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• The Egyptian Government Just Rented Out The Pyramids To MrBeast

  20-12-2024 21:15 via fastcompany.com
  MrBeast says on the podcast that he worked with the Egyptian government to get access to the historic site. “I’ve never been inside of it,” he says. “I want to just find secrets and go through all the rooms and the tombs and that kind of stuff.” – Fast Company
  
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• Fired Members Of Dallas Black Dance Theatre Reunite For A Final Performance

  20-12-2024 20:51 via keranews.org
  
  The National Labor Relations Board ruled in their favor and they’re getting compensation, but the ten dancers are declining to return to DBDT. So they got together for one last performance — a program of new pieces collectively titled Emergence —before figuring out where their careers will take them next. – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• How Judith Jamison Shaped The Alvin Ailey Dance Company

  20-12-2024 20:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Under Jamison’s direction, the Ailey dancers grew more and more godlike in technique without losing earthly looseness and soul. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Year That Was In NY Theatre

  20-12-2024 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit companies continued to struggle. Yet a lot of what made the city artistically exciting this year required that all parts of the ecosystem flourish. – The New Yorker
  
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• How Music Shapes Our Future Perceptions

  20-12-2024 20:15 via wsj.com
  “Sound directs our passage through time. It shapes our orientation to the future moment and also to the moment when the future stops.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Ballet Genius/Putin Superfan/Notorious Train Wreck Sergei Polunin Says He’s Leaving Russia

  20-12-2024 20:03 via cbsnews.com
  
  The Ukrainian-born dancer, who has three tattoos of Putin (despite the Russian military’s near-obliteration of his hometown, Kherson), now says “My time in Russia ran out a long time ago … I’ve fulfilled my mission here.” Last week he posted a message calling for peace negotiations and promptly lost his job. – CBS News
  
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• Rousseau’s Philosophical Diagnosis Of What Ails Us (Still Relevant Today)

  20-12-2024 19:45 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  Rousseau was, in effect, the diagnostician of despair who captured the affliction of alienation in all of its dimensions. The source of our affliction was the very thing we thought made us better: civilization. – The American Scholar
  
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• How Did A Publishing Startup Land 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Year?

  20-12-2024 19:30 via nytimes.com
  So far this year, Bloom has landed 23 books and two series on the New York Times best-seller list. Last year, it surpassed $100 million in gross sales, and its 2024 sales are up 58 percent. – The New York Times
  
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• Nearly 15,000 Media Jobs In The US Were Eliminated In 2024

  20-12-2024 19:04 via msn.com
  “While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to consider this year a ‘comeback’ by any stretch. Combined, the number of jobs lost between 2023-24 more than quadrupled the amount lost between 2021-22.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• Charlotte Symphony Is Making Big Investments In Immersive Performances

  20-12-2024 18:15 via msn.com
  “It is going to be a space you can choose where to be and how to listen,” Fisk said. “We want people to lose themselves in this music and to be swallowed up by the experience of being part of nature.” – Charlotte Observer (MSN)
  
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• Why Some Non-Christian Composers Are Attracted To Christmas Material: David Lang

  20-12-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  “Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the little match girl passion. Cynics may think that these artists make Christmas music because they’re chasing the market. I believe there is something deeper at work.” – The New York Times
  
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• Movie Producers Sue National Parks System Over Permits In Parks

  20-12-2024 17:44 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Wyoming federal court, Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith challenge the constitutionality of federal permit and fee requirements on First Amendment grounds. They accuse National Park Services of censoring speech by requiring advance permission to film commercial content. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Can A Musical Be A Better Way Of Focusing Politics On An Issue?

  20-12-2024 17:15 via csmonitor.com
  Like the drama series about the Post Office scandal aired a year ago, “Mr Bates vs The Post Office,” dramatizations of the news can often draw more attention to an event. They can also build public pressure for injustices to be addressed. 
  
