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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026
The two words you want to use are "segregation" and "eugenics"
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Blinkie @meemawblinkie.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
Newsom's a pervert, pass it on
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey #Oakland! Time to make sure we don't live with a constant buzzing drone that uses all our water and electricity City council meeting is Tues., Oct 6. If you can't attend, write your council member
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Rally, Speak-Out & Vote: No Data Centers in Oakland!
It's time to turn up and tell City Council, "NO Data Centers in Oakland!" 2:30 pm: Rally outside City Hall 3:15 pm: Sign-up for public comment in Council Chambers - SUPPORT Agenda Item 6.15 If yo...
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Admired and enjoyed (most) of Mary, Queen of Scots at the San Francisco Opera last night but I need a break from rape scenes. I really do. (Everything everyone has said about the dinky set is true. Doesn’t make sense to put a tent on a stage over 3x its height)
Peace sign fingers under the grand opera chandelier
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's here! Krasner and Pollock at @metmuseum.org
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A Knockout Show Resets the Record With ‘Krasner and Pollock’ (Gift Article)
She had to settle for the kitchen as her studio but Lee Krasner finally gets her share of the spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Passion fruits of the San Francisco Bay Area, end of September 2026
Highly decorative exuberant passionfruit bloom with striped tendrils and red petals on an acid green leafy vine against a blue sky #flowers
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love the frenzy of this Edo print. Cooking can be stressful Kitagawa Utamaro, The Kitchen, 1795, 15 x 10 in. Metropolitan Museum, New York #JapaneseArt #WorksonPaper #Prints
Edo print of two women in a kitchen, one blows into the fire; the other cringes back as she lights fire; angled composition, lots of steam, screams action shot
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can confirm
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My graduate program had zero awareness of the cultural divide and I watched first generation students drop out. Then I got to my first tenure-track job only to hear profs dismiss work study students because we ought to want "the best of the best." I did work study all through undergrad.
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gold aplenty at the @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social Pharoahs show but a lot of fascinating art from Egyptian collections as well. Mostly Dynasty 18 but major pieces from Old Kingdom through Ptolomeic
Old kingdom Menkaure, Queen, and kid sculpture high reliefTwo flies from an honorary gold necklace. Abstracted forms. Wings totally flat like an elongated stamped heartA gilded decorated carved chair found in a tomb. Used. Elaborate
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Messy histories, messier auction houses. [gift link] (and of course the NYT had to correct the location of the Norton Simon. I believe they think everything west of the Missisissppi is "Los Angeles.")
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New Bid to Claim Cranach Paintings Held by Norton Simon Museum (Gift Article)
Courts have upheld the museum’s title to the paintings once looted by the Nazis, but a lawsuit seeks to press forward with the claim under a new California law.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kim Sajet, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum, departed the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery after Trump called her “a strong supporter of DEI.” “I’m very proud of that actually...I’m a little disappointed he didn’t add ‘access,’ because I care about access as well as inclusion.” gift link
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Milwaukee Museum Returns Pots by Enslaved Artist David Drake to Family
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As soon as the recorded "Welcome to the San Francisco Opera, I'm General Director Matthew Shilvock" played last night, the crowd erupted in boos. In contrast, Music Director Eun Sun Kim was greeted with much clapping and the orchestra was warmly, enthusiastically applauded at beginning and end.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A man who knows neither museums nor Los Angeles, ah yes, the perfect choice for MOCA's new director!
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MOCA Appoints Former Public Media Leader as Its New Director
Jonathan Abbott, who oversaw the network that produces PBS programs like “Masterpiece,” is the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’s sixth director in 18 years.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I would like to nomincate @cmonstah.bsky.social to do more museum drama GIF analyses 🍿 and definitely a follow up to the latest MOCA mayhem 👀
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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Through next Monday (9/28), the Met's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE in Yuval Sharon's staging, with Michael Spyres and Lise Davidsen, conducted by @nezetseguin.bsky.social
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Great Performances | Great Performances at the Met: Tristan und Isolde | Season 54 | Episode 1
Soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s meditation on love and death.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #Caturday to the little black cat I constantly aghast (Yes, the t shirt is real. The cat, too, actually)
Black cat held in arms. Has wide eyed shocked expression. The human is wearing a t-shirt with a black cat pictured similarly aghast. The t shirt image is lined up exactly over the live cat’s head
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"I think in order to deal with what’s happening in today’s society, which is serious, we have to bring a form of humor to it. Some things are ridiculous. Ridiculous but serious at the same time. And people are funny." For her Oakland OMCA exhibition
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BOMB Magazine | Mildred Howard by Max Blue
A retrospective layers information to tell stories and convey memories.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Went to see Maren Hassinger recreate her 1982 performance piece Pink Trash @bampfa.bsky.social #WomenArtists #Berkeley
People watching a woman in pink carry a big pink bag onto a green lawnMaren Hassinger and two other performers in pink scatter pink trash on a green lawnPink plastic plate on grass
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Weekend snack ideas from Clara Peeters @lacma.org Still life with cheese, artichoke, and cherries, c. 1625, oil on wood panel #WomenArtists
Painting with food stacked on plates on top of cheese wheels on plates
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[gift link]
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She designed Meta’s new AI logo. Now this Bay Area artist is facing backlash
A Bay Area artist is facing criticism from designers after revealing she helped create the visual identity for Meta’s new AI agent. She took to social media to explain why she accepted the job.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Seriously, if you live in the Bay Area, go see this show!
