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• Betty Prashker, Trailblazing Feminist Editor, Has Died At 99

  16-08-2024 23:31 via publishersweekly.com
  Prashker edited Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, and, 21 years later, Susan Faludi’s Backlash. In her lengthy career, she edited more than 500 books and helped push to allow women into the all-male publishing hangout Century Club. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The New Artistic Director Of Richmond Ballet Steps Smoothly Into Position

  16-08-2024 23:02 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “Ma [Cong] was named associate artistic director in 2020, with the intention that he would learn the ropes and be given new responsibilities throughout the four-year period before succeeding Winslett. … The directorship change has been more of a mentorship process than a ‘taking over.’” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• The Year Of Celebrating America’s Favorite Fighting Frenchman

  16-08-2024 22:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Two hundred years ago, Lafayette arrived for a year-long tour of the country he helped create. The guy who has played him for years at Colonial Williamsburg is prepared for 13 months of celebrations, including a triumphal visit to Manhattan. – The New York Times
  
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• In Rome, Racist Graffiti Defaces A New Mural To An Olympic Champion

  16-08-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  The mural, in which a vandal spray-painted pink skin onto a Black athlete, “featured [Paola] Egonu, who spearheaded Italian women’s volleyball’s first-ever gold medal win at the Paris Olympics, as she jumps to hit a ball with the words ‘stop racism.’”– The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A Second-Century Roman Mosaic Has Been Discovered In England

  16-08-2024 21:33 via artnews.com
  
  “The decorated floor covering depicts stylized dolphins and several species of fish. It was located in a home likely owned by a wealthy and powerful family,” which was remodeled in the 3rd or 4th century CE, ensuring the mosaic’s survival. – ARTnews
  
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• Americans Love Free Speech, Survey Finds — Until They Think About What’s Being Said

  16-08-2024 21:04 via theconversation.com
  
  “Large majorities of Americans passionately uphold free speech as a cornerstone of democracy. But fewer of them are supportive of free speech when faced with specific controversial speakers or topics. Yet The First Amendment is not an à la carte menu.” – The Conversation
  
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• Another Bay Area Theatre Meets Its Fundraising Goal, But Plans To Downsize Anyway

  16-08-2024 20:31 via msn.com
  Despite raising $500,000 in emergency funds, Aurora Theatre in Berkeley “has shed five full-time workers, including one co-managing director and its entire marketing and development teams.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• The True Crime Producer Who Documented His Own Horrifying Illness And Descent

  16-08-2024 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  As freelance TV jobs disappeared, John Balson felt lucky to be working 18 hours a day, across three time zones. Then something happened that he couldn’t control, only document. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Do You Get When You Cross “Waiting For Godot” With An Escape Room? This.

  16-08-2024 19:06 via msn.com
  “Escape From Godot … is a play where audience members become participants, the game requiring patrons to hop on the dials and interact with props to propel the narrative forward. Puzzles are hidden in the script, ensuring that the players become actors and are in abstract communication with the performers.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Longtime Curator Resigns From The Mütter Museum

  16-08-2024 18:33 via tinyurl.com
  Anna Dhody “is used to people associating her with the Mütter Museum, where she has been the face of the macabre medical history collection that contains more than 6,000 specimens. But a few months ago, she quietly left her post.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Yet More Turmoil At Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency As Three Senior Staffers Resign

  16-08-2024 17:59 via wpln.org
  
  “One by one, Metro Arts’ Communications Manager Daryn Jackson, Public Art Manager Jessica Ingram, and Finance and Operations Director Christiana Afotey announced their resignations. The commissioners barely reacted. … That leaves the department without key staff members at a moment when the future of its grant programs is up in the air.” – WPLN (Nashville)
  
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• The Pay Equity Model At The Heart Of The Movie Sing Sing Could Change Hollywood

  16-08-2024 17:31 via kcrw.com
  “’We built a model on parity,’ says Sing Sing director Greg Kwedar. ‘Everyone on our movie, the core cast and crew — from the star of the film, all the way through [the post production group] — we all worked for the same rate. And we all collectively own the movie.’” – KCRW
  
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• Raygun, The Professor B-Girl, Earned Her Spot On Australia’s Olympics Team Fair And Square

  16-08-2024 17:05 via vox.com
  
  After her zero-points performance in Paris went viral and spawned a thousand memes, a bunch of skeptics on social media — who ultimately submitted a rather ugly petition on Change.org — insisted that Rachael Gunn’s presence as a competitor must have been the result of corruption. Well, it just isn’t so, and here’s why. – Vox
  