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• The Top 10 Bookselling Stories Of 2024

  20-12-2024 17:05 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “We saw booksellers, publishers, and others in the industry step up to aid stores that sustained extensive hurricane damage, call for greater rights and representation for people with diverse identities, and more.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• What Nonprofit Theater Leaders Told The NEA

  20-12-2024 16:33 via arts.gov
  
  “(A) series of listening sessions, held this past summer, helped the (NEA theater) team to learn more about evolving challenges, successful strategies, and potential pathways to future sustainability of the field. Those conversations have now been distilled and analyzed in a new report.” – National Endowment for the Arts
  
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• Will This Be The First Broadway Musical Whose Title Role Is A Dead Body?

  20-12-2024 16:01 via nytimes.com
  “Dead Outlaw, a rambunctious musical that tells the hard-to-believe-it’s-true story of a bandit’s corpse that became a spectacle in early-20th-century America, will open on Broadway next spring. The show … will be the first developed by Audible to make it to Broadway.” – The New York Times
  
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• Is The World’s Largest Fully-Functioning Musical Instrument In Jeopardy?

  20-12-2024 15:36 via theconversation.com
  
  The organ in the old Wanamaker’s department store, right across from City Hall, is a Philadelphia icon. Yet the store, currently a Macy’s, is shrinking just like other department stores; the building is in receivership as upper-floor office space remains vacant post-COVID; and Macy’s lease expires in 2027. – The Conversation
  
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• Use Our Copyrighted Material To Train AI? Oh Hell No, Huge Coalition Tells UK Government

  20-12-2024 15:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.” – The Guardian
  
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• This Upstart Publisher Got 25 Books On The Bestseller List In A Single Year

  20-12-2024 14:32 via nytimes.com
  Three years ago, the only author on Bloom Books’ list was E.L. James (the Fifty Shades of Grey series). Now it publishes over 40 authors, many previously self-published, will have well over $150 million in gross sales this year, and has nearly one-quarter of the lucrative romance market. – The New York Times
  
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• SF-MOMA Fires One Of Its Top Curators

  20-12-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “Eungie Joo, who served as head curator of contemporary art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for seven years, was fired after what the museum described as a violation of its workplace conduct policy. … No further details were given.” –San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Corridor of power: the Medicis’ cross-river Florence walkway opens to public

  20-12-2024 13:30
  
  Tourists can now use 16th-century passageway over the Arno, whose windows were enlarged when Hitler visitedOver history, dukes, dictators and Europe’s illustrious elite have walked through the Vasari corridor, a narrow, 750-metre-long elevated passageway crossing the Arno River in Florence.Now visitors to the Tuscan capital can follow in their footsteps when the newly restored landmark, which connects the Uffizi Galleries with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli gardens, opens on Saturday to t
  
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• Pirates invade Falmouth, camels trek London and Aus goes gaga for Kusama – the week in art

  20-12-2024 13:00
  
  Yayoi lands in Melbourne, the Silk Road runs through the British Museum and corsairs real and fictional dock in Cornwall – all in your weekly dispatchSilk RoadsThis camel journey through China, Tibet, Byzantium and more, seeing endless marvels until you reach Anglo-Saxon England, is like a complex, absorbing holiday board game.• British Museum, London, until 23 February Continue reading...
  
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• There’s nothing meek or mild about childbirth: why have male artists sanitised the Virgin Mary?

  20-12-2024 12:38
  
  She may be the most painted woman in history, almost always portrayed as subservient, pure, chaste – and never actually giving birth. Thank goodness female artists like Paula Rego and Esther Strauss provided a reality checkHow much do you know about the Virgin Mary? Go to any Catholic country, church, institution or European museum, and her image is inescapable – as the idealised, obeisant, chaste, beautiful woman. With her hands clasped together, or in the Madonna and Child pose, as
  
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• Executive Director, Dance On Camera

  20-12-2024 04:53 via artsjournal.com
  Dance on Camera is looking for an Executive Director who believes in the power of movement on film, is highly organized, and is excited by the prospect of building on a 50+year legacy of expanding opportunities for artists working at the intersection of dance and film.Founded in 1951, Dance on Camera works to foster connections between the worlds of dance and film; to promote excellence in dance films; to support filmmakers working specifically with dance and help them develop their skills; and
  
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