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The Writers Guild Awards Are Cancelled Thanks To A Staff Strike
Sure, there may be an “alternative celebration” later, but basically, “with 115 Writers Guild of America staffers still on strike after months of contract talks with the writers’ union led to no deal, the WGA West has cancelled its…
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New York Gets A New Culture Czar At A Fraught Economic Moment
Mayor Zohran Mamdani called Diya Vij a “visionary and deeply thoughtful leader who understands that art is not ornamental to this city — it is essential to it.” – The New York Times
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Newfields is closing the Lume after a five-year run
Newfields confirmed Feb. 27 that it will close the Lume, the cinema-like digital gallery on the fourth floor of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the following day.The announcement, first reported by the Indianapolis Business Journal,…
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Chicago Launches Plan To Create Loop Arts District
“The district will be supported by nearly 90 Loop arts organizations that will develop the neighborhood as an arts and culture destination. … (It) is also envisioned as a way to stitch together attractions such as Millennium Park and…
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Paramount Will Combine HBO Max and Paramount+, Won’t Sell or Spin Off Cable Assets
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in "Game of Thrones" (Credit: HBO) Paramount Skydance’s leadership says there are no plans to divest or spinoff cable assets after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110 billion. The deal!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Reading Eleonora Redaelli’s Invisible Cultural Policy in America
This recent book is open access, here. And my full review in the International Review of Public Policy is also open access, here. My review begins:
There is an old joke: An American tourist is visiting Oxford for the first…
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Like I said on February 27, 2024: War Is Coming. You ready?
Everything that has led up to every “war to end all wars” is happening right now. What are you going to do?
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Where Stradivarius Found Just The Right Wood
“A study of the tree rings in Stradivarius violins, published in January in the journal Dendrochronologia, has revealed the most likely origin of some of the craftsman’s violins: wood from trees growing at high elevation in northern…
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Philadelphia Orchestra Inks Partnership Agreement With Temple University
The agreement — concerning educational activities at Terra Hall, which Temple purchased from the collapsed University of the Arts and is turning into the nucleus of its planned Center City Philadelphia campus — means the Orchestra can…
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AJ Chronicles: “Future Vision” and what the Boston Symphony signaled this week
This week we collected 123 stories at ArtsJournal. Here’s what I learned:
The Boston Symphony’s board didn’t fire Andris Nelsons as its music director. Not exactly. They declined to renew his contract because he and the BSO…
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