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• How Do Film Critics’ Circles Choose Their Award Winners? Same Way The Guys In This Movie Do.

  04-12-2024 21:04 via msn.com
  “One thing voting for awards has taught me is that virtually every outside assumption about how the process works is wrong, (especially) any attempt to extract an overarching meaning from the results. … Fortunately, there’s an easy way to explain the process. … All you have to do is watch Conclave.” – Slate (MSN)
  
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• Guardian Journalists On Two-Day Strike To Protest Sale Of Sister Paper The Observer

  04-12-2024 20:01 via npr.org
  
  “Nearly 500 journalists are on strike at The Guardian and its sister paper, the Sunday-only Observer, to protest the planned sale of The Observer to a small digital startup. … Says (star reporter) Carole Cadwalladr, ‘The sale of The Observer to a loss-making startup is potentially the death of this historic brand.” – NPR
  
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• Kennicott: What Should Be The Role Of Artists To Help Us Process The Upcoming Trump Years?

  04-12-2024 19:44 via msn.com
  To survive the next four years, to make sense of where all this could be going, we need to understand barbarism as a living, ever-present force tending always to cruelty and destruction. And more important: We need to understand how culture pushes back against it. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Of Ticket Prices And Low Funding Of UK Regional Theatre

  04-12-2024 19:32 via thestage.co.uk
  According to UK Theatre, the majority of tickets sold in regional theatres cost under £35, with 99.9% priced below £100. Even in commercial venues, 65% of all tickets sold for less than £45. Furthermore, since 2019, the average ticket price at UK Theatre venues has decreased by 5%. – The Stage
  
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• Companies Are Selling Fractional Shares Of Art As Investment. What’s The Point?

  04-12-2024 19:15 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  So far, Masterworks has been buying up works and selling shares in the asset, often with delayed payment terms, giving time for the Masterworks team to aggressively sell the shares to retail investors. In 2022 it had reportedly bought up $475m worth of art. – The Critic
  
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• One Of DC’s Oldest Black Box Theaters Is For Sale — At A Price No Local Company Could Afford

  04-12-2024 19:01 via msn.com
  A nonprofit called CulturalDC bought the Source Theatre in 2006 so it could remain a performance space. Now, however, CulturalDC’s board wants to sell the building by the end of the year and is asking for $5.8 million. The company using the Source has offered to buy it, but not at that price. – Washingtonian (MSN)
  
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• How Should Cities Decide What Buildings Should Be Protected?

  04-12-2024 18:47 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s a loosely defined term of art for things that are prized and embedded in a culture but not necessarily architectural landmarks: intangible heritage. – The New York Times
  
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• British Film Censors Slap “Wicked” With A Trigger Warning Label

  04-12-2024 18:31 via thedailybeast.com
  
  Regulators also cited a disabled woman in a wheelchair being “treated in a condescending manner by able-bodied people,” and talking animals being “persecuted in a fantastical society,” as additional reasons for the content warning and PG rating. – The Daily Beast
  
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• 100 Years Ago These Ukrainian Writers Were Famous, Then Crushed By Stalin. Now They’re Being Celebrated Again

  04-12-2024 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  The lives of the writers are being told in a musical, a feature movie and a memoir. There is even a fashion line themed around them, with sweatshirts riddled with bullet holes to symbolize their killings. – The New York Times
  
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• A Choreographer Exhibits At Art Basel Miami Beach

  04-12-2024 18:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Diego Vega Solorza does not want people to think of him as a visual artist. He is certainly not a sculptor, he insists, nor a photographer or videographer — even though he will exhibit that kind of work … at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach.” – The New York Times
  
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• AI Publishing Could Swamp The Book Market

  04-12-2024 17:44 via fastcompany.com
  As AI-powered publishing balloons, the sheer market volume may make it difficult for these publishers to stand out. They’ll have to adapt. – Fast Company
  
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• South Coast Repertory Theatre Co-Founder Martin Benson, 87

  04-12-2024 17:31 via cultureoc.org
  
  Benson’s path to success was fraught with challenges. Early in SCR’s history, Benson experienced literal starvation for his art, competing with seagulls for morsels of dumpster food near the beach. He survived esophageal and prostate cancer, clinical depression, and the shattering grief of his first wife’s suicide. – CultureOC
  
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• Is Public Funding For The Arts Worth The Hassle?

