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• Paris Opera Ballet Suspends Its Competition For Promotions

  14-11-2024 21:03 via gramilano.com
  
  “Union representatives of the Paris Opera Ballet are calling for the abolition of the internal promotion competition for dancers. For the first time, the annual examination, which allows dancers to reach the next rank in the hierarchy of the corps de ballet, has been partially postponed.” – Gramilano
  
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• How The Ivy League Broke American Culture

  14-11-2024 20:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at places such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, then you change the nation’s social ideal. – The Atlantic
  
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• Timothy West, Icon Of British Stage And Television, Is Dead At 90

  14-11-2024 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “(He) brought a commanding presence to historical figures like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and King Edward VII, and to notables of classic theater like King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman. He was perhaps best known to American audiences for his performances in British television imports.” – The New York Times
  
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• Who Wins When A Mega-Event Comes To Town?

  14-11-2024 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  Projected economic gains from hosting such events can appear impressive on paper, but questions remain about who ultimately benefits. Several reports in support of hosting mega-events use inflated numbers to document indirect economic impacts and job creation without accounting for initial public spending and other hosting costs. – The Conversation
  
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• A Revered Master Of Hula Wins $450K Gish Prize

  14-11-2024 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Vicky Holt Takamine, who has spent decades mastering and teaching hula and working to preserve native Hawaiian culture, has been awarded the 31st annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, given each year to a ‘highly accomplished figure’ who has ‘pushed the boundaries of an art form.” – The New York Times
  
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• Forty Years Ago The Celebrity-Fueled Band-Aid Changed Charity Fundraising Forever

  14-11-2024 18:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Afterwards, fundraising became much more of a spectacle. Donors were re-imagined and empowered as “saviours”. Celebrities began to view endorsement of charities as a key part of their star profile. – The Conversation
  
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• Is The 20th Century Novel Its Own Genre?

  14-11-2024 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Everyone seemed to know which books the term picked out, what the generic bones of the novel were, and why novels mattered. People talked about “the death of the novel” as though it could mark an inflection point in the history of civilization. – The New Yorker
  
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• Authenticity Is Not A Feeling. It’s A State Of Being

  14-11-2024 18:18 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Authenticity is not a feeling, but an active way of being defined by conscious attention to the fit between who we are and the situation(s) in which we find ourselves. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• How Roger Ailes Commandeered A Save-The-Earth Hippie Musical And Inadvertently Birthed A Pop Juggernaut

  14-11-2024 18:05 via playbill.com
  
  Yes, the future chief of Fox News, fresh off getting Nixon re-elected, took control of a California show called Mother Earth, revamped it (badly) and took it to Broadway, where it flopped. Meanwhile, the show’s composer, one Toni Shearer, quit — and ended up fronting one of the 1970s’ superstar groups. – Playbill
  
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• The Tricky Negotiations Of Dark Comedy

  14-11-2024 17:44 via thepointmag.com
  
  Satire is just dark comedy’s alibi, a way for critics to render their attraction to the genre compatible with morality and self-respect. – The Point
  
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• We Assume That There’s An Order To “Laws Of Nature.” But…

  14-11-2024 17:30 via aeon.co
  
  In short, we assume that, thanks to science, there is a recipe of sorts for how the laws of nature work. – Aeon
  
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• Pompeii, Overrun By Tourists, Introduces New Limits

  14-11-2024 17:15 via news.artnet.com
  
  The site welcomed a record-breaking four million tourists this summer alone, and up to 30,000 per day during the peak summer season. Records were broken this year when 36,000 visitors descended on Pompeii during one of the site’s Free Sundays. – Artnet
  
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• Big Corporate Streamers May Be Having Trouble, But Niche Streaming Services Are Thriving

  14-11-2024 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “About two dozen smaller, low-cost specialty streaming services have generated significant subscriber growth over the last couple of years. … This includes streamers from traditional cable networks (AMC+, BET+) as well as those (for) specific genres, including British television (BritBox, Acorn TV), horror (Shudder) and anime (Crunchyroll, Hidive).” – The New York Times
  
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• “The Broadcast Land Grab”: Trump’s Next Administration May See Wave Of TV Station Acquisitions

  14-11-2024 16:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that deregulation will be at the top of its priority list, and the companies that own local TV stations — Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray, E.W. Scripps and Tegna, among many others — are practically giddy at what it could mean for them.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Site InfoWars (This Is Not Satire)

  14-11-2024 16:03 via cnn.com
  
  In a classic case of life imitating parody, the liberal-leaning humor outlet (“America’s Finest News Source”) purchased Jones’s conspiracy-mongering far-right website at a bankruptcy auction held to cover part of the $1.5 billion verdict Jones owes for slandering families of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims. – CNN
  
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• British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever: $1.27 Billion Worth Of Chinese Ceramics

  14-11-2024 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 1,700 pieces dating from the third to the 20th century have been given permanently by the Sir Percival David Foundation. They had been on loan since 2009. It means the British Museum now holds one of the most important collections of Chinese ceramics … outside the Chinese-speaking world.” – The Guardian
  
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• U.S. Cultural Institutions Seriously Rattled By Fallout From Gaza War

  14-11-2024 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Shock waves from the war have been felt throughout the arts and cultural world, with movie productions, museums and book festivals — not to mention universities, institutions and entire industries — experiencing bitter conflict over what qualifies as tolerable speech about the conflict and its combatants.” – The New York Times
  
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• Notre-Dame’s Official Reopening Date Is Set, Events Scheduled

  14-11-2024 14:35 via tinyurl.com
  
  “With just 23 days to go until the Dec. 7 reopening, the (office) of President Emmanuel Macron and the Archdiocese of Paris detailed the final inspection and ceremonial events leading up to the big day.” The historic cathedral was ravaged by a catastrophic fire on April 15, 2019. – ABC News
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Names Daniele Rustioni Principal Guest Conductor

  14-11-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  The 41-year-old Italian maestro, currently principal conductor at the Opéra national de Lyon in France, will conduct at least two Met productions per season, starting in 2025-26. He will be only the third principal guest conductor in the company’s 141-year history, – AP
  
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• Creative sparks: how the Mughal empire made opulent art with power

  14-11-2024 09:00
  
  The V&A’s Great Mughals shines a light on a cultured and enlightened reign over India and south Asia that still wields influence today. Take a close look at some of the remarkable artefacts of that eraPerhaps the best known cultural remnant of the mighty Mughal empire, which held sway across what is today Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and Bangladesh in the 16th and 17th centuries, is the English word “mogul”, denoting someone of almost unimaginable wealth
  
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• Director of Advancement & Audience Strategy – MCC Theater

  14-11-2024 04:07 via artsjournal.com
  Position ProfileA New Role for a Future-Facing StrategyMCC Theater is pleased to be launching a search for a new senior leader dedicated to revenue strategy, relationship building, and the long-term sustainability of the organization. This new role, Director of Advancement & Audience Strategy, will join the organization at an exciting moment of achievement and impact. Charged with overseeing both development and marketing efforts, this strategic leader will report to MCC’s Executive Di
  
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• “Rachmaninoff In His Own Words” – A Man of Firm Identity and Principle

  14-11-2024 03:40 via artsjournal.com
  
  A dear friend of mine died recently of a sudden heart attack. I discovered that the only music I found
  
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