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• Washington Post Kills Its Galleries Column

  23-08-2024 23:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  In an email sent to several DC-area art exhibition spaces on Monday, August 19, column author and critic Mark Jenkins announced the series would shut down after the last iteration runs in this Sunday’s print edition. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Lessons For Theatre From This Year’s Edinburgh Festivals

  23-08-2024 22:59 via nytimes.com
  
  While the international plays are overtly political, encompassing disability rights, antiracism and ecology, the homegrown works explored the more personal terrain of addiction, recovery and self-care. – The New York Times
  
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• What Republican, Democratic Pop Music Choices At Conventions Says About Them

  23-08-2024 22:31 via washingtonpost.com
  These days, you get this sort of unabashedly instructional approach to pop music only from Republicans, whose musical choices at July’s Republican National Convention felt, across the board, unburdened by any metaphorical obligations. – Washington Post
  
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• Did Google Get Off Easy In California’s New Media Law?

  23-08-2024 22:01 via fastcompany.com
  Critics say it’s a textbook political maneuver by tech giants to avoid a fee under what could have been groundbreaking legislation. California lawmakers agreed to kill a bill requiring tech to support news outlets they profit from in exchange for Google’s financial commitment. – Fast Company
  
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• A Librarian Targeted By Hate After She Defended Access To Books

  23-08-2024 21:28 via msn.com
  She was labeled a “sicko, pig, trash,” she writes in the memoir. “The sense of betrayal was overwhelming.” One message was particularly alarming: “Continue with your LGBT agenda on our children cause we gunna put [you] in the dirt very soon … You can’t hide.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Conducting An Orchestra Made Up Entirely Of Traditional Chinese Instruments

  23-08-2024 21:06 via classical-music.uk
  The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra may look, from a distance, like a European orchestra, but its musicians play erhu, gaohu, huqin (all bowed strings), sheng, guan, di (woodwinds), conchs, ox-horns and percussion. The HKCO runs a competition for young conductors, who must know both Chinese and European classical genres cold. – Classical Music (UK)
  
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• Why “Weird” Works As A Critique

  23-08-2024 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In the 20th century, the word lost its hint of the macabre as its meaning became something quieter. “Weird” now means peculiar — perhaps passingly so, but against what one would expect. – The New York Times
  
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• Did Brian Eno Really Use Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” As The Urinal It Was Originally Manufactured To Be?

  23-08-2024 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  He’s certainly happy to claim that he did, having told the tale several times with plenty of backstory and detail. And he has quite an answer when asked if he did any damage to the piece. That said, there seems to be no independent evidence that Eno actually went through with it. – Artnet
  
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• Takeaways On The TV Industry From This Year’s Edinburgh TV Conference

  23-08-2024 19:28 via deadline.com
  
   The problem is, at the moment, networks aren’t taking risks, as the tough economic conditions of recent years have led to glut of tried-and-tested program decisions. – Deadline
  
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• The Politics Of, And In, Indonesia’s Traditional Shadow-Puppet Theater

  23-08-2024 19:04 via tabletmag.com
  Over its thousand-year history, wayang kulit has been at once high art and popular entertainment; both exemplified and parodied elites and common folks, invaders from other islands and European colonizers; transmitted rulers’ messages while undercutting them; embodied the old ways and incorporated pop culture. – Tablet
  
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• The Museum Of London’s New Logo (A Pooping Pigeon): Weird? Or Inspired?

  23-08-2024 18:32 via theconversation.com
  
  The new design features a white porcelain pigeon trailed by a golden “splat”. It’s a choice that the museum’s director Sharon Ament interprets as a metaphor for London. – The Conversation
  
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• Immersive Art Shows Have Become Big Business. Can Museums Get In On It? Should They?

  23-08-2024 18:03 via artnews.com
  
  Serious institutions might legitimately turn up their noses at the immersive van Gogh or Monet “experiences,” but nearly half of the immersive art shows out there have been designed by artists themselves, from Meow Wolf to teamLab to David Hockney. Should museums join in, despite the expensive equipment required? – ARTnews
  
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• Only Eight Percent Of UK TV Workers Are Working Class –What’s The Solution?

