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• In San Francisco, Ballet22 Provides Space, And The Opportunity To Go On Pointe, For Male And Nonbinary Dancers

  02-08-2024 23:33 via msn.com
  “Ballet22’s intense three-week rehearsal period is ‘treasured time,’ as dancer Trevor Williams puts it, a chance to learn roles forbidden at their usual dancing jobs and to take class every day in the iconic shoe that traditionally only cisgender women get to train in.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Portland’s Upcoming City Council Election Will Have A Massive Effect On The City’s Arts And Culture

  02-08-2024 23:02 via orartswatch.org
  
  Portland, Oregon, voters recently voted for a new city council structure. That council will have to figure out what to do with the home of Broadway tours and Portland Opera – the historic, downtown, seismically terrifying Keller. Then there’s the end of the arts tax … and so much more.– Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Suspect Arrested In Connection With Vandalizing Home Of Brooklyn Museum Director

  02-08-2024 22:33 via artnews.com
  
  “Taylor Pelton, 28, has reportedly been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights residence was splashed with red paint in an apparent protest of the museum’s ties to Zionist organizations. The residences of several Brooklyn Museum board trustees were also targeted.” – ARTnews
  
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• Book Bans Are Hurting Indigenous Authors And Books, And Everyone Else Too

  02-08-2024 22:01 via npr.org
  
  “Books that are getting published today are not just for Native kids. They’re important to Native kids because they affirm our existence as Native people in the present day. But they’re also for non-Native kids, because those kids are being shaped by the information in the book.” – NPR
  
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• Plagiarism Accusations Are Blowing Up The Dance World – Again

  02-08-2024 21:32 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Given that there are few protections for choreographers’ intellectual property unless that property has been copyrighted, and that copyrighting choreography is highly uncommon and logistically fraught, this is more likely to be an ethical issue than a legal one.” But it’s still gross, and roiling the dance world. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Plant Philosophy (Yes, It’s A Thing)

  02-08-2024 21:06 via aeon.co
  
  “By the end of the 20th century, our understanding of plant behaviour had expanded …, and it continues to expand. Plant behaviour is, as botanist Anthony Trewavas puts it, ‘what plants do’. It turns out that they do a lot. … The new plant philosophy has emerged partly in response to this work.” – Aeon
  
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• Cal Shakes, Not Yet Successful At Its Emergency Fundraiser, Extends Over The Weekend

  02-08-2024 20:31 via msn.com
  The company is really hoping to make enough money to produce As You Like It in September. “The 50th anniversary performance … is supposed to mark its return to self-produced Shakespeare after operating exclusively as a rental house for other companies.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Elsa Davis Never Expected Her Play “Bulrusher” To Become An Opera

  02-08-2024 20:04 via msn.com
  The original version, about a Black baby girl found drifting in a basket along a river, premiered off-Broadway in 2006 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Though she herself is a singer-songwriter and actor, Davis “had no designs on making an opera” — until composer Nathaniel Stookey approached her. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• In Turkey, Archaeologists Find The End Of The Rainbow

  02-08-2024 19:33 via nytimes.com
  
  That is, what they’ve called “a pot of gold” (golden coins) that help explain the political landscape from the time of the Pelepponisian War.– The New York Times
  
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• Where Does Donald Trump’s Hannibal Lecter Fixation Come From?

  02-08-2024 19:05 via nymag.com
  
  “After a harrowing deep dive through old Trump-rally speeches and xenophobic Tucker Carlson clips, I believe I have come as close as one can to explaining the origins of this bizarre bit. But be warned: Somehow the more you learn, the less sense Trump’s latest obsession makes.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Philly’s Free Library, Despite The Resignation Of Its Staff, Says Author Events Are Returning

  02-08-2024 18:31 via msn.com
  The entire Author Events staff resigned in June, after “layoffs loomed [and] internal meetings became contentious.” The resigning staff said they found the work culture “heartbreaking.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Jamie Hawkesworth: The British Isles review – enigmatic vignettes thick with nostalgia

  02-08-2024 18:20
  
  Huxley-Parlour, Maddox Street, London
  The Preston Bus Station photographer finds drama in the quotidian, creating a chronicle of UK life through unusual closeups and lavish landscapesJamie Hawkesworth made his debut with portraits of people passing through Preston’s brutalist bus station (published first as a pamphlet, Preston Is My Paris, in 2010, and later a book, Preston Bus Station, in 2015). That early work catapulted Hawkesworth into the fashion world, where he continues to shoot cam
  
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• In The Advertising Market, Can Snapchat Ever Catch Up With Facebook, YouTube, And TikTok?

  02-08-2024 18:03 via variety.com
  
  Ad revenue at Snap is weaker than expected, and its stock price has fallen by a quarter. With the giants’ dominance of the social media ad marketplace, is there any hope for Snap? Yes, says one analyst, “if they can continue to shift away from brand dollars to performance advertising.” – Variety
  
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• If You Think Climate Change Doesn’t Affect Art, You’re Not The One Trying To Keep The Art Safe From Megastorms

  02-08-2024 17:31 via artnews.com
  
  “Art shipping and storage companies seek to avoid abrupt changes in temperature and humidity as much as possible to prevent possible damage, especially to antique works on wood panels, paper, and wax prints.” – ARTnews
  
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• The 1984 Olympic Arts Festival Transformed L.A.’s Cultural Scene. Could The LA28 Cultural Olympiad Achieve Something Similar?

