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• Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra seeks President & Chief Executive Officer

  10-11-2025 22:26 via artsjournal.com
  Reporting to the Board of Directors, the President and Chief Executive Officer who will provide positive leadership and vision to ensure the Kalamazoo Symphony’s organizational, financial, and artistic success. They will be responsible and accountable for all aspects of the Orchestra’s operations, including strategic planning, budgeting and financial management, artistic administration and some program planning, contract negotiations and labor relations, marketing and public relatio
  
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• How Journalism Media Lost The American Public

  10-11-2025 20:31 via harpers.org
  “I actually think that the decline of trust has to do with newspapers’ becoming more responsible, more accurate. Nobody I know would trade today’s newspaper for one from 1960.” – Harper’s
  
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• Instant Translation Is Like Magic. But Might We Be Losing Something?

  10-11-2025 20:04 via theatlantic.com
  As people embrace these transformative tools, they risk eroding capacities and experiences that embody values other than seamlessness and efficiency. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Crushing Debt Of Arts Schools

  10-11-2025 19:40 via hyperallergic.com
  Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. However, the fine print tells a different story: crushing debt, unreliable outcomes, and a mismatch between what’s promised and what’s delivered. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Expert Critics Look At This Year’s Booker Finalists

  10-11-2025 19:21 via theconversation.com
  Academic critics read closely this year’s Booker Prize finalists:Each novel has emotional temperature and structural ambition: domestic quietudes stretched into myth, migration histories turned intimate, masculinity stripped to bone, love sagas operating as cultural x-rays. A list that prizes atmosphere over spectacle. – The Conversation
  
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• Enough With Those Claims Culture Has Become Less Creative. Look Around!

  10-11-2025 19:01 via artnews.com
  The Internet didn’t destroy monoculture. It exposed the fact that monoculture was always a bottleneck, popped the cork, and let the contents fizz out.  – ARTnews
  
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• How To Build An Imagination: The Books Of Childhood

  10-11-2025 18:37 via equator.org
  We learn from stories. Our ancestors were raised on myths about their ancestors, tales about their saviours, emperors and lawgivers, and, eventually, novels about any number of times and places, most of them named.  – Equator
  
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• Fired Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sues Over Her Dismissal

  10-11-2025 18:37 via nytimes.com
  In her lawsuit, which was filed in Pennsylvania state court, the former director, Sasha Suda, contends that she was fired “without a valid basis” after negotiations over the terms of her departure with the museum’s board of trustees had reached an impasse. – The New York Times
  
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• Fighting The Algorithms: Tips For Discovering New Music

  10-11-2025 18:21 via nytimes.com
  “For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to uncover new music. Not new releases, not new songs like the ones I already like, but music that’s new to me, by artists I haven’t encountered before.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Music Education Should Resist Conformity

  10-11-2025 18:01 via thestrad.com
  We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise, streamline, and compare ourselves globally, we risk erasing the very differences that make human creativity, and particularly music, so rich. – The Strad
  
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• @100: Remembering Charles Mackerras’ Impact On English Musical Life

  10-11-2025 17:40 via gramophone.co.uk
  Mackerras had a major impact on British musical life, whether as Music Director of English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, working with major symphony orchestras, or conducting smaller groups such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. – Gramophone
  
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• Washington National Opera Considers Leaving The Kennedy Center

  10-11-2025 17:20 via theguardian.com
  Leaving the Kennedy Center is a possible scenario after a collapse in box office revenue and “shattered” donor confidence in the wake of Trump’s takeover, said Francesca Zambello. – The Guardian
  
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• The Trump Administration Keeps Using Norman Rockwell’s Imagery, And His Family Is Fed Up

  10-11-2025 17:00 via msn.com
  “It’s important to us that younger generations know what the work stood for and don’t get some false impression from these decontextualized samplings — and we don’t want it to be associated with what the Department of Homeland Security is doing.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• It’s Actually Not So Hard To Make Your Movie Sets Accessible

  10-11-2025 16:30 via msn.com
  And it benefits literally everyone, advocates say, including the audience. “If everyone feels like this is a safe set and they can do their best work, the work will just be better.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• After Fifty Years In San Francisco, This Gallery Is Moving Out

