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• We Know What You Did Last Summer

  31-10-2024 20:49 via artsjournal.com
  Among minor casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic—at least in my neighborhood— were troops of parents and young children going door to door for Halloween, wearing costumes with masks that were not N95s. In those years, leaving a bucket of candy out on the stoop with a “Have at it!” sign became an enduring option. 
  Back then, the diminution of trick-or-treaters reflected pandemic-era losses in social connectedness at large. Fortunately, as with other shared cultural ex
  
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• The New (Old) Soundtracks Of The TikTok Generation

  31-10-2024 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Musicians are “benefiting from the capricious, catholic taste of a generation of listeners who came of age with access to nearly the entire catalog of recorded music via streaming services and social media.” – The New York Times
  
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• Troubled Royal Danish Ballet Picks A New Leader

  31-10-2024 20:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The company announced on Thursday that Amy Watson, a California-born dancer who joined the troupe in 2000, would serve as its next artistic director. – The New York Times
  
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• The Jump Scare: All About One Of Horror Movies’ Most Effective Tricks

  31-10-2024 20:01 via atlasobscura.com
  
  “Carrie’s final-act stinger was a turning point for jump scares, interrupting what appeared to be a peaceful epilogue. It united viewers in a shared moment of tension-puncturing shock; over the next decade, directors such as Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi, and George Romero scrambled to deliver bigger and badder scares.” – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Casinos Are Big Entertainment Venues In Canada. But Are They Still Viable?

  31-10-2024 19:45 via thewalrus.ca
  
  In the post-pandemic world, the entertainment industry is still trying to establish consistency. Casinos, which were once thought to be recession-proof, now struggle to stay profitable. – The Walrus
  
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• Haunting The Theater: How Directors And Designers Depict Ghosts On Stage

  31-10-2024 19:04 via playbill.com
  
  From the 200-year-old trick known as Pepper’s Ghost to holograms and deepfakes, “a whole host of techniques have been developed to demonstrate the concept of ‘spirit’ onstage, ranging from mindblowingly complicated to deceptively simple.” – Playbill
  
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• Finally a #MeToo Movement In The Music Industry?

  31-10-2024 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Women have not been safe in recording studios, on tour buses, in green rooms or in offices. It’s not a bug of the music business; it’s a major feature. But we might finally be on the cusp of real change in the culture of the industry, thanks to shifts in the business model. – The New York Times
  
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• Just What Is “Common Sense”?

  31-10-2024 18:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  A philosophical theory can either go against common sense or it can support or justify common sense. Supporting common sense seems pointless. After all, what you are trying to prove is, by definition, already commonly recognized as the sensible view. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• How To Get Inside An Essay

  31-10-2024 18:15 via thegeorgiareview.com
  
  I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room. – The Georgia Review
  
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• Nikolaj Hübbe Out As Director Of Royal Danish Ballet

  31-10-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After months of turmoil around allegations of drug use and bullying, the former New York City Ballet star, who led his homeland’s flagship ballet company for 16 years, resigned last week following five months of medical leave. Acting artistic director Amy Watson now takes the position in full. – The New York Times
  
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• A New Gonzo Art Criticism

  31-10-2024 17:31 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  
  They often won’t just write about the work in question, but also about what’s going on in their lives. Digressions are frequent, sometimes even critical; talk about art leads to talk about books or gigs or other things. It’s not so much gonzo as an attempt to break down false, disembodied objectivity. – Artnet
  
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• Why Some Art Gives You Chills (And Most Doesn’t)

  31-10-2024 17:15 via news.artnet.com
  
   I’ve come to think that “aesthetic chills” open a window onto the fact that there are decisively powerful areas of art experience that are only explained by admitting to stuff that you tend to suppress in order to make that experience respectable. – Artnet
  
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• Austin Redirected All Its Arts Funding Toward Marginalized Groups. Now Established Organizations Fear The Arts Ecosystem Could Collapse.

  31-10-2024 17:05 via austinchronicle.com
  
  Dozens of established and proven groups and individual artists have had the financial floor ripped from under them. As one company leader put it, “If you’re from an organization that isn’t from a traditionally marginalized group, it’s currently not possible … to be funded as an arts group in Austin.” – The Austin Chronicle
  
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• What Role Should Orchestras Play In Strengthening Democracy?

