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• Lockdown lessons: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’

  01-05-2020 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We learned a lot of things about Singin’ in the Rain during the Lockdown Theatre Club group watch. Here are 20 of them – from dubbing the dubbers to Gene Kelly’s buttock-framing trousers. – David Jays
  
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• Boston Philharmonic To Shutter As Director Benjamin Zander Retires

  13-03-2026 13:35 via bostonclassicalreview.com
  Next season, 2026-27, will be the last for both the Boston Philharmonic and its associated youth orchestra. The identity of the organization is thoroughly bound to that of Zander, the conductor who founded both ensembles and is now 87. – Boston Classical Review
  
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• WBUR Boston Rejects Suggested Merger With GBH, City’s Other Public Radio Station

  13-03-2026 13:16 via wbur.org
  In response to a statement to The Boston Globe by GBH’s CEO proposing a merger, WBUR CEO Susan Low said that she and the station’s board have “very closely” examined the idea but that “WBUR and GBH are also very different organizations. And we believe the community benefits from that.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• One Of Boston’s Two NPR Outlets Says It’s Open To Merging With The Other

  13-03-2026 13:01 via bostonglobe.com
  The CEO of GBH, which operates one of the U.S.’s leading PBS television stations as well as a public radio outlet, says that merging with WBUR would end competition for donors and more efficiently utilize resources in the wake of federal defunding of public broadcasting. – The Boston Globe
  
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• Paramount and Live Nation/Ticketmaster Won Big Last Week: Here’s why Orchestras and Theatres and Museums (and Consumers) Lost

  12-03-2026 22:39 via artsjournal.com
  Two huge culture industry deals in the past week, both in entertainment, and maybe they don’t seem connected. Certainly not connected to non-profit arts. But these are exactly the kind of culture infrastructure deals that should worry anyone in the commercial or non-profit culture business because they impact us all. Here’s why.
  
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• Big Candy Makers Are Cutting Way Back On Cocoa In Their “Chocolates”

  12-03-2026 20:02 via theguardian.com
  The climate crisis has caused devastated cacao farming in West Africa, causing huge price spikes and volatility in the cocoa commodity market — leading companies like Hershey’s and Cadbury, which manufacture inexpensive chocolate products for ordinary consumers, to start using other ingredients. – The Guardian
  
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• There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left

  12-03-2026 19:31 via derekkrissoff.substack.com
  By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
  
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• Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling

  12-03-2026 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe Up is rescuing some of those instruments which can be made playable at relatively little expense, then sending them to new owners ranging from London to the Philippines. – BBC (Yahoo!)
  
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• What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?

  12-03-2026 18:44 via cnn.com
  Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
  
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• The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…

  12-03-2026 18:31 via artnews.com
  The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a small number of very expensive works. – ARTnews
  
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• Bernie Sanders Has an AI Proposal

  12-03-2026 18:21 via artsjournal.com
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• What Percentage Of Americans Went To A Movie Theatre Last Year? (You Might Be Surprised)

  12-03-2026 18:15 via variety.com
  According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in the summer of 2025, 53% of U.S. adults said they had seen a movie in theaters in the prior 12 months. A small but notable 7% said they had never seen a movie in a theater at all. – Variety
  
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• Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France

  12-03-2026 18:05 via news.artnet.com
  “A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The page in question contains geometric diagrams and a passage from Archimedes’s treatise on the sphere and the cylinder, hidden beneath a layer of later religious writings.” – Artnet
  
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• Women-Owned Radio Stations And The Communities They’re Building

  12-03-2026 17:44 via niemanreports.org
   Whatever their mission and wherever their location, what the stations have in common is the amplification — literally and metaphorically — of women’s voices to create a community that might not otherwise exist, on-air or off. – NiemanLab
  
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• Player Pianos, Automation And AI

  12-03-2026 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  Nearly every major pianist of the early 20th century made music for these machines. Echoing AI commentary today, some musicians viewed the player piano as not just replicating human playing, but exceeding it. – The Atlantic
  
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• Damage To Iran’s Historic Sites Mounts

  12-03-2026 17:14 via nytimes.com
  The strikes on Isfahan on Monday came a week after another cultural icon, the Golestan Palace, was badly damaged during an attack on a police station in downtown Tehran, according to the ministry. – The New York Times
  
