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• Why Did Gustav Klimt Use So Much Gold Leaf?

  11-10-2024 21:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  Turns out, it ran in the family. – Artnet
  
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• Back To The Future: The Atlantic Magazine Returns To Monthly Print

  11-10-2024 20:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  “The decision to restore our print publication frequency to pre-internet levels was not made lightly, but it also seemed logical, given the strength and reach of our magazine, and the wide acclaim it receives.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Met Chief Slams New York Times Chief Music Critic

  11-10-2024 20:14 via artsjournal.com
  On Monday night, Met director Peter Gelb returned fire, strafing the Gray Lady — and its chief classical critic, Zachary Woolfe — and claiming there was “an agenda” behind the brutal review. – New York Post
  
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• John Eliot Gardiner Undercutting His Old Ensembles Is Disgraceful, And So Are The Presenters Going Along With It

  11-10-2024 20:04 via classical-music.uk
  
  Andrew Mellor: “At best, he looks like a bitter fool. It’s a shame for him, for anyone who has a modicum of respect for his talent and for anyone who has done good work with him. But it’s shameful for an industry apparently happy to sweep his abuse under the carpet.” – Classical Music (UK)
  
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• Why 1984’s “Terminator” Movie Still Resonates Today

  11-10-2024 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  The film’s legacy in pop culture is enduring. Cameron’s dark vision of the future created a cultural shock that continues to resonate to this day. “I’ll be back,” remains one of the most iconic one-liners in movie history. – The Conversation
  
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• How The Nobel Literature Prize Keeps Getting It Right

  11-10-2024 19:32 via newrepublic.com
  
  The fact that the Academy has alighted on a deserving, interesting winner of the prize continues to be strange and miraculous, even if the twenty-first century has had far more hits than misses, many more recipients in the Doris Lessing zone—i.e., timeless—rather than the Rudyard Kipling zone—i.e., timeful (pejorative). – The New Republic
  
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• When All Of Paris Is A Festival

  11-10-2024 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The multidisciplinary festival, which goes until late December and features 84 events spread over 60 venues, throughout Paris and its environs. Encompassing theater, dance, music, visual art and performance, it has an encyclopedic scope that arguably makes it unique in France. – The New York Times
  
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• Massachusetts Is One Of The Most Art-Vibrant States: Study

  11-10-2024 19:05 via culturaldata.org
  
  “A new study finds that Massachusetts stands out as a national leader in arts vibrancy, with every region — from the Berkshires to Cape Cod — consistently performing above the national average. Mapping Massachusetts: Trends and Insights into Arts Vibrancy provides an in-depth look.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• True Cost Of Video Game Piracy: About 20 Percent Of Revenues

  11-10-2024 18:44 via arstechnica.com
  
  While the true effect of piracy on sales revenue is likely somewhere between those two extremes, piracy’s precise financial impact on a game has always been hard to nail down. – Ars Technica
  
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• Historic Bay Area Record Store Faced With Paying Millions To Stay In Business

  11-10-2024 18:32 via sfgate.com
  Chris Strachwitz — who purchased the building in 1976 with money earned from the publishing royalties on Country Joe & the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” — died in 2023, but prior to his death, he wrote into his will that Harrod Blank has first right of refusal to buy the property at market value: an estimated $2.4 million. – SFGate
  
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• Wikipedia Declares War On Pink Slime AI

  11-10-2024 18:15 via futurism.com
  
  The group is clear that they don’t wish to ban responsible AI use outright, but instead seek to eradicate instances of badly-sourced, hallucination-filled,  or otherwise unhelpful AI content that erodes the overall quality of the web’s decades-old information repository. – Futurism
  
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• Beloved Classical Record Producer Adam Abeshouse Dead At 63

  11-10-2024 18:03 via npr.org
  
  “Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars,” many of whom gathered at his home last month for a goodbye concert. “He won two Grammy awards, including Classical Producer of the Year in 1999.” – NPR
  
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• Nobel Literature Win Demonstrates Importance Of Small Presses

  11-10-2024 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  South Korean writer Han Kang’s win as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate is a triumph not only for Korean literature but also a reminder of the huge reach and influence of small press publishing, which takes on so much of the heavy work of introducing literature in translation to a wider audience. – The Guardian
  
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• Of The Three Kinds Of Luck, This Is Most Consequential

  11-10-2024 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in which you were born, your parents, background, genes and character traits. – The Guardian
  
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• Making a rukus! review – rousing and emotional celebration of Black LGBTQ+ culture

  11-10-2024 17:16
  
  Somerset House, LondonThe rukus! Federation opens up its archives for an exhibition brimming with joy, sadness … and an incredible amount of sexConserved at the London Archives since 2005, rukus! is a collection of printed materials, conference agendas and ephemera related to the Black LGBTQ+ community in Britain. It was not intended to be a static academic resource, sifted through with white gloves, but to be continually activated and imagined in relation to the present. In this new show
  
