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• Comedy Club Tries To Bring Back Standup

  15-06-2020 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite current rules limiting bars and clubs from opening to the public, the live comedy club Stand Up NY on the Upper West Side held an invite-only show for professional comics on Wednesday night. The club was not exactly sneaky about it. Outside, there was a sandwich board with the words “illegal comedy” and an arrow pointing inside. – The New York Times
  
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• After Decades On The Sidelines, American Contemporary Opera Is Now Thriving

  20-10-2026 15:32 via sfclassicalvoice.substack.com
  
  After a few decades when most US companies (especially the Met) treated new opera like kryptonite, many are now presenting a contemporary work almost every season — and selling lots of tickets. Michael Zwiebach examines why this is happening now. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• The First Opera About Russia’s War On Ukraine Has Its Premiere

  20-10-2026 15:04 via nytimes.com
  The Mothers of Kherson, with music by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and libretto by American playwright George Brant, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera three years ago and got its first full performance on Friday at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw. (The Met premiere is scheduled for April 2028.) – The New York Times
  
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• Teenage Suspect Arrested In Case Where Actor Was Chased Through Streets Before Performance

  20-10-2026 14:36 via portsmouth.co.uk
  The incident happened last week at England’s Chichester Festival Theatre: last Tuesday’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was cancelled after a cast member reported that he’d just been chased through the streets by people shouting abuse. One 16-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged. – The News (Portsmouth, UK)
  
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• Ann Hornaday, Longtime Washington Post Film Critic, Is Dead At 66

  20-10-2026 14:00 via msn.com
  “(She) brought a casual, if knowledgeable, approach to her reviews, writing more from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer than from the lofty perch of a scholar of cinema. She wrote hundreds of reviews … over more than 20 years and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism in 2008.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright Wanted the Guggenheim to Be Pink (Seriously)

  20-10-2026 00:33 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Frank Lloyd Wright’s plans for the Guggenheim called for pink, but Solomon Guggenheim wasn’t convinced, and New York authorities approved the Le Corbusier-style white instead. British architect Adam Nathaniel Furman argues the case in Chromatic Architecture, a new book on color in building (El País English).About 50 arts students blocked the Louvre’s glass pyramid on Monday and closed the museum, on the eve of Art Basel Paris. Stan Douglas’s opening at
  
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• Louvre Temporarily Closes During French Protests

  19-10-2026 20:44 via artnews.com
  
  The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports.  – ARTnews
  
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• Why Awards Shows Are Leaving Broadcast For Streaming

  19-10-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  In recent years, the shows have become money losers and the network TV business — faced with a decline in viewers that is squeezing profits — are cutting them loose. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Pilot Draws Mona Lisa In The Sky

  19-10-2026 20:21 via nytimes.com
  After four hours of these intricate aerobatics, he had sketched a version of the Mona Lisa instantly recognizable to anyone tracking his flight online. – The New York Times
  
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• Writers Are Struggling To Prove They’re Human

  19-10-2026 20:10 via wsj.com
  As AI-generated writing floods the internet, more people are trying to detect which creators are using such tools to spin up copy. That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are trying to master something they never worried about before: how to sound human. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Shanghai’s Elegant New Opera House Is Completed

  19-10-2026 19:50 via dezeen.com
  Shanghai Grand Opera House’s defining feature is its spiral staircase, which dramatically cantilevers at its peak and was intended to emulate everything from an unfolding fan to a dancer or a set of piano keys. – Dezeen
  
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• Does AI Collapse The Need To Get Bigger?

  19-10-2026 19:31 via wired.com
  
  AI is making enterprise-grade capabilities available to companies that are a fraction of the size and without all of the bureaucratic weight that historically came along with it. If Goldberg is right, the rules of competition are changing for good, and companies no longer need to be big to compete. – Wired
  
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• Breaking Down What Theatre Gets Produced (And Produced Again)

  19-10-2026 19:01 via jharbour.substack.com
  
  A first-time playwright now has a one-in-five shot at a second production within two seasons. If mine gets one and keeps traveling, the money waits in a catalogue Bertelsmann owns.  – Jared Harbour
  
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• Ticket Broker Sued In $120M Ticket Bot Scheme

  19-10-2026 18:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The DOJ and FTC allege that REPS & Co violated the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act by opening thousands of accounts across Ticketmaster, AXS and other ticket services and circumventing the ticket platforms’ purchase limits. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• An Idea To Spur More Indie Production In Hollywood?

