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• Banksy Strikes Again, This Time At The London Zoo

  14-08-2024 23:33 via artnews.com
  
  “The artist’s support organization, Pest Control Office, found all the theorizing about the meaning of each new image ‘way too involved’ and [said] that the artist’s simple vision was to cheer up the public during a bleak period.” – ARTnews
  
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• Getting That Perfect Olympics Shot

  14-08-2024 23:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The Olympics is probably the most competitive sports photography environment on earth. It’s the best photographers who shoot sports all come together. You’ve got to bring your best ideas, your best form, and try and stand out.” – Artnet
  
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• On A Late Summer Road Trip, Check Out These Literary Stops In Each State

  14-08-2024 22:31 via lithub.com
  
  From the best places to read to poets of note in each state, this map is a treasure trove of some of the best writers the U.S. has given the literary world. – LitHub
  
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• You’ve Seen Him Dominate Shogun, But There’s So Much More To Hiroyuki Sanada

  14-08-2024 22:01 via msn.com
  In the 1980s, Sanada – who began acting on the big screen at 5 years old – starred in Japanese and Hong Kong action movies, “while simultaneously building a reputation as a quietly magnetic character actor in Japanese movies and TV dramas.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• We Know Theatre Has To Adapt And Change, But How?

  14-08-2024 21:31 via americantheatre.org
  
  “The things we will try have not been tested. The new ideas will seem too radical to implement. The work will necessitate giving up unearned privilege and power. Theatres do not operate in a vacuum, and neither do theatre workers.” – American Theatre
  
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• “Radical Courage” — How André De Shields Managed To Have A 50-Year Career In New York Theater

  14-08-2024 21:04 via gothamist.com
  “The combination of the family” — he’s one of 11 children — “and the city (Baltimore) provided me with what I call ‘radical courage.’ You don’t back down in the face of problems or burdens. And you don’t call on God to move the mountain. You say, I’ll find my way around it.'” – Gothamist
  
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• The Bigger, Better Return Of The Edinburgh Film Fest

  14-08-2024 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 77-year-old festival was plunged into crisis two years ago when the Centre for the Moving Image, operator of both the festival and Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema chain, went into administration.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• David Robertson Has A Metaphor For Conducting

  14-08-2024 20:05 via sfcv.org
  “As a composer, getting a musical idea down on the page feels like a butterfly lover who catches this miraculous, beautiful thing. You then stick a pin through it. My job is to take all the incredible butterflies stuck on the page and allow them to start flying.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Is It Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Time, At Last?

  14-08-2024 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Weinberg, a Jewish composer born in Poland, “found refuge in Soviet Russia, but [his] reputation in the West is largely overshadowed by that of his good friend Dmitri Shostakovich” – at least, until now. – The New York Times
  
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• We Should Teach Schoolkids Meditation Skills The Same Way We Do Sports And Arts

  14-08-2024 19:01 via psyche.co
  
  “Where do we learn and refine the skills to be an artist or an athlete? We go to school. … (Schools) provide resources to train in creative and athletic skills – but very few other life skills, and fewer that promote flourishing and transcendence in the way contemplative practice can.” – Psyche
  
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• New York’s Dance And Performance Awards Have Paused For What’s Being Called A Restructure

  14-08-2024 18:33 via playbill.com
  
  Everything in-person is paused for fundraising. “The Bessies will not hold its customary annual awards ceremony, party, or press conference, … [but] the awards’ selection and nomination process will continue. Artists nominated for 2024 Bessies will be announced publicly next year.” Uh, OK? – Playbill
  
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• “I Think One Of The Funniest Things You Can Do Is Try To Dance The Undanceable”

  14-08-2024 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “As a dancer and a comedian, Sarah McCreanor, known as Smac, likes to up the ante. Why mimic a dance or a person when you can turn yourself into an emoji? A head-bobbing chicken? An object being crushed by a hydraulic press?” – The New York Times
  
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• A Person Has Been Arrested For Suspected Arson At The Jewish Museum Of Maryland

  14-08-2024 17:31 via artnews.com
  
  “A federal investigation was launched after scorch marks were discovered by a member of the museum’s renovation team outside the front entrance of the museum. The museum is located between two historic synagogues on Baltimore’s Lloyd Street.” – ARTnews
  
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• The Unnerving Experience Of One-To-One Shows At The Edinburgh Fringe

  14-08-2024 17:03 via artsjournal.com
  “Giving an audience member ‘a hand in guiding the show’ is key to the success of a one-person performance. ‘You have to sort of walk a tightrope between delivering a scripted show and being flexible to an audience member.'” – The Guardian
  
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• A Disney Theme Park Is Apparently Closing One Of Its Most Beloved Attractions: Muppet*Vision 3D

  14-08-2024 16:34 via thewrap.com
  
  At a major fan gathering last week, executives teased a soon-to-come Monsters, Inc. attraction. Sharp-eyed observers spotted that the location shown in the promotional video is exactly where Muppet*Vision 3D is now, something that Disney execs obviously hoped nobody would notice. Muppet fans are furious. – TheWrap
  
