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• Turning The Edinburgh Fringe Virtual

  05-08-2020 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the first time in its 73-year history, the Edinburgh Fringe will not take place as an official live event in 2020. But this has not deterred companies and venues from developing creative online solutions. They speak to David Pollock about adapting to the pandemic, crowdfunding and the appetite for change in the sector.” – The Stage
  
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• ‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

  11-02-2026 11:03
  Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31If there’s one thing the late avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is known for, it’s almost certainly her experimental 1982 book Dictée, a hard-to-classify work that has become a mainstay of college curriculums and ambitious writers. Poet Juliana Spahr has described the work as “part autobiography, part biography, part personal diary, part ethn
  
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• Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

  11-02-2026 01:01
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonFreud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At least that’s how it felt to me, puttering along on the 27 to Paddington that is the National Portrait Gallery’s trawl through Lucian Freud’s sketches, engravings and even childhood crayonings, daydreaming until my stop, with the occasional flash of colo
  
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• How Has India Managed To Develop Over 100 Litarary Festivals?

  10-02-2026 21:01 via theguardian.com
  “The answer is that festivals in India are only partly about books. They are a ‘spectacle’ offering music, dance, handicraft sales and food. Even the T.rex of them all, the Jaipur literature festival (which attracted 400,000 visitors last month according to its marketing team), would almost certainly attract fewer people without these extras.” – The Guardian
  
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• Can English National Opera’s New Leader Revive The Company’s Fortunes?

  10-02-2026 20:31 via theguardian.com
  “I like this construction of London and Manchester,” he tells me, at the Coliseum. “And I like the spirit of pioneering, of becoming an opera company in a city that previously hasn’t had a resident opera company.” – The Guardian
  
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• American Tap Dance Meets Indian Kathak — And The Rhythms And Sparks Fly

  10-02-2026 20:03 via nytimes.com
  “In Speak, American tap dancers collaborate with their counterparts in kathak, a classical Indian percussive dance form. While these genres have been crossed before, rarely have the participants been such masters of their art.” – The New York Times
  
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• If I Can Write A Novel In A Day With AI And It Takes You Six Months, Who Wins?

  10-02-2026 19:44 via gizmodo.com
  Through Hart’s teaching business, Plot Prose, she’s working on a proprietary piece of software that can “generate a book based on an outline in less than an hour, and costs between $80 and $250 a month.” – Gizmodo
  
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• Report: Enrollment At Australian Art Schools Has Plummeted

  10-02-2026 19:31 via theguardian.com
  New research published in the Australian Journal of Education this week found fewer students in high school and university were choosing to study the creative arts. At the same time, it found, dozens of tertiary courses were being slashed. – The Guardian
  
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• A Campaign To Prohibit UK Police From Using Lyrics As Evidence In Court

  10-02-2026 19:15 via theguardian.com
  Campaign groups want a change to the victims and courts bill, which is currently making its way through parliament, to stop police from being able to present lyrics as evidence except when they are “literal, rather than figurative or fictional”. – The Guardian
  
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• Master Cinematographer Roger Deakins On His Half-Century Behind The Camera

  10-02-2026 19:04 via theguardian.com
  “Deakins – cinematographer to the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese and Sam Mendes, whose work has earned him 14 Oscar nominations and two wins, five BAFTAs, a knighthood and a reputation for being the greatest practitioner of his craft alive – is struggling to explain just exactly what he does.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Enormous Power Of Small Book Shops

  10-02-2026 18:44 via lithub.com
  How, against all odds, has City Lights managed to remain a vital symbol of literary dissent and free speech? How, after more than seventy years, has City Lights survived economic and industry changes? How, decade after decade, has it managed to respond to the forces that threaten to silence us? – LitHub
  
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• Hollywood Unions Begin New Contract Negotiations

  10-02-2026 18:34 via nytimes.com
  The sides will be negotiating in a Hollywood far different from 2023. Production has slowed significantly industrywide, as many entertainment companies struggle to adjust to the streaming world. Work has dried up for many actors, writers and directors. At the same time, the rise of generative artificial intelligence has become more central. – The New York Times
  
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• Indians Don’t Buy Books. So Why Do They Have So Many Literary Festivals?

  10-02-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
  If most middle-class homes are devoid of book– if you can sit in an airport departure lounge or train all day and not see anyone reading–then why, come winter, do more than 100 literature festivals bloom every year, even in the smallest and unlikeliest of towns? – The Guardian
  
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• Letterboxd Has Become For Movie Fans What GoodReads Was (At Its Best) For Lit Lovers

  10-02-2026 18:02 via nytimes.com
  “Browsing Letterboxd, you find an eclectic range of tastes, tones and approaches to movie-watching, a buffet of high and low, mainstream and esoterica. … If Rotten Tomatoes has become a tool of Hollywood’s homogenizing marketing machinery, Letterboxd is something else: a cinephilic hive buzzing with authentic enthusiasm and heterogeneous tastes.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• AI Is Working on It

  10-02-2026 17:54 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/02/ai-is-working-on-it.html" title="AI Is Working on It” rel=”nofollow”>Do you remember January 6?
  
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• A Worldwide Shortage Of Tenors?

