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• This Country’s Public Radio Broadcaster Has Shut Down After Voters Refused To Fund It

  03-04-2025 21:02 via apnews.com
  
  Radio Liechtenstein, which began broadcasting in 1995, went off the air at 6:00 pm Thursday, following a referendum last October in which 55.4% of voters elected to revoke the law that funds the station. Plans for privatization never materialized, as no buyer appeared interested in such a tiny market. – AP
  
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• How Fandom Can Make A Phenomenon Out Of A Word

  03-04-2025 20:14 via artsjournal.com
  Fandom has long facilitated deep dives into media in which fans analyse, discuss and track their favourite storylines and character arcs. This has been particularly true of the science fiction and fantasy genres, due to their complex and expansive narrative universes. – The Conversation
  
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• The Palace Of Versailles Restored An Opulent Fountain Using 17th-Century Techniques

  03-04-2025 20:05 via news.artnet.com
  “The gold leaf had washed off the 350-year-old statues, leaving a behind dull, ruddy scene. Algae had spread across the 13 statues, leaving marks down Apollo’s dashing face that appeared like a trail of green tears. Things were not much better internally.” – Artnet
  
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• Concerned About Climate Risks, Getty Will Sell $500 Million In Bonds To Enhance Protection

  03-04-2025 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  The Getty maintains earthquake and fire insurance but, as expressed in the filing, there are concerns “such insurance could become unavailable at rates considered reasonable by the Getty Trust.” – ARTnews
  
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• The Artistic Touch: Work Feels More Real When It’s A Bit Fake

  03-04-2025 19:15 via thepointmag.com
  
  I like genre fiction for the same reason I like black-and-white film, stylized dialogue, animation, the paintings of Marc Chagall or ballet: things feel more real if they’re obviously a little fake. – The Point
  
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• Ralph Fiennes To Direct His First Opera — And He’s Starting At The Top

  03-04-2025 19:03 via apnews.com
  
  The three-time Oscar nominee will direct Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera. (He played the title role in a 1999 film adaptation of the Pushkin novel on which the opera is based.) The production runs from Jan. 26 through Feb. 27, 2026 at the Palais Garnier; Semyon Bychkov will conduct. – AP
  
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• Dance Companies Respond To Anti-DEI Trump Efforts: We’re Not For Sale

  03-04-2025 18:44 via newcitystage.com
  
  “The response of these dance leaders reinforces my belief that the Trump administration’s move to suffocate diversity in the arts is ultimately doomed to fail. The voice of Americans of all races, genders and ability levels is a bell that cannot be un-rung and the arts are endlessly inventive, subversive and evolving.” – New City Stage
  
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• Bots Sucking Up Data Are Straining Wikipedia’s Servers

  03-04-2025 18:31 via arstechnica.com
  Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation’s bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. – Ars Technica
  
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• Director Of The  National Museum of African American History and Culture In DC Put On Leave

  03-04-2025 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin Young’s leave came two weeks before Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of what he described as “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” within the Smithsonian. – The Guardian
  
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• Leadership At Ballet Companies Worldwide Is Overwhelmingly Male: Analysis

  03-04-2025 18:04 via dancedataproject.com
  
  Out of 213 classically-based companies examined, only 30% of artistic directors are women and 70% are men. Women comprise 32.3% of artistic directors at second companies and 46.2% of assistant or associate artistic directors. Nearly half (49.2) of company executive directors are female. – Dance Data Project
  
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• London’s West End Ticket Sales Plateaued In 2024

  03-04-2025 17:44 via thestage.co.uk
  SOLT’s update on attendances for 2024 shows that 17.1 million attended performances – the same as in 2023. When compared with 2019 – the year before theatres shut due to the pandemic lockdowns – attendances are up 11% (from 15.3 million). – The Stage
  
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• Barcelona Is Transforming A Giant Eyesore Coal Plant Into A Creative Hub

  03-04-2025 17:31 via fastcompany.com
  Like Battersea, Barcelona’s plant is set to undergo a radical transformation into the new Catalunya Media City—a cutting-edge hub for digital arts, technology, and education. – Fast Company
  
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• AI Expert: Why AI Won’t Take Over Creative Writing

  03-04-2025 17:13 via theconversation.com
  
  As a professor of computer science who has authored hundreds of works on artificial intelligence, including AI textbooks that cover social impact of large language models, I think understanding how the models work can help writers and educators consider the limitations and potential uses of AI for what might be called “creative” writing. – The Conversation
  
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• John Oliver Sued For Defamation By Health Insurance Executive