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• National Choreographers Initiative In Los Angeles Will End After This Summer

  12-03-2026 17:01 via ladancechronicle.com
  For two decades, NCI has offered four young choreographers the chance to spend three weeks creating works on professional dancers. In a Q&A, artistic director Molly Lynch talks about the initiative and why it is ending. – L.A. Dance Chronicle
  
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• What We Can Learn From Radical Access To The Arts

  12-03-2026 16:45 via artshub.com.au
  Access Fringe program at the Melbourne Fringe Festival is a 10-year partnership with Arts Access Victoria supporting d/Deaf and disabled artists through commissions, mentorships and specialised development programs. The initiative shows how embedding access into every space and conversation can lead to change across the entire cultural sector. – ArtsHub
  
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• Why Did The Boston Symphony Decide To Part Ways With Its Music Director?

  12-03-2026 16:31 via theguardian.com
  Right now though, it’s anyone’s guess where the “future vision” of the BSO will take them – and if the relationship between the players and the board is in the state of disrepair it seems to be, this could become a Premier League style story of power, vanity and ingloriousness. Oh dear. – The Guardian
  
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• Lessons From Sundance: New Focus On Artist Care

  12-03-2026 16:15 via americantheatre.org
  For all of the egregious consent violations in the film industry that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shone a light on, I was heartened by what I heard about artist care from the independent filmmakers, and I believe that there’s much that theatre can learn from them. – American Theatre
  
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• Pritzker Prize For Architecture 2026 Goes To Smiljan Radić Clarke Of Chile

  12-03-2026 16:04 via npr.org
  Though The New York Times has described him as “a rock star among architects,” he’s not as famous as previous “starchitect” winners such as Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, and Zaha Hadid. In fact, Radić says that this award “will probably mean being far more exposed than I would like.” – NPR
  
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• Change To Middle Passage Exhibit At Smithsonian’s African-American Museum

  12-03-2026 15:32 via apnews.com
  Since the National Museum of African-American History and Culture opened in 2016, its exhibit on the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas has featured a piece of the slave ship São José-Paquete de Africa. That fragment, on loan from the Iziko Museums of South Africa, will be returned this summer. – AP
  
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• Barack And Michelle Obama Are Now Broadway Producers

  12-03-2026 15:06 via variety.com
  Higher Ground, their production company, is one of the main backers of this spring’s 16-week run of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof, starring Don Cheadle and Ayo Edibiri (in their Broadway debuts) and directed by Thomas Kail, who staged Hamilton. – Variety
  
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• Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own Art Form

  09-03-2026 16:59 via hollywoodreporter.com
  I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a year from now. Soon conversations like that won’t even matter. It’s like discussing the Internet. It already is. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• UK Museums Hold Hundreds Of Thousands Of Human Remains

  09-03-2026 16:40 via theguardian.com
  An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair. – The Guardian
  
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• LiveNation Settles Antitrust Case

  09-03-2026 16:20 via politico.com
  The centerpiece of the agreement is expected to be structural changes to Live Nation’s ticketing business. Under the settlement, Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, allowing third-party sellers such as SeatGeek or Eventbrite to list tickets directly through Ticketmaster’s technology. – Politico
  
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• Preserving Church Architecture Isn’t Easy, Especially In An Era Of Digital Attendance

  09-03-2026 16:00 via npr.org
  “Sometimes people think that churches have some kind of magic ATM machine that we go to and withdraw money. And the truth is that we do not.” – NPR
  
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• This Opera Used To Be About History, And Now It’s About Today’s News

  09-03-2026 15:30 via orartswatch.org
  “History is repeating itself 70 years later, just in a different way. The government is ‘systematically trying to erase our history with the demonization of trans and non-binary community,’ Newbury said. ‘It has given itself license to hate.’” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Hollywood Turns From Movie Stars Back To Auteurs

  09-03-2026 15:00 via theatlantic.com
  An “emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The BBC Commissioned A Film About Health Care In Gaza, And Then Refused To Air It

  09-03-2026 14:45 via revealnews.org
  “All these Palestinians told us that they thought the BBC would never run our film, and we really had to try and persuade them to talk to us because they didn’t and don’t trust the BBC.” The journalists were shocked to learn that the sources were correct. – Reveal
  
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