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• Remembering Lewis Lapham, My First Boss

  09-10-2024 21:06 via lithub.com
  
  “It’s a strange thing to have a walk-on role in the fifth act of a great man’s life. Lewis was exactly fifty years and one month older than I was. Twenty-two when I first entered the small Irving Place office.” – Literary Hub
  
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• A Provocative Art Premise Challenges Convention

  09-10-2024 20:32 via artshub.com.au
  
  While the court’s decision to uphold MONA’s right to maintain a women-only space is significant, it’s Kaechele’s performative celebration outside the courthouse that deserves particular attention. Her statement that ‘the verdict demonstrates a simple truth: women are better than men’ exemplifies the fine line between provocative art and potentially divisive rhetoric. – ArtsHub
  
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• A New Jazz Club Model In Pricey Seattle?

  09-10-2024 20:17 via nytimes.com
  
  In pricey, increasingly corporate Seattle, the Fellowship venue represents a conspicuously unlucrative exercise. Its modest 48-seat layout and limited wine and beer bar give way to the room’s centerpiece: a Kawai grand piano. There are no tables. There is no greenroom. Tickets run a recommended donation of $20, regardless of who’s performing. – The New York Times
  
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• I Guess It Had to Happen

  09-10-2024 20:07 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/10/i-guess-it-had-to-happen.html" title="I Guess It Had to Happen” rel=”nofollow”>Julian
  
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• Choreographer Hofesh Schechter On Why Audiences Have Such Powerful Reactions To His Work

  09-10-2024 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “I think the simple answer is because the work is about people. It’s not about dance. Dance and music are tools (to get to) something that matters much more, which is human experience. In the end we’re having a visceral experience for an-hour-and-a-half and feeling like we went through something.” – The Guardian
  
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• Canadian Prairies Try A “Got Milk?” Style Campaign To Promote Arts

  09-10-2024 19:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The creatives from Winnipeg’s Show and Tell Agency are relatively safe, especially compared with Michael Bay’s bonkers original “Got Milk?” commercial. But there’s a wholesome, even urgent, spirit to this campaign. – Winnipeg Free Press
  
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• Why Do Some Arts Organizations Do Better Than Others?

  09-10-2024 19:32 via arts.gov
  “When it comes to finding and delighting audiences, I have found the Trend Busters fall into two participation philosophies: a Go Broad approach and a Go Deep approach.” – NEA
  
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• Close Examination Of AI Art Reveals Human Side

  09-10-2024 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Close reading even such an unserious set of prompts and images offers clues about the scaffolding behind these operations, as well as broader insights into the clumsy, grab-bag way humans tend to deploy language when attempting to describe an image. – The Guardian
  
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• How Trump-In-The-’80s Biopic “The Apprentice” Got Out Of Legal Limbo And Onto US Screens

  09-10-2024 19:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The Hollywood Reporter spoke with (director Ali) Abbasi and (producer and distributor James) Shani to discuss The Apprentice‘s counter-intuitive approach to the world’s most divisive real estate developer — and the behind-the-scenes story of how they raced against the clock to ensure the movie would be widely seen.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Use your local museums or lose them | Letters

  09-10-2024 19:01
  Colin Montgomery offers firsthand insight into the demise of some of the institutions he used to work at in Edinburgh, and David Kennedy points out that regional museums are being forced to shut while London continues to rake in fundingI read John Harris’s article on the demise of local museums – notably The People’s Story Museum in Edinburgh – with a smile (British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues,
  
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• Soprano Storms Onstage To Demand End To Colleague’s Encore

  09-10-2024 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The celebrated soprano Angela Gheorghiu, who was singing the title role in a performance on Sunday, stormed onstage and demanded that he stop, according to local media reports and accounts by audience members. – The New York Times
  
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• Is It Important To Distill One’s Philosophy To A “Saying”?

  09-10-2024 18:31 via thepointmag.com
  
  When I think of sayings, I think first of the early Greek philosophers—the so-called pre-Socratics—whose ideas, if they wrote them down at all, survive as elusive fragments of text. – The Point
  
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• What Does It Mean For Writing To Be “Great”?

  09-10-2024 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The Swedish Academy is not here to tell you what writers you might like. Greatness is not the same as popularity. It may even be the opposite of popularity… Great writers are the ones who matter whether you read them or not. – The New York Times
  
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• Discovering The Ruins Of One Of Shakespeare’s Playhouses Changed Our Understanding Of Theatre History

  09-10-2024 18:02 via theguardian.com
  “There was a received narrative that proper playhouses start off round and then just get bigger, with the pinnacle of that evolution being the Globe. And all of a sudden we’ve got this early, yet long-lived, rectangular structure. … This has changed our understanding of theatre development.” – The Guardian
  
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• Exploring The Dudamel Phenomenon

  09-10-2024 17:31 via billboard.com
  
  Not since Leonard Bernstein has a conductor done as much as Dudamel to make classical music accessible — or so thoroughly captured the public imagination. The two maestros share a not just persuasive but borderline evangelical approach to relentlessly promoting music as a “fundamental human right.” – Billboard
  
