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• SAG/AFTRA Sign First Agreement On Social Media Influencers (What Does That Mean?)

  13-05-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ national board voted to adopt its first-ever agree­ment for influencers—personalities and performers paid to promote products and services on networks like Instagram and TikTok, plus non-networked websites. In addition, those side hustles are no longer prohibited for current members of SAG-AFTRA. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Nicholas Kenyon’s New History Of Western Music

  13-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The book’s subtitle, New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition, makes its soft boundaries clear. As managing director of London’s Barbican Centre, and former director of the Proms, controller of Radio 3 and music critic of the Observer – and therefore a colleague and friend to those of us in the business of classical – Kenyon has heard and programmed as much music as anyone. – The Guardian
  
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• Companies Are Struggling To Become Data-Driven. The Toughest Part? Culture

  13-05-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The goal is to “invite people who have not been thinking about this topic to really think about it in their day-to-day work. It really creates the culture of control, culture of responsibility and understanding.” – Protocol
  
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• Inside The Art NFT Boom

  13-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one quite agrees on what this gold rush means. If you ask hard-core champions of Bitcoin — the often-libertarian “crypto natives,” as they call themselves — NFTs presage the future of digital property. They’re a glimpse at a coming day when people spend their income on digital items they can trade, resell or hoard as an investment; when government will lose its unique power to mint currency and protect property, because people will instead trust the implacable m
  
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• The Sounds Of Japan’s Ancient Music, Recorded More Than A Century Ago

  13-05-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Let’s set the scene. It’s February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn in a Tokyo hotel room. The needle slowly lowers onto a spinning blank disc and the session begins. What follows is a recording of the sound of gagaku, the oldest continuously performed orchestral music in the world that had, till then, been the reserve of Japan’s imperial court for over a thousand years. This recital is the first e
  
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• Do we know how changing prices affects the income-diversity of audiences?

  13-05-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Real care has to be taken with comparing data on prices and audience characteristics, because the prices were set in the first place as a result of local audience characteristics. There is no universal ‘demand curve’ for the arts: each company has a unique situation based on where it is. – Michael Rushton
  
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• The New Group – Director of External Affairs

  13-05-2021 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New Group is seeking an experienced arts professional to serve as its Director of External Affairs. This executive-level position provides a unique opportunity to work at one of New York City’s leading nonprofit Off-Broadway theaters, alongside its Board of Directors, donors, audience base, and staff to strengthen the organization for the future and position it for long-term success.Position ProfileAbout The New GroupThe New Group, led by founding Artistic Director Scott Elliott and Ex
  
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• How A Dallas Choir Made $375,000 With An NFT “Crypto Music”

  13-05-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “2020 had all been about crypto art. We believe that Betty’s Notebook is the birth of crypto music. It makes music truly ‘crypto native’,” meaning the piece is designed and meant for consumption on the blockchain, instead of simply being added to it as a NFT. “You can’t have Betty’s Notebook without the blockchain.” – Dallas Morning News
  
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• A New York Times Critic Sees His First Play Since COVID — In The Central American City He Once Fled

  13-05-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jose Solís: “Theater in my hometown? ‘A lot has changed since you’ve been gone,’ said Inma López, a producer and ensemble member at Casa del Teatro Memorias. … Theater in Tegucigalpa went from the didacticism of political plays that toured colleges and high schools in the 1980s, to becoming an essential part of city life.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Bitter New Orleans Graffiti War Over… Dan Marino?

  13-05-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  To outsiders, street painters of all sorts might seem to be natural allies. But that’s not always the case. Rivalries and territorialism are always part of the picture. For some, street painting is meant as a gift to society; for others it’s pure rebellion; for most it’s somewhere in between. After two weeks of turf war, the wall at the corner of St. Claude Avenue and Marigny Street was the equivalent of a smoking battleground that bore the scars of Krylon combat. – New
  
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• What Goodreads Has Done To My Reading, And Why I’m Giving It Up

  13-05-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Quantifying, dissecting and broadcasting our most-loved hobbies sucks the joy out of them. I find myself glancing towards the corner of the page to see how much I’ve read. … Even when absorbed in the climax of a story, one eye is always on my proximity to the end, when I’ll be able to post it all to Goodreads. … [It’s] far more performative than I have previously admitted to myself: I love reading, but I also love the feeling of people thinking I’m w
  
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• A Multi-Million-Dollar Trade In Fake Native American Art

  13-05-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’re talking about everything from Navajo turquoise and silver to Zuni inlay. It’s a huge tourist draw and one of New Mexico’s most important industries. But today, con artists are flooding the Indian jewelry marketplace with cleverly disguised counterfeits, cheating consumers out of millions of dollars. – KRQE
  
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• Dancer Walter Hodes @96 – How To Dance Through Life

  13-05-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think anything that you do with every particle of yourself can be wonderful, and it can make you forget the world. It’s magic. How the heck am I supposed to describe it? Something happens. It takes everything you have got. And, for that — for those brief moments that you’re dancing, you’re transported.” – The News Hour (PBS)
  
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• Dancer StuartHodes @96 – How To Dance Through Life

  13-05-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think anything that you do with every particle of yourself can be wonderful, and it can make you forget the world. It’s magic. How the heck am I supposed to describe it? Something happens. It takes everything you have got. And, for that — for those brief moments that you’re dancing, you’re transported.” – The News Hour (PBS)
  
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• Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Prepares To Live-Stream From Its Stage

  13-05-2021 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘The whole process here is to recreate the experience for the audience,’ said [Goodman artistic director Robert] Falls. ‘The audience chooses which performance they want to see, they buy their ticket, they’re instructed to get there early to make sure that the technology is working and at 7:30 in the evening, we’re all set to go live.'” – Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Can Los Angeles Re-Establish Itself As A Cultural Capital Post-Pandemic?

