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• The Power Of Talking To Yourself Out Loud

  24-12-2020 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Like many of us, I talk to myself out loud, though I’m a little unusual in that I often do it in public spaces. Whenever I want to figure out an issue, develop an idea or memorise a text, I turn to this odd work routine. While it’s definitely earned me a reputation in my neighbourhood, it’s also improved my thinking and speaking skills immensely.” – Psyche
  
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• A New Movement To Champion The Arts?

  24-12-2020 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ironically, the arts has a story problem in this country. We are here to become a legislative priority, and part of doing that is reframing the paradigm that we are labor,” he said. “Whether you’re an usher, a milliner, a museum docent, an administrator or a publicist, you’re an arts and cultural worker. ” – The New York Times
  
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• Artists We Lost In 2020

  24-12-2020 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2020, a year of crisis upon crisis, some of those losses were especially painful, brought on by a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States alone. – The New York Times
  
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• Broadway Fans Are Creating Entire Musicals On TikTok

  24-12-2020 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just three months after she posted it, TikTokers had conjured up an entire “Ratatouille” musical universe. A composer spiced up her song with Disney-fied orchestrations. Songwriters whipped up tunes for Remy, his brother, his dad, his fellow chef, the food critic Anton Ego. A director explained how he’d stage the show. Dancers demonstrated how they’d dance it. A puppeteer showed how he’d puppet it. A designer created a breathtaking Playbill, in a video that’s
  
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• How Christmas Became Such A Child-Oriented Holiday

  24-12-2020 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yuletide wasn’t always an occasion for Santa Claus and toys and families opening presents in front of the tree. Historically, particularly in England, Christmas was such a time of rowdy revelry (not to say drunken debauchery) that, in the 17th century, Scottish Presbyterians and Massachusetts Puritans went so far as to ban it entirely. (December 25 wasn’t a public holiday in Scotland until 1958.) Christmas as Americans think of it today is a more-or-less deliberate creation of the 1
  
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• Museums Are Still Acquiring Art During The Pandemic

  24-12-2020 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museum collecting looks a lot different these days. Not only has there been a greater focus on women and artists of colour, but acquisitions have unfolded more quietly than usual for fear of seeming insensitive to the financial suffering of staff and visitors alike. Far less common are the press releases announcing major purchases. Museums are in the unusual position of downplaying instead of promoting their acquisitions. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Capturing The Music Of The Northern Lights

  24-12-2020 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scientist Karin Lehmkuhl Bodony, who lives in rural Alaska, realized some years ago that, if she could get at least four miles away from human-created electrical sources, she could record the sounds that the aurora borealis makes on a very low frequency receiver. Now she’s worked with composer Matthew Burtner to, in a way, transcribe the aurora’s music: “Rather than a composer writing the notes on the page and the musician playing the horn, the northern lights were playing the
  
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• The Ten Biggest Literary Stories Of 2020

  24-12-2020 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was pretty bad, overall. Some parts were okay. There were some good books. There were some bad actions. There were some much-needed reckonings. – LitHub
  
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• The Weird New Things Choreographers Had To Learn As They Created Dances Long-Distance

  24-12-2020 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, who’s made more than a dozen short dance films since the COVID lockdowns began, and Corey Baker, creator of the (in)famous Swan Lake Bath Ballet, tell a reporter about how, as Baker put it, “we knew we had to make it all up” and how they handled the snafus they didn’t yet know to expect. – Dance Magazine
  
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• How Literary Theory Took Over The 1980s

  24-12-2020 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As deconstructionist reading started becoming more widespread, disseminated in the United States, a lot of people noticed the similarity—rightly so—between the reading style and New Criticism because of the close reading and the attentiveness to language. That was a major thing that happened that actually influenced the course of English study in the United States for a couple of decades—and, actually, still.” – LitHub
  
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• Why Has Spotify Been Moving So Heavily Into Podcasts?

  24-12-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  To corner the audio ad market, of course. But execs insist that the company is not going to be evil: “Having watched how companies like Facebook and Google built up the digital ad ecosystem, Spotify’s Jay Richman, who heads the company’s ads business and platform, says the streamer is determined not to focus on scale over quality.” – Axios
  
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• How The COVID Relief Money Will Help Performing Arts Venues

  24-12-2020 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Under the federal plan venue operators, promoters, music managers and talent agencies can apply for non-repayable, two-part grants that cover as much 45% of a venue’s 2019 revenue, capped at $10 million in the first round, followed by a supplemental grant in spring 2021 valued at 50% of the original grant. To qualify, applicants must have been in business on Feb. 29, 2020, and show 2020 revenues decreased by at least 25% on a quarterly basis compared to 2019. Venues will be able to
  