  31-10-2024 16:34 via postalley.org
  
  It’s not enough to merely assert these values or cite the longstanding commitments to educational programs, if the deeper work of orchestras is to play a role in sustaining American democracy. – Post Alley
  
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• Mid-Century Modern Design: A Brief History

  31-10-2024 16:06 via dezeen.com
  
  Mid-century modern design is hard to pin down. As soon as you think you’ve grasped it, it re-invents itself. And while the revival of earlier movements such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau tends to come and go, mid-century modern’s rebirth began in the 1990s and is still going strong. – Dezeen
  
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• Revisiting Landmarks And Icons Of Mid-Century Modern Design

  31-10-2024 15:33 via dezeen.com
  
  A package of articles considering some of the most important examples (including forgotten ones) of the style, from Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table (the man detested table legs) to Isamu Noguchi’s Akari lamps to the Eames Shell chair to Charlotte Perriand’s modular shelving units to the city of Columbus, Indiana. – Dezeen
  
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• CBS Morning News Spotlights Opera Philadelphia’s $11 Ticket Scheme

  31-10-2024 15:01 via cbsnews.com
  
  “In the nation’s oldest opera house,” begins correspondent Scott MacFarlane, “seats for this performance cost less than a movie ticket. Opera Philadelphia is launching a pick-your-price model, starting at just $11, as they try to lure more diverse and younger audiences.” – CBS News
  
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• Dance Company Jennifer Muller/The Works Re-Establishes Itself Following Its Founder’s Death

  31-10-2024 14:34 via danceinforma.us
  
  Fifty years after choreographer Muller created her troupe in New York City and a year-and-a-half after she passed away aged 78, Jennifer Muller/The Works has gathered a group of company alumni to form a board and continue the organization’s work, led by two co-artistic directors and an executive director. – Dance Informa
  
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• Bojan Spassoff, Longtime Leader Of One Of America’s Most Prestigious Ballet Schools, Has Died At 79

  31-10-2024 14:02 via msn.com
  After directing the Savannah Ballet and Ballet Oklahoma, Spassoff in 1984 took over what is now the Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia. He led the school for 37 years and saw it through a financial crisis and then independence from the Pennsylvania (now Philadelphia) Ballet. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Most Of New Jersey’s Daily Newspapers End Their Print Editions, And One Is Closing Entirely

  31-10-2024 13:35 via gothamist.com
  “The Star-Ledger, Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times will all move to online-only editions. … But because the Ledger will shut down its plant in Montville, New Jersey, the long-running Jersey Journal” — which covers the cities across the Hudson from Manhattan — “will shut down entirely after 157 years of operation.” – Gothamist
  
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• Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony In Ontario Is Out Of Bankruptcy And Back In Business

  31-10-2024 13:00 via ludwig-van.com
  
  “After declaring bankruptcy just over a year ago in September 2023, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony has announced a resumption of operations, renewing a legacy that’s almost eight decades old. The bankruptcy has been formally annulled by the approval by the Superior Court of Ontario of a proposal made to creditors.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Van Gogh’s smoking skeleton and Munch’s sickly sex-scapes: great artists’ ghoulish sides revealed

  31-10-2024 10:50
  
  A show of unfamiliar works by the pioneers of modern art shows that they weren’t immune to the allure of darkness and horror – and explains why the gothic style will never dieYou might laugh off Halloween as little more than kids dressed as ghouls demanding sweets and leaving sticky fingerprints on doorbells. But we’re all susceptible to the spine-tingling embrace of the supernatural, at least when it comes for us in the seductive guise of the gothic. We never seem to weary of
  
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• ‘A large part of my life’: a former Banksy associate sells his archive

  31-10-2024 08:26
  
  At a Los Angeles-based auction, Steve Lazarides is preparing to say goodbye to a giant trove of Banksy artwork and memorabilia, expected to make millionsAfter several tumultuous years, the former Banksy associate Steve Lazarides saw the writing on the wall. Between the challenges of the pandemic, the escalating cost of living, mental health struggles and a weighty financial setback from his now-defunct manufacturing company, Lazarides suddenly found himself longing to reclaim his first love, pho
  
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• Drawing the Italian Renaissance review – Christ, naked and muscly, leaps from the grave

  31-10-2024 01:01
  
  King’s Gallery, LondonAmong dazzling works by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from the Royal Collection, the sketches of lesser artists offer comfort and inspiration to future artists in this absorbing showThe sculptor, goldsmith and murderer Benvenuto Cellini found himself alone one day on a Florentine piazza facing his rival Baccio Bandinelli, whose statues he thought looked like sacks of squashes topped by melons for heads. He fingered his dagger, getting ready to deliver the ultimat
  
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