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• Post-Dudamel, L.A. Phil Changes Its Artistic Leadership Structure

  06-11-2026 16:31 via ArtsJournal
  While Gustavo Dudamel was the orchestra’s music and artistic director, incoming music director Daniel Harding, who starts next fall, will split responsibilities with creative director (a new title) Esa-Pekka Salonen and conductor-in-residence Anna Handler. On Wednesday, the orchestra also announced new artistic chairs for jazz, Latin music, and new music. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Macklemore Says Nine Arenas Rejected Palestine Benefit Shows

  10-11-2026 00:33 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Macklemore says nine U.S. arenas, including Madison Square Garden, offered dates and then withdrew them once they learned his shows would benefit Palestinian relief (The Wrap). MSG Entertainment says he is “not an arena level act.” The other eight didn’t respond.Seven legal-pad pages of Martin Luther King’s handwritten draft for the March on Washington turned up in a desk drawer of his aide Edward Clayton, and Christie’s expects more than $10 million at a January 22 sale (
  
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• Google, Meta And TikTok Sue To Block California Law Aimed Against Platform Addiction

  09-11-2026 19:40 via ArtsJournal
  
  The law prohibits social media platforms from offering children things like personalized feeds and autoplay for videos. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with those features. – KQED
  
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• Many Of DC’s Memorials Are In Darkness As Park Service Maintenance Lapses

  09-11-2026 19:20 via ArtsJournal
  The lapse in upkeep and repairs at some of the most prominent memorials in Washington and at the more than 400 national park properties across the country comes as the Trump administration has reduced the agency’s staff by roughly 25 percent and withheld millions of dollars in funding. – Washington Post
  
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• When AI Transfers Into The Physical World

  09-11-2026 19:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  “With a world model, you give it a visual state of the world, an image, and it will then predict the next visual state of the world.” These 3D generations can be used as digital training grounds. “They’re simulations, but they look and feel real.” – Wired
  
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• Restoration Of London’s Parliament Buildings Could Take 61 Years And Cost £40B

  09-11-2026 18:40 via ArtsJournal
  The Commons public accounts committee this week warned it was “crunch time” for the ailing building’s restoration, which could cost up to £40bn and take 61 years. – BBC
  
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• Macklemore Says Major Arenas Are Refusing To Book His Concerts

  09-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  “After weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down,” he wrote. Macklemore went on to name the specific venues that have allegedly turned him and his team away, despite having availability in the coming months. – The Wrap
  
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• When Writers Lose Confidence In Free Speech

  09-11-2026 17:40 via ArtsJournal
  If democracy is the political system that allows the fullest human flourishing, the novel is the literary form that most fully cultivates our understanding of human possibility and tragedy and endurance. – The Atlantic
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Life You Can Learn From “Sound Of Music”

  09-11-2026 17:20 via ArtsJournal
  I would argue that everything you need to know about life can be found in “The Sound of Music.” Quite an expansive claim, but I have good credentials for making it. As a child actress, I played the bookish Brigitta von Trapp for three years in a touring production of the musical. – Washington Post
  
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• A Long-Lost, Supposed Destroyed, Handwritten Draft Of MLK’s ‘I Have A Dream’ Speech Has Emerged

  09-11-2026 17:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Like the typed version, it does not include the words ‘I have a dream,’ part of the ringing second half of the speech that King famously improvised.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can Authors Ever Use Enough Tools To ‘Prove’ They Didn’t Use AI?

  09-11-2026 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Especially since a lot of LLMs are trained on those authors’ words already? Well, that’s the hope – that’s there’s a way to prove a negative. – Wired
  
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• A Not Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

  09-11-2026 16:22 via ArtsJournal
  In the new Canadian federal government budget, a non-refundable tax credit worth up to $45,000 of net income is proposed for artists, to be called the Canada Creative Credit.
  Some tax policy jargon: a tax credit is not the same as a tax deduction. For a tax credit, calculate your income tax owing based on revenues minus eligible expenses. Once you have figured out that amount, subtract the credit. Non-refundable means the credit can reduce the amount you owe all the way down to zero, but no fur
  
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• Wait, Why Is A 77-Year-Old Judge In Virginia In Charge Of The Titanic?

  09-11-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  Maritime law means Judge Smith oversees “the remains of a ship that was built in Belfast, sailed from England, was heading to New York City and sank off the coast of Canada in international waters more than 1,000 miles from Norfolk.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sometimes It Takes A Film A Little While To Find Its Way To Audiences

  09-11-2026 15:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  After a friend-funded release, the actors of Pyre “have met teary-eyed people at multiple screenings – many wanting to touch their feet and hug them, many who said the film reminded them of their own parents and grandparents who are waiting in villages.” – BBC
  
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• Who Betrayed The Photographer Who Secretly Captured Nazi-Occupied Paris?

