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• How Marla Mindelle Became The Queen of Queer Off-Broadway

  22-11-2024 20:57 via variety.com
  
  Says the creator and star of hit parodies Titanique and The Big Gay Jamboree, “I liken myself to the homeless man’s Lin-Manuel Miranda. I’m still broke, but I’ve excelled at carving out a little queer millennial piece of the pie.” – Variety
  
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• Remembering Painter Frank Auerbach Who Has Died At 93

  22-11-2024 20:30 via newyorker.com
  
  In almost any Auerbach oil painting, early or late, rawness is thick on the ground. So dense, so clotted, and so busily heaped is the pigment that you’re not sure whether to gaze at it, lick it, chew it, or file a weather report. – The New Yorker
  
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• Baltimore Symphony Oboist Has Become A Clearing House For Classical Music’s #MeToo Reckoning

  22-11-2024 20:15 via thebaltimorebanner.com
  
  “We need to show our industry and music-loving public that there are consequences for inappropriate behaviour,” Katherine Needleman says. – Baltimore Banner
  
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• Why Did The Onion Buy Infowars? Yeah, It Was A Joke — At First

  22-11-2024 20:03 via nymag.com
  
  Onion CEO Ben Collins’s first thought was, “That’d be one of the funniest jokes of all time if we pulled this off.” Once it became a serious possibility, Collins saw the opportunity to use Onion-style satire to expose the fear-mongering, guns-and-dietary-supplements-peddling scam that right-wing outlets like Infowars run. – New York Magazine
  
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• In Our Culture Success Is Often Measured By Its Ability Scale. What If This Is Wrong?

  22-11-2024 19:44 via hbr.org
  
  There is a flaw at the heart of the concept of scaling, though it can be hard to articulate in the face of “bigger is better.” Looking back to the roots of “scale” can help us pinpoint what conventional wisdom might be missing. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Broadway Is Having A Country Music Moment

  22-11-2024 19:32 via csmonitor.com
  For the most part, show tunes on Broadway still sound more influenced by Andrew Lloyd Webber than by, say, Morgan Wallen. But country music is making inroads. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• A New Prize For Music Criticism Named After William Littler

  22-11-2024 19:15 via ludwig-van.com
  
  The longtime Toronto Star classical music critic reflects: Littler remembers the words of a former editor who told him, your job is to take us to that event. It’s about recreating the experience for your readers. And, whatever that experience was, it’s not written in stone. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Why Black Americans Should Give Up Trying To Claim Ancient Egypt As Their Heritage

  22-11-2024 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Black America tracing itself to Egypt makes as much historical sense as would Czechs deciding to … favor tartans as an expression of being European. … The abiding fondness for the Egypt idea tends to sideline the astonishing history of the empires that enslaved Americans actually emerged from.” – The New York Times
  
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• Prominent Author Accused Of Stealing Algerian Woman’s Story

  22-11-2024 18:44 via bbc.com
  
  This year’s winner of France’s biggest book prize is being sued in Algeria over claims he stole the story from a patient of his psychiatrist wife. – BBC
  
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• Buckminster Fuller’s Versified Prose

  22-11-2024 18:40 via artsjournal.com
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• A blind date to brighten your day | Brief letters

  22-11-2024 18:36
  Magic moments | Gone bananas | Cassandra Monbiot | The best of Bishop AucklandI was sitting here in Cornwall on a grey, chilly November day, feeling every one of my 75 years and wondering which of my potentially life-threatening problems would get me first. Then I read, as I always do, Blind date, the one about Sarah and Max (16 November), and it moved me so much that I even shed a tear. How lovely to read of a date that worked out well. I do so hope they continue their friendship, and than
  
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• European Movies Are Getting Critical Raves. Box Office Success Is Another Story

  22-11-2024 18:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  On Thursday, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO), a research body, published its annual report on the theatrical performance of European movies worldwide. It’s not a pretty picture. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Talk Of Decolonizing Is Everywhere. But What It Means Is Uncertain

  22-11-2024 18:15 via aeon.co
  
  In contrast to the seeming clarity of colonialism (however much it elides that process’s own complications), current discussions of decolonisation can seem amorphous and slippery. This is not surprising since so many different people and groups are using the concept, at times at cross purposes. – Aeon
  
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• What Happens To CNBC And MSNBC Once They Have No Corporate Connection To NBC News?

