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• Met Opera Musicians Agree To Renegotiate Contract, Will Get Paid For First Time In A Year

  18-03-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The musicians, and most of the Met’s workers, were furloughed in April, shortly after the pandemic forced the opera house to close. Months later, the Met offered the musicians partial pay in exchange for significant long-term cuts, but their union objected. Then the Met softened its position: Since the end of December, it has been offering to pay the musicians up to $1,543 a week on a temporary basis if they agreed to start negotiations.” – The New York Times
  
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• Former Facebook Exec Sues Meta For Trying To Suppress Her Memoir

  02-07-2026 14:33 via apnews.com
  
  Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was director of global public policy at Facebook from 2011 until her firing in 2017, argues in her suit that the non-disparagement clause in her severance agreement and the arbitration order barring her from promoting her book, Careless People, are invalid. – AP
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Appoints New Assistant Conductor: Sara Aldana

  02-07-2026 14:06 via moto-perpetuo.com
  
  A native of Colombia and a student of Marin Alsop, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal guest conductor, Aldana was most recently cover conductor at the Detroit Symphony. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• Jonas Kaufmann vs. the Orchestra of St. Luke’s – Take Two: Mahler Steinbach Festival

  02-07-2026 06:53 via artsjournal.com
  
  Mahler’s composing hut on the Attersee
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• When Ice Cream Beats the Vermeers

  02-07-2026 03:20 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,The Museum of Ice Cream and its cousin the Museum of Balloons are printing money while traditional museums count their deficits (The New York Times). The lesson isn’t that audiences got dumber, it’s that they’ll pay handsomely for an experience they can photograph, and a Rothko isn’t sexy enough for TikTok. Ah, the Selfie Generation.Traditional institutions are suffering for it. DePaul shut down its art museum’s daily operations but kept the collection
  
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• Executive Director – Kansas City Ballet working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  02-07-2026 02:32 via artsjournal.com
  Kansas City Ballet (KCB) seeks a strategic and visionary leader to co-lead one of America’s longest-established professional ballet companies. As the organization’s chief administrative leader, the next Executive Director will develop institutional resilience and drive team momentum for long-term success. Partnering with Artistic Director Devon Carney and the Board of Directors, the next Executive Director will champion bold entrepreneurial strategies to build resources, expand conn
  
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• Executive Director – The Town Hall

  02-07-2026 02:29 via artsjournal.com
  The Town Hall (Town Hall), the storied performance hall in the heart of New York City’s theater district, invites applications for its Executive Director position. Combining a deep passion for a broad range of cultural creativity and the desire to shape the next chapter for one of New York City’s most celebrated venues, the role will be charged with expanding Town Hall’s reach, impact, and importance in the intersection of performing arts, education outreach, and civic engagem
  
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• ‘The Wild Heart’ Dylan Mattingly Makes Debut on Nonesuch Records

  01-07-2026 22:56 via artsjournal.com
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• David Sedaris Confesses His Duolingo Addiction

  01-07-2026 21:02 via theguardian.com
  “My problem arose when I discovered Duolingo’s competitive aspect, when I learned that it is essentially a game. … This means forgoing any real learning, and earning easy points by simply reading sentences out loud.” An excerpt from his latest book, The Land and Its People. – The Guardian
  
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• What Makes A Rhythm Propulsive

  01-07-2026 20:26 via theconversation.com
  
  What makes a rhythm distinctive or catchy? The answer lies in the pattern that underlies the structure. Much of human creativity beyond rhythm and music is also shaped by the math underneath the patterns. – The Conversation
  
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• Ballet Costumes Are Shockingly Labor-Intensive

  01-07-2026 20:04 via inews.co.uk
  
  “Beading and sequins, silk bodices and boning, plus 10 layers of pleated net, all painstakingly cut and dyed by hand before being sewn together. … ‘If you break it down to five days a week, 40 hours, it’s usually about two weeks. To make one tutu.’” – The i Paper
  
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• It’s Expensive To Enter Australia’s Art Prize Competitions. But Hard To Give Them Up

  01-07-2026 19:44 via artshub.com.au
  In today’s landscape, prizes are no longer a nice little extra, or a back pat that arrives at the end of a long and successful career. They’re a serious part of the machinery. – ArtsHub
  
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• Do We Have A Facts Problem Or An Interpretation-Of-Facts Problem?

  01-07-2026 19:31 via persuasion.community
  
  Citizens can agree on verifiable facts and still inhabit different worlds, because facts do not interpret themselves. To see why, we need to look beyond narrow factual disagreements to the competing systems of interpretation through which people select, categorize, frame, connect, explain, and narrate facts. – Persuasion
  
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• DePaul Museum Just Closed. But Its Collection Will Stay On Campus

  01-07-2026 19:15 via wbez.org
  
  The DePaul Art Museum announcement came two months after the university laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators referenced financial troubles due to a significant drop in international graduate student enrollment, increased demand for financial aid and the rising costs of benefits. – WBEZ
  
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• Zelenskyy Suggests A Replacement For The Long-Toppled Lenin Monument In Kyiv

  01-07-2026 19:03 via artnews.com
  
  The statue of the father of the USSR was pulled down by demonstrators during the Euromaidan demonstrations in 2013; the pedestal has stood empty ever since. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has officially proposed that a bust of Ivan Mazepa, who led the Cossack state from 1687 to 1709, should go in that spot. – ARTnews
  
