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• Time To Do Away With The Idea Of The Artist As Transgressor?

  14-05-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Abusers are often shielded not only by this “myth of authenticity,” but by another myth, which pervades all the performing arts, and indeed all the other arts as well. This is an age-old myth, at least as old as Romanticism. The myth is that the constraint of usual social norms and rules is bad for artists. They have to be permitted to be transgressive, to break the rules, or else their creativity will be stifled. Genius is beyond good and evil. This myth is basically false.&
  
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• Longtime Curtis Institute Dean Robert Fitzpatrick, 75

  14-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mr. Fitzpatrick served as dean at Curtis from 1986 to 2009 and was dean of students and executive assistant to the director from 1980 to 1984. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• At 50 Pianist Lars Vogt Was Diagnosed With Cancer. Here’s What He’s Learned

  14-05-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  For sure, in classical music, we have internalized particularly strongly an ideal image of ourselves—which we think we need to communicate to others— as the omnipotent magician who makes magic at the piano and whose personal life is going great as well. – Van
  
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• Paul Meecham Named Executive Director Of The Tucson Symphony

  14-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul Meecham comes to the job after leading the Utah Symphony & Opera for three years and a 10-year run as CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. His résumé also includes two years at the Seattle Symphony. – Tucson.com
  
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• Increasingly — Vaccination Has Its Privilege

  14-05-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Come summer, the nation may become increasingly bifurcated between those who are permitted to watch sports, take classes, get their hair cut and eat barbecue with others, and those who are left behind the spike protein curtain. – The New York Times
  
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• Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago

  14-05-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to 15-second clips of Shawn Mendes and Bebe Rexha songs, or maybe an audio track of a funny Vine. The music played as you recorded; you could slow it down and speed it up and make cuts while filming. That was pretty much the extent of its technical features, and if it sounds like TikTok, that’s because it eventually became TikTok, after it was
  
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• Research: Livestreaming Has Become A Vital Connection

  14-05-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our research has highlighted how important it is for audience members to be able to communicate with, and feel connected to, each other and the musicians performing,” said Co-author Sam Leak, lecturer in Popular Music at Middlesex. “As a performer, this finding is interesting to me not only because it impacts my livestreaming practice, but also because it could well enhance the experience of my audiences in physical venues.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In

  14-05-2021 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending on the species. For any mating to happen, though, the females must respond with a quiet but audible flick of their wings, leading the males on to successive sounds only if this flick happens at exactly the right time after the male stops vibrating. The orchestration is incredibly precise,” writes David Rothenberg, who likes to tak
  
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• What Our Comparisons Of Humans To Animals Say About Us

  14-05-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Calling a person an animal is usually a comment on their unrestrained appetites, especially for food (‘like a hungry animal’), for sex (‘they went at it like animals’), and for violence (‘they’re like wild animals’). We also have purpose-made insults comparing people to specific kinds of animal: pig, chicken, rat, cow, slug, snake, cockroach, bitch, etc. – Psyche
  
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• Jazz Trombone Great Curtis Fuller Dead At 88

  14-05-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Mr. Fuller was among the dozens of musicians to emerge from the fertile mid-century jazz scene of Detroit, where he learned to play intricate, fast-paced bebop lines on the unwieldy slide trombone. When [he] arrived in New York in the mid-1950s, he immediately became a major figure in the hard-bop movement.” He played with many of the greatest jazz bands of his era, including the Jazztet, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and the ensembles of Miles David, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gil
  
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• Interpol Debuts A New App To Track Stolen Art

  14-05-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, the global crime-fighting group debuted a new app that aims to make the process of identifying and reporting stolen works as simple as swiping on a smartphone. After downloading the free app—called ID-Art—users can upload images or input keywords to search for information about specific missing objects. – Smithsonian
  
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• A funfair ride to the end of the world: Heather Phillipson: Rupture No 1 review

