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• Theatres Use Gaming To Attract New Audiences

  31-07-2024 23:32 via artshub.com.au
  
  For instance, Dungeons and Dragons improv can break through barriers and attract nontraditional audiences to theatres.– ArtsHub
  
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• Palm Springs Decides To Move Marilyn Monroe Statue To A City Park

  31-07-2024 23:05 via desertsun.com
  
  The move is a result of a lawsuit from, well, people who love cars. They’ll be disappointed, though; the city council did not decide to “reopen” Museum Way to vehicle traffic. – Palm Springs Desert Sun
  
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• The Lincoln Center Composer In Conversation With Robert Schumann

  31-07-2024 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Hannah Kendall knew, when she read Schumann’s letters about his struggles with depression, that her next piece would be a response to him, and help listeners hear not only her own sound but his Second Symphony in a new way. – The New York Times
  
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• Britain Releases Its Stirling Architecture Prize Shortlist

  31-07-2024 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  The list includes the entire new Elizabeth Line in London, a dairy farm in Dorset, and the National Portrait Gallery. – BBC
  
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• No, The Olympics Opening Ceremony Did Not Refer To Leonardo’s The Last Supper

  31-07-2024 21:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “A depiction of Greek gods partying atop Mount Olympus at the Olympics opening ceremony spurred conflicting public reactions as primarily conservative critics erroneously claimed that the performance parodied Leonardo da Vinci’s famous fresco The Last Supper (1495–98) and, by extension, mocked Christian beliefs.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• One of Oakland’s Favorite Bookstores Is Destroyed By Fire

  31-07-2024 21:04 via publishersweekly.com
  Firefighters arrived at East Bay Booksellers just before 5:30 am on July 30 and were able to keep the flames from spreading, but the building and its contents are reportedly a total loss. No one was seriously injured or killed, though five residential tenants next door have been displaced. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Francine Pascal, Author Of The Sweet Valley High Books Who Remade YA Publishing, Has Died At 92

  31-07-2024 20:33 via cnn.com
  
  “The concept: Dallas for young people. The main characters: twin sisters, one mischievous (Jessica), the other more sensible (Elizabeth).” The Sweet Valley High universe books sold more than 200 million copies and engendered spinoffs and TV shows. – CNN
  
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• Ukraine’s Badass Art Rescuers

  31-07-2024 20:05 via theguardian.com
  “With the help of a motley group of intrepid friends, (Leonid) Marushchak has achieved something quite extraordinary. He has organised the evacuation of dozens of museums across Ukraine’s frontline – packing, recording, logging and counting each item and sending them to secret, secure locations away from the combat zone.” – The Guardian
  
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• The State Theatre Of Melbourne Is Under Renovations Until 2027, But There’s A Small New Joy

  31-07-2024 19:32 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  That is, the old rehearsal room is now a 150-seat theatre. And the size is a plus, they say: “Without The Show Room we wouldn’t be able to present performances that have the potential to truly capture audiences in such an intimate space.” – Limelight
  
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• Samuel Zimmerman Wants You To Be Terrified, And Knows Just The Way To Do It

  31-07-2024 19:01 via msn.com
  “He’s the curator at Shudder, the bespoke streaming service owned by AMC Networks that, alongside the movie studios Blumhouse and A24, is shaping the modern landscape of horror as the genre becomes more mainstream. Shudder is the only true streaming service dedicated to horror.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Hollywood Actors May Have Some Protection From AI, But What About Editors And Artists?

  31-07-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Editors are, rightfully, worried – and they’re unhappy with their union, which they believe sold them out on AI – perhaps out of necessity. One member: “If a 70,000-member union like IATSE can’t protect workers, what does it mean for everybody else? … For society going forward?”– The New York Times
  
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• The glorious range of Australian slang | Brief letters

  31-07-2024 18:30
  
  Budgie smugglers | In the eye of the beholder | Pylon petulance | Song thrush in Essex | Suella BravermanThe reason Michael Barber (Letters, 26 July) never heard the term “budgie smugglers” on Sydney beaches in the 1960s is simple: it’s slang from the 2000s. The first usage in Jonathon Green’s Dictionary of Slang in 2008 also shows the glorious rich range of Aussie speech: “Call ’em cock jocks, sluggos, nylon nasties, budgie smugglers, the banana hammock or th
  
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• Dressage: The Olympic Sport Of Teaching A Horse To Dance

  31-07-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Popularly known as horse dancing, dressage involves riders directing their horses to perform a series of moves, including pirouettes, that are thought to have military origins. … (British equestrian Becky Moody) explained what it takes to nurture and train an equine ballerina.” – The New York Times
  
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• Ed Clark review – so ordinary he could almost be British

  31-07-2024 17:40
  Turner Contemporary, Margate
  Pity the poor sunbathers who wander from the beach into this weak and confusing show that proves not all abstract art is worth seeing Margate beach in a heatwave is a sight to behold. The sands are seething with funmakers right out to the distant waterline, where silhouettes mark the silver waves like dabs from an artist’s brush. It could be an impressionist beach scene, or perhaps a photo by Weegee of Coney Island circa 1940. I wonder what percentage of this j
  