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy #Caturday to the little black cat I constantly aghast (Yes, the t shirt is real. The cat, too, actually)
Black cat held in arms. Has wide eyed shocked expression. The human is wearing a t-shirt with a black cat pictured similarly aghast. The t shirt image is lined up exactly over the live cat’s head
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last weekend to catch the Etruscan show at the @legionofhonor.bsky.social and it’s worth the trip #SanFrancisco
Amphora with animal frieze
Etruscan, ca. 625-550 BC
Terracotta, bucchero
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, gift of Renée Dreyfus and Louise Chu through the Ancient Art Council in honor of George and Judy Marcus
The signature pottery of the Etruscans, bucchero remains distinctive for its black surface. This amphora is unusual for its four decorative strapped handles and especially the incised animal frieze around its body. The parade of animals real and imaginary was inspired by the Near East, whose influence also reached Greece and its colonies, from which the Etruscans translated it into their own artistic language.Top, left to right:
Mirror depicting a pair of Lasas each holding an alabastron Etruscan, Musarna
(modern Viterbo), ca. 300 BC Bronze and bone (attached handle), with textile impression
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Pennsylvania Capital-Star @penncapital-star.com · 18/09/2026
Four people have died in Pennsylvania’s growing measles outbreak, bringing the total number of measles-related deaths to four — but, a public federal dashboard still shows no measles deaths so far this year. From @radio.wpsu.org.web.brid.gy
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Gov. Josh Shapiro calls on CDC to recognize measles-associated deaths in Pa. outbreak • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Gov. Josh Shapiro called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update their public dashboard on measles cases before Pennsylvania accepts federal help.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Progress! [gift link]
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San Francisco Opera and orchestra reach tentative deal, ending strike
San Francisco Opera management and its orchestra musicians have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, ending a strike that forced the cancellation of multiple performances.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Liber Divinorum Operum" I.4, MS 1942, fol. 38r, early C13th, original by #HildegardofBingen ( #HildegardvonBingen, German, C12th). Held by Biblioteca Statale di Lucca; source, www.hildegard-society.org/p/liber-divi... #nuntastic #womenartists #artherstory #FeastofStHildegard #StHildegard
This illustration, a later copy of a C12th artwork, has a distinct circular or "mandala" shape, superimposed over a narrow vertical gold rectangle with a thicker decorative border with repeating acanthus leaves in blue and white inside of a much narrower reddish-orange straight-line border. The blue and white border is covered over at the left and right edges of the work by the central mandala. Just inside the acanthus-leaf border is a slim green colored border, which terminates at the left middle edge of the drawing in a snake’s head. The inner drawing features concentric circles, within the largest band of which stylized trees punctuate the landscape, while six human figures interact within the divinely ordered natural space, resting or engaging in various acts of farming. An outer band—the outer portion in solid blue, the inner portion with wavy white lines against the same blue-colored background—is decorated at its edges with various kinds of fish. Inside the lower left corner, inserted between the acanthus-leaf border and the mandala, is a small rectangular drawing within an internal rectangular frame of a woman seated in a chair behind a tilted stand, on which sit two tablets side by side.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This made me laugh out loud. I love the idea of portraying oneself with crayon in the mouth. Pierre Subleyras, Self-Portrait, c. 1746, oil on canvas, 49 x 39 cm (Kunsthistorisches, Vienna)
Man in very French coat and tricorn hat turns while seated away from his painting of a turbaned man to look at us while he holds preparation drawings and a crayon in a porte crayon holder between his lips
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
hyperallergic.com
Staff at Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and American Folk Art Museum Authorize Strike
“Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said one of the workers organized with UAW Local 2110.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
San Francisco Opera 🤝 Ed Sheeran
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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
San Francisco Opera has cancelled its next three performances and a livestream. Simon Boccanegra, Weds. Sep. 16 and Sat. Matinee Sept. 19 and its Livestream on the 19th; the opening performance of Mary, Queen of Scots, on Sunday, Sept. 20. www.sfopera.com/seasons/2026...
