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• Pervis Staples, Who Moved His Family’s Staple Singers From Gospel To Soul, 85

  16-05-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Staples once compared the Staple Singers’ “effect on ecstatic church audiences to ‘a miracle or the hand of God.'” Pervis Staples “attended grammar school with the future singing stars Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls. After class, Pervis and his friends would practice singing under street lamps and in Cooke’s basement.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Shy Performance Poet Who Writes About Everything From Sex To Death

  16-05-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollie McNish, who once changed her name to “Hollie Poetry” – what she now calls “a search engine name” – says that sex and writing are linked: “All energy drives are linked. I’d call it an orgasm drive – an urge to make something specific from a dream inside your head or skin.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Dictatorial Polish Conductor Who Changed The Sound Of American Orchestras

  16-05-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The tale of Artur Rodzinski is not a charming one, and yet, “arguably no man had more of a hand in turning American orchestras into the technical marvels they became in the mid-20th century — whether through those he led himself, or through the example he set. He jolted up the standards of some of the great ensembles of the radio age: the Philadelphia Orchestra (as an assistant from 1925 to ’29), the Los Angeles Philharmonic (as music director from 1929 to ’33), the Clev
  
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• Artists Protest Plans To Raze Major Art Institutions In Delhi

  16-05-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A massive government redevelopment plan – funded and touted by Prime Minister Narenda Modi – will demand “the demolition and relocation of iconic Indian institutions: the National Museum of India, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), and the National Archives Annexe.” Photographer Ram Rahman: “The suspicion of altering history by removing archival documents is something many scholars think is already happening. … And one can only imagine w
  
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• Apple Wants To Upend Podcasts The Way It Did Music Downloads

  16-05-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The company – which was one of the first to jump on the podcasting train, providing podcast sourcing through iTunes in 2005 – is now figuring out how to get podcast creators paid, which could be a game-changer for podcasters. – Fast Company
  
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• Theatre Has Long Been Fatphobic, And Actors Are Speaking Out

  16-05-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  An errant sentence in a New York Times article (since reworded) led to a lot of participation from actors via social media. They’re fed up with the sizeism and lack of body diversity on Broadway – and everywhere else in theatre. “The infamous ideology of a ‘Broadway body’ — a term that assumes a stage performer’s castability is specifically related to their size — has come to reinforce ‘the imposed ideals we place on women to be waif-like, o
  
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• David Hockney is right about Derrida

  16-05-2021 19:14
  
  David Hockney | Tracey Emin | David Cameron | Classical musicHockney is in trouble in these pages (Letters, 11 and 13 May) for thinking it was Derrida’s quip that painting is dead, when the sentiment has been around for 400 years. But in a recent catalogue to a show of his work in Paris, the French curator Donatien Grau explains that Hockney’s reference to Derrida is to the gist of Derrida’s set of essays La Vérité en Peinture of 1978. This gist is that “the
  
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• Writers Know All Too Well The Other American Epidemic

  16-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  And it was one exacerbated by the virus – loneliness. – The New York Times
  
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• During Covid, Geology Students Still Did Fieldwork – Via Video Game

  16-05-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two geology professors built a 3D replica of Sardinia, and it worked so well (including providing a vital connection for lonely, isolated students to socialize) that one of the profs then “spent three weeks in the Scottish Highlands, driving around and taking loads of drone shots, which he used to recreate the landscape around the village of Kinlochleven, another pre-pandemic field trip destination. He made waterfalls, planted 30,000 trees, and (in an act of perhaps unnecessary fealty to
  
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• The History Of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association And Black Movie Critics

  16-05-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not great, as we all know. Here’s the detailed story of Samantha Ofole-Prince, who was invited in 2013 to become a member, sponsored by several other members – and then had her application tanked, apparently because some other members (all white at the time) were worried about “territorial competition.” Now, Ofole-Prince says, “They’ve had decades to address the diversity issues. Unfortunately, they’ve chosen not to … I don’t thi
  
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• Novelist Brit Bennett Is Considering What To Think About Next

  16-05-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Her newest book is a deliberate picture of how America wasn’t ever really great at all for quite a few people. And what’s she considering now? She thinks we’re all in recovery from the former president. “This is a person who colonised our brains for years. I don’t think there was a day in the last four years when we were not constantly reacting or commenting or reading about the things he was saying and doing, or weren’t being affected in a visceral way by hi
  
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• Bob Koester, Of Delmark Records And Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, 88