  10-11-2025 16:00 via sfchronicle.com
  The plan: Rena Bransten Gallery will turn into a pop-up. “I have uncertainty about whether the model that we all grew up in, going to galleries, is viable,” the gallery director says. “I need to really look around and see what people are doing.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Iconoclast Art Guitar Maker Ken Parker Has Died At 73

  10-11-2025 15:45 via nytimes.com
  “Parker leveraged his extensive experience in woodworking and guitar repair, along with his maverick streak, to build groundbreaking guitars that went on to be displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Yi Zhou Accuses Actor Jeremy Renner Of Unwanted Sexual Contact

  10-11-2025 15:30 via aol.com
  Zhou accused Renner of sending unwanted sexual images, and of threatening “to call immigrationICE” to intimidate her. The actor denies the accusations. – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• They Were Dancing ‘Nutcracker’ When An Earthquake Struck New Zealand

  10-11-2025 15:15 via rnz.co.nz
  And they kept right on dancing. – Radio New Zealand
  
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• When You Have A Multi-Set Show, You Need More Than A Director

  10-11-2025 15:00 via collider.com
  Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, on his new series Pluribus: “The concept of the others being in sync telepathically led to us hiring our first-time choreographer, ever. Technically, I think he’s billed as a movement coordinator or a movement designer.” – Collider
  
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• A Passionate Plea To Stop Devaluing Art, And The Future

  10-11-2025 14:45 via lithub.com
  “For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed. … We have more content than ever, but fewer opportunities for art and artists to thrive.” – LitHub
  
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• A Christmas Carol, But Make It Contemporary Britain, And Also A Big Fun Musical

  10-11-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  “Gurinder Chadha was wandering through the Charles Dickens Museum in London, trying to commune with the author’s spirit. ‘If you were alive today,’ the film-maker asked him, ‘what story would you tell?’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• When Words, And Then Truth, And Then Reality, Fall Apart

  10-11-2025 14:15 via archive.ph
  “Navigating life in an era of ‘alternative truths’ has proved to be a disorienting experience: How can people live together when truth has become whatever one would like it to be?” – Le Monde (Archive Today)
  
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• Alex Winters On Working With Keanu Reeves Again, This Time On Broadway

  10-11-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  “A child actor turned movie star turned director and producer and prolific tech documentarian, Winter’s career has been fitful, searching and unconventional, full of sharp left turns and voracious curiosity.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Turns Out The Louvre Photo’s ‘Fedora Man’ Is A 15-Year-Old French Teen Who Loves To Dress Rather Nattily

  10-11-2025 13:45 via npr.org
  The mysterious person “was cast as an old-school detective, an inside man, a Netflix pitch — or not human at all. … Pedro understood why. ‘In the photo, I’m dressed more in the 1940s, and we are in 2025,’ he said. ‘There is a contrast.’” – NPR
  
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• Hey, If You’re Addicted To Technology, You Might Do Worse Than Looking At How Renaissance Nuns Lived

  10-11-2025 13:30 via npr.org
  Or at least … that’s an idea? “Using the 17th-century nun Sor Juana as inspiration, [the authors] lay out five steps to writing an assertive, non-people-pleasing email.” – NPR
  
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• Indigenous Artist Tania Willard Wins Canada’s Largest Contemporary Art Prize

  10-11-2025 13:15 via cbc.ca
  The chair of the jury said, “She harvests berries to make ink drawings, harnesses wind and fire to compose  poems and operas, and builds worlds with her BUSH Gallery collaborators. In the face of precarity, scarcity and conflict, her work offers a model of sustainability, abundance and connection.” – CBC
  
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• Two Top BBC Officials Abruptly Quit Over Editing Of Documentary About January 6

  10-11-2025 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The resignations “came several days after The Daily Telegraph published details of a leaked internal memo arguing that a BBC Panorama documentary had juxtaposed comments by Mr. Trump in a way that made it appear that he had explicitly encouraged the attack on the Capitol.” – The New York Times
  
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• Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge review – going deep in the quest for extreme landscape painting

  10-11-2025 12:00
  At 79, the British artist is still skirting real peril, questing across the planet to depict the unspoiled vastnesses shown to grand effect hereTravelling with Tony Foster comes with a disclaimer. According to the terms of the contract signed by the British painter’s prospective companions: “You must have sufficient personal insurance for your body to be flown home in case of fatality.” Or, as he warns beforehand: “There will be times on this journey when you wish you wer
  
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