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• Stratford Festival Artistic Director Retires After 40 Years

  01-07-2026 18:44 via yahoo.com
  Antoni Cimolino, whose gentle stewardship of this juggernaut of a theater, especially during that existential COVID crisis, was as sure as it was self-effacing, leaves a great deal more. – Chicago Tribune (Yahoo)
  
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• Arena-Sized Aida Canceled

  01-07-2026 18:31 via limelight-arts.com.au
  
  Said a spokesperson for TEG (Ticketek Entertainment Group): “Unfortunately, the ongoing conflict and instability in the Middle East has resulted in massive increases in international freight and airfares, making it impossible to bring the large scale production to Adelaide.” – Limelight
  
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• The Think Tank Leading Trump’s War On Education

  01-07-2026 18:15 via chronicle.com
  The think tank has crafted model legislation to remake colleges and universities as race-blind institutions, fueled the campaign to oust Claudine Gay as president of Harvard, and turned City Journal, its quarterly magazine, into a platform for attacking diversity programs, grade inflation, and university presidents’ capitulation to the demands of left-leaning students and faculty. – Chronicle of Higher Education
  
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• As Many Traditional Museums Struggle, The Museum Of Ice Cream And Museum Of Balloons Are Raking The Visitor Dollars In

  01-07-2026 18:01 via nytimes.com
  “When audience levels have plateaued at many traditional museums, the ability of entertainment companies styled as arts institutions to siphon away visitors poses a new challenge to the industry.” As one think-tank director said, “The culture has diverged, and museums could have done more to seem relevant to people.” – The New York Times
  
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• LA’s Dance Scene Is Contracting. Now It’s Just Survival

  01-07-2026 17:44 via artsjournal.com
  “A lot of the challenges that are happening right now are of the times. They’re reflecting what’s going on in our country, and I think it’s important that we all try to stick together through it and keep dancing.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• A Hacker Used Claude To Score Free Tickets To Every Free Music Festival

  01-07-2026 17:31 via wired.com
  
  Security researcher Ian Carroll used the AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 in April to discover a technique that allowed him full access to the systems of Front Gate Tickets, which handles ticketing for practically every major US music festival, from Lollapalooza and South by Southwest to Austin City Limits.  – Wired
  
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• New Seizures Of Looted Met Museum Art: Total Now $95M

  01-07-2026 17:15 via nytimes.com
  Investigators since 2017 have seized more than 120 artifacts from the Met ranging in value from $20,000 to $26 million, plus hundreds of smaller items, such as rare pottery fragments, belt clasps, ax heads, safety pins and goddess figurines, according to an inventory by the office of Manhattan district attorney Alvin L. Bragg. – The New York Times
  
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• Tween Girls Read A Variety Of Books While Tween Boys Stick With Grade-School-Age Fiction: Study

  01-07-2026 17:02 via theguardian.com
  “Among the boys aged 11 to 14 who were surveyed, eight of the 10 most read books were from Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Girls’ reading was spread across a wider range of authors and genres including Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper … and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games.” – The Guardian
  
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• It’s Official: Canada Will Take Part In The Eurovision Song Contest

  01-07-2026 16:34 via bbc.com
  
  Now the next Céline Dion won’t have to pretend to be Swiss. – BBC
  
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• The Real Story Of What Happened At Pace Gallery

  28-06-2026 15:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Said one hastily removed artist, “They assured me many times — as recently as two days before the article in the New York Times came out — that there would be no public announcement. … It’s a callous breach of trust.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Arena Stage Boots Its Black, Woman Artistic Director On The Night One Of Her Championed New Musicals Opens

  28-06-2026 14:30 via nytimes.com
  OK, Hana Sharif resigned under great pressure. She wrote: “The board and I arrived at a crossroads — one defined not by a lack of shared love for this institution, but by differing visions for how Arena Stage should meet the future.” – The New York Times
  
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• Quibi Was Maybe Just A Few Years Before Its Microdrama Time

  28-06-2026 14:00 via seattletimes.com
  “With vertically shot episodes often running one to three minutes, microdramas have emerged as one of entertainment’s fastest-growing formats. That’s drawing interest from celebrities, creators and major media companies looking for new ways to reach audiences.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• If Reading Books Feels Hard Right Now, It Might Be Time To ‘Rewild’ Your Brain

  28-06-2026 13:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Reading a good book, I feel like a really hysterical chihuahua barking and trembling, and then someone picks me up, and then I just go limp. You know? Like I’m just calm. … And when I’m there, and when I can actually feel stillness.” – The Atlantic
  
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• When The Curator Retires From A Weird But Cool, Isolated But Well-Trafficked, Museum Along The Columbia River

  28-06-2026 13:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  The Maryhill Museum of Art, on the Washington State side of the Columbia River Gorge, is 150 miles upriver from Portland. Its permanent collection is eclectic, to put it mildly. So how does it get exhibitions, or even help revitalize its own collection? – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Brent Ott talks about developing exhibits and programming to celebrate America 250

  27-06-2026 17:48 via artsjournal.com
  Brent Ott, Chief Operating Officer of The Henry Ford, talks about their historic exhibits and programming celebrating America 250.
  
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