  16-05-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Koester funded his recording company by selling jazz and blues records at his store. He “was a pivotal figure in Chicago and beyond, releasing early efforts by Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Jimmy Dawkins, Magic Sam and numerous other jazz and blues musicians. He captured the sound of Chicago’s vibrant blues scene of the 1960s,” among many other achievements. – The New York Times
  
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• Masks And Other PPE Won’t Leave Movie Sets Anytime Soon

  16-05-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The one thing movie crew members – at least the vaccinated ones – can give up is face shields. One guild member says, “As the studios have negotiated the way forward with the unions and there are still insurance risk factors for studios and production companies, it’s not really up to us as individuals — if we want to work, that is.” – Variety
  
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• Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad Is Different From Other Slavery Stories

  16-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some of the show, though it does depict the violence of enslavement and other forms of anti-Black oppression, draws on an almost spiritual connection to the land through which the refugees are running (and taking the train). – The Atlantic
  
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• It’s Actually Good For Ellen – And Us – That Her Show Is Ending

  16-05-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though she handled the end of the talk show far worse than anyone thought she could, even given the circumstances, she had to get free of that grind. “DeGenenres’ career before Ellen was unique. As a stand-up and then a sitcom star, she elevated LGBTQ rights in this country — courageously, tenaciously and at great personal cost. The sitcom Ellen was terrific, and not just because it gave us the “toaster oven” joke or even because it featured both DeGeneres and her
  
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• We Need Unconventional Art Now More Than Ever

  16-05-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions, deaths, infections, fear, and all kinds of life challenges, we must have more public art. “It does a simple but essential thing: reminds everyday people that they are not alone in this bizzarro moment, and miraculously and fortunately, they are still alive and kicking.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The 90-Day Theatrical Window For Movies Is Fully Dead

  16-05-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks, Disney: “After months of teetering precariously on the precipice, the final blow came on Thursday following Disney’s announcement that Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the Ryan Reynolds’ action comedy Free Guy would screen in theaters for 45 days before landing on home entertainment.” Good luck, movie theatres! – Variety
  
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• The Making of Rodin review – the sculptor in a ghostly new light

  16-05-2021 14:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  A succession of plaster arms, legs and heads reveal Rodin’s working practices in a fascinating show that nevertheless leaves you longing for the finished workThe Making of Rodin is a show almost entirely composed of plaster casts: fragile and small, delicate or solid, heavyweight, lifesize or gargantuan. It is thronged with figure groups, solo statues, trays of hands and feet in glass cases. Smooth, chipped, marked up in pencil for rearrangement or enlargement, provisio
  
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• How Spotify’s Podcast Dance Around Music Copyright Constraints

  16-05-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Basically, it owns both: Some shows use “a hybrid format, which Spotify calls ‘shows with music’ or ‘music and talk, that allows creators to incorporate full songs from the service’s vast catalog into their podcasts free of charge. (Spotify takes a 30 percent cut of ads set up through the service.) The format gives podcasters easy access to music that would be difficult or too costly to attain on their own and presents listeners with a seamless interface
  
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• The Brontes Probably Died Young Because Of Their Water

  16-05-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It came from a graveyard. Or maybe some public privies. In any case, the water was very, very bad. – LitHub
  
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• Behind The Scenes At The Reopening Of The Hollywood Bowl

  16-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
   “If reopening the Bowl is like riding a bike,” the L.A. Phil president and CEO says, “the organization has swapped out a Tour de France Cannondale for a unicycle.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Matthew Barney: Redoubt; Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust – review

  16-05-2021 10:30
  
  Hayward Gallery, LondonOvid meets the NRA as Matthew Barney revisits his Idaho childhood, while Igshaan Adams takes tapestry to the next levelMatthew Barney’s first British show in more than 10 years is all picturesque nature, a 21st-century version of the American sublime. Everything centres on the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, where the artist was raised. Gilded tree trunks soar up through darkened galleries, radiant etchings cast an eerie glow on the ground, and a feature-length movie un
  
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• Hey teacher … how Syd Barrett’s artistic genius flowered at school

  16-05-2021 09:00
  
  An early still life painting by the Pink Floyd founder will be sold at auctionMonet had his water lilies, Van Gogh his sunflowers, but for Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett it was orange dahlias. A vibrant still life painted by the late frontman of the British band when he was 15 will go under the hammer on 27 May as his childhood playmate puts it up for sale.“I have lots of happy memories, including watching the first Dr Who series from behind the sofa together. But the Syd I remember is a d
  
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