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• The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War

  11-03-2025 20:03 via cnn.com
  
  Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others have been attempting to salvage what’s been damaged or destroyed; still others work on locating and perhaps recovering the art that’s been looted and taken to Russia. – CNN
  
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• Australia to host ‘Space-out competition’ – where people compete to do nothing

  11-03-2025 20:00
  Created by a South Korean artist suffering burnout, the serious but absurd contest is just one of 65 events coming to Melbourne’s Rising festival• Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAre you good at doing nothing? If you are in Melbourne later this year, you’ll be able to put your skills to the test in a “Space-out competition” – in which participants compete to see who can zone out the most over 90 minutes.The Space-out competition was started by the So
  
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• What If We Just Got Rid Of Art?

  11-03-2025 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  If the world was wretched, shouldn’t we be transforming it, not distracting ourselves from it?…What would happen if we didn’t soothe ourselves with imagined utopias, but instead did as John Lydon once suggested, and used anger as an energy? – The Guardian
  
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• Bryn Mawr Film Institute seeks Executive Director

  11-03-2025 19:18 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director of Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI) will lead the institution as the face of the organization through an evolving media landscape, actively working to ensure its continued relevance and impact. This role is crucial in achieving BMFI’s strategic initiatives and strengthening its community and regional partnerships and will require a significant focus on expanding and enhancing BMFI’s fundraising. The Executive Director will take an active and present role to lead
  
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• FCC Investigating Public Radio Sponsorships

  11-03-2025 19:15 via insideradio.com
  
  The request is a next step in FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s investigation into whether public TV and radio stations are airing advertisements in violation of federal guidelines. Public stations, which are partially funded by taxpayers, operate under strict rules about how they must disclose sponsorships or underwriters. – Inside Radio
  
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• The Weird And Wonderful Noises That Choreographers Make

  11-03-2025 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form of written notation, these sounds, poetic and onomatopoeic, are strikingly efficient at conveying both what the steps are and how they should be performed.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Power Of Nothing (It’s A Mental Construct)

  11-03-2025 18:44 via aeon.co
  
  Our mental worlds are lively with such experiences of absence, yet it’s a mystery how the mind performs the trick of seeing nothing. How can the brain perceive something when there is no something to perceive? – Aeon
  
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• Who’s Choreographing What Where (A Leadership Thing)

  11-03-2025 18:31 via dancedataproject.com
  
  Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown of programming by format further highlights this disparity: women choreographed 30.2% of full-length works and 32.3% of mixed-bill works. – Dance Data Project
  
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• If civil servants have to make the grade, MPs should too | Brief letters

  11-03-2025 18:26
  Performance targets | Jack Vettriano | Art and science | School choirs | King Charles’s song choiceI see that the government is planning a cull of civil servants and will be aiming to incentivise underperformers to leave (9 March). I wonder whether a similar plan is envisaged to deal with politicians of a likewise disposition. If so, we had better prepare for general elections on a much more frequent basis – provided of course that they can be arranged by civil servants of an ac
  
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• How Satellite Radio Predicted The Streaming Subscription Model

  11-03-2025 18:15 via theconversation.com
  
  Well before subscriptions became the norm for streaming media, satellite radio companies Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio convinced radio listeners to become radio subscribers at the turn of the new millennium. – The Conversation
  
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• We’ve Been Missing The Point Of “The Great Gatsby” For A Century

  11-03-2025 18:04 via vox.com
  
  “Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism and the American dream, … all those mediocre movies and bad plays. Here’s the story of how The Great Gatsby has endured — and why we keep misreading it.” – Vox
  
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• The Enduring Allure Of Greece In Literature

  11-03-2025 17:44 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  For hundreds of years, we—broadly speaking, these books’ Anglophone-ish audience—have been reading too much into Greece. There were the philhellenes, like Nietzsche, who believed the ancients to be “the only people of genius in the history of the world.” – LA Review of Books
  
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• Bill Bryson: There Are Too Many Books (Blame Self-Publishing)

