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• Bard College Investigating Explosive Epstein Email

  23-10-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  Someone writing from the Bard president’s email address asks Mr. Epstein whether a young woman was “for me, or are you keeping her for yourself.” The contention over the email is the latest, and perhaps most intense, dispute over the former Bard president’s ties to Mr. Epstein. – The New York Times
  
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• First Word Of The Year For 2026 Is Here: Dictionary.Com Selects “Maxxing”

  27-10-2026 20:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  “’Maxxing” rose through the cultural lexicons of Gen Z and Gen Alpha quickly, ‘and now works as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb all at once. Leveling up your workout routine? ‘Gymmaxxing.’ Your personal care practices? ‘Healthmaxxing,’ an umbrella term that covers numerous subgenres, including ‘proteinmaxxing’ and ‘fibermaxxing.’” – CBS News
  
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• Scientists Figure Out How That Mysterious Ancient Roman Cup Changes Color

  27-10-2026 19:01 via ArtsJournal
  “Depending on where a light source is positioned, the Lycurgus Cup changes colour, from jade green under normal lighting to ruby red when lit from behind – a feat of optical engineering that has confounded historians and glassmakers for centuries. Now scientists from the University of Sheffield have replicated its optical behaviour.” – The Guardian
  
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• Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Is A Juggernaut. So How Does It Work?

  27-10-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  Things are going so well for the Trust that, in recent years, it has made some of the tinier theater spaces it owns and manages available free of charge to individual artists and small arts organizations. And yet, mentioning the Cultural Trust to some Pittsburgh artists can bring a wince. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Lincoln In Opera — A Different Portrait

  27-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The composer Missy Mazzoli and the librettist Royce Vavrek, one of the hottest creative teams in opera, conjure a darker, more conflicted president in “Lincoln in the Bardo,” which premiered on Oct. 19 at the Metropolitan Opera. – The New York Times
  
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• AI Will Upend Culture. How Should AI Companies Be Regulated?

  27-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  What should the government do? We asked a panel of experts to assess the risks A.I. presents and the tools of governance that could be adopted to address them. – The New York Times
  
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• Study Upends Understanding Of How Language Works

  27-10-2026 18:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  A groundbreaking study challenges 70 years of assumptions about how human language works. By analyzing billions of word uses, scientists discovered that meaning is organized around power, danger, and order rather than emotion alone. – ScienceDaily
  
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• Layoffs At UK Newspaper The Telegraph As Owner Aims To Make It “AI-Powered Business”

  27-10-2026 18:04 via ArtsJournal
  “Staff were told the title would rely increasingly on technology, data and AI to ‘reinvent the reader experience’. Newsroom insiders said they expected as many as 100 people to lose their jobs.” The move comes four months after The Telegraph was acquired by German media conglomerate Axel Springer. – The Guardian
  
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• Soprano Martina Arroyo, 90

  27-10-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  Arroyo, who has died aged 90, was one of the generation of black American opera singers – others were Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett and Grace Bumbry – who in their early careers faced institutionalised racial prejudice before achieving international recognition. – The Guardian
  
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• The Elvis Estate Sues Anthropic For Copyright Violation

  27-10-2026 17:26 via ArtsJournal
  “The Elvis plaintiffs bring this action to enforce these exclusive rights against the defendant that has built its entire business model based on copyright infringement at a scale never seen before,” the lawsuit said. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Has The Bayeux Tapestry Become A Pop Culture Hit?

  27-10-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  In the first hour that the second round of tickets to view the tapestry were available last Wednesday, payments from Monzo cardholders to the British Museum reached £14,100 and were 48 times that of a normal Wednesday morning. More than half (55%) of those buyers were aged under 35. – The Guardian
  
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• A Civil War Inside Netflix

  27-10-2026 17:02 via ArtsJournal
  “Increasingly, tensions have flared between the L.A.-based executives dedicated to movies and TV shows and its engineers and technologists in Silicon Valley. Internal disputes have erupted over how best to expand the business and promote content on the platform to boost audience engagement.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• We’re Enhancing Real Life as a Cinematic Experience

  27-10-2026 16:44 via ArtsJournal
  The result is that cinematic, as a descriptor, now connotes not a break from regular life but an enhancement of it. – The Atlantic
  
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• Critics Pan Elon Musk’s AI Version Of “The Odyssey”

  27-10-2026 16:29 via ArtsJournal
  Xavier Collins, the co-founder of Wonder Studios, said the first episode was made in less than two weeks with a creative team of three, including the US-based director Dev Walker. It is understood to have cost tens of thousands of dollars.  – The Guardian
  
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• Why Does Music Feel So Fake Right Now?

