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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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• 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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• Ian McKellan To Perform As A Hologram In New Play

  16-10-2026 18:15 via bbc.com
  
  Sir Ian McKellen is set to star in the European premier of a play in which he appears as a hologram. – BBC
  
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• Kennedy Center’s New Artistic Director Has Been Working With Trump’s People There From The Beginning

  16-10-2026 18:02 via msn.com
  Since April 2025, two months after Trump’s takeover, Rick Canny has been a senior adviser to the Center, which has now amended his consulting contract to appoint him artistic director “in a designated executive consulting capacity.” Memos indicate that Canny wants authority to make a lot of changes. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Comedy Podcasts Are Changing Funny

  16-10-2026 17:44 via newyorker.com
  
  Comedians now routinely give their audiences hours of new material every week, in exchange for subscription and advertising revenue that, while amounting to much less than what box offices and network sales departments once commanded, also goes more substantially and directly to the artists. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Are Scammers Targeting Book Authors?

  16-10-2026 17:31 via thedial.world
  I’m not the only author to have found myself stuck in a Zoom book club with fake readers. Countless writers with published books have been receiving invitations from reading communities that start to unravel after a basic Google search. – The Dial
  
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• Louvre Robbery Was A Preview For A Year Of The Art Heists

  16-10-2026 17:15 via wsj.com
  Police are still looking for the Louvre’s stolen trove of 19th-century jewelry, though French authorities arrested eight people in connection with the crime last October. But the subsequent heists across Europe suggest the Louvre heist wasn’t a one-off and might have emboldened copycats. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A Broadway Theater Is Replacing “The Full Monty” With … Ionesco?

  16-10-2026 17:01 via nytimes.com
  Roundabout Theater Company had planned for next spring a large-scale Broadway revival of The Full Monty. That has been postponed, and Roundabout has scheduled a star-studded production of the Romanian-French absurdist playwright’s Rhinoceros, about a town whose inhabitants are turning into half-blind, ill-tempered horned pachyderms. – The New York Times
  
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• This Fund Was Launched To Save Public Radio Stations From Closing. Now It’s Helping Them Figure Out How To Stay Open.

  16-10-2026 16:33 via apnews.com
  “The Public Media Bridge Fund has raised about $87 million and stabilized 186 public radio stations that serve about 30 million people in the United States. (Now begins) PMC’s new $38 million fundraising effort to help stations become more financially sustainable without federal funding.” – AP
  
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• San Francisco Looks To Start New Arts District Along Market Street

  16-10-2026 16:05 via yahoo.com
  “The Market Street Arts & Theater District will initially focus on the 900 block of Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, with plans to activate one to two vacant or underused spaces; add lighting, banners and public art as part of beautification efforts; fund pop-up performances and other arts programming.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
  
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• Netflix Is Profitable, So Why’s It Laying Off So Many People?

  16-10-2026 15:34 via variety.com
  
  You mean it’s not just to pump up the stock price? Well, … – Variety
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic’s Concert Hall Renovation Will Take At Least Eight Years

  16-10-2026 15:02 via apnews.com
  We already knew that the cost would be huge — €1.15 billion for the overhaul and a temporary venue at the former Tempelhof Airport — but Philharmonie management announced that the project is expected to last from 2032 to 2040. (And that’s before overruns.) – AP
  
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• Public Housing Project Wins Stirling Prize For Britain’s Best New Building

  16-10-2026 14:36 via theguardian.com
  Lion Green Road, designed by Mary Duggan Architects with Ruff Architects in the outer London borough of Croydon, “demonstrates how more homes than you might imagine can be constructed on the most unpromising of sites in a sympathetic way, without sacrificing greenery, views and public access – and keeping plenty of parking, too.” – The Guardian
  
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• Tom Di Nardo, Longtime Philadelphia Classical Music And Jazz Critic, Has Died At 89

  16-10-2026 14:00 via inquirer.com
  
  For 43 years, he wrote hundreds of reviews, profiles and features, first for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, then the Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer. Music criticism was his second career: he worked for more than three decades as an electrical engineer for PECO, the region’s electricity and gas utility. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Philadelphia’s Jewish Museum Could Become Part Of The Smithsonian

  15-10-2026 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  “The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is being considered as a potential new member of the Smithsonian museum network, with members of a new congressional commission sworn in on Tuesday set to study the matter.” It would be the only Smithsonian museum outside metro DC or New York. – ARTnews
  
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• Soprano Martina Arroyo Is Dead At 90

  15-10-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Along with Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, and Grace Bumbry, Arroyo was part of the first generation of Black singers to become opera stars on both sides of the Atlantic. A frequent guest on television talk shows, she was arguably the most personally beloved of the four. – The New York Times
  
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• A $125,000 Offer Saved The Muppet Show

  15-10-2026 03:36 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Muppet Show, which turned 50 last month, was made in England because Lew Grade, a British producer with an empty studio outside London, offered Jim Henson $125,000 for one episode, on condition he shoot there. Henson had two failed ABC pilots and a stalled CBS deal behind him (Variety).
  Daniel Weiss, 69, became director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art a month after the board fired Sasha Suda; vice chair Osagie Imasogie says a search would have been “performative” (
  
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• “The Muppet Show” Is Now 50. It Almost Didn’t Happen At All.

  14-10-2026 21:02 via variety.com
  
  After the success of Sesame Street, Jim Henson badly wanted to make a his own show. But there were two failed pilots for ABC and development plans at CBS stalled. Things looked hopeless — until producer Lew Grade came along. (One perhaps-surprising fact: all five seasons of the show were shot in England.) – Variety
  
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• Meghan O’Gieblyn On The Limits And Opportunities Of Knowing Ourselves

  14-10-2026 20:31 via thepointmag.com
  
  When we read her work, we come to understand her in part through her acts of self-discovery, how, not unlike Montaigne, she comes to know herself by reckoning with the ways in which she may have remained unknown to herself. – The Point
  
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• Daniel Weiss Is A Mr. Fix-It. Can He Fix The Philadelphia Museum Of Art?

  14-10-2026 20:04 via artnews.com
  
  He has been fixing institutions for his entire career, from his very first job, at the Kennedy Center’s gift shop, to the Metropolitan Museum, which, when he became CEO, had issues not dissimilar to those at the PMA when he became director last year. So far, the staff appears to be happier. – ARTnews
  
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