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• Director of Finance – Hudson Valley Shakespeare

  27-03-2025 21:02 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityHudson Valley Shakespeare (HVS) is in the midst of a transformational moment as an organization. After undergoing tremendous artistic and programmatic evolution in recent years, following the successful transition from a founding leader to the installation of Artistic Director Davis McCallum in 2014 and Managing Director Kendra Ekelund in 2022, HVS is in a place of great strength in terms of its mission, work, and leadership. At the same time, HVS (known as Hudson Valley Sha
  
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• Why Christopher Wheeldon Helped Bring The Story Ballet Back To Life

  27-03-2025 20:03 via sfcv.org
  “I don’t want to take away from the power of the abstract because that’s where we find our own imaginative ways to connect with the choreography. But I love that story ballets are being made by young choreographers. And that’ because we connect. We spend our lives telling stories.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Social Media Overwhelmed Us. We Got Concerned Far Too Late

  27-03-2025 19:32 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  Call me a Luddite, but I do not think it wise to wait until these kindly bots are in place before deciding how effective they are. Better to roll them off the nearest cliff today. “Maybe it’s not too late to change ourselves.” – Hedgehog Review
  
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• A New Wave Of Films That Aren’t Just On The Texas-Mexico Border, They’re From It

  27-03-2025 19:02 via texasobserver.org
  
  “In stark contrast to thrillers like Sicario, where a shootout breaks out on the El Paso bridge in broad daylight, boredom is often the worst-case scenario for people who actually live along the border, at least on the U.S. side. And a flurry of new films is now correcting the record.” – Texas Observer
  
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• Movie Theatres Are Still Struggling To Recover Business

  27-03-2025 18:44 via variety.com
  
  North America has 5,691 fewer screens compared with pre-COVID times, according to research by media consultancy Omdia. Box office grosses haven’t rebounded either. Ticket sales in 2024 fell to $8.7 billion, a 23.5% drop from pre-pandemic levels. It’s a far cry from the nearly $11 billion the industry was generating. – Variety
  
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• Sebastian Smee: Colorado Trump Portrait Is Bad Art, But Distorted?

  27-03-2025 18:31 via msn.com
  Distorted? He’s a bit jowly, perhaps, but I — “even I?” — think it’s a decent resemblance. Still, I agree with the president that it’s a bad portrait. Not because it’s distorted, but because it’s bland, wooden, slick and lifeless. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Trump Demands Congress Defund Public Radio And Television

  27-03-2025 18:15 via thedailybeast.com
  
  “Republicans, don’t miss this opportunity to rid our Country of this giant SCAM, both being arms of the Radical Left Democrat Party,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. – The Daily Beast
  
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• The Future Of Streaming TV? Probably A Lot Like The Past Of Cable

  27-03-2025 18:06 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Deloitte predicts that the industry will shift away from standalone subscription services towards aggregation, similar to traditional pay TV packages. SVOD platforms need aggregators as they reach saturation in major markets and seek creative ways to reach new audiences and reduce churn.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Are We Headed For A New “Dark Ages”?

  27-03-2025 17:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
   If Russia, China, and the United States all sport various shades of totalitarianism, and Europe fractures over it, the world may very well enter a new Dark Age. One that could last a few years or many centuries. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Viral Trend: AI Image Update Floods Internet With Studio Ghibli-ized Images

  27-03-2025 17:25 via variety.com
  
  On social media, users have shared multiple examples of Ghibli-style images produced by OpenAI’s new image generator. – Variety
  
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• Court Rules That Music Created By AI Can’t Be Copyrighted. But This Doesn’t Settle The Issue

  27-03-2025 17:15 via musicradar.com
  
  “Based on the fundamental principles of copyright, the current state of fast-evolving technology, and the information received… the Copyright Office concludes that existing legal doctrines are adequate and appropriate to resolve questions of copyrightability.” – MusicRadar
  
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• Living Legends Of Avant-Garde Theatre: The Wooster Group At 50

  27-03-2025 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Classic writers — Chekhov, Racine, Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein — have been resurrected in conversation with a tumultuous, shape-shifting present for an astonishing 50 years. … In the late 1970s, these shows … were the ones that the coolest of experimental theatergoers swooned over, gossiped about.” – The New York Times
  
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• Rafał Zajko: The Spin Off – fantastical sci-fi visions with a side order of pickles

  27-03-2025 16:18
  
  Focal Point Gallery, Southend
  The young Pole’s work is buzzing with pop references and ideas about the future, all grounded in the everyday – with kaiser rolls and gherkinsThere’s a lot of art about birth, death and rebirth, but not a lot of it uses pickles. Preserves, however, are all over Polish artist Rafał Zajko’s biggest solo show yet. Big jars of brine filled with salty cucumbers and little figurines in the shape of cryogenic preservation chambers. That combina
  
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• ‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

  27-03-2025 08:00
  
  In a region fractured by jihadists and coups, Ségou’Art shows ‘we share our culture, even if politics divides us’A group of Tuareg musicians dressed in light blue robes were playing by a campfire that cast dancing shadows on the red sand. A drum and violin accompanied the electric guitars as more people came to watch the band, called Aitma.Every February, the city of Ségou, 140 miles (230km) north of the capital, Bamako, is transformed into Mali’s cultural h
  
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• ‘CSI: Miró’: X-ray reveals Spanish artist painted out his mother – but why?

  27-03-2025 07:00
  
  Decades of detective work have uncovered Joan Miró’s hidden act of rebellion: painting over his mother’s portrait. But why did the artist do it?Three clumps of raised paint, an old X-ray and months of scientific analysis and dogged detective work have revealed that a portrait of Joan Miró’s mother has lurked, undetected, beneath the cobalt-blue surface of one of the Spanish artist’s inimitable works for the best part of a century.Between 1925 and 1927, Mir&o
  
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