  03-04-2025 17:06 via deadline.com
  
  “Filed last week in New York federal court, the complaint from Dr. Brian Morley, the ex-medical director of health insurance corporation AmeriHealth Caritas, … (states) “Defendants falsely told millions of viewers … that Dr. Morley testified in a Medicaid hearing that ‘he thinks it’s okay if people have shit on them for days.’” – Deadline
  
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• Tate Modern given Joan Mitchell work in biggest donation since 1969

  03-04-2025 16:37
  Miami billionaire couple part with triptych by late abstract expressionist that previously hung in their bedroomTate Modern has announced its most significant single donation in more than 50 years, a monumental triptych by the American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell that she named after her German shepherd dog, Iva.The huge 6-metre work, painted by Mitchell in 1973, was given to Britain’s national art collection by the billionaire Miami real estate magnate Jorge M Pérez and hi
  
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• Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fine Museums Which Display “Obscene Material”

  03-04-2025 16:31 via fortworthreport.org
  
  Following the attempted prosecution of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for child pornography over an exhibition of Sally Mann’s photography, a state representative has proposed a law that would fine a museum $500,000 per item per day for displaying anything deemed “obscene or harmful material.” – Fort Worth Report
  
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• Shaw Festival Gets $35 Million From Ontario To Rebuild Crumbling Theatre

  03-04-2025 16:02 via thestar.com
  
  The festival, located where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario on the US-Canada border, had planned to close the century-old Royal George Theatre permanently. Now the provincial government has pledged C$35 million to reconstruct the venue — with more physical stability, updated facilities and expanded seating. – Toronto Star
  
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• Opera Philadelphia Will Do Another $11-Ticket Season (And That’s Not The Only Way It’s Unconventional)

  03-04-2025 15:35 via msn.com
  For 2025-26, the company will again offer all seats at $11 each (or higher if the buyer chooses). There are twice as many performances as this season, and five works scheduled rather than this season’s three — but only one of those works is a conventional opera. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Old Models Are Broken — Which New Models Are Surging? 3 Arts Conferences

  03-04-2025 15:06 via artsjournal.com
  The Old Models Are Broken — Which New Models Are Surging? 3 Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conferences Are Your Best Chance to Get Ahead of What’s ComingJoin us in Toronto, June 24-25; San Francisco, July 22-23; or New York City, August 5-6. Sign up by May 2 to get 3-for-1 registration. Each additional registrant is just $99 after that. Space is limited. Register today for two jam-packed days of success-planning and fun!If you’re not adapting, you’re falling
  
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• Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is In A Very Difficult Position

  03-04-2025 15:03 via artsjournal.com
  “(He) has served as a museum director, educator and historian — positions in which he has demonstrated a skill for diplomacy. But perhaps no amount of charm or discretion can help him avoid the fight he now faces over the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, the cultural behemoth he stewards.” – The New York Times
  
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• Now It’s Official: The Grand Avenue Cultural District In Downtown L.A.

  03-04-2025 14:30 via yahoo.com
  
  “The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create (the district) to boost the visibility of the arts scene in a corridor of downtown that includes the Broad museum, Center Theatre Group, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, REDCAT and the Colburn School.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Despite Court Ruling, Radio Free Europe Has No Money And Is Furloughing Staff

  03-04-2025 14:04 via about.rferl.org
  
  Pursuant to a judge’s order, the US Agency for Global Media said last week it has rescinded its decision to terminate funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Yet no money has actually arrived from Washington, so the agency has started furloughing all staff at its headquarters in Prague. – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  
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• Giuseppe Penone review – an ecstatic realm where trees and humans merge

  03-04-2025 12:21
  Serpentine, London
  From the moment we inhale the scent of this remarkable show – in which trees blast open and boulders perch on branches – the Italian artist intoxicates us like a shaman communing with wood spritesIt’s the aroma that lures you in. Deep and difficult to place, it comes from the thousands of laurel leaves that pad the walls of the Serpentine’s high central space. Laurel is the sharp-leaved evergreen tree sacred to the god Apollo and through him associated
  
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• Plasticine men and giant goddess women: why Ken Kiff’s brilliant, bizarre art is getting a second look

  03-04-2025 11:31
  A new exhibition celebrates the British painter, who was overlooked in the brash 90s, but now whose idiosyncratic work as artist in residence at the National Gallery is being newly celebratedKen Kiff was a brilliant odd one out in post-second world war British painting. In works that sing with colour and texture, he crafted wibbly-wobbly fables in which eyes and noses slide around faces, animals tower over mountains and dreaming, desiring, questing men are rendered poignantly goofy. Looking to m
  
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• Suspended in time: ethereal photos that look like landscape paintings

  03-04-2025 08:00
  Inspired by the landscapes of the French masters, Elger Esser captures the brooding seascapes and bucolic country scenes of his beloved countryside – with timeless results Continue reading...
  
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