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• Broadway Is Back, But What About Audiences?

  24-01-2022 13:30 via npr.org
  Recently, Broadway shows haven’t needed to cancel because of COVID cases in cast or crew, but there are a lot of empty seats – and three shows are closing in hopes of reopening in the spring. – NPR
  
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• At Henry Louis Gates’s “Finding Your Roots,” How They Handle Finding A Bombshell Piece Of Family History

  23-06-2026 21:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Gates: “If … we found out that, let’s say, your daddy wasn’t your daddy but your daddy didn’t know, I have an ethics protocol; we would reach out to your publicist and say, ‘We’ve learned something in our research we need to discuss directly.’ And everybody knows it’s not good news.“ – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Remembering Clive Davis, Who Turned Hitmaking Into An Art Form

  23-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  “I knew nothing about music,” he once said, looking back at his entry into the record business. Yet his instincts made him one of the surest spotters and nurturers of talent in pop history, with a long — and varied — line of success stories. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• After 25 Years, Choreographer Lucy Guerin Leaving Her Dance Company

  23-06-2026 20:03 via artshub.com.au
  She is creating a final solo work for herself — her first time onstage in 13 years — as a farewell, and she officially departs as artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc at the end of this year. The company, based in Melbourne, has toured widely, from Paris to New York to Shanghai. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Is The Smithsonian Next?

  23-06-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  From the start of the second Trump administration, the entire Smithsonian had been a target of those on the MAGA right who are preoccupied with expunging what they understand to be “wokeness” from prominent institutions.  – The Atlantic
  
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• Has Blogging Ceased To Matter?

  23-06-2026 19:31 via noahpinion.blog
  
  Anyway, the reason I’m writing all of this is not to brag, but to complain. Over the last two years, I’ve felt like my job has become a bit less important than it used to be, for three reasons. – Noahpinion
  
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• The Next Bookstore?

  23-06-2026 19:15 via publishersweekly.com
  Samir Pail argues that the publishing industry is fundamentally flawed insofar as publishers and authors generate consumer demand, then hand buyers off to companies like Amazon, which takes a significant cut and then owns the customer relationship. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Next-Generation Tech Lets Producers Of Musicals Shrink Pit Bands Even More

  23-06-2026 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “Orchestral software from the German company KeyComp threatens to inflict the deepest cuts yet on what has traditionally been a steady gig for professional musicians. … Thanks to successful union campaigning, the software is banned in New York, Washington DC and in Hamburg, where the software company is based.” – The Guardian
  
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• LA’s New Metro Stations: A Tale Of Two Design Realities

  23-06-2026 18:44 via msn.com
  
  The stations, too, feel more connected, with art, architecture and infrastructure blending seamlessly into a cohesive experience, a tribute to Metro’s sharpened design approach and its ever-evolving commitment to public art. But above ground, it’s a tale of two (transit) cities. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Audiences At Independent Movie Theatres Are Growing

  23-06-2026 18:33 via variety.com
  
  Independent theaters continue to be a vital asset to their communities, with a 9% increase in business in 2025, an encouraging sign for the sector, according to a recent survey. – Variety
  
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• Why Meritocracy Is A Deeply Flawed Idea

  23-06-2026 18:15 via aeon.co
  Zhuangzi insists that even in idealised situations where values can be straightforward, the idea that hierarchies and institutions can reflect that moral map is a profound misunderstanding of how power actually works. – Aeon
  
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• Laurie Anderson Awarded $600,000 Kyoto Prize For Arts And Philosophy

  23-06-2026 18:04 via nonesuch.com
  The multimedia artist will receive the ¥100 million prize — given annually by the Inamori Foundation in three fields: advanced technology, basic science, and arts and philosophy — at a ceremony in Japan on November 10. – Nonesuch Records
  
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• Eugene Ballet Gets $1M Anonymous Gift, Out Of The Blue

  23-06-2026 17:44 via orartswatch.org
  When Executive Director Josh Neckels received notification from the bank that the company had received a deposit, he nearly dismissed it as spam, but decided to call the bank to check. – Oregon Arts Watch
  
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• Art Removed From London’s National Portrait Gallery Over Churchill Reference

  23-06-2026 17:31 via theguardian.com
  An artwork by a Turner prize-winning artist has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after a row about the role Winston Churchill played in the 1943 Bengal famine. – The Guardian
  
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• ABC Campaigns Against FCC Review Of Its Licenses

  23-06-2026 17:15 via nbcnews.com
  ABC argued in a filing to the FCC in May that “The View” airs under an exemption to the equal-time rule “granted to it more than twenty years ago.” – NBC News
  
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• Benjamin Franklin’s Library Given 1,500 Rare Books About Sex

  23-06-2026 17:01 via nytimes.com
  The collection is the latest donation to the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Franklin in 1731, by Charles Rosenberg, a now-retired historian of science at Harvard University. He described this collection, including volumes dating to the late 1600s, as largely “how-to-run-your-sex-life books.” – The New York Times
  
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• With Book Reviews Disappearing From Newspapers, This Bookstore Decided To Start Doing Its Own