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• President Emmanuel Macron On France’s Support For The Arts Amid The Rise Of The Far Right

  09-10-2024 17:05 via variety.com
  
  “I don’t think it can ever be taken for granted. Decisions could be made in a rash manner. I don’t think everyone is pleased that France has such a lively, pluralistic, irreverent culture. … That’s the strength of a country.” – Variety
  
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• Cincinnati Symphony Concert Series Goes Immersive And Interactive

  09-10-2024 16:33 via bizjournals.com
  “Still largely experimental, (CSO Proof concerts) might include elements of dance, lighting, theater and atmosphere to accompany a short program of classical music. The goal is to … engage audiences who might never have considered going to the symphony or even to Music Hall.” – Cincinnati Business Courier
  
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• Salman Rushdie Is Working On His First Volume Of Fiction Since He Was Almost Murdered

  09-10-2024 16:01 via theguardian.com
  Speaking by videolink from New York to the Lviv BookForum, the author revealed that the book will be a trilogy of novellas about “the three worlds in my life: India and England and America. And they all in some way consider the idea of an ending.” – The Guardian
  
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• Astral Artists, Philadelphia’s Agency For Budding Classical Stars, Is Shutting Down

  09-10-2024 15:37 via msn.com
  “Astral Artists, the small but important Philadelphia arts group that has boosted careers and fostered artistic development of classical musicians nationally, is shutting down. … The group will produce two more concerts this fall, set the musicians from its current roster on a path, and then close its doors.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Israeli Air Strikes In Lebanon Nearly Hit Ancient Ruins At Baalbek

  09-10-2024 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada has called for international action after an Israeli airstrike hit perilously close to Baalbek, a triad of Imperial Roman temples and UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Lebanon. Local media reported that the strike landed only 500 meters away from the ruins.” – ARTnews
  
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• ‘What can I say? We saw the future’: artist Robert Longo on AI, Keanu and his vast mirrorball of death

  09-10-2024 14:47
  
  Since directing Johnny Mnemonic and a making a sculpture from 40,000 bullets, the New Yorker has returned to the stunning photorealistic drawings that made him famous. He takes us round his latest show ‘I’m a mortician,” says Robert Longo, 71, clad in black and sporting a luxuriant grey bouffant. “I have an idea, then kill it by making it. Then I dress it for a funeral.” This may seem a strange way to describe your first British solo exhibition in seven years, but L
  
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• Studio Museum Of Harlem Will Open Its New Building In Fall 2025

  09-10-2024 14:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Its first show there will bring the museum full circle by focusing on the work of Tom Lloyd, the artist, educator and activist who was featured in the 1968 opening exhibition of the institution — which was then just a second-floor rented loft on upper Fifth Avenue.” – The New York Times
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra To Tour To China For Record 13th Time

  09-10-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “After scrapping its 50th anniversary tour of China in 2023, the Philadelphia Orchestra is picking up where it left off. The full ensemble will travel to China later this month — its 13th visit, the most of any American orchestra.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Nicola L review – feminist fun for the furry-curious

  09-10-2024 14:00
  
  Camden Art Centre, London
  Pop and avant garde sensibilities join forces in this playful show, full of giant limbs, wearable furniture and bare bottomsAccording to Wikipedia, the slanket – a wearable blanket with sleeves – was invented in 1998 by an American called Gary Clegg. Congratulations, Gary, but as regards this indispensable contribution to human comfort, Nicola L could rightfully claim to have got there first. The French artist, born Nicola Leuthe, had a cosy line in wearable
  
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• Erie Philharmonic seeks next Executive Director

  09-10-2024 03:41 via artsjournal.com
  The Erie Philharmonic welcomes nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director, available in the fall of 2024. The next Executive Director of the Erie Philharmonic will be a dynamic and visionary leader, ready to build on the foundation of a 110-year-old orchestra that has tripled its operating budget to $3 million in less than a decade, performs to sold-out audiences in the historic Warner Theatre, and makes a $10 million economic impact across the broader area.Erie Philhar
  
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• Academic Operations Coordinator, Extension Division (The Juilliard School)

  09-10-2024 03:38 via artsjournal.com
  Description:The Juilliard School seeks an Academic Operations Coordinator to manage the day-to-day logistical and operational facets of Juilliard Extension’s academic programs. This role is integral in ensuring seamless coordination between faculty, students, and staff through responsibilities such as course scheduling, classroom management, and technology oversight. The ideal candidate will have a strong command of scheduling systems, classroom technology coordination, and operations mana
  
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• Francis Bacon: Human Presence review – ‘This whirligig of horrors is the best Bacon show I’ve ever seen’

  09-10-2024 01:01
  
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe hard-living artist’s distorted figures – deformed to reveal mortality, sex and death – often left their subjects feeling injured. But this biting show should leave crowds astonishedTeeth. We all have them, or start out with them. We’re supposed to take care of them, so we can flash a smile. But for Francis Bacon, they are a glimpse of death in a living human face, a white hardness that will persist when all our soft matter is gone. In
  
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