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• Arts Venues Hoping For Some Of That $16 Billion COVID Relief Hit Glitch

  23-04-2021 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Small Business Administration oversees the $16 billion portion that will offer grants to concert halls, theaters and museums. But soon after the process began on April 8, the application portal shut down. The apparent cause? Technical glitches — as in plural. The SBA has said it hopes to reopen the portal by the end of the week. – Dallas Morning News
  
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• How Choirs Have Figured Out To Sing Together Again

  23-04-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It was amazing to be able to sing with my friends again,” said Ian Bass, a seventh grader in the Ragazzi Boys Chorus, a Silicon Valley choir that has made online rehearsals work through a technology called JackTrip that eliminates the dreaded delay. “Sometimes I forget I am not in a normal practice because it feels so real.” – The Guardian
  
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• David Byrne’s Socially-Distanced Theatrics

  23-04-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Each of the attendees submits a screening form in advance and undergoes a COVID rapid test on-site, in an ivory-walled corridor that suggests a 1940s hospital on a Ryan Murphy set. Face masks are mandatory; wearable “passports” reflect row assignments, and the “Social Distance Ground Crew” lights the way with tarmac-style batons. To me—effectively a pandemic-era shut-in, having spent the year working from home—the protocols married the politeness of a
  
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• A Psychologist Talks About How Art Changes Us

  23-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For me, as a psychologist with a special interest and expertise in the arts, our fascination with art raises two long-standing and fundamental questions, ones that have engaged philosophers, psychologists and art lovers. First, why are we so drawn to works of art? For their beauty, of course, but that can’t be all, as the thought-experiments above show us. Second, what kinds of demonstrable beneficial effects, if any, can engagement in the arts have on us?” – Aeon
  
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• Badu Gili: Wonder Women – highlighting First Nations matriarchs

  23-04-2021 22:00
  
  The Sydney Opera House sails light up for Badu Gili: Wonder Women, curated by Coby Edgar in collaboration with Art Gallery NSW and showcasing an all female lineup of First Nations artists
  The creative genius of Aboriginal women is taking over Sydney’s Opera House, with the vibrant, joyful “golden moments” of six “wonder women” artists at the peak of their powers lighting up the sails at night.Badu Gili, meaning “water light” in the language of the sovere
  
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• Jazz Musicians Remember Chick Corea

  23-04-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  He left behind “thousands of audio and video recordings; the countless notes scrawled on countless piles of music manuscript paper; and, of course, the memories of family, friends, and fans.” Just about everyone who plays jazz today owes something to Corea, whether they know it or not (and most do). – Jazz Times
  
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• India’s Top Documentary Filmmaker Can Barely Show His Work There Anymore

  23-04-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Anant] Patwardhan views his filmmaking practice as comprehensive — not just researching, shooting, and completing films, but also taking them on tour and holding discussions, involving the communities and people he profiles. … Even if he is routinely cited as India’s leading documentarian, actually showing his films there is a bedeviling challenge” — especially his latest, Vivek (“Reason”), about the current wave of Hindu nationalism.” &n
  
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• Paul Schrader: The End Of The Movie Feature As We Knew It?

  23-04-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The two-hour format which was so ideally suited to theatrical, we’ve now trained young people for fifteen months not to see that as a primary way to have audiovisual entertainment. Now, how they come back or if they come back . . . they’re certainly not going to come back in the way they once were.” – The New Yorker
  
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• ‘Damn! This Is A Caravaggio! Where The Hell Did You Find It?’ (The Inside Story)

  23-04-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid earlier this month with a guide price of €1,500 ($1,800) could be worth millions. … Within two weeks, Spain’s culture ministry [acted] to impose an export ban. The painting was pulled from auction. Pulini, a painter himself as well as an authoritative art historian, told The Guardian about his identification of the painting and the ultimately doomed
  
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• Researchers Use AI To Analyze Dead Sea Scrolls

  23-04-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  For their study, the researches utilized artificial intelligence technology to examine the writing on the scrolls, comparing the look of certain letters and analyzing patterns that appear in the ink. The study did not offer details on the identities of the two possible authors of these texts. – ARTnews
  
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• In Defense Of The Art Of Broadway

  23-04-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you live and die at the box office, as does Broadway, you are not rewarded for indulgence or self-involvement. More importantly, you often are better able to reach non-elites. Broadway attracts more lower-middle class theatergoers than many pretentious nonprofit institutions; it pulls more young people to shows like “Mean Girls” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and it is far more likely to attract the large and diverse audience for shows that intersect with the his
  
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• The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House

  23-04-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now he’s at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, financially stabilized after years of crisis, with the brief of bringing back artistic glory. Here he talks about the ingenious ways he’s kept staffers working through the pandemic, the neglected Neapolitan operas he wants to revive, and why he’s much more sympathetic to
  
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• Ten Trends In Architecture To Combat Climate Change

  23-04-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  From reducing waste and maximising urban greenery to collaboration and lobbying for change, solutions to reduce pressure on the planet are now taking centre stage. – Dezeen
  