  23-08-2024 17:29 via theconversation.com
  
  “It is the category of representation with the largest disparity between make-up of the country and make-up of our industry … Yet it is the only significant category not to be formally included in most of our standard measurements of diversity.” – The Conversation
  
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• Is Cable TV Dying Or Not? And How Might That Play Out Either Way?

  23-08-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  “Pay TV has entered into what may well be the final impasse between distributors like Comcast and content companies like Disney. Here’s why this apparent cable bloodbath is happening now, who may be on the chopping block and what this shift may mean for the future of the television industry as a whole.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• Is Burning Man Burning Itself Out?

  23-08-2024 16:31 via bbc.com
  
  Last year, freak rains left the place a wreck, the year before that saw a severe heatwave, and the two Burns prior were cancelled due to COVID. Many now say the gathering’s too big, ticket prices are much too high, and superrich attendees have ruined the cash-free “gift economy” ethos. – BBC
  
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• Washington Post Axes “In The Galleries” Local Art Review Column

  23-08-2024 16:02 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “In an email sent to several DC-area art exhibition spaces on Monday, column author and critic Mark Jenkins announced the series would shut down after the last iteration runs in this Sunday’s print edition. Jenkins, a freelance critic, authored the column for 13 years. It ran online each Friday.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Now Even Chick-fil-A Is Getting Into The Streaming Video Business

  23-08-2024 15:36 via variety.com
  
  “The fast food chain has been working with Hollywood production companies and studios to create family-friendly, mostly unscripted original shows. The chicken house is also in talks to license and acquire content.” (Reality TV comes home to roost …) – Variety
  
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• Most Americans Are Opposed To Book-Banning In Schools But Don’t Feel Overly Engaged: Survey

  23-08-2024 15:04 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “Just 3% of respondents have personally engaged on the issue — with 2% getting involved on the side of maintaining access and 1% seeking to restrict access. Overall, a solid majority of respondents expressed support for freedom to read and high levels of trust in their local teachers and school librarians.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Cowrie shell sculpture chosen as slavery memorial for London

  23-08-2024 14:56
  
  The Wake by Khaleb Brooks intended to aid reflection on victims of slavery while acknowledging its ongoing impactThe artist behind a slavery memorial in London’s Docklands says they hope the project will serve as a place of reflection and remembrance of the millions of Africans who were enslaved, while also acting as a reminder that racism is still a part of British life.The design by Khaleb Brooks, an American whose own ancestors were enslaved in Mississippi, was chosen by a judging panel
  
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• Sarasota Orchestra Appoints Nashville Symphony’s Giancarlo Guerrero As Music Director

  23-08-2024 14:33 via yourobserver.com
  The Nicaraguan-Costa Rican conductor will be music director-designate in 2024-25 as he completes his 16th and final season in Tennessee’s capital, and his initial contract term continues for five years beyond that. He and the Nashville Symphony have released 21 recordings and won six Grammy Awards. – Sarasota Observer
  
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• Director Ivo van Hove Fired By Theater Where He Made His Career

  23-08-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The International Theater Amsterdam, where he was artistic director from 2001 (when it was called Toneelgroep Amsterdam) to 2023 and continued as a salaried artistic advisor, cut ties with him after two reports revealed a longstanding culture of bullying there. The theater’s entire board has resigned. – The New York Times
  
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• Anish Kapoor at prayer and a giant pumpkin in the park – the week in art

  23-08-2024 12:06
  
  A master of colour fills Liverpool Cathedral and Yayoi Kusama lands outdoors – all in your weekly dispatch
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  The intense colours and spatial paradoxes of Kapoor’s art find a fitting home in the grand gothic spaces of Liverpool Cathedral.• Liverpool Cathedral until 15 September Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director – Colonial Theatre Group

  23-08-2024 06:04 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director of the Colonial Performing Arts Center will report directly to the Board of Directors and serve as the Colonial’s chief executive officer. They will have a strong vision that will both interact with and impact the surrounding community providing overall leadership and administrative oversight for all aspects of the organization’s operations, including ensuring that the organization acts consistently with its vision and mission through its fundra
  
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• The Bernstein Story Not Told in “Maestro” – His Prophetic Disenchantment with What America Had Become

  23-08-2024 05:35 via artsjournal.com
  
  Leonard Bernstein’s musical odyssey – in some ways, not unlike the marital odyssey dramatized in the film Maestro – was ignited by
  
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