  19-10-2026 17:31 via nytimes.com
  This week, a new organization called the American Entertainment Alliance will begin publicly pushing for legislation to force the biggest entertainment and streaming companies — including Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime Video and Skydance — to allocate half of their original content budgets to shows and movies from independent producers in the United States. – The New York Times
  
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• After The Watts Rebellion, Two Brothers Opened The First Black-Owned Gallery In Los Angeles

  19-10-2026 17:00 via msn.com
  “‘As soon as we opened we were aware of the lack of opportunity for the entire minority community,’ said Dale, 80, in a recent interview. ‘It was definitely the mission.’” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• For Now, Art Basel Miami Beach Won’t Move To Las Vegas

  19-10-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “The sticking point, as discussed by city officials at a public meeting last Wednesday before a vote on a revised contract, was Art Basel’s demand to essentially halve the nearly $1 million annual rent the fair had previously paid to Miami Beach.” – The New York Times
  
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• What If Climate Fiction And Movies Have Been Hitting The Wrong Buttons?

  19-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Fear spreads its message more quickly – but it also paralyzes most people to inaction, exactly not what most writers of climate fiction would prefer. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Toledo Still Wants To Be The City Of Glass

  19-10-2026 15:45 via npr.org
  
  “Toledo’s art scene has long been tied to its glass industry. In 1962 … local workers created the studio glass art movement here.” – NPR
  
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• We’ve Never Seen Numbers Like This Before

  19-10-2026 15:30 via latimes.com
  
  That is to say, Netflix is reporting box office numbers, for the very first time, for La Bola Negra. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Tyranny Of Those Who Hate Colorful Buildings Made The Guggenheim White

  19-10-2026 15:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Pink was precisely the color Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned for this museum in his plans, and it’s the color we would see across the street from Central Park today had prejudices not stood in the way.” – El País English
  
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• Will Humans Still Know How To Clean It Up When AI Flubs Major Tasks?

  19-10-2026 15:00 via theconversation.com
  
  “As people become less involved in a task, they can become less prepared to step in when needed. Researchers have called this the out-of-the-loop performance problem.” – The Conversation
  
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• Saturday Night Live UK Ripped Into US SNL For Shane Gillis’s Blithering Misogyny

  19-10-2026 14:45 via nytimes.com
  “A representative for [Lorne] Michaels did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Fine Art Of Literary Adaptation

  19-10-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Though some books are more easily adapted than others, “the quality of the source is irrelevant.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A New Collective In Portland Would Really Like To Provide A Living Wage To Theatre Workers

  18-10-2026 22:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Possible? Maybe: “Davidson found sources for Puddletown’s business structure by looking backward, to the kind of cooperative arrangements used by first traveling commedia dell’arte companies to Shakespeare’s players, on down to late 19th and early [20th] century repertory troupes.” Its first show is free. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Art Bird News Outrage Cycle Continues, But Why?

  18-10-2026 21:30 via yahoo.com
  If you have miraculously missed most of the Kelly Clarkson/small business/rudeness cycle, it’s back. The art bird at the center of the Brooklyn storm, once tagged at $15,000, now retails for $15 million. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Recreating The Mona Lisa, By Plane

  18-10-2026 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “Pilots looking to clock in flight hours and practice tricky turns can have a bit of fun by tracing the shapes of animals, words, phrases, or in Mr. McDaniel’s case, world-class art. Mr. McDaniel’s Instagram moniker is Pilot Picasso.” – The New York Times
  
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• Lessons about Value and AI from the Digital Revolution

  18-10-2026 20:02 via artsjournal.com
  Twenty-five years ago the digital revolution rewrote the ways culture gets found, valued and paid for. The battles were fought in a series of skirmishes over disruptive technologies that remade the ways creative marketplaces were organized. AI is poised to do the same. So… lessons?
  
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• If We Force Chatbots Into Third Person, Will People Stop Thinking Of Them As Sentient?

  18-10-2026 20:00 via wired.com
  
  Sherry Turkle: An AI is “really not afraid of death, it’s not afraid of illness, it’s not afraid of pain, it doesn’t love its children, and it doesn’t care if you kill yourself or make dinner.” – Wired
  
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• Is It Possible To ‘Do Jane Austen Justice’ With Movie Costumes?

  18-10-2026 19:30 via variety.com
  
  Says the new Sense and Sensibility‘s costume designer, “It was an amazing experience to try and fight those two sides, making historic accuracy marry up with how I wanted to give us a more modern take in the film.” – Variety
  
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