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• Margaret Olley's powerful legacy: 'Ben Quilty wouldn't exist without her'

  12-07-2019 04:40
  A Brisbane exhibition highlights the artist’s complex relationship with power – while celebrating the irrepressible joy of her workStaff at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art pop into the Margaret Olley exhibition when they’re having a bad day; it cheers them up, they say.Olley, the matriarch of Australia’s art scene who died aged 88 in 2011, is best known for her colourful paintings of flowers and cluttered domestic spaces, with paint applied to the canvas in thick s
  
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• Fort Worth Symphony CEO Keith Cerny To Depart In January

  27-10-2026 15:33 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Cerny, who has led the orchestra for eight years, will depart after a tenure that included the hiring of Music Director Robert Spano, navigating the COVID-19 pandemic without cutting musicians’ and staff members’ pay or benefits, and a major push to expand the orchestra’s board and donor base.” – CultureMap Fort Worth
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry To Step Down Late Next Year

  27-10-2026 15:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  “During her (decade) in the role, more than 2,000 actors will have worked with the organisation across 77 productions, which are expected to have been seen by more than 2.3 million people from over 190 countries by the end of her tenure.” – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Perot Museum Of Nature And Science Plans $185 Million Expansion

  27-10-2026 14:36 via ArtsJournal
  “Plans include a five-story parking garage, a new arrival pavilion, a dedicated area for school bus drop-offs, a pollinator garden and a paleontology garden. This will double the amount of square footage that the museum has dedicated to exhibits, but now outside the building.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Center Theatre Group Partners With YMCA To Bring Theater All Over Los Angeles

  27-10-2026 14:04 via ArtsJournal
  The program, called “Every Age, Every Stage,” will include free workshops led by theater professionals at local Y branches, mentorship in stagecraft, design and production for young adult members, and free tickets to select mainstage performances. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Staffers At V&A Museums In London Suspend Strike Plans

  27-10-2026 13:32 via ArtsJournal
  “The strike was suspended on Monday pending last-minute talks with the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, after the V&A management made an improved offer.” – The Guardian
  
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• When the People Who Deliver the Mission Start to Feel Like the Mission

  27-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  This one is hard to write.
  Over dinner a while back, a colleague I affectionately call my “sister from another mother” and I kept circling a pattern that is difficult to name without sounding ungenerous. We kept starting sentences and abandoning them, because every version seemed to insult people we both admire. But the pattern is real, it is showing up in some of the best orchestras and opera companies in the country right now, and I think it explains why so many of this fall’s labor figh
  
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• Walter Koenig, Who Played Chekov On The Original “Star Trek,” Has Died At 90

  27-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  “The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Mr. Koenig was a journeyman on stage and TV who developed a specialty in ethnic parts. He was a Swedish businessman in the sitcom Gidget and a French resistance fighter on the drama series Jericho … before he joined Star Trek in 1967.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• American History, the American Arts, and the Uses of Historical Fiction

  27-10-2026 03:16 via ArtsJournal
  
  — “Historical fiction” and “History” span an unbroken continuum
  Quite suddenly, the writing and teaching of American History are an
  
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• Vice President for Advancement, Aspen Music Festival and School

  27-10-2026 00:48 via ArtsJournal
  Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) welcomes applications and nominations for the position of Vice President for Advancement.About Aspen Music Festival and Schoolhttp://www.aspenmusicfestival.comThe Aspen Music Festival and School is widely recognized to be among the finest classical music centers for performance and education both nationally and internationally. Presenting more than 300 musical events during its eight-week summer season, AMFS draws leading classical musicians from across th
  
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• State Theatre New Jersey seeks Chief Advancement Officer

  27-10-2026 00:44 via ArtsJournal
  Position SummaryThe Vice President of Development is State Theatre New Jersey’s senior architect of philanthropy, leading the strategy, relationships, and revenue generation that power the theatre’s artistic, educational, and community impact. As STNJ’s lead major gift officer and a key member of the executive team, this leader will shape an ambitious, integrated development program that expands donor engagement, grows contributed income, and strengthens long term financial sustainability
  
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• When Dancers Handed Out “Stop Talking” Cards

  27-10-2026 00:28 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,At the Houghton festival this summer, clubbers handed out cards reading “The Dance Floor Is For Dancing,” with a diagram of EQ curves on the back showing where vocals sit above the bass. The DJ Jane Fitz had started the argument with an Instagram post asking people to stop chatting through sets (The Guardian).
  The conductor John Mauceri and the Columbia linguist John McWhorter argue in Broadway in Black and White that one blue note carries humiliation in Fats Waller’s “Black
  
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• Streaming Music Is Dominated By Old Music. Why?

  26-10-2026 18:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  In the first half of 2026, almost two thirds of the music played (about 60%) was released five or more years ago. So, if we’re stuck in a streaming rut, what’s to blame? – BBC
  
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• Billionaire Tech Nerds And Their Investment In Ending Democracy

  26-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  As Trump’s behaviour became increasingly authoritarian—openly defying laws, targeting his enemies with prosecutions, dispatching troops into Democratic cities, and turning US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into a shock force to terrorize immigrant communities—many in Silicon Valley cashed in on the action. – The Walrus
  
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• Does The California Gold Rush Teach Us Anything About The Rush To AI?