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• Vienna Offered Free Museum Admission To Cancelled Taylor Swift Ticketholders — And They Came

  14-08-2024 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  Thousands of fans left at loose ends after Swift’s Vienna show was called off (due to terrorist threats) flocked to the Austrian capital’s museums. At the Albertina, the lines were 20 minutes long in 91°F heat, yet people waited patiently. And the visitors were a demographic rarely seen in such numbers there. – ARTnews
  
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• Esa-Pekka Salonen Is Soon To Be, For The First Time In Many Years, A Free Agent

  14-08-2024 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  By now he can do anything he likes, and he got the first of many job offers five minutes after announcing his departure from the San Francisco Symphony. Salonen says he doesn’t want to run another orchestra — but he said that when he left the Los Angeles Philharmonic, too. – The New York Times
  
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• Kissing coppers to rutting rhinos: Banksy’s artworks – ranked!

  14-08-2024 15:06
  
  The quality of the enigmatic street artist’s murals veers wildly: from self-satisfied satirical statements to truly funny political provocations. Our critic rates his pieces, from worst to bestBanksy has become famous for being famous, which is quite an achievement considering we are not certain who he is. Like all famous artists, he is often reduced to a cash value – making his artworks as nickable as they are memetic. The animals Banksy has been painting in unlikely London sites th
  
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• The Boston Globe Hires A Podcasting Staff, Then Decides Not To Make Podcasts

  14-08-2024 15:01 via commonwealthbeacon.org
  
  “(The newspaper) hired three people this spring to launch a new weekly podcast, but the news organization scrapped that plan in July and is now scrambling to find new jobs for the employees.” CEO Linda Henry told Globe staffers that however good audio reporting is, it doesn’t attract paying subscribers. – CommonWealth Beacon (Boston)
  
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• More Pre-Merger Carnage: Paramount Is Closing Its TV Studio

  14-08-2024 14:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Paramount Television Studios will cease operations at the end of the week, president Nicole Clemens and Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks told staff Tuesday morning. Clemens will exit the company, and all current series and projects in development at Paramount TV Studios … will move under the CBS Studios umbrella.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• French Customs Officers Thwart $1.4 Million Sale Of Counterfeit Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait

  14-08-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Spanish police have arrested a man whose alleged plan to sell a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting” — purportedly a portrait of Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, an aristocrat and military commander — “in Italy for €1.3m was thwarted when the work caught the eye of French customs officers.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘What they threw away, I used’: the story behind Nek Chand’s 25-acre outsider art masterpiece

  14-08-2024 13:57
  
  This forest of intricately decorated statues was begun in secret by a man who never considered himself an artist but built what became India’s most visited tourist site after the Taj Mahal, the Rock Garden of ChandigarhA forest of curious cement statues stands on the edge of the city of Chandigarh in northern India, their bodies dressed in colourful costumes made from beads and broken glass bangles. There are figures of women carrying baskets on their heads, alongside dancers and athletes,
  
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• ‘Vulgar racism’: outrage after mural of Italian volleyball star is vandalised

  14-08-2024 13:15
  
  Defacing of Rome artwork celebrating Olympic champion Paola Egonu widely condemned across political spectrumA mural celebrating the Italian Olympic volleyball champion Paola Egonu has become the target of “vulgar racism” after the athlete’s skin in the image was spray-painted pink.The mural by the street artist Laika was defaced within a day of being unveiled on a wall close to the headquarters of the Italian Olympic committee (Coni) in Rome. Continue reading...
  
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• I love it that a two-year-old’s paintings have created such a buzz. His brush with branding, less so | Nell Frizzell

  14-08-2024 09:00
  
  If only we could recognise the wonderful creativity of Laurent Schwarz for its own sake, rather than use it to sell stuffIf you’ve ever spent £40 and a whole weekend trying to paint out the scrawling of your young children from your rental walls in the futile hope that this will save your £1,300 deposit, you may greet the following news as I did: with a noise somewhere between a hot-water bottle being emptied and a cry of pain.A Bavarian toddler, known already within the art wo
  
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• With flying colours: vibrant and spontaneous fashion shoots – in pictures

  14-08-2024 08:00
  
  Rising star of fashion photography Arielle Bobb-Willis creates her playful, exuberant scenes in public across the US – and doesn’t want her models to look ‘too cool’ Continue reading...
  
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• Lincoln Center’s new-ish Festival Orchestra is cheered by audiences – upstairs and down – but has a ways to go

  14-08-2024 02:54 via artsjournal.com
  The program was not a crowd pleaser. But the crowd seemed open to whatever they were given at this closing Aug. 10 concert of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center’s summer season.
  From a distance, the program looked a lot like a particularly wide-reaching New York Philharmonic subscription concert, but with key difference. No cellphone interruptions. There was applause between movements – good! – showing that newcomers were there. Also evident were music students and all-ar
  
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• A Ballet Festival Curated With Care

  14-08-2024 00:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “What mattered most to him, [Calvin] Royal III said, was the idea of unity. ‘I kept coming back to that word,’ he said, ‘and asking myself, How can I show this concept of unity through dance?’” – The New York Times
  
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