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• Hinano Price talks about the dramatic growth of classical audiences at Ravinia

  13-07-2024 18:23 via artsjournal.com
  Hinano Price, Artistic Producer at the Ravinia Festival, shares the DEI impact of their Breaking Barriers festival and the dramatic growth of their classical audiences.
  
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• Bill Viola, ‘the Rembrandt of the video age’, dies aged 73

  13-07-2024 18:07
  
  The pioneer in new media and installation art worked with everyone from Nine Inch Nails to the Royal Academy in London, where his art was presented with Michelangelo’sBill Viola, a pioneer in the fields of new media, video and installation art, has died at his home in Long Beach, California, aged 73.Across five decades, his installations found new uses for state-of-the-art audio and visual technology and interrogated the human experience – birth, death, consciousness – in works
  
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• From ‘lottery tickets’ to ‘jam nights’, our guide to getting the best of British culture for less

  13-07-2024 12:55
  
  Want to immerse yourself this summer without splashing huge amounts of cash? Our critics have the key to the offers, hacks and frugal surprises that can save you moneyFrom nabbing presale tickets to free lunchtime gigs and local jam nights, there are a plethora of ways to find yourself enjoying live music without having to delve into your life savings or wait in a queue of thousands. Last-minute seat-filler sites present an inexpensive or often free option for those looking to head to shows
  
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• Hook Arts Media Seeks Executive Director

  13-07-2024 11:02 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryHAM’s Executive Director will bring a proactive and strategic approach to leadership. The Executive Director will oversee organizational initiatives, foster stakeholder relationships, and drive growth. Responsibilities include managing budgets, developing partnerships, and ensuring program effectiveness. They must demonstrate expertise in conflict resolution, employee development, and effective communication.
  The Executive Director will also demonstrate a proven ability to
  
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• ‘There is mystery and it’s also slightly disturbing’: Phil Doherty’s best phone picture

  13-07-2024 11:00
  
  The absence of a body adds intrigue to this shot of the photographer’s daughter on a rope swingPhil Doherty took this photograph on a family walk in a Warwickshire woodland in 2020. It was near the end of the first lockdown, and Doherty, his wife, Lisa, and their two daughters, Lulu and Pearl, had taken the opportunity for a spot of rule-abiding recreation.“We went to Oversley Wood and stopped by this rope swing. There was strong sunlight streaming through the leaves, creating p
  
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• From Despicable Me 4 to Kylie in Hyde Park: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  13-07-2024 07:00
  
  Another screen outing for our little yellow friends the Minions (and Gru), plus the diminutive Aussie pop diva brings the bops to the BST festivalDespicable Me 4
  Out nowBack in 2010 when the first Despicable Me came out, it would have been hard to imagine the level of cultural cut-through achieved by its Minions, yet here we are, 14 years later, with a third sequel. No one’s pretending the kids are showing up for Gru. Sorry Gru, it’s the Minions’ world, we just live in it. Cont
  
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