  23-06-2026 16:33 via niemanlab.org
  “The Porter Square Review of Books launched this month. The (Cambridge, Mass.) store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly(ish) book reviews on its website, on Thursdays; at about 500 words, these are deeper looks at books than the couple of sentences you’ll find describing ‘staff picks’ in-store.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• New Chief Conductor At BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

  23-06-2026 16:05 via scotsman.com
  Antony Hermus, a 53-year-old Dutchman who is just finishing his tenure as chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra, will succeed Ryan Wigglesworth at the Glasgow-based BBC SSO as of the 2027-28 season. – The Scotsman
  
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• Google Invests $75 Million In A24 Studios To Develop AI Filmmaking Tools

  23-06-2026 15:30 via msn.com
  “Google’s DeepMind AI unit and A24 are aiming to create new tools for movie production and distribution. … Though Alphabet unit Google is a major player in online entertainment through YouTube, the deal marks the first time it has taken a stake in a studio.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Lonnie Bunch Works To Keep Smithsonian Independent And Functional Amid Trumpist Turmoil

  23-06-2026 15:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Bunch has been cast by many of his admirers as something of a resistance figure — one of the only high-profile leaders standing up to Trump by single-handedly preventing the president from rewriting American history itself.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Stolen Picasso Discovered During Drug Trafficking Raid Near Paris

  23-06-2026 14:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  “Officers in the Brigade des Stupéfiants discovered the artwork on 15 June while carrying out a routine search of a house owned by the aunt of a suspected drug dealer. … The artwork has not been publicly named by France’s Alliance Police Nationale, who said it is worth ‘tens of millions’ of euros.” – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Germany And The Netherlands Will Return 2,000 Artifacts To Ghana

  23-06-2026 14:06 via artnews.com
  
  The repatriation was announced by Ghana’s foreign minister during a conference in Accra, but no information on the types of artifacts or the timeline for their return was released. – ARTnews
  
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• Senior Finance Consultant – Arts FMS via TOC Arts Partners

  23-06-2026 06:35 via artsjournal.com
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  As a financial management firm that integrates with nonprofit arts organizations from across the country, Arts FMS empowers organizations to focus on their mission, while they focus on the long-term fiscal health and sustainability of the organization. By providing a comprehensive scope of full financial management services, Arts FMS is able to bring stability, efficiency, and reliability to an organization’s financial operations.Arts FMS seeks a Senior Finance Consu
  
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• A New Old Mozart?

  23-06-2026 00:26 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A flute-and-harp fragment in Mozart’s hand surfaced this week, and the New York Times reports it’s almost certainly real. How is it that we’re still discovering or re-discovering art that was created centuries ago? The big visual art news is that Getty Images just sold access to its library of human-made images to OpenAI (Fast Company), monetizing the archive as raw material for the machines that will compete with it. Granta, meanwhile, has suspended running writin
  
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• Humans Still Pick The Books

  19-06-2026 06:35 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Book of the Month Club turns 100 this year, and its growth strategy is almost a provocation: human curation. The service has added members every year since it dropped “Club” from its name, now past 400,000, on a simple premise — “We don’t depend on algorithms to determine your next book” (Publishers Weekly). Houston’s Menil is making a slower version of the same idea, reopening its long-shuttered fresco building for site-specific commiss
  
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• For His First Work Of Performance Art, Ai Weiwei Will Re-Enact His Imprisonment

  18-06-2026 21:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  “From 5 p.m. on July 3 (in Manchester), Ai will enter a replica of his 25.92 square-meter cell, recreated by international architecture firm Hawkins\Brown. Inside, (over 24 hours,) he’ll sleep, eat, exercise, write, wash, and face interrogation on personal, political, and philosophical matters by four famed journalists.” – Artnet
  
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• “Toy Story” Is One Of Disney’s Most Dependable Franchises

  18-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  Analysts expect the fifth installment of Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story” franchise will pull in at least $150 million in the U.S. and Canada, with some predicting as much as $175 million — either of which would set a franchise record, topping the nearly $121-million opening of 2019’s “Toy Story 4.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• “The Seduction Of Certainty”: Playwright Moisés Kaufman On The Roald Dahl Bio-Play “Giant”

  18-06-2026 20:02 via observer.com
  
  “Most plays about prejudice comfort the audience with clarity. They reassure us that we would have recognized it immediately. Giant offers no such reassurance.” – Observer
  
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• Debating The Color Of The National Mall Reflecting Pool

  18-06-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Reflecting Pool now evokes the joy of a Green Bay Packers victory. Or a high-school prank. Or St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago.It most certainly is not the gleaming American-flag blue that Trump’s repainting of the pool was supposed to produce. – The Atlantic
  
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• David Hockney Was Working Class. Artists From The Working Class Have A Much More Difficult Time Today

  18-06-2026 19:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Through policies and schemes, previously unheard-of opportunities for people of his background began to open up, without which he would not have become the success he is considered today. The situation today for aspiring artists from a similar background is much starker. – The Conversation
  
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