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• Trump Seizes Control Of The Kennedy Center

  07-02-2025 21:41 via theatlantic.com
  
  Trump plans to announce the dismissal of multiple members of the Kennedy Center board as soon as today, a group likely to include recent appointees of former President Joe Biden. – The Atlantic
  
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• One-Third Of New York Times Subscribers Don’t Subscribe To Its News

  07-02-2025 20:50 via pressgazette.co.uk
  “In its full-year results for 2024 The New York Times Company reported ending the year with 10.8 million digital subscribers — an increase of 1.1 million (year-over-year). Of those 10.8 million subscribers, 3.5 million (or 32%) subscribed only to either its Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, Audio or The Athletic products.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• How Machines Have Supported Creativity. A History

  07-02-2025 20:31 via washingtonpost.com
  David Hajdu strives to refute the ages-old criticism that art made with machines is cold, soulless and artificial. In fact, he argues, machines have enabled radical new art forms, empowered marginalized communities and served as instruments of cultural change. – Washington Post
  
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• Yet Another Director For Berlin’s Most Troubled Theater

  07-02-2025 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Many theater lovers are hoping that (Matthias) Lilienthal’s appointment marks the end of a prolonged period of turmoil at the Volksbühne, which … in recent years has been plagued by scandal and tragedy, as well as vicious conflicts about its creative direction.” – The New York Times
  
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• India’s Giving Few Details On The World’s Largest Museum It’s Building

  07-02-2025 19:44 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  While India’s grandest state museum project of the 21st century forges ahead, crucial details remain unknown to both the public, as well as some of India’s leading museum figures. These include the proposed budget, plans for the current National Museum building and provisions to safeguard its collection. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How The Trump Administration Is Impacting Artists And Arts Institutions

  07-02-2025 19:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  These changes won’t necessarily stop artists from making work or museums and galleries from showing work, but they could be forced to rethink how they operate. – Artnet
  
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• David Hare: London’s National Theatre’s Retreat From Repertory Is Diminishing Culture

  07-02-2025 19:15 via theguardian.com
  Funding cuts and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed the venue towards fewer plays with extended runs, often featuring a high-profile name in order to fill seats – a move which Hare decried as “terrible impoverishment”. – The Guardian
  
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• What Carlos Acosta Looks For In Dancers

  07-02-2025 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “From day one I said: ‘This has to be a company of virtuosos,'” says the former Royal Ballet star and current director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. “I want personalities, ‘Look at me!’ – that’s how I like it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Are Arts Workers Who Make Things Work Not More Appreciated?

  07-02-2025 18:44 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  According to the report, employee confidence is low (scoring 51.2 out of 100), reflecting “growing concerns about job security and advancement opportunities”. Hence around half of respondents (35.7% of men and 64.3% of women) are actively seeking a new job. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Tortured History Depicted In “The Brutalist”

  07-02-2025 18:31 via apollo-magazine.com
  Pointing out its solecisms and caricatures is also a way of trying to find something concrete to hold on to in this gas giant of a film. The Brutalist isn’t really interested in ‘architecture’ – it’s interested in ‘big’ themes, which it engages with in a ‘big’ and wafty way. – Apollo
  
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• Emergency Action: Brooklyn Museum To Cut Ten Percent Of Staff

  07-02-2025 18:15 via nytimes.com
  
  In addition to the layoffs, officials said that senior leadership will take salary cuts of 10 to 20 percent; the annual number of exhibitions would be reduced to an average of nine from an average of 12; and weeknight events with low attendance or inconsistent funding would be canceled. – The New York Times
  
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• David Edward Byrd, 83, Designed Iconic Broadway And Rock Posters

  07-02-2025 18:03 via deadline.com
  
  “(His) swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable posters in modern Broadway history, for … Follies and Godspell.” – Deadline
  
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• Art of reinvention: Victoria Beckham teams up with Sotheby’s as curator

  07-02-2025 18:03
  High-end designer hosts work by some of biggest names of 20th and 21st century at London fashion storeA customer in the Victoria Beckham flagship store in Mayfair in London looks astutely up at a Richard Prince painting. The untitled work by the American artist depicts four figures in bold acrylic and oil, and is estimated to be worth up to $600,000 (£480,000). “Richard Prince reinvented himself during every decade of his career; he always challenged himself to do something completel
  
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• UK Artists Had High Hopes For New Arts Policy From Labour Government. What Happened?

  07-02-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  “There is no sense that Labour has yet grasped the delicate interconnected forces that underpin the arts. It is not OK to shove everything together, from ballerinas to florists, into a thing called “the creative industries”. The arts are different, and they need attention.” – The Guardian
  
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• France Slashes Its Culture Budget

  07-02-2025 17:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The embattled French prime minister, François Bayrou, is struggling to limit the budget deficit to 5.4% of GDP this year. Museums and cultural heritage are destined to become the main victims of the cuts. On the whole, the culture ministry has lost €150m in government funding. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Time To Start Charging Admission At UK Museums?

