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• LA’s New Basketball Palace Is Stuffed With Art

  11-07-2024 23:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Sculpture, murals and digital art installations by artists including Refik Anadol, Jennifer Steinkamp, Charles Gaines and Glenn Kaino will be on view throughout the campus of the privately funded new home of the N.B.A.’s Clippers. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Music Festivals Are So Vulnerable

  11-07-2024 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The closest the festival circuit has to a trade body – the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) – lists 50 festivals as cancelled, postponed or closed this year. It expects the end-of-year total to be 100. This is part of a wider, and worrying, UK trend. – The Conversation
  
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• The Art Of Casting

  11-07-2024 22:32 via theguardian.com
  “If a show was a painting, we would do the initial sketch.” – The Guardian
  
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• How To Make Public Radio Sustainable? Combine Newsrooms

  11-07-2024 22:01 via insideradio.com
  In the greater Appalachia region, the newsroom will bring together six public media outlets in Kentucky and Tennessee, with the possibility of adding more. – Inside Radio
  
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• NYPhil Chief Suddenly Resigns

  11-07-2024 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  His departure comes as the orchestra’s musicians and the administration are in the midst of heated talks over a new labor contract; the current agreement expires in September. The musicians have been seeking large wage increases. – The New York Times
  
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• Report: Film And TV Production In LA Down 40 Percent From “Peak TV”

  11-07-2024 21:28 via latimes.com
  
  The tracking company found that production in the United States was down about 40% in the second quarter of 2024 compared to peak-TV levels of filming activity during the same period in 2022. For nearly two years, Hollywood has suffered a stark decline in film and TV shoots. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Five Interesting, And Perhaps Flawed, Metaphors For Translation

  11-07-2024 21:02 via theparisreview.org
  
  Two of them involve Legos. One is about a quilt, another about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, and yet another is about industrialized agriculture, with English as a monocrop. – The Paris Review
  
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• Report: Cultural Projects Underway Internationally In 2023

  11-07-2024 20:31 via aeaconsulting.com
  We find the volume of new projects – both announced and completed – increasing, while we see the value of investment decreasing, reflecting the current economic uncertainty affecting both the public and private sectors. – AEA
  
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• Thomas Hoepker, renowned German photographer, dies at 88

  11-07-2024 20:07
  
  The photographer was known for defining images of Muhammad Ali, the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001Thomas Hoepker, the renowned German photographer, has died at the age of 88.He was known for his pictures of Muhammad Ali, the Berlin Wall, and a controversial image of onlookers in Brooklyn seemingly unbothered by the smoke of the Twin Towers on 9/11 in the distance. His death was confirmed by Magnum Photos, the international photography collective that began publishing his pho
  
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• Washington DC Has Some Ugly Brutalist Buildings. Here’s How Some Architects Would Fix Them.

  11-07-2024 20:05 via msn.com
  “A lover of brutalism might blanch to learn that the (National Building Museum) has gathered proposals from six architecture firms for reimagining six of our most polarizing buildings. … The buildings featured are at least 50 years old. Most are out of favor with both contemporary tastes and technology.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Shelley Duvall, 75

  11-07-2024 19:34 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of her own production company, Think Entertainment. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• For The First Time, Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays Have Been Filmed As A Cycle

  11-07-2024 19:01 via bbc.com
  
  “The eight films, which feature some of the UK’s top performers, will receive their premiere screenings at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, the city in Kent where the writer was born. The viewings, between 16-24 August, will mark the 460th anniversary of Marlowe’s birth.” – BBC
  
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• The Other Carnegie Halls

  11-07-2024 18:31 via newsinteractive.post-gazette.com
  
  At the turn of the 20th century, he gifted six concert halls to different Steel City suburbs. The musical halls were built with uniformly excellent acoustics, each a historical gem in its own right. Perhaps the grandest symbol of opulence: most had functioning pipe organs, also called the “king of musical instruments.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• A Look At The Dance Offerings At The Venice Biennale

  11-07-2024 18:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Choreographer Wayne McGregor, artistic director of the Biennale’s dance division, made a point of selecting work that he describes as “innovative, edgy, and perhaps more difficult to like.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Spotify Is Becoming A Social Network Around Music

  11-07-2024 17:31 via techcrunch.com
  
  Combined with the app’s 2023 revamp, which added a TikTok-like discovery feed, artist profiles where creators can hawk merchandise and concert tickets, as well as the ability to post to stories, Spotify’s app is shaping up to be a social network centered around all things audio, not just a music-streaming app. – TechCrunch
  
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• Is Using Generative AI In Documentaries Legitimate? We Asked Errol Morris.

  11-07-2024 17:03 via niemanlab.org
  
  “Film isn’t reality, no matter how it’s shot. … I guess people are so afraid of being tricked or manipulated that they feel if they impose a set of rules, somehow they don’t have to be afraid anymore. I would like to assure them that they still need to be afraid.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• The New Play About J.K. Rowling Is Controversial In Britain And The States. Yet No One Has Seen It.

  11-07-2024 16:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The one-act by American writer Joshua Kaplan, titled TERF, doesn’t premiere until next month at the Edinburgh Fringe, yet right-wing media on both sides of the Atlantic have attacked it — sight unseen — as hostile to Rowling, a well-known critic of alleged excesses of the trans rights movement. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

  11-07-2024 07:00
  
  British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October When the British-Guyanese sculptor Hew Locke was asked to create a work that would hang in the British Academy, in a building once owned by the former prime minister William Gladstone, it was an offer that was too good to refuse.It was a rare commission from a prestigious British institution, but the setting itself made it particularly alluring. “That was interesting to me; you c
  
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