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• Why Choreographer Oona Doherty Has Grabbed The Contemporary Dance World’s Attention

  01-11-2024 19:57 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Her “refusal to compromise­ with movement that felt inauthentic (and) her instinctive­ pull towards the extreme and the subversive” were channeled into her first major piece, Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, which premiered in 2015 and has been touring off-and-on ever since. – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Internet Has Fractured Culture So Much, The Cultural References Don’t Work For Everyone

  01-11-2024 19:44 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Considering the way that many recent novels reference recent, niche cultural fragments most relevant to an incestuous class of urban media professionals, future generations would need a comically thick companion book. – The Walrus
  
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• What Made Dorothy Parker So Potent:

  01-11-2024 19:32 via newyorker.com
  
  For such a self-professed grump, she never left a reader hanging after a seemingly desultory setup. There was always a reward. And the jokes still work. – The New Yorker
  
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• International Protests At Restructuring Of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery

  01-11-2024 19:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  More than 200 Russian curators and art historians, both in the country and in exile, have written an open letter claiming that Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery has “liquidated” its contemporary art department, following a restructure. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Is Back After Last Year’s Cancellation

  01-11-2024 19:06 via artshub.com.au
  
  Following 2024’s “period of renewal,” the festival’s return in 2025 will include an ambitious art and music program, alongside cornerstone events including Winter Feast, the Ogoh-Ogoh, Night Mass and the Nude Solstice Swim on the longest night of the year there, June 21. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• €2 to illuminate a Caravaggio masterpiece is a small price to pay | Letter

  01-11-2024 18:55
  
  The row over an entrance fee to Notre Dame reminds Mike Pender of a visit to SyracuseThe controversy over whether Notre Dame should charge visitors an entrance fee (Row erupts over plan to charge €5 to enter fire-hit Notre Dame, 26 October) brought to mind a trip to Italy earlier this year. Caravaggio’s painting The Burial of Saint Lucy has been recently relocated to the church for which it was originally intended: the Basilica di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro in Syracuse, Sicily. It is now
  
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• Where (And How) The International Book Market Is Growing

  01-11-2024 18:44 via publishersweekly.com
  
  A recent Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment report on global book sales for the first eight months of the year shows “rising revenues in fiction, while sales of nonfiction books are declining in many regions. The TikTok community BookTok is playing an increasingly important role.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Is A New Generation Of Theatre Critics Around The Corner?

  01-11-2024 18:25 via thestage.co.uk
  The 1950s undoubtedly gave us some of the most significant critics in history, but there’s no value in being intimidated by them. Golden generations are made in hindsight – the next one might be closer than we think. – The Stage
  
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• Antonio Skármeta, One Of Chile’s Greatest Authors (And Source For “Il Postino”), Is Dead At 83

  01-11-2024 18:02 via tinyurl.com
  “He was so versatile — his output included plays for radio and stage, films, short stories, novels and poetry — that he was best described as a storyteller. (He) forged a path away from the Latin American tradition of magical realism, looking for the moments of transcendence in everyday life.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• A Call For Systemic Change In NY’s Cultural Structures

  01-11-2024 17:32 via artnews.com
  
  Anyone paying attention to recent testimonies of artists, cultural workers, and leaders of arts organizations in New York City Council hearings to discuss the budget for arts and culture knows that, in New York, culture is in crisis. This dire context requires a systemic overhaul of the governance model that structures our sector today. ARTnews
  
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• Cautionary Tale: How The Market For A Popular Artist’s Work Collapsed After His Death

  01-11-2024 17:18 via nytimes.com
  
  The story of Scott Burton is a story about how fragile, mutable and, to some degree, arbitrary art history is. It illustrates how an artist’s legacy can be transformed by one decision. In Burton’s case, that choice was to leave his estate… to MoMA. – The New York Times
  
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• A.I. Might Actually Be Good For Hollywood

  01-11-2024 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Right now the key benefit is in visual effects: what requires hundreds of hours and people to accomplish using CGI takes a second or two with generative AI. What’s more, “agentic” AI (as it’s called) can suggest optimum marketing plans and release schedules. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• ‘They loved the beauty around them’: the exquisite taste that made the Mughals great

  01-11-2024 16:55
  Ahead of a major V&A exhibition, artist Waqas Khan celebrates the majesty of the Mughal empire – from the towering Taj Mahal down to the labyrinthine detail of their miniatures‘Look at these,” says Waqas Khan. “I call them Jali. They’re Islamic windows.” I look, as he urges, at the unglassed stone windows from Agra that are installed all around us in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s South Asia gallery. If you have ever visited it, you will have see
  
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• Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier and the Opera Bastille To Close For Years Of Renovations

  01-11-2024 16:44 via france24.com
  
  The closure of the almost 150-year-old edifice, one of the architectural jewels of Paris, will be followed by the closure for renovation of the opera’s giant newer stage, the Opera Bastille, opened in 1989, for at least two years from mid-2030. – France24
  
