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The American “Faith-Based Film” Industry: A Statistical Analysis

"Insulated from mainstream Hollywood and decidedly idiosyncratic in their production — (faith-based films) are overlooked relative to their consistent success. We'll explore the rise of the faith-based film industry, tracing its historical roots and exploring the distinctive economics of these projects." - Stat Significant

The Problem With Using Software To Determine What Shakespeare Did And Didn’t Write

Scholar Darren Freebury-Jones used a text database called Collocations and N-grams to spot parallel phrases and passages in Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries. Oxford Shakespeare scholar Emma Smith writes that Freebury-Jones's computerized approach is less compelling than his own literary analysis. - The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)

Please Don’t Build A Football Stadium Across The Street From Our Concert Hall, Begs Orchestra

A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as AFL games, just 130 feet from the Federation Concert Hall, the Tasmanian Symphony's custom-built headquarters in the island state's capital, Hobart. - The Guardian

As Rubin Museum Closes Its Space, Calls To Return Nepali And Tibetan Art And Objects

"Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what they allege are stolen sacred cultural artifacts." - Hyperallergic

How Paraguayans Have Kept Their Indigenous Language Alive And Thriving

Despite having been banned under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Guaraní is now, alongside Spanish, a fully official language of the country. Half of all public school classes in Paraguay are taught in Guaraní, and young people smoothly switch between it and Spanish even within a sentence. - The World

Gramophone Awards 2024: Hilary Hahn Playing Ysaÿe, Carolyn Sampson, Czech Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas

The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn's disc of Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the Year, the Czech Philharmonic is Orchestra of the Year, and Michael Tilson Thomas, still hanging on against glioblastoma, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. - Gramophone

Asheville’s Arts District Destroyed By Floods From Hurricane Helene

The neighborhood of galleries, music venues, artist studios, breweries, and other businesses was completely inundated by the clay-brown waters of the French Broad River after more than a foot of rain fell on the North Carolina city. - Hyperallergic

Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Acquitted By Judge

The decision was likely because they didn't actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame of J.M.W. Turner's 1809 painting Tomson’s Aeolian Harp at the Manchester Art Gallery. - Artnet

Who’s Funding The Arts? And Does It Need To Change?

Yearslong decreases in corporate charitable giving and overall charitable giving made The Chronicle of Philanthropy ask, in January, “Has the giving crisis reached the point of no return?” Similarly, Vox wondered in July, “Are we actually in the middle of a generosity crisis?” - Esquire

The Importance Of Dangerous Words Onstage

Who needs to see a play in which inflammatory positions and arguments aren’t dangerous? Hatred and intolerance won’t disappear because pious new puritans stop them being aired in theatre for fear of causing offence. - The Stage

Opera In The UK Is Suffering. Except In This One Place

Glyndebourne, a privately funded festival that receives little state support, has been mostly immune from the convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. - The New York Times

Ballet Star Steven McRae’s Three-Year Recovery From “The Worst Injury A Dancer Can Have”

The Royal Ballet principal was mid-performance in London when his Achilles tendon snapped and he was carried from the stage screaming in pain. After a year of a full tendon reconstruction and merely learning to walk again followed by two years of physical rehab, at age 38 he's dancing again. - inews (UK)

NPR Retooling Its News Magazine Shows As Audiences Slip

Among the changes it’s making on its flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered are including more stories in the 2- to 3-minute range, featuring a broader range of topics and shifting to a livelier and more conversational presentation style. - Current

Giant Sydney Festival Gets A New Director

Kris Nelson, a Canadian national currently based in London, is well-known for his transformative work as the Artistic Director and CEO of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT). - Limelight

TV Is Dying. Streaming Is A Pain. Watching World Is In Pain

Welcome to the glorious, occasionally terrible and definitely weird moment when old TV is slowly dying and new “TV” is not exactly thriving, either. No matter what and how you watch, this situation isn’t awesome for your viewing pleasure or your wallet. - Washington Post

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