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• Disney+ Isn’t Using Show-runners For Its Shows. A New TV Model?

  12-05-2021 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Effectively, the studio is making its TV shows as if they were roughly six-hour movies, applying the same production methodology it’s used for the 23 unprecedentedly successful interconnected feature films that comprise the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That means empowering directors to lead a lot of creative decision-making, in collaboration with a small cadre of hands-on Marvel creative executives who are with the project from the beginning and report up to Feige. – Variety
  
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• The Long Checkered Career Of The Golden Globes

  12-05-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollywood viewed the awards as meaningless at best and corrupt at worst — most notable for their open bar and the industry perks enjoyed by their some 80 voting members. Jack Mathews, who was a film critic for Newsday, once called them “the best-fed freeloaders in the entertainment industry.” – The New York Times
  
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• YouTube Will Spend $100 Million On Creators In New “Shorts” Program

  12-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, announced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million pool of money it’s promising to distribute to creators of the most-engaging clips of its new TikTok-style feature. YouTube expects the program to kick off in the fall of 2021 and continue into 2022. – Variety
  
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• Dutch Museum Directors Protest Testing Museum-Goers

  12-05-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an open letter published yesterday in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 100 notable cultural figures, including Stedelijk director Rein Wolfs, artist Renzo Martens, Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits, and Van Gogh Museum director Emilie Gordenker, wrote that the law would enact too many barriers for museum goers. – Artnet
  
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• The Sweet Old Professor Who Saved Iceland’s Ancient Literary Heritage From Danish Fire

  12-05-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Árni Magnússon, who undertook Iceland’s first-ever census and land survey, was a near-obsessive manuscript collector; he gathered many thousands of medieval documents, sagas, and other materials and sent them back to his house in Copenhagen. And in 1728, when the worst fire in the city’s history and destroyed more than a quarter of the buildings and nearly every book in town, Magnússon managed to get most of the manuscripts (though none of his own books) out of
  
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• Helmut Jahn Just Died In A Bike Accident — Might His Iconic Chicago Building Follow?

  12-05-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Thompson Center is Chicago’s premier example of Jahn’s work, and the project that made him famous. Intended to take government from distant to literally transparent and accessible, it became a vital and diverse, if increasingly shabby, space; its spectacular atrium was the apparent inspiration for Jahn’s later, massive Sony Center in Berlin. – Chicago Reader
  
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• What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure? Things Got Ugly

  12-05-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets users type an action or piece of dialogue for their characters and then creates a new piece of narrative. Before long, some users started creating sexual situations involving children. But when the company put in a content filter and said it would use human moderators for flagged content, users rebelled. – Wired
  
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• Immersive Van Gogh Is A Hit. But Which One?

  12-05-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re in a major metropolitan area and have ever remotely shown interest in an art event, you may be bombarded by ads on social media for “Immersive Van Gogh.” Or, wait, was it “Beyond Van Gogh?” But you swore the email receipt said “Imagine Van Gogh: The Immersive Exhibition.” – Washington Post
  
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• Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned Most Of Hollywood’s History, Dead At 106

  12-05-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  He started his working life onstage with Eva Le Gallienne and Orson Welles; acted in films by Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, and Hitchcock (he was the villain in Saboteur); produced and directed episodes of Hitchcock’s TV series (which saved him from the blacklist); had a key role in the primetime medical drama St. Elsewhere; and racked up countless other credits on both sides of the camera and the theater stage. He played his final role, in the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck, at age 100. &ndas
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art Unveils New Gehry Addition

  12-05-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nearly 20 years ago, Anne d’Harnoncourt, the museum’s then-director and CEO, proposed to Frank Gehry that he replicate the galvanizing effect of his Guggenheim Bilbao by digging beneath the museum. The idea did not strike the architect as peculiar. “I said, give me the problem,” recalls Gehry, now 92. “I’m ready.” – Architectural Record
  
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• With New Hosts, NPR’s ‘Invisibilia’ Podcast Is Reorienting Itself

  12-05-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Something we’ve thought about for a long time is how the show has historically had a strong emphasis on the individual and the internal world and how there was an absence of perspective about the larger structures that the individual exists inside of,’ said [producer Abby] Wendle. To describe the intended shift in somewhat reductive terms, then, this new iteration is an effort to step away from the purely psychological and towards the more structural, societal, and soc
  
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• Most Plays Are Just Better Without Intermissions

  12-05-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Charles McNulty: “I prefer to experience plays the way I experience films at the movie theater — uninterrupted. At night when I awake momentarily from dreaming, I can rarely, if ever, restart the same dream when I fall back to sleep. The spell is broken. … Playwrights do the dreamwork for us, but our absorption is required. And unless a complicated set change demands an extended time out, I’d prefer not to have to return to the workaday world until the play is over.&rdq
  
