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‘Everywoman’ and horse sculptures chosen for display at London’s fourth plinth | Fourth plinth
A bronze sculpture paying homage to a woman of colour; and a hollow, lifesized person on a horse cast in a slime-green resin will be the next two artworks installed on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.The works by Tschabalala Self and…
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Bookish Death Cleaning: On What We Keep, and What It Means
Most days, I look at my books and find a whole mess of positive feelings: Memories of the experience I had reading them; snippets of story; fond thoughts about characters I adored; themes or feelings or ideas that I still…
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ABA Seeks Senior Director of Business Development
The Advisory Board for the Arts is looking for a highly motivated Senior Director, Business Development, to join our dynamic team and play a crucial role in growing our network of clients. As Senior Director, Business Development at…
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A Second Man Has Been Charged In The Theft Of Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers
And it’s appropriately dramatic: “The indictment says Saliterman knew they were stolen, and that he threatened to release a sex tape of a woman and ‘take her down with him’ if she didn’t keep her mouth shut about the…
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Sold for scrap: Franconia Sculpture Park removes sculpture by founder
Updated: March 18, 11 a.m. | Posted: March 15, 3:22 p.m. Prometheus has been sold for scrap.Or rather, “Prometheus III” — a gigantic steel sculpture that stood at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer for years — was dismantled and sold for…
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The Drama Kings of Tech
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.One Tuesday last month, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video to Instagram, but not to his Stories, where it would quickly disappear. This one was a…
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Byron Janis Dead: Classical Pianist Was 95
Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from manuscripts he unearthed and became a cultural hero in the U.S. after performing in the…
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Past Tense – The Drift
The historical novel isn’t cool. Popular? Yes. Enduring? Yes. A bit, well — for nerds? Also yes. Coolness lies in being at the right place at the right time, particularly before everyone else — in possessing a…
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How Private Equity Companies Are Wrecking The Music Industry
Private equity — the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising the mortality rates at the nursing homes it acquires — is making money by gobbling up the rights for old hits and pumping them back into our…
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts seeks VP of Programming & Production
Segerstrom Center for the Arts invites nominations and applications for the position of Vice President of Programming and Production, available in the Spring of 2024. Judy Morr, whose extraordinary artistic vision has guided the…
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