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• There’s A Contemporary Dance Boom In Ireland

  18-03-2025 20:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Two decades ago, despite the strength of traditional Irish dancing, the Republic had no national ballet or dance company, a handful of independent troupes and just a few choreographers. Now there are several internationally-renowned dancemakers, a healthy crop of trained performers, and a new national dance company called Luail. – Dance Magazine
  
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• To Use A Movie Intimacy Coordinator (Or Not)

  18-03-2025 19:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Some professionals say the decision of whether to use an intimacy co-ordinator should rest with more people. – CBC
  
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• The UK Is Losing About 40 Libraries A Year

  18-03-2025 19:15 via bbc.com
  
  According to those who depend on them, local libraries are far more than a repository of books – they are community focal points and, for some, a vital lifeline to the outside world. What happens when one closes? – BBC
  
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• The Pub Has Become One Of Ireland’s Major Cultural Exports

  18-03-2025 19:06 via smithsonianmag.com
  The Irish Pub Company has created over 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries, in places from Berlin to Bahrain to Nigeria to Novosibirsk to Tokyo to Tulsa to Tashkent. This isn’t a prefab bar-in-a-box business; the pubs are custom-designed, with the owner having final choice on the many details. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Carter Graydon And The Golden Age Of Magazines

  18-03-2025 18:27 via newyorker.com
  
  The truism has it that most great New York magazine editors come from away—from the West or the Midwest or across the Atlantic—and arrive with an ability to see what natives don’t. – The New Yorker
  
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• Happiness is inertia and two bathrooms | Brief letters

  18-03-2025 18:21
  
  Marriage advice | Pity Thames Water customers | The slimming effect of greyhounds | Growing to love art | Bored by bridgeWhen asked about the secret of their long marriage, my parents’ answer is “inertia and two bathrooms” (Pass notes, 17 March). They celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary last week.
  Emma Woolf
  Birmingham• Re your article (Thames Water on TV: pity the staff, this place is decrepit, 16 March), having recently had a water bill from Thames Water asking us
  
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• We Worry To Much About Misinformation At The Expense Of Focusing On What’s True

  18-03-2025 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  There are two errors we must avoid if we want to get closer to the truth: we shouldn’t believe things that are false, and we shouldn’t discount things that are true. If we focus solely on reducing belief in false content, as current efforts tend to do, we risk targeting one error at the expense of the other. – The Guardian
  
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• “The Acoustics Are Perfect”: Berkeley Gets A New Concert Hall

  18-03-2025 18:04 via msn.com
  Hertz Hall, the existing classical venue at UC-Berkeley, seats 600; it wasn’t uncommon for some concerts to attract 100 people or fewer, but there were no concert halls that size anywhere nearby. That is, until the opening on Sunday of the 100-seat Wu Performance Hall. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Italian Newspaper Publishes First All-AI Generated Edition

  18-03-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic experiment aimed at showing the impact AI technology has “on our way of working and our days”, the newspaper’s editor, Claudio Cerasa, said. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Beckett Is Perennially Relevant (But Especially Now)

  18-03-2025 17:32 via latimes.com
  
  Beckett is perennially timely because his works concern themselves with those eternal questions that the political emergencies of the day cannot override. Even as we confront impossible times, we remain planted in that greater impossibility — human existence. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Fast Company’s List Of 2025’s Most Innovative Architects

  18-03-2025 17:15 via fastcompany.com
  Innovation doesn’t have to mean reinventing the wheel: Often it just means making it better, more relevant, and a lot easier to use. – Fast Company
  
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• Two Major Theater Figures Are Working On A New James Taylor Musical

  18-03-2025 17:02 via variety.com
  
  Tony- and Pulitzer-winning actor-playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County and The Minutes) is writing the story and book for the jukebox show, titled Fire and Rain, and another Tony winner, David Cromer (The Band’s Visit), will direct. – Variety
  
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• Trump Tours Kennedy Center, Declares It Substandard, Vows To Fix It

  18-03-2025 16:44 via thehill.com
  “It’s in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management,” Trump told reporters Monday after he toured the Kennedy Center and met for the first time as chair of its board. – The Hill
  
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• Edgar Allan Poe’s Life Was A Mess. He Wrote To Compensate

  18-03-2025 16:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Through all his binges and bankruptcies, through every setback and depressive spell, he kept making art because he knew that’s where the best of him lay. – Washington Post
  
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• American Universities Under Threat As Government Uses Funding Threats