  26-10-2026 18:01 via ArtsJournal
  
  In 1849 alone, more than forty thousand people travelled overland to California, while roughly the same number headed there by sea. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why The Broadway Musical Survives

  26-10-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  Yet the Broadway musical persists, in its wholly impossible format, imposing eight big singing shows a week on its stars, which is, as any veteran will tell you, one of the most brutal workloads possible for a performer—and, when it occurs in long-running shows, mostly invisible as a personal triumph.  – The New Yorker
  
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• Has Substack “Fixed” Writing On The Internet?

  26-10-2026 16:44 via ArtsJournal
  
  The company is, in essence, a crowdfunding e-commerce site, belonging to the same category as Kickstarter, Patreon, Gumroad, and OnlyFans. But it has out-evolved its ancestors and bested its competitors in its relevance to public discourse and in its direct commodification of online parasocial relationships.  – The New Yorker
  
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• Wu-Tang Clan’s Historic Blunder Selling A Single Recording

  26-10-2026 16:13 via ArtsJournal
  
  The work was sold at auction for a reported $2 million to a then-anonymous American buyer, seemingly proving that music could sell at the level of Picasso and Warhol. It proved a Pyrrhic victory when the buyer was revealed to be the hated “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli. – ARTnews
  
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• As The National Ballet Of Canada Turns 75, It Demonstrates Both Artistry And Guts

  26-10-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  But “is it a Canadian ballet company or just a first-rate ballet company based in Canada?” – The New York Times
  
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• Eric Bauza, Emmy-Winning Voice Actor And Heir To Mel Blanc At Looney Tunes, Has Died Suddenly At 46

  26-10-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Recently, “the Canadian actor outdid himself with Coyote vs. Acme, voicing everything from Bugs Bunny to Foghorn Leghorn and Tweety Bird.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Can An Immigrant From Scotland Really Be ‘An Irish Writer’?

  26-10-2026 15:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  The writer herself has questions.”Writers are, often, to generalise, outsiders, observers, given to the long view, odd if not downright awkward. … How do these propensities relate to the construction of literature as an international sport?” – Irish Times
  
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• The Top Movie Soundtracks Of The 21st Century

  26-10-2026 14:45 via ArtsJournal
  From Jóhann Jóhannson’s score for Sicario to the many joys of Shrek 2 to Howard Shore’s scores for The Lord of the Rings, music makes these movies – not just better, but essentially makes them what they are. – The Atlantic
  
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• When The Mystery Author Is So Caustic She Ends Up A Character In A Murder Movie

  26-10-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  Patricia Highsmith’s “politics are horrendous. She is homophobic despite being gay, antisemitic, anti-everything. Yet she is one of the most psychologically astute writers of the 20th century, particularly brilliant at allowing us into the dark parts of the human psyche.” – The New York Times
  
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• Stephen Fry On Sherlock Holmes

  26-10-2026 14:15 via ArtsJournal
  “Even as the stories were still being written and published, tens of thousands around the world behaved as if Holmes and Watson truly lived and breathed.” Why? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• SFMOMA has a big hit on its hands

  26-10-2026 06:05 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,SFMOMA laid off 7.5 percent of its staff last year amid a $5 million deficit. This month it opened a show of 142 works from the collection of RM, the BTS rapper, and has sold over 66,000 tickets, with advance sales six times that of any previous exhibition (The Guardian).The Phoenix Symphony, 80 years old and $2.8 million in debt, suspended its season; its 66 musicians, including five married couples, lose their pay on November 2 (Phoenix New Times). Catapult Books, the independent
  
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• Our Playlists Are Filled With ‘Old’ Music

  25-10-2026 21:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Is nostalgia – and not just A.I. – ruining popular music right now, when more than 100,000 songs are released to streamers every single day? – BBC
  
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• Noise Laws, Drugs, And Cellphones Are Harming Dance Clubs In Britain

  25-10-2026 20:30 via ArtsJournal
  Or so lovers of (ridiculously) loud dance music claim. “At Gaffe, a DIY space in northeast London, a sign shows two arrows pointing in different directions. One says ‘Dancing,’ the other ‘Yapping.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Queer, Tattooed Colombian Author Who’s A National Book Award Finalist

  25-10-2026 20:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  Júlian Delgado Lopera: “‘Most of the catastrophic violence in our history can be traced back to a man who hasn’t allowed himself to feel tenderness,’ he affirms. … He’s referring to a kind of violence that goes beyond the long-running armed conflict.” – El País English
  
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• The Film Director Whose Impossible Class Struggle Movie Won At Venice

  25-10-2026 19:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Lee Chang-Dong: “I constantly asked myself: am I worthy of telling this story? And if I am, how do I tell it? Do I stand close to the workers, or keep my distance?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Netflix Went From Zeitgeist To, Well, Zeitghost

  25-10-2026 19:00 via ArtsJournal
  “The main problem with 2020s Netflix: It gets eyeballs watching far more than it gets tongues wagging. If a Super Bowl-size event takes place and nobody talks about it, does it even matter?” – Fast Company
  
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