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• Behind The Scenes Of Furious Debates About Changing The Oscars Broadcast

  04-03-2022 17:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In the end, rather than dropping 12 categories altogether from the telecast, the Academy was able to satisfy ABC with the current plan, which will leave the network with more time to restore the sorts of ratings-drivers that were glaringly absent from last year’s telecast. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Creativity is Dead in the 21st Century? Really?

  12-06-2026 00:01 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A piece in the Yale Review asks whether the 21st century has been a creative blank space — two decades of remixing without inventing (Yale Review). The piece is a review of a book that asserts the notion. But perhaps the invention is happening; it’s just not where we used to look.A luthier put a carbon-fiber violin onstage next to a Stradivarius and dared listeners to hear the difference (The Strad). Scientists now think metrology — measuring the physical fingerpri
  
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• Northwest Choirs – Executive Director

  11-06-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  Northwest Choirs (NWC) seeks a dynamic, mission-centered Executive Director to guide one of the country’s leading youth choral organizations into its next stage of growth, visibility, and sustainability.Serving approximately 150 young singers from across the Puget Sound region, Northwest Choirs offers rigorous music training, meaningful performance experiences, and a formative community rooted in discipline, belonging, and the pursuit of excellence.
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• The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly

  11-06-2026 21:03 via stanfordmag.org
  
  “’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice. Ketley, an advanced lecturer in the department of theater and performance studies and a former Guggenheim Fellow, says it’s his most popular course.” – Stanford Magazine
  
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• AMC Postpones Interactive Movie Theatre Concert Series

  11-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  The chain is partnering with live entertainment company Arena One to bring new technology to theaters. This tech would allow artists on a remote stage to see, hear and respond to the theater audience, in effect turning your local cinema into a stadium, the companies said. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs

  11-06-2026 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen — and correctly flagged another that’s been debunked.” – Artnet
  
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• Demand For Workers With Creative Skills Is Growing

  11-06-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Nearly 50% of employers are looking to expand their workforce in the next three to five years. Video games, music, design and fashion were particularly expecting to grow over that time. – The Conversation
  
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• Has The 21st Century Been A Creative Blank Space?

  11-06-2026 19:31 via yalereview.org
  
  The years from 2000 to 2025 as a period of creative emptiness and stagnation so intractable that it will be remembered (or, rather, is being remembered, through the anticipation of remembrance) as voided time, a dark age. – Yale Review
  
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• Why Pace Gallery Imploded

  11-06-2026 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  According to several people familiar with the call, Glimcher spent much of the meeting explaining why Pace had reached this point. The gallery had grown too large. Costs had risen too high. The model no longer worked. – ARTnews
  
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• San Diego Mayor’s Budget Eliminates Arts Funding. This New Plan Restores Over 90% Of It.

  11-06-2026 19:04 via kpbs.org
  
  The plan from City Council members and the Prebys Foundation will have the nonprofit provide $3 million in one-time replacement money, while the city shifts $6 million of hotel occupancy tax money from renovation of the Convention Center to fund arts and culture. – KPBS (San Diego)
  
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• Wigmore Hall And Apple Music Launch New Digital Platform For Artists

  11-06-2026 18:44 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  Under a new artist-first model, Wigmore Hall will pay the full production costs for every release and will take no share of the recording income, passing on 100% of royalties received directly to the performing artists. – Gramophone
  
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• EU Investigating Paramount/Warner Financing

  11-06-2026 18:34 via variety.com
  
  The European Commission is investigating the $111 billion Paramount-WBD deal under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation, looking at the approximately $24 billion being fronted for the takeover by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. – Variety
  
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• After Strikes And Fiery Rhetoric Last Time, Why Were Hollywood Contracts So Easy This Year?

  11-06-2026 18:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The top factor, perhaps, was the ongoing fallout from Hollywood’s contraction. It’s no small thing that, since 2022, studios have tightened their belts and downsized their slates, reducing the job opportunities available for average industry workers. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Pennsylvania Reverses Decision Not To Fund Smallest Arts Organizations

  11-06-2026 18:01 via whyy.org
  
  “Last year, the (Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) renamed itself Pennsylvania Creative Industries and reorganized its funding criteria, making organizations with budgets under $100,000 ineligible for grants. … (Last Thursday) the council approved a new program called Spotlight, which makes state funding available to organizations with budgets between $10,000 and $100,000.” – WHYY (Philadelphia)
  
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• Survey: Nearly Half Of Mid-Career Women Are Considering Leaving The Arts

  11-06-2026 17:44 via news.artnet.com
  
  While the inaugural survey revealed gaps in leadership roles and pay for women, this edition offers a more detailed picture of the structural pressures determining who is—and, crucially, who isn’t—able to build a sustainable long-term career in the arts. – Artnet
  
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• Carbon Fiber Violin — Meet Stradivari

  11-06-2026 17:31 via thestrad.com
  
  Both the carbon fibre violin and the bow impressed with their dark, warm, and distinctive tone. From the very beginning, the two violins blended beautifully; despite their different personalities, they seemed perfectly matched. They were also remarkably powerful, filling the room with sound. – The Strad
  
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• A New Penn Station We Won’t Dread Walking Into?

