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• Benin Bronzes Are Not Safer Held In The West, Say Researchers

  12-04-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They have been equally unsafe in the hands of British, not least because of attack in 1897, which destroyed so much royal and sacred landscape,” said Dan Hicks, an archaeology professor at the University of Oxford in England who has written extensively on the Benin Bronzes. And, he added, many Benin Bronzes have headed to market in Europe, leaving their whereabouts and their safety uncertain. “The most important of the collections have been sold off in the West.” &ndash
  
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• Top Music Industry People Weigh In On The State Of Streaming

  12-04-2021 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Senior figures from Spotify, Apple and other streaming services have commended the virtues of streaming, and few in the world of music would dispute that the platforms saved the music industry. Music streaming in the UK now brings in more than £1bn a year in revenue. But the fact remains that artists can be paid as little as 13% of the income generated, receiving as little as £0.002 to about £0.0038 per stream on Spotify and about £0.0059 on Apple Music. – The Guar
  
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• Dallas Symphony Invites Out-Of-Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians To Play Joint Concert

  12-04-2021 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Someone on our team said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if we could bring together musicians around the U.S. who are not working, for some project?’ It morphed into involving Fabio Luisi, who’s been really bummed out about the Met, which has had such a hard year. He thought about Mahler 1, and bringing in about half the Met Orchestra. – Dallas Morning News
  
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• And Now: Virtual DJ’s Powered By AI

  12-04-2021 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Virtual entertainment is the new cultural center of gravity,” Authentic Artists founder and CEO Chris McGarry told Protocol. Authentic Artists has developed a dozen such virtual DJs thus far, and is powering their performances with a custom-built AI music engine that uses a catalog of 130,000 MIDI files to generate performances in real time. The resulting music is being fed into the company’s animation pipeline, and there’s a feedback mechanism for Twitch audiences to c
  
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• Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction

  12-04-2021 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become the latest poster child for deplorable deaccessions. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Marshall Marcus Talks the UN and Arts Organizations

  12-04-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Secretary General of the European Union Youth Orchestra shares about the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the mission of arts organizations. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• Steven Leigh Morris On What Did In LA Stage Alliance

  12-04-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When members of the community say about LASA that they didn’t feel included or respected, my heart goes out to them. I ran the organization, and I often felt the same way.” – Stage Raw
  
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• What I’ve Learned Watching Dance Online For A Year

  12-04-2021 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Work filmed or streamed that is performed with a live audience present cannot replicate the exchange of energy, delight, sorrow, laughter, and tears of being physically present in the theater – yet it does satisfy somewhat my craving for watching dancing. – Oregon Arts Watch
  
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• Pure joy: how Parrtjima festival is bringing ancient culture into the future

  12-04-2021 19:30
  
  Curator Rhoda Roberts wants the Alice Springs event to encourage Australians to truly connect with the land and ‘continue its stewardship with us’There was one moment during the opening night of Parrtjima festival at Alice Springs Desert Park that had curator Rhoda Roberts in tears.Zaachariaha Fielding – a singer from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands, and half of pop duo and Eurovision hopefuls Electric Fields – stood on the stage bare chested in a sheer
  
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• Hot Off The Press — How The Sacramento History Museum Became A TikTok Star

  12-04-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Museum docent Howard Hatch started making short videos of him working an old printing press. Soon the museum had more than a million followers on TikTok – WESH (Sacramento)
  
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• How To Help Students Catch Up After Lockdown? The Arts

  12-04-2021 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Research confirms that arts education contributes significantly to social-emotional well-being as well as college, career and citizenship readiness. – San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• How Gabby Giffords Uses The French Horn To Help Her Recovery

  12-04-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ex-Arizona representative was shot ten years ago. She’s rebuilt her life with constant therapy, including playing the French Horn, which helps with her ability to speak. – PBS News Hour
  
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• Artist Rachel Whiteread Has Changed Her Art, And Her Life

  12-04-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whiteread won the Turner Prize when she was 30, the first woman, and youngest artist, ever to win – and she id it for casting an entire house in London. She’s been casting objects and the spaces around objects for three decades. But now? Now, she’s building new things. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating

  12-04-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: “It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing with each other.” But it hasn’t been all terrible. “When the pandemic started, we all reacted differently. Xenia is more of a meditative person, so she wasn’t online much. Larissa started to produce beats. And I became a mom.” – The New York Times
  
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• Poets Lost A Lot Of Readings, Series, And Opportunities During The Pandemic, So What Do They Think Is Next?

  12-04-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For readers still thawing from a year in isolation, two questions in [Sesshu Foster’s untitled] poem are especially prescient: ‘How to start again? How to wake up?'” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Boston Symphony’s Lucia Lin Says Classical Music Is Not Eurocentric

  12-04-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  And she has the duet series to prove it. Lin, who commissioned duets before adding interviews to her presentation of new work: “In the beginning I just wanted to have these duos written. Then I decided, you know, part of the reason people are afraid of new music is they don’t understand it. What happens if people get to know the composers a little bit?” – Boston Globe
  
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• The British TV-Watching Public Complained A Lot About An Excess In Coverage Of Prince Philip’s Death

  12-04-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  As a matter of fact, there were so many complaints about the bump in programming for special coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death that the BBC had to set up an whole new temporary complaint page. And it wasn’t just the main channel. “BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live also aired special programming charting Prince Philip’s life, while BBC Four was paused and displayed a message directing viewers to switch over for a “major news report”. – BBC
  
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• The MTV Show ‘The Real World’ Jump-Started Reality TV As We Know It, But At A Huge Cost

  12-04-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1992, television wasn’t all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it was a shock. Perhaps not as much of a shock – but a choice that has echoed for nearly three decades – is the way the show framed Black cast members. “The show often sacrificed nuance in favor of drama when framing the Black castmates for the network’s predominantly white audience.” – BuzzFeed
  
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• The New Ascendance Of The Nature Memoir

  12-04-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re all looking for something – solitude, connection to nature, an escape from our houses and apartments – and so, publishing is providing us with many (many) nature memoirs. But where to start? Check out this heavily annotated list. – LitHub
  
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• We Know Theo, But What About Vincent Van Gogh’s Sisters?

  12-04-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  He (and Theo) had three. From reading abook that includes some newly translated letters, we can learn that “Lies was frustrated that women didn’t have more professional options that were socially acceptable. We learn about how Wil often copied Vincent’s drawings and was his favorite model, and that the two wrote to each other about art and literature and inquired about one another’s mental health.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• ‘At last, a lockdown masterpiece’ – Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects review

  12-04-2021 10:00
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
  These alarming, engrossing works take the artist’s seminal House and add horror, reflecting the turbulence of lives upended and exploded by the pandemicI bet plenty of us have grappled with metaphorical ghosts in the loneliness and unease of lockdown, with all that uncomfortable time to think. But Rachel Whiteread has quite literally been coming to terms with her Ghost. In 1990, she showed a sculpture of that name at the Chisenhale Gallery in London. It was
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: a crystalline cave to dazzle and unsettle

  12-04-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Anya Gallaccio’s The Light Pours Out Of Me, in West LothianA decade ago, Anya Gallaccio was invited by Nicky and Robert Wilson to create the artwork of her dreams at Jupiter Artland, the Scottish outdoor gallery that is more akin to a garden for art, learning and nature than a sculpture park. The Paisley-born artist lived on site wh
  
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