the cuts instead on his deteriorating relationship with the state’s governor, Phil Murphy, who had supported the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City initiative when it was announced in 2021 as a way to attract tourists and New Yorkers. – The New York Times
  
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• Amid Controversy, Scotland’s National Gallery Says It Will Continue To Take Money From Financial Firm

  03-07-2024 23:01 via msn.com
  First Minister John Swinney has criticised the “misplaced” targeting of the firm, while Scottish culture secretary Angus Robertson has warned that disinvestment campaigns were posing an “existential threat” to arts organisations at a time when many of them were already in “financial distress.” – The Scotsman (MSN)
  
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• Literary Studies Are Dying. How Should The Field Cope?

  03-07-2024 22:32 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Especially cruel realities face a struggling field like literary studies, with its disappearing majors, budgetary pressures, abysmal job market, fears about academic freedom, and more. Literary critics have good reasons to be downcast. Downcast and, at times, spiteful. – LA Review of Books
  
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• Brooke Shields Is Actors Equity’s New President. Here’s What She Wants To Do.

  03-07-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Shields’s music director suggested she consider the opening, and soon enough, she had tossed her hat in the ring, and in May she won the vote by members, defeating two more-seasoned labor activists. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Classical Music Programming Diversity Report

  03-07-2024 21:31 via sfcv.org
  The Donne report found that 78.4 percent of works in 2023–2024 were by historical (deceased) white men, with 30.6 percent coming from the top 10 (canon) composers, whose names are surely familiar. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• On the Florida Arts Funding Cuts: Beyond the Fringe

  03-07-2024 21:11 via artsjournal.com
  Last week Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $32 million in arts funding, which in that state is managed and allocated by the Division of Arts and Culture. The Miami Herald reports:Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday cited “sexual” festivals in Orlando and Tampa as the reason he vetoed more than $32 million in arts funding across Florida this month.
  “You have your tax dollars being given in grants to things like the Fringe Festival, which is like a sexual festival where
  
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• Is Australian Arts Funding At An All-Time Low?

  03-07-2024 20:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  Right now, after the chaos of the COVID years and amid a cost of living crisis, many in the sector are feeling like arts funding is at an all-time low… Or is it? – ArtsHub
  
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• Vandal Beheads Sculpture of Virgin Mary Giving Birth To Jesus

  03-07-2024 20:05 via msn.com
  “The Catholic diocese of Linz (in Austria) said in a statement that the Virgin Mary’s head was sawed off early Monday morning in an act of vandalism. The work, titled Crowning, by Austrian artist Esther Strauss is no longer on view (at Linz Cathedral).” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Oooh. Now We Have “Malevolent” Creativity

  03-07-2024 19:31 via psychologytoday.com
  When you think of creativity, you probably imagine a genius behind an easel or at the heart of a brilliantly directed movie. However, people can also tap into their creative juices if they want to rise to power, enact revenge, or just create trouble. – Psychology Today
  
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• London Museums Should Charge Foreign Tourists Admission Fees, Says Former Director Of British Museum

  03-07-2024 19:02 via standard.co.uk
  
  Mark Jones, who stepped in as interim director last summer amid the stolen-items crisis, says that admission should remain free for under-25s and UK residents but, citing the Louvre’s €22 fee, suggests a £20 ($25) price for others. Jones also says the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles should return to Greece. – The Standard (London)
  
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• “Carnegie Hall Of The West” Is For Sale

  03-07-2024 18:32 via latimes.com
  
  Harvest Rock Church is asking $45 million for the 1,200-seat auditorium near the Old Pasadena district that has also hosted jazz greats including Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie. It has been called “the Carnegie Hall of the West” by fans. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Extraordinary Female Composer Whose 1835 Opera Has Been Rescued From Oblivion

  03-07-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Will Crutchfield: “(Carolina) Uccelli was indeed extraordinary, and so is the single surviving opera” — Anna di Resburgo — “by which we can assess her abilities. Behind it lies a human story, touching and somewhat sad, to which there is now a chance to add a happy postscript.” – The New York Times
  
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• LA’s Jazz Clubs Are Under Stress. Can They Survive?

