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• When Conditions Are Ripe To Fall For Misinformation

  07-05-2021 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “People become more prone to misinformation when three things happen. First, and perhaps most important, is when conditions in society make people feel a greater need for what social scientists call ingrouping — a belief that their social identity is a source of strength and superiority, and that other groups can be blamed for their problems.” – The New York Times
  
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• Ross Douthat Sees Mediocrity Everywhere, Laments Paucity Of “Great Thinkers”

  07-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My own favoured explanation, in The Decadent Society, is adapted from the American sociologist Robert Nisbet’s arguments about how cultural golden ages hold traditional and novel forces in creative tension: the problem for the Western world is that this tension snapped during the revolutions of the 1960s, when the baby boomers (and the pre-boomer innovators they followed) were too culturally triumphant and their elders put up too little resistance, such that the fruitful tension be
  
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• What It’s Like To Play The Violin Of Violins

  07-05-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Sala Paganiniana, where Il Cannone resides inside the Palazzo Tursi, is monitored by scientists, experts, and bodyguards. The instrument is played monthly by curator Bruce Carlson and each year by the winner of the Premio Paganini contest for young violinists. – Strings
  
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• Young Vic Says “Theatre Has Changed Forever” And Will Livestream Its Work

  07-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kwame Kwei-Armah told the Guardian the pandemic had changed theatre forever, with the livestreaming of plays becoming “hard baked” into how the industry operates. – The Guardian
  
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• Discovered: When Tennessee Williams Wrote A Fan Letter To Eugene O’Neill

  07-05-2021 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An impassioned letter from Tennessee Williams to Eugene O’Neill is an astonishing find in the world of American drama studies. Just when it seems that the archival well has been drunk dry for these exhaustively studied artists, something truly wonderful appears and changes things. – UKNOW
  
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• In Kashmir, Sufi Music Was For Men Only. These Young Women Are Keeping It Alive

  07-05-2021 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For centuries, the tradition was passed down from one man to another. But sisters Irfana and Rihana Yousuf began to play with support from their father, Mohammad Yousuf. A musician himself, he sometimes had to sell household items to afford the costly instruments so they could keep their dream alive – and his. … In Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, this music is food for the soul. Its origins in Kashmir trace back to the 15th century. But today, with few traditional artis
  
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• NYC To Launch $25 Million Artist Corps Program To Hire 1,500 Artists

  07-05-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We’re going to hire artists, musicians, performers, and they’re going to be out in communities doing public art, public performances, pop-up shows…creating murals, you name it,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We want to give artists opportunities, and we want this city to feel the power of our cultural community again.” – Gothamist
  
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• Matthew Bourne Starts New School To Prepare Minority Dancers For Professional-Level Work

  07-05-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cygnet School, based in Canterbury, “is designed to bridge a gap that Bourne had noticed between young people who excel in dance at a grassroots level and those who are able to proceed with vocational training. ‘A lot of the young people who were coming to us for auditions were quite raw – the talent was there but they weren’t quite ready to go into a professional show. … [They] slip through the net’, said Bourne, particularly if they come from low-income ba
  
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• Musicians Versus The Streaming Companies – Something’s Gotta Change

  07-05-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The artists’ demands are threaded with anger and anxiety over the degradation of creative labor. But the musicians face long odds. Despite solidarity among many older and independent artists, the most successful current pop acts have largely been silent on the issue. And while many musicians paint Spotify as the enemy, the shift to streaming over the last decade has returned the industry to growth after years of financial decline. – The New York Times
  
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• What If An AI Bot Curated The Whitney Biennial?

  07-05-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A new online art project based on data from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Liverpool Biennial attempts to imagine 64 different curatorial statements and artist lists for future exhibitions, all ‘curated’ by a robot. … Each alternate universe is characterized by art speak that straddles the line between highbrow and utter incomprehensibility and is based on data drawn from actual Whitney and Liverpool Biennials past.” – Artnet
  
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• How To Think About Racist Statues That Have Been Taken Down

  07-05-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  To date there are no large-scale programs or comprehensive models for dealing with defaced or removed monuments. However, the museum and heritage sectors — two professions that are founded on the essential notion of preservation — have been challenged by calls, largely from outside of these fields, suggesting that museums take in damaged or fallen monuments. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Birth Of Newsletters, 600 Years Before Substack

  07-05-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Newsletters began in mid-fifteenth-century Venice. Subscribers would receive handwritten letters twice a week rounding up interesting events. Sixteenth-century merchants used similar news sources to keep track of exchange rates, taxes, and other business news. The form’s popularity expanded in England after the country’s first postal service took off around 1660. This opened the door to news writers, who could use the mail to gather information from distant correspondents and
  
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• AMC Theatres Loses $567 Million