  07-02-2025 17:15 via thetimes.com
  
  “We charge tourists to visit Westminster Abbey, a West End musical or the National Theatre. What’s so different, morally or culturally, about charging for entry to the Tate galleries — especially when they are millions of pounds in the red?” – The Times
  
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• Turner: In Light and Shade review – bathe in the redemptive power of landscape art

  07-02-2025 17:07
  
  The Whitworth, Manchester
  Combining prints culled from Turner’s studio and watercolours from the Whitworth’s own collection, this show celebrates 250 years of our greatest artist
  This spring will see the 250th birthday of Britain’s favourite painter. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 among the rakes, beggars and other Georgian caricatures of London’s Covent Garden where his father kept a barber’s shop. In the 21st century, there seems to be a c
  
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• One Of Luis Barragán’s Greatest Buildings Will Reopen As Cultural Center

  07-02-2025 17:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Architect and philanthropist Fernando Romero purchased La Cuadra San Cristóbal, a historic, hot pink estate on the outskirts of Mexico City last year though his nonprofit, Fundación Fernando Romero, and will open it to the public this fall.” – Artnet
  
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• Digital Subscriptions Will Soon Pay For Entire Newsroom Of Le Monde, Says CEO

  07-02-2025 16:32 via pressgazette.co.uk
  “Digital subscriber revenue is expected to cover the costs of Le Monde’s entire editorial staff within the next two years, according to chief executive Louis Dreyfus. The French daily newspaper and online newsbrand ended 2024 with 660,000 subscribers, of which 580,000 were digital.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• Michael Brennan obituary

  07-02-2025 16:19
  
  My friend Michael Brennan, who has died aged 80, was a teacher and activist, and also tried to unravel the mathematical basis of Celtic interlace – the ornamental knot patterns found in Irish art.As a youth Mike had assisted his father in his work as a monumental sculptor. He was fascinated by the mathematical forms embedded in Celtic interlace, and in 2004 embarked on a serious study of this field, finally completing a PhD at Bangor University in 2011, on the Structure of Interlace in Ins
  
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• Classical Music Is Good For Babies, Even Before They’re Born: Study

  07-02-2025 16:05 via classicfm.com
  
  A team of researchers in Mexico worked with 36 pregnant women, playing them “The Swan” from Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Arpa de oro (“Golden Harp”) by Mexican composer Abundio Martínez. The result: the music instantly calmed fetal heartbeats. – Classic FM
  
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• Mescaline visions, Turner’s 250th and Manchester’s dada genius – the week in art

  07-02-2025 15:54
  
  Art-punk surrealist Linder Sterling springs surprises, classic landscapes get a fresh look andHenri Michaux gets high – all in your weekly dispatchLinder: Danger Came Smiling
  This promises to be an exciting show as Manchester’s punk and dada genius Linder Sterling gets her first London retrospective.• Hayward Gallery, London, from 11 February until 5 May Continue reading...
  
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• NEA To Shift Funding Priorities Toward U.S. 250th Anniversary

  07-02-2025 15:31 via msn.com
  “The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that it will alter its 2026 grant guidelines, eliminating a fund for underserved communities and prioritizing projects that honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Fulton County, Which Encompasses Atlanta, Cuts Arts Funding By More Than Half

  07-02-2025 15:04 via atlantanewsfirst.com
  
  County commissioners on Wednesday rejected calls to undo their reduction of their arts and culture budget from the previous $3 million to $1.3 million. – Atlanta News First
  
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• Christie’s Pulls El Greco From Auction At Request Of Romanian Government

  07-02-2025 14:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  The painting, which depicts the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, had been in the collection of the Romanian monarchy. The country’s postwar government “allegedly” had “transferred” the work to the deposed King Michael, who sold it in 1976; Romania’s current government maintains that it is still national property. – Artnet
  
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• Karla Sofia Gascón Says She Will Sit Out Awards Campaigning

  07-02-2025 14:00 via deadline.com
  
  Following criticism from Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard (who called Gascón “self-destructive”), she posted on Instagram, “I decided … to let the work talk for itself, hoping my silence will allow the film to be appreciated for what it is, a beautiful ode to love and difference.” – Deadline
  
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• The Erosion of the American Arts

  07-02-2025 06:06 via artsjournal.com
  
  The new issue of the online New American Studies Journal is devoted to the challenged fate of the arts. I
  
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• Khaled Sabsabi to represent Australia at Venice Biennale: ‘I felt this wouldn’t happen because of who I am’

  07-02-2025 04:00
  
  The western Sydney artist, who fled Lebanon’s civil war as a child, has been selected to represent Australia at the world’s oldest and most prestigious exhibitionGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKhaled Sabsabi never imagined he would be selected to represent Australia at the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art exhibition – let alone in the current political climate.“I was quite shocked,” he said. “To tell you the truth, I have
  
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