  11-06-2026 17:15 via dezeen.com
  PTT’s plan features a design by PAU and HOK that references the original beaux-arts station – unceremoniously demolished in the 1960s – and retains Madison Square Garden (MSG) on the site. – Dezeen
  
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• The Looted Antiquities Trade Continues For The Same Reason The Illegal Drug Trade Does

  11-06-2026 17:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  In a word, demand. – Artnet
  
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• Director of Marketing – Artis-Naples

  11-06-2026 17:03 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary The Director of Marketing (Director) will lead the planning, execution, and optimization of integrated marketing and audience development strategies that drive ticket sales, subscriptions, memberships, attendance, and earned revenue across all programming areas. The Director will translate institutional marketing strategy into actionable campaigns and oversee day-to-day execution across brand marketing, digital channels, advertising, communications, and audience engagement initi
  
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• Atlanta Has A New Classical Theater Company

  11-06-2026 16:32 via artsatl.org
  
  Georgia Classic Theatre is being founded by former artists with Georgia Shakespeare, which operated from 1985 to 2014. GCT held its first fundraiser last month and will present its first production, of Macbeth, this fall. – ArtsATL
  
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• After Eight Nominations, Glenn Close Will Finally Get An Oscar

  11-06-2026 16:04 via apnews.com
  
  It will be an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, but it’s something. Joining her as recipients of this year’s Governors Awards are director Ridley Scott and animator Floyd Norman. – AP
  
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• U.S. Authors’ Incomes Are Down. New Study Looks At Why.

  11-06-2026 15:31 via publishersweekly.com
  “(The Authors Guild research) found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription. … Average author earnings, now pegged at about $10,000 annually, have declined about 42% since 2009, the year Kindles first entered the market.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Collateral Damage From Trump’s Iran War: W.H. Smith, The Big Airport-Bookstore Chain

  11-06-2026 15:05 via theguardian.com
  “The retailer, which operates 1,200 outlets globally in airports, railway stations and hospitals, … has already experienced a fall in revenues in its UK airport operation due to the conflict in the Middle East, (and) said North America had now also been affected.” – The Guardian
  
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• Photographer Duane Michals, 94

  11-06-2026 14:36 via frieze.com
  “In a career that spanned six decades and crisscrossed artistic and commercial contexts, Michals challenged photographic convention and innovated new forms; he is best known for building sequential, frame-by-frame narratives that pair photographs with handwritten text to poetic effect.” – Frieze
  
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• The Tony Awards, Updated Live

  08-06-2026 02:40 via playbill.com
  
  In case you can’t tune in … – Playbill
  
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• Broadway’s big night — hold the comfort food

  07-06-2026 23:42 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Tony awards last night said a lot about where Broadway’s head is at: more reassurance than risk. Vulture handicapped the field (Vulture) — while the argument that the season has gone soft, “serving up liberal comfort food” instead of the gut punch theater does best, gets a sharp rebuttal over at AJ’s own For What it’s Worth. The four new musicals bet the form can still turn a corner (Washington Post).Meanwhile the institution that can’t
  
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• A New Documentary Shows Just How Much Movie-Makers Can’t Handle The Reality Of Michael Jackson

  07-06-2026 22:00 via huffpost.com
  
  Capitalizing on his name is one things, as the fictional Michael heads to a billion-dollar take at the box office, but Netflix is also, rather disgustingly, cashing in. – HuffPost
  
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• The 1980s Centered A Neon-Colored End Of The World, And Now It’s All Coming To A Theatre Near You

  07-06-2026 21:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  Revisiting the 1980s, a decade whose “reality pulsed with cultural Balkanization, financial erosion, systemic disinvestment, and televised neurosis, the American theatre conjures a cultural imagination crowded with the outsiders, monsters, con artists, hungry things, and chosen kindred of the analog twilight.” – American Theatre
  
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• An Appreciation For Kanya King, Who Changed And ‘Revolutionized’ Black British Culture

  07-06-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The founder of the Mobo Awards was “engaging, self-effacing, funny, modest. Someone with so much to brag about but who was so humble. Her superpower, it turns out, was kindness and warmth.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Four Musicals That Are Counting On Broadway Shows Finally Turning A Corner

  07-06-2026 20:30 via yahoo.com
  “There’s a big reason it takes years for a fresh musical to land on Broadway. Cracking any story is a painstaking process. The same goes for crafting a songbook. Getting the two to coalesce? It’s a delicate alchemy.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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