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• How Michelangelo’s Dome Has Survived For Centuries

  09-08-2024 23:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  He had some (postmortem) secret weapons at St. Peter’s Basilica: A team of mathematicians … and the Pope. – Hyperallergic
  
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• How Norway’s Public Broadcaster Figured Out The Algo

  09-08-2024 23:02 via niemanlab.org
  
  If you build it (in this case, climate coverage), they will come. “In 2023, stories produced by the organization’s climate teams outperformed the average story on the website in 11 months out of 12, often dramatically.” Could they do the same with, oh, say, the arts?– Nieman Lab
  
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• Theatre Artists Make So Little Money, It’s Nearly Nonexistent

  09-08-2024 22:31 via thestage.co.uk
  How can we fix this? Gloucester, England, has one (extremely dreamy) idea – give artists money, and tell them you don’t expect an outcome. “This is about dreaming and developing and forming relationships and partnerships, and those things take time.” – The Stage (UK)
  
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• Mary Wings, Who Led The Way In Queer Comics, Has Died At 75

  09-08-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Wings was the first known US comic artist to produce work by a lesbian about lesbians. “After publishing her three comics, Ms. Wings turned to novels: She wrote four books about a lesbian detective” and spoke at many art schools, inspiring young queer artists. – The New York Times
  
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• Grueling Grünbaum Disputes: Manhattan DA Takes on Museums (once again)

  09-08-2024 21:34 via artsjournal.com
  I did a doubletake when I saw the recent article about the return of a Schiele drawing (below) to the
  
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• Classic Films, Hard To Find On Streaming, Are Making Their Cinematic Comebacks

  09-08-2024 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Perhaps surprisingly – but perhaps not, if you’ve ever tried to figure out what to watch from 12 different streaming services –“there is such an appetite for classic films these days it almost feels as if they are part of the first-run calendar.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Dreamy And Soulful Or Dreary And Dreadful? The Minimalist Piano Music That Crowds Love And Classical Critics Detest

  09-08-2024 21:05 via theguardian.com
  
  No, this doesn’t mean the piano etudes of Philip Glass. Ludovico Einaudi is the most famous of a school of keyboard composers such as Joep Breving, Nils Frahm, Lubomyr Melnyk, Riopy, and Sophie Hutchings. They draw far more streaming listeners than even Yuja Wang. Beving actually records for DG. – The Guardian
  
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• How Small Towns And Rural Areas Can Keep The Arts Going

  09-08-2024 20:31 via culturaldata.org
  
  Collective action is the key: “A rural community may not necessarily receive the art it deserves, but it certainly gets the art it is collectively willing to work for. The majority of any given rural community must demonstrate a willingness to work towards arts vibrancy.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• The Soviet Puppet Theaters Of Kazakhstan

  09-08-2024 20:04 via historytoday.com
  During the 1930s, the Communist regime in Moscow set up Russian-style puppet theaters in the republics as a way to impart Socialist principles to children. In the Kazakh SSR, puppets caught on, especially when doing traditional stories, and the troupe in Almaty, no longer Communist, survives to this day. – History Today
  
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• But What Exactly Is Banksy Doing In London?

  09-08-2024 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  When’s the big reveal after the surprise five animal appearances this week? Is the artist protesting far-right rioters, climate change, or … what? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• You’ve Heard Of Slow Food And Slow TV. Now A “Slow Living” Movement Is Arising.

  09-08-2024 19:06 via bbc.com
  
  “(There’s currently) a wave of writers encouraging active resistance to the relentless ‘goal-oriented’ expectation that, ‘in a world where our value is determined by our productivity’, every hour and minute of our time should be put to good use.” Note the spread of the word “niksen,” the Dutch term for doing nothing. – BBC
  
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• The Message Of Recent Broadway Successes

  09-08-2024 18:33 via thestage.co.uk
  “At a time when costs for Broadway shows continue to rise … the necessity is producers so committed to projects and their potential to find audience favour that they will fight conventional wisdom to give shows the opportunity for recognition and financial success.” – The Stage (UK)
  
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• The Four Children of Frank Zappa And Their Frustrations, Finances, And Fights

  09-08-2024 18:02 via washingtonpost.com
  “Moon has spent decades reassessing the family dynamic. Dweezil no longer speaks to his siblings. Ahmet and Diva, meanwhile, seem dazed by the force of their siblings’ anger — siblings with whom they share not just a fraught business partnership but also a one-of-a-kind childhood.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Banksy Confirms A Fifth London Piece This Week

  09-08-2024 17:31 via euronews.com
  This one, hungry pelicans playing with fish, is appropriately located above one of London’s famous chip shops. – Euro News
  
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• What Does A State-Level Version Of The Atlantic Magazine Look Like? In North Carolina, It Looks Like This

  09-08-2024 17:05 via niemanlab.org
  
  “With a mission of publishing ‘deep reporting about power and place in North Carolina,’ the publication (called The Assembly) has an ambitious vision of curiosity-driven reporting that holds power to account. … (It) takes inspiration from other statewide magazines like California Sunday and Texas Monthly.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Slovakia’s Culture Minister Is On A Firing Spree

  09-08-2024 16:31 via spectator.sme.sk
  
  This week, Martina Šimkovičová — who only just moved from across the border in Austria into Slovakia though she’s been minister since last October — abruptly dismissed the directors of the Slovak National Theatre and Slovak National Gallery. She reportedly plans to sack others who protested these firings. – The Slovak Spectator
  
