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• What The Closing Of The Arclight Theatres Means For Movie Theatres

  13-04-2021 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  The truth is, the cinema experience as we know it, is likely doomed. While it isn’t going to disappear entirely, it will become a “nice to have” option for the populace, versus the “must have” it was through much of the 20th century. Look forward to much more expensive tickets and far fewer movie houses, more like what happened with live theater and Broadway. – Forbes
  
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• Awards Shows Used To Be Ratings Gold. Now They Struggle

  13-04-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Emmy Awards — already in a ratings tailspin in recent years as it no longer celebrates mass-appeal hits — showed how far audience levels can drop, sinking 9% to 6.1 million viewers Sept. 20. Other shows, such as the American Music Awards, the Country Music Assn. Awards and the Billboard Music Awards, hit all-time lows as well. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning

  13-04-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A recent Harvard study showed that students actually learn more when education is built on “active learning,” which promotes working collaboratively on projects. And now, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the disruption of education as kids and young adults have been forced to learn from home. In the collective reckoning on what learning should look like going forward, I’ve found that the social media platform TikTok offers some surprising insights. – Fast Compa
  
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• How Did A Cranky Old Scholar Come To Own An Indigenous Language?

  13-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Frank Siebert’s writing system was an obstacle for people who were eager to learn the language. “It was a giant pain for everyone,” he said. “Why did this white guy come in and introduce such a nonintuitive alphabet? It was really off-putting. Like, ‘This is the language my grandmother spoke, and now there’s all this technical stuff I have to learn?’ ” – The New Yorker
  
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• How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition

  13-04-2021 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a scholar of communication and performance studies, what interests me is how NFTs are redrawing parts of the art world in radical ways by raising questions about how artists, audiences and critics understand performance, criticism or protest in a capitalist society.” – The Conversation
  
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• ‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry At 92

  13-04-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of focusing on what matters to him most: projects that promote social justice.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filtered

  13-04-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound is imperfect. At moments it drops out. There are distortions of speed and rhythm. Yet, my ear, my mind is hearing music: completing and linking together the aural information that is there. – Bruce Brubaker
  
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• Raising the flag

  13-04-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a freer, more adventurous streak in his work, and there is one print of his that I have long sought, Avenue of the Allies. Also made in 1918, it is a lithographic monochrome pendant to the well-known series of thirty-odd brightly colored “flag paintings” that Hassam made during and after World War I. – Terry Teachout
  
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• How Social Media Has Collapsed Our Expression Of Thoughtful Ideas

  13-04-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Without the distance between self and thought, self and utterance, we are unable to entertain, probe, or debate ideas. We are unable to change our minds or to persuade others. We are not even in a position to form our views in thoughtful, disinterested ways. But there may yet be a way out. Precisely by codifying and accelerating the collapse of the distinction between ideas and identity, Twitter might ironically be alerting us to the absurdity and shallowness of intellectual life practic
  
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• A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And Approach For Online Performance

  13-04-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Derek Brockington explains that dancing for film is ‘about acknowledging that it’s not going to be the same experience — it’s a different way of dancing.’ Below, Brockington and several other dancers share their takeaways after a year of dancing on camera.” – Pointe M
  
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• New Director Of Pompeii Talks Culture Of Archaeology

  13-04-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I would like to reiterate the concept I have of archaeology not only as a study of beautiful objects or monuments but also of very ephemeral traces. The real discovery, in fact, was not the object itself but the landscape that has been transformed over the centuries. Today that landscape is still agricultural but in it we have found layers of history, of prehistory, showing the exploitation of agricultural resources by the Greek colonists and the subsequent modifications in medieval time
  
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• A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E

  13-04-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question? Interactive toy robots. And both the defendant’s motion to dismiss the case and the plaintiff’s response have invoked the famous movie robots. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Two Beloved California Movie Theatre Chains To Close

  13-04-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  ArcLight’s stable includes the prized Cinerama Dome Hollywood. The Dome, built in 1963 by Pacific Theatres’ parent company the Decurion Corp., is the crown jewel of the small theater complex that was later reconstructed in the early 2000s. Throughout the decades, the Dome, in particular, has been a favorite site place to stage premieres — it timed its opening to the global launch of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — and is beloved among many cinephiles. – The
  
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• Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language