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• Violinist Ivry Gitlis, 98

  24-12-2020 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Born in mandate-era Palestine in 1922, he started playing violin at 6, entered the Paris Conservatory at 11 and won the school’s top prize at 13, and toured the world as a soloist into his 90s. (He also had a small sideline in movie acting.) – France 24 (AFP)
  
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• Colosseum In Rome To Get Retractable Floor, Just Like It Had Originally

  24-12-2020 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, this new one will probably be higher-tech, but yes, the Italian government has requested bids to construct a retractable floor along the lines of the one the ancient venue had until about 1,000 years ago. Plans are for construction to start in 2021 and be completed in 2023, after which concerts and theater will be performed there. – Artnet
  
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• Composer ‘Blue’ Gene Tyranny Dead At 75

  24-12-2020 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Born Joseph Gantic, raised as Robert Sheff, and having acquired the name he was known by during a brief period as a member of Iggy Pop’s band, he performed Charles Ives and John Cage while still in high school, worked with Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson, and made a career composing and performing music that, as Steve Smith puts it, “deftly balanced conceptual rigor with breezy pop sounds.” – The New York Times
  
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• Call for Expressions of Interest: Creative Commission 2021 / Royal Docks Team / London

  24-12-2020 15:45
  Call for Expressions of Interest: Royal Docks Team Creative Commission Autumn 2021
  Submission Deadline: 10 February 2021
  Notified by: 17 February
  Royal Docks Team are inviting Expressions of...
  
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• Archive Assistant / Re-Form Heritage / West Midlands

  24-12-2020 15:43
  Re-Form Heritage is an independent charity which specialises in the restoration and rejuvenation of heritage buildings at risk of decay or demolition.
   
  Re-Form Heritage’s objective is...
  
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• Leaked Texts Show How Sackler Family Counted On Museum Philanthropy To Save Their Skins In Opioid Crisis

  24-12-2020 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For years, as an opioid crisis ravaged America, the Sackler family, which founded Purdue Pharma, the company that made OxyContin, remained largely out of the public eye, free to accumulate billions of dollars of wealth in tranquility. But in recent years, the walls began to close in, as the press and regulators and lawyers and state attorneys general began to investigate Purdue’s role in the epidemic. And as pressure rose, to whom did the Sacklers turn to vouch for them? The museum
  
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• Archive Manager / Re-Form Heritage / West Midlands

  24-12-2020 15:32
  Re-Form Heritage is an independent charity which specialises in the restoration and rejuvenation of heritage buildings at risk of decay or demolition.
   
  Re-Form Heritage’s objective is...
  
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• Village Voice To Be Revived By New Owner

  24-12-2020 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Brian Calle, the chief executive of Street Media, the owner of LA Weekly, said on Tuesday that he had acquired the publication from its publisher, Peter D. Barbey. … [Calle] added that he planned to restart The Voice‘s website in January and would publish a ‘comeback’ print edition early next year, with quarterly print issues to follow.” – The New York Times
  
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• Upright Citizens Brigade Closes Yet Another Theater

  24-12-2020 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Almost exactly eight months after the closure of their [last remaining] New York venue and improv training center, the Upright Citizens Brigade has announced the end of their Sunset Theater in Los Angeles.” The company’s four founders (Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, and Matt Walsh) said in their Twitter announcement, “We have been unable to make mortgage payments during this extended shutdown.” – Vulture
  
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• Broadway Star Rebecca Luker Dead Of ALS At 59

  24-12-2020 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  An operatically trained soprano whose clear and youthful voice was a natural for such roles as Maria in The Sound of Music and Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (which she understudied and which became her first lead role on Broadway), she was a three-time Tony nominee, for work in Show Boat, The Music Man, and Mary Poppins. Her last Broadway appearance was as Alison’s mother in Fun Home in 2016, and she worked until late last year before announcing her ALS diagnosis this past Februar
  
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• Video producers across the country / Historic England / East / UK wide

  24-12-2020 12:18
  We are looking to form a consortium of video producers across the country who can work collaboratively and flexibly with us and each other to produce a range of case studies showcasing some of the...
  
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• Dance Theatre Performers / Rhiannon Faith Company / London

  24-12-2020 01:20
  Gritty dance theatre that casts light on people suffering from social isolation, DROWNTOWN holds a mirror up to community breakdown with tenderness and honesty.
  Due to COVID-19 and delays to touring...
  
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• How Distrust Of Science Grew In America

  24-12-2020 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the 2020s dawn, it is crucial to understand the sources and contours of this skepticism toward science and scientists. We stand on the brink of revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, even as global warming accelerates. As a result, arguments over science underlie some of our most divisive and consequential policy debates.” – Boston Review
  
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