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• Northern Clay Center seeks next Executive Director

  14-03-2025 21:59 via artsjournal.com
  The Executive Director will provide strategic leadership and ensure financial sustainability, programmatic excellence, and community impact. Reporting to the board of directors, they will oversee fundraising, financial management, strategic planning, marketing, and operations while developing a long-term vision aligned with NCC’s mission and values. As NCC’s primary advocate, the Executive Director will engage artists, donors, funders, and community partners, leading efforts to diver
  
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• Send In The Clowns: This City Reduced Traffic-Related Deaths By Putting Mimes Amidst The Gridlock

  14-03-2025 19:50 via atlasobscura.com
  
  In the 1990s, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus replaced hundreds of corrupt traffic cops with a few dozen mimes. Armed with nothing but signs that read correcto and incorrecto, the silent troupe theatrically mocked lawbreakers and applauded polite motorists. And it worked. – Atlas Obscura       
  
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• Is There Any Such Thing As A “Mainstream” Media Now?

  14-03-2025 19:44 via thepointmag.com
  
  What was once the mainstream media—the networks, the newspapers, certain magazines—years ago lost the command that it had of the nation’s attention and with it the ability to create a shared national understanding of what was going on in the world of reality. – The Point
  
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• Celine Dion Warns Fans About AI-Generated Music That Impersonates Her

  14-03-2025 19:31 via latimes.com
  
  “It has come to our attention that unsanctioned, AI-generated music purporting to contain Celine Dion’s musical performances, and name and likeness, is currently circulating online and across various Digital Service Providers,” read a Friday post on Dion’s social media. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Songs Of Canada Versus Trump

  14-03-2025 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  The pro-Canada songs currently spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, while also contributing to the national mood. – The Conversation
  
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• Forget 1215 And “Bad King John” — Here’s The Real Magna Carta

  14-03-2025 19:04 via historytoday.com
  The “Great Charter” signed by John of England and his barons lasted less than three months before they were back at war with each other; new versions were issued in 1216 and 1217 by John’s successor, nine-year-old Henry III. But it’s the revision of 1225 that settled matters. – History Today
  
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• Sofia Gubaidulina’s Place in The Musical World

  14-03-2025 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Gubaidulina’s work is not the kind of thing you put on during morning yoga. She makes sounds of struggle and disorder; of awaiting some signal from beyond with hushed anxiety; of the strenuous attempt to bridge the gap between humans and the divine. Transcendence, if and when it arrives, is hard won. – The New York Times
  
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• Balanchine Wasn’t Just Important In Dance

  14-03-2025 18:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Balanchine’s relevance to visual art is not just in direct collaborations and affiliations with artists in his lifetime. His formal gestures and patterns make him crucial to certain strains of contemporary performance art. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Artist traces Manchester’s links to slavery on blue cotton gown

  14-03-2025 18:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Manchester Art Gallery exhibition features dress inspired by outfit worn by abolitionist Sarah Parker RemondFor nearly 160 years, the blue plaque has marked sites of historic importance. Now one English institution has found its own way of signifying a flagship moment while interrogating its past – a blue dress.The new artwork, at Manchester Art Gallery, commemorates the occasion when the African American abolitionist Sarah Parker Remond made a speech on the site in 1859. Continue reading.
  
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• Steven McRae On Coming Back From A Ballet Star’s Worst Nightmare

  14-03-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people — his Achilles tendon snapped and he fell to the floor, howling in pain and seeing “my career flash before my eyes.” – The Guardian
  
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• IATSE Stagehands Protest Show Cancelations At The Kennedy Center

  14-03-2025 17:44 via deadline.com
  
   “Behind-the-scenes workers need to feed our families and have neither participated in any decisions relating to booked content, nor have we considered social issues as a matter of whether we service a production in the history of our relationship at the Kennedy Center.” – Deadline
  
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• JD Vance Booed At Kennedy Center Concert

  14-03-2025 17:31 via washingtonpost.com
  On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center concert hall was awash in nearly a minute of howling, passionate booing. It started with one or two boos and caught on fast, roaring from the rows. I’ve never heard anything quite like it — let alone before a note was played. – Washington Post
  
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• OpenAI Urges Trump Whitehouse To Allow Its AI To Train On Copyrighted Work

  14-03-2025 17:14 via nbcnews.com
  In its proposal, OpenAI urged the federal government to enact a series of “freedom-focused” policy ideas, including an approach that would no longer compel American AI developers to “comply with overly burdensome state laws.” Copyright in particular is an issue that has plagued AI developers. – NBC News
  
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• How And Why Did Trauma Narratives Become Ubiquitous?

