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• New York Times’s New Chief Theater Critic: Helen Shaw Of The New Yorker

  04-12-2025 17:02 via playbill.com
  “The (Times) has been publishing reviews by a number of writers since predecessor Jesse Green was reassigned earlier this year. That list notably did not include Shaw, who joins the Times after a stint as theatre critic for The New Yorker, and a tenure as chief theatre critic at New York magazine prior.” – Playbill
  
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• Fall 2026 Applications Open for MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises

  05-12-2025 02:43 via artsjournal.com
  Northwestern University’s MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises (MSLCE) program develops leaders across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your Master’s in One Year.More than ever, the creative industries need professionals who can leverage strategic business knowledge to drive innovation and growth. They also need effective and agile leaders with an expansive understanding of how the various sectors of the creative economy are woven together and interact with each other.Th
  
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• Executive Director, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach

  05-12-2025 02:02 via artsjournal.com
  LOCATION: Palm Beach, FL (in-person)
  INFORMATION: cmspb.orgBACKGROUNDUnder the extraordinary artistic leadership of Arnaud Sussmann, the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (CMSPB) is known for performances and educational programs of the highest artistic merit. Since 2013, CMSPB has presented over 150 artists, from the eminent Emerson String Quartet to acclaimed violinists James Ehnes and Pinchas Zuckerman and pianists Anne-Marie McDermott and Inon Barnatan. CMSPB is a presenting partner of the
  
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• Now Bollywood Has A Rival For The Spotlight In India’s Enormous Movie Industry

  04-12-2025 21:03 via apnews.com
  Bollywood, based in Bombay/Mumbai and producing movies in Hindi, has always been the center of India’s cinematic universe. Yet there are centers of filmmaking in other Indian languages based in other state capitals. One of those centers — Tollywood, which produces Telugu-language movies in Hyderabad — has been enjoying a big run of successes. – AP
  
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• Countries Boycotting Eurovision Over Decision To Allow Israel To Compete

  04-12-2025 20:31 via bbc.com
  Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete. – BBC
  
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• Ailey Company Launches Its First Season Under Director Alicia Graf Mack

  04-12-2025 20:01 via npr.org
  Mack, who did two stints as a principal dancer with the company (and got a master’s degree in-between), says her vision is to balance between Alvin Ailey’s own “powerful, visceral” choreography and new pieces by Fredrick Earl Mosley, Matthew Neenan, Jamar Roberts, and Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. – NPR
  
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• Russia Blocks Facetime, Roblox

  04-12-2025 19:44 via cbc.ca
  Both restrictions are part of an accelerating clampdown on foreign tech platforms: In the case of FaceTime, Russian authorities allege it is being used for criminal activity, while Roblox was accused of distributing extremist materials and “LGBT propaganda.” – CBC
  
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• Is Appointment TV Making A Comeback?

  04-12-2025 19:31 via cbc.ca
  As more shows switch to a weekly release schedule, it gives viewers a chance to watch the episodes as they become available and take part in the same cultural moment, but experts suggest what’s happening is more of a happy middle ground between appointment viewing and binge watching. – CBC
  
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• Paramount Claims Bias In Warner Deal

  04-12-2025 19:15 via deadline.com
  “It has become increasingly clear, through media reporting and otherwise, that WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process, thereby abdicating its duties to stockholders, and embarked on a myopic process with a predetermined outcome that favors a single bidder. – Deadline
  
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• “The Picasso Of India” Finally Has A Dedicated Museum — In Qatar

  04-12-2025 19:04 via news.artnet.com
  “More than a decade after his death, the Indian Modernist M.F. Husain is getting the monumental tribute he long imagined. Qatar” — where he lived in exile after repeated death threats from Hindu nationalists — “has unveiled a new museum dedicated entirely to the artist, … cementing his place in global art history.” – Artnet
  
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• Art Basel Miami 2025: Latin American artists take center stage

  04-12-2025 18:58
  The Florida-based art gathering is spearheaded this year by artists from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and PanamaWhether it’s literally bringing Panamanian soil to Miami, or subverting the messages of Mexican religious cults by appropriating their iconography into tile murals dripping with sexual innuendo, Latin American artists at Art Basel Miami Beach this year are finding ways to reinvent their cultural heritage as surprising and fantastic pieces of art.The Mexican artist Renata Petersen, o
  
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• Jane Birt obituary

  04-12-2025 18:57
  My mother-in-law, Jane Birt, who has died of cancer aged 82, was an Anglo-American artist whose work was shown at the Portico Gallery, Manchester, Leighton House in London, the Piers Feetham Gallery and the Mall Galleries.She worked in watercolours and oils, and provided illustrations for books including Mr Harty’s Grand Tour (1988), a travelogue by the broadcaster Russell Harty. In 2024, with her longtime friend Peggy van Etten Coats, Jane co-wrote an illustrated memoir, The Oxford Aspara
  
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• The Importance Of Style In Science

  04-12-2025 18:44 via undark.org
  Style, as I see it, is much more idiosyncratic and manifests in scientists who may practice in the same field and utilize similar methods, but who nonetheless differ in the way they conduct and produce their work. – Undark
  
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• Why We Shouldn’t Bring Back Gatekeepers

  04-12-2025 18:31 via conspicuouscognition.com
  Put simply: Once established institutions lost the privilege to control the public conversation, they acquired an obligation to participate within it, which, so far, they have mostly failed to do. – Conspicuous Cognition
  
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• How The Amazing Sculptures In The Paris Catacombs Got There