  14-05-2021 18:19
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Resistance is futile in the sumptuous colours of Phillipson’s entertaining apocalypse, filled with colossal metal creatures, agitated animal eyes and a giant celestial peachAnimal cries, a howling wind, the distant calls of a flock of swans and a gurgling of buffalo at the water hole fill the length of the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. Heather Phillipson is at it again in her delayed 2021 Duveen commission, opening, along with the rest of the gallery, on Monday. A
  
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• Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  14-05-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members were genuinely concerned that awarding the Soviet dissident writer, who had already spent time in the gulag, would put him in danger. While Solzhenitsyn did win that year, he didn’t collect his medal until after he was expelled from the USSR in 1974. – The Guardian
  
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• Superlative Guardian reading that lasts a lifetime | Brief letters

  14-05-2021 18:02
  
  The paper’s best predictions? | A twist of front-page fate | The Guardian Readers and Elton John | Ringing out the bells for 200 yearsI am enjoying your collection of Guardian superlatives over the past 200 years. How about the best predictions? Here is my own: in late 1989/1990 the then diary columnist, Andrew Moncur, asked readers to submit their ideas for captions to photos that were unlikely ever to happen. I was one of a select few to win a bottle of champagne for “Demonstrators
  
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• From brutal Dubuffet to nice guy Nero: what to see as art exhibitions open

  14-05-2021 17:29
  
  As galleries reopen their doors, we preview a visual feast that includes Rodin, Eileen Agar, Paula Rego, Matthew Barney – and an out-of-body experience in LiverpoolProvocateur, founder of art brut, or raw art, Jean Dubuffet embraced the arbitrary and irrational, using crude materials and working with an ironic rejection of skill and finesse. Immersed in French intellectual and artistic life, the show focuses both on Dubuffet’s own work and on his extensive collection of outsider art,
  
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• Archaeologists Object To Plans For New Floor For The Colosseum

  14-05-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Experts including Rossella Rea, the former director of the Colosseum, have raised concerns about the project’s €15m ($18.2) price tag, and claimed that the new floor will obscure views of the Colosseum’s subterranean bowels. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• San Diego Symphony Has A New $85 Million Outdoor Venue

  14-05-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, located on the downtown waterfront, seats up to 10,000 people and (because it’s San Diego and they can) will be used year-round. It hosts a livestream with selected orchestra members on May 21 and will have its first full orchestra concert, under music director Rafael Payaré, later this summer. – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio

  14-05-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. “But podcasting has turned into an incubator of sorts for new radio shows, with several now making their way to local airwaves. … Starting out as a podcast offers show creators a chance to explore and experiment while also building a following — which can help when the subject matter is inherently challenging.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Hollywood Is Now Producing Companion Podcasts To Movies And TV Series

  14-05-2021 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why? Money, of course: to put it in business-speak, the companion podcast “offers a new way for creators to diversify IP assets.” What’s the draw? “People want to spend more time thinking and talking about the shows that they’re watching, whether they’re binge-watching it or watching it once a week,” says HBO’s director of podcasts. “It’s on their mind, and it’s a platform that really complements their watching experience.”
  
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• ‘There’s Something Going On’ — Who Will Really Be Running LA’s MOCA?

  14-05-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to reopen after a historic pandemic closure, it finds itself in the midst of restructuring, moving director Klaus Biesenbach into the role of artistic director and hiring an executive director to co-run the institution with him. But The Times has spoken with more than two dozen people including current and former MOCA employees, artists, curators and executives at other museums, and the majority were skeptical of the dual leadership model. &hell
  
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• Heather Phillipson brings her ‘parallel planet’ to Tate Britain

  14-05-2021 15:05
  
  When gallery reopens on Monday, artist says she will not be ‘inviting people in to be comfortable’People may well be unsettled by the strange, apocalyptic disaster zone created in Tate Britain’s grand central galleries and so be it, the artist Heather Phillipson said. “That’s fine. I’m not inviting people in to be comfortable.”Visitors to the reopened gallery on Monday will encounter a sensory experience of noise, colour, animal eyes staring at them from
  
