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• The Bernstein Story Not Told in “Maestro” — Take Four: What Happened to Charles Ives?

  31-08-2024 05:59 via artsjournal.com
  
  In 1951, Leonard Bernstein, age 32, led the New York Philharmonic in the belated world premiere of Charles Ives’ Symphony
  
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• Mona Lisa to be given ‘special space’ in renovated Louvre, says Emmanuel Macron

  28-01-2025 18:09 via theguardian.com
  
  President announced plans for new entrance to ease crowding and a separate gallery for Leonardo’s masterpieceLeonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is to be given its own “special space” within the Louvre, Emmanuel Macron has said, as he unveiled a plan to renovate the world’s most visited museum.Standing in front of the painting on Tuesday, the French president said the artwork would be moved to a location “independently accessible compared to the re
  
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• Peter Davies obituary

  28-01-2025 16:20 via theguardian.com
  
  My colleague Peter Davies, who has died aged 80, was an artist, arts administrator and latterly professor at the University of Sunderland. He raised the profile of visual arts in the north of England and also championed Welsh identity – especially through the Beca group of artists he and others formed in the 1970s with his brother, Paul.Between 1974 and 1992 Peter was visual arts officer for the public body Northern Arts, where his greatest successes included establishing the first forest
  
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• ‘African art is not a fleeting trend’: Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent’s artists

  28-01-2025 12:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Reopening after renovation, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will provide a permanent home for the extensive Lazraq family collectionFor more than four decades, the Lazraq family in Morocco has been amassing an extraordinary collection of modern and contemporary African art. One of the most comprehensive private holdings on the continent, it has mostly remained unseen, tucked away in vaults. But from next month, the collection will have a new permanent presence at the Museum of A
  
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• ‘Abnormal art is the only good art’: how Flávio de Carvalho sparked a Brazilian revolution

  28-01-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the Royal Academy’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernismIn 1931, as the Corpus Christi parade made its way through central São Paulo, the Catholic faithful found a tall man walking in the opposite direction. As he went, Flávio de Carvalho flirted with the men, and refused all calls for him to cease his disrup
  
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• Department of Education Will No Longer Investigate Book Bans

  27-01-2025 19:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The Education Department said on Friday that it would no longer investigate schools that remove books from their libraries, emphasizing its new stance by dismissing 11 pending civil rights complaints related to book bans in public schools. – The New York Times
  
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• In A Time Of Relentless Change, What, Artistically Should Stay Consistent?

  27-01-2025 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The idea of there being something fundamentally stable about an artist, independent of outside forces, makes sense. It’s what allows them to experiment with style and genre and persona and still be legible to their audiences. – The New York Times
  
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• Could AI Be A Way To A Better You?

  27-01-2025 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Instead of functioning as a means of top-down compliance and control, A.I. can help us understand ourselves, act on our preferences and realize our aspirations. In this way, perfect recall isn’t just a tool for remembering the past. It’s also a compass that provides a clearer understanding of our goals and improves our decision-making. – The New York Times
  
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• The Architecturally Important Houses Lost In The LA Fires

  27-01-2025 18:00 via wsj.com
  Included in the losses are more than 30 notable buildings whose pedigrees span the 20th century and a who’s who of domestic architecture—from Arts & Crafts pioneer Henry Mather Greene to modernist icon Richard Neutra—representing an incredible repository of American home-design history. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• What Makes Lion Dancing So Rigorous, And Rewarding

  27-01-2025 17:00 via npr.org
  
  Lion dances for Lunar New Year are part of “an art that dates back to the Han Dynasty and is said to bring good fortune and ward off evil spirits, but it is hard to pull off.” – NPR
  
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• Hollywood Is Finally Giving Older Women Second Chances

  27-01-2025 16:30 via english.elpais.com
  
  “One of the prevailing narratives of this year’s awards season leading up to the Oscars has been that of the return to the limelight of beloved veteran actors who the public thought had disappeared for good.” – El País
  
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• People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It

  27-01-2025 16:00 via wired.com
  
  Bascially? People who understand AI isn’t “magical” are less enamored of it. – Wired
  
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• Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling Fiasco

  27-01-2025 15:45 via variety.com
  
  The deal, which supposedly ameliorates some of the damage from last year’s audiobook-music bundling plan by the streaming giant, “also marks the first direct license between Spotify and a major publisher in several years.” – Variety
  
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• How Can Los Angeles’ Most Beloved Industry Survive?

  27-01-2025 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “At stake is the future of a defining industry that helps make Los Angeles a vibrant creative capital, employing tens of thousands of workers in a wide variety of fields.” – The New York Times
  
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• Lives Less Ordinary review – is this really a fair view of the British working class?

