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• It’s About Time We Acknowledged That Andrew Wyeth Was A Genuinely Great Artist

  15-04-2025 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  “The slow collapse of the postwar avant-garde’s underlying tenets (no figuration! no storytelling! no obvious skill!) has allowed many to admit that Wyeth was onto something specific and powerful …, (and) I find it tends to overwhelm most reservations. What he was onto, in short, was mortality.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Man Behind Philadelphia Pianos

  15-04-2025 20:35 via msn.com
  For the past several decades, Greg Sikora has tuned and voiced pianos for the biggest musical artists to play this region, from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga and everyone in between. He also served as the chief concert piano technician for the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Producer Jeffrey Seller Recounts The Gestation And Birth Of “Rent”

  15-04-2025 20:06 via vulture.com
  
  “In this excerpt, adapted from Seller’s memoir, Theater Kid (out on May 6 from Simon & Schuster), the producer lays out the musical’s long road from dispiriting workshop to its simultaneously triumphant and tragic first preview performance.” – Vulture
  
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• Why The Human Brain Needs Ideologies

  15-04-2025 19:44 via nautil.us
  
  Our brains are these amazingly predictive organs trying to constantly explain the world, because that’s our way to survive. We have to have a reliable model of reality so that we can know what to expect—for example, when there’s going to be a confrontation with someone we’re in a relationship with. – Nautilus
  
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• Tech Titans Propose An End To Intellectual Property

  15-04-2025 19:28 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  One can only imagine what the value of music would look like if copyright protections were to disappear altogether. It would not be a stretch to imagine that its value would fall close to zero, along with the value of other commercialized cultural products, and the value of labor carried out by artists and other creators. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• How “Six” Challenges Conventional Broadway Musical Conventions

  15-04-2025 19:15 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  “Six,” which runs a sleek 85 minutes as an unruly concert where performers are explicitly competing for the audience’s sympathy, might ultimately be less interesting for its girl-power reframing of history than for its reconsideration of some of musical theater’s basic structural assumptions. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …

  15-04-2025 19:04 via msn.com
  “Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on sets. The most prominent criticism frames intimacy coordinators as a disruption to the artistic process.” – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• The Classically Cool Frick Re-emerges

  15-04-2025 18:44 via bloomberg.com
  If the museum experience is now more stylistically bifurcated — the Beaux Arts past on one side of the complex, a sympathetic but unapologetic contemporary aesthetic on the other — they unite in enhancing the museum experience. – Bloomberg
  
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• Trump Administration Wants Congress To Cancel Funding For PBS, NPR

  15-04-2025 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If Congress agrees, that will amount to about two years of the organization’s funding, nearly all of which goes to public broadcasters including NPR, PBS and their local member stations. – The New York Times
  
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• That Gaze Is a Gaze of Suspicion

  15-04-2025 18:24 via artsjournal.com
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• Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business

  15-04-2025 18:02 via nytimes.com
  Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That might be a stretch, but I’ve been able to commission music that makes me think it’s possible.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

  15-04-2025 17:51
  Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume … American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?By the time you read this article, there’s a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini may repurpose some of the words below to come up
  
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• Why Trump’s Sculpture Garden Project Of American Heroes Is A Big Deal

  15-04-2025 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  Effectively killing the NEH in its current form and then reallocating its money to build the National Garden of American Heroes—the centerpiece of Trump’s plans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States (thus, 250 sculptures)—is yet one more missile launched in his administration’s ongoing culture war. – The Atlantic
  
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• Stem Or Humanities? It’s a Disastrous Distinction

  15-04-2025 17:32 via slate.com
  In fact, neither one of these labels names a particularly coherent group of fields. STEM covers endeavors as different in their workings and aims as heart surgery is from number theory, while humanities disciplines have little in common beyond an (often) qualitative interest in (usually) human concerns. – Slate
  
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• Do We Even Know What Classical Music Is These Days?

  15-04-2025 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  Like every other sector of cultural life, classical music has been roiled over the past decade by intense debates about the field’s ongoing lack of diversity, among performing artists, composers, and leaders of musical organizations. – The Atlantic
  
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• After Last Year’s Fiasco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Works To Rebuild “Community Trust”

  15-04-2025 17:05 via keranews.org
  
  “(A) task force … will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations … The news comes after the dance company reached a settlement for over $560,000 with the National Labor Relations Board in December to compensate 10 fired dancers and three whose offers of employment were rescinded.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Why We Went Ahead And Played At The Kennedy Center

  15-04-2025 16:33 via msn.com
  Ryan Miller of the band Guster: “We wanted to support the staff who were caught in this political crossfire; the fans who had bought tickets, flights, and hotel rooms; the musicians we would be performing with. … We had been given a microphone and we intended to use it.” – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Pope Francis Puts Architect Antoni Gaudí On Path To Sainthood

  15-04-2025 16:01 via dezeen.com
  “The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was recognised by the Vatican for his ‘heroic virtues’.” – Dezeen
  
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• Cate Blanchett Says She’s Giving Up Acting

  15-04-2025 15:04 via radiotimes.com
  
  “My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting.  (There are) a lot of things I want to do with my life.” – Radio Times (UK)
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Beware “A Little Knowledge”

  15-04-2025 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Forcing data to reach a conclusion causes nonprofit arts organizations to issue pronouncements that just aren’t so.
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  I had a friend who had a Ph.D. in Psychobiology. She spent her post-doc work in a lab where, among other experiments, they tested a hypothesis about access to the brain via the olfactory nerve. That particular nerve, one of the key elements of the sense of smell, uses one of the shortest distances from the brain, which is why smell is usually a keen sense. The hypo
  
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• Jean Marsh, Who Co-Created And Starred In “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Is Dead At 90

  15-04-2025 14:32 via yahoo.com
  
  While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and film in both the UK and US, from Doctor Who to the Burton-Taylor epic Cleopatra to Hitchcock’s Frenzy to Ron Howard’s Willow. – The Telegraph (UK) (Yahoo!)
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Attacked Degas Sculpture Convicted

  15-04-2025 14:00 via newsobserver.com
  “A federal jury convicted Raleigh climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the National Gallery of Art — an act of civil disobedience that could send him to prison for 10 years.” – The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
  
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• Managing Director – Texas Performing Arts

  15-04-2025 02:58 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityTexas Performing Arts (TPA) is the professional arts presenting and producing program of The University of Texas at Austin. One of the largest and most active university-based performing arts centers in the U.S., TPA is an anchor institution in Austin’s arts, cultural, and entertainment landscape. With a population of nearly 1 million people, Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. UT Austin is the state’s flagship university and the #7 ranked
  
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