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New Jersey Performing Arts Center Is Building A Major Housing And Retail Complex

The $336 million project, called ArtSide, is one of the largest real estate projects in Newark in decades. It will include roughly 350 apartments, 15 townhouses and ground-floor retail in a seven-story midrise building and a 25-story tower. Profits from the development will go to support NJPAC programming. - The New York Times

British Theatre Cancels Entire Run Of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Over “Free Palestine” And Trans References

The production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, which was to run from last week into early October, was a modern retelling of the Shakespeare fairy tale with a drum-and-bass score. It included a song with controversial references which theatre management requested be cut; the company refused. - The Guardian

The World’s Oldest Sunday Newspaper Is For Sale

The Observer, first published in 1791, has been owned by the parent company of The Guardian since 1993, and the papers' content is integrated on the Guardian website. Guardian Media Group was approached by startup Tortoise Media, which pledged to invest $33 million in The Observer's content and marketing. - Reuters

New York Philharmonic Begins Its Season In A Tricky Position

The administration is negotiating a new contract with the musicians, who haven't had a raise since 2019. The messy sexual misconduct case involving two principal musicians has heated up. The orchestra won't have a music director for another two years, and its CEO up and quit in July. - The New York Times

What If Fact-Checking Just Makes People Dig In More To Their Misbeliefs?

In 2010, a political-science paper came out that made people worry. It suggested fact-checks might actually make people dig in their heels. What if telling people they’re wrong makes them double down rather than change their minds? - The Atlantic

The First-Ever Imax Ballet Features Paris Ballet

This is the first-ever Filmed for Imax ballet, and will be released exclusively in Imax locations globally on November 8. - Deadline

San Francisco Ballet Chooses A New Director

Branislav Henselmann, 49, most recently worked as the deputy general manager of arts, culture and community for the city of Vancouver, where he worked for seven years and previously led the city’s Cultural Services department. He also served as executive director of Ballet BC for nearly five years. - San Francisco Chronicle

R. Peter Munves, Master Mass Marketer Of Classcial Recordings, Is Dead At 97

At Columbia Records and RCA, Munves was responsible for such innovative hits as "Switched-On Bach" as well as composers' "Greatest Hits" compendia and, later, titles that made critics cringe but sold well, such as "Liszt for Lovers" and "Puccini and Pasta." - The New York Times

Culture Of De-Culturation: Is Our Culture Dying?

Olivier Roy believes that a range of abstract and apparently unstoppable forces—globalization, neoliberalism, postmodernism, individualism, secularism, the Internet, and so on—are undermining culture by rendering it “transparent,” turning our cultural practices into “a collection of tokens” to be traded and displayed. - The New Yorker

Never Mind, Kathy Bates Is Not Retiring After “Matlock” After All

"Bates said the retirement buzz was 'kind of a misunderstanding' after she referred to Matlock as her 'last dance' in an interview with The New York Times last week. 'I was very flattered that everybody was upset,'" the award-winning actress said on the Emmy Awards red carpet. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Hollywood Animation Workers Say Their Jobs Are Under Threat

AI poses an obvious threat to both animators and writers who tell Deadline they are already suffering from a lack of jobs due to the massive production contraction that has impacted nearly all Hollywood workers, as well as the elimination of staff positions, which has made getting (and keeping) a steady gig nearly impossible. - Deadline

New Director Talks About How To Make The Overcrowded Uffizi Museum Enjoyable Again

Overcrowding makes for a miserable experience. Craning to see over rows of heads, one is jostled and swept along the galleries by such a crowd that the museum has had to surround the very fine statues with red ropes like the ones outside night clubs. - The Art Newspaper

Director Of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum Steps Down After Staff Walkout

The walkout forced the museum to shut down for several days as its leaders and protesting employees discussed their demands, including having a “community review” of the exhibit and acknowledging its “limited perspectives.” - Seattle Times

Three London Theatre Critics On Ian McKellen’s Portrayal Of Their Profession

Arifa Akbar: "My quotidian reality as chief theatre critic of The Guardian cannot compare: a supermarket sandwich wolfed down before the bell, a frantic filing of copy after the curtain goes down ..., or eating biscuits at my laptop into the small hours if it is a morning deadline." - The Guardian

The Deep Thinking Behind Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theorists appear earnestly committed to finding the truth, yet they are drawn to theories that often involve false and implausible claims. The psychology of insight – especially the rewarding feelings associated with discovery and revelation – can resolve this paradox, helping to illuminate the surprising role that deep thinking plays in proliferating conspiracies. - Psyche

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