  11-03-2025 17:13 via thetimes.com
  
  It is thought that about 90 per cent of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies, although some self-publishing writers have become successful, notably Colleen Hoover. – The Times (UK)
  
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• What Does An Editor Of Contemporary Classical Music Do? Quite A Lot

  11-03-2025 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce.” – The New York Times
  
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• Stage Crews Reach Union Agreement With Atlantic Theatre

  11-03-2025 16:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has undertaken a major drive to organize those stage crews. – The New York Times
  
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• Why So Many Musicians Don’t Have Health Insurance

  11-03-2025 16:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans co-governed by their unions, use of labor group-administered insurance among recording artists is spottier.  – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Remembering Playwright Athol Fugard

  11-03-2025 16:15 via latimes.com
  
  Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his agenda as a playwright. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• New LACMA Building To Get New Works Of Outdoor Art

  11-03-2025 16:05 via yahoo.com
  
  “Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• South Carolina Public Radio To Sever Ties With NPR

  11-03-2025 15:33 via postandcourier.com
  
  “Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more resources on locally produced and focused content. … While it does not mean an elimination of NPR-produced content, there will be much less of it.” – The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Jury Rules That Disney Did Not Steal Story For “Moana”

  11-03-2025 15:01 via apnews.com
  
  “The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for Bucky the Surfer Boy.” – AP
  
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• NEA Backs Down — A Bit — Over “No Gender Ideology” Pledge Demand

  11-03-2025 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on their applications not to use grant money to “promote gender ideology.” The NEA has not, however, revoked the new criteria making organizations which do so ineligible for grants. – Artnet
  
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• Lincoln Center Gets $50 Million For Contemporary Dance

  11-03-2025 14:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the gift will help revive the city’s dance industry after the coronavirus pandemic.” – The New York Times
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 4 — You Can’t Tell Rhinoceroses They’re Dumb Animals

  11-03-2025 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Nor can you force them to admit they were wrong. Because they’re, you know, rhinoceroses.
  Not surprisingly, the Trump people believe this about their enemies as well. (Image by Alban Gogh from Pixabay)In the new/old world order of Trumpian policy, your arts organization faces the real possibility that, in the face of anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-truth political muckraking euphemistically calling itself “populism,” it will be shut down. To combat that, we need ideas to ad
  
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• US Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Over Nazi-Looted Pissarro

  11-03-2025 13:32 via msn.com
  The justices ordered a Federal appeals court to reexamine its ruling in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, currently in possession of Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie.” The family of Holocaust survivor Lilly Cassirer has fought to recover the painting for 20 years. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Art with Cantona and puppet animals lined up for Manchester international festival

  11-03-2025 13:15
  
  Footballers including legendary striker to collaborate with artists at July festival which opens with giant puppet paradeA giant herd of puppet animals raising awareness of the climate crisis and artwork inspired by footballers including Eric Cantona are part of the 10th edition of the Manchester international festival (MIF), whose organisers want visitors to have “a moment to reflect”.The former Manchester United footballer Juan Mata and the art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist have put t
  
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• Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Co. Reaches Agreement With Striking Stage Workers

  11-03-2025 13:00 via deadline.com
  
  “(The) much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off-Broadway shows to have such a union agreement.” – Deadline
  
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• William S Burroughs’s art: ‘He said, I killed the only woman I loved. Then broke down sobbing’

  11-03-2025 11:44
  
  Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisisOne day 51 years ago, out in the wilds of New Mexico, Kathelin Gray asked a question of her hero, the writer and artist William S Burroughs, whom she had just met. “William, I have read your books and I must know: what is your attitude to women?”The question had been eating away at Gray for the best part of a decade. As a teenage
  
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• South Bend Symphony Orchestra seeks Executive Director

  11-03-2025 06:16 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director will oversee all business aspects of the Symphony, including financial management, fundraising, marketing, audience development, labor relations, and organizational administration. Reporting to the Board of Directors and working in partnership with the Music Director, they will provide strategic leadership to advance the Symphony’s artistic, educational, and community engagement initiatives. By building strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and se
  
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