  14-03-2025 17:05 via theguardian.com
  “You need only look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a love affair with trauma. … It was the use of trauma as a ballast for plot, not just as a technique to illustrate character, that was so striking.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Persian National Epic Becomes An Extravaganza Of Shadow Puppetry

  14-03-2025 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “The show” — Song of the North, adapted from the medieval Persian epic poem Shahnameh — “is mind-dizzyingly complex, involving 483 puppets, 208 animated backgrounds, 16 character masks and costumes and nine performers who follow more than 2,300 separate cues.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Market And The Rise Of “Red-Chip” Art

  14-03-2025 15:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  “What is red-chip art? … (It) comes in many guises, but certain visual patterns predominate: super-flat cartoons, a street art/graffiti aesthetic, and multi-colored chrome. Crucially, red-chip art is defined by its refusal to revere art history, perhaps as a part of a broader rejection of elite, specialized knowledge.” – Artnet
  
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• Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Evict Cinema For Showing Best Documentary Oscar Winner

  14-03-2025 15:01 via deadline.com
  
  Mayor Steven Meiner has asked the City Council to terminate the lease of, and end a $40,000 grant to, nonprofit movie theater O Cinema after it screened the documentary No Other Land, about life in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. – Deadline
  
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• Tate cuts 7% of workforce in effort to reduce funding deficit from pandemic

  14-03-2025 14:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Arts institution says loss of 40 roles achieved through voluntary departures and recruitment freezesTate is cutting 7% of its workforce as the British arts institution seeks to address a funding deficit left over from the pandemic.About 40 roles have been affected by the cuts, made through voluntary departures and recruitment freezes. Continue reading...
  
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• South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Gov. Noem’s Bid To Cut State’s Public Radio & TV

  14-03-2025 14:32 via usatoday.com
  
  The Legislature’s appropriations committee voted unanimously to reject the line in the Governor’s budget cutting $3.61 million — 65% of the network’s total general funds — to South Dakota Public Broadcasting. – USA Today
  
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• Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Appoints Alex Prior Music Director

  14-03-2025 14:04 via klcc.org
  
  A 32-year-old Briton (and a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Prior became assistant conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17 and music director of the Edmonton Symphony at 25. He begins his initial term in Eugene next October. – KLCC (Eugene, OR)
  
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• What’s This About A New Frank Lloyd Wright House?

  14-03-2025 13:35 via news.artnet.com
  
  A house called RiverRock, based on the design plans that were on Wright’s drawing board when he died, was completed early this year in a Cleveland suburb, and the owner charges $800 a night for short-term rentals. Is this a legitimate Wright creation? The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation says no. – Artnet
  
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• The inner life of India, Warhol’s America and the Munch bunch – the week in art

  14-03-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Edvard Munch’s weird and creepy portraits, Arpita Singh’s first major UK exhibition and a sea view from East Anglia – all in your weekly dispatchArpita Singh: Remembering
  First major UK exhibition for this veteran Indian painter of modern life.• Serpentine North, London, from 20 March until 27 July Continue reading...
  
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• John Feinstein, Star Sports Commentator And Bestselling Author, Dead At 69

  14-03-2025 13:00 via msn.com
  A full-time sportswriter for The Washington Post for 14 years and steady contributor thereafter, he became known to national audiences through regular appearances on NPR and ESPN. Feinstein wrote or co-write more than 40 books, including the bestseller A Season on the Brink, about basketball coach Bobby Knight. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney

  14-03-2025 08:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The president’s attacks on diversity and immigration have already affected many artists and will affect many more in the coming monthsOne of the most pernicious effects of a bully’s intimidation is making victims afraid of being true to themselves, because it’s the essential and authentic parts of them that incite the bully’s contempt.During his first week in office Donald Trump issued a blitzkrieg of executive orders. Among them, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restori
  
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