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• Race Is On To Save Boston Mansion Designed, Inside And Out, By Louis Comfort Tiffany

  12-05-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The mansion was recently listed for sale — along with an adjoining building — with an asking price of $22.5 million. That has caused a measure of distress among some people who have worked for years to restore what they regard as a crucial monument to Tiffany’s genius.” – The New York Times
  
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• Dance With Prosthetic Limbs Is Getting More And More Creative

  12-05-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Consider Belgian hip-hop artist Angelina Bruno. A star of the European dance circuit whose right arm was amputated at the forearm as a teenager, Bruno dances to The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” with a 3-D–printed arm in the video game Just Dance 2021. The arm (designed in collaboration with Anouk Wipprecht) is a gorgeously faceted spire that glows iridescently within a cyber-futuristic, TRON-like virtual environment.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• I Have A Prosthetic Leg. Dancing Has Transformed My Relationship With It.

  12-05-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mickaella Dantas: “It took me a while to consider working with my prosthesis, since it has a limited range of flexibility. I struggled with resistance and balance, and was frustrated by the way the leg could fall off when I sweat. It causes daily soreness. I didn’t have the self-discipline at first to develop dance movement with it. But when I met the Portuguese choreographer Clara Andermatt in 2012, I knew that I no longer could make these excuses.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• One Down, Two To Go: Met Opera Reaches Labor Agreement With Chorus

  12-05-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists — which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — is the first of the three largest Met unions to reach such a deal after months of sometimes-bitter division between labor and management over how deep and lasting the pandemic pay cuts should be.” – The New York Times
  
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• Turner Prize Finalist Group Calls Out Turner Prize: ‘Extractive And Exploitative’

  12-05-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  From the statement released by Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), one of five art-and-social-justice collectives nominated for this year’s prize: “The urgency with which we have been asked to participate, perform, and deliver demonstrates the extractive and exploitative practices in prize culture, and more widely across the industry — one where Black, brown, working-class, disabled, queer bodies are desirable, quickly dispensable, but never sustainably cared for. …
  
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• Tintin heirs lose legal battle over artist’s Edward Hopper mashups

  12-05-2021 14:39
  
  French artist Xavier Marabout wins case and €10,000 in damages after Moulinsart contacted galleries displaying his artThe French artist who was sued by the Tintin creator Hergé’s heirs over his paintings that place the boy adventurer in romantic encounters has won his case after a court deemed them parodies.Xavier Marabout’s dreamy artworks imagine Tintin into the landscapes of Edward Hopper, including a take on Queensborough Bridge, 1913, or talking with a less-clothed v
  
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• West End Theatre Folk Look Eagerly, Nervously Toward Reopening

  12-05-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “What’s it actually like for the theatermakers who are starting work again after 15 months? Has the pandemic shaped the way they think about theater? We visited four” — a director, a producer, an actor and a costumer — “to find out.” – The New York Times
  
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• Status Report: When And How Various Countries Are Restarting Their Arts Scenes

  12-05-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s where plans currently stand in Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Spain, as well as the U.S. – Reuters
  
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• Collective nominated for Turner prize criticises award’s main sponsor

  12-05-2021 12:01
  
  Black Obsidian Sound System criticises Tate over handling of sexual abuse claim and recent redundanciesOne of this year’s Turner prize nominees has criticised the award’s main sponsor, Tate, for its handling of sexual abuse accusations against a prominent donor and the redundancies it made in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) – one of five collectives to be nominated – released the statement via its Instagram account, saying they wer
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper in Manchester’s Whitworth

  12-05-2021 07:00
  
  As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections reaches its final week. Today’s pick: Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper in Manchester’s WhitworthTwo white men in a plantation house negotiate the sale of a small boy as his mother overhears; later she flees with him across an icy river. These are the first two of six vignettes on a wallpaper inspired by the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The full sequence concentrates
  
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• Associate Artistic Producer, Milwaukee Rep

  12-05-2021 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Milwaukee Repertory Theater, a LORT theater located in the heart of Wisconsin’s largest metropolitan area, is currently seeking applicants for the position of Associate Artistic Producer. Our mission is to ignite positive changes in the cultural, social, and economic vitality of our community by creating world-class theater experiences that entertain, provoke, and inspire meaningful dialogue among an audience representative of Milwaukee’s rich diversity. It is important that our hiri
  
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• Balanchine’s Biggest Fan – Nancy Lassalle, 93

  12-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She was the ultimate board member,” said Albert Bellas, chairman emeritus of the S.A.B. “She was financially supportive, knowledgeable and committed.” She was also a daily presence.– The New York Times
  
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