  03-07-2024 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  The city is brimming with jazz musicians releasing stellar albums and taking risks live. But is L.A. so expensive and disconnected that it’s risking such rooms? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Dance Company Accuses Louvre Of Stealing Its Idea For Museum Workout

  03-07-2024 17:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “This spring, art lovers in Paris had the rare chance to participate in an early morning workout at the Louvre, enjoying yoga and dance moves while running through the galleries. … Monica Bill Barnes and Company has accused the Louvre of copying the Museum Workout, its popular program at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.” – Artnet
  
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• Right-Wingers Are Banning Books From Schools In Brazil, Too

  03-07-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  “Works targeted for banning typically involve race, gender and the LGBTQ+ communities. … Although scattered through different states and cities, the cases have a common factor: there are usually politicians behind them, and in most cases, they support the former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.” – The Guardian
  
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• Accused Attacker Of Salman Rushdie Rejects Plea Deal

  03-07-2024 16:02 via tinyurl.com
  
  “Hadi Matar was charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault in connection with the attack. He has pleaded not guilty. … The deal required a guilty plea to … second-degree attempted murder for a sentence of 20 years” followed by 10 to 20 years in a federal prison on terrorism charges. – ABC News
  
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• The 2023 Cultural Infrastructure Index: Seven Takeaways

  03-07-2024 15:35 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The findings … will likely surprise no one as they reflect the ‘mixed picture’ of the broader economic outlook. So, while there are many more new projects that have been completed or that lie ahead, spending on newly announced projects is lower, amid broader belt-tightening in the arts world.” – Artnet
  
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• It Seems The Paramount/Skydance Merger Is On Again (For Now)

  03-07-2024 15:01 via variety.com
  
  “In a holiday week shocker, Skydance Media and Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. have quietly renewed acquisition talks and have reached a tentative agreement to acquire Paramount Global” — although the studio will reportedly have 45 days to look for a better deal. – Variety
  
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• ‘To be totally the focus of someone, who was really into sex, was fantastic’: Tracey Emin and Billy Childish on their blazing romance

  03-07-2024 14:36
  
  Never was a couple so combustible, but their relationship in the 80s would influence their entire life’s work. In an extract from a new biography of Childish, the pair, who are somehow still friends, give their side of the storyBill Lewis – Billy Childish’s great friend and collaborator in the Medway Poets and other endeavours since 1978 – says that Tracey Emin and Billy Childish are two people who should never have been together, romantically. You will not find anybody w
  
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• Producer Garth Drabinsky’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Actors’ Equity Is Thrown Out

  03-07-2024 14:36 via apnews.com
  
  “The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled that the producer could not continue with his $50 million lawsuit alleging that the Actors’ Equity Association violated antitrust and various state laws, including defamation,” and illegally prevented him from producing Broadway shows by boycotting him. – AP
  
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• Screenwriter Robert Towne, 89, Oscar-Winner For “Chinatown”

  03-07-2024 14:00 via cnn.com
  
  He was also an Oscar nominee for Shampoo (starring Warren Beatty), The Last Detail, and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, and he both wrote and directed four features, including Tequila Sunrise. He was also popular as an uncredited script doctor, contributing to, among other films, The Godfather. – CNN
  
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• Executive Director – Textile Society of America

  03-07-2024 07:33 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director (ED) will apply vision in leading the collaborative efforts of TSA toward a strong, relevant, and sustainable future through progressive plans, policies, and community outreach. With an acuity for detailed work, they will be responsible for daily operations, ensuring TSA’s ongoing activities, and collaborating with Board Committees in fulfilling their goals. Working entirely remotely, the ED will exhibit strong skills in communication and guiding teams of people from
  
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