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• Instagram Is Full Of Perfect Ballet Bodies, But TikTok Offers More Fun And A Wider Range

  23-05-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dancer Jennifer McCloskey first realized her medium was TikTok in 2020, during the shutdown. “On her feed, McCloskey seamlessly blends comedy, criticism of ballet culture, and how-to videos. Her mission is to whittle away at toxic ballet culture one TikTok at a time — all while having a little fun, of course.” – Elite Daily
  
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• That Viral Band The Linda Lindas Gets A Record Contract

  23-05-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The girls went absolutely viral for a video of their performance at the Los Angeles Public Library, especially a clip with their song “Racist Sexist Boy.” Now the punk band comprised of 10-16-year-olds has a contract. (Though one hopes they don’t tone things down for the record company.) – Variety
  
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• Former Moonlighting Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron’s Time At CBS Ends After An Investigation

  23-05-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  After multiple writers left the show following season five, the show investigated. The writers – who all refused to be named out of fear of retaliation – say the environment for them was, at best, terrible. Another former writer on Caron’s show Medium and current producer: “It was a toxic environment while I was there. And now that I have much more experience and I have been a showrunner myself, I can tell you, there are a lot of different ways to tell a writer that what
  
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• Kathleen Andrews, The Woman Who Helped Bring Us Ziggy, Cathy, And Doonesbury, 84

  23-05-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kathy Andrews and her husband Jim, “with his best friend, John P. McMeel, concocted a newspaper syndication company from the basement of the Andrewses’ rented ranch house. Ms. Andrews, who had a master’s degree in mathematics, kept the books. They called it Universal Press Syndicate because, Mr. Trudeau said, ‘it sounded bland and boring and like it had been around for a hundred years.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Michael Morgan Talks about Developing Young Conductors

  23-05-2021 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Music Director of the Oakland Symphony speaks about innovation and helping train promising young candidates for the podium. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• Adapting A Bestselling Historical Novel For The Stage During A Global Pandemic Isn’t Easy

  23-05-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  But, of course, Hilary Mantel isn’t really into easy. She and actor Ben Miles had to figure out their newest Thomas Cromwell adaptation: “You can only do so much on Zoom, Mantel said, ‘because every line has to find its precise form for the next line to play off it. You have to have precision. We would pass our drafts to and fro, getting them to work and then polish them up line by line. We had to be good clerks to each other.'” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Don’t Count Print Newspapers Out Yet

  23-05-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, not quite yet, anyway. “When futurologist Ross Dawson published his ‘newspaper extinction timeline’ in 2010, he predicted that newspapers would cease to exist in the UK in 2019, in Canada and Norway in 2020 and in Australia in 2022. Wrong, wrong and, barring some unforeseen Australian cataclysm in the next six months, wrong again.” – Irish Times
  
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• Should We Call Great Women Artists By Their First Names?

  23-05-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe. It depends entirely on the scholarship, and the artist. And then there’s research: “The same artist with different names can be confusing even if the change happens just once, as in maiden name (the term itself is rife with problematic patriarchy) to married name. It’s a historical hitch in tracking a person, but also a literary one. Just how should a biographer refer to a woman artist in her youth if she later married and made work under a different name? Using differe
  
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• A Japanese Composer, A Burkina Faso Storyteller, And A Congolese Rapper Make Opera

  23-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Composer Keiko Fujiie, who moved to Burkina Faso and built a house where the musicians can practice without annoying their neighbors, hopes to tour the country and debunk the idea of opera as an elite art form: “”I didn’t come to introduce European opera here – to the contrary – I needed to study their music, and little by little share the dream of making an opera with them.” – BBC
  
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• Leslie Marr obituary

  23-05-2021 18:42
  
  Leslie Marr, who has died aged 98, was a painter of vibrant landscapes – who “sought out wild places” – and flowerscapes of swift, sparring brushwork. Over many decades he painted in remote areas in Scotland, Wales, Devon, France, Greece and New Zealand, in often challenging weather conditions. I interviewed Leslie a number of times in recent years, and write about his art.Leslie was born in Durham to Amelia (nee Thompson), a pioneering early motorist, and Col John Marr,
  
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• When An Actor Agrees To Take A Subject’s Secrets To The Grave

  23-05-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actor Diego Boneta could only play famously secretive musician Luis Miguel for Netflix after studying the musician for years – and hiring both an acting and a vocal coach to help him sound, and seem, more like Miguel. But he needed something else: Time with Miguel himself. Boneta says, “He shared some things that he asked me to not share with anyone else, not even the writers. … ‘This is just for you Diego, to help you.’ We shared that secret. It created a complic
  
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• Librarian Ruth Freitag, Who Helped Isaac Asimov And Carl Sagan With Research, 96

  23-05-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Freitag, “a reference librarian at the Library of Congress for nearly a half-century, was unknown to the general public. But she was, in more ways than one, a librarian to the stars. Known for her encyclopedic knowledge of resources in science and technology, Ms. Freitag was sought out by the leading interpreters of the galaxy. She developed a particular expertise in astronomy early in her career.” – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Kennedy Center Honors Are A Breath Of Fresh Air

  23-05-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The five honorees said that the six-month delay, and the loss of so many performance opportunities and spaces during the pandemic, made this weeklong celebration even more important. Midori: “This is a blessing, but this is also encouragement, and a motivation for me to be able to continue to connect with others, and to collaborate and to anticipate a new world and a new normal.”– Washington Post
  
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• Mary Beth Edelson obituary

  23-05-2021 17:06
  
  American artist and campaigner at the forefront of the feminist art movementOn a boiling hot morning in June 1984, hundreds of women converged on the Museum of Modern Art in New York to protest. MoMA was holding a huge exhibition of recent art and of the 165 artists showing, only 14 were women. The crowd chanted “You don’t have to have a penis to be a genius” and wore suffragette sashes. Among them was the artist Mary Beth Edelson. By that point Edelson, who has died aged 88, h
  
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• How Jane Rogers Took On Britain’s Very Male Literary Establishment In The 80s

  23-05-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rogers: “When I started work on Mr Wroe’s Virgins I was 35. I was wildly ambitious, and had a chip on my shoulder. Faber had published my first three novels and all had found critical favour. But I was broke and my sales were poor, and I was spiky about the literary world.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Please Stop The Streaming Wars

  23-05-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may be time to just quit everything. “My eyeballs are considering taking themselves off the market entirely. They’re sick of being courted, coaxed and, frankly, pressured into choosing this streaming service over that one, trying to keep up with all the glitzy platforms while not ignoring the quieter but equally worthy requests coming from those who may not be able to afford the lavish campaigns.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How Colonial Williamsburg Is Producing Progressive Theatre

  23-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The truth is, enslaved people formed the majority of the town’s population at the time depicted at the site. New interpreters and an urgency to depict something closer to the truth of the history pervades the actors and administrators now. And so: “The instruction has gone out lately to all of Colonial Williamsburg’s dozens of actor-interpreters that the city’s slaveholding past is to figure in every tour and talk.” – Washington Post
  
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• Group think: why art loves a crowd

  23-05-2021 14:00
  
  From flâneurs to rallies, protests to parties, human beings are drawn to congregate. With social gatherings a possibility once again, Olivia Laing considers the crowd in art and literatureWhen I was very lonely in New York, one of the things that most comforted me was to wander up Broadway or along the East River, alone but in the company of thousands of strangers. Anonymised by the multitude, I felt the burden of my sorrow slide off me. It was a relief to be part of a whole, no longer ago
  
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