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• An Evening In The Life Of A “Drunk Shakespeare” Star

  18-04-2025 20:50 via yahoo.com
  
  “Marissa Chaffee starts her shift by housing a Five Guys burger with pickles, mustard and ketchup. … Later tonight, she’ll chug (a “Witches’ Brew”) potion while half-dressed in Spider-Man underwear and knee-high boots in front of 85 theatergoers. The test is … whether she can remember her iambic pentameter.” – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• The Coachella Experience Has Declined. An Identity Crisis?

  18-04-2025 20:31 via cbc.ca
  
  The livestreams haven’t calmed the complaints about Coachella’s lacklustre audiences — many who watch online have commented that the crowds aren’t as hype as they believe they would be if they were in attendance. – CBC
  
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• Ambient Music? An Online Archive Of Soundscapes From The Environment

  18-04-2025 20:02 via artsjournal.com
  “The Sonic Heritage project is a collection of 270 sounds from 68 countries, including from famous UNESCO-designated sites such as Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal, … a monarch butterfly sanctuary, … wind turbines, rare whales and the Amazonian dawn chorus.” Also, sea lions who sound like drunk frat boys. – The Guardian
  
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• Trump Attacks Have Provoked Canadian Nationalism. But What Does That Look Like?

  18-04-2025 19:44 via thewalrus.ca
  
  A more assertive Canadian nationalism than any we’ve seen this century has come roaring back, bringing with it not only a renewed patriotism but also an inchoate spirit of nation building with no equivalent in recent memory. – The Walrus
  
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• Climate Protesters Pardoned For Gluing Their Hands To Old Master Painting

  18-04-2025 19:31 via artnews.com
  
  The two protesters, members of the German environmental group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), entered the gallery and attached one hand each to the frame of the world-famous artwork. – ARTnews
  
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• How Is It That Ireland Hasn’t Had A National Dance Company?

  18-04-2025 19:15 via fjordreview.com
  
  How is it that an island that has managed to produce one of the strongest theatrical traditions in the West could be without a national dance company? – Fjord Review
  
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• All San Francisco Is Arguing About The 45-Foot Nude Woman, And That’s Wonderful

  18-04-2025 19:04 via msn.com
  Supporters agree that “R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane represents “feminine strength and liberation.” Critics complain that it’s just more of the male gaze and simply bad art. But even Uber drivers are talking about the piece and the issues involved, and that counts for a lot. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• How Theatre Should Help Save Democracy

  18-04-2025 18:44 via salon.com
  
  Culture is the sphere in which people debate and determine who they are, what they value and the kinds of lives they wish to lead. Properly understood, culture is not a passive backdrop to “real life” but an active domain where communities articulate their shared meanings. – Salon
  
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• How Curiosity Fires Up Great Leadership

  18-04-2025 18:31 via fastcompany.com
  Curiosity fosters openness and collaboration while reducing decision-making errors. Yet only 24% of organizations actively encourage it, leaving a wealth of untapped potential on the table. The best leaders don’t just seek answers; they reframe problems. – Fast Company
  
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• How Trump’s Threats To Canada Shifted Its Election To All About Culture

  18-04-2025 18:15 via deadline.com
  
  Almost all unanimously say Conservative threats to tear up cultural institutions just as Trump aggressively seeks to recalibrate America’s relationship with Canada, whether through tariffs or other actions, led to culture becoming a real battleground – and it’s a battle the Liberals are winning easily. – Deadline
  
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• New York Public Radio’s “New Sounds” Saved From Cancellation For Second Time In Six Years

  18-04-2025 18:06 via nytimes.com
  The 43-year-old show, which has had a profound hold on New York’s new-music scene, was first slated for cancellation, evidently for non-budgetary reasons, in 2019; the decision was reversed following public outcry. Money was the issue this time, and a fundraising campaign has secured the program for three years. – The New York Times
  
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• Saltz: The New Frick — What’s Not To Love?

  18-04-2025 17:44 via vulture.com
  
  There is a sexy underground auditorium, a 60-seat café, and the entire second floor of the mansion is now filled with art. There’s almost twice as much on view now. What’s not to love? – New York Magazine
  
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• 300 Customers Form Human Chain To Move Beloved Book Store

  18-04-2025 17:31 via washingtonpost.com
  After announcing she was moving her independent bookstore about a block away to a new location, her regular customers all had the same question: “How can I help?” – Washington Post
  
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• The US’s Biggest Export Is Education. Is Trump Wrecking It?

