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• The Importance Of “The Importance Of Being Earnest”

  08-11-2024 21:06 via theguardian.com
  “People have been arguing about the nature of the play ever since its 1895 premiere. Wilde himself described it as ‘a delicate bubble of fancy’, but added: ‘It has its philosophy.’ … What kind of play is it and how do we stage it today? These questions still divide opinion.” – The Guardian
  
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• Popular Glastonbury Tries A New Scheme For Online Ticket Sales After An Increasingly Chaotic Process

  08-11-2024 20:31 via theguardian.com
  This year they will now visit a holding page before the start of the ticket sale, “at least a few minutes before the sale opens” according to organisers. Once the sale begins, each person “will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process”. – The Guardian
  
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• MacArthur “Genius” Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Has Commissioned A Multi-Composer Portrait Of America

  08-11-2024 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The project, titled “This Is America,” is a collection of 28 works Gandelsman has been commissioning, performing and recording since 2020. He gave the composers each a $5,000 fee and a request to compose a piece responding to the times we’re currently living through in the United States. – The New York Times
  
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• Sotheby’s Sells AI-Created Artwork For $1M

  08-11-2024 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  On November 7, the artwork A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) by the humanoid robot artist Ai-Da sold for $1,084,800 during the auction house’s Digital Art day sale. There were 27 bids for the portrait. – ARTnews
  
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• Kate Hepburn obituary

  08-11-2024 19:23
  
  Designer and artist who worked for Spare Rib, the Monty Python team and Pink FloydIn a career that spanned half a century, the graphic designer Kate Hepburn, who has died aged 77 of multiple system atrophy, displayed great versatility. While an artist aims to develop a distinctive and recognisable style, a designer must be able to alter their approach and technique according to the situation. Hepburn was adept at this, working in fields including leftwing causes, music, comedy and publishing.In
  
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• Shepard Fairey On How Art Can Connect Us To Our Better Selves

  08-11-2024 19:15 via forbes.com
  
  Art is capable of connecting with the best part of who we are as humans and stimulating the part of us that recognizes the dignity and connection with other humans. – Forbes
  
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• Even After 30 Years, People Talk About (And Buy Tickets For) Matthew Bourne’s Gender-Switched “Swan Lake”

  08-11-2024 19:04 via bachtrack.com
  
  “Certain people found it difficult to accept Swan Lake in a new light,” says Bourne. “There was some ballet snobbery when people would say the choreography was a bit repetitive. Anyone watching a classical ballet will know that the steps are often repeated. (But the) vast majority of audiences really bought into it.” – Bachtrack
  
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• Howard Sherman: Struggling With How To Appreciate Opera

  08-11-2024 18:44 via thestage.co.uk
  The blurring of lines that brought me to the opera voluntarily, willingly and with the same anticipation I bring to theatre suggests there may be a way forward – together. – The Stage
  
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• China’s Movie Box Office Is Collapsing

  08-11-2024 18:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  A prolonged fallow period extending through the summer has left the Beijing film industry wringing its hands, wondering whether a lasting shift in the marketplace may be underway. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A Time Of Reckoning For Media In A New Trump Era?

  08-11-2024 18:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  There are blaring red warnings signs for traditional media everywhere you look. Ratings for the broadcast and cable news channels saw steep declines in ratings from Nielsen (finals showed an average of 42.3 million people, down from nearly 57 million four years ago), with the lowest ratings in decades. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Meet The Maestros Of Evil Doll Movies

  08-11-2024 18:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In a Welsh seaside town, Geoff and Lawrence Fowler are turning out a series of surprisingly good low-budget features (e.g., Jack in the Box) about dolls, puppets or robots possessed by evil. Says one aficionado, “Their films look good, they are well-designed and well-plotted with good jump scares.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• New Science Is Revising Stories Of The People Of Ancient Pompeii

  08-11-2024 17:44 via washingtonpost.com
  Scientists analyzed ancient DNA extracted from skeletal remains and pieced together fragments of five people’s identities, rewriting the romantic stories of who they were and how they were related. – Washington Post
  
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• The US Archivist Is Accused Of Whitewashing American History

  08-11-2024 17:32 via wsj.com
  U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes. The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Has Our Technology Collapsed Our Ability To Experience Awe?