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• Massachusetts May Appoint The First-Ever Choreographer Laureate

  31-07-2024 17:31 via dancemagazine.com
  
  The proposal is twinned with the appointment of a music laureate. “If the legislation is ultimately signed into law, the home state of Jacob’s Pillow, Boston Ballet, and The Yard will get a shiny new government spotlight on dance.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Tipped by a Friend and Glad to Know

  31-07-2024 17:24 via artsjournal.com
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• Lewis Lapham’s Secret For Great Editing? “Steal”

  31-07-2024 17:03 via msn.com
  “Many of Lapham’s innovations at Harper’s and LQ were elegant systems of thievery. (Copyright holders were always paid for the republication of their poetry or prose.) The Harper’s Index and Readings Section and every issue of Lapham’s Quarterly were exercises in the arts of collage and anthology.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• John Eliot Gardiner Is Completely Repentant — Isn’t He?

  31-07-2024 16:34 via tinyurl.com
  “I was very dehydrated. … I didn’t strike him too hard. I did nonetheless cuff or biff a young singer. … There is no excuse. Provocation yes, but not an excuse. … There has to be a degree of forgiveness and tolerance.” Not entirely convinced? Neither is the interviewer. – Financial Times
  
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• Baritone Benjamin Luxon, One Of 20th-Century English Music’s Greatest Interpreters, Has Died At 87

  31-07-2024 16:02 via prestomusic.com
  
  He had an international career in a wide repertory and was a star at English National Opera, but his greatest contribution was in British music. Britten wrote several roles for him, and he made over 100 recordings, with his performances of Elgar, Britten, Walton, and British art song being highlights. – Presto Music
  
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• Teenage militia take a break from battle: Hugh Kinsella Cunningham’s best photograph

  31-07-2024 15:39
  ‘These soldiers are fighting Rwandan-backed rebels in the DRC. They’re attempting to pose – but you can see how lost and vulnerable they are’In late 2021, Rwandan-backed rebels known as the M23 started raiding villages in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. At first, they stuck to remote areas, then they moved into more heavily populated towns. More and more people lost their homes as the chaos spread across the region. The DRC’s army then stage
  
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• “Blues For Mister Charlie” — Reconsidering James Baldwin’s Broadway Debut, 60 Years Later

  31-07-2024 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “An impassioned play about the murder of a Black man that implicates progressive white viewers … which opened in a white-dominated environment inimical to his ambition, (it) was not only among his most monumental accomplishments, but also … a revolution on the midcentury Great White Way.” – The New York Times
  
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• After 25 Years, Mass MoCA Is A Great Museum. But Has It Been Great For The Old Factory Town It’s In?

  31-07-2024 15:01 via msn.com
  “One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. But the numbers tell a less convincing story when it comes to the museum’s economic impact on the people of North Adams.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• Britain’s New Labour Government Cancels Planned Stonehenge Highway Tunnel

  31-07-2024 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  “Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel ‘would not move forward.’ Scrapping the project, which had a proposed budget of $2.5 billion, is part of Labour’s mission to fill a fiscal hole (left behind by Rishi Sunak’s Tories) that’s $30 billion deep.” – ARTnews
  
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• One Of Edinburgh’s Best-Loved Arts Venues Has Been Saved

  31-07-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Arts and cultural leaders were alarmed about Summerhall’s future, and the future of Scotland’s independent arts scene, after it emerged in May that the building’s owners had put the sprawling site on the market. … (But) its owners have confirmed they have offered the arts centre a new three-year lease.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘We never stole from kids, just insured places’: Armand Schaubroeck, the ex-con muse of Andy Warhol

  31-07-2024 13:53
  
  A gangster at 14 and in maximum security prison by 17, he turned his experiences into warped rock that thrilled New York’s art scene. Fifty years on he recalls one of music’s strangest careersIn 1966, Armand Schaubroeck – an ex-con who had made a local name for himself selling guitars out of his mum’s basement in Rochester, New York – tracked down Andy Warhol with an idea: a rock opera about Schaubroeck’s experiences of the US prison system. “He said, &l
  
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• Ukraine’s art evacuators: the intrepid team rescuing art from a warzone – in pictures

  31-07-2024 10:00
  
  After Russia’s invasion in 2022, historian Leonid Marushchak saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was under threat, too. So he vowed to get to these irreplaceable works before Putin’s forces could. Photographs by Julia Kochetova, Ed Ram and Natalka Diachenko• Read Charlotte Higgins’s long read about Ukraine’s art evacuators Continue reading...
  
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• TCG Co-Executive Director: National Operations and Business Development – SEMI-FINALISTS COMPENSATED

  31-07-2024 06:29 via artsjournal.com
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• A New Trend? Two Downtown NYC Theatres Decide To Bunk Together

  31-07-2024 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The prestigious Soho Rep is giving up its longtime home in TriBeCa and will instead share space with Playwrights Horizons, a Midtown theater company, while trying to figure out a longer-term plan. – The New York Times
  
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