  02-08-2024 17:06 via msn.com
  Mark Swed recaps the earlier festival and explains something difficult to remember now: just how large the project was and how profound an effect it has had, even 40 years later. Might anything similar happen four years from now? – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Play At London’s Almeida Briefly Halted Because It Made Grown Men Faint

  02-08-2024 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The play, titled The Years and based on the memoir by 2022 Nobel literature prizewinner Annie Ernaux, was stopped for 10 minutes on Monday after several (mainly male) audience members asked for medical assistance following the graphic onstage depiction of an abortion. – The Guardian
  
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• The Collapse Of Newspapers Is A Loss To Literature, Too

  02-08-2024 16:04 via paintandphotography.substack.com
  
  “The hothouse atmosphere of newsrooms, especially at urban dailies, teaches the aspiring writer more about the world, about life, and about writing than any MFA program ever devised” — without the student debt. Think of Dickens, Twain, Whitman, Angelou, Wolfe, García Márquez … All newspaper alums. – Bob Keefer
  
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• “Zombie Alt-Weeklies” Village Voice And LA Weekly Are Running AI-Generated Listicles About OnlyFans

  02-08-2024 15:35 via wired.com
  
  “Clicking on (the ‘OnlyFans’ tab) pulls up a catalog of listicles ranking pornographic performers by demographic, from ‘Turkish’ to ‘incest’ to ‘granny.’ These blog posts … are presented as editorial work, without labels indicating they are advertisements or sponsored.” (The Voice has one remaining editorial staffer, who insists he is not involved.) – Wired
  
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• Paris’s Musée Rodin Will Open Its First International Outpost In Shanghai

  02-08-2024 15:01 via scmp.com
  
  The new museum, called the Centre d’Art Rodin, will open in September in the building constructed as the French pavilion for Expo 2010. The project was first announced in 2019 for Shenzhen but was moved to be part of the larger city’s art scene. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Golf Club Will Vacate Site Of Ancient Native American Earthworks

  02-08-2024 14:30 via wvxu.org
  
  “Ohio History Connection and Moundbuilders Country Club have agreed to terms over the Octagon Earthworks in Licking County. The site is part of Ohio’s Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023.” – Cincinnati Public Radio
  
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• Dance Program At Shuttered University Of The Arts Finds New Home

  02-08-2024 14:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Two months after the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, the school’s dance program will be revived at Bennington College in Vermont, which will absorb the dance school, three staff members and nearly 50 students, the college announced on Thursday.” – The New York Times
  
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• Piero and Hockney eye to eye, Holzer logs in and Rothko heads to the beach – the week in art

  02-08-2024 13:06
  A Renaissance master shows with a modern one, pioneering digital art and an abstract expressionist megalith arrives in St Ives – all in your weekly dispatchMark Rothko: The Seagram Murals
  The greatest abstract paintings in Britain, commissioned for a New York restaurant but given by Rothko to the Tate, cast their dark spell all over again.• Tate St Ives, Cornwall, until 5 January Continue reading...
  
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• Public Relations Director (Classical) – The Kennedy Center

  02-08-2024 06:05 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Public Relations (Classical) is responsible for maintaining and enhancing the awareness, public image, and reputation of the Kennedy Center and its two resident artistic affiliates—the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), helmed by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and Executive Director Jean Davidson, and Washington National Opera (WNO), led by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and General Director Timothy O’Leary—alongside distinctive music series including th
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communications – Playwrights Horizons

  02-08-2024 06:01 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityPlaywrights Horizons, one of the most prolific Off-Broadway theaters in New York, is seeking a creative and strategic Director of Marketing and Communications to lead marketing and audience development efforts that deliver on the goals of the company and continue to position Playwrights at the center of the New York and National theatre landscape.The ideal candidate has a passion for theater and will apply this passion to developing marketing campaigns and content that are a
  
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• Hiring: Grants and Development Communications Manager

  02-08-2024 05:53 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION: Grants and Development Communications Manager
  DEPARTMENT: Development
  REPORTS TO: Director of Development
  PAY: $65,000 — $75,000; Full-time; Annual; Exempt
  BENEFITS INCLUDE: Medical, vision, and dental insurance; paid time off (PTO), sick leave, and holiday time; flexible spending and health savings accounts; employer-sponsored life, long-term, and short-term disability insurance; a 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution and match, access to free parking, and various p
  
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• From Tasmanian cliffs to pig-nosed turtles: $100,000 Hadley’s Art prize – in pictures

  02-08-2024 04:00
  Hadley’s Art prize is an annual acquisitive prize for Australian landscape art that is believed to be the richest in the world. Selected from 35 finalists, the Tasmanian-based, 28-year-old artist Zoe Grey has won for The Shape of Rock.Grey’s winning work encapsulates the rugged landscape of Marrawah, a remote coastal community on the north-west edge of Tasmania where she grew up.The prize is presented by Hadley’s Orient hotel in Hobart, where all finalists will be exhibited unt
  
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• Cracking The Code Of Rembrandt’s Golden Luster

  02-08-2024 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  A team of scientists found that “the Dutch Master incorporated ‘pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar’ — yellow and reddish-orange arsenic sulfide mineral variants that he mixed with lead-tin yellow and vermillion to achieve the glinting, reflective hue.” – Hyperallergic
  
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