  04-12-2024 17:15 via nightingalessonata.com
  One can carp about the sad history of direct public arts funding in the United States and many do. But one might also argue that there were consequences far more dire for champions of the idea of government dollars for the arts. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• Lance Morrow, Once A Star Essayist At Time Magazine, Has Died At 85

  04-12-2024 17:06 via msn.com
  “(He) was both observer and narrator during a more than seven-decade career that included books and memoirs, more than 20 years with a coveted back-page column in Time, and, later, time as a contributing writer to outlets such as The Wall Street Journal.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Why Tchaikovsky’s Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy Was Astonishing In Its Day

  04-12-2024 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Today the piece is one of the most familiar sections of The Nutcracker, so it’s hard for us to appreciate how unusual the music seemed at the ballet’s 1892 premiere. That dance’s featured instrument, the celesta, was a recent invention, and almost nobody in Russia had heard one. – The New York Times
  
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• Caspar David Friedrich: the racked Romantic painter who inspired Beckett and Bambi

  04-12-2024 16:05
  
  His gloomy, gorgeous paintings have been described as so powerful that they have tempted viewers to oblivion – but many were lost or destroyed. Next year, a major exhibition will gather some 75 togetherOne morning in 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe climbed the stairs to a modest apartment at no. 27 An Der Elbe in Dresden. Continental Europe’s greatest poet was returning from taking a cure in the spa town of Teplice, so probably needed cheering up. His diary entry is brief: “We
  
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• Melbourne Symphony’s Missteps Mean Too Much Money Spent On Lawyers

  04-12-2024 16:02 via artshub.com.au
  
  The orchestra got itself in one legal tangle by cancelling a recital by pianist Jayson Gillham after he made comments about Gaza from the stage. Then it fired its CEO following a staff rebellion and has had to negotiate a settlement with her. This when there’s little cash to spare. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Stephen King Is Closing His Three Radio Stations In Maine

  04-12-2024 15:34 via apnews.com
  
  “The renowned author … said Monday that at age 77, it’s time to say good-bye to three Bangor, Maine, stations that have been bleeding money. King kept the stations afloat for decades, and he said he and his wife, Tabitha, are proud to have kept them going for so long.” – AP
  
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• Founder Of Collapsed American National Ballet Sentenced To 20 Years For Shooting Ex-Husband

  04-12-2024 15:01 via cbsnews.com
  
  Ashley Benefield, whose marriage to Doug Benefield disintegrated after the ballet company they attempted to launch fell apart, was acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter for shooting him during an altercation at her home in Florida in 2020. – CBS News
  
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• They’ve amassed Australia’s largest collection of street art. Now it’s going on show

  04-12-2024 15:00
  
  From Banksy and Swoon to Rone and Adnate, Andrew King and Sandra Powell’s Melbourne home is so full of major works that they’re mounting an exhibitIf Charles Dickens were to imagine a pair of art collectors – who, having amassed a serious trove of Australian modernist works, suddenly chuck it in for a love of street art – he may have conjured something like Andrew King and Sandra Powell. King’s bushy but carefully curated moustache is certainly straight out of the V
  
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• Turner Prize 2024 Goes To Jasleen Kaur

  04-12-2024 14:33 via theguardian.com
  
  “Jasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner prize for her work animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community. The youngest artist on this year’s shortlist, (she) was nominated for her exhibition Alter Altar, at Tramway in Glasgow, which featured a range of sculptures and soundscapes.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Tate Modern Is On The Decline

  04-12-2024 14:00 via spectator.co.uk
  
  Tate faces some serious decisions; unless the new government swoops in with increased funding, or visitors magically reappear, Tate will have to decide what kind of cultural institution it wants to be for the next decade. – The Spectator
  
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• ‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term

  04-12-2024 10:04
  
  Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s returnThe Iraqi artist Vian Sora has seen the absolute worst that politics has to offer – she spent most of her first 30 years living under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, then endured the destruction of her country following the US invasion in 2003. Years later, she surfaced in the United States as a refugee. Her art, which mixes bright, neon colors with motifs from t
  
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• Forest Forward seeks Executive Director of Programming & Production

  04-12-2024 04:15 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director of Programming and Production will serve as the spokesperson of the Forest Theater in the combined roles of Artistic Programmer and General Manager. They will have a strong non-profit awareness and a solid history of programming as both producer and presenter.
  They will curate and program exciting and engaging productions through collaboration, model a strong work ethic, and exhibit passion, dedication, and knowledge of the arts, education, and community. The Executive Dir
  
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