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• Ticket Broker Sued In $120M Ticket Bot Scheme

  19-10-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  The DOJ and FTC allege that REPS & Co violated the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act by opening thousands of accounts across Ticketmaster, AXS and other ticket services and circumventing the ticket platforms’ purchase limits. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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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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• Authors Are Angry And In Mourning As A Koch Scion Sells Off Catapult Books After Workers Unionize

  25-10-2026 18:30 via ArtsJournal
  
  Author Gina Frangello: “Catapult is intrinsic to L.A. culture and L.A. literature. So many of their writers are in this area. … It’s a huge loss for L.A. It’s a huge loss for the West Coast.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Amy Poehler Goes To Ancient Greece

  25-10-2026 18:00 via ArtsJournal
  Poehler, and Hugh Laurie, star in a fictional show about realistic archaeologists. “Getting the objects right was important for the production because an appreciation of artifacts is central to archaeology.” – The New York Times
  
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• San Francisco’s SFMoMA Gets A Big Boost From A K-Pop Star

  25-10-2026 17:30 via ArtsJournal
  Want to sell tickets? Get a K-pop star’s art collection up. “The show has been a blockbuster success, with over 66,000 tickets sold and advance sales that were six times higher than any previous exhibition at the museum.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Sofia Coppola On Finishing What Her Mother Eleanor Started

  25-10-2026 17:00 via ArtsJournal
  “‘It’s like the opposite of Hearts of Darkness,’ Sofia said. ‘In a way it’s sort of a nice counterpoint because that movie’s so macho and masculine and this is so feminine.’ And it’s also true to what really happened.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• J Todd Anderson, The Coen Brothers’ Longtime Storyboard Artist, Has Died

  25-10-2026 16:30 via ArtsJournal
  “For more than 40 years, Mr. Anderson was the hidden hand in nearly every movie the Coen brothers made. It was a close-knit but unheralded working relationship that aesthetically defined one of the greatest runs in moviemaking history.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Women Who Are Under Attack Everywhere, But Thriving In Dance Clubs

  25-10-2026 16:00 via ArtsJournal
  And not as dancers, but as DJs, promoters, and business owners. “Trans women aren’t just more visible in dance music—they’re ‘taking the reins over the modes of production.'”– Slate
  
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• Four Objects That Measure The Thirty Years Of Rent

  25-10-2026 15:30 via ArtsJournal
  “In an alternate universe, might ‘Seasons of Love’ have opened with the lyric: ‘31,536,000 seconds?’” – The New York Times
  
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• Some Questions For And About The Suddenly Shuttered Phoenix Symphony

  25-10-2026 15:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  For instance: “Why it hired a new music director … amid much fanfare last March; whether any employees other than CEO Peter Kjome will be paid during the suspension; or what, specifically, is being done to help the musicians and staff whose pay has been cut off.” – Phoenix New Times
  
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• Short-Story Collections May Be Hard To Sell, But A Single Short Story Can Sell To Netflix For A Million Dollars

  25-10-2026 14:30 via ArtsJournal
  Why? The “bite-size format appeals to busy studio executives facing mountains of scripts. Buying unpublished stories also allows producers to avoid the hassle of optioning novels, whose fans often expect a faithful adaptation.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Global Rise Of Album Listening Bars

  25-10-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  In Seattle’s Shibuya, for instance, “Once the listening room doors open, all drinks, distractions and shoes must be left at the door.” – Salon
  
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• AI Could Never Have Made The Stop-Motion Wildwood

  25-10-2026 13:30 via ArtsJournal
  “Every single thing you see onscreen is an artistic choice. You start with a blank canvas, nothing exists. Everything has to be thought through, designed and manipulated by an artist’s hands.” – The New York Times
  
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• Who Will Take Over Portland’s Many City Performance Spaces?

