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• General Manager / Coventry Biennial / West Midlands

  19-03-2021 14:52
  We are currently growing our team during an exciting time for our organisation and our city. We are about to deliver the third Coventry Biennial as a part of the once in a lifetime opportunity...
  
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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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• Peter Nagy, Artist Turned Influential Art Dealer In India, Has Died At 66

  18-10-2026 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Nagy was “a prescient artist turned canny art dealer who brought the New York gallery system to India and contemporary Indian art to the world.” – The New York Times
  
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• Playing A Rock Concert Is Like Giving Yourself A Concussion, Doctors Tell Billy Joel

  18-10-2026 18:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  His neurologist says performing is out for now. “He describes the combination of extreme sound volume, lighting, stress and energy as the concern. Further testing, he adds, will help determine whether he can return.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Creating Art In A Time Of International And Creative Crisis

  18-10-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Elif Shafak’s latest book “arose out of our own historical moment, which Shafak has dubbed ‘The age of three As: Angst, Anger and AI.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s A Good Thing This Artist Signed Her Paintings

  18-10-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Otherwise, they likely would have been described as her father’s work, or taken as simply someone from his atelier. – The New York Times
  
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• Remounting A Rarely Seen Balanchine Gives A Window Into The 1960s

  18-10-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Pithoprakta is a wrenching, urgent work that pushes ballet’s otherworldly quality to a darker dimension, both uncanny and mystical. This is no place for chiffon. It’s not polite.” – The New York Times
  
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• Isabel Allende, Writing Under A Pseudonym, Wins A Major Literary Prize In Spain

  18-10-2026 16:30 via theguardian.com
  “The prize is open to unpublished manuscripts, with the option of submitting under a pseudonym, and Allende entered under the name Luz Ventura, with the fictional title Los que faltan.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Does Frankfurt Have The Best Book Parties Of The Year?

  18-10-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  It’s definitely got big, not to mention packed and chatty, fêtes. “In an era when book auctions are held regularly over email, it’s that sense of community that keeps the publishers coming back.” – The New York Times
  
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• How – And Why – NBC Brought Back Live Musicals On TV

  18-10-2026 14:30 via variety.com
  
  Nobody quite knew what they had when 2011’s first revival started. But “Sound of Music Live delivered an astounding 18 million-plus viewers — well past the hope internally that it would reach at least 10 million.” – Variety
  
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• Texas School Board Say That It’s Not An Anti-Drag Law, But An Anti-DEI Law, Stopping Little Shop Of Horrors

  18-10-2026 14:00 via substack.com
  
  “However, there was no explanation given of exactly how a girl performing as a male character runs afoul of the more recent SB12, leaving only the implication that perhaps gender equality has been nixed under its provisions.” – Downstage Center
  
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• During And After Protests, Gangs Spread Fires Across France

  18-10-2026 13:30 via lemonde.fr
  In Limoges, the city hall burned. At the actual protests, demonstrators “complained about inflation sent soaring over 3% by the war in the Middle East. Others slammed perceived police brutality in student protests that have gripped France over the past four weeks.” – Le Monde English
  
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• TikTok Has Banned The Musk Documentary Advertiser From The Platform

  18-10-2026 13:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Hunh: “Distributor Bleecker Street was informed Friday afternoon a ‘permanent suspension’was coming regarding any ads it tried to buy, and the company was unable to do so shortly after.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Getty Images Heads to Bankruptcy With Koch’s Backing

  17-10-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  This Week’s Highlights:Getty Images, whose photographers cover most red carpets and owns a significant portion of the world’s historical photo archives, plans to go private through Chapter 11 with up to $533 million from Charles Koch’s investment firm; its iStock stock-image business is losing demand to AI tools, while its news-photo division is forecast to grow from $369 million to $400 million by 2029 (The Hollywood Reporter).
  Netflix has used AI on roughly 300 titles (The Ho
  
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• Mao Weitao Shaved Her Head for Opera

  17-10-2026 00:41 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC).Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a Croydon hillside and instead fit in 157 among five brick towers and a bluebell wood. Lion Green Road has just won Britain’s Stirling Prize for architecture, after a planning application that drew 257 objections (The Guardian).
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• Ice Dancing Champion Tessa Virtue Makes Her Professional Debut Dancing On Dry Land

  16-10-2026 20:50 via dancemagazine.com
  “In the studio, Virtue has found new freedom in the ‘ability to get grounded with the floor,’ she says. ‘I’m not just gliding across the surface, but I’m actually using the floor as an impetus to step and move and turn.’” – Dance Magazine
  
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• London’s Art Market May Be Damaged But Small Galleries Are Sharpening Their Edge

  16-10-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  Though Brexit and reforms to wealthy international residents’ tax arrangements have damaged the Britain’s art market, the depth and quality of London’s midsize and smaller gallery offerings still give the city’s art scene an edge. – The New York Times
  
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• How Ukrainians Are Fighting Back Against Russia’s Destruction Of Their Books

  16-10-2026 20:01 via thebookseller.com
  “The Ukrainian response has been a renewal of patriotism and engagement with national culture, along with enthusiastic defiance: the queues outside bookshops that formed in response to … the destruction, the orders that flooded in for e-books, or customers content to wait months for physical copies.” – The Bookseller (UK)
  
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• New from Moloko Print It Is Written: Times with Brion Gysin

  16-10-2026 19:57 via artsjournal.com
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  It Is Written: Times
  
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• Bernie Sanders: Let’s Not Let Big Tech Dictate The Future Of Humanity

  16-10-2026 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  If these were the fantasies of teenage boys obsessed with science fiction, we could laugh them off. They are not. These are the foundational beliefs of the most powerful people in the world, who are mobilizing trillions of dollars to turn them into reality. – The Atlantic
  
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• Opening Of New Brazil Pompidou Museum Delayed Until 2029

  16-10-2026 19:30 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “The project is currently working toward an opening in 2029 and is in the technical preparatory stages for the bidding process,” a Pompidou spokesperson tells The Art Newspaper. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• CNN Signs Deal With Google For Generative AI Development

  16-10-2026 19:15 via variety.com
  
  CNN says the partnership would unlock “new pathways for audiences to access CNN’s unparalleled journalism while being compensated for the delivery and use of our unique intellectual property in connection with AI products.” – Variety
  
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• Traditional Chinese Opera’s Biggest Star Is Also Its Most Controversial

  16-10-2026 19:03 via sixthtone.com
  
  Mao Weitao has performed in Yue opera (the form from the city of Shaoxing) for almost 50 years, and she’s one of very few performers in traditional Chinese theater to have achieved mainstream celebrity. And she’s done that in part by upending the conventions of the genre. – Sixth Tone
  
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• How Florida’s New College Was Neutered By DeSantis’ Culture War

  16-10-2026 18:44 via nplusonemag.com
  
  The report shows that NCF, with about eight hundred students, had both the largest administrative personnel and the highest operating expenses of any public college in Florida. – n+1
  
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• Is Their A Limit To Human Knowledge? Or Do We Keep Moving The Goalposts?

  16-10-2026 18:31 via aeon.co
  Are certain questions closed to the human mind? Are there truths about the world that we can never know? – Aeon
  
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