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• After 30 Years, Richmond Ballet Returns To The Museum

  20-02-2025 21:04 via wric.com
  The company danced at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s but hasn’t been back since. But starting next month, following a $5.3 million renovation, Richmond Ballet will be performing its Moving Art series of classical and contemporary work at the VMFA’s Leslie Cheek Theater. – WRIC (Richmond, VA)
  
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• Does Opera On A Screen Really Work?

  20-02-2025 20:33 via theatlantic.com
  
  Seeing the seams is part of live performance’s charm—it asks the audience to actively participate in the suspension of reality, as opposed to having it ready-made for them. Broadcast opera retains some of that immediacy, but without the magic of a live performance, it’s harder to forgive its failings. – The Atlantic
  
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• How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts

  20-02-2025 20:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The movie industry has gotten much more careful in the past few decades about authenticity (Emilia Pérez notwithstanding). Yet screenwriters won’t write out foreign-language dialogue, or phonetically spell dialects or regional accents, in the formal screenplay itself, and there are good reasons for that. – The Conversation
  
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• The Dirty Secret Behind College Tuitions

  20-02-2025 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
   “We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.” This pricing strategy took hold in the early 1980s. – The Atlantic
  
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• Indian Police Confiscate Hundreds Of Titles From Bookstores In Kashmir

  20-02-2025 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region. Most of the titles were written by Abul A’la Maududi, a prominent 20th-century Islamic scholar who founded Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic organisation banned in Kashmir.” – The Guardian
  
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• Study: How Australians Read

  20-02-2025 18:44 via artshub.com.au
  
  This report represents the first time the Australian book industry has been granted a detailed level of insight into recreational readers and also offers ideas on how to motivate more Australians to read. – ArtsHub
  
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• Edmonton Symphony Names Jean-Marie Zeitouni As Music Director

  20-02-2025 18:31 via jean-marie%20zeitouni
  “He made his ESO debut in 2006 and has conducted more than 35 performances with the orchestra and Edmonton Opera since then.” – CTV
  
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• You Thought Movie Theatres Were In Trouble? Cinemark Chain Posts Record Fourth Quarter Revenue

  20-02-2025 18:17 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Exhibition giant Cinemark reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $814 million, up 27 percent year-over-year and 3 percent above the pre-COVID pandemic fourth quarter of 2019. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How Should Artists Respond In The Trump Era

  20-02-2025 18:15 via artsfuse.org
  
  With each day bringing new troubles and concerns, how should we proceed? Ideally, with boldness, though that quality seems to be in short supply, especially in the arts world. What a far cry from 2016 when, within hours of the shock Election Day result, Toni Morrison’s quote that “this is precisely the time when artists go to work. – Arts Fuse
  
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• Souleymane Cissé, Pioneering African Filmmaker, Has Died At 84

  20-02-2025 18:02 via apnews.com
  
  Over a 50-year career, the Malian writer-director did much to establish sub-Saharan African film as an internationally recognized industry in terms of art as well as commerce. He was the first Black African filmmaker to win a feature film award at Cannes: a Special Jury Prize in 1987 for Yeelen. – AP
  
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• UK Government To Inject New Money Into The Arts

  20-02-2025 17:44 via the-independent.com
  
  The Culture Secretary is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support. – The Independent
  
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• The Kennedy Center Debacle As A Mamet Drama

  20-02-2025 17:31 via msn.com
  It plays like a David Mamet drama, complete with an inciting incident, characters bringing years of baggage to every scene and a surprising climax. Its cast includes a president carrying a grudge, a board of megawealthy executives unaccustomed to being fired, A-list celebrities and drag queens dragged into the fray. – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Cooperation Versus Competition – A Biological, Philosophical Perspective

  20-02-2025 17:15 via aeon.co
  
  The evolution of cooperation has been of interest to biologists, philosophers and anthropologists for centuries. If natural selection favours self-interest, why would we cooperate at an apparent cost to ourselves? – Aeon
  
