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• Music / Words / Images‘Cabinet I-III’ — A Steff Signer Combo

  24-12-2024 21:16 via artsjournal.com
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• That Time William S. Burroughs Made A Claymation Christmas Movie

  24-12-2024 20:51 via openculture.com
  
  Yep, it’s true. The 21-minute film, The Junky’s Christmas (1993), was written and narrated by Burroughs and produced by no less than Francis Ford Coppola. And it’s right there on YouTube. – Open Culture
  
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• Research: How Walmart Impoverishes Communities

  24-12-2024 20:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  On net, they conclude, Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Year Peter Gelb Declared War On Critics

  24-12-2024 20:15 via newyorker.com
  
  Believing that you possess a perfect understanding of what the people want is a poor way to run an opera company—or any organization, up to and including a nation. What we call the “audience” is an ever-shifting assemblage of tastes, expectations, experiences, levels of knowledge, degrees of passion. – The New Yorker
  
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• When Thieves Made Off With The Corpse Of St. Nicholas

  24-12-2024 20:04 via msn.com
  In 1087, a group of three grain ships from Bari, the port on the heel of the Italian boot, decided to steal the relics of the patron saint of sailors and bring them back home. So off they went to the tomb in Myra in what’s now Turkey. From there the story gets literally and figuratively messy (not to say gross). – Slate (MSN)
  
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• Spotify Doesn’t Care About Music As Long As It’s Content

  24-12-2024 19:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Unlike a record label, a tech company doesn’t care whether we’re hooked on the same hit on repeat or lost in a three-hour ambient loop, so long as we’re listening to something. – The New Yorker
  
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• Berlin Cuts €130 Million From Its Arts Budget

  24-12-2024 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  The budget cut is a departure from Berlin’s previous plan to inject the city’s cultural spaces with new capital.  In 2021, Germany approved a record €2.1 billion federal culture; a €155 million increase from 2020. – ARTnews
  
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• K-Pop Has Been Fueling South Korean Protests

  24-12-2024 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  The sight of young people moving to K-pop’s electrifying beat has become part of the drama of this protest movement. Protest organisers are blasting out K-pop hits, and demonstrators are waving K-pop light sticks (portable devices associated with specific artists or groups), turning the protests into multicoloured musical rallies. – The Conversation
  
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• Why We Keep Returning To The Same Pieces Of Christmas Pop Culture, Even When They’re Dreck

  24-12-2024 19:05 via tedium.co
  
  Nostalgia is a powerful lure, even when it comes to songs like “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” and movies like “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” And retailers and radio stations and TV networks know it. – Tedium
  
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• Handel’s “Messiah’s” Rocky Start

  24-12-2024 18:44 via wsj.com
  When the librettist obtained a copy of the score, in early 1743, he didn’t like it. “His Messiah has disappointed me,” he wrote to a friend, “being set in great haste … . I shall put no more Sacred Words into his hands, to be thus abus’d.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• How UK Theatre Got To This Point (20 Years That Defined A Crisis)

  24-12-2024 18:32 via thestage.co.uk
  Twenty years ago marked a turning point for the arts in the UK. And not a good one. – The Stage
  
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• Florence Open’s Vasari’s 16th Century Corridor Built For Medicis

  24-12-2024 18:15 via theguardian.com
  The corridor, designed by the Renaissance-era architect Giorgio Vasari, was commissioned in 1565 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the second duke of Florence, and completed in just five months. – The Guardian
  
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• A New York Times Editor On What 2024’s Broadway Plays Got Wrong And Right About Journalism

  24-12-2024 18:03 via nytimes.com
  Sarah Bahr: “For me, watching fictional journalists scheme their way to scoops is akin to what I imagine it must feel like for doctors to watch Grey’s Anatomy. … So, let me share how some stage scenarios would most likely unfold in a real newsroom.” – The New York Times
  
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• Canada Proposes Resale Royalties For Visual Artists

  24-12-2024 17:44 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  Monday’s fall economic statement included the proposed update to the copyright act, which will give Canadian visual artists a slice of the proceeds if their work is resold at galleries or auction houses. – The Globe & Mail
  
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• Is San Francisco’s Arts Scene Dying or Thriving