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• Writers Guild Issues “Do Not Work” Order Against Millennium Pictures

  11-10-2024 17:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The Writers Guild of America West has ordered its members to cease working with The Expendables producer Millennium Pictures, citing that the company is not a signatory to its current union agreement” and has failed to pay writers when and as required by the WGA contract rules. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Meet Parris Goebel, The Popular Music Industry’s New Favorite Choreographer

  11-10-2024 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “There’s a raw, instinctive quality to Goebel’s routines: The dancers look as if they aren’t just dancing but are following an elemental urge.… Goebel is reshaping what pop choreography looks like — and exploding our ideas of what makes a femme body desirable.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Who Uses Public Libraries In The US? A Look At Statistics

  11-10-2024 16:04 via msn.com
  “One thing that doesn’t seem to drive most people to libraries? Financial hardship. In fact, the higher your income, the more regularly you avail yourself of their … services. And while we can’t say for sure, it seems bookstores and libraries complement each other more than they compete.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Reg Mombassa: ‘I’m just grateful I’m still alive’

  11-10-2024 16:00
  
  Artist and musician Chris O’Doherty, otherwise known as Reg, talks rock’n’roll, complex families and whether UFOs are realGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailStrolling with Chris O’Doherty through his Sydney neighbourhood, Glebe, nestled between harbour’s-edge parklands and the greater inner west, is a trip through decades of family memories. It’s also an absorbing conversational journey as the visual artist and musician (AKA Reg Mombassa, perhaps best
  
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• Bright, bold, political: the fearless art of Reko Rennie gets major exhibition

  11-10-2024 16:00
  
  The Footscray-raised self-taught artist achieves a career milestone with the opening of his first retrospective, featuring more than 100 worksGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Reko Rennie was a young boy, his mother would take him to free cultural institutions around Melbourne, including the National Gallery of Victoria. There, he fell in love with art. “I’d spend hours in these places as a kid,” he says. “That stayed with me for a long time. When I got olde
  
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• Fleetwood Mac’s Sound Engineer Sues “Stereophonic” Playwright David Adjmi For Plagiarism

  11-10-2024 15:31 via theatermania.com
  
  “The complaint alleges that Stereophonic is an ‘unauthorized adaptation’ of Kenneth Caillat’s 2012 memoir, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (which he co-wrote with Steven Stiefel) about his time as a sound engineer (later promoted to co-producer) of one of the most popular albums in history.” – TheaterMania
  
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• Cal Shakes Gives Up Its Struggle And Will Shut Down

  11-10-2024 15:05 via msn.com
  One of the largest nonprofit theaters in the Bay Area, the California Shakespeare Theater for 50 years offered high-quality outdoor productions and theater education programs. The company has had financial troubles for several years; an emergency campaign last summer raised $350,000 to complete this season’s one production. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Film And TV Production In L.A. Dropped By One-Fifth Last Year

  11-10-2024 14:33 via thewrap.com
  
  “Los Angeles film and TV production fell 19.7% to just 183 projects in 2023, according to an updated three-year analysis of scripted content by FilmLA released Wednesday.” – TheWrap
  
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• Joshua Bell Will Be New Jersey Symphony’s Principal Guest Conductor

  11-10-2024 14:00 via thestrad.com
  
  The 56-year-old is best known for his decades-long career as a solo violinist, but he has been conducting for years and has been music director of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields since 2011. He will be the New Jersey Symphony’s first-ever Principal Guest Conductor. – The Strad
  
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• Echoes of empire, a million rabbit holes and a close look at a cave – the week in art

  11-10-2024 13:00
  Hew Locke interrogates the British Museum, Rirkrit Tiravanija interacts with the tense US election and a ‘library cave’ spills its secrets – all in your weekly dispatchHew Locke: What Have We Here?The Guyanese-British artist investigates echoes of empire in the British Museum’s collections.• British Museum, London, 17 October to 9 February Continue reading...
  
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• Managing Director – Alley Theatre

  11-10-2024 06:12 via artsjournal.com
  Alley Theatre seeks interested and talented candidates to serve as its next Managing Director. The next Managing Director will join one of the strongest theatres in the country. At a time where many regional theatres are struggling, The Alley Theatre is a vibrant organization, artistically and financially. There is a high-performing staff and a deeply committed board of directors.
  The Managing Director co-leads the Alley in partnership with the Artistic Director and reports directly to the Boar
  
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• “Very Likely the Most Important Film Ever Made about American Music”

  11-10-2024 04:08 via artsjournal.com
  
  During the pandemic, unable to produce concerts, I found myself making six documentary films linked to my book Dvorak’s Prophecy. The
  
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