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• UK Government Slashes Funding For “Creative Subjects” In Universities

  10-05-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The government has said subjects like music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media studies and archaeology are “not among its strategic priorities”, according to the Office for Students, which distributes government funding to universities. – BBC
  
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• Muti: COVID Year Was An Experiment In Global Culture

  10-05-2021 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Riccardo Muti called the experience of the past year “an unnatural global experiment” that had “stunned” the world. “If we truly took into account how we are living, we would all go crazy. We try to maintain the illusion that we are living a normal life. It is the only way to reach the end of this absurd path,’’ he said. – Toronto Star (AP)
  
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• The Compromises Of Live-Streaming

  10-05-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Livestreaming adds an additional layer of technical complexity and cost but doesn’t necessarily improve the audience’s experience of the play itself. Pre-recording allows the various elements of the production – editing, sound, etc – to be fine-tuned in advance. But then why not go the whole hog and just release an actual film? – Irish Times
  
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• Inside The Museum Of Disgusting Food

  10-05-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As with the Museum of Sex, in New York City, and the Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, the Disgusting Food Museum is conceptually closer to an amusement park than to a museum. There are eighty-five culinary horrors on display—ordinary fare and delicacies from thirty countries—and each tour concludes with a taste test of a dozen items. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Late Eli Broad: My Talk with the Under-Appreciated Overachiever Who Energized LA’s Cultural Life

  10-05-2021 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everything I’ve done in my life,” he told me at the beginning of our wide-ranging conversation in his office, “has really been to challenge the status quo—not to be satisfied with the way things are, but to try to improve them.” I “get” Eli, perhaps because (as I learned from his book) we had a lot in common. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration

  10-05-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and fellowships on students. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• The Science Behind Your Ums… and Ahs…

  10-05-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Indeed, these verbal hesitations have been viewed as undesirable since the days of ancient Greece and, more recently, the American linguist Noam Chomsky characterised them as ‘errors’ irrelevant to language. But could there be more to these utterances than initially meets the ear? – Aeon
  
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• The Culture Of Citations That Props Up Writing

  10-05-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Like many systems that appear meticulous, the writing of citations is a subjective art. Never more so than in fiction, where citation is an entirely other kind of animal, not required or even expected, except in the “acknowledgments” page, which is often a who’s who of the publishing world. (Also a good way to find out who is married to whom.) But in the last two decades, bibliographies and sources cited pages have increasingly cropped up in the backs of novels.&rd
  
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• A Wild Spoof Sends Up The Absurdity Of Academic Science Publishing

  10-05-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Take a bunch of clever, ambitious people and tell them to get as many papers published as possible while still technically passing muster through peer review … and what do you think is going to happen? Of course the system gets gamed: The results from one experiment get sliced up into a dozen papers, statistics are massaged to produce more interesting results, and conclusions become exaggerated. The most prolific authors have found a way to publish more than one scientific paper a
  
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• The Improbable Survival Of Seattle’s Annex Theatre

  10-05-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our motto is ‘big, cheap theater.’ ” “I’d rather make a glorious failure than an apologetic win.” “We’re the cockroach of the arts — we may be ugly, but we’re really hard to kill.” – Seattle Times
  
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• What’s Behind Attacks On Critical Race Theory?

  10-05-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The exact targets of CRT’s critics vary wildly, but it is obvious that most critics simply do not know what they are talking about. Instead, CRT functions for the right today primarily as an empty signifier for any talk of race and racism at all, a catch-all specter lumping together “multiculturalism,” “wokeism,” “anti-racism,” and “identity politics”—or indeed any suggestion that racial inequities in the United States are anyth
  
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• Spotify’s Imposter Problem

  10-05-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  That new album by your fave, the one you haven’t heard hyped on social media or in music magazines? It’s probably by a deliberate Doppelgänger. “Inside Spotify’s borderless musical landscape, you’re never more than a playlist transition away from a fake-out. … There’s always someone trying to game the system.” – Slate
  
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• La Scala Is Opening Again

  10-05-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  With a 500-person limit, a record high in private funding, new digital streaming infrastructure, and a mandate to be more ecologically conscious, the Milan opera house and its new artistic director, Dominique Meyer, are ready to put the horrible experience of 2020 behind them. – The New York Times
  
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• Could New York Get A Really Good Penn Station?

  10-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Justin Davidson refuses to relinquish hope. “The MTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit have jointly released not one but two possible visions for rebuilding the rest of the Dantesque complex. And, lo and behold, they are both aspirational and realistic. The design … amalgamates the jumble of bureaucratic fiefdoms, decades’ worth of duct-tape fixes, and a thicket of conflicting agendas into a rail hub that might one day be a thing of, if not quite beauty, at least satisfaction &mda
  
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• Director Barry Jenkins Says Maybe America Never Has Been Great

  10-05-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director of Moonlight took on a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad partly because it was such a wellspring of fear. “Jenkins was surprised, he says, of the extent to which the retelling of that history affected him. ‘There’s no blood, there’s no fire on set,’ he says. ‘And yet, we were on an actual plantation in Georgia. And as we’re recreating some of these moments, this feeling seeps into your body that things
  
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• Manzoor Ahtesham, Who Brought Bhopal To Life, Has Died Of COVID At 73

  10-05-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ahtesham wrote of his native city with care and love. One of his translators said, “He had this almost magnifying glass of an eye. … If a cinema hall was razed or a new suburb was being built, he would describe these changes with a sensitivity, caring and love as if it were part of his own corporal organism.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Pandemic Massively Accelerated A Digitization Trend

  10-05-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, we can see music, theatre, visual art, and new movies all from our chairs, couches, and beds. A year ago, not so much – heck, even the Louvre has put its entire collection online. “Many larger institutions like the Parisian giant had already made significant strides before last year to increase their online presence. But the rest of the cultural sector was forced into an innovative panic when COVID-19 struck.” – CBC
  
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• Charles Dickens Hid A Lifelong Grief In A Locket

  10-05-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dickens’ 17-year-old sister-in-law collapsed one night as she returned from the theatre, and died in the arms of the writer. “A failure of Hogarth’s heart was blamed, but today an aneurism, or stroke, is suspected as the more likely cause of death. It was a shock that altered Dickens for ever, throwing a shadow over his imaginative life.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’

  10-05-2021 07:00
  
  While enjoying an idyllic lockdown in France, the 83-year-old artist has created perhaps his most important exhibition ever – offering hope to an injured world ‘I think it looks terrific,” says David Hockney. “It’s all on one theme, isn’t it? And there’s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.” The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems h
  
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