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• Why Some Schools In Los Angeles Can’t Access Prop 28’s Extra Arts Education Funding

  17-10-2024 21:04 via mynewsla.com
  
  A report from the nonprofit Arts for LA says that, while many schools in California are taking full advantage of the funding offered, other schools are not — simply because they don’t have the necessary infrastructure or can’t find qualified teachers. – MyNewsLA.com
  
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• Art Fairs Are Strangling The Gallery Ecosystem

  17-10-2024 20:44 via artnews.com
  
  Smaller and midsize galleries are caught in a vicious cycle: they can’t afford to participate in top fairs, yet they can’t afford to miss them. Today, half of all gallery sales happen at fairs, double the rate of just ten years ago. Galleries now participate in an average of five fairs annually, not out of choice but necessity. – ARTnews
  
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• How Does Someone Become the “Voice Of A Generation”?

  17-10-2024 20:32 via theconversation.com
  
  What’s behind this phenomenon is generational thinking. It seems to be everywhere at the moment, providing the media with easy taglines, spreading cliches and unnecessarily sowing division. But its history goes back far beyond even the baby-boomers. – The Conversation
  
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• Philadelphia Ballet At 60, As Ángel Corella Completes Ten Years As Artistic Director

  17-10-2024 20:01 via msn.com
  “‘They really flew,’ he said of the years. ‘I could think like a few days ago it was when I arrived, and a lot has changed since then. But I think that this year sort of represents the past, the present, and the future of who we are and where the company is heading.'” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• The Problem With Malcom Gladwell’s Ideas

  17-10-2024 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The problem is that he has chosen to be a farm stand that serves salty, fatty, sugary pseudo-thinking. His signature methodology is to convey relatively boilerplate, already well-known ideas, by rebranding the ideas and wrapping them in stories. And the lubricant of this engine is turning everything into little mysteries. – The New York Times
  
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• What Defines Success For A Debut Novel?

  17-10-2024 19:32 via themillions.com
  
  What is the magic sales number an author needs to reach to prove their worth? 1,000? 2,000? The precise sales figure likely varies from agent to agent, publisher to publisher, but one thing is clear for nearly all debut novelists, no matter who publishes them. – The Millions
  
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• Ticketholder To Canceled Philly Pops Concerts Tries To Sue Pops, Philadelphia Orchestra, Kimmel Center

  17-10-2024 19:03 via msn.com
  The ticketholder is attempting to launch a class-action suit claiming damages for concerts canceled when the Pops collapsed in 2022-23. The suit alleges that the cancellations were “due to a poorly planned conspiracy to force the Philly Pops out of business for the benefit of the Philadelphia Orchestra.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Paramount Threatens to Drop Nielsen Ratings In Disputes Over Measuring Audience

  17-10-2024 18:27 via msn.com
  Networks have long complained that Nielsen isn’t measuring audiences as well as it should during the transition from linear to streaming, although a Nielsen spokesperson stressed the company has the most accurate streaming data in the industry. – The Wrap
  
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• How The Nobel Prize Became Brand Gold

  17-10-2024 18:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  The marketing whizzes at Harvard Business School haven’t written a case study on the genius of the Nobel Foundation, but perhaps they should. The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. – The Atlantic
  
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• “Pulp Fiction” From Conception To Release (Another Oral History)

  17-10-2024 17:58 via variety.com
  
  Producers and members of the crew and cast — among others, Danny DeVito, John Travolta, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Kathy Griffin — talk about the movie’s gestation and release as well as how it revived careers and changed American indie film. – Variety
  
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• Why Newly-Minted Nobel Lit Prize Winner Han Kang Isn’t Celebrating Her Win

  17-10-2024 17:44 via lithub.com
  
  “She said that with the wars raging between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, with deaths being reported every day, she could not hold a celebratory press conference,” Seung-wo told Korean reporters. – LitHub
  
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• Quick Study: Arts Participation Rates at the State Level

  17-10-2024 17:28 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we look at a new NEA research report, 50 States of Arts Participation, to learn how patterns of art-going and art-making vary by state. A transcript is available here.
  
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• A Star Architect Who Became A Cautionary Tale

  17-10-2024 17:22 via nytimes.com
  
  The project looked pleasing on paper. Residents found it no better than a trailer park. Buildings leaked. Oriental Masonic Gardens closed a decade after it opened. – The New York Times
  
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• Is California’s Music Festival Boom Over?