  25-10-2026 13:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  The city only received two propsals to take over the spaces, known as Portland’5 (yes, there are 5 theatres), starting next July. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• A Huge Fire Has Destroyed Hitler’s Nazi Guesthouse

  25-10-2026 12:30 via ArtsJournal
  For some reason (the reason being that after WWII, “local officials fought successfully to keep it, seeing it as a historical site that could attract visitors”), it was still standing, and had a popular restaurant. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Some Youth – The Ones Who Joust On Bikes, For Instance – Are Going Medieval

  25-10-2026 12:00 via ArtsJournal
  
  One “emerging medieval strand [is] ‘wenchcore,’ which offers ‘a more acceptable voracious sexuality, the ribald, singing, dancing, drinking, doesn’t-need-to-be-perfect idea of womanhood and of masculinity … more of just whatever goes.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Art Basel Paris Closes Two Days Early

  24-10-2026 20:48 via ArtsJournal
  This Week’s Highlights:Art students blocked the Louvre’s glass pyramid on Monday and closed the museum, two days after a nationwide protest over public schools ended in about 2,400 arrests and a burned town hall in Limoges (ARTnews). By Thursday, Art Basel Paris had cut its run to end Friday at 7 p.m. instead of Sunday, leaving dealers to rebook shippers (ARTnews).The Phoenix Symphony suspended its season after November 1 and is laying off 66 musicians, though revenue rose more than 50% betw
  
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• Donald Borror shares the transformative impact of Pasculano Dance at Lincoln Center

  24-10-2026 17:35 via ArtsJournal
  Donald Borror, Director of the Pasculano Collaborative for Contemporary Dance at Lincoln Center, shares their transformative impact on the field.
  
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• A New Shanghai Landmark for Opera

  23-10-2026 21:37 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Snøhetta, the Oslo architecture firm, opened the Shanghai Grand Opera House on October 17 with a double-helix staircase on the Huangpu River that passersby can climb whether or not they have a seat inside (Architectural Digest).
  Buddy Brundo, 83, is asking $15 million for Conway Recording Studios, the Melrose Avenue complex where Fleetwood Mac and Kendrick Lamar recorded (Los Angeles Times). Will a judge break up Live Nation? Hundreds of independent venues around America have close
  
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• Executive Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts

  23-10-2026 21:31 via ArtsJournal
  Founded by collector and philanthropist Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) holds a singular place in the cultural landscape as the world’s first institution solely dedicated to championing women through the arts. Located in Washington, DC, the museum opened its doors in 1987, bringing recognition to the achievements of women artists across all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching their work, and educating the pub
  
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• The Deadly Dancing Plague Of 1518

  23-10-2026 20:50 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Five centuries later, the dancing plague of 1518 remains one of history’s strangest medical mysteries. Historical records confirm that a bizarre episode turned a medieval city” — Strasbourg — “into a very unwilling dance floor that summer, but exactly why it happened remains a matter of debate.” – Popular Science
  
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• Chatbots May Be Bad Writers. But So Are Most Humans

  23-10-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  After all, we’ve been producing particle board for a long time. As Orwell observed (in pre-chatbot 1946!), “prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.” – The Walrus
  
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• Jonathan Groff’s Next Broadway Project Will Be A Solo Show About A School Shooting

  23-10-2026 20:03 via ArtsJournal
  “The play, The Amish Project, will be Groff’s first nonmusical production on Broadway, and it’s strikingly personal for him: It’s a work of fiction inspired by a 2006 shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, just a few minutes from Groff’s childhood home.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Art Of Attention

  23-10-2026 19:44 via ArtsJournal
  “You can’t talk about aesthetics,” he wrote, “without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil.” Attention, for him, was a matter of life and death, or at least of their cultural equivalents, remembering and forgetting. – The New York Times
  
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• Dealers Scramble To Get Work Out Of Art Basel Paris After Surprise Early Closing

  23-10-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  Multiple dealers told ARTnews they’d received an email announcing the decision at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. By then, many had already suspected Saturday’s opening might be canceled. The loss of Sunday came as more of a surprise. – ARTnews
  
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