  27-10-2026 16:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Is it real?” That’s the most pressing question in music right now, and it’s one that feels impossible to adequately answer, in almost any context. Mainstream pop, seemingly falling out of fashion though it still fills stadiums and streaming playlists, is riddled with stories of chicanery and poison artifice. – NPR
  
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• Meet ABT’s Youngest-Ever Choreographer

  27-10-2026 16:01 via ArtsJournal
  Brady Farrar, now 21, is still recognized by some fans from his six-week appearance on Dance Moms when he was 14. He entered ABT as an apprentice in 2024 and joined the corps last year but began choreographing at age 15. His Trio Élégiaque, commissioned by ABT, debuts this week. – The New York Times
  
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• Fort Worth Symphony CEO Keith Cerny To Depart In January

  27-10-2026 15:33 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Cerny, who has led the orchestra for eight years, will depart after a tenure that included the hiring of Music Director Robert Spano, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic without cutting musicians’ and staff members’ pay or benefits, and a major push to expand the orchestra’s board and donor base.” – CultureMap Fort Worth
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry To Step Down Late Next Year

  27-10-2026 15:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  “During her (decade) in the role, more than 2,000 actors will have worked with the organisation across 77 productions, which are expected to have been seen by more than 2.3 million people from over 190 countries by the end of her tenure.” – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Perot Museum Of Nature And Science Plans $185 Million Expansion

  27-10-2026 14:36 via ArtsJournal
  “Plans include a five-story parking garage, a new arrival pavilion, a dedicated area for school bus drop-offs, a pollinator garden and a paleontology garden. This will double the amount of square footage that the museum has dedicated to exhibits, but now outside the building.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Center Theatre Group Partners With YMCA To Bring Theater All Over Los Angeles

  27-10-2026 14:04 via ArtsJournal
  The program, called “Every Age, Every Stage,” will include free workshops led by theater professionals at local Y branches, mentorship in stagecraft, design and production for young adult members, and free tickets to select mainstage performances. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Staffers At V&A Museums In London Suspend Strike Plans

  27-10-2026 13:32 via ArtsJournal
  “The strike was suspended on Monday pending last-minute talks with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, after the V&A management made an improved offer.” – The Guardian
  
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• When the People Who Deliver the Mission Start to Feel Like the Mission

  27-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  This one is hard to write.
  Over dinner a while back, a colleague I affectionately call my “sister from another mother” and I kept circling a pattern that is difficult to name without sounding ungenerous. We kept starting sentences and abandoning them, because every version seemed to insult people we both admire. But the pattern is real, it is showing up in some of the best orchestras and opera companies in the country right now, and I think it explains why so many of this fall’s labor figh
  
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• Walter Koenig, Who Played Chekov On The Original “Star Trek,” Has Died At 90

  27-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  “The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Mr. Koenig was a journeyman on stage and TV who developed a specialty in ethnic parts. He was a Swedish businessman in the sitcom Gidget and a French resistance fighter on the drama series Jericho … before he joined Star Trek in 1967.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• American History, the American Arts, and the Uses of Historical Fiction

  27-10-2026 03:16 via ArtsJournal
  
  — “Historical fiction” and “History” span an unbroken continuum
  Quite suddenly, the writing and teaching of American History are an
  
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• Vice President for Advancement, Aspen Music Festival and School

  27-10-2026 00:48 via ArtsJournal
  Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) welcomes applications and nominations for the position of Vice President for Advancement.About Aspen Music Festival and Schoolhttp://www.aspenmusicfestival.comThe Aspen Music Festival and School is widely recognized to be among the finest classical music centers for performance and education both nationally and internationally. Presenting more than 300 musical events during its eight-week summer season, AMFS draws leading classical musicians from across th
  
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• State Theatre New Jersey seeks Chief Advancement Officer

  27-10-2026 00:44 via ArtsJournal
  Position SummaryThe Vice President of Development is State Theatre New Jersey’s senior architect of philanthropy, leading the strategy, relationships, and revenue generation that power the theatre’s artistic, educational, and community impact. As STNJ’s lead major gift officer and a key member of the executive team, this leader will shape an ambitious, integrated development program that expands donor engagement, grows contributed income, and strengthens long term financial sustainability
  
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• When Dancers Handed Out “Stop Talking” Cards

  27-10-2026 00:28 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,At the Houghton festival this summer, clubbers handed out cards reading “The Dance Floor Is For Dancing,” with a diagram of EQ curves on the back showing where vocals sit above the bass. The DJ Jane Fitz had started the argument with an Instagram post asking people to stop chatting through sets (The Guardian).
  The conductor John Mauceri and the Columbia linguist John McWhorter argue in Broadway in Black and White that one blue note carries humiliation in Fats Waller’s “Black
  
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• Streaming Music Is Dominated By Old Music. Why?

  26-10-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  In the first half of 2026, almost two thirds of the music played (about 60%) was released five or more years ago. So, if we’re stuck in a streaming rut, what’s to blame? – BBC
  
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• Billionaire Tech Nerds And Their Investment In Ending Democracy

  26-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  As Trump’s behaviour became increasingly authoritarian—openly defying laws, targeting his enemies with prosecutions, dispatching troops into Democratic cities, and turning US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into a shock force to terrorize immigrant communities—many in Silicon Valley cashed in on the action. – The Walrus
  
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• Does The California Gold Rush Teach Us Anything About The Rush To AI?

  26-10-2026 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  In 1849 alone, more than forty thousand people travelled overland to California, while roughly the same number headed there by sea. – The New Yorker
  
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