  18-04-2025 17:15 via wapo.st
  In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.– Washington Post
  
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• George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Sets New Record As Highest-Ever-Grossing Broadway Play

  18-04-2025 17:03 via theatermania.com
  
  “The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play in Broadway history. … The production broke the record for eight performances with a gross of $3,784,027.88 for the week ending April 13.” – TheaterMania
  
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• “Phantom” Is Coming Back To New York, Says Andrew Lloyd Webber, But Not To Broadway

  18-04-2025 16:31 via deadline.com
  
  “In a new Instagram video – watch it below – Lloyd Webber, pretending to speak for the Phantom character, says that the musical is returning but at ‘a better address in New York, in a better area.’” The show ended its 35-year Broadway run in 2023. – Deadline
  
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• Richard Wright review – a hectic, hallucinatory journey into a mind-boggling world

  18-04-2025 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Camden Arts Centre, London
  The artist’s largest solo show since winning the Turner prize is a mind-bending and mesmerising visual adventure that often defies comprehensionAn alphabet of writhing tadpoles and globules, blots and worms crosses the paper, an underwater language of indecipherable signs. Is that a comma? Is this an octopus? Looking up, I notice that some of this stuff has broken free of the surface of the framed drawing and floated up to the ceiling, where it is trapped between
  
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• ‘His work needs to be seen’: the Eric Gill exhibition put together by abuse survivors

  18-04-2025 16:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Ever since the artist’s repellent crimes were brought to light, the world has grappled with how to treat his work. Now a new exhibition at Ditchling, where he lived, is giving survivors a sayA young girl kneels on her bedroom floor, hands pressed together, as another figure towers over her, one arm raised. This watercolour, made by Eric Gill, is titled Annunciation – but for the abuse survivors currently working on a show of his work that will open in the town where he lived, this sc
  
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• Cleveland Has More Money For Arts Funding Than It Anticipated

  18-04-2025 16:05 via ideastream.org
  
  “Despite a drop in cigarette sales in Cuyahoga County in the first quarter of this year, tax revenue is up, creating more funding for Cuyahoga Arts & Culture” — thanks to the cigarette-tax increase from 30 cents to 70 cents per pack. But this doesn’t mean that grants will double. – Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)
  
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• Chicago Loses A Key Dance Venue, Links Hall

  18-04-2025 15:32 via wbez.org
  
  “Since its founding in 1978 …, Links has been a cornerstone of the city’s dance scene, often giving a home to experimental new works that pushed the envelope, both artistically and politically. Executive Director SK Kerastas said Thursday that the venue will continue with performances scheduled through June.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Nasher Sculpture Center In Dallas Appoints New Director

  18-04-2025 15:04 via keranews.org
  
  “(Carlos) Basualdo, 60, comes to Dallas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he rose through the ranks over 20 years to deputy director and chief curator. He succeeds Jeremy Strick, the Nasher’s longtime director who retired last June.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• On the hidden economics of live theatre

  18-04-2025 14:41 via artsjournal.com
  Freakonomics Radio has a new three part series on the economic landscape facing live theatre. Part One is here, and part two is here, which as a supporting act in an episode with Lin-Manuel Miranda, has me trying to coherently explain cost disease in the theatre, where it comes from and its implications. Part three will come next week, but if I say so myself it is a really informative series so far.
  
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• Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78

  18-04-2025 14:30 via npr.org
  
  Known for his work at The Village Voice and The Atlantic as well as for an influential annual critics poll, he, “more than many of his contemporaries, peered beyond the given framework of any musical subject, keen to consider the context, both cultural and commercial.” – NPR
  
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• Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Former Star Who Transformed Charlotte Ballet, Dead At 82

  18-04-2025 14:06 via charlotteobserver.com
  “A scintillating principal dancer for the Paris Opera and New York City ballet companies, (he) took an unexpected leap by taking on yet another career-defining role, as artistic director of a fledgling program in Charlotte that he would help to massively transform over two decades” with his wife, Patricia McBride. – The Charlotte Observer
  
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• Gormley’s early mettle, AI paint pals and sky-high snogs – the week in art

  18-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The sculptor’s macabre early works get an airing, robots remix David Salle’s postmodern paintings and Rodin’s The Kiss heads under the hammer – all in your weekly dispatchAntony Gormley
  Gormley’s early sculptures are cast from his own body and have a macabre, almost archaeological beauty that recalls prehistoric and ancient Egyptian art.
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• ‘Something playful’: celebrating the art of endpapers in children’s books

  18-04-2025 11:16 via theguardian.com
  New exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, looks at the unsung art that exists on the pages that bookend much-loved kids booksOnce upon a time, endpapers – those little bits of real estate connecting the inside covers of hardcover books to the pages within – were a site of pure decoration, or maybe, as in the case of The Chronicles of Narnia, a map of a fantasy realm. More recently, illustrators have been reimagining just what endpapers can be – far from decorations or maps, the
  
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