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• As Broadway Prepares To Reopen, Here’s How It Will (And Won’t) Be Operating Differently

  14-05-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Ticket-buyers are being told they will be required to wear face masks (although it’s not clear how changing advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might affect that expectation). Theaters will have upgraded HVAC systems with virus-trapping filters. Most ticketing will be digital. And theaters are reserving the right to impose a variety of safety protocols” — on casts and crews as well as on audiences. “Prices, at least so far, are similar to wh
  
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• Paradise found: London gallery showcases art inspired by Islamic garden design

  14-05-2021 15:00
  
  Nature-driven artist and environmentalist Clare Celeste Börsch among contributors to exhibition exploring concept of EdenAs in many paradise gardens, particularly those inspired by Islamic culture, a fountain lies at the heart of the quadrilateral garden created inside the Aga Khan Centre gallery in King’s Cross, London. This fountain doesn’t spout water, however, but beautiful, intricate strips of paper with laser-cut flowers made by Berlin-based American artist Clare Celeste B
  
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• Eileen Agar’s seaside surrealism and Thomas Becket’s lost medieval Britain – the week in art

  14-05-2021 15:00
  
  We also have the wildly subversive Jean Dubuffet, the making of Rodin and Tracey Emin’s unflinching self-portraits – all in your weekly dispatchEileen Agar
  One of the most imaginative and quirky early 20th-century British artists gets a fresh look – is Agar’s seaside surrealism due a revival?
  • Whitechapel Gallery, London from 19 May until 29 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Bayreuth Festival: Christian Thielemann May Have Lost His Other Job, Too

  14-05-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the beginning of this week it was announced that the conductor (who was, when he was younger, hailed as a new Herbert von Karajan) was not offered a contract renewal at the orchestra and opera house in Dresden. It turns out that his term as music director at Wagner’s own opera house in Bayreuth expired on Jan. 1, and his name and title have reportedly disappeared from the festival’s website. Bayreuth’s spokesperson says only that Thielemann has a contract as a guest conduct
  
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• St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Running Out Of Cash And Could Close

  14-05-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the pandemic having cut off the revenue from tourist admissions, the landmark’s income is down by 90%. The engineer in charge of maintenance and upkeep says the 300-year-old building is “rotting” and all renovation projects have been halted; there’s little to no money for the professional choir that sings services; the Dean of the Cathedral said frankly, “If we can’t raise the resources to be able to employ the people to look after the building and pay f
  
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• Comical, cartoonish, wonky-nostrilled brilliance – Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty review

  14-05-2021 12:39
  
  Barbican, London
  With his galumphing caricatures, spurting paint and quivering doodles, the art brut master caught the hectic rhythm of the postwar world – and his street scenes make you want to jump right inGrinning and bald, Jean Dubuffet leans comically over one of his little sculptures, a frangible little figure that looks like almost nothing at all. Here he is again, in one of the many photos of the artist that punctuate the Barbican’s exhibition, sitting in his studio surrounde
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: ‘I thought I was going to scream with boredom and pain’

  14-05-2021 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: Euan Uglow’s Curled Nude on a Stool, in Hull’s Ferens GalleryA woman with short hair sits on a low stool. The work’s title, Curled Nude on a Stool, pointedly describes the pose. She leans forward, body pressing on thighs. Her lowered head is in line with her knees, and hands touch feet at the floor. The figure is in pro
  
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• Tech Versus Big Journalism

  14-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A war is on between the tech titans and a relentless generation of largely digital-native reporters looking to speak truth to power while racking up Twitter followers in the process. Depending on whom you ask, the great Tech vs. Media Standoff of 2020–21 is either a “fake fight” between “20 people and 500 other people,” all quick to take offense and thirsty for clout, or it’s a cataclysmic rift that threatens democracy or, at least, the accurate portrayal of
  
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