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• More Cities Should Have Places Like Dallas’s Chapel Of Thanksgiving

  27-11-2024 20:57 via bloomberg.com
  The scroll-shaped structure, designed in 1976 by Philip Johnson and illuminated inside with the ceiling’s beautiful spiral of stained-glass windows by artist Gabriel Loire, is linked to the general feeling of gratitude rather than the holiday, and it serves Dallas well as a non-sectarian place for public commemoration. – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• What, Actually, Is Cancel Culture? (And How It Took Over The World)

  27-11-2024 20:45 via newrepublic.com
  
  The gambit of Stanford literature professor Adrian Daub’s clarifying new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, is the contention that, in fact, we don’t really know what “cancel culture” is. – The New Republic
  
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• Publishers Freak Out Over Startup’s Plans To Publish With AI

  27-11-2024 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The company is seemingly “just trying to speed up” self-publishing “in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to call it that”, said Marco Rinaldi, co-host of Page One – The Writer’s Podcast, in a post on Bluesky. – The Guardian
  
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• What I Learned Setting Up A DIY Record Label

  27-11-2024 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The biggest issue facing the DIY scene is simply getting noticed, such is the competition across all media – for all there is enthusiastic music journalism online and ambassadors for music on TikTok. Instagram and beyond, the weekly music press inkies who would pick up and write about these bands are still sorely missed. – The Guardian
  
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• Make Thousands In Extra Income By Republishing Public Domain Books! (Not Really.)

  27-11-2024 20:06 via slate.com
  “The theory is simple. Countless classic works of literature have fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, granting normal people the right to reproduce, remix, and resell them. (YouTube hustler Dan) Pye … says this offers a remarkable opportunity, one that will reward those who take advantage.” – Slate
  
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• Why Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Going On Strike

  27-11-2024 19:44 via hyperallergic.com
  
  We plan to go on strike beginning this Friday, November 29, unless SAM’s Board of Trustees changes course and offers a contract that allows its workers to survive in Seattle. For two years, the Board has refused outright to meet with us, so now we take the argument directly to them. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Will Box Office Success Of “Wicked” Rejuvenate Broadway Musical Movie Adaptations?

  27-11-2024 19:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Bringing Broadway adaptations to the big screen can be a dicey proposition. For every “Wicked,” there is a box-office flop, such as Universal’s “Cats.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Proposed Cuts To Berlin’s Arts Funding Will Have Profound Effect On The City’s Culture

  27-11-2024 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  About 450 institutes are reliant at least in part on state subsidies, from theatres and opera houses to nightclubs and galleries. They’re attempting to force a rethink over the €130m cuts. At around 12 to 13% of the current annual budget, they have been described even by those proposing them as “brutal”. – The Guardian
  
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• The Late Brion Gysin (1914-1986) Is Having a Moment

  27-11-2024 19:05 via artsjournal.com
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• Jonathan Franzen Shares His Journal About The Agonizing Process Of Writing “The Corrections”

  27-11-2024 19:02 via vulture.com
  
  Adam Moss: “(it) is full of notes-to-self that provide a real-time map of what was going through his mind. … It’s rare for a writer to allow you this far in to see how a novel is written; most are secretive, superstitious about exposing a process that even they don’t understand.” – Vulture
  
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• A Breakthrough In How Robots Learn

  27-11-2024 18:48 via newyorker.com
  
  “This is the year that people really realized that you can build general-purpose robots,” she said. What is striking about these achievements is that they involve very little explicit programming. The robots’ behavior is learned. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why The “Wizard Of Oz” Story Endures

  27-11-2024 18:35 via theatlantic.com
  
  Artists across genres and mediums have, for decades, found great storytelling potential in Baum’s characters and mythology. But the mode that Oz has continued to lend itself to best is musical theater, a genre predicated on suspension of disbelief and thus well suited to conveying Oz’s odd earnestness. – The Atlantic
  
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• Diana Cumming obituary

  27-11-2024 18:19 via theguardian.com
  My great-aunt Diana Cumming, who has died aged 94, was a painter whose diverse work across a 70-year career can be found in collections including those of the Contemporary Arts Society, the Arts Council and Britten Pears Arts.As a student at the Slade School of Art in London from 1950 until 1954, she won several scholarships including the prix de Rome in 1954. Her work was admired by the school’s principal William Coldstream and Lucian Freud, a visiting tutor, among others. The Slade&rsquo
  
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• Why Choreographer Kyle Abrahams Is Dancing Again Despite His Stage Fright

  27-11-2024 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Throughout his career, he has struggled with stage fright, he said, especially when dancing in groups. … But for “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful,” a new large-scale, evening-length production that deals with themes of aging, change and vulnerability, he knew he needed to be present onstage.” – The New York Times
  
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• Electric Dreams review – the future ain’t what it used to be

