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• The Secret To Writing A Hit Christmas Panto

  21-11-2024 21:02 via thestage.co.uk
  “From eliciting boos and hisses from audiences of all ages, to making sure there are enough local jokes and updating old stories for today, Holly Williams hears from playwrights tackling their first pantos and veterans who pen several every year about how they keep the tradition alive.” – The Stage
  
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• Complexions Contemporary Ballet At 30

  21-11-2024 20:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Founded 30 years ago by two former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancers, …the company has developed a signature style that’s both immediately recognizable and widely influential. Echoes of it can be seen all over today’s opera houses, competition ballrooms, and TV screens.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• When A Writer Should Just Say “Etcetera” (Literarily Speaking, Of Course)

  21-11-2024 19:44 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  When do we feel compelled to say “etcetera” or “ityadi” or even “blah blah,” not just literally or in a manner of speaking but in the way we experience and create the world? – LA Review of Books
  
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• Boston’s Institute Of Contemporary Art Gets A New Director

  21-11-2024 19:32 via wbur.org
  
  Nora Abrams, who has been the director of Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art since 2019, will succeed Jill Medvedow, who will leave her position in March 2025. – WBUR
  
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• Portland Oregon Changed How It Funds The Arts. Small Arts Organizations Aren’t Happy

  21-11-2024 19:15 via wweek.com
  
  The city argues that its new method of funding organizations creates a more equitable process to sustain the city’s myriad creative centers. But many of Portland’s smaller arts organizations say the shift in who decides their funding has led to the exact opposite result, leaving them less money for the following year than expected. – Willamette Week
  
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• Prominent Artist In Hong Kong Sentenced To Six Years In Prison For “Subversion”

  21-11-2024 19:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Clarisse Yeung, 38, is an artist and, previously, an elected member of Hong Kong’s district council. She first rose to prominence during the 2014 pro-democracy protests. … (She) was among 45 of 47 defendants convicted under the national security law for their roles in an unofficial party primary election (in 2020).” – Artnet
  
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• A Weapon To Crush Uppity Arts Non-Profits?

  21-11-2024 18:44 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “This is a troubling turn of events, particularly for the arts, where nonprofit organizations are prominent players in the form of museums, alternative art spaces, galleries, and even some publications, not to mention institutions of higher education. If it passes, will this bill muffle artistic expression? My guess is yes.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• US House Passes Bill That Would Let Administration Strip Any Nonprofit As “Terrorist-Supporting”

  21-11-2024 18:31 via nonprofitquarterly.org
  This legislation would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate section 501(c) nonprofits as “terrorist supporting organizations” at the Secretary’s discretion, without requiring the Secretary to share their full evidence or reasoning with accused nonprofits. – Non-Profit Quarterly
  
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• How Popular Culture Might Change During A Second Trump Term

  21-11-2024 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In many ways the cultural legacy of the first Trump administration was more visible in backlash and protest. But it’s possible the second time around, the impact will be an affirmative one. – The New York Times
  
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• 2024 Word Of The Year From Cambridge Dictionaries Is “Manifest” (As A Verb)

  21-11-2024 18:06 via artsjournal.com
  “The formal 600-year-old word (has) been given new life by Olympians like Simone Biles, entertainers like Dua Lipa, and people across social media who increasingly use the word to describe channelling their dreams into successes.” – CBC
  
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• Quick Study: Dance on the Brain

  21-11-2024 18:00 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we discuss recent developments in neuroscientific research on dance and creative movement. A transcript is available on the NEA website.
  
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• $5.2m for a duct-taped banana: has the buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork slipped up?

  21-11-2024 17:54
  
  Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’. But what does he get for his money?At first it was just a humble banana. Then it became a work of art – attached to a gallery wall with duct tape by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Next, it was eaten – twice – by a succession of performance artists who helped turn it into a global news story. And now, said banana has been sold for $5.2m
  
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• Tuning In To Bird Songs And Understanding Deep Listening

  21-11-2024 17:44 via psyche.co
  
  Whether you do it while in the heart of the Amazon or on your walk to work, deep listening is a form of mindfulness. Mindfulness practice can strengthen attention, empathy, and compassion, increase positive emotions, help to control negative emotions, and reduce emotional exhaustion. – Psyche
  
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• A Recreated Pina Bausch Classic With Original Dancers Playing In Front Of Film Of The Original

  21-11-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The performers, ages 69 to 80, will dance the roles they created while footage from that first production, filmed by Rolf Borzik, plays alongside them onstage. – The New York Times
  
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• What Next, Trump Shoelaces?

