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• ‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor

  11-01-2025 17:00
  
  The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the turbine hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remainAs the world turns toward another fractured year, Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist, is at work trying to fathom how to create a house out of human hair. Salcedo, 65, has long made herself a channel of collective trauma, her art expressing profound anger at political crimes and atrocities at home and
  
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• Getty Center Under Mandatory Evacuation Order As Fires Get Frighteningly Close

  12-01-2025 00:36 via artsjournal.com
  This is all I could get from the Getty’s press office when I asked at 2:50 p.m. ET about what
  
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• Marianne James shares how to build intimate experiences with extraordinary artists

  11-01-2025 20:23 via artsjournal.com
  Marianne James, Executive Director of The Ark, shares their 60 year approach to creating intimate experiences with extraordinary artists.
  
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• New in French Translation Sinclair Beiles’s Selected Catastrophies & Other Poems

  11-01-2025 19:25 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2025/01/new-in-french-translation-sinclair-beiless-selected-catastrophies-other-poems.html" title="New in French TranslationSinclair Beiles’s Selected Catastrophies
  
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• ‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

  11-01-2025 18:03
  
  Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabusA scheme to bring powerful works of art into the classroom is to be rolled out across British secondary schools in the coming year, with the aim of reaching a million students daily in 1,000 schools by 2027.Works by Van Gogh, Matisse, Blake and Georgia O’Keeffe, each selected by leading names in contemporary art, including Dami
  
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• On my radar: Siobhan Finneran’s cultural highlights

  11-01-2025 16:00
  
  The actor on the band she can’t wait to see, the best place to meet friends for food in Manchester, and performance poetry that made her laugh and cryBorn in Manchester in 1966, actor Siobhan Finneran’s first major role was as Rita in the 1987 film Rita, Sue and Bob Too. Her extensive TV work includes Happy Valley, Alma’s Not Normal and Downton Abbey, for which the cast won the 2012 Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series. Finneran
  
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• ‘A perfect harmony of geometry and the dance of shadows’: Ömer F Kuranli’s best phone picture

  11-01-2025 11:00
  
  The architectural photography artist is captivated by colour and abstract forms, and one sunny afternoon, something caught his eye …Ömer F Kuranli describes Istanbul’s Levent-Nispetiye district as a “skyscraper-filled business hub with an enclave of detached properties, home to various vibrant startups”.He says that the day he took this shot had got off to a dull start. “I had been immersed in my usual routine, but around midday I headed out wit
  
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• ‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie

  11-01-2025 10:00
  
  He’s worked with some of the biggest names in music, but his latest book claims there’s an artist in all of us. Brian Eno and co-author Bette Adriaanse discuss the myth of genius, and how to really unlock your creativityBrian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill is tucked away at the end of a cobbled mews, its facade a quarter of the normal size. The effect is like a kind of fairy-door, and as you enter, it opens on to a vast light-filled room with a spiral staircase at the centre. On
  
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• Join GTMF’s Summer Seasonal Team – MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN

  11-01-2025 07:20 via artsjournal.com
  The Grand Teton Music Festival is hiring multiple seasonal employees to support our summer season!Open seasonal roles include:
  Artist Support Coordinator
  Box Office Associate
  Development Assistant
  Engagement Coordinator
  Front of House Manager
  Stage CrewStart dates are in mid-June and employment lasts between 9 – 10 weeks, dependent on the position. Seasonal employees earn competitive wages and a room in shared housing for the duration of their summer employment. More details on job respons
  
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• Executive Assistant & Board Liaison

  11-01-2025 07:17 via artsjournal.com
  The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) seeks an interested individual to join its year-round staff as the Executive Assistant & Board Liaison. This is a full-time position based in Jackson, WY. This position reports to the Executive Director and supports the GTMF Board of Directors.Job SummaryThe Executive Assistant & Board Liaison provides communication and administrative support to the Executive Director and the Festival Board of Directors.As Board Liaison, this position works closely w
  
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• Director of Leadership Gifts – Grand Teton Music Festival

  11-01-2025 07:13 via artsjournal.com
  Reports to Director of DevelopmentBACKGROUND:Thanks to generations of musicians, leaders, donors, and audiences, the Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF, the Festival) is stronger than ever before.In 2023, the Festival shared music with 21,341 people, setting new records for sales, attendance, and fundraising. This year, GTMF marked our 63rd season and celebrated the 50th birthday of our acclaimed performance venue, Walk Festival Hall, at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. GTMF also broke sa
  
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• Director of Development – Glimmerglass Festival

  11-01-2025 07:07 via artsjournal.com
  Sofia Negron New York theater photographer Glimmerglass Festival Pagliacci General Dress Rehearsal
  The Glimmerglass Festival (the Festival) seeks an ambitious and creative leader to serve as its next Director of Development, a role pivotal to shaping the future of one of the world’s most celebrated summer opera festivals. As the principal architect of the Festival’s comprehensive fundraising strategy, the Director of Development leads a collaborative team of five development profess
  
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• From Maria to Franz Ferdinand: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  11-01-2025 07:00
  
  Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new albumMaria
  Out nowDirected by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, the same writer-director team behind the Diana, Princess of Wales biopic Spencer, this look at the life of opera singer Maria Callas stars Angelina Jolie and focuses on the period during which the star lived out of the public eye in Paris in the 1970s. Continue reading...
  