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• How San Francisco Symphony Plans To Makeover Davies Hall (If It Ever Has The Money)

  16-08-2024 16:31 via msn.com
  “Despite its budget deficits and a well-publicized falling out with acclaimed conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the San Francisco Symphony is moving forward with plans for a full makeover of Davies Symphony Hall.” (Which is to say, it submitted drawings to the city planning department before a deadline.) – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Manfred Honeck On What Makes A Great Bruckner Conductor

  16-08-2024 16:04 via bachtrack.com
  
  “Technically, from the baton, how you beat, Bruckner is very easy. It’s not like Stravinsky’s Sacre or Mahler. … You have to understand that the tempo comes automatically if you understand the context in which it was written, the spirituality that was in the man and his music and to understand that spirituality.” – Bachtrack
  
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• Talk About Bucking A Trend: The Onion Has Gone Back Into Actual Ink-On-Paper Print

  16-08-2024 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Or, “The Onion: ‘Americans Demand New Form of Media to Bridge Entertainment Gap While Looking From Laptop to Phone’ – The New York Times
  
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• Jewels Stolen From Dresden’s Green Vault Are Now Back On Display

  16-08-2024 15:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “In 2019, thieves infiltrated the Fort Knox–like vault at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and stole more than 4,300 diamonds that once belonged to the kings of Saxony.” While some of the treasure is still missing, much of it was recovered when five suspects were arrested in December 2022 and later imprisoned. – Artnet
  
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• Another Round Of Layoffs At America’s Largest Public Radio Outlet

  16-08-2024 14:36 via insideradio.com
  “Staff cuts at New York Public Radio, which operates news/talk WNYC-AM/FM, classical WQXR, WNYC Studios, New Jersey Public Radio, and the Gothamist online news publication, will affect 8% of the public media group’s workforce … (due to) a $10 million budget deficit.” NYPR laid off 12% of its staff last September. – Inside Radio
  
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• Peter Marshall, Host Of The Original “Hollywood Squares,” Is Dead At 98

  16-08-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  He had a career both before and after as a musical-theater star, but from 1966 to 1981, he was emcee/straight man on one of the most beloved game shows in American TV history, a cross between tic-tac-toe and Laugh-In, with gifted comedians and the occasional major star as panelists. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Zooming in on nature, sounding out a stone and sculpting space – the week in art

  16-08-2024 13:00
  What science learns from photography, a painterly look at an ancient boulder and Noémie Goudal’s ‘contours of certainty’ – all in your weekly dispatchNature in Focus
  To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its wildlife photographer of the year competition, the Natural History Museum takes a look at how photography enhances our knowledge of nature.• Natural History Museum, London, until 19 July 2025 Continue reading...
  
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• Feast your eyes: the Ugandan artist serving up a potent mix of food, art and family

  16-08-2024 06:00
  With racism, xenophobia and food insecurity on the rise, Brogan Mwesigwa is recreating a traditional 'getting to know each other’ festival as his contribution to Kampala’s KLA Art showThis time last year, Ugandan artist Brogan Mwesigwa was called by his grandmother. She invited him to a kumanyagana feast at her home in the village of Kabembe.After a three-hour journey from his home in the capital, Kampala, Mwesigwa arrived to “the heavy lifting of gigantic saucepans and the sla
  
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• Director of Major Gifts – Jacksonville Symphony

  16-08-2024 04:22 via artsjournal.com
  Status: Full-Time, Exempt
  Reports To: Vice President & Chief Advancement OfficerPosition Summary:The Jacksonville Symphony Advancement Department raises funds through donations from individuals, corporations, foundations, the public sector, and special events to support artistic and educational programming and general operating expenses. The Director of Major Gifts will be responsible for increasing major gifts from both individual donors and corporate sponsors, on a local, regional, and nat
  
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• Managing Director – New York Theatre Workshop

  16-08-2024 04:14 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityWrite the Next Chapter at New York Theatre WorkshopNew York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), a community of artists and audience members seeking to better understand the world through theatre, stands as an inspiring pillar in the New York City, national, and international theatre ecosystem. After a tremendous period of growth and achievement—having fostered the careers of ground-breaking artists, installed a visionary new Artistic Director, and mounted numerous Tony and Obie a
  
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• In Saint Pete, The Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A New Executive Director

  16-08-2024 00:01 via stpetecatalyst.com
  
  Why was the museum without a director? Now that is a long story involving the Denver Art Museum, possibly questionable antiquities, and what seemed to some board members like a sudden, surprise firing. – Catalyst
  
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