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• The 2025 Grammys Will Proceed As Scheduled Despite LA Fires

  14-01-2025 19:31 via variety.com
  
  The music industry was questioning whether the show would continue with its scheduled date, despite the fact that the Los Angeles wildfires have devastated many communities in the area in the past week. – Variety
  
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• The Moral Decay Of One Of Post-Soviet Russia’s Finest Novelists

  14-01-2025 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “At a time when many of his literary peers have fled Russia for political reasons, (Victor) Pelevin’s descent from dazzling young writer to misogynist crank mirrors the decline of mainstream Russian culture in a new era of authoritarian censorship.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Rise And Fall Of Greenwich Village’s Bohemia

  14-01-2025 20:31 via firstthings.com
  
  The unique conditions of the Village produced an environment in which genius could make sense of itself and wheat could be separated from chaff. The mid-century Village was a layered, organic, seething society: multiethnic, multigenerational, transclass, ideologically open and experimental. – First Things
  
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• Why Do Some People Seek Self-Insight More Than Others?

  14-01-2025 20:15 via psyche.co
  
  My colleagues and I have been looking into what we call the ‘self-insight motive’ and we’ve found it might be more accurate to see it as akin to a personality trait that varies in strength between individuals – some people have more of it than other. – Psyche
  
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• Founder Of Ace Gallery Gets Two Years In Prison For Embezzlement

  14-01-2025 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “(Douglas) Chrismas, 80, helped build the Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s and ’80s through ambitious exhibitions at his gallery, Ace. But he was plagued by lawsuits from artists and landlords over lack of payment. … (He) has spent much of the last decade embroiled in prolonged bankruptcy proceedings.” – The New York Times
  
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• What Will Canada Look Like Without The CBC?

  14-01-2025 19:15 via thewalrus.ca
  
  In a time of streaming, the broadcaster’s prime-time share of 4.4 percent speaks to the end times of broadcast TV or the remarkable lack of interest in CBC prime time—or both. – The Walrus
  
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• Ballet Memphis CEO To Step Down

  14-01-2025 19:04 via memphisflyer.com
  
  Gretchen Wollert McLennon, a former student at the company’s school who succeeded company founder Dororthy Gunther Pugh in 2020, will depart at the end of the current season. She saw Ballet Memphis through the pandemic and increased main-stage ticket sales year-over-year. – Memphis Flyer
  
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• What Shakespeare Has To Say About LA’s Devastation

  14-01-2025 18:44 via latimes.com
  
  Shakespeare helps me envisage the unimaginable, and a speech from “The Tempest” has been running through my mind since images of charred sections of Pacific Palisades and Altadena started circulating. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Dance Company For Neurodivergent Participants

  14-01-2025 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Azara addresses a gap in the dance world: the need for spaces where people who have autism, A.D.H.D. or other conditions that fall under the broad term “neurodivergent” can freely experience the art form. – The New York Times
  
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• Warhol Museum Picks A New Leader

  14-01-2025 18:15 via post-gazette.com
  Mario Rossero is currently the executive director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), a professional membership organization for visual arts, design and media arts educators, per Carnegie Museums, a position which was preceded by his tenure as senior vice president of education for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• “This American Life” Is Considering Layoffs

  14-01-2025 18:02 via semafor.com
  
  While the public radio favorite, which turns 30 this year, remains one of the most popular weekly audio shows in both radio and podcast formats, it recently ended its ad sales deal with The New York Times (which purchased TAL spinoff Serial), and listenership appears to have fallen from 4 million to 3 million. – Semafor
  
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• Is London’s West End Dying? Not So Fast, Says Lyn Gardner

  14-01-2025 17:44 via is%20london's%20west%20end%20dying
  Writing theatre’s obituary based on misinformation or dismissing the entire art form as a turn-off on the basis of a single theatre visit (nobody writes off all literature because they didn’t enjoy Pride and Prejudice when they read it aged 17) is easy pickings, but is damaging when so regularly repeated. – The Stage
  
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• Opera Theatre of Saint Louis seeks Artistic Director

  14-01-2025 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  Opera Theatre of Saint Louis invites nominations and applications for the position of Artistic Director. An international search for Opera Theatre’s next Artistic Director is underway, following the recent appointment of James Robinson, who served with distinction as OTSL’s Artistic Director since 2009, to the role of General and Artistic Director of Seattle Opera. Prior to Robinson, the lauded British director Colin Graham served as the company’s first Artistic Director from
  
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• Why Haven’t Claes Oldenburg’s Sculptures Found Permanent Home In New York City?

  14-01-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Incredibly, for an artist who made New York his home for nearly 70 years, none of the fanciful public sculptures like these — the ones for which Oldenburg is most celebrated — are on permanent view in the city. – The New York Times
  
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• US Book Sales Ticked Up In 2024

  14-01-2025 17:15 via publishersweekly.com
  In 2024, sales gradually improved over the course of the year and saw a 1.6% increase in the fourth quarter. For the full year, the sales performance followed a familiar path, as adult fiction was once again the driver, with units rising 4.8%. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Mohammad Rasoulof Explains How He Filmed “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” In Secret

  14-01-2025 17:06 via vulture.com
  
  For example, the director himself was already persona non grata and anyone involved with him would be in danger, so the film was cast without the actors knowing who was writing and directing, and Rasoulof could not be present on location. Here he talks about how he pulled it all off. – Vulture
  
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• Prolific Young Producer Takes Over Off-Broadway Theater Left By Second Stage

  14-01-2025 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Greg Nobile’s Seaview Productions, which was behind such notable shows as Slave Play, Romeo + Juliet, Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge), and the upcoming Good Night and Good Luck starring George Clooney, is taking the former Tony Kiser Theater, which will be called Studio Seaview. – The New York Times
  
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• What Trump Really Wants . . .

