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• A Cultural History Of London’s Biggest Sandwich Moments

  01-08-2024 23:32 via vittlesmagazine.com
  
  “These are sandwiches that announced themselves, generating queues and crowds and noise, from hollers in the streets to streams of hyper-colourful Instagram photos. This is a potted history, not of London’s greatest sandwiches over the last two-and-a-half centuries, but of the most iconic ones.” – Vittles
  
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• Did This College Student Really Find A Hidden Chagall And Buy It For Two Dollars?

  01-08-2024 23:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  The California student was at an estate sale. “I looked closely at the back and I saw it said Chagall and I was like, ‘Marc Chagall, are you serious?’”  – Artnet
  
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• Why Is NBC So Obsessed With Showing Us Non-Athlete Celebrities At The Olympics?

  01-08-2024 22:32 via msn.com
  “I’ve had mixed feelings about the effectiveness of NBC’s strategy — do I care about what John Mulaney has been watching (and wagering on) in Paris? No. … These athletes have star power on their own, and this is their moment to shine.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Buffalo, Desperate For Money, Decides To Add Taxes To Music And Arts Tickets

  01-08-2024 22:01 via investigativepost.org
  
  Surprised “venues received letters saying that going forward the city would require a paid license for every event that ‘falls into the category of an Amusement.” … These events ‘include but are not limited to lectures, exhibitions, theatre, sports, comedy, music and other shows that charge a fee.’” – Investigative Post
  
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• In Minneapolis, Indigenous Teens Get A Summer Filled With Architecture And Design

  01-08-2024 21:31 via mprnews.org
  
  “Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.” – and they’d like to change that number. – MPR
  
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• Preserving The Endangered Crafts Of Sacred Art — At A School In London

  01-08-2024 21:05 via theguardian.com
  The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts is training and certifying craftspeople in disciplines that might otherwise be dying out, such as Pakistani kashikari ceramics, Persian miniature painting, Moroccan zellige mosaic tilework and Egyptian Mamluk woodcarving. – The Guardian
  
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• Orchestras With Outdoor Summer Home Bases See Revenue Boosts

  01-08-2024 20:31 via post-gazette.com
  But the Pittsburgh Symphony doesn’t have an outdoor venue. Could that change – and could it help the symphony survive? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Young Chinese Women Are Reviving Interest In A Centuries-Old, Secret Females-Only Script

  01-08-2024 20:02 via apnews.com
  
  Nüshu developed among women in the south of Hunan who were barred from education. By the end of the 20th century the script had almost died out, but now younger women who see it as a form of resistance to patriarchal power are learning nüshu, even in Beijing and beyond. – AP
  
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• As Arts, And All, Journalism Jobs Dry Up, What Skills Are The Journalists Left With?

  01-08-2024 19:33 via artshub.com.au
  
  The situation in Australia is grim. “What this all shows is not only the precarity of the journalistic profession, but also the low value publications, newsrooms, media corporations and perhaps even the general public, place on quality journalism.” – ArtsHub
  
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• Exurbanism Is The New Urbanism

  01-08-2024 19:06 via thenewatlantis.com
  
  American downtowns may have mattered before 2020, but the enormous growth of remote work (with the resulting rise in office vacancy rates) and the consistent preferences of home buyers show that suburbs and exurbs are where the action is — especially since much development there is along New Urbanism lines. – The New Atlantis
  
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• Five Of The Best Metatextual Novels About Visual Art

  01-08-2024 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “The anxieties of the art maker – the writer – come through in anxieties about painting, or photography, or sculpture, or dance. But the best art novels transcend this self-consciousness.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Video-Game Actors’ Strike Could Be Even More Significant Than Last Year’s Hollywood Strikes

  01-08-2024 18:04 via msn.com
  “Gaming employees at every level … (labor in) a highly profitable and popular sector that has long exploited their creativity and devalued their work. Now, with the specter of generative AI hovering, … (they) are proving their worth and value — and ensuring that their workplaces will no longer treat them as disposable.” – Slate (MSN)
  
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• Is Dance An Art Or A Sport, Or Both?

  01-08-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Olympics, that’s not really in question as it’s part of Paris’s “Cultural Olympiad, a program of multidisciplinary arts events directed by Dominique Hervieu, a choreographer, an experienced leader in the arts and a former dancer as well.” – The New York Times
  
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• After Only Six Months, Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Resigns

  01-08-2024 17:05 via inreview.com.au
  
  Leanne Benjamin, a former principal and then coach at London’s Royal Ballet, returned home to Queensland early this year to take the helm at the Brisbane-based company. She’s stepping down because she feels Queensland Ballet lacks sufficient funding to achieve her artistic ambitions. – InReview (Australia)
  
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• State Of The Arts In The US: Report With Greatly Expanded Data

  01-08-2024 16:31 via culturaldata.org
  
  In late April, SMU Data Arts released its 2024 “National Trends for Arts and Cultural Organizations,” analyzing figures from 233 institutions of varying sizes. This update has incorporated data from an additional 501 organizations. – SMU DataArts
  
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• The Public Theater In New York Faces Big Deficits

  01-08-2024 16:03 via mailchi.mp
  “When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said that it hoped to avoid a budget deficit in the year ending in August 2023. Instead, expenses exceeded revenue by $8 million that season, according to its most recent audited financial statement.” – Broadway Journal
  
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• Analysis: U.S. Ballet Companies’ Budgets Rebounded In The Year After The Pandemic Collapse

  01-08-2024 15:32 via dancedataproject.com
  
  In FY 2021, aggregate spending by the 150 largest U.S. ballet companies had fallen by 39% from FY 2019. In FY 2022, spending rose from the FY 2021 figures by 63%. However, 89% of that spending was by the 50 largest companies. – Dance Data Project
  
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• Founder Of Collapsed American National Ballet Convicted Of Shooting Her Ex-Husband

  01-08-2024 15:06 via msn.com
  Ashley Benefield was acquitted of second-degree murder but convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 death of her ex-husband in Florida. The Benefields were the founders of the highly-publicized American National Ballet, which, in 2017, fell apart for lack of funding just as it was about to start rehearsals. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Looks Like Someone’s Been Peddling Another (Potentially) Fake Basquiat

  01-08-2024 14:34 via artnews.com
  
  “An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat painting at the Museum of Modern Art in New York without the institution’s permission.” – ARTnews
  
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• Lyric Opera Of Chicago Appoints Houston Symphony’s CEO As General Director

  01-08-2024 14:00 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  John Mangum, 49, has no professional experience in opera, but he has spent a career in artistic administration at the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. He became CEO of the Houston Symphony in 2018. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Five of the best novels about art

  01-08-2024 13:01
  
  Rachel Cusk, Raven Leilani and Hari Kunzru are among writers inspired by artists to find shape and form in their own worksStories about art and art-making are inherently metatextual. The anxieties of the art maker – the writer – come through in anxieties about painting, or photography, or sculpture, or dance. But the best art novels transcend this self-consciousness, offer up new ways of seeing, and in turn, give shape and form to what can feel a shapeless, formless world.Often, they
  
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• Richard Crawford, Leading Scholar Of American Music, Has Died At 89

  01-08-2024 00:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Crawford entirely changed the field. He “was a pioneer who shaped the scope of American music research. … It wasn’t about celebrating an unchanging canon, but about opening up the magic of musical experience.” – The New York Times
  
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