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If you're in Dublin on June 16, watch out for - or join in on - the revels of those celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses.... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

The campaign isn't deeply bad news: Things have dramatically improved since last fall when the board of the CSO resigned en masse, but that left a few financial holes.... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"The dive-bar geezer pouring shots with a surly flourish is offering a solo show, as is the nightclub barmaid popping open a Bud Light grasped between her thigh and calf."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

The budget "positions California to extend its hold on last place in the nation in per capita funding for its state arts agency. It has ranked 50th since 2003, except for a brief escape in 2011 when Kansas temporarily eliminated all arts funding."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"There was none of the extra cash that fueled competitive commerce, gut calls, or real movies, the extra spec script purchase, the pitch culture, the grease that fueled the Old Abnormal: the way things had always been done. We were running on empty, searching for sources of new revenue."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"This is the ghost of Cherubini - we have resurrected his pen strokes."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/

"In this burbling stew of toil, trouble and occasional triumph, does the passing of the Big Five represent loss or gain?"... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"When Alexander Pereira was appointed last week as general manager of Teatro alla Scala, starting in 2015, the presumption was that he would remain in his current post, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, until his contract ended in 2016. But the notion of a one-year overlap did not sit well with the festival's board, which has decided to let him go at the end of September 2014."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"The forgers are believed to have sold more than 400 pieces of counterfeit art painted in the style of artists such as Kandinsky and Malevich. The suspects are alleged to also have forged authenticity certificates to give the impression the paintings were previously unknown works."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"Unfortunately, it seems that challenging Australian art is attacked and censored. And if we are only permitted to view "correct", officially sanctioned work then art's primary function - to reveal us to ourselves - is destroyed. "... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"Seven alumni from Carnegie Mellon University took home Tonys in five categories, a glittery haul that was both a school record and a huge source of pride for a theater department that turns 100 next year."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"By 2030 the mainland will be home to 13 megacities--those with a population of 10 million or more--up from six today, estimates a McKinsey report. That breakneck urbanization is fast obliterating 5,000 years of architecture and culture."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"What can you think, as a jazz musician, when somebody comes up and asks you to write an opera? For a little while, I was so intimidated I stayed away from it."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

The proposed class action asks a federal court to declare the song to be in the public domain and that Warner/Chappel Music Inc, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, return "millions of dollars of unlawful licensing fees" it has collected for reproductions and public performances of the song.... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"The extent of spending cuts had been expected to be much higher after the Treasury wrote to departments earlier in the year, warning most ministers they would have to cut up to 10 per cent of their budgets for the year 2015-16."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"Steven Spielberg on Wednesday predicted an "implosion" in the film industry is inevitable, whereby a half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical

"Independent auditors of the Nashville Symphony say 'there is substantial doubt' about the symphony's ability to continue as a going concern, according to a new audit posted on Givingmatters.com."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"The state Legislative Auditor's Office has found no improprieties in how the Minnesota Orchestra Association used state money - both general operating funds and a $14 million bonding grant to help renovate Orchestra Hall."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

"Two graffiti artists have painted a series of bright murals on phone and electricity boxes across the area. The brightly coloured illustrations include depictions of local landmarks and references to iconic pieces of literature, such as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer."... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com

Tennessee Williams "spent nearly two decades writing and rewriting, long after productions had opened and closed, long after film adaptations and printed texts appeared. There are an eye-watering numbers of performable versions. In some of them characters survive, in others, they don't. Endings are sometimes hopeful, in others gruesomely tragic." James Graham writes about sorting through them all for a new production at the Old Vic.... ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com