  14-01-2025 16:16 via artsjournal.com
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• Looters Use Electric Saw To Cut Historic Cave Paintings

  14-01-2025 16:05 via msn.com
  “Archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez investigated (the site at La Cueva Pinta in Mexico’s Coahuila state) and found one painting had been stolen and two others damaged, officials said. Photos show the blank rectangular sections surrounded by red and orange designs.” – Miami Herald (MSN)
  
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• Author Neil Gaiman Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults

  14-01-2025 15:30 via vulture.com
  
  The week’s issue of New York magazine features a cover story by Lila Shapiro detailing allegations of repeated assaults by the author on women, including an employee and a tenant, in New Zealand, North Carolina, Florida, and England. – New York Magazine
  
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• Arnold Schoenberg’s Publisher And Its Archives Completely Wiped Out In L.A. Wildfires

  14-01-2025 15:03 via ludwig-van.com
  
  The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the headquarters of Belmont Music Publishers, the sole publisher of Schoenberg’s works. Lost were the complete inventory of sales materials and rental collections, some manuscripts, and decades’ worth of printed works. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Organizations: If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em? Really?

  14-01-2025 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  With an empowered anti-arts, anti-education, and anti-culture base running the country, this is the time to commit to your community, not fall into the trap of cancelling them.
  Disconcerting? Maybe. New America wants to rename the rainbow — your task is not to agree to do so.It’s all gone topsy-turvy.
  We live in New America now. Ironically, the group that wanted to “Make America Great Again” has moved the country in a completely different direction than ever. We have to l
  
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• San Francisco Girls Chorus Fires Executive Director For “Lewd Conduct”

  14-01-2025 14:34 via msn.com
  Last week, 13 staff members received an email containing screenshots of WhatsApp messages, including images “pornographic in nature,” between an unnamed individual and Executive Director Seth Ducey, who evidently took those images in the SFGC building while nobody else was there. Ducey claims he’s been blackmailed. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Climate-Protesting Grave Vandals Deface Charles Darwin’s Resting Place

  14-01-2025 14:02 via bbc.com
  
  Two activists from the group Just Stop Oil used orange chalk to scrawl “1.5 is dead” (referring, in degrees Celsius, to the rise in global temperature beyond which scientists believe climate damage can’t be reversed) on the naturalist’s grave marker on the floor of Westminster Abbey. – BBC
  
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• “Post-Woke”? Is The Art World Set To Move Away From “Radlib” Identity Politics?

  13-01-2025 19:58 via news.artnet.com
  
  Ben Davis: “The main issue that will dominate, I believe, is cultural institutions trying, and probably failing, to process the confused splintering of the liberal ideological consensus. A faith in a certain type of cultural politics has fallen apart. What comes after, for the moment, is unclear.” – Artnet
  
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• Can Dogs Really Talk To Humans By Pressing Buttons?

  13-01-2025 19:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Heaven knows there’s a ton of social media videos purporting to show that the answer is yes. What do animal-cognition scientists think? – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• LA fires could test Getty Center’s claim of being safest place to store artwork

  12-01-2025 20:26
  
  Getty team says no current plans to move prominent pieces from center deemed ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering’It houses some of the richest treasures of the art world, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Irises, a popular Rembrandt and a priceless collection of paintings, portraits and other works spanning more than seven centuries.To protect them, the Getty Center in Los Angeles was built in 1997 as “a marvel of anti-fire engineering”, complete with fire-resistant stone and
  
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• Medieval Women: In Their Own Words review – a bracing cold shower with Joan of Arc and co

  12-01-2025 10:00
  
  British Library, London
  A letter from the French saint and a lethal shopping list are among the stars of a mind-bending show of the words, mystical visions and everyday lives of women from 1100 to 1500What does hell smell like? At the British Library last week, I opened a small wooden door and inhaled a scent that was bitter and vegetal: a combination of sulphur and something that I didn’t dare to think about for too long so soon after breakfast. Ugh. To spend eternity breathing in this! H
  
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• In Attendance: Paying Attention in a Fragile World review – visions of mortality abound

  12-01-2025 10:00
  
  Fitzrovia Chapel, London
  In a former hospital chapel replete with its own stories, works by Paula Rego, Phyllida Barlow and others resonate in their exquisitely contemplative surroundingsThe Fitzrovia Chapel is a miniature cathedral in the heart of London – a tiny vault of marble, stained glass and gold conceived on the most human of scales. Old photographs show congregations of barely more than 50. It is possible to walk from one end to the other in fewer than a dozen steps, but along the
  
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• A sneak preview of Neurotic Realism at the Saatchi Gallery, 1999

  12-01-2025 07:00
  Artists slept among the rubble, posed as soldiers shooting deserters, channelled their neuroticism and did anything else they could to draw attention to their ‘end-of-art’ artThis sneak preview of Neurotic Realism: Part One, opening imminently at the Saatchi Gallery in north London, might leave you on edge. Charles Saatchi’s latest taste-maker as reviewed in the Observer of 10 January 1999, includes an ‘enchanting rubbish dump’ of wires, ash and tin cans by Tomoko T
  
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