  08-11-2024 17:15 via aeon.co
  
  Today, we are rapidly becoming ‘tech-vexed’ – my word for the gradual yet relentless seduction of computerised life. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated a trend: many of us are now more intimately connected to smartphones than to nonmediated relationships with people. – Aeon
  
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• Film Festival In Istanbul Cancelled After Daniel Craig Film “Queer” Is Banned

  08-11-2024 17:05 via deadline.com
  
  “Streaming platform Mubi has cancelled its long-planned Mubi Fest Istanbul at the eleventh hour after (the local district) governor banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTI+ themed movie Queer, which was to have been the opening film.” – Deadline
  
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• Voters In El Paso Veto Funding For Downtown Arena/Performance Venue

  08-11-2024 16:31 via elpasomatters.org
  
  “With the approval of Proposition A, voters in El Paso have formally revoked the city’s authority to issue the remaining $128.5 million in bonds that had been allocated for a multipurpose performing arts and entertainment facility in Downtown El Paso.” – El Paso Matters
  
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• Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury review – tinsel treasures from a polyamorous bohemian

  08-11-2024 16:30
  
  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
  Her famous friends and avant garde love life can threaten to overshadow her work, but some of it is amazing – although it almost gets lost in the galleryA challenge for anyone confronting the art of the Bloomsbury Group is the way the magnetic chaos of their interpersonal drama can overpower the art. At Pallant House, the curators strike a tenuous balance between the two. Though Dora Carrington, who preferred to be known simply as Carrington, wasn’t
  
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• King Tut’s Iconic Funerary Mask Was Probably First Made For Someone Else, Say Researchers

  08-11-2024 16:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  How could anyone tell this after all this time? The answer, say Egyptologists at the University of York, has been right in front of us. It’s all about the ears. – Artnet
  
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• A Pulitzer Prize Winner Is Adapting “Fahrenheit 451” For The Stage

  08-11-2024 15:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Martyna Majok, who won the Pulitzer for drama in 2018 with her play Cost of Living, will write the script. The project is in early development, and no director or marquee actor has yet been publicly attached to the project. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• It’s Only Been Three Days, And “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Back On The Bestseller List

  08-11-2024 15:04 via apnews.com
  
  Since the presidential election results became clear early Wednesday morning, Margaret Atwood’s novel has been high on Amazon’s list of top-selling books, as are Orwell’s 1984 and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. All three were popular during Trump’s first term. – AP
  
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• India Lifts Ban On Import Of Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” — For A Surprising Reason

  08-11-2024 14:42 via theguardian.com
  
  And that reason is bureaucracy at its finest. – The Guardian
  
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• There’s No Water In The Fountain Of Trevi in Rome, And Tourists Are Bummed

  08-11-2024 14:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The city drained the fountain to clean it ahead of the Vatican’s Jubilee Year. … Visitor access to the site is currently via a temporary walkway. But the real problem is the plywood-sided pool on the stairs in front of the fountain into which visitors are now instructed to toss coins.” – Artnet
  
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• A Spanish drunkard, exploding punks and a Renaissance showdown – the week in art

  08-11-2024 13:00
  
  Leonardo and Michelangelo face off, the lucid art of the Mughal empire eclipses the Taj Mahal, and the Punjab comes to Compton Verney – all in your weekly dispatchThe Great MughalsThis exhibition is both beautiful and lucid in its introduction to the aesthete rulers who built the Taj Mahal.• V&A, London, from 9 November to 5 May Continue reading...
  
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• Giant flowers, a buried chariot and temples in the sand: the art show in the shadow of Giza pyramids

  08-11-2024 08:00
  
  Egypt hopes the Forever is Now exhibition of contemporary artists, now in its fourth year, will bring even more visitors to the Unesco heritage siteA dismantled chariot, recreated in the form of two unruly metallic horses next to half-submerged wheels, and giant flowers popping out of the sand: visitors to the pyramids of Giza are being greeted by a series of artworks as Egypt stages its annual contemporary art exhibition at the 4,500-year-old Unesco world heritage site.The Race by Khaled Zaki,
  
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• First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m

  08-11-2024 04:05
  
  Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the worldA portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.08m (£566,000, A$1.63m) in New York on Thursday.The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, was created by Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist. It smashed pre-sale expectations between $120,0
  
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• First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1.3m

  08-11-2024 04:05
  Portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing was created by Ai-Da, one of the most advanced robots in the worldA portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.32m (£677,000, A$1.98m) in New York on Thursday.The 2.2 metre (7.5 feet) portrait, titled A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing, was created by Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist. It smashed pre-sale expectations between $120,0
  
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• General Director – Opera Colorado

  08-11-2024 01:01 via artsjournal.com
  Photo ID #P1500081r.jpgProduction photography of Opera Colorado’s 2024 Production of The Flying Dutchman in The Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, February 20, 2024.
  Photographer: Matthew StaverOpera Colorado invites talented leaders possessing drive, ambition, energy, and a deep love of opera to present themselves as candidates for General Director. Opera Colorado’s General Director serves as a visionary leader overseeing all aspects of its operation with a
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communications – Hudson Valley Shakespeare

  08-11-2024 00:56 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityHudson Valley Shakespeare (HVS) is in the midst of a transformational moment as an organization. After undergoing tremendous artistic and programmatic evolution in recent years, following the successful transition from a founding leader to the installation of Artistic Director Davis McCallum in 2014 and Managing Director Kendra Ekelund in 2022, HVS is in a place of great strength in terms of its mission, work, and leadership. At the same time, HVS (known as Hudson Valley Sha
  
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