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• In St. Gallen, Switzerland They Love Books . . . Even American Poetry in English

  11-04-2025 21:00 via artsjournal.com
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• The Dutch Avant-Garde Theatre Company That Keeps Sending Shows To The West End And Broadway

  11-04-2025 20:50 via artsjournal.com
  That company is Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, directed for 20 years by Ivo van Hove and since 2023 by Eline Arbo. Her adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s The Years originated at ITA before being restaged with British actors in London, where the production just earned Arbo an Olivier Award. – The Guardian
  
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• Will AI Save Or Kill Journalism?

  11-04-2025 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  The more closely you look at the profession of journalism, the stranger it seems. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than fifty thousand people were employed as journalists in 2023, which is less than the number of people who deliver for DoorDash in New York City. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Central African Republic Has A National Ballet, And It’s Doing Important Work

  11-04-2025 20:04 via tinyurl.com
  
  Established in 2021, the company — also called the National Artistic Ensemble — works to collect and preserve the traditional dances of the many ethnic groups in the CAR, a nation wracked for years by civil war, instability and extreme poverty. – France 24
  
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• The Strange Limbo Of TikTok In The New World Order

  11-04-2025 19:43 via newyorker.com
  TikTok already existed in a kind of limbo before last week, but now its strange state of in-betweenness is intensified: it is both alive and dead, allowed to persist but technically illegal. Trump, who may have benefitted from its audience’s attention during the 2024 election, cannot let it be banned. – The New Yorker
  
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• Time To Refocus The NEH And NEA?

  11-04-2025 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  This is where the N.E.H. and N.E.A. would serve Mr. Trump well: not only correcting “woke” excesses, but also providing an elite counterpart to MAGA’s populist thrust. Expert critics, scholars and artists could ensure that only traditionalist projects are funded. – The New York Times
  
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• Is This Vermeer’s Last Painting?

  11-04-2025 19:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Until recently the Kaplan painting had been considered to have been completed between 1670-72. That dating has now been revised, with Wheelock stating it as 1670-75. Vermeer died on 15 December 1675 and Young Woman seated at a Virginal is most likely his final picture. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Prado Has Enlisted AI To Count People In Paintings

  11-04-2025 19:16 via news.artnet.com
  The Prado hopes that actually knowing exactly how many people are in these crowded scenes will help us better understand these paintings, and how the artists were using large quantities and repetition in their work. – Artnet
  
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• Biopics And Miniseries Of Bible Stories Have Become Big Business

  11-04-2025 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Leading the pack is Amazon’s The Chosen, the multi-season series recounting the life of Jesus that has become an international smash and made lead actor Jonathan Roumie a superstar. Yet there’s an entire sub-industry making adaptations of Bible stories from both Old and New Testaments, and its products are extraordinarily popular. – The Guardian
  
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• Tranquil Music Of Intensity

  11-04-2025 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Hania Rani, 34, has become a shooting star in a genre of pop-inflected minimalist music often referred to as neoclassical, or alt-classical… “It’s not being composed to help people relax,” she said in a recent interview. “The music might be slow — not so loud, not upbeat — but it’s actually intense.” – The New York Times
  
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• Data On The Relationships Between Arts And Building Community

  11-04-2025 18:31 via culturaldata.org
  Communities with greater access to arts organizations have: 33% more volunteers supporting nonprofit organizations, 7% more active voters who are registered and eligible for voting, 3% lower levels of income inequality… – SMUData
  
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• What do to with the NEA? Pull the plug?

  11-04-2025 18:15 via artsjournal.com
  Two opinion pieces were published this week giving different conservative takes on what to do with the NEA. I’ll talk about Mark Bauerlein’s New York Times Op-Ed in the next post; here I look at the Cato Institute’s Ryan Bourne’s briefing paper “End the National Endowment for the Arts”.
  To begin I’ll skip all the way to his last paragraph, which begins:There is no robust economic case for direct taxpayer funding of art.And, as I wrote in chapte
  
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• A Musician Wrote To The New Kennedy Center Director. He Responded