  17-10-2024 17:16 via sfgate.com
  Typically, the festival sees a surge in ticket sales in June, but in 2024, a surge never arrived. With stalling sales and mounting bills — deposits for stages, bands, portable toilets and security — the outlook was grim. – SFGate
  
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• National Gallery in London bans liquids after activists’ art attacks

  17-10-2024 17:11
  
  Only baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicines will be allowed with large bags also prohibited under new measuresThe National Gallery has announced a raft of increased security measures after protesters attacked paintings including Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, John Constable’s The Hay Wain and Diego Velázquez’s The Rokeby Venus.From Friday morning there will be a ban on bringing into the London gallery any liquids except for baby formula, expressed milk o
  
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• How Julie Taymor Staged “The Lion King” And Made It The Most Successful Musical In History

  17-10-2024 17:05 via bbc.com
  
  “Her work’s distinctly international flavour and its heavy use of masks and puppetry inspired by Indonesian and Japanese traditions didn’t necessarily scream family-friendly commercial juggernaut. Nonetheless, (Disney Theatricals chief) Thomas Schumacher had a hunch Taymor’s highly visual style of theatre could be just the thing.” – BBC
  
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• Fragments From Two Lost Plays By Euripides Discovered

  17-10-2024 16:36 via historytoday.com
  The text — 98 lines, of which only 20 were previously known, from the plays Ino and Polyidus — were written on a piece of parchment found in the ancient village of Philadelphia, 62 miles southwest of Cairo. – History Today
  
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• Being Theaster Gates

  17-10-2024 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Gates’s business dealings and art making are not at odds: Salvage from the buildings goes into his art installations; proceeds from his art sales fund his building renovations and community programs. … He hopes to demonstrate “an open model for what an artist can be.'” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Like The Sphere In Las Vegas? They’re Building Another In Abu Dhabi

  17-10-2024 15:34 via apnews.com
  
  “The world’s second Sphere is planned to be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. … Under the deal, Abu Dhabi will pay a franchise fee to Sphere Entertainment to build the second location using its designs … as well as annual fees to Sphere Entertainment ‘for creative and artistic content.'” – AP
  
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• Percival Everett’s “James,” Revisionist Take On “Huckleberry Finn,” Wins $50,000 Kirkus Prize For Fiction

  17-10-2024 15:01 via apnews.com
  
  “Everett’s novel, which imagines Mark Twain’s classic from the perspective of the escaped enslaved man whom Huckleberry Finn befriends, is also a finalist for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize.” Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger took the nonfiction prize and Kenneth M. Cadow’s Gather won for young readers’ literature. – AP
  
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• Transport For London’s Elizabeth Line Wins Stirling Prize For Architecture

  17-10-2024 14:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Oliver Wainwright: “The Lizzie line is a worthy winner, providing a dazzling demonstration that, for all chaos surrounding HS2, Britain is still capable of pulling off gargantuan transport infrastructure projects with style and panache.” – The Guardian
  
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• Classical Radio Host Says He Was Fired For A Disability

  17-10-2024 14:00 via chicago.suntimes.com
  
  Dennis Moore, the morning host at Chicago-based WFMT, returned from a medical leave earlier this year and asked for schedule or other changes as an accommodation for a sleep-related issue. When station management declined and Moore rejected a buyout, he says, he was fired. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Alvin Ailey: new exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of a dance icon

  17-10-2024 10:02
  
  At the Whitney in New York, an expansive exhibition six years in the making looks back at the visionary artist and choreographerAlvin Ailey was a momentous figure in American dance. One of his most substantial and lasting achievements was to transform ideas of what a modern dance company could be, collapsing distinctions between diverse worlds like concert dance, jazz and Hollywood entertainment. He was also a transformational figure for the Black community: the dance institutions that he built
  
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• A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter

  17-10-2024 10:00
  
  The work of the late Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham is brought to life by this idiosyncratically persuasive Mark Cousins filmA rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, born in Scotland in 1912 and a resident of St Ives, whose landscapes she represented with endless curiosity and passion; she died in
  
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• Executive Director – Northwest Choirs Seattle

  17-10-2024 05:13 via artsjournal.com
  Northwest Choirs – home of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint Seattle – invites applications from passionate and entrepreneurial leaders to serve as its next Executive Director – Apply by Nov 15!Considered one of the premier youth choral programs in the nation, Northwest Choirs provides world-class musical education and performance opportunities that serve as a platform for personal growth and development. Now in our 50th year, we have trained thousands of young singers, and
  
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• This Revival Of Yellow Face On Broadway Is Not, In Fact, Bad

  17-10-2024 00:01 via gothamist.com
  That’s because it’s the play Yellow Face, by David Henry Hwang, that “centers around a fictionalized playwright named DHH.” – Gothamist
  
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