  18-03-2025 16:15 via thehill.com
   “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.” – The Hill
  
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• The Rise Of Legislation That Could Make Librarians Criminals

  18-03-2025 16:05 via bookriot.com
  
  A wave of proposed state laws that would hold librarians criminally liable for the presence of any material in their libraries’ collections deemed “obscene” has been getting increased attention and drawing opposition. Yet it’s important to remember that such laws are (a) straight out of Project 2025 and (b) not new. – Book Riot
  
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• Meet The Man The Met Hired To Locate Looted Objects In Its Collection

  18-03-2025 15:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “As the Met’s head of provenance research, a new position created last May, … (Lucian) Simmons (has) a job to correct earlier errors, to prevent new questionable acquisitions and to ensure that the museum’s reputation for integrity and scholarship is not further damaged.” – The New York Times
  
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• “Emotionally, Socially, Incredibly Stupid”: Re-Examining The Pharma Mogul Who Created The Barnes Foundation

  18-03-2025 15:01 via msn.com
  Blake Gopnik: “I’m not sure that we really understood the contradictions at the heart of Albert Barnes, the fact that he could be just an incredibly smart man and a man who was emotionally, socially incredibly stupid, a man who could be incredibly generous and just absurdly vituperative.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 5 — You Can’t Do It Alone

  18-03-2025 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  The work to deprogram cultish minds is dangerous. Get help. Lots of it.
  (Image of Scientology Center, East Hollywood, by Matthew Field licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.)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’ve talked about:Utilizing your
  
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• On the aesthetic education of the young

  18-03-2025 14:54 via artsjournal.com
  From Book III of The Republic, by Plato (circa 375 BCE, translation by F. M. Cornford). Socrates is speaking with Glaucon:
  One thing, however, is easily settled, namely that grace and seemliness of form and movement go with good rhythm; ungracefulness and unseemliness with bad.
  Naturally.
  And again, good or bad rhythm and also tunefulness or discord in music go with the quality of the poetry; for they will be modelled after its form, if, as we have said, metre and music must be adapted to the se
  
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• Staff Cuts At Britain’s Tate Galleries

  18-03-2025 14:36 via theguardian.com
  “Tate is cutting 7% of its workforce as the British arts institution seeks to address a funding deficit left over from the pandemic. … Tate, which has four galleries across London, Liverpool and Cornwall, said it had been working with staff for a number of months to achieve the reduction.” – The Guardian
  
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• Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo review – masterpieces from a man with a heart as big as the Notre Dame

  18-03-2025 14:05
  
  Royal Academy, London
  From hanged men and inky cephalopods to shadowy gothic castles, these cosmic, horror-tinged works let the Les Misérables writer and liberal political campaigner speak directly to usVictor Hugo is the French equivalent of Shakespeare and Dickens. The inventor of Quasimodo and Jean Valjean is so universal that we absorb his myths even if we have never picked up one of his books. Yet how much do most of us know about Hugo himself, behind the books, the films, the musica
  
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• The New Yorker Fires Art Critic Jackson Arn

  18-03-2025 14:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The magazine parted ways with Arn, who replaced the late Peter Schjeldahl in 2023, after receiving complaints about his inappropriate behavior at the publication’s 100th birthday last month. – The New York Times
  
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• Public Radio Legend Diane Rehm Ends 52-Year Career At Her Home Station

  18-03-2025 13:32 via msn.com
  The 88-year-old host has taken a buyout offer from WAMU, the DC-based NPR outlet where she started her radio career as a volunteer producer in 1973 and, in 1979, began hosting the arts program Kaleidoscope, which became the more wide-ranging Diane Rehm Show in 1984. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Trump Begins Shutdown Of Voice Of America

  18-03-2025 13:00 via bbc.com
  
  “A White House statement said the order would ‘ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda’, and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media criticising the broadcaster. VOA, still primarily a radio service, … says it currently reaches hundreds of millions of people globally each week. – BBC
  
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• Dawn of Impressionism, Paris 1874 review – detailed examination of key moment in art history

  18-03-2025 10:00
  
  Re-creating the founding of the Impressionist movement, when artists including Monet, Renoir and Cézanne showed their work at their own exhibitionIt’s back to the tried and trusted blockbuster names of French impressionism for the latest release from Exhibition on Screen, the Brighton-based outfit demonstrating remarkable staying power in the gallery-film sector; their consistent level of excellence means they remain largely unchallenged in the field. Excursions into the comparative
  
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