  13-04-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression — can be combined with elements of visual vernacular, a body of codified gestures, allowing a skilled A.S.L. speaker to engage in the kind of sound painting that composers use to enrich a text.” Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim watches how a couple of pros signed their own cover of the old Gladys Knight an
  
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• When 1970s Boston Was A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music

  13-04-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In its own buttoned-up New England way, it was a modernist hotbed. Each of those institutions was like a little fief, with eminent composers on the faculty. Each maintained active student ensembles, including many devoted exclusively to new music. – The New York Times
  
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• The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It Wasn’t Really Used As A Toilet)

  13-04-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated to the first and only president of the Confederate States from a cemetery in Selma, Alabama and threatened to turn it into a commode if their demands weren’t met. Here’s an explainer covering what exactly the group demanded, why it chose the particular target it did, and what ultimately became of the 3,000-pound piece of outdoor furniture. &ndash
  
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• Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think

  13-04-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not just that they’re wildly popular and can be addictive. It’s because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced adult video and maybe more. (“Are these seabirds supposed to be majestic or comical as they enact their mating dance? The music tells us. Whom are we to root for in this interaction of predator and prey? Listen for the menacing strings.”) Emma Maris argues that “the solution to the way [nature docs] might warp
  
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• ‘Female artists were invisible’: critics didn’t dismiss Nancy Holt’s land art – they didn’t mention it at all

  13-04-2021 16:14
  
  Holt made mesmerising works that filtered stars and vanished in the desert heat. But land art was seen as a male preserve. A new exhibition redresses the balance The story of land art is generally believed to be a tale of white men in weathered denim descending on what they thought of as the empty canvas of the American west in the 1960s with bulldozers and big ideas to make their work. But what of the women who were also making their mark? “Today, land art appears as an almost perfect dis
  
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• The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok

  13-04-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: “The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates a lot of what the Surrealists were doing. It’ not exactly an exquisite corpse, since TikTok records the entire genealogy of any given work, and there is a want for continuity with what others have contributed before. But there is a similar spirit of spontaneous collaboration, and a kindred quest for t
  
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• Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution

  13-04-2021 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Says Jon Carr, who came to the company’s Chicago headquarters from Dad’s Garage in Atlanta four months ago, “It’s a little strange, because there’s nothing routine happening at any of [our theatres] right now, so it’s a lot of rebuilding of things from scratch.” – American Theatre
  
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• Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He Says So

  13-04-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association last week. But he did say that the long-troubled chain has been hanging on despite the pandemic, and that B&N has used the lull in business to start making in earnest the changes that Daunt had introduced at Waterstones in the UK with so much success. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)

  13-04-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week several news outlets reported, based on a French TV documentary, that the world’s most expensive artwork wasn’t in the Louvre’s big 2019 Leonardo show because Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (reputedly the work’s buyer) was angry that the Louvre’s curators refused to guarantee that it was Leonardo’s work. Now David D. Kirkpatrick and Elaine Sciolino report that French experts did, in fact, determine that Salvator Mundi is genuine — and that t
  
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• Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra

  13-04-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of the Zurich Opera House, has been named chief conductor of the NHK Symphony, widely considered to be Japan’s leading orchestra, beginning with the 2022-23 season. – Dallas Morning News
  
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• Henry Glassie: Field Work review – hypnotic glimpses of folk art in the making

  13-04-2021 14:00
  
  This documentary about the celebrated folklorist also takes a leisurely look at the working methods of the artists he reveresThere’s an unmistakable slow-cinema vibe to this scrupulously observational documentary, which seems somehow to go on for weeks despite its 100-minute running time. The ostensible subject matter is American anthropologist Henry Glassie, who is college professor emeritus in folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University; but it isn’t really “about&rdqu
  
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• ‘It’s the gallery staff I worry about’: Damien Hirst’s Gagosian takeover – review

  13-04-2021 13:24
  
  Gagosian Britannia, London
  Part of a year-long residency at the gallery, the artist’s initial show, with Coke vending machines, rubbish bags and cow’s tongues a-lolling, is dispiritingDamien Hirst has begun a year-long “takeover” of the echoing concrete-floored spaces of Gagosian Britannia Street. There’s even a readymade hashtag #HirstTakeover, like a cry for attention. I can’t see how a year-long exposure in a single commercial gallery can be good for any ar
  
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