  11-04-2025 18:15 via washingtonian.com
  “I’m not sure why he chose to react to my email with such hostility, but I think it’s important for people to read this exchange and to note that the Kennedy Center does not currently have good leadership,” she wrote. – Washingtonian
  
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• I Found Robert Caro’s Unfinished Novel

  11-04-2025 18:06 via smithsonianmag.com
  The great historian had published some fiction while a student at Princeton, but nothing since then. While doing research in Caro’s archives, however, journalist Chris Heath discovered the drafts of a mid-career novel Caro had worked on but never finished. Naturally, Heath talked with Caro about it. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• A Case For Trump’s Smithsonian Order On Depicting History

  11-04-2025 17:44 via city-journal.org
  Trump’s order asks to avoid “ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort” and “rewrite” America’s history and “inappropriately disparage” heroes, and to foster “unity” by emphasizing America’s “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness,” rather than cultivating division by portraying the nation as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irred
  
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• Can This Man Save Iconic Atlantic Records?

  11-04-2025 17:31 via wsj.com
  The world of the all-controlling label is changing, and Atlantic Records—historically among the top three labels—has struggled to launch hot new global superstars. Atlantic’s market share in new music more than halved last year from 2019. Its parent Warner’s share price was down around 40 percent from its 2021 peak. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Has The Met’s Pivot To Contemporary Opera Fizzled?

  11-04-2025 17:15 via city-journal.org
  Signs of financial catastrophe are on the horizon. Gelb has twice dug into the Met’s anemic endowment, withdrawing up to $70 million out of a total of $340 million to meet operating costs, while slashing the number of performances. – City Journal
  
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• Max Kozloff, Influential Art Critic, Is Dead At 91

  11-04-2025 17:05 via artforum.com
  “Kozloff in the 1960s and ’70s brought fresh perspectives to such established forms as Futurism and Cubism, arguing that artists were influenced by such external forces as social currents and politics. His 1973 essay ‘American Painting During the Cold War’ rewrote the narrative around Abstract Expressionism and is still considered required reading.” – Artforum
  
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• Florida Men Indicted For Trafficking In Forged Andy Warhols

  11-04-2025 16:31 via apnews.com
  “According to the indictment, (Leslie) Roberts, the owner of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Coconut Grove, fraudulently represented art as original pieces created by renowned artist Andy Warhol. … (Carlos Miguel) Rodriguez Melendez falsely claimed to work for a New York-based auction company to fraudulently authenticate the artwork.” – AP
  
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• Dudamel And L.A. Phil Prepare To Play America’s Biggest Rock Festival

  11-04-2025 16:03 via msn.com
  “On Saturday evening, the Phil (is) finally playing … the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. For Dudamel, 44, who arrived in L.A. 17 years ago to lead the Phil, playing Coachella was ‘a dream, ever since I started here.’” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Fired New York Phil Players Accused Of Sexual Assault File Amended Lawsuit

  11-04-2025 15:34 via nytimes.com
  “The players — the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang — … filed amended complaints against the orchestra on Thursday that assert they were wrongfully dismissed and that an inquiry by the ensemble had been biased against them.” – The New York Times
  
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• Money From Cancelled NEH Grants Will Go To Trump’s “Garden Of American Heroes”

  11-04-2025 15:02 via hyperallergic.com
  “After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of its funds to construct President Donald Trump’s bizarre ‘National Garden of American Heroes.’” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra seeks President & CEO

  11-04-2025 14:46 via artsjournal.com
  The President & CEO will partner with the Music Director in a co-equal reporting relationship to the Board of Directors to guide BYSO into a pivotal new chapter. Together, they will advance BYSO’s strategic vision to fulfill its educational and artistic mission while significantly enhancing its presence in Boston and beyond. Building on the success of Phase One, the President & CEO will play a key role in ensuring the success of Phase Two, an ambitious expansion designed to amplify
  
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• Cosmic visions, Edwardian bling and Middle Eastern monuments – the week in art

  11-04-2025 13:00
  
  Ravishing photos of space, glittering images of a golden age and Ali Cherri’s archaeological sculpture – all in your weekly dispatchAli Cherri: How I Am Monument
  This Beirut-born artist creates contemporary monuments that echo the archaeology of the Middle East.
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