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• Comcast Suggests It Might Spin Off Its Cable Channels

  01-11-2024 16:30 via fastcompany.com
  “We are now exploring whether creating a new well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our strong portfolio of cable networks would position them to take advantage of opportunities in the changing media landscape and create value for our shareholders.” – Fast Company
  
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• Story-Telling Is Integral To The Success Of Doing Science

  01-11-2024 16:15 via aeon.co
  
  Eventually, I would learn that stories are not just a way of communicating science; they are intrinsic to science, actually part of doing science. – Aeon
  
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• Why, Even After 40 Years, “The Terminator” Is Still Unkillable

  01-11-2024 16:01 via msn.com
  “Often, films that are products of their time are not wholly embraced until that time has passed, and so it is with The Terminator, an ’80s novelty of remarkable longevity … that touches on all sorts of temporal mind games: the Grandfather Paradox, the Butterfly Effect and the would-you-kill-baby-Hitler thought experiment.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• “Sleep No More” Announces Yet Another Closing Date For Its 14-Year New York Run

  01-11-2024 15:35 via variety.com
  
  The immersive, site-specific adaptation of Macbeth has been threatening to pack it up for roughly a year. Producers originally said that the show would end performances on January 28, 2024, but several extensions have been announced since then due to popular demand. – Variety
  
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• Philadelphia’s No Name Pops Is Gifted With Philly Pops Name, Trademark, And Archives

  01-11-2024 15:03 via whyy.org
  
  The No Name Pops was established by former Philly Pops musicians during the old orchestra’s collapse. The family of Philly Pops founder Peter Nero owns the sheet music and trademark, which it is giving to the No Names — leaving the former orchestra’s parent company with several lawsuits and no cash. – WHYY (Philadelphia)
  
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• Cats and dogs: good boys and complicated kitties of art - in pictures

  01-11-2024 15:00
  From Rembrandt and Goya to Jeff Koons and Melbourne artist Atong Atem – a behemoth exhibition spanning more than 250 works of art and design explores humanity’s deep connection to cats and dogs across time and culturesCats and Dogs is on at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 1 November 2024 to 20 July 2025 Continue reading...
  
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• New Fund To Provide Emergency Grants To Creatives Hit By This Year’s Hurricanes

  01-11-2024 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts will establish the Southern Arts Relief and Recovery Fund to give unrestricted aid to writers and artists in various disciplines who were harmed by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. – Artnet
  
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• Another Prominent Antiquities Dealer Charged With Illegal Trafficking

  01-11-2024 14:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Prosecutors in Manhattan obtained an arrest warrant on Thursday for a high-profile, Princeton-educated antiquities dealer now based in Italy, … Edoardo Almagià, (who) has been charged with conspiracy, taking part in a scheme to defraud and possessing stolen property owned by Italy.” – The New York Times
  
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• PEN America’s CEO To Step Down After Long, Successful, And Turbulent Tenure

  01-11-2024 13:34 via publishersweekly.com
  During her 11-year term, Suzanne Nossel, who was previously a top exec at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA, oversaw a major expansion of PEN America’s activities and the sextupling of its budget — as well as furious arguments among the membership over the war in Gaza. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Picasso’s big impressions, Michelangelo’s fine lines and punk pop painting – the week in art

  01-11-2024 13:00
  
  The modern master’s dazzling prints, a big Renaissance draw and Duggie Fields’ abundant archive – all in your weekly dispatchPicasso: printmaker
  The unhesitating way Picasso drew made him a natural at prints, and this survey of his vast output should be dazzling.
  • British Museum, London, 7 November to 30 March Continue reading...
  
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• “Brat” Is Collins Dictionary’s Word Of The Year For 2024

  01-11-2024 13:00 via apnews.com
  
  “The word, used by singer Charli XCX as the title of her sixth studio album, has been defined as ‘characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.’ Collins lexicographers said on Friday that in the phrase ‘brat summer,’ it became ‘one of the most talked about words of 2024.'” – AP
  
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• Experience: I graduated from art school at the age of 90

  01-11-2024 11:00
  
  I never had any problem with my classmates, who were nearly all in their 20s. But a couple of teachers wouldn’t take me seriouslyI have always been passionate about art, but I had no money, and with 13 children to feed and educate, being an artist wasn’t an option. I was 83 when I finally enrolled at art school. I was born in Barcelona in 1933, three years before the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. My father was a military aide-de-camp to the president of the republic. When t
  
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• Special Commentary: Of All the Times I’ve Wanted to be Wrong…

  01-11-2024 09:00 via artsjournal.com
  Remember that war we talked about in February and March?
  Has it already started? (Image by HUNG QUACH from Pixabay).
  In two days, there’s a time change. After two more, a consequential and particularly ugly US election. And yet, here we are again, talking about war. Only this time, it’s not just me.
  On February 27 and March 5 of this year, we published two consecutive articles about the inevitable war that will start within the next six years. Unfortunately for all of us, that timeta
  
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