  04-12-2025 18:15 via news.artnet.com
  An avid carver, Décure turned the Catacombs into his private workshop. Outside of working hours—during lunch breaks and before and after his shifts—he snuck off into a side-tunnel to chisel away at three small yet highly detailed sculptures. – Artnet
  
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• Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Says He’ll Go Home To Iran Despite Latest Prison Sentence

  04-12-2025 18:06 via apnews.com
  On Monday, while in New York to accept three Gotham Awards for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, Panahi was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for “propaganda activity against the state.” Nevertheless, he said today, he’ll return to Iran after his current Oscar campaign wraps up next spring. – AP
  
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• ‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage

  04-12-2025 17:59
  Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilienceAs you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It is a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo sits a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a red glass decanter. On the table are copies of the Punjabi newspaper Des Pardes, which translates as &ld
  
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• What It Says About You When Your Accent Changes

  04-12-2025 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  Researchers studied Taylor Swift’s voice as a way of exploring a phenomenon called “second-dialect acquisition,” or the way people learn a new style of speaking. Moving from place to place is the most obvious circumstance that might cause someone’s accent to change, but people’s voices can also evolve when they enter into new relationships. – The Atlantic
  
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• Lufthansa Crew Refuses To Let Violinist Bring Instrument Case On Carrying 243-Year-Old Violin

  04-12-2025 17:31 via thedailybeast.com
  A soloist was forced to carry her 1782 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin in her arms through the Helsinki airport security and onto a flight to Germany after Lufthansa refused to let her bring the case as hand luggage. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Lebrecht: 2025 Was A Year Of Meddling With Music

  04-12-2025 17:15 via thecritic.co.uk
  I cannot remember a time when there was so much political meddling in music and so little resistance. – The Critic
  
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• Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi To Retire After 44 Years

  04-12-2025 16:35 via yourobserver.com
  The conductor joined the company back in 1982 and helped build it into an impressive operation for a city of Sarasota’s size and a company known for having produced every opera Verdi wrote. When DeRenzi departs next May, general director Richard Russell will take on artistic leadership as well. – Observer (Sarasota)
  
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• Bringing The Musical-Theater Version Of “La Cage Aux Folles” Home To Paris

  04-12-2025 16:03 via nytimes.com
  The property was born in the French capital, first as a play, then as a hit film (followed later by the big US remake). But the American musical version had flopped in France — until the director of the Théâtre du Châtelet, Olivier Py, took it on. – The New York Times
  
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• Whistleblower Alleges That CEO Of Chicago’s Black History Museum Misused Funds, Abused Staff

  04-12-2025 15:31 via wbez.org
  The now-former vice president of education and programs at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is suing the institution and its CEO, Perri Irmer, alleging misuse of public funds, harassment and retaliation. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• A Great Big New Film Studio In A Grim New Jersey Brownfield?

  04-12-2025 15:04 via msn.com
  Hedge fund manager Arki Busson is hoping to ride a wave in production studio construction generated by state-government subsidies. His goal: 1888 Studios, the largest such facility in greater New York, on 60 abandoned acres across an inlet from outer Staten Island. – Curbed (MSN)
  
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• World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Faces Job Cuts, Accusations Of “Digital Vanity Projects”

  04-12-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne is Australia’s busiest, yet a restructuring is eliminating 39 jobs — including reducing the number of public-facing reference librarians by 60%. Meanwhile the SLV has worked on “digital experiences” like a rotating 3D model of legendary outlaw Ned Kelly’s helmet. – The Guardian
  
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• Saodat Ismailova: As We Fade review – prepare to enter an unforgettably strange psychic dreamspace

  04-12-2025 14:25
  Baltic, GatesheadASMR prophets, Soviet hypnotists, mountaintop rituals … there is scene after scene of breathtaking beauty, elemental ambience and disorienting anxiety in this first solo UK show by the Uzbek artist film-makerYour heart almost stops the moment you enter Saodat Ismailova’s As We Fade. Within a minute, you’ll forget about the outside world. The Baltic has curated a concise, brave first solo exhibition in the UK of film pieces by the Uzbek artist and film-maker. I
  
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• ‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show

  04-12-2025 11:03
  As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their storyArtist Bill Walker is one of those guys who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Having met Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist and avant-garde classical composer, as a student at Nevada Southern University (now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Walker was invited in 1967 to make an album cover for the band’s second a
  
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• Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama first African to top annual art power list

  04-12-2025 06:00
  Artist who once draped Barbican in brightly coloured fabric says he is humbled by recognition in ArtReview rankingsThe Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has become the first African to be named the most influential figure in the art world in ArtReview magazine’s annual power list.Mahama, whose work often uses found materials including textile remnants, topped the ranking of the contemporary art world’s most influential people and organisations as chosen by a global judging panel. Contin
  
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• Women behind the lens: ‘They waited in a kind of deranged inactivity for the possibility of a visit’

  03-12-2025 08:00
  In her portraits from an overcrowded Venezuelan detention centre, Ana María Arévalo Gosen captures the frustration of women desperate for news from their lawyers and familiesThis photograph was taken inside the Poli-Valencia detention centre, where I began to understand what imprisonment means for women in Venezuela. The room had once been an investigation office, converted into a cell after authorities decided to move the women out of the main area, where they had been held alongs
  
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• Fabergé egg made for mother of Russia’s last tsar sells for £23m

  03-12-2025 00:37
  Christie’s says the sale price is the highest for a Fabergé, beating a £8.9m auction in 2007A vintage jewel-studded Fabergé egg that belonged to the mother of Russia’s last emperor has been sold for a record £22.9m in London.The Winter egg was commissioned in 1913 by Emperor Nicholas II as an Easter gift for his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, and is described as one of the most lavish of Fabergé’s imperial creations. Continue reading.
  
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