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• The AI that has Colonized our Creativity

  08-12-2025 06:34 via artsjournal.com
  Everyone’s talking about AI, and you’re being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
  
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• Director of Marketing and Communications – Broadway in Hollywood & the Hollywood Pantages Theatre via TOC Arts Partners

  12-12-2025 01:54 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityComing off another extremely triumphant season of productions and record-breaking attendance, Broadway in Hollywood and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre seek an energetic, driven, and forward-thinking Director of Marketing and Communications to join their team as a key leader in this period of forward momentum. The Hollywood Pantages reflects an exciting paradigm in the national theatre landscape because of its ability to attract, enchant, and retain audiences in a post-pandem
  
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• Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight

  11-12-2025 21:02 via theguardian.com
  The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script anymore. And she says, “I can’t remember what I’m doing tomorrow, I swear to you,” but can still remember quite a lot of Shakespeare. – The Guardian
  
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• Can Literary Fiction Help Save Classical Music?

  11-12-2025 20:32 via publicbooks.org
  Since 2020, well over a dozen novels have taken classical music as their setting. Of course, novels about classical music are nothing new. But what is notable about this recent surge in classical music fiction is that many of these texts center on a scathing critique of the industry itself. – Public Books
  
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• Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After The Same Person?

  11-12-2025 20:04 via abc.net.au
  Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry because she was waiting for you at one Ian Potter Museum while you waited for her at another, you realize there must be a better way. – ABC (Australia)
  
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• “Nutcracker” From Behind The Stage

  11-12-2025 19:44 via post-gazette.com
  Pittsburgh’s production has evolved its own traditions and superstitions. During some performances, performers pass a Heinz ketchup packet while onstage, like a hot potato. Whoever has it at the end loses. Another tradition: Dancers owe a dollar for every mistake. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Americans’ Obsession With Renovation And Makeovers — And The White House

  11-12-2025 19:31 via nytimes.com
  The White House has explained the East Wing’s demolition as “renovation,” and the necessary prelude to a multimillion-dollar ballroom. This is the architectural equivalent of a celebrity-style makeover: a redo to admire as a luxury commodity, an old building rejuvenated, history erased. – The New York Times
  
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• Have Stripped Public Media Of Funding, Now Republicans Want To Cancel NPR, PBS Station Licenses

  11-12-2025 19:15 via arstechnica.com
  The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American Rights said the CPB shutdown should be used as an opportunity to reassign spectrum used by NPR and PBS stations to other entities. – Ars Technica
  
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• Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now

  11-12-2025 19:01 via daily.jstor.org
  Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits the coming of its bards … in the twilight of dawn.” And the connection of poetry to politics continues today with Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman. – JSTOR Daily
  
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• Mark Swed: LA’s Best Classical Music Of 2025

  11-12-2025 18:31 via latimes.com
  Classical music’s survival instincts proved reliable. New leaders of L.A.’s arts institutions are bringing vitality to the region, empowering musicians and giving fans hope and optimism. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Baritone Jubilant Sykes, Stabbed and Killed

  11-12-2025 18:15 via nytimes.com
  After the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call about an assault at a house around 9:20 p.m., officers found Sykes, 71, with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing, the authorities said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene. – The New York Times
  
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• How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years?

  11-12-2025 18:03 via torontolife.com
  The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades. Here wardrobe chief Stacy Dimitropoulos, resident cutter Chris Read, and several company dancers talk about costume care and maintenance. – Toronto Life
  
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• The People Who Are Using AI To Do Their Thinking

  11-12-2025 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  For this set of compulsive users, AI has become a primary interface through which they interact with the world. The emails they write, the life decisions they make, and the questions that consume their mind all filter through AI first. “It’s like a real addiction.” – The Atlantic
  
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• How Warner Bros. Sale To Netflix Could Change Movies

  11-12-2025 17:35 via newyorker.com
  In Hollywood, concern about whether Warner Bros. will remain a theatre-centered business is haunted by historical echoes of earlier seismic shifts in the movie business. It seems existential, perhaps portending the end of mainstream moviegoing. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Trumped Up Kennedy Honors

  11-12-2025 17:15 via newyorker.com
  Every detail of the ceremony appeared to have been plucked from Trump’s mood board, an indelible blend of revanchist impulses and eighties camp. – The New Yorker
  
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• Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In Company

  11-12-2025 17:05 via msn.com
  “The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters. … ChatGPT will also be able to generate images of Disney’s multibrand licensed characters.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years

  11-12-2025 16:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “According to data released … on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the lowest percentage on Broadway in 30 years. The demographic, which once made up 20% of the audience, has been trending down over the past few years.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite

