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• Theatre Has Moved Online. Maybe Not All Of It Should Have

  10-04-2020 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Marks: “The good news is, you can now access plays and musicals of every style online, from every part of the country and many other places around the globe, a lot of itfree. The bad news is, you can access plays and musicals of every style online.” – Washington Post
  
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• A New Online Job Market For Artists

  10-04-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HireArtists.org is designed to work similarly to TaskRabbit or Fiverr, websites that link gig workers to employers looking for people to do one-off jobs. It invites photographers, dancers, and website designers, among those in other disciplines, to sell their skills and knowledge to anyone looking for art lessons, or even to buy artworks. It’s free to sign up, and unlike other sites, HireArtists doesn’t collect a fee. – Artnet
  
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• In The Movies AI Is Helpful… Until It Turns On You

  10-04-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artificial intelligence, and the desire to smooth out the rough edges of human biology through it, has frequently made its way into the movies. But while the most intriguing of films that dabble in the subject tell entertaining stories, they warn of the complications of relying too much on technology to solve problems. Will a smart machine bring salvation or destruction?” – The New York Times
  
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• A Third Of French Art Galleries Could Go Out Of Business This Year

  10-04-2020 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1995 46 percent of France’s galleries had to close after the art market crash. Estimates now are that one third of French galleries will go out of business due to the pandemic. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How The Last Pandemic Crept Into Literature

  10-04-2020 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Elizabeth Outka: “I have spent the last five years writing a book about how the sensory and affective climate of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic infuses interwar literature, often in ways we have not recognized. My new awareness of the traces of that pandemic shifts my perception of this one, as if the sights and sounds from a century ago have re-emerged, becoming timely in ways I both feared and never wanted.” – The Paris Review
  
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• Manchester Arts Groups Team Up To Help Artists

  10-04-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GM Artist Hub includes 10 regional arts groups who have banded together to explore opportunities for the area’s mostly-freelance artists and workers. – The Stage
  
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• How An Awkward, Overprotected Valedictorian Grew Into Weird Al Yankovic — And Stayed Popular For 40 Years

  10-04-2020 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For many decades, he has been trying to delight Alfred Yankovic, the bright, painfully shy kid who grew up alone in his tiny bedroom. For the benefit of that lonely boy, he reshaped the whole world of pop culture. His ridiculous music sent out a pulse, a signal, and these were the people it drew: the odd, the left out. A crowd of friends for that lonely kid.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Amazon Bumps Some Sellers To The Back Of The Line. Book Sellers Are Furious

  10-04-2020 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon was overwhelmed by orders once retail closed and Jeff Bezosannounced that all third-party merchants who sell non-essential items could no longer use Amazon’s warehouses or shipping. That includes books. Now writers are struggling to get their books sold. – The Times (UK)
  
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• John Tavener’s Final Opera Is Now Recovered And Will Be Staged — Thanks To Prince Charles

  10-04-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The popular composer, who died in 2013, finished writing Krishna in 2005, but it was never published or produced and few were aware of its existence. Then the Crown Prince, a longtime friend of Tavener’s, asked director David Pountney to take a look at it — and, said Pountney, “I was astonished to discover this massive complete work.” He will direct it in the summer of 2024 at the Grange Park Opera festival. – The Guardian
  
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• Georgia Film Industry In Lockdown

  10-04-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Georgia’s film industry is big. It accounted for $3 billion film/TV production in 2019 and employs 92,100. It’s all shut down now, and many wonder if it will survive. – ArtsATL
  
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• NPR Reporter Shows You How To Build The Perfect Home Radio Studio

  10-04-2020 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Don Gonyea, NPR’s roving national political correspondent, has a lot of experience recording high-quality audio outside of a studio. He often records his features and spots from hotel rooms across the country while he follows political hopefuls. … We thought Gonyea’s expertise building temporary studios with everyday items like couch cushions and pillows may come in handy for those of you at home who could use some guidance. Here are his top tips.” – Curren
  
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• GE Moore Was A Superstar Philosopher In His Day. Why Did He Disappear?