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• Two Cultural Institutions Were Set On Fire During Bangladesh Riots

  09-08-2024 16:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Several locations across the capital, (Dhaka,) including Bangabandhu Memorial Museum and the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, were set on fire as part of a wider uprising against prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has been forced to resign after 15 years in power and has fled to India.” – Artnet
  
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• Breaking At The Olympics: Inside The Scoring System

  09-08-2024 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “The judges will score on five criteria: vocabulary, technique, execution, originality and musicality. … Judges will use digital sliders … to represent each scoring criterion, moving a slider toward the breaker they believe is ahead in, say, originality at that moment. There are penalties for crashes, wipeouts and falls.” – The New York Times
  
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• Audit Finds More Misuse Of Funds And Possible Embezzlement At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio

  09-08-2024 15:06 via capradio.org
  The forensic examination of finances at the long-troubled outlet revealed conflicts of interest, misspent funds, and more than $700,000 in expenditures ($400,000 of which was to one unnamed individual) that weren’t backed up by expense reports or receipts. – Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)
  
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• Speculation rife about Banksy’s London murals after five appear in a week

  09-08-2024 15:05
  
  Whether comment on far-right rioters, Gaza or the climate crisis, one expert suspects a grand reveal is imminentIt began with the silhouette of a goat perched atop a narrow wall near Kew Bridge in London, with tumbling rocks signifying the animal’s perilous position.Over the course of the week, more silhouettes began popping up around the capital: two elephants with their trunks reaching towards each other from blocked-out windows on the side of a house in Chelsea; three monkeys swinging a
  
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• Paramount To Cut 15% Of Its US Workforce

  09-08-2024 14:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The layoffs, which follow the elimination of 800 jobs in February, are part of a plan for $500 million in annual cost-savings (part of $2 billion in “cost efficiencies”) adopted for the coming merger of Paramount Global and Skydance. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• This Guy Poured Water On 6,000-Year-Old Cave Art So He Could Get A Better Pic For Facebook

  09-08-2024 14:02 via cnn.com
  
  “The cave paintings (in the Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range) were made on limestone, which contains water-soluble salts. When water is poured on the paintings, these salts dissolve and then come to the surface when the water evaporates, leaving a crust that causes ‘irreparable damage’ to the paintings.” – CNN
  
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• Ofili stands out in Edinburgh, print legends and money in the Banksy – the week in art

  09-08-2024 13:14
  
  A bustling art festival rivals the fringe, a survey of star printmakers, and an exploration of wealth and artistry – all in your weekly dispatchEdinburgh art festival
  A staggering range of art for Edinburgh’s festival season, with great shows by Ibrahim Mahama and Chris Ofili standing out, while Hayley Barker and Sir John Lavery provide pastoral escape.• Various venues, Edinburgh, 9-25 August Continue reading...
  
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• Edinburgh art festival review – haunting return of the railway that robbed Africa

  09-08-2024 11:44
  
  Various venues, Edinburgh
  This thrilling festival features Ibrahim Mahama’s unmissable meditation on the railway that plundered Ghana, nuclear attack relics, and a stunning Chris Ofili tapestryTime is a return ticket in Ibrahim Mahama’s Songs About Roses, which is on display at the Fruitmarket Gallery, far and away the best show in this year’s Edinburgh art festival. Mahama draws young men lugging rails in detailed yet suggestively poetic charcoal, but are they laying tracks fo
  
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• Natsiaa 2024: Noli Rictor wins $100,000 award for ‘truly majestic’ painting

  09-08-2024 10:00
  
  Pitjantjatjara artist takes home the most prestigious First Nations art prize, for a ‘mesmerising’ artwork of the spinifex plains in remote Western AustraliaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA dot painting of song lines depicting the abundant spinifex plains in remote Western Australia has won the 2024 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards (Natsiaa).Pitjantjatjara artist Noli Rictor’s work Kamanti claimed the $100,000 top prize at Australia’s
  
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• Mahler, New York, and Cultural Memory

  09-08-2024 05:36 via artsjournal.com
  
  “It is always instructive to read European newspapers on American affairs. It gives us the much needed opportunity to see
  
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• Managing Director – People’s Light

  09-08-2024 04:06 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityPeople’s Light (PL) in Malvern, Pennsylvania seeks its next Managing Director (MD) to partner with Producing Artistic Director Zak Berkman (Producing Artistic Director) in leading an exciting regional treasure with a unique campus, year-round productions, a long-standing Company of artists, and a meaningful role in both its community and the national theatre field. People’s Light serves as one of Pennsylvania’s largest professional non-profit theatres, know
  
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• Executive Director – Urban Bush Women

  09-08-2024 03:55 via artsjournal.com
  Urban Bush Women (UBW) seeks an experienced, strategic, and deeply collaborative individual to serve as the acclaimed dance ensemble’s Executive Director. The new ED will join UBW in a moment of great strength and transformation, as Founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar steps away from a leadership role with the organization and longtime company members Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis continue UBW’s vision as Co-Artistic Directors.
  Sharing leadership with the two Co-Artistic Directors,
  
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• The Salzburgians Who Hate Sound Of Music On Its 60th Anniversary

  09-08-2024 00:01 via npr.org
  
  “The story was too romantic. It was tears cutting out of your eyes. And the von Trapp, they left their home. For the others, it was not possible to go away, only for the noble family. And then all the other people in the film seemed to be Nazis.” – NPR
  
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