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• Danai Gurira Returns Home To Offer Training To Zimbabwean Playwrights

  11-12-2024 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “Gurira set up Almasi (Collaborative Arts) with film and theatre producer Patience Tawengwa to give Zimbabwean creatives access to the sort of training and skills that she has benefited from since being in the US.” – The Guardian
  
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• An Ode To Harlem’s Apollo Theatre

  11-12-2024 18:44 via msn.com
  The theater symbolizes the many eccentrics and geniuses that abound in this country. It’s an enabler of dreamers and risk-takers. It’s a place where winners and losers are decided by neighbors, peers and curious tourists — not a panel of elites or know-it-alls. The Apollo Theater is an American temple of memories and untapped possibilities. – Washington Post
  
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• The Fierce Aesthetics (And Historical Trolling) Of The London Contemporary Music Festival

  11-12-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Art is a con. That’s why it’s great. I’ve always said art should lower gross domestic product; it shouldn’t be there to bolster efficiency, or do a certain thing. It’s a shamanistic thing that is essentially founded on a belief that you can buy into, or not. – The New York Times
  
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• Sometimes Insularity And Isolation Is Better For A Thriving Culture

  11-12-2024 18:15 via psyche.co
  
  The cultural ideas (what was originally meant by ‘memes’) that are most suited to global dominance crowd out cultural ideas that developed locally and have deep meaning to the communities that created them. – Psyche
  
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• Huge New Music Soundstage And Production Center Planned For Former Chicago Stockyards

  11-12-2024 18:04 via wbez.org
  
  The nonprofit Third Coast Music has won the city’s request for proposals to develop the site. Its plan is for an $80 million facility to record and produce music, primarily for film and television. The 32,000-square-foot complex will include a soundstage even larger than that of Skywalker Sound in California. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Influencer Lawsuit Asks: Can You Copyright A “Vibe?”

  11-12-2024 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  What might appear to be a superficial spat over sweaters and hairstyles could actually be a legal fight that gets at the heart of social media influence. As much as platforms like TikTok and Instagram may seem like free-for-alls, lifestyle influencers exist in an ecosystem that prizes homogeneity. – The New York Times
  
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• Scholarly Publishers Are Selling Papers To AI Companies

  11-12-2024 17:32 via nature.com
  
  Several scholarly publishers have forged agreements with technology companies looking to use content to train the large language models (LLMs) that underlie their AI tools. A new tracker aims to catalogue what deals are being made — and by whom. – Nature
  
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• Transformative: New Seattle Sales Tax For The Arts Generates Tens Of Millions Of Dollars

  11-12-2024 17:15 via seattletimes.com
  For context, 4Culture usually sends out about $10 million to $15 million per year. With Doors Open, the agency’s 2025 grants are increasing to $70.1 million across 720 organizations.  – Seattle Times
  
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• Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Finally Settles On A Grants Plan For This Fiscal Year

  11-12-2024 17:03 via wpln.org
  
  “The city agency (Metro Arts) is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle. … This year, (there’s) a much smaller pool of money to distribute: $3.2 million, down from over $7 million last year. And this year’s applicant pool is larger than last year’s record high.” – WPLN (Nashville)
  
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• Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing

  11-12-2024 16:36 via msn.com
  Justin Davidson: “A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar embodiment of the museum’s encyclopedic mission. … (Frida Escobedo’s design) looks laudably simple because it provides an elegant solution to a tangle of trade-offs and constraints.” – Curbed (MSN)
  
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• Congressional Support Grows For Requiring All New Cars To Have AM Radios

  11-12-2024 16:02 via insideradio.com
  
  “In the lame-duck session …, support continues to build for a bill that would require AM receivers to be included in vehicle dashboards. Three more House members have signed on as co-sponsors for the proposed AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, bringing the total number of supporters in the House to 271.” – Inside Radio
  
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• On the ingratitude of artists receiving a guaranteed income from a benefactor

  11-12-2024 15:54 via artsjournal.com
  (“Vanessa Bell in a Deckchair” by Roger Fry)
  From Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, Economist, Philosopher, Statesman:The autumn of 1925 found Keynes, as usual, complaining of overwork (‘too much to do, no leisure, no peace, too much to think about…’). A substantial commitment was organising the London Artists’ Association, in homage to both art and friendship. The idea was to give the leading Bloomsbury painters and their protég&e
  
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• Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The Sake Of Her Art.

  11-12-2024 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished letters. Munro’s appalling failures as a mother seem to have been an imaginative incitement, instrumental to her artistic project.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Chicago Symphony Receives Largest-Ever Donation: $50 Million

  11-12-2024 15:01 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  The gift from the family foundation of real estate magnate and former Chicago Tribune owner Sam Zell provides “vital” capital to reduce debt, fund retirement benefits, and pay for tours, special artistic projects and digital initiatives, said a statement from orchestra management. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore Ends With Tentative Agreement On New Contract

  11-12-2024 14:34 via publishersweekly.com
  “The Strand Book Store has reached a tentative contract agreement with its staff union, which is represented by United Auto Workers Local 2179, putting an end to a strike that stretched through the weekend and much of Monday.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Judge Blocks The Onion’s Purchase Of Alex Jones’s Infowars

  11-12-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  “A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the conspiracy theory platform as flawed as well as how much money families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting stood to receive.” – AP
  
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• ‘These are magic books’: bringing imaginary works of literature to life

  11-12-2024 09:13
  
  A whimsical new exhibition assembles a range of books that don’t exist, from Byron’s destroyed memoirs to Shakespeare’s lost playAt a small, unassuming exhibit in midtown Manhattan, you can see the lost translation of Homer’s single comic epic, judge the art design on Sylvia Plath’s unpublished manuscript Double Exposure – squabbled over by her mother and husband Ted Hughes, it supposedly disappeared in 1970 – or examine the one remaining copy of Aristot
  
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• Associate Director of Individual Giving

  11-12-2024 03:58 via artsjournal.com
  The Wallis (Beverly Hills, CA)
  Associate Director of Individual GivingABOUT USDeeply rooted in our local Beverly Hills community and influenced by cultural change, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, a public-private partnership with the City of Beverly Hills, strives to be a site for the convergence of relevant, dynamic performing arts, education and civic life, strengthening our local and global community is our role as a presenter, producer, educator and community resource. W
  
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• Executive Office Liaison Supporting ED/CEO & Board

  11-12-2024 03:52 via artsjournal.com
  The Wallis (Beverly Hills, CA)
  Executive Office LiaisonABOUT USDeeply rooted in our local Beverly Hills community and influenced by cultural change, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, a public-private partnership with the City of Beverly Hills, strives to be a site for the convergence of relevant, dynamic performing arts, education and civic life, strengthening our local and global community is our role as a presenter, producer, educator and community resource. We approach our
  
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