  27-11-2024 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Tate Modern, London
  The singing robots and 8-bit graphics are diverting and sometimes sublime, but there’s a darker story to be told in this show about technologically-assisted art before the internetThere’s a popular meme of two lovers embracing against a digital field of sunflowers. Their pursed lips would be locked were it not for their bumping VR headsets. “What if we kissed at the intersection of art and technology?” the text reads. The meme makes fun of a route heav
  
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• Isabella Rossellini On Being A Major “Nepo Baby”

  27-11-2024 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Says the daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, “Of course it opens the door, because people are curious to see you. But I don’t know that it was an advantage. The judgment is much more severe, and you don’t have time to grow.” – The Guardian
  
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• Bronze Cast Of Leonardo’s Only Wax Sculpture Is For Sale For $100 Million

  27-11-2024 16:31 via artsjournal.com
  “Silverpoint Holdings, the current owners, are now offering the bronze cast for sale through Art Encounter, a Las Vegas gallery led by father-son duo Rod Maly and Brett Maly, for a price of $100 million — which includes the one-of-a-kind mold used to make it.” – Artnet
  
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• Jim Abrahams, Dead At 80, One Of The Trio Behind The Funniest Film Ever Made

  27-11-2024 16:03 via variety.com
  
  “With his childhood friends Jerry and David Zucker, Abrahams formed the filmmaking trio, called Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, and popularized the spoof genre of the 1980s” with Kentucky Fried Movie, the Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, and, most indelibly, Airplane! – Variety
  
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• Despite Layoffs And Programming Cuts, Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio Is Still Mired In Debt

  27-11-2024 15:36 via sacbee.com
  “Capital Public Radio released Thursday its financial statement for a year marked by financial turmoil, providing the first detailed breakdown — since the release of two scathing accounting reviews over the past 14 months — of debts the station accumulated mostly through signing two leases for downtown buildings.” – The Sacramento Bee
  
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• Disney Co. To Pay $43 Million To Settle Claims Of Unequal Pay For Women

  27-11-2024 15:02 via msn.com
  “The Walt Disney Co. has agreed to pay $43.3 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit brought by a group of female employees who alleged gender pay discrimination at the Burbank entertainment giant.” As is frequently the case in such settlements, Disney did not admit fault. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Good News From Cleveland Orchestra: Finances And Audience Numbers Are Healthy

  27-11-2024 14:34 via ideastream.org
  
  The orchestra’s 2023-24 annual report shows a sixth consecutive year of a balanced budget as well as endowment growth of 11% to $296 million; audience numbers have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. – Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)
  
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• London’s Old Vic Theatre Names Rupert Goold Artistic Director

  27-11-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The two-time Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee will assume the role at the beginning of 2026 after what will have been 12 years directing the Almeida Theatre across the Thames — and joining him will be his associate director, Rebecca Frecknall. Goold succeeds another award-winning director, Matthew Warchus. – The Guardian
  
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• The Long Wave: How Brazil is celebrating its Black heritage

  27-11-2024 13:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Afro-Brazilians marked Black Consciousness Day as a national holiday for the first time, but the celebrations are facing resistance. Plus, a fertility ‘miracle’ rattles Nigeria and Kendrick Lamar’s surprise dropDon’t get The Long Wave? delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereHello and welcome to The Long Wave. It was a big week in Brazil, where Black Consciousness Day on 20 November was a public holiday for the first time. I spoke to Tiago Rogero, our South America correspon
  
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• Dorothea Rockburne – New York great’s first big UK show all comes down to one long, mesmerising line

  27-11-2024 12:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Bernheim Gallery, London
  Now aged 95, the great polymath had trouble finding the right chipboard in Britain – but this is still a show of disarming simplicity with one stunning standout workSometimes a work gets to you and blows everything else away. It begins with a narrow black line, about the breadth of a pencil, running at waist-height around the walls of the ground floor gallery. The line negotiates the mouldings, runs under a mantelpiece, takes the corners and recesses, makes a turn,
  
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• Bronwyn Oliver’s Tide breaks record for Australian sculpture after selling for $1m

  27-11-2024 10:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Monumental work which adorned upmarket Sydney restaurant Quay for almost 25 years was billed as the most valuable Australian sculpture offered for auction in the countryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe late Sydney artist Bronwyn Oliver has broken the sales record for Australia sculpture, with her monumental 2000 work Tide fetching $1m at auction, or $1.25m with buyer’s premium, in Sydney on Wednesday evening.The sale surpasses the record set by Joel Elenberg&r
  
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• Artistic Director, Nashville Children’s Theatre

  27-11-2024 05:47 via artsjournal.com
  Nashville Children’s Theatre (NCT), the oldest professional children’s theatre in the U.S., seeks a visionary and collaborative leader as its next Artistic Director. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the artistic future of NCT, known for its high-quality productions and transformative educational programming.The Artistic Director will oversee season planning, direct productions, and lead the creative team while collaborating closely with the Managing Director and Board o
  
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