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• They Live and Breathe Outside the Academy

  08-01-2025 21:54 via artsjournal.com
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• How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print

  08-01-2025 21:02 via npr.org
  
  “In (The Life of Herod the Great), Hurston looked to redefine the legacy of Herod, who reigned as king of Judaea from 37 BCE to 4 BCE. … Following Hurston’s death, the unfinished manuscript sat in a trunk that was nearly consumed in a fire. Luckily, a neighbor intervened with a hose.” – NPR
  
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• What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity

  08-01-2025 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Colin Furze demonstrates that in certain corners of the creative economy an individual with minimal overhead can work on select attention-catching projects and earn a generous upper-middle-class income. Beyond this relatively modest scale of activity, however, the returns on additional investment rapidly diminish. – The New Yorker
  
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• Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”

  08-01-2025 20:05 via sfcv.org
  “How can we reconcile the apparently gung-ho socialist sentiments expressed in Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the bitter disillusionment and sarcasm that explode in Symphonies No. 13 and 14? Should the issue of Shostakovich’s political convictions (or lack thereof) change the way we listen to his music anyway?” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Can Animals Make Art?

  08-01-2025 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  If we take art to be something that is beautiful and consciously created – and animals consciously create things that look like art – shouldn’t we accept these productions as art, too? As Edgar Degas put it, “art is not what you see, but what you make others see”. – The Conversation
  
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• Ingesting Writing For Translation, Transformation

  08-01-2025 19:32 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  When considering writing as a function of the body, we face the work’s physical, irreplicable quality. Stories and poems can be shared, but voices cannot; languages can be shared, but consciousnesses cannot. Accepting a global literature, then, is to be inspired, instead of disturbed. – Asymptote Journal
  
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• Why Even Thinking About Utopias Seems Remote

  08-01-2025 19:15 via psyche.co
  
  When national politics is becoming increasingly polarised, global conflicts are escalating to new temperatures, and the toll of the climate catastrophe grows deadlier, the mere mention of utopia risks generating side-splitting laughter. – Psyche
  
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• What’s Ultimately Behind The Decline Of Arts Criticism? The Decline Of Its Audience.

  08-01-2025 19:01 via persuasion.community
  
  “What’s gone missing, in a society that long ago excused itself from seriousness, is a broader sense that art is urgent business, that your life, in some sense, depends on it. With that goes the mass audience. With that goes not only the possibility of meaningful criticism, but also its point.” – Persuasion
  
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• The Role Of Beauty In Science

  08-01-2025 18:44 via aeon.co
  
  Over the past three years, we have studied thousands of scientists on three different continents, asking them about the role of beauty in their work. Our research left us convinced that the core aesthetic experience science has to offer is not primarily about sensory experiences or formulas. – Aeon
  
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• Can What You Eat Change Your Brain?

  08-01-2025 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In a sense, yes. The most extraordinary property of the gut-brain axis is that it is plastic. In the same way that your brain constantly takes in new information about the world around you, strengthening or changing connections via neuroplasticity, it also adjusts to signals from inside you. – The Guardian
  
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• Pushing Back Against The Pushback Against Social Justice and Art

  08-01-2025 18:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In the current climate, I would argue there are few more urgent subjects for art than identity and contemporary politics, just as was the case when the Whitney staged its groundbreaking biennial in 1993. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park

  08-01-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  “This (550-seater) is the fourth Sadler’s Wells stage, after the original site, with its 1,500-capacity main stage and 180-seat Lilian Baylis studio, and the more populist Peacock theatre in London’s West End. It’ll mean a significant boost in the amount of dance on stage in London.” – The Guardian
  
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• What MrBeast’s Game Show Says About The State Of Today’s Media

  08-01-2025 17:44 via vox.com
  
  Beast Games exists to make you hate it and other people, and for you to keep watching regardless. In this, it’s an extraordinary success. – Vox
  
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• Remembering American Avant-gardist Richard Foreman

  08-01-2025 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  Foreman’s idea of theater, born in opposition to the mainstream, was an acquired taste that some of the most rigorously inventive sensibilities couldn’t get enough of. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Broken Copyright System

  08-01-2025 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  If Sherlock Holmes really is the last of the classic fairy-tale heroes, he may also be the first to have been protected by modern intellectual-copyright law. – The Atlantic
  
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• Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away

  08-01-2025 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  At the back of a magic store near the western edge of Brooklyn is the theater 69 Atlantic, where some of the world’s most skilled prestidigitators work their wonders in a space which sits only 18 spectators. – The New York Times
  
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• Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project

  08-01-2025 16:34 via msn.com
  On the site of the old CBS Television City complex, a developer plans to build 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities and retail space on the 25-acre property. The Los Angeles City Council approved the plan unanimously despite some heavy neighborhood opposition. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs

  08-01-2025 16:02 via theguardian.com
  At the Koepel in Haarlem, “a cafe fills the ground floor with chatter. Above, nearly all the former cells are being rented. There’s a podcast studio, art school ateliers and gallery spaces, while the darkened cinema bar offers a more intimate charm.” – The Guardian
  
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• An All-AI-Powered FM Radio Station, Courtesy Of Rapper Lupe Fiasco

  08-01-2025 15:35 via insideradio.com
  
  Fiasco’s station, created in partnership with MIT and called “Endless LUP,” is planning to run 24/7, with music generated by AI software “trained on the intricacies of Lupe’s distinctive style. Each track will be unique, never repeated, offering listeners an endless stream of fresh, Lupe-inspired music.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge Into Photo-Licensing Giant

  08-01-2025 15:01 via techcrunch.com
  
  “Getty Images on Tuesday said it has agreed to merge with its rival Shutterstock in a cash-and-stock deal … valued at $3.7 billion.” – TechCrunch
  
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• Survival Of Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Co. Is In “Substantial Doubt,” Finds Auditor

  08-01-2025 14:35 via tinyurl.com
  “Signature Theatre Co. — which raised the bar off-Broadway by devoting entire seasons to the work of major dramatists while offering $25 tickets across the board — is struggling to stay afloat. Lutz and Carr, the company’s auditor, said it has ‘substantial doubt about the organization’s ability to continue as a going concern.'” – Broadway Journal
  
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• Peter Yarrow, Of Peter, Paul And Mary, Has Died At 86

  08-01-2025 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  “During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. … (Their) impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war.” – AP
  
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• Report: Getty Villa Museum Gardens in Palisades Are On Fire

  08-01-2025 03:01 via latimes.com
  
  An unidentified official on LAFD radio said that the Getty Villa Museum was “catching on fire” shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday. – Los Angeles Times 
  
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• Theatre for a New Audience seeks Executive Director

  08-01-2025 02:31 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director, in co-partnership with the Artistic Director, will jointly lead TFANA as it builds on its artistic vision and mission. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will ensure the financial health and sustainability of the organization while guiding all operational and administrative functions, including fundraising, marketing, human resources, and community engagement efforts. The Executive Director and the Artistic Director will collaborate on season plan
  
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• Adirondack Experience seeks Director of Advancement

  08-01-2025 02:24 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Advancement will serve as the museum’s principal development strategist and fundraiser and will report to the Executive Director while building a network of new support for the mission of ADKX and stewarding its longtime donors. This leader will oversee donor relations, membership, major gifts, planned giving, grant writing, and special events as well as fundraising for capital and endowment campaigns. ADKX’s current goal is $1.5 million in annual support and ADKX is
  
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