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• With Michael Apted Gone, Can His ‘Up’ Documentaries Keep Going?

  15-01-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beginning in 1964 with Seven Up!, Apted made a series of nine films, shot at seven-year-intervals, following the lives of a group of 14 Englishmen and -women from ages 7 through 14, 21, 28, etc. (63 Up was released in 2019.) After his death last week, the 12 remaining subjects and several longtime crew members are considering whether to proceed on to 70 Up, and, if so, how. – The New York Times
  
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• Jova Lynne shares the benefits of a co-directorship model in cultural organizations

  08-08-2026 16:34 via artsjournal.com
  Jova Lynne, Co-Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, shares the benefits of the co-directorship model and immersion in the artist creative process.
  
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• Who Asked You? (The Museum Did)

  08-08-2026 04:34 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Missy Mazzoli’s new opera about the opioid crisis is a tragicomedy, with singing sheep, built on the premise that new opera gets boring when composers forget the job includes entertaining somebody (The Guardian).
  London’s National Gallery made the same decision more literally, convening a 50-person citizens’ assembly to help shape its future — and drew conservative fire for asking at all (Artnet). The objection isn’t to the answers. It’s to the pr
  
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• Executive Director – Gallo Center for the Arts via TOC Arts Partners

  07-08-2026 23:36 via artsjournal.com
  About the Opportunity
  The Gallo Center for the Arts (GCA) seeks a dynamic, mission-driven executive to serve as its next Executive Director. This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished arts leader to guide a thriving, community-rooted performing arts center into its next era — building on a strong artistic and civic legacy while strengthening the organization’s financial foundation, programming, and community partnerships.About the Gallo Center for the Arts
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• The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra seeks Chief Executive Officer.

  07-08-2026 23:31 via artsjournal.com
  ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in the search for a Chief Executive OfficerReporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer will lead one of Indianapolis’s most visible and respected cultural institutions from a position of strength. Supported by a talented leadership team, an engaged Board of Directors, and a community that values the orchestra’s contributions, the CEO will build on a strong foundation while gu
  
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• The Painter Who Uses Medieval Style And Techniques To Address The 21st Century

  07-08-2026 20:50 via artnews.com
  
  “Today (Malo Chapuy) paints religious scenes, altarpieces, and early Renaissance-style portraits that look like museum artifacts save for the proliferation of wind turbines, water towers, astronauts, and spaceships.” –Art in America
  
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• Prediction Markets Are Wrecking Civil Society

  07-08-2026 20:31 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Monetizing the full gamut of reality, platforms have opened Pandora’s box. Basic tenets of liberal society—democratic integrity and respect for human life—are being corroded. Regulators need to step in. – The Walrus
  
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• As AI Overwhelms The Web: What Was The Internet?

  07-08-2026 20:15 via bostonreview.net
  Despite valiant efforts by activists and reformers, it’s been the dystopians’ world—or at least the realists’—for some time now: an age of techno-feudalism, digital colonialism, the new Jim Code. – Boston Review
  
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• Missy Mazzoli’s New Opera Is A Tragicomedy About The Opioid Crisis (And Singing Sheep)

  07-08-2026 20:03 via theguardian.com
  Why the comedy part? “New opera is sometimes boring because we’ve forgotten that our job is to entertain people. … During all my time in the American development system, no one ever told me that my job as a composer was to be a dramatist.” – The Guardian
  
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• London’s National Gallery Asked Citizens To Help Chart The Future. Some Are Angry They Asked

  07-08-2026 19:44 via news.artnet.com
  London’s National Gallery is facing backlash from conservative groups in the U.K. after convening a 50-citizen assembly to help shape its future planning. – Artnet
  
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• Exploding Myths About The English Language

  07-08-2026 19:31 via nytimes.com
  If languages had all been getting ever easier over all of that time, humans worldwide would just be yelling “ah,” pointing at things and gesturing frantically. Despite occasional appearances otherwise, we are doing better than that. – The New York Times
  
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• Concern That IndyCar Race On The DC Streets Might Damage Museum Art

  07-08-2026 19:15 via washingtonpost.com
  One of those institutions, the National Gallery of Art, has studied vibrations ahead of the race as it prepares for possible effects on its art — but it’s declining to say what it found. – Washington Post
  
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• Amanda Knox Is Bringing A Solo Show To The Edinburgh Fringe (And Getting Some Pushback)

  07-08-2026 19:02 via apnews.com
  
  The comic monologue, titled Cartwheel, is billed as about a woman “approaching forty, juggling motherhood and finally getting around to being furious about the whole wrongful-imprisonment thing. Especially when half the world is telling her to get over it, while the other half still thinks she’s guilty.” – AP
  
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• Study: Arts Orgs That Got More COVID Relief Funding Are Doing Better Than Those That Didn’t

  07-08-2026 18:44 via hyperallergic.com
  
  From Sacramento and Seattle to New York City and Philadelphia, the study highlights diverging trends across cities — some rebounded from the pandemic and even exceeded their 2019 numbers, while others plummeted. – Hyperallergic
  
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• What’s Behind Gen Z’s Dark Humor?