  10-04-2020 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Bloomsbury Group revered him. But today he is pretty much forgotten. So why do some who achieve fame endure but others – some of the biggest – fade from history? – Prospect
  
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• Playwrights Horizons To Release Brand-New Audio Plays By Star Writers

  10-04-2020 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Soundstage, a podcast series from Playwrights Horizons announced on Thursday, allows listeners to experience world premieres by playwrights including Robert O’Hara, Heather Christian, Lucas Hnath and Jeremy O. Harris while confined safely, if sometimes uncomfortably, indoors. The podcast has been in the works for about two years, but its release date was moved up to April from the summer in response to social-distancing directives.” – The New York Times
  
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• Notes On Happiness From An Expert

  10-04-2020 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I teach a class at the Harvard Business School on happiness. It surprises some people when I tell them this—that a subject like happiness is taught alongside accounting, finance, and other, more traditional MBA fare. Nathaniel Hawthorne once famously said, “Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” This is not exactly the stuff of business administration.” –
  
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• Peek into Picasso's paperwork and loiter with Leonardo – the week in art

  10-04-2020 17:06
  
  Take an online trip through Picasso’s dizzying genius, or a virtual stroll past the National Gallery’s greatest masterpieces – all in your weekly dispatch• The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationPicasso and Paper
  Take a video trip through the dizzying abundance of Picasso’s creativity and see how many surprising uses a genius can find for a piece of paper.
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• A Silver Lining: Coronavirus May Have Made Dance Instagram Into What It Should Have Been All Along

  10-04-2020 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Theresa Ruth Howard: “In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body’s facility, the fetishism of dance tricks. … Enter COVID-19. … Literally overnight, the exhibitionistic nature of Instagram was sublimated from being mainly a tool of narcissistic self-promotion (to be sure, it still is) into what could be the highest form of itself: a tool for education, nurturing an
  
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• Artists Begin Working, Nervously, With Artificial Intelligence

  10-04-2020 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not only is A.I. a tool for artists, who are employing machine intelligence in fascinating ways, it is also frequently a topic to be examined — sometimes in the same piece. And underlying many of the works is a deep unease. As Lisa Phillips, the director of New York’s New Museum, put it, the worries come down to ‘the prospect that machines are going to take over.’ She added, ‘What are we unleashing?'” – The New York Times
  
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• Mort Drucker, ‘Mad’ Magazine’s Great Caricaturist, Dead At 91

  10-04-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says critic David Apatoff, “The parallel is very exact. Just like [Norman] Rockwell was the centerpiece of the Saturday Evening Post, Drucker did the same thing for Mad magazine with his parodies. They were kind of looking at each other through a mirror.” – The Washington Post
  
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• America’s Largest Cinema Chain Will Probably Go Bankrupt: Analysts

  10-04-2020 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “AMC Theatres — whose business has effectively shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic — looks increasingly likely to file for bankruptcy with its cash reserves dwindling, according to Wall Street analysts. … Even if AMC is able to tap government bailout funds, [an analyst] wrote, the company’s high leverage ratio — with $4.75 billion in debt — ‘will make for tough sledding … thus making a reorganization inevitable.'” – V
  
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• COVID Has Cost U.S. Arts Orgs $4.5 Billion: Study

  10-04-2020 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Arts and culture organizations across the country are estimated to have lost a combined $4.5 billion because of the health crisis so far, according to an ambitious new survey conducted by the Americans for the Arts. And that’s just the start.” – Artnet
  
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• New York State Fines Christie’s $16.7 Million For Not Collecting Sales Tax

  10-04-2020 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Christie’s auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settlement, which follows a lengthy investigation into the company, was announced by the DA’s office today.” – Artnet
  
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• One of UK’s Top Book Wholesalers Had To Stop Shipping. It’s Started Again — One Order At A Time

  10-04-2020 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the end of March, Gardners announced that it could not keep staffers at a safe distance from each other and still pack and send out books. Four days later, the company was back at work — shipping orders to home customers, a skeleton staff standing well apart. – Melville House
  
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• Big Thinking For The Post-Pan

  10-04-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are valid reasons to look at historic crises as moments for dramatic urban change. Nineteenth-century pandemics helped usher in developments in water and sewage systems. And there can be no doubt that, in the immediate future, the economic and demographic health of major cities will suffer enormously. But if we are to look forward optimistically, we must start by grappling with a difficult pattern: Urban history may be more about continuity through crises than about transformation. &ndash
  
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