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• San Francisco Symphony’s Ongoing Turmoil

  24-07-2024 23:32 via msn.com
  Salonen’s anticipated departure casts a long shadow over the Symphony amidst a furor of concerns about leadership, transparency and board decisions. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• What Truths Break Through: How Do You Know?

  24-07-2024 23:01 via conspicuouscognition.com
  
  It is unclear how ordinary citizens can reliably evaluate the ideas circulating within the public sphere. Figuring out the truth about complex political issues is highly challenging. If people are selling untruths—simplistic, unfounded, or inaccurate ideas—how would ordinary citizens know? – Conspicuous Cognition
  
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• Streaming Companies Cut Back Production Spending

  24-07-2024 22:28 via bloomberg.com
  Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are all cutting back to reduce their streaming losses. Amazon has the resources to compete with Netflix, but is still figuring out the best path to streaming sustainability. Even Apple, which has seemingly unlimited resources, is growing a little more cost-conscious. – Bloomberg
  
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• Claim: The UK’s Arts Funder Is A Mess

  24-07-2024 22:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  There’s something profoundly cynical in the way ACE used the last government’s ineptitude as cover for its own anti-classical agenda: its cack-handed assault on English National Opera, and its slashing of touring companies to the point where several major UK cities now have no regular live opera. – The Critic
  
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• Betty Grumble: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  24-07-2024 17:00
  
  The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workoutGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is performance. In art-making I revere legacies of border-riders, defiant sexualities, witches and rascals. I have been known as a sex clown and I am proud to invoke laughter.Some of the best laughing is out of absurdi
  
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• It’s the art Olympics! The 20 greatest ever sporting artworks

  24-07-2024 16:24
  
  From ancient fist-fighters to futurists on bikes, from starchy archers to a naked runner frozen in time … as the Games kick off in Paris, our critic ranks the finest depictions of sport in artSport, in particular athletics, gives artists great opportunities, as well as huge challenges. Running, jumping, throwing, fighting, swimming – these ways of using the human body offer much to sculpt, paint, photograph or film. And that has been true since ancient times. The Olympic Games were
  
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• Brett Whiteley and Sidney Nolan works among former Melbourne lord mayor’s acollection to be sold at auction

  24-07-2024 03:31
  
  Twenty artworks from Ron Walker’s deceased estate to go under the hammer, along with seven Arthur Boyd paintingsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe former lord mayor of Melbourne Ron Walker was known for his billion-dollar property deals, casino developments and a knack for snaring major sporting events such as the Grand Prix and Commonwealth Games. But tonight a very private passion of the busin
  
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