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San Francisco Opera Cancellations | SFO
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The late American Empire had a habit of preserving the bodies of its aging oligarchs and wheeling them through the Capitol building in a defiant challenge to the people who were told not to trust their eyes.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BIRD ON THE BRAIN. The fixed stare! The heart-shaped nose! I can't. Paul Klee, Cat and Bird, 1928, oil and ink on plaster-primed gauze mounted on plywood, 38.1 x 53.2 cm (MOMA)
Painting on an abstracted orange cat's face with green eyes staring fixatedly but unfocusedly. A bird appears between the cat's brows. The little nose ends in a heart-shaped stub. It is very funny.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The local plant nursery has job openings and I'm fantasizing about changing my whole life to spend the days with my face in a flower
flourishing plant bed primarily dominated by an echibeckia summer shake hybrid over campanula poscharskyana, some violas, cosmos, sage too
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The hair spray I bought one year ago — yes, I looked this up — was $20. It's now $30. 50% increase. One year.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More Caillebotte because he's fantastic. A Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer Above the Mist for the urban set. Gustave Caillebotte, Young Man at a window, sold in 2021 by Christie's for $53,030,300 😩
one of those angled compositions that just tickles your brain the right way and leaves you puzzling hte rest of the day. A man in a black suit stands at a balcony looking out a window onto a boulevard. He's left an orange upholstered chair is behind him that's cropped at a bizarre place removing the back. Arise! And become the voyeur!  #ArtHistory
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thinking about Caillebotte. . . Gustave Caillebotte, Balcony, Boulevard Haussman, 1880, oil on canvas, 69 x 62 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza.
painting, angled, narrow balcony, two men. One leans forward, one leans back against hte wall. They look down at the street but all you can see are trees blocking the view. Magnificent composition, so Caillebotte. #ArtHistory
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo, my fellow medievalists, check this out! I could never have the patience or fine motor skills so I’ll remain an admirer from afar on this one #manuscripts
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From the RedditLaqueristas community on Reddit: Illuminated Mani-script
Explore this post and more from the RedditLaqueristas community
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@GotDiva @gotdiva.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.kqed.org/arts/1399384...
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SF Opera Opener Canceled as Musicians Strike; Opera in the Park Also Off | KQED
A performance of ‘Simon Boccanegra’ was canceled at the final hour over failure to reach agreement on a new contract.
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Look at the dissolving shadows and snappy high heels and subtle striped pants in Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street; Rainy Day” at @artinstitutechi.bsky.social
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Patrons were in their seats when San Francisco Opera management finally announced what the Orchestra had explained weeks ago: no contract, no performance.
sfchronicle.com
San Francisco Opera cancels opening night after orchestra goes on strike
San Francisco Opera patrons were already in their seats when the company announced that opening night was canceled because of an orchestra strike.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MESSIER. Eun Sun Kim won't confirm the quote; multiple musicians give same account; SF opera PR rep says it was a "private" conversation 🍿 [gift link] #SanFranciscoOpera
sfchronicle.com
San Francisco Opera orchestra strikes, throwing opening night into crisis
San Francisco Opera’s opening night was thrown into crisis Saturday after orchestra musicians went on strike, saying they would not perform without a new contract.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Finally got to the Cantor Museum at Stanford for the Miljohn Ruperto show which was considerably more interesting, weirder, and more disturbing than the PR materials had led me ot believe. I'm not saying it's necessarily great, but it was worthy of attention. Alas, closing Sep. 14
metrosiliconvalley.com
Miljohn Ruperto Exhibit at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center | Metro Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley’s Leading Weekly
Miljohn Ruperto's Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center blends animation, AI, video and VR into an immersive exploration of perception.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's getting messier [gift link] May it not end up like Esa Pekka Salonen 🤞🤞🤞
sfchronicle.com
San Francisco Opera musicians say music director would resign if orchestra strikes
San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim told musicians she would resign in solidarity if the orchestra strikes, according to two players who said they were present for the exchange.
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