  10-02-2026 17:44 via economist.com
  When men do join singing groups, they often avoid the tenor section. The tenor voice is “a cultivated sound”, says John Potter, author of a book on the subject. A man with no vocal training is more likely to have the range of a baritone (a high bass). – The Economist
  
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• Report: Canadian Artists Have Multiple Jobs

  10-02-2026 17:31 via statsinsights.hillstrategies.com
  One in every 10 employees in the arts, culture, and heritage had multiple jobs in 2025, compared with just 5.6% of all Canadian employees. In other words, the multiple job holding rate is 77% higher in the arts, culture, and heritage than for other workers. – Statistical Insights on the Arts
  
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• We’re Not Ready For The Ways AI Will Disrupt Jobs

  10-02-2026 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  The immediate risk to employment may not be AI itself, but the way companies, seduced by its promise, overinvest before they understand what it can actually do. – The Atlantic
  
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• After $41 Million Renovation, San Francisco’s Castro Theater Reopens As Performing Arts Center

  10-02-2026 17:07 via yahoo.com
  “It was as if nothing had changed about the historic Castro district landmark. Except that nearly everything has.” The new removable chairs and flattened floor with motorized risers were quite controversial, but they make the theater usable for stage performances and concerts as well as film screenings. – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
  
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• Broadway Musical Fans Are Recreating Favorite Dance Numbers On TikTok

  10-02-2026 16:35 via nytimes.com
  “These content creators are not just copycats; they are attempting and sometimes mastering the complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may never see live, let alone be cast in. Sharing the result with the world, they are making TikTok a theater of their own.” – The New York Times
  
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• Antiquities-Trafficking Prosecutor Wins Art History Award

  10-02-2026 16:03 via artnews.com
  Matthew Bogdanos, founder and chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the New York District Attorney’s office, has been awarded the Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History, which is usually given to curators or scholars and includes a $100,000 purse. – ARTnews
  
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• Three Sexual Assault Lawsuits Against Author Neal Gaiman Are Dismissed

  10-02-2026 15:36 via apnews.com
  “Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in February 2025, accusing Gaiman of multiple sexual assaults while she worked as the family’s nanny in 2022. She filed lawsuits against Palmer in Massachusetts and in New York on the same day she filed the Wisconsin action.” – AP
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Chief Of Staff And CFO Resign

  10-02-2026 15:04 via msn.com
  “Maggie Fairs, who was promoted to chief of staff last year by former director and CEO Sasha Suda, will leave the museum at the end of the month. CFO Valarie McDuffie has also resigned, with her last day this Friday. Previously, the museum parted ways with its marketing chief Paul Dien.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Loses Its Music Director

  10-02-2026 14:32 via sacurrent.com
  “The departure of the respected conductor, pianist and educator (Jeffrey Kahane) comes as the orchestra, formed from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony, finds itself without a regular place to perform and has canceled at least four set of concerts dates since December.” – San Antonio Current
  
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• The far right in power always co-opts culture – in France, it has already begun | Alexander Hurst

  10-02-2026 14:00
  Marine Le Pen’s party is concocting plans to replace a vital, vibrant arts scene with a retrograde movement that would glorify the country’s pastShould you judge the quality of a film based on how many people have been to see it? It’s the type of argument you would expect to hear in the context of the “culture war”; but is it what you would expect to hear from French culture warriors? From a country that uses language quotas to maintain its musicians on broadcast me
  
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• Buffalo’s Classical Radio Station Plans To Go Commercial

  10-02-2026 14:00 via current.org
  “Buffalo Toronto Public Media has filed an application with the FCC to convert WNED-FM to commercial status, a move which would allow it to sell advertising on the classical station. The application, filed Jan. 30, is part of BTPM’s efforts to diversify its revenue streams following the loss of its (federal) funding.” – Current
  
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• Serco accused of ‘petty and vindictive’ removal of artwork from court cells

  10-02-2026 01:01
  Government contractor stripped custody suites in England and Wales of motivational murals, report saysA government contractor has been accused of being “petty and vindictive” after tearing down brightly coloured artworks carrying motivational messages that were intended to improve the conditions for people held in court cells.The decision by Serco to remove the artworks, commissioned to cheer up court custody areas that are often underground and “bleak”, is revealed in th
  
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• Perth festival 2026: Swan River bursts to life with a stunning trail of stories and light

  09-02-2026 03:55
  From dazzling light installations to unexpected conversations on pop-up phones, Perth festival has opened with a timely celebration of culture and communityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAs families gather for sunset at Perth’s Kings Park, a giant golden orb glows on the horizon, shooting ribbons of light into the night sky.“It looks like an upside down jellyfish!” a child shouts gleefully, gazing up at this mysterious beacon. Others watch from park benches or drift
  
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• ‘The photo we want to take is closer than we think’: Dominic Dähncke’s best phone picture

  07-02-2026 12:00
  Cooped up during Covid, the Spanish photographer found inspiration in a broom … and a nail in the wall“Telekinesis,” says Dominic Dähncke, when asked how this errant broom is standing upright. He took this shot on the rooftop of his home in El Médano, Tenerife; a communal terrace filled with laundry rooms and cleaning supplies. This was 2021, in the throes of a Covid lockdown, so he would walk around in circles on the rooftop of his building, enjoying the fresh air
  
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• AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums

  07-02-2026 09:00
  Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century masterAn analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck?Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to near-identical unsigned paintings hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of the sm
  
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