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• Greek Filmmakers Pull Films From Oscar Contention

  22-08-2024 23:32 via deadline.com
  
  The confusion began in early August when the Greek Ministry of Culture, as is customary, invited a committee of Greek film professionals to select the country’s submission to the international Oscar race. – Deadline
  
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• Intimate Opera On The Prairies

  22-08-2024 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Des Moines Metro Opera, founded in 1973, can’t rival Salzburg or Aix-en-Provence in scenic luxury. Yet musical values by no means suffer; casts are drawn from the upper ranks of younger American singers. And the company’s home venue—the Blank Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Simpson College, in Indianola—fosters unusual intimacy. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Genius Of Banksy’s London Animal Murals

  22-08-2024 22:31 via theconversation.com
  
  The murals have captured the public imagination, not because they’re artistic masterpieces, but because they play with something beyond the world of pop art – our love, fear and fascination with animals. – The Conversation
  
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• In Praise Of Dilettantism

  22-08-2024 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  I’m a serial learner and hobbyist. Maybe you’d call it being a dilettante. Over the past 20-odd years, I’ve tried my hand at painting, pickleball, chess, printmaking, rock climbing, fencing, water aerobics, crochet, table tennis, cross-stitch, lacrosse, and the violin. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• What Determines Whether A Book Is Remembered?

  22-08-2024 21:24 via countercraft.substack.com
  
  Even limiting ourselves to literature, it’s simply the case that what endures has minimal correlation to either contemporaneous popularity or contemporaneous acclaim.  – Countercraft
  
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• American Booksellers Association Publishes Handbook For Fighting Book Bans

  22-08-2024 21:06 via publishersweekly.com
  
  The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters … features more than a dozen interviews and profiles, and includes a brief history of book censorship, ‘a deep dive into the current book ban crisis,’ and ‘how-to’ guides for organizing at the community level.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• How A Play About Depression Became A Worldwide Phenomenon

  22-08-2024 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  An uplifting play about depression, Duncan Macmillan’s Every Brilliant Thing has become a global phenomenon since its Edinburgh fringe debut 10 years ago. It has been performed in 63 countries in around 400 professional productions. – The Guardian
  
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• The Company That Invented The Portable Pop-Up Theater And Locked Writers In A Room Until They Drafted A Play

  22-08-2024 20:03 via theguardian.com
  “It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. … To mark its half-century, the key players remember the company’s fights, firsts and furious creativity.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Seattle Dance Companies Have Started Touring

  22-08-2024 19:31 via seattletimes.com
  “Touring gives the dancers a chance for exposure for our creativity and artistry.” And a chance for audiences around the world to get a taste of what’s happening. – Seattle Times
  
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• Walking Around The Bronx With Ian Frazier

  22-08-2024 19:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Dan Kois writes that their excursion showed him just why Frazier may be, in Kois’s words, “the Greatest Nonfiction Writer in America.” – Slate (MSN)
  
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• What The Grooves Of A Vinyl Record Look Like At 1000x Magnification

  22-08-2024 18:35 via hasanjasim.online
  
  Here’s a photograph of the record grooves captured by Supranowitz at 500x magnification. Those dark chunks you see are dust particles. – Hasan Jasim
  
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• How To Sing Infanticide: Karita Mattila On Portraying Janáček’s Villainesses

  22-08-2024 18:01 via bachtrack.com
  
  “The bottom line … is to remember that she, (and) everybody else in Janáček’s operas, are actually human beings. There aren’t any heroes, there are mostly survivors. … I always think that if somebody is considered an evil person, they must be so stiff emotionally, which makes them act in a certain way.” – Bachtrack
  
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• ‘Optimists have happier lives’: Laurie Anderson on Bowie, Lou Reed and ‘romantic, inspiring’ JFK

  22-08-2024 17:44
  Releasing a new album inspired by Amelia Earhart, the US musician answers your questions about her letters to Kennedy, wrestling Andy Kaufman and ​performing for thousands of dogs at Sydney Opera HouseYour debut album, Big Science (1982), opens with: “Good evening, this is your captain, we are about to attempt a crash landing”, while your latest album, Amelia (2024), chronicles Amelia Earhart’s tragic final flight. Do you find yourself drawn to the wonder of aviation and
  
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• Scottish Arts Organizations Protest Deep Funding Cuts

  22-08-2024 17:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Many of Scotland’s best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in culture funding. – The Guardian
  
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• A Breakdown Of All The Upheaval At Dallas Black Dance Theatre

  22-08-2024 17:05 via dallasobserver.com
  
  Here’s what was and wasn’t in the video that DBDT bosses claim is the reason they fired all the company’s dancers, how the sackings actually happened, whether the dancers’ allegations that DBDT is union-busting are credible, and the conditions that made company members want to unionize in the first place. – Dallas Observer
  
