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• Class Struggle, Artists, And Changing The World

  20-04-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Struggle without class analysis results in the many empty institutional statements and surface-level concessions we’ve seen across the United States this past year. Class politics is less concerned with pushing for that first Black or female artistic director as it is in asking why we have to constantly fight so hard to include those people in the first place. – Howlround
  
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• Reconnecting: Linking The New Moral Purpose

  20-04-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For all sorts of understandable reasons, we have become very wary of public and social norms. We are conscious of the legacy of appealing to such supposed norms in the context of gender and sexuality, conscious also of the persistent marginalising of persons who are neurologically atypical or living with learning challenges. The truth, however, is that without some language about what is good and fitting for human beings, what emerges is not a ­paradise of uncontrolled self-fulfilmen
  
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• NFTs — Not Just For Art Anymore

  20-04-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What we are primarily focusing on at Time is how NFTs relate to subscriptions, memberships, and access to unique experiences, which would allow us to drive recurring revenue streams, rather than one-time payments. A larger, longer-term opportunity is using blockchain technology alongside these tokens.” – Vanity Fair
  
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• Lesson: Streaming Theatre Works When It’s Designed For It

  20-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The problem that companies like ACT had been having, said Randy Taradash, was that they weren’t just having to juggle new technology, but also new tech partners whose business models didn’t necessarily fit the way nonprofit regional theatres function. The difference with the National Theatre Network, he noted, is that it’s not a tech company or ticket seller coming in to figure out theatre; it is run by theatre people who are aiming to help regional theatres take the next step
  
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• As The Pandemic Eases, Netflix Forecasts Much Lower Growth

  20-04-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  This year Netflix is forecasting 6 million new subscribers, the lowest first-quarter increase since 2017, well down on the almost 16 million sign-ups in the first quarter last year, as lockdown restrictions ease. – The Guardian
  
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• The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has Wrought

  20-04-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings that were inspiring and durable. Then, argues scholar and critic Witold Rybczynski, came the 20th century, Le Corbusier and all that followed: the architecture profession became so insistent on invention and originality that, all too often, form does not actually follow function, beauty and context are tossed
  
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• The Pursuit of Equity

  20-04-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers” responses to mass shootings — worthy sentiments that lead nowhere. Without “feet to the fire” targets of some kind it’s too easy to slide into the comfort of the status quo. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Study: The Psychological Benefits Of Attending Live Theatre

  20-04-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  We found that attending these plays increased empathy for people depicted in them and changed people’s political attitudes about a variety of issues related to the show, such as income inequality. Additionally, seeing theatre changed behavior. After attending these plays, people donated more to charity — whether or not these charities were related to the show. – Psychology Today
  
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• Literary Scholar And Critic Denis Donoghue Dead At 92

  20-04-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First at University College Dublin and later at New York University, Professor Donoghue carved out a middle ground in the contested landscape of late-20th-century literary studies, standing opposed to both the politicized theories of the left and the traditionalist pieties of the right. He was an ardent opponent of deconstruction, and … [his] fierce aversion to the impositions of postmodern theory earned him a reputation as one of the last great humanist critics.” – Th
  
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• Dudamel Isn’t Known For Conducting Opera. Will That Be A Problem As Music Director At Paris Opera?

  20-04-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost all his renown has come from his exhilarating performances with symphony orchestras. Does lacking operatic experience matter in landing an important opera post? – The New York Times
  
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• Here’s A Landmark For A Growing Company: Indianapolis Ballet Hires Its First Executive Director

  20-04-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than three years after its 2018 debut, the professional company … announced April 6 that longtime Indianapolis arts leader Don Steffy will take the helm and manage the administrative, funding, facility and human resource functions.” – Indianapolis Star
  
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• Make Room For Theatre Visionaries

  20-04-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lacking in visionary leaders? Absolutely not. They’re just blocked from the table by their status as a young person, or as a queer person, or as an artist of color. – Theatre Mania
  
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• Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their Collections?

  20-04-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard’s Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Samuel Redman, a historian who’s made a serious study of the history of museums’ collecting of human bones, says the moves by those three institutions could be a “historical tipping point.” – The New York Times
  
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• Preparing To Resume

  20-04-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think part of the answer is going to be for arts organizations to look in the mirror and ask themselves, “What really was working before the pandemic? And what was not?” There may be fundamental changes in the way that they did business. I’m not sure that everything that we did was truly sustainable even before the pandemic hit.” – Bloomberg
  
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• The Rise And Fall Of ‘Florida Man’, Once The Internet’s Favorite Laughingstock

  20-04-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tyler Gillespie, author of The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State and Florida Man: Poems, traces the course of this icon of the weird from the old website Fark.com (“We Don’t Make the News. We Mock It”), looks at the long history of Florida Man/Woman-type stories (e.g., “Edna May’s recipe for being a successful wife to the ultra-rich” from the Alachua Booster in 1912), explains the reason Florida Man could become famous (the state’s Su
  
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• ‘We can still bloom and grow after trauma’: the artist sharing survivors’ stories of abuse

  20-04-2021 16:00
  
  New York City’s public artist-in-residence, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, has set up an installation that uses anonymous tales of sexual assault and racial violence to promote healingPassersby in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District will see something rather atypical in one of the many storefronts at the moment: a group of old-fashioned lightbulbs standing alongside small internet-connected printers, each unspooling an anonymous newsfeed of survivor stories.It’s part of a new project f
  
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• ‘Nobody else could make this music’: the return of underground punks Rudimentary Peni

  20-04-2021 13:30
  
  Namechecked in the Oscar-nominated Sound of Metal, frontman Nick Blinko explains how he negotiated serious mental health issues to make astounding visual art and musicThe succession of cult band shirts worn by Riz Ahmed for his Oscar-nominated leading role in Sound of Metal establish the insider credentials of the film as much as those of Ahmed’s character. One of them will provoke particularly unexpected nostalgia for underground punk fans: a white Rudimentary Peni T-shirt, emblazoned wit
  
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