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• Stars Flock To Join London Production Of Gisèle Pelicot Trial

  05-11-2026 21:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  Director Milo Rau’s documentary staging of the trial of Pelicot’s husband, who repeatedly drugged her and invited men to rape her, will be produced and livestreamed by the Young Vic, with a cast including Kate Winslet, Brian Cox, Indira Varma, Tobias Menzies, Rosie O’Donnell, Suzy Eddie Izzard, Juliet Stevenson, and others. – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Why Musicians Are Touring Less

  05-11-2026 20:26 via ArtsJournal
  
  Attending a concert is no longer always just a night out. With the rise of music residencies and select-city tours, artists can save on travel costs while fans are shelling out for what’s being sold as the trip of a lifetime. – CBC
  
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• Soprano Angel Blue Cancels All Remaining Opera Engagements This Season

  05-11-2026 20:04 via ArtsJournal
  She didn’t specify a reason in the announcement she made on social media, though she did state that she would keep her concert dates, which she made sure to list on her post. – Opera Now
  
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• What Makes Music “Russian”

  05-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  The question at stake was how Russian composers could create their own tradition while drawing on established European musical culture. – The Conversation
  
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• Robert Wilson, An Explanation (By The Artist)

  05-11-2026 19:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  “I like to tell stories,” Wilson declares early in his book, and he is very good at it. – BookForum
  
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• Conservators Figure Out One Of Michelangelo’s Best Secret Techniques

  05-11-2026 19:03 via ArtsJournal
  Restorers working on the recently-completed cleaning of The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel have deduced that Michelangelo crafted his own special paintbrushes with multiple heads so that he could paint parallel lines quickly — and that he used them for crosshatched strokes that give the fresco a singular dynamism. – Artnet
  
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• Survey: Broad Worry About How Museums Will Use AI

  05-11-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  Just 9 percent of respondents accepted the use of AI in museum shows. Nineteen percent were unbothered by the notion that AI could used for brainstorming but not exhibition texts, meanwhile, and 29 percent said they felt no reservations about the usage of AI to write emails sent by museum officials. – ARTnews
  
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• Change of Subject: Cold Turkey’s Latest Offer

  05-11-2026 18:37 via ArtsJournal
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• Arts Education Incubator “The Crucible” Shuts Down In Oakland

  05-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The layoffs deepen the uncertainty surrounding the 27-year-old nonprofit, which closed its 56,000-square-foot West Oakland facility Oct. 25 and canceled classes and events. The board has said it cannot yet say when, or whether, the organization will reopen. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• And Now… Your Classical Music Concert In Virtual Reality

  05-11-2026 18:15 via ArtsJournal
  “In 45 minutes, I swam through oceans, plodded through snow, saw a cathedral grow around me and watched as a craggy mountainside spawned a gang of nefarious gremlin creatures. It was unrelentingly stimulating.” – The New York Times
  
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• Long-Unseen Old Master Landscape Revealed, Could Fetch $4 Million To $7 Million At Auction

  05-11-2026 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  “A Thickly Wooded Landscape With a Rainbow Behind the Trees and a Distant Outcrop to the Right Beneath a Cloud-Laden Sky,” completed around 1520 by Albrecht Altdorfer, is one of the oldest surviving landscapes in European art. It’s expected to sell for £3 million to £5 million next month at Sotheby’s. – The Guardian
  
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• How Canada Is Benefitting From Trump’s American Brain Drain

  05-11-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  For Canada, Trump’s war on facts presents a window of opportunity. “As other countries constrain academic freedoms and undermine cutting-edge research, Canada is investing in—and doubling down on—science,” Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said when announcing the initiative in December 2025. – The Walrus
  
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• Our Primal Need To Be Needed

  05-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  We have a real need to be needed. And yet many forces—thinking machines, aging, economic and social dislocation—appear to be making us feel redundant. Are we building a world in which no one is particularly necessary? Do we already live in such a world? – The New Yorker
  
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• K-Pop’s Firm Control Of Its Young Star Performers

  05-11-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  The contracts banned such behavior as having an “insincere attitude,” entering “inappropriate romantic relationships” or criticizing the record label.  – The New York Times
  
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• Baillie Gifford Prize For Nonfiction Goes To Edmund Richardson’s “Alexander: God, King, Man”

  05-11-2026 17:02 via ArtsJournal
  The “immersive” biography of Alexander the Great, which includes Richardson’s translations of source material from 12 different languages, is the first work about ancient history to win the £50,000 ($67,000) award. – AP
  
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• The Former Director Of The Paris Opera Ballet Is Now Choreographing For The Folies Bergère

  05-11-2026 16:34 via ArtsJournal
  Said ex-director is Benjamin Millepied, also known as a former New York City Ballet star, founder-director of L.A. Dance Project, choreographer for the movie Black Swan, and Natalie Portman’s ex-husband. He’s staging three shows, each built on the music of great singer-songwriters, at the Folies this month. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Russell Brand Convicted Of Rape And Sexual Assault

  05-11-2026 16:06 via ArtsJournal
  The British actor-comedian was convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women. He was acquitted of two rape counts and one count of attempted indecent assault. The incidents happened more than 20 years ago. – AP
  
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• Art Dealer Brent Sikkema’s Ex-Husband Sentenced To Life In Prison For His Murder

  05-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Daniel Sikkema was found guilty in May of charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot … that took place in Rio de Janeiro in January 2024. After a two-week trial in New York, Daniel was convicted of three charges: murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country.” – ARTnews
  
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• How The Various US TV Networks Covered The “Blue Tsunami”: Analysis

  05-11-2026 15:05 via ArtsJournal
  “The networks were following the same returns, and by the end of the evening, the same political story was taking shape. What differed was how they told it — and how quickly they moved from counting votes to explaining what went wrong for Republicans and what comes next for Democrats.” – TheWrap (Yahoo!)
  
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• China Miéville’s “The Rouse” Wins UK’s Goldsmiths Prize For Innovative Fiction

  05-11-2026 14:33 via ArtsJournal
  The win of the £10,000 award makes The Rouse the longest novel to take the prize since it was launched in 2013 for fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” – The Guardian
  
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• Conductor Herbert Blomstedt, 99

  05-11-2026 14:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  Over his seven-decade career, he was music director or principal conductor of the flagship orchestras in Oslo, Danish and Swedish Radio, Dresden, San Francisco, and Leipzig — then spent his 80s and 90s as a surprisingly energetic and much-beloved guest conductor all over Europe, the US, and East Asia. – NPR
  
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• Virginia and DC Sue to Block Trump’s Arch

  05-11-2026 02:22 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Virginia and the District of Columbia sued to stop construction of Trump’s 250-foot arch, which would stand between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial at twice the memorial’s height. Work could start this week, and the suit calls the approval process “hurried and preordained” (NPR).A Bogotá judge ordered Colombia’s National Museum to restore 63 objects the new right-wing government removed on Oct. 15 as “political indoctrination,” including a pride f
  
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