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• What You Got When You Got A Letter From Edward Gorey

  10-01-2025 20:50 via theparisreview.org
  Tom Fitzharris was fortunate enough to receive 50 of them. Here are four. – The Paris Review
  
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• An Updated List Of LA Cultural Buildings Impacted By The Fires

  10-01-2025 20:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  On Wednesday, the Palisades fire claimed Will Rogers’s historic ranch house and other structures on the Will Rogers State Historic Park, according to a news release by the California State Parks. – Artnet
  
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• Ornate 16th-Century Mural Discovered Under White Paint In Mexican Church

  10-01-2025 20:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “For decades, the interior of the Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption (in Santa María Huiramangaro in Michoacán state) stood stark white, with blue accents. But … a new restoration has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned the ceiling of the historic church.” – Artnet
  
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• A Climber Drove Climbing Bolts Into Ancient Petroglyphs

  10-01-2025 19:46 via news.artnet.com
  
  Such petroglyphs were designated by the state’s legislature as official state works of art in 2023, the Utah Bureau of Land Management noted, as it called them “incredibly important to preserve and contemplate.” They are also considered sacred ancestral sites for Indigenous people in the area.
  
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• Scotland’s National Galleries Warn That Major Cultural Assets Are In Peril Because Of Funding Cuts

  10-01-2025 19:32 via scotsman.com
  The organisation, which is responsible for more than 130,000 works of art and attracted more than 2.4m visitors to its sites during 2023, has suggested “seismic changes” may need to be made to safeguard the future of what it describes as “some of Scotland’s greatest cultural assets”. – The Scotsman
  
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• Audiences Are Singing Along, Acting Out At “Wicked” Movie Showings

  10-01-2025 19:15 via apnews.com
  
  During the theatrical run of “ Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ” last fall, fans danced and belted lyrics in the theaters, sharing their glee on social media. Last year, fans at early screenings of “ Wicked ” did the same, to the chagrin of other moviegoers. – APNews
  
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• Dance Was Everywhere In Ancient Rome

  10-01-2025 19:04 via aeon.co
  
  “It was practised and watched everywhere, including during religious rituals, on the theatrical stage and in private houses. It was the object of nuanced reflections on the part of Roman philosophers and poets. Careful study of their texts yields hints as to what they thought dance accomplished.” – Aeon
  
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• Globalization Gets A Bad Rap Now. But Globalization Has Been With Us For Centuries

  10-01-2025 18:44 via aeon.co
  
  Globalisation didn’t begin in the 1990s, or even in the past millennia. Remembering this older shared history is a path to a different tale, which begins much, much earlier. The tale of globalisation is written across human history. So why do we keep getting the story so wrong? – Aeon
  
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• Getting Our Heads Around Understanding Bullshit

  10-01-2025 18:30 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  To account fully for the phenomenon of bullshit, we require a conception that envisions the bullshitted to expect that someone completely unlike him or her in essential social ways, perhaps even the bullshitter her/himself, will admit the objections the bullshitted would raise, if s/he were allowed effective access to socially recognized means of objection. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Tough Times For Theatre? Right. So It’s Not A Time To Be Timid

  10-01-2025 18:15 via americantheatre.org
  
  How can theatres and individual artists position themselves as liaisons to the public to raise awareness about climate change, gun violence, mental health, and literacy? If people are worried about inflation and the economy, how can theatres be a force for economic good, seen not as an expense but as an asset? – American Theatre
  
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• “Wicked” Sets New Broadway Record, Grossing Over $5 Million In One Week

  10-01-2025 18:02 via theatermania.com
  
  “From December 23-29, Wicked pulled in $5,037,392, the largest weekly number ever recorded. The average paid admission was $290.61.” The next highest, The Lion King, was over a million dollars behind, but $4.2 million in seven days isn’t bad for a show that’s been running for almost 28 years. – TheaterMania
  
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• With Art Sales Down, Auction Houses Pivot Towards Luxury Sales

  10-01-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s were down for the second year in a row in 2024. With both supply and demand for big-ticket art in a slump, the auction houses are making major bets on selling luxury goods and niche experiences to make up the shortfall. – The New York Times
  
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• The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

  10-01-2025 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  I’ve used this space before to meditate on the long-term declines in literary reading, as observed by various federal surveys. Occasionally, such data points can provoke a response. Last month, for example, the publisher Hatchette Book Group announced a “Raising Readers” initiative “to help reverse trends showing steep declines in reading for fun among children.”  
  This call to action reminded me of the genesis of the NEA Big Read, which, s
  
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• Daniel Harding, Conductor (Oh And Air France Pilot Too)

  10-01-2025 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the past few years, the British-born Harding has led dual, and often dueling, careers: conducting Mozart and Mahler symphonies one day, piloting commercial flights to Paris, Milan, Stockholm and Tunis the next. – The New York Times
  
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• Actor Michael Sheen Is Funding A New National Theatre For Wales

  10-01-2025 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  With National Theatre Wales having folded last month, leaving the principality without a flagship English-language stage company, Sheen has decided to launch a new one, called Welsh National Theatre, with himself as artistic director and the first production planned for autumn 2026. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Was The HQ Of Cape Cod’s Public Radio Station Sold Out From Under It?

  10-01-2025 16:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  Though the station, CAI, and its listeners raised the money to renovate the historic building, both real estate and broadcasting license are owned by Boston station GBH, which is facing serious money problems and staff layoffs. GBH sold CAI’s building without telling anyone at CAI, and the community is furious. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Director Otto Schenk, Standardbearer For Traditional Opera Stagings, Is Dead At 94

  10-01-2025 16:05 via apnews.com
  
  He created 31 productions for the Vienna State Opera (some still in use) and 16 for the Met, attracting scorn from revisionists and admiration from traditionalists. “All the secrets of Wagner’s Ring,” he once said, “should be guessed by the audience or found by the audience.” – AP
  
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• Ex-CEO Of MoviePass Pleads Guilty To Fraud

  10-01-2025 15:30 via deadline.com
  
  “Theodore Farnsworth, the former CEO of MoviePass parent Helios & Matheson Analytics, pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding and conspiring to defraud investors in two public companies, including lying about artificial intelligence capabilities that it didn’t have.” – Deadline
  
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• Wanamaker Organ Is (Probably) Safe, Though The Macy’s Hosting It Is Closing

  10-01-2025 15:04 via msn.com
  The department store chain has definitively decided to close its historic Philadelphia location, making the future of the world’s largest fully-functioning musical instrument uncertain. But the store’s Grand Court, including the organ, has protected landmark status. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• ‘They created a Vegas in 10 years’: photographing the hedonistic gambling mecca of Macau

  10-01-2025 15:00
  
  Photographer Adam Lampton discusses capturing the vice, cash and sheer excess of the special administrative region of China – a place built on contradictions“I am not a huge gambler,” says Adam Lampton. “The first time I went to Macau, fresh out of grad school, I didn’t have any money to spare – it all went on camera film. People take it all very seriously, so I was too intimidated to sit down and be the white guy who didn’t know what the hell he was doi
  
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• Sketchy boozers, revolutionary futurists and the artists of tomorrow – the week in art

  10-01-2025 13:00
  
  Portraits of 100 London pubs, Marinetti’s ferocious innovation and a new generation on display – all in your weekly dispatchNew Contemporaries
  Find out how artists at the start of their careers are seeing the world, and maybe spot stars of the future.
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