  21-11-2024 17:30 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2024/11/what-next-trump-shoelaces.html" title="What Next, Trump Shoelaces?” rel=”nofollow”><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/belknap/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/trump-shoelaces-365-150×150-1.jpg"
  
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• A Short History Of The Actresses Of “Wicked”

  21-11-2024 17:15 via washingtonpost.com
  Between that obstinate Elphaba and the bubbly Glinda the Good — “Wicked” has grossed more than $1.6 billion on Broadway while enduring as itsfourth-longest-running show. – Washington Post
  
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• ‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers

  21-11-2024 17:12
  
  From family life to fairground glamour, across Ireland and the UK, the photographer wanted to show a different side to a group whose way of life is dying out‘Come in,” a woman yelled at Sam Wright from her caravan, “you’re gonna get soaked!” He was at the Appleby horse fair in Cumbria to photograph the UK’s Traveller community in June 2020, but wasn’t having much luck in the pouring rain. Over a cup of tea, Corrina Chapman asked if he would take her fami
  
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• Watching The World Premiere Of “Rust” Amid A Crowd Full Of Cinematographers

  21-11-2024 17:04 via msn.com
  It’s a real movie, not just a morbid curiosity, but the latter can’t help but overshadow the former — especially at a cinematography festival. The film is now world-famous, after all, only because its star accidentally shot its cinematographer to death on set. – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• Berlin Announces Major Cuts To Its (Substantial) Arts Funding Budget

  21-11-2024 16:35 via yahoo.com
  
  “Overall, Berlin is slashing its cultural funding budget by around €120 million ($127 million), or about 12%. The budget for 2025 will now be around €1.2 billion. For weeks now, theatres (and other organizations) have been warning of insolvency, restrictions in operations and job losses.” – DPA (Yahoo!)
  
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• The Grim Reality Behind Comcast’s Spinoff Of Its Cable Channels

  21-11-2024 16:02 via msn.com
  “Comcast’s move is the strongest sign yet of alarm reverberating throughout Hollywood’s traditional companies. Cable channels have long been a key economic pillar, generating billions of dollars in distribution fees that more than covered up the misses when big-budget movies flopped or during advertising recessions. No more.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Jacob’s Pillow Is Ready To Open Its Rebuilt Doris Duke Theater

  21-11-2024 15:31 via berkshireeagle.com
  
  The original building, the smallest of the dance festival’s three venues, was destroyed by fire four years ago. The rebuilt Duke, opening July 9, is three times the size of the old one, has flexible configurations for both stage and audience, and is equipped to livestream performances. – The Berkshire Eagle
  
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• Berkeley Symphony Music Director Joseph Young Announces Departure

  21-11-2024 15:03 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  After six years on the job, the 42-year-old conductor will step down at the end of this season. He is only the fourth music director in the orchestra’s 53-year-history. (The second, Kent Nagano, remained for 31 years, long into his high-profile international career.) – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Banana-On-The-Wall Artwork Sells For $6.24 Million At Sotheby’s

  21-11-2024 14:36 via cnn.com
  
  Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual piece, titled Comedian, first sold for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019; last night, cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun agreed to pay more than 50 times that amount. He gets a roll of duct tape, a banana, official instructions for installation and a certificate of authenticity. – CNN
  
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• National Book Award To Percival Everett’s “James”; Jason de León Beats Out Salman Rushdie

  21-11-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  Everett’s revisionist riff on Huckleberry Finn continued its prizewinning streak in the fiction category; in nonfiction, de León’s Soldiers and Kings pipped Knife, Rushdie’s memoir of his stabbing and recovery. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Something About Living took poetry honors; Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s Kareem Between won for young people’s literature. – AP
  
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• Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

  21-11-2024 10:00
  
  The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered an apartheid in his homeland before working in the USYou can’t possibly look at Ernest Cole’s haunting photography, capturing the struggle for South Africans during apartheid, and not immediately and urgently think about what Palestinians are living through today. Ernest Cole: Lost And Found, the latest documentary from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck, pours over those violent images cap
  
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• Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana artwork fetches US$5.2m at New York auction

  21-11-2024 01:54
  
  Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’Maurizio Cattelan’s viral artwork involving a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold at auction for US$5.2m, besting initial estimates of between US$1m and US$1.5m.One of three editions for the 2019 work, titled Comedian, made its auction debut on Wednesday evening at Sotheby’s New York, as part of its contemporary art auction. Continue reading...
  
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