  24-12-2024 17:38 via artnews.com
  
  “There’s been a lot of conversation about a false doom narrative … surrounding our city’s art scene. I counter that assertion. I want to point out that our scene is, in fact, thriving.” – ARTnews
  
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• Super-Splashy “Turandot” In Seoul Nearly Collapses In Chaos On Opening Night

  24-12-2024 17:06 via koreatimes.co.kr
  
  The venue is in the city’s top conference center/shopping mall; the cast includes Asmik Grigorian and Brian Jagde; José Cura is conducting; top tickets cost nearly $700. But hours before curtain time, director Davide Livermore stormed away and producers reconfigured the hall to remove 2,800 seats. – The Korea Herald
  
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• The Birth Of The Christmas Card

  24-12-2024 16:32 via bbc.com
  
  As with so many innovations, the first Christmas card, sent out in 1843, was devised by a guy trying to avoid a big, tedious task. Reaction was mixed, and the temperance society was particularly upset. – BBC
  
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• A Christmas Ballet In The Streets Of One Of Africa’s Largest Slums

  24-12-2024 16:04 via apnews.com
  
  Dozens of students from Nairobi’s Kibera Ballet School, which provides free instruction to impoverished children and teens, donned Santa hats and sequined outfits to perform holiday choreography they had practiced for months. – AP
  
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• “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Almost Never Made It To The Airwaves

  24-12-2024 15:30 via theconversation.com
  
  “CBS executives thought the 25-minute program was too slow, too serious and too different from the upbeat spectacles they imagined audiences wanted. A cartoon about a depressed kid seeking psychiatric advice? No laugh track? Humble, lo-fi animation? And was that a Bible verse?” – The Conversation
  
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• Why Some Of The Crown Jewels Of France Are Kept In A New Jersey Warehouse

  24-12-2024 15:03 via nytimes.com
  The ultimate reason is the wave of anti-monarchism that swept the country after Napoleon III’s fall and the foundation of the Third Republic. Why New Jersey? Because of a certain Charles Lewis Tiffany. – The New York Times
  
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• From Moo Deng to Me Espresso: it’s the 2024 bumper pop culture quiz of the year

  24-12-2024 15:00
  
  Do you know your hot rodent boyfriends, which celebrity is selling feet pics on OnlyFans and who fell off a stage this year? Then this is the quiz for you Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A little spooky’: an artist-beekeeper’s apian oeuvre celebrates the industrious insect

  24-12-2024 15:00
  
  Garnett Puett’s Los Angeles exhibition is a collaboration between humans and bees and an exploration of their relationshipTo see Garnett Puett’s latest sculpture, you have to enter a dark room protected by a series of heavy curtains. Inside, glowing red light illuminates a glass and mesh cage. Within the cage are three human figures with a swarm of insects crawling over them. The bees move slowly over the faces of the figures. They cluster on their torsos and their hands. The swarm o
  
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• Prosecutors End “Rust” Shooting Case Against Alec Baldwin For Good

  24-12-2024 14:31 via apnews.com
  
  “Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the appeal of a July decision at trial to dismiss the (involuntary manslaughter) charge against Baldwin in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal on set for the movie Rust outside Santa Fe in October 2021.” – AP
  
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• Berlin Goes Through With It: €130 Million Is Officially Cut From City’s Arts Funding Budget

  24-12-2024 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  Well, Merry Christmas. (Even with the cuts, the city’s arts and culture budget for 2025 is well over €1 billion.) – ARTnews
  
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• Major show to celebrate UK’s forgotten female trailblazer of abstract art

  24-12-2024 08:00
  
  Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and warBritain’s “first” abstract artist, whose legacy has mostly been obscured because of a combination of sexism and the second world war, is to have her first major exhibition in more than 40 years.Paule Vézelay, born in Bristol in 1892, moved to Paris where she moved in the same circles as Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Sophie Taeuber-Arp
  
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• Senior Program Officer, Arts and Culture

  24-12-2024 07:08 via artsjournal.com
  The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation invite nominations and applications for the position of Senior Program Officer to lead strategy and management for their Arts and Culture grantmaking portfolio.The Fred and Barbara Erb Family Foundation has made more than $180 million in grants to improve the quality of life for residents in Southeast Michigan and the Great Lakes region since launching its grantmaking in 2008. Funding has been focused on improving water quality in the Great Lakes basin;
  
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