  07-08-2026 18:30 via theconversation.com
  
  In my assessment, Gen Z’s dark and nonsensical humor does not show a lack of moral values, but it’s instead the product of its desire to engage in more authentic conversations about what they believe. – The Conversation
  
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• When Today’s Slang Leaves You Behind

  07-08-2026 18:15 via theguardian.com
   I knew the context. I knew who was using it. I knew when it should be used. I knew when it was already embarrassing to use it. I wasn’t speaking the language but I was fluent. Now, I’m joining the ranks of the bamboozled elderly and Googling “quiet on the creek”. – The Guardian
  
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• San Francisco Ballet Performs At Jacob’s Pillow For First Time In 70 Years

  07-08-2026 18:04 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “In 1956, under the direction of Lew Christensen, SFB went to the Pillow with three programs featuring eight ballets by George Balanchine and Christensen himself. The performances were a tremendous success, and … helped propel SFB from regional significance to international renown.” Now, under Tamara Rojo, the company is back. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• What Distinguishes A New Generation Of Teen TV Dramas

  07-08-2026 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Together, these shows comprise a new wave of teen television defined by a slow indie-film pace, an anti-algorithm aesthetic, and longing as its central engine. – The Guardian
  
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• Former Steppenwolf Head Anna D. Shapiro To Lead Juilliard’s Drama Division

  07-08-2026 17:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Shapiro, who won a Tony in 2008 for directing August: Osage County and was Steppenwolf’s artistic director from 2015 to 2021, currently runs the graduate directing program at Northwestern University. At Juilliard, where her tenure begins next July, she succeeds Evan Yionoulis, who is now dean at Yale’s School of Drama. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• San Antonio Philharmonic To Pay $232,000 To Settle Lawsuits

  07-08-2026 16:35 via tpr.org
  
  “The dispute began in September 2024, when (David) Wood and (Colette) Holt sued the Philharmonic, saying it had failed to repay a $150,000 loan to secure a collection of the former San Antonio Symphony’s orchestra instruments and its music library. …  The agreement does not include any admission of liability or wrongdoing.” – Texas Public Radio
  
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• Readers Prefer AI-Generated Stories To Human-Written Ones — As Long As They Don’t Know About The AI Part: Study

  07-08-2026 16:03 via thebookseller.com
  “Readers gave AI-generated stories they believed to be written by humans the highest ratings in a new study published by Cambridge University Press, … with researchers noting that ‘participants generally seemed to have poor instincts about how to tell which story was AI-generated’.” – The Bookseller (UK)
  
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• Uffizi Galleries In Florence Reveal Plans For Two-Year, $57 Million Renovation

  07-08-2026 15:32 via artnews.com
  
  “The (€50 million) revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to start in the coming months, allowing the museum to remain open.” – ARTnews
  
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• Simon & Schuster Will Go Ahead With Embattled Academic Jason Arday’s Memoir

  07-08-2026 15:06 via theguardian.com
  Arday is the sociologist who just resigned from Cambridge after accusations of plagiarism and of being, basically, the British George Santos. Despite the possibility that some of what he recounts in his book is untrue, S&S is “proceeding with the publication of Great and Unfortunate Things by Jason Arday as planned.” – The Guardian
  
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• Seven Smithsonian Museums Closed Due To HVAC Issue

  07-08-2026 14:34 via washingtoncitypaper.com
  
  The museums, all on the south side of the National Mall, share one of the General Service Administration’s HVAC plants; the chilled water supply at that facility was disrupted on Thursday, leaving the museums without air conditioning during a heat wave. The buildings will reopen once the issue is resolved. – Washington City Paper
  
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• Broadway’s Next Stage Comes With Lifeboat Drills

  05-08-2026 00:54 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Cruise lines have quietly become one of the largest employers of musical theatre performers, and they’ve stopped commissioning schlocky revues in favor of real productions (The Guardian).
  The container keeps moving faster than the field’s map of it. Microdramas — vertical, two-minute, phone-native — are already spawning microsports (The Hollywood Reporter). And a Bay Area critic argues classical music is now underground music (San Francisco Classical Voice) &
  
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• Some Cruise Lines Are Shifting Onboard Entertainment From Schlocky Revues To Legit Theatre

  04-08-2026 21:03 via theguardian.com
  Okay, they’re not doing Long Day’s Journey Into Night or Titus Andronicus; after all, the audience is on vacation. But cruises from the UK have started presenting professional productions like Come From Away and the RSC staging of The Constant Wife. Ambassador Cruise Line even has a playwriting competition. – The Guardian
  
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• Are These The 25 Most Significant Sculptures Of The Modern Age?

  04-08-2026 20:31 via nytimes.com
  To choose the 25 most important works of sculpture made since 1945, we asked a panel of experts to gather at the New York Times building in March. – The New York Times
  
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• Torn To Shreds: The Writers Workshop

  04-08-2026 20:15 via theguardian.com
  Joyce Carol Oates is known for her strict style. One of her students once described her crossing through the first several pages of a story and asking: “What’s the point?” I commiserated with him, but he looked at me and said: “No, that’s what I want. To be ripped to shreds.” – The Guardian
  
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• You Know About Microdramas. Get Ready For Microsports.

  04-08-2026 20:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Brett Morris, the CEO of World 1, wants you to watch his ‘Microsports,’ which he describes as ‘entirely original sports where world titles are won or lost in 30 seconds.’” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Reading Isaac Butler’s The Perfect Moment

  04-08-2026 19:53 via artsjournal.com
  Isaac Butler has written a history of the controversies – dubbed the “culture wars” – that arose in the United States around the arts and arts-adjacent fields from the mid-1980s to around 2000. These were fights over state censorship of art, and the separate issue of restrictions on the content of art that could be available for government funding, even if quite indirectly.
  Butler tells a vivid story with good portraits of the artists whose work was at issue. He is
  
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