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• For These Successful Playwrights, It Was A Hard Journey Just To Reach Midcareer Status

  20-02-2025 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “They constitute an unusual cohort, bucking the bad news of the American theater by having made it past emerging to emerged. Granted, pretty much all of them did so with the help of other industries. … These nontheater jobs are how playwrights make real money and get health insurance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Italian Police Shut Down Major Art-Forgery Workshop In Rome

  20-02-2025 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Police seized 71 paintings, including fake Rembrandts, Picassos, Warhols, and Banksys, some completed and others half-finished, along with a plethora of painting materials, forged certificates of authenticity, and bogus catalogues. Authorities say evidence suggests that an art restorer is at the center of the racket. – The Guardian
  
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• In Addition To Prison Sentence, Ozy Founder Carlos Watson Gets Ordered To Pay $96 Million

  20-02-2025 16:04 via courthousenews.com
  “(A Federal judge) ordered Watson and his company to pay over $36 million in restitution and nearly $60 million in forfeiture … for his involvement in a fraud scheme in which he conspired to impersonate a YouTube executive and repeatedly lied to investors about the now-defunct media company’s finances.” – Courthouse News Service
  
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• So Trump Replaced The Kennedy Center’s Board. Now Will He Lead Its Fundraising?

  20-02-2025 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Center gets only 16% of its budget from Federal money, and that’s for maintenance, repairs and operation of the building, which the government owns. The now-fired CEO and board chairman were very successful fundraisers, and the chairman a major donor. Will anyone be making up for that? – The New York Times
  
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• Despite Facing Fearsome Deficits, Both San Francisco And California State Governments Maintain Arts Spending

  20-02-2025 15:02 via sfcv.org
  The state’s Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which helps organizations meet new pay and benefit requirements, launches this year with a $12.5 million budget. The California Arts Council has suffered only half the originally proposed cut, and San Francisco city arts spending has held steady. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Metropolitan Opera To Change Some Scheduling And Casting Practices

  20-02-2025 14:29 via apnews.com
  
  Next season the company will experiment with scheduling consecutive performances of the same opera with different casts, this to save money by not moving sets in and out of the theater. There will be more performances of the most popular repertory staples and fewer performances of contemporary works on weekends. – AP
  
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• Drunk Does “Irreversible Damage” To Inca Landmark In Peru

  20-02-2025 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  Not long after midnight in Cusco, once the Incas’ imperial capital, a man “apparently intoxicated and out of his mind” used a metal object to attack what’s known as the 12-Angle Stone, part of the former Inca Roca’s Palace which was subsequently incorporated into the colonial-era Archbishop’s Palace. – ARTnews
  
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• ‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

  20-02-2025 09:00
  A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equalityA group of Black men stand naked in a line with their arms up, facing the wall, as they undergo a medical examination before being sent to work in the mines. The image is just one of many by the late Ernest Cole depicting the dehumanisation of Black people during apartheid. Writing for Ebony magazine in 1968, the South
  
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• Creative Australia says it won’t reinstate artist Khaled Sabsabi for Venice Biennale at tense all-staff meeting

  20-02-2025 08:39
  
  Exclusive: The western Sydney artist was dropped from representing Australia just days after being selectedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino will not be reinstated as Australia’s representatives at the next Venice Biennale despite thousands of artists calling for the decision to be overturned.The chair of Creative Australia, Robert Morgan, and the organisation’s executive director, Adrian Collette, told
  
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• Artis–Naples seeks Vice President, Marketing & Sales

  20-02-2025 05:59 via artsjournal.com
  The Vice President, Marketing and Sales (VP-MS) leads all earned revenue activities at Artis—Naples, overseeing approximately $18 million in earned revenues. Reporting to the CEO & President and working with the Board of Directors and senior leadership team, the VP-MS manages revenue and attendance projections for each season, develops and implements marketing strategies, and oversees subscription and single-ticket campaigns across print, digital, and social media channels. This role e
  
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