  27-01-2025 15:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Two Temple Place, LondonOn show in one of London’s swankier mansions, this exhibition features some great art – but betrays a clichéd view of what authentic working class expression really isThey’ve certainly picked a surprising venue for it. Lives Less Ordinary, an exhibition that critiques and claims to rectify the representation of British working-class life, occupies the wood-panelled, gothic-windowed mansion Two Temple Place, built in the 1890s as a London pad for m
  
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• Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up

  27-01-2025 15:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  Or maybe holds up even better, more than two decades later: Azar Nafisi’s memoir “isn’t just about reading and teaching literature under a repressive regime, but about how literature in and of itself could serve as an antidote to all that the regime stood for.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Every Artist In Britain Including Paul McCartney Wants The Government To Stand Up To AI Pressure

  27-01-2025 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  What the actual artist-hating hell, UK? “The government is considering an overhaul of [copyright] law that would allow AI developers to use creators’ content on the internet to help develop their models, unless the rights holders opt out.” – BBC
  
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• Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies

  27-01-2025 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  That is, she’ll watch them – but, she says, “When I see a blink or a laugh I recognise as my own, I think: ‘You failed.’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• As We Get Farther From The Year She Died, What We’re Missing About Anne Frank

  27-01-2025 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Anne’s iconicity requires her story to achieve a difficult balancing act. It warns powerfully against all persecution, but must remain true to its character as a Jewish work — as the complicated story of its publication and reception helps us to see.” – The New York Times
  
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• Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los Angeles?

  27-01-2025 14:15 via thestranger.com
  What did Octavia Butler, who died nearly two decades ago, know “about the future that the Fonz now finds himself in after many, many happy days? That the second law of thermodynamics is real. – The Stranger (Seattle)
  
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• Sundance Documentary About The Vietnam War’s Most Famous Photograph Arrives Under A Cloud Of Controversy

  27-01-2025 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Did Nick Ut take the famous photo Napalm Girl? “Ten days before the premiere of the documentary The Stringer at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night, the Associated Press published an extraordinary 23-page report of a six-month investigation rebutting the movie’s premise.” – Washington Post
  
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• Theatre Critics, Tear Down That Wall

  27-01-2025 13:45 via thestage.co.uk
  A regular rotation of theatre articles and criticism from daily papers (whatever those are) isn’t coming back. So it’s up to theatre makers to keep writing, posting, blogging, making video about the process and the products – and critics need to deal with it. – The Stage (UK)
  
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• Jessie Grimes Has Been A Successful Classical Musician For Years, And At Last She Feels Comfortable

  27-01-2025 13:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  The artist in residence in Dublin says, “The fact that I wore a dress for all those years now boggles my mind. I was afraid for a long time to be queer in those spaces, because they were occupied by wealthy, upper-class white people.” – Irish Times
  
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• Netflix Is Becoming Cable, And Other Streamers Aren’t Even Close

  27-01-2025 13:15 via theverge.com
  
  And oh, how we’re all going to pay for that. – The Verge
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony, Despite Rising Revenues, Has A Seven Million Dollar Deficit

  27-01-2025 13:00 via post-gazette.com
  But there’s a plan to manage the deficit – and to raise more funds, despite historically low audiences for core “classical” concerts (unless Yo-Yo Ma is there). – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• From secret societies to Selfridges: the eccentric geniuses responsible for the macabre world of tarot

  27-01-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A new exhibition shows how, over the centuries, the cards went from courtly novelty to occultish tool of divination – and the way in which the art form is still evolvingThere are few more appropriate venues in which to stage an exhibition about tarot than the newly refurbished galleries of the Warburg Institute. Based in Bloomsbury, London, since 1933 but founded in Hamburg at the turn of the 20th century by historian Aby Warburg – himself a pioneering modern scho
  
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• There’s No One Better Than Jane Austen

  26-01-2025 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s the claim of novelist Gill Hornby, anyway, who has written three books “set in the extended Austen family.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• This Actor Would Like For The Next Season Of The Traitors To Star, Well, Actors

  26-01-2025 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Tamara Lawrence, star of Get Millie Black, says, “I want to be a traitor so bad.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hugh Grant Urges British Police To Open A Criminal Investigation Into Tabloid Owners

  26-01-2025 22:00 via bbc.com
  
  “Grant also argued a new investigation was needed because people who were at the paper at the time that private investigators who carried out ‘unlawful activity’ were instructed were still in ‘positions of great power.’” – BBC
  
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• Ballet Hispánico seeks Director of Finance and Administration

  26-01-2025 21:59 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Finance and Administration (DFA) will lead all financial operations at Ballet Hispánico, establishing strong fiscal procedures and systems, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations. Reporting directly to the CMD, the DFA will play a critical role in strategic decision-making and operational management, supporting Ballet Hispánico’s growth and capacity-building efforts. Overseeing a small yet dedicated team in the Finance and Operations departments, th
  
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