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• The Mighty Battle Of The Getty Museum Versus The Webbing Clothes Moth

  23-04-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  It seems that, in many places, a multitude of vermin took advantage of the lack of traffic in museums during the pandemic to stage an invasion and, potentially, a delicious banquet. (Mmmm, priceless historic textiles!) A sharp-eyed conservator at the Getty in L.A. noticed an increase in noxious lepidopterae last April, early on — and so began the museum’s Project Moth Remediation. Deborah Vankin reports on just what it took to get rid of the hungry insects. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• In Florida, It’s Now A Felony To Damage A Confederate Monument

  23-04-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  While the “Combating Public Disorder Act” just signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is most notorious for its provisions aimed at street protests (classifying blocking cars during a demonstration as rioting, protecting drivers who plow into a crowd of protestors from civil liability), it also makes the damaging of any “memorial” (defined as a marker that “honors or recounts the military service of any past or present”) a third-degree felony, with a sentence of up to f
  
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• NPR And PRX To Offer Paid Subscription Option For Podcasts

  23-04-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  NPR will give listeners the choice to pay — via its own platforms, Apple, or Spotify — a yet-undetermined monthly fee in order to receive its podcasts without advertising sponsorship messages; the network will also make this option available to member stations for their podcasts. PRX will offer a $4.99 monthly subscription to podcasts it distributes via four channels on Apple Podcasts; again, subscribers will be able to bypass underwriting announcements. – Current
  
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• When Right-Wingers Accuse Online Booksellers Of Censorship, They May Have A Point (But Not The One They Think)

  23-04-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Unlike the cozy bookstore in your town, online booksellers don’t choose each book they’re offering. The role of curator — if it exists at all — has effectively been passed from seller to customer. Under this system, if a title attracts sufficiently convincing and public objections, that title is taken down from the website. … This feels like a problematic way to curate literature,” warns Ron Charles. – The Washington Post
  
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• Bankrupt One Year Ago, Cirque Du Soleil Begins Reopening

  23-04-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, which emerged from Chapter 15 protection after a sale in November, announced on Wednesday that it is restarting four of its unique offerings, including O and Mystère. Most Cirque du Soleil shows have been dark in the U.S. since March 15, 2020.” – Deadline
  
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• Ray Harryhausen’s killer skeletons and Georg Baselitz’s gnarled hands – the week in art

  23-04-2021 15:00
  
  Restless LA artist Henry Taylor shows some edgy assemblages and the Gee’s Bend quilters show their haunting artwork – all in your weekly dispatchHenry Taylor
  Intimate, evocative paintings and disturbing, edgy assemblages from this poised yet restless LA artist.
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• Bob Porter, Producer And Broadcaster Who Rescued Jazz History, Dead At 80

  23-04-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a record producer [he] guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and … as a broadcaster [he] helped build WBGO into the largest jazz radio station in the New York City area.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dancer Who Sued Berlin State Ballet For Racial Discrimination Gets Settlement, New Contract

  23-04-2021 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Chloé Lopes Gomes filed a lawsuit in 2020 against the expiration of her temporary contract. She [alleged she had been] discriminated against because of the color of her skin. Now the State Ballet and the dancer have agreed to a court settlement: The ballerina will stay with the State Ballet for another year and receive a compensation payment of €16,000 ($19,240).” – Deutsche Welle
  
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• Did art peak 30,000 years ago? How cave paintings became my lockdown obsession

  23-04-2021 12:21
  
  Portraiture, perspective, impressionism, movement, mythology: cave artists could do the lot. And I have spent the past year on a virtual odyssey of their primordial wondersI was recently awoken in the night by lions, their eyes glaring in the dark from blunt rectangular faces as they stalked bison through an ancient, arid grassland. As I came to, however, I realised I was not about to be eaten alive. This was simply one of the perils of spending too much time looking at images of cave art on the
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: how a French artist gave us plenty to see in Barnard Castle

  23-04-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Joséphine Bowes’s Château du Barry in the Bowes museumBowes Museum in Barnard Castle wouldn’t exist without the painter of this work. Joséphine Bowes was a French actor with Théâtre des Variétés in Paris who captured the heart of the English landowner John Bowes. S
  
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• ‘Damn! This is a Caravaggio!’: the inside story of an old master found in Spain

  23-04-2021 07:00
  
  Art dealer Giancarlo Ciaroni attempted to buy painting listed at €1,500 for €500,000 – but discovered bewildered owners already had two offers of €3mIt took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid earlier this month with a guide price of €1,500 (£1,300) could be worth millions.At 9.48pm on 24 March, Pulini, a 63-year-old professor at the Bologna Fine Arts Academy, received a email request fo
  
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• I Miss Chitchat

  23-04-2021 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  In our pandemic world, casual conversation has been all but eliminated. The closest thing I get these days is saying “thank you” to a delivery person or greeting a grocery store clerk. Even then, I’m hesitant to linger—every unnecessary moment with a stranger feels taboo, every breath a hazard. And, now, in the absence of chit-chat, I feel isolated and unenergized. – The Walrus
  
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