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• Who’s Funding The Arts? And Does It Need To Change?

  02-10-2024 21:44 via esquire.com
  
  Yearslong decreases in corporate charitable giving and overall charitable giving made The Chronicle of Philanthropy ask, in January, “Has the giving crisis reached the point of no return?” Similarly, Vox wondered in July, “Are we actually in the middle of a generosity crisis?” – Esquire
  
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• The Importance Of Dangerous Words Onstage

  02-10-2024 21:32 via thestage.co.uk
  Who needs to see a play in which inflammatory positions and arguments aren’t dangerous? Hatred and intolerance won’t disappear because pious new puritans stop them being aired in theatre for fear of causing offence. – The Stage
  
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• Opera In The UK Is Suffering. Except In This One Place

  02-10-2024 21:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Glyndebourne, a privately funded festival that receives little state support, has been mostly immune from the convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. – The New York Times
  
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• Ballet Star Steven McRae’s Three-Year Recovery From “The Worst Injury A Dancer Can Have”

  02-10-2024 21:05 via artsjournal.com
  The Royal Ballet principal was mid-performance in London when his Achilles tendon snapped and he was carried from the stage screaming in pain. After a year of a full tendon reconstruction and merely learning to walk again followed by two years of physical rehab, at age 38 he’s dancing again. – inews (UK)
  
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• NPR Retooling Its News Magazine Shows As Audiences Slip

  02-10-2024 20:45 via current.org
  
  Among the changes it’s making on its flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered are including more stories in the 2- to 3-minute range, featuring a broader range of topics and shifting to a livelier and more conversational presentation style. – Current
  
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• Giant Sydney Festival Gets A New Director

  02-10-2024 20:32 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  Kris Nelson, a Canadian national currently based in London, is well-known for his transformative work as the Artistic Director and CEO of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). – Limelight
  
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• TV Is Dying. Streaming Is A Pain. Watching World Is In Pain

  02-10-2024 20:15 via washingtonpost.com
  Welcome to the glorious, occasionally terrible and definitely weird moment when old TV is slowly dying and new “TV” is not exactly thriving, either. No matter what and how you watch, this situation isn’t awesome for your viewing pleasure or your wallet. – Washington Post
  
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• The Real Miracle Of Notre-Dame? Reconstructing The Intricate Wood Frame Of The Roof

  02-10-2024 20:05 via gq.com
  
  That project meant finding trees comparable to the huge oaks used to make the original eight centuries ago, finding or reproducing the medieval tools and techniques used by the original builders (and locating workers who knew how to use them), and getting the complicated structure finished within the five-year timeline. – GQ
  
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• Students Entering Elite Colleges Don’t Know How To Read Books. Why?

  02-10-2024 19:50 via theatlantic.com
  
  It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to. – The Atlantic
  
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• AI And The New Questions About Copyright

  02-10-2024 19:32 via nysba.org
  From a legal perspective, even though the use of AI dates back to the 1950s… the proliferation of AI today brings to the forefront questions that we have not previously considered, specifically from a copyright law perspective: Should AI itself be considered an “author” under copyright law? – New York State Bar Association
  
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• Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Selects Giancarlo Guerrero As Director

  02-10-2024 19:05 via wfmt.com
  The 55-year-old Costa Rican conductor, currently completing his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony, takes over the summer music festival next year. 2025 will also mark the start of his tenure as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra in Florida. –WFMT (Chicago)
  
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• CNN, Its Revenues Falling, Paywalls Its Websites

  02-10-2024 18:32 via latimes.com
  
  U.S. users will have to pay $3.99 a month or a discounted rate of $29.99 a year for access. The subscription will allow unlimited usage of the site, which is visited by 150 million people globally each month. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Matthew López On The One Play He’s Written That He Was Terrified Of Reviving

  02-10-2024 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  One big reason that the Tony-winning playwright of The Inheritance has been reluctant to revisit this script, titled Reverberation, is that it’s the last play he wrote before getting sober. And where López calls his gay romcom screenplay Red, White & Royal Blue a “joy-bomb,” Reverberation is more like an A-bomb. – The Guardian
  
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• Kris Kristofferson, Country Music Philosopher

  02-10-2024 17:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Kris Kristofferson, who died at age 88 in his Maui home on Saturday, was a guitar-toting stage performer, a ruggedly handsome movie actor, and an outspoken humanitarian and activist. But at base, he was a thinker-poet who pushed country music in existentialist directions. – The Atlantic
  
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• Backstage At San Francisco Opera For “Innocence” And “The Handmaid’s Tale”

  02-10-2024 17:03 via sfcv.org
  “(Kaija Saariaho’s) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to the performers. (There) were squirt and nozzle bottles, as well as baskets with blood packs, which would later burst onstage, each basket labeled with the name of a performer.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Hidden scrolls, tantric puzzles and SpongeBob SquarePants – a startling new angle on ancient Asian art

  02-10-2024 11:46
  
  The Rijksmuseum has used techniques including neutron tomography to shed fresh light on 75 treasures dating back millenniaA small Buddhist object sits quietly, its three-headed masculine figure locked in tantric union with a feminine one. But the nitty gritty of their enlightened sexual activity isn’t the only thing that this 15th-century Tibetan bronze is hiding.The 32cm-high object is full of tiny scrolls and sacred objects – revealed only when the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam used hi-
  
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