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• What Edgar Bronfman’s Offer For Paramount Would Give Shareholders That The Skydance Bid Doesn’t

  22-08-2024 16:33 via msn.com
  The beverage-heir-turned-entertainment-mogul’s purchase offer ($4.3 billion, since raised to $6 billion) is lower than Skydance’s $8 billion deal, but Bronfman says his plan to make Paramount a standalone company would avoid the complications of a merger, increase the stock price and be a better deal for second-tier investors. – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• Edgar Bronfman Raises His Bid For Paramount Global To $6 Billion

  22-08-2024 15:59 via msn.com
  “The latest twist in the chaotic auction came late Wednesday as Paramount’s independent board members were mulling whether to keep the door open for Bronfman’s bid for the struggling company that owns CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Showtime and the namesake Hollywood movie studio.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Turmoil At Spoleto Festival USA: Exodus Of Board Members And Major Staff Turnover

  22-08-2024 15:32 via postandcourier.com
  
  “Since (CEO Mena Mark) Hanna took over, nearly all of the nonprofit’s established artistic and business leaders have been replaced. And in recent months the board has seen an exodus, especially since chairwoman Alicia Mullen Gregory was ousted from her leadership position in July.” – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Scottish arts sector appeals to ministers over ‘devastating’ budget cuts

  22-08-2024 15:27
  More than 100 organisations criticise loss of Creative Scotland funding for local artists during Edinburgh festivalMany of Scotland’s best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in culture funding.They said the proposed cuts, which came to light in the middle of the Edinburgh festival, would leave Scottish artists in crisis and cause deep damage to the country’s reputation and economy. Continue read
  
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• Soaring Ticket Prices At Bolshoi Theater Leave Muscovites Furious

  22-08-2024 15:11 via gramilano.com
  
  The opera and ballet mecca has seen two big price increases this year alone; admission now costs well over double what it did in 2023. Many angry patrons blame new general director Valery Gergiev, with some noting that prices at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, which Gergiev has run for decades, remain reasonable. – Gramilano
  
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• Laurie Anderson: ‘I’m an optimist for a single reason – you have a happier life’

  22-08-2024 15:00
  
  Releasing a new album inspired by Amelia Earhart, the US musician answers your questions about writing to JFK, wrestling Andy Kaufman and ​performing for thousands of dogs at Sydney Opera HouseYour debut album, Big Science (1982), opens with: “Good evening, this is your captain, we are about to attempt a crash landing”, while your latest album, Amelia (2024), chronicles Amelia Earhart’s tragic final flight. Do you find yourself drawn to the wonder of aviation and its inhe
  
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• New Jersey Symphony To Move To New Concert Hall And HQ In Jersey City

  22-08-2024 14:34 via nj.com
  
  The orchestra will have a venue with a 550-seat auditorium, spaces for education and community programs, and 8,000 square feet of office space — the first time all of these functions will be consolidated. The NJSO will continue to give concerts in five other venues around the state, including NJPAC in Newark. – NJ.com
  
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• Studio Trailer For Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Is Withdrawn Because It Used Fake Quotes From Critics

  22-08-2024 14:06 via msn.com
  Lionsgate’s trailer featured clips from The Godfather and Apocalypse Now along with unflattering quotes about those movies from famous critics — the idea being that reviewers were wrong about those Coppola films and they’ll be wrong about this one, too. But the quotes are invented and most of those critics are dead. – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• From the Andes to Amsterdam: the artist reimagining indigenous cultures

  22-08-2024 09:00
  Chicken feet sculptures, seven-metre murals and a radical reworking of a forgotten hymn: the Peruvian artist’s new show finds inventive ways into her Quechuan heritageIn 2022, while doing research in a Latin American archive in Texas, the Peruvian artist Claudia Martínez Garay came across a curious musical score. Titled Hanaqpachap kusikuynin, it was a Catholic hymn, thought to be the oldest polyphonic work in Quechua (the group of indigenous languages spoken across t
  
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• Unseen wonders: 70 years of Japanese female photographers – in pictures

  22-08-2024 08:00
  
  Japanese photography has traditionally been dominated by men – but a new collection, I’m So Happy You Are Here, celebrates 25 female artists. They discuss their electrifying works Continue reading...
  
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• Anatomy Of An Artworld Fraud

  22-08-2024 00:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Describing a particularly vertiginous exchange in which “somewhere between $125k and $175k is created out of thin air, a few phone calls and an expensive dinner,” Whitfield outlines two possible responses to making money like that: it can make you feel very clever, or it can make you feel like a fraud.– The New Yorker
  
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