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• What You Got When You Got A Letter From Edward Gorey

  10-01-2025 20:50 via theparisreview.org
  Tom Fitzharris was fortunate enough to receive 50 of them. Here are four. – The Paris Review
  
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• An Updated List Of LA Cultural Buildings Impacted By The Fires

  10-01-2025 20:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  On Wednesday, the Palisades fire claimed Will Rogers’s historic ranch house and other structures on the Will Rogers State Historic Park, according to a news release by the California State Parks. – Artnet
  
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• Ornate 16th-Century Mural Discovered Under White Paint In Mexican Church

  10-01-2025 20:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “For decades, the interior of the Temple of Our Lady of the Assumption (in Santa María Huiramangaro in Michoacán state) stood stark white, with blue accents. But … a new restoration has revealed a host of resplendent 16th-century religious paintings that once spanned the ceiling of the historic church.” – Artnet
  
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• A Climber Drove Climbing Bolts Into Ancient Petroglyphs

  10-01-2025 19:46 via news.artnet.com
  
  Such petroglyphs were designated by the state’s legislature as official state works of art in 2023, the Utah Bureau of Land Management noted, as it called them “incredibly important to preserve and contemplate.” They are also considered sacred ancestral sites for Indigenous people in the area.
  
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• Scotland’s National Galleries Warn That Major Cultural Assets Are In Peril Because Of Funding Cuts

  10-01-2025 19:32 via scotsman.com
  The organisation, which is responsible for more than 130,000 works of art and attracted more than 2.4m visitors to its sites during 2023, has suggested “seismic changes” may need to be made to safeguard the future of what it describes as “some of Scotland’s greatest cultural assets”. – The Scotsman
  
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• Audiences Are Singing Along, Acting Out At “Wicked” Movie Showings

  10-01-2025 19:15 via apnews.com
  
  During the theatrical run of “ Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour ” last fall, fans danced and belted lyrics in the theaters, sharing their glee on social media. Last year, fans at early screenings of “ Wicked ” did the same, to the chagrin of other moviegoers. – APNews
  
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• Dance Was Everywhere In Ancient Rome

  10-01-2025 19:04 via aeon.co
  
  “It was practised and watched everywhere, including during religious rituals, on the theatrical stage and in private houses. It was the object of nuanced reflections on the part of Roman philosophers and poets. Careful study of their texts yields hints as to what they thought dance accomplished.” – Aeon
  
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• Globalization Gets A Bad Rap Now. But Globalization Has Been With Us For Centuries

  10-01-2025 18:44 via aeon.co
  
  Globalisation didn’t begin in the 1990s, or even in the past millennia. Remembering this older shared history is a path to a different tale, which begins much, much earlier. The tale of globalisation is written across human history. So why do we keep getting the story so wrong? – Aeon
  
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• Getting Our Heads Around Understanding Bullshit

  10-01-2025 18:30 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  To account fully for the phenomenon of bullshit, we require a conception that envisions the bullshitted to expect that someone completely unlike him or her in essential social ways, perhaps even the bullshitter her/himself, will admit the objections the bullshitted would raise, if s/he were allowed effective access to socially recognized means of objection. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Tough Times For Theatre? Right. So It’s Not A Time To Be Timid

  10-01-2025 18:15 via americantheatre.org
  
  How can theatres and individual artists position themselves as liaisons to the public to raise awareness about climate change, gun violence, mental health, and literacy? If people are worried about inflation and the economy, how can theatres be a force for economic good, seen not as an expense but as an asset? – American Theatre
  
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• “Wicked” Sets New Broadway Record, Grossing Over $5 Million In One Week

  10-01-2025 18:02 via theatermania.com
  
  “From December 23-29, Wicked pulled in $5,037,392, the largest weekly number ever recorded. The average paid admission was $290.61.” The next highest, The Lion King, was over a million dollars behind, but $4.2 million in seven days isn’t bad for a show that’s been running for almost 28 years. – TheaterMania
  
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• With Art Sales Down, Auction Houses Pivot Towards Luxury Sales

  10-01-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s were down for the second year in a row in 2024. With both supply and demand for big-ticket art in a slump, the auction houses are making major bets on selling luxury goods and niche experiences to make up the shortfall. – The New York Times
  
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• The Men-Women Split in Reading is Real—and Persists Amid Historical Rate Declines

  10-01-2025 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  I’ve used this space before to meditate on the long-term declines in literary reading, as observed by various federal surveys. Occasionally, such data points can provoke a response. Last month, for example, the publisher Hatchette Book Group announced a “Raising Readers” initiative “to help reverse trends showing steep declines in reading for fun among children.”  
  This call to action reminded me of the genesis of the NEA Big Read, which, s
  
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• Daniel Harding, Conductor (Oh And Air France Pilot Too)

  10-01-2025 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the past few years, the British-born Harding has led dual, and often dueling, careers: conducting Mozart and Mahler symphonies one day, piloting commercial flights to Paris, Milan, Stockholm and Tunis the next. – The New York Times
  
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• Actor Michael Sheen Is Funding A New National Theatre For Wales

  10-01-2025 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  With National Theatre Wales having folded last month, leaving the principality without a flagship English-language stage company, Sheen has decided to launch a new one, called Welsh National Theatre, with himself as artistic director and the first production planned for autumn 2026. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Was The HQ Of Cape Cod’s Public Radio Station Sold Out From Under It?

  10-01-2025 16:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  Though the station, CAI, and its listeners raised the money to renovate the historic building, both real estate and broadcasting license are owned by Boston station GBH, which is facing serious money problems and staff layoffs. GBH sold CAI’s building without telling anyone at CAI, and the community is furious. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Director Otto Schenk, Standardbearer For Traditional Opera Stagings, Is Dead At 94

  10-01-2025 16:05 via apnews.com
  
  He created 31 productions for the Vienna State Opera (some still in use) and 16 for the Met, attracting scorn from revisionists and admiration from traditionalists. “All the secrets of Wagner’s Ring,” he once said, “should be guessed by the audience or found by the audience.” – AP
  
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