  09-11-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  “It is a story of betrayal, set against the turmoil of wartime France under German occupation. At the center of the suspicion is a couple.” – Le Monde English
  
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• Making A TV Show At Negative 39 Degrees Isn’t Exactly Simple

  09-11-2026 15:15 via ArtsJournal
  “Wherever possible, materials were sent by sea during the annual short thaw to avoid expensive airfreight. For example, building materials and boxed water — which, Arnaquq-Baril says, was chosen over plastic bottles to leave ‘less toxic garbage in the Arctic’ — were shipped by sealift.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Eurovision Becomes Asiavision Later This Week

  09-11-2026 15:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Bloc voting, where countries award high scores to their neighbours, is a long-running tradition in Europe. Blecher says it is too early to know whether Asia will follow suit.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Canada Has New Tax Relief For The Arts And Artists

  09-11-2026 14:45 via ArtsJournal
  
  It’s not 100 percent clear who, exactly, will benefit. “There’s little to no way to know whether, for example, a violin teacher or a filmmaker is more likely to be approved.” – CBC
  
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• The Void Of Jobs Confronting Hollywood’s Workforce

  09-11-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Shoots are moving away from Hollywood and, increasingly, from the United States altogether. The share of film production budgets spent in the U.S. has fallen from 74% to 42% .” – El País English
  
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• These Ballet Dancers Fell In Love And Then, As Is The Way With Ballet, Founded A Company

  09-11-2026 14:15 via ArtsJournal
  “They realized that they wanted to create their own model, in which artists — who often cobble together a living over multiple part-time jobs and punishing rehearsal schedules — could earn a salary that reflected the labor they were putting in. … East Coast Contemporary Ballet was born.” – Hartford Courant
  
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• Apple Apparently Sees Classical Music, Too, In Black And White

  09-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  No more pinkish treble clef on a red background: “Unlike last time, when people hated on the Music app’s black-and-white design, there doesn’t seem to be such passionate pronouncements of displeasure for the Classical app logo’s makeover.” – Engadget
  
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• Are U.S. Arenas Refusing To Let Macklemore Play?

  09-11-2026 13:45 via ArtsJournal
  The rap artist wrote that after Ed Sheeran removed him from the Sheeran tour, his team reached out to arenas with available dates. “But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, … those dates were suddenly off the table.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sebastian Lelio, Director Of Gloria, Fantastic Woman, And Disobedience, Has Died At 52

  09-11-2026 13:30 via ArtsJournal
  The Chilean director’s final film was last year’s The Wave. He said, “Making a film is like a gift you leave somewhere – you then hide and see what happens.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Pamela Abdy, Ousted At WB, Gets Real About Her Rage At The Hollywood Bro Machine

  09-11-2026 13:15 via ArtsJournal
  
  She said, as she accepted the Vanguard Award, she felt rage for all of her female collaborators over the years, “rage for me and even more rage for the entire generation of women who deserve to have their potential recognized and elevated.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• What’s Up With Your Ethics, New York Times?

  09-11-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  In short: “The New York Times has terminated their contract with author Olivia Waite, their romance columnist, after she reposted Mark Jacob’s repost of Marisa Kabas’ criticism of the Times’ coverage of new rape allegations about Trump.” – Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
  
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• Phoenix Symphony Returns Days After Laying Off Musicians

  08-11-2026 23:30 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,The Phoenix Symphony laid off all 66 of its musicians on November 2, saying it could no longer cover its costs. Local donors have now pledged enough to lift the suspension; the orchestra plays again November 12 while an 11-member commission reworks its finances (Arizona Republic).Pan Macmillan, his British publisher, is pulling Russell Brand’s books after his rape and sexual assault conviction. Skyhorse, which put out his How to Become a Christian in 7 Days under Tucker Carlson’
  
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• The Artist Taking Broken Things And Making Them Beautiful

  08-11-2026 22:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Toporkoff has found that she prefers working with mouth-blown glass because of its depth of color and texture and natural imperfections like bubbles and ripples. She sources the glass from Saint-Just Glassworks in the Loire region of France.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dustin Hoffman Took Up Acting For A Very Normal College Student Reason

  08-11-2026 21:30 via ArtsJournal
  “My friend said, ‘Take acting, it’s like gym. Nobody flunks. You know, the worst you can get in gym is a C.'” – Today Show
  
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• The ‘Blue Wave’ On Tuesday Swept A Fair Number Of Artists To Power

  08-11-2026 21:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Next year’s massive reconfiguration of power … brings with it a number of elected officials with creative backgrounds, some of whom even incorporated music, dance and art into their campaigns and promises to constituents.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• A Ransomware Attack Takes Down The Queens Public Library

  08-11-2026 20:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Unfortunately, it’s part of the world that we live in right now. So the Queens Public Library is a victim of the type of world that we’re living in, where people are launching cyber attacks against various types of entities, large corporations, and now Queens Public Library.” – LitHub
  
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