  11-12-2025 16:06 via apnews.com
  And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new museum, planned to cover more than 3,500 square meters (37,673 square feet) near the city’s central railway station, is scheduled to open in six to eight years. – AP
  
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• Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Music Director, Takes On A Second Position

  11-12-2025 15:34 via moto-perpetuo.com
  Next September, the French contralto-turned-conductor will begin a four-year term as music and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. She succeeds Kazuki Yamada, music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• “The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration

  11-12-2025 15:01 via newrepublic.com
  The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston and Seymour Vogel as well as Ben Shahn’s monumental The Meaning of Social Security. The Trump administration is currently soliciting bids for the building’s demolition. – The New Republic
  
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• The Muny In St. Louis To Get $9.5 Million Renovation Next Fall

  11-12-2025 14:30 via stlpr.org
  The beloved outdoor theater will replace all 11,000-odd seats and make structural improvements to protect against flooding, which caused serious damage after a torrential 2022 rainstorm. – St. Louis Public Radio
  
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• Performance At La Scala Ends Early After Conductor Riccardo Chailly Falls Ill

  11-12-2025 14:03 via gramilano.com
  During the second intermission of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on Wednesday evening, a very weak Chailly was taken to a Milan hospital and the third act was cancelled. The 72-year conductor, who has a history of heart disease, is in his last season as La Scala’s music director. – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• Krugman and Kedrosky: A Most Enlightening Conversation About AI & Its Future

  10-12-2025 22:58 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2025/12/krugman-and-kedroskya-most-enlightening-conversation-about-ai-its-future.html" title='Krugman and Kedrosky
  A Most Enlightening Conversation About AI & Its Future‘ rel=”nofollow”>As a longtime reader of Paul Krugman’s columns, I can say without hesitation that this is his best Substack conversation yet about AI and its ramifications. Thanks to Paul Kedrosky‘s clarity, I understand a helluva lot more of wha
  
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• ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

  10-12-2025 18:22
  As the first learning-disabled artist to win the UK’s most prestigious art award, Kalu has smashed a ‘very stubborn glass ceiling’. Her facilitator reveals why her victory is so seismic – and the secrets of her party playlistThe morning after the Turner prize ceremony, the winner of the UK’s most prestigious art award, Nnena Kalu, is eating toast and drinking a strong cup of tea. Everyone around her is beaming – only a little the worse for wear after dancing t
  
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• A tribute to resilience: what we can learn from the splendour of Accra Cultural Week

  10-12-2025 15:46
  Ghana’s capital is a party and entertainment hub but members of the diaspora would do well to experience its spectacular art scene• Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAfter more than 50 editions surfing across the waves of the global Black diaspora with Nesrine, this will be my final dispatch for the Long Wave, as I move on to a new role on the Opinion desk at the Guardian. I am heartbroken to be leaving, but I am so thankful to all of our readers for b
  
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• Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

  09-12-2025 22:44
  Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winnerNnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize.Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by t
  
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• Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

  09-12-2025 20:56
  The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them beginsNnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prizeNnena Kalu’s forms come at you with their almost alien unknowable presence. They bulge and bifurcate and multiply. The viewer gets caught up in all the roaring, spilling, snaggling details, and you begin to wonder about your own boundaries, the body’s begi
  
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• Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body

  09-12-2025 06:00
  The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds It is an image of an unnamed black man with his eyes closed and his innards exposed. Drawn with care and precision, the image may be the only anatomical drawing of a black body made during the Victorian age.Now it is part of a new exhibition that focuses on the work of Joseph Maclise, a surgeon and artist whose work – including his 1851 atlas Surgical Anatomy – made the hu
  
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• ‘It’s been called the greatest hip-hop film ever’: how we made cult graffiti classic Wild Style

  08-12-2025 16:02
  ‘I handed a guy a starting pistol for a stick-up scene. But instead he reached into his car and took out the sawn-off shotgun you see in the movie’I was part of the New York graffiti artists the Fabulous 5, who were primarily known for painting whole subway cars on the Lexington Avenue line. Lee Quiñones was the group’s Michelangelo. I’d been running with Jean-Michel Basquiat and wanted to take graffiti art into art spaces. I thought that an underground independent
  
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• ‘I’m a prisoner of hope’: Olafur Eliasson on using art to bring us together to save the world

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Inside Presence, the Icelandic-Danish artist’s epic new show in Brisbane, what you see changes based on where you stand or how you look – crucial when it comes to tackling the climate crisisI gasp as it comes into view: an enormous sun looming above, its surface roiling with what looks like thousands of tiny atomic explosions. It seems to notice me as well: when I stop, it stops too. It’s both awe-inspiring and unnerving.In the mirrors around the glowing orb, I spot Icelandic-D
  
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