  22-11-2024 18:04 via apnews.com
  
  Parent company Comcast is spinning off its cable channels but keeping its broadcast networks, including NBC. Both CNBC and MSNBC share, along with the brand name, correspondents and other resources with NBC News; the latter even shares office space at Rockefeller Center in New York. How to untangle all that? – AP
  
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• The UK Is Getting Serious About Cracking Down On Social Networks

  22-11-2024 17:44 via the%20uk%20is%20getting%20serious%20about%20cracking%20down%20on%20social%20networks
  Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, is trying to convince social media platforms to do more to prevent online harms, with new laws coming into effect next year that could result in heavy fines and even jail in cases where online safety is breached. – The Guardian
  
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• Same Old Same Old: Our Culture Industry Relentlessly Mines Nostalgia

  22-11-2024 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  They do not feel like fun experiments or celebrations of beloved albums. They feel like the onward acceleration of a culture industry that is unsettlingly dedicated — not just in our concert halls but on our screens and everywhere else it can reach us — to monetizing our nostalgic attachment to media from the past. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Lawrence Tibett Forecast Today’s Crisis In American Opera Back In 1950

  22-11-2024 17:15 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  He declared opera in America “in grave danger,” entrapped by a “star system” enforced by a social elite. He advocated American opera and opera in English. He urged the substitution of smaller auditoriums, shedding the glamour of opera houses in New York, Chicago, and San Franciso that far exceeded in scale European norms. – The American Scholar
  
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• “Understanding Opera’s New Audiences”: A New Research Report From Opera America

  22-11-2024 17:05 via operaamerica.org
  
  “The project responded to ongoing reports of record-breaking levels of first-time attendance. Since full houses are central to the artistic and financial health of opera companies, OPERA America set out to uncover ways to retain and convert these newcomers into a sustaining audience for the future.” – Opera America
  
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• Italian Police Recover Ancient Etruscan Objects Looted By “Amateurish” Tomb Raiders

  22-11-2024 16:31 via cnn.com
  
  “Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artifacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land. … The artifacts, including eight urns, two sarcophagi and beauty accessories …, are worth at least 8 million euros ($8.5 million).” – CNN
  
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• L.A. Times Appoints Amy Nicholson As Film Critic

  22-11-2024 16:03 via latimes.com
  
  “Nicholson previously served as chief film critic at LA Weekly beginning in 2013, then at MTV News starting in 2016. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Variety, The Washington Post, The Guardian and Rolling Stone.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The fate of the NEA in the coming administration

  22-11-2024 15:58 via artsjournal.com
  On NPR this morning is a short piece pondering the fates of the NEA and NEH under the second Trump administration. It is optimistic, though given the Wall Street Journal article by Musk and Ramaswamy this morning (they obviously didn’t write it – but it carries their names), which, in looking at things to cut, refers to the federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting among other agencies, I cannot bring myself to share in the optimism.The reporter gives two reasons th
  
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• English National Opera Announces Plans For Moving To Manchester

  22-11-2024 15:36 via bbc.com
  
  “ENO says it will be ‘firmly established’ in Greater Manchester by 2029. But it will start working in the city before that, with productions at the Lowry, Bridgewater Hall and Aviva Studios from 2025, and plans for (a youth opera company and) a mass singing project with grassroots football teams.” – BBC
  
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• Alvin Ailey Company’s Next Artistic Director Will Be Alicia Graf Mack

  22-11-2024 15:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The 45-year-old educator, an Ailey alumna who has been dean of the Juilliard School’s dance division since 2018, will take the helm at the company in July. She succeeds Robert Battle, who resigned suddenly this time last year for health and personal reasons. – The New York Times
  
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• Philippe Jordan Appointed Music Director Of Orchestre National De France

  22-11-2024 14:34 via lemonde.fr
  
  The Swiss conductor, who was chief conductor of the Paris Opera for 12 years (2009-2021) and the Vienna Symphony for six years (2014-2020) before moving to the Vienna State Opera (whence he departs in 2025), will succeed Cristian Măcelaru at the ONF in 2027. – Le Monde (in English)
  
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• Actor Jussie Smollett’s Conviction For Falsely Reporting Hate Crime Overturned

  22-11-2024 14:00 via cnn.com
  
  In 2021, he was convicted for staging a fake hate crime against himself in Chicago in January 2019. But the local DA had dropped charges, and, under public pressure, a special prosecutor revived the case. The Illinois Supreme Court has now ruled that this violated Smollett’s civil rights. – CNN
  
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• Surreal landscapes, psychedelic techno visions and pop art fairground rides – the week in art

  22-11-2024 11:52
  
  Pre-internet computer creations get rebooted at Tate Modern, Graham MacIndoe documents his drug use, and a Keith Haring carousel is on show in New York – all in your weekly dispatchForbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal LandscapesLandscape was always a great source of surreal visions, from Max Ernst’s dream forests to Dalí’s Catalan shore draped with molten watches. Those original surrealists are mixed here with more recent images of uncanny space.• The Hepwort
  
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• Lawrence Tibbett and Fate of American Opera Today

  22-11-2024 06:15 via artsjournal.com
  
  “Singing Black” — Tibbett in “The Emperor Jones” at the Met (1933)Today’s online edition of “The American Scholar” carries
  
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