  13-05-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In many ways the challenges here are more intense and complex, in no small part because the virus hit at a time when so many things were in flux. The next steps — by cultural institutions, wealthy philanthropists, government and audiences — could well determine whether COVID will have derailed, or merely delayed, the city’s ascendance as a cultural destination.” – The New York Times
  
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• A spectacular gorefest – Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint review

  13-05-2021 16:26
  
  British Museum, London
  The archbishop’s slaying and martyrdom transfixed the medieval world – and inspired some magnificently murderous art and artefacts that are still shocking todayIf you thought medieval religious art was all clasped hands and uplifted eyes, then prepare yourself for the gorefests that shudder through this brilliant new show like a broadsword hitting bone. On 29 December 1170, four knights sent by King Henry II entered the holy sanctum of Canterbury Cathedral with
  
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• Benin Bronzes Are Still Being Made Today (Who Knew?)

  13-05-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Benin City, in what was historically the metalworkers’ quarter on and around Igun Street, skilled artists continue to make figures with the traditional techniques used to make the famous Benin Bronzes now in museums in other parts of the world (and gradually being repatriated). – Artnet
  
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• In Egypt, 250 Ancient Tombs Discovered, Some More Than 4,000 Years Old

  13-05-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The burial places, all cut into rock, were found by accident in one part of a larger necropolis in Upper Egypt. Some date back to the end of the Old Period of ancient Egyptian history, about 4,000 years ago; the most recent are from the late Ptolemaic era, which ended with the defeat of Cleopatra VII by Octavian (who later became Caesar Augustus) in 30 BC. – Al-Ahram
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Returns To Stage (But Not Its Own) For First Time Since COVID Arrived

  13-05-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Members of the company’s orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Sunday. … The concerts will go on despite continuing labor tensions at the Met, which have threatened the intended reopening of its Lincoln Center home in September.” – The New York Times
  
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• Phylicia Rashad Named Dean Of Howard University’s New College Of Fine Arts

  13-05-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The award-winning actor, herself a Howard alumna, will be the first dean of the re-established college. The nation’s leading historically Black university folded its fine arts school into its College of Arts and Sciences in 1998 as a cost-cutting measure; Rashad’s arrival completes the return of Howard’s College of Fine Arts as an independent entity. – The Washington Post
  
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• Ex-English National Ballet Principal Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Students

  13-05-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yat-Sen Chang attacked girls and women at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London between December 2009 and March 2016. The 49-year-old was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration. He was cleared of one offence.” – BBC
  
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• ‘Odd, eerie and haunting’: behind Maya Lin’s Manhattan ghost forest

  13-05-2021 08:26
  
  The famed artist and architect draws attention to climate change’s biodiversity loss with a forest of dying Atlantic cedars in New YorkIn Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save
  
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• Fierce friends: Moyra Davey is inspired by Peter Hujar’s archive – in pictures

  13-05-2021 08:00
  
  New York artist Moyra Davey found a selection of little-seen images in the renowned US photographer’s archive – then responded to them with her own images Continue reading...
  
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• Tracey Emin on her cancer self-portraits: ‘This is mine. I own it’

  13-05-2021 07:00
  
  As she starts to rebuild her life after surgery, the artist shares her unflinching self-portraits taken during treatment, talks about seeing dead people in hospital walls, and explains why she’s buying herself a punchbag – and kittens
  ‘I’m smiling and talking to you,” says Tracey Emin, sitting at her kitchen table. “But it’s not always like this.” We’ve been delaying this conversation until she finally felt well enough. She has been spending
  
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• Tracey Emin on beating cancer: ‘You can curl up and die – or you can get on with it’

  13-05-2021 07:00
  
  As she starts to rebuild her life after surgery, the artist shares her unflinchingly honest cancer self-portraits, talks about seeing dead people in hospital walls, and explains why she’s buying herself a punchbag – and kittens
  ‘I’m smiling and talking to you,” says Tracey Emin, sitting at her kitchen table. “But it’s not always like this.” We’ve been delaying this conversation until she finally felt well enough. She has been spending a lot o
  
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• Why Is Contemporary Architecture So Awful?

  13-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps it is that architects speak in a special language, and what looks to me like an arbitrary and ugly assortment of random stark rectangles is, to them, a kind of Morse code saying “Hello! Come inside! Happy to have you here.” But if that is the case, it doesn’t redeem the buildings for architects to have designed them using a special insider code that makes their beauty only visible to other architects. – Current Affairs
  
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