  07-05-2021 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Revenues at the world’s largest exhibition chain topped out at $148.3 million, down 84.2 percent from the year-ago period, while the company logged a loss of $1.42 per share, an improvement on the loss of $20.88 per share that it reported in the year-ago period. – Variety
  
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• How, And Why, Barry Jenkins Went Through With Ten Episodes Of ‘The Underground Railroad’

  07-05-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There was only one time when he seriously thought about quitting. The project … had just been announced, in the fall of 2016. Within hours of the news — BARRY JENKINS TO ADAPT HOT NOVEL ‘UNDERGROUND RAILROAD’ — the tweets had arrived. “THIS is what he’s doing after ‘Moonlight’? I HATE slave movies. Do we really need more images of Black people getting brutalized?” Jenkins almost pulled the plug right then.” – The Ne
  
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• Short Opera Videos Are One Pandemic Innovation We Should Keep

  07-05-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the past months we’ve gotten “a range of short films that showcase top talents in American opera, highlight contemporary composers and recruit other artists (including costume designers and cinematographers) as well as tens of thousands of new viewers … [all because of the] overdue embrace of the dormant chemistry between cinema and opera, so rarely consummated.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Hollywood Is Hiring Rage Coaches To Teach Awful Execs Some Self-Control

  07-05-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “How to be a better boss is a question that has come under new scrutiny in Hollywood thanks to some high-profile examples of spectacularly bad ones. … In the trickiest coaching situations, a studio or agency’s human resources department hires a coach to work with a reluctant leader. … For those inclined to roll their eyes at the prospect, [a coach] reminds them of what they stand to lose.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• For First Time, No Individual Artists Are Finalists For Turner Prize

  07-05-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The choice of collectives reflects the fact that few artists have been able to publicly show anything over the past year. It prompted judges to focus on groups of artists whose collaborative work has demonstrably continued, not always in the confines of a gallery. The shortlist is Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S), Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical, and Project Art Works.” – The Guardian
  
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• New York Launches $25 Million City Artist Corps

  07-05-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The program … will give money to artists, musicians and other performers to create works across the city, whether through public art, performances, pop-up shows, murals or other community arts projects. … [The effort] is expected to create jobs for more than 1,500 artists in New York City.” – The New York Times
  
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• Psychedelic spring colours and some spectacular surf – the week in art

  07-05-2021 15:00
  
  Jim Lambie’s pulsing palette returns, Carol Rhodes shakes up the landscape and the late great Takis unleashes some cosmic vibrations – all in your weekly dispatchJim Lambie
  Pulsing psychedelic colours for spring, bursting with buttercup yellow, in this uplifting artist’s latest installation.
  • Modern Institute, Glasgow, until 22 May. Continue reading...
  
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• La Scala Begins Construction On New Building

  07-05-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The foundation stone has been laid for [the Milan opera house’s] new building, which will be constructed to the rear of the existing structure.” The project, designed by architect Mario Botta, “will expand the area for assembling sets, there will be new rehearsal rooms including a vast new space for the orchestra and a new ballet studio, and there will be office space for the departments that currently operate from outside the main building.” (second item) –
  
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• One Of London’s Leading Theatres Says It Will Keep Live-Streaming Productions Permanently

  07-05-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Young Vic artistic director] Kwame Kwei-Armah told The Guardian the pandemic had changed theatre forever, with the livestreaming of plays becoming ‘hard baked’ into how the industry operates. [He] said that during lockdown he had resolved to ‘innovate, not just replicate’ resulting in a project titled Best Seat in Your House which will use multiple cameras and allow online audiences to change what they are looking at.” – The Guardian
  
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• Five art collectives shortlisted for Turner prize

  07-05-2021 11:00
  
  As few artists have been able to show publicly, judges focus on continuing collaborative workFive art collectives will this year battle it out for the Turner prize, the first time no individual artist has been shortlisted for what remains one of the world’s best-known awards for visual art.The choice of collectives reflects the fact that few artists have been able to publicly show anything over the past year. It prompted judges to focus on groups of artists whose collaborative work has dem
  
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• Catherine de’ Medici 1561 portrait to return to London mansion

  07-05-2021 09:00
  
  Painting has been acquired for nation and will be reinstalled at Strawberry Hill House in TwickenhamA monumental portrait of Catherine de’ Medici, one of the most powerful women in 16th-century Europe, will return to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham after it was acquired for the nation in lieu of tax.The picture was originally installed in the gothic revival mansion built by Horace Walpole, who acquired it 247 years ago, and was part of an important collection amassed by the son of Sir
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: the tears of a clown

  07-05-2021 07:00
  
  With most public art collections still closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Ethel Wright’s Bonjour, Pierrot! in OldhamIt was during her time studying at Académie Julian, in Paris, that Ethel Wright became familiar with Pierrot. Pierrot, the lovelorn peasant, had first appeared in French literature in Molière’s 1665 comedy Dom Juan or the Feast of the Stone, since when he has app
  
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