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• The 1990s Magazine That Showed, And Gripped, Lesbian Mecca San Francisco

  28-05-2021 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Curve began its life as Deneuve, a lesbian magazine founded by a 23-year-old who gambled all her money on horse races, won, and used the proceeds to start the mag. There’s a new movie documenting its evolution, and how different things might be in 2021. Franco Stevens: “Once I came back from the Book Fair in Chicago, walked into my office, and there was a stack of Polaroids on my desk. Apparently, there was a ‘leather day’ at the office when I was gone, and they were all
  
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• Restarting The New York Phil, In A Cemetery

  28-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Justin Davidson, on the NY Phil’s Green-Wood Cemetery “Death of Classical” concert: “That might not seem like the obvious location to stage the revival of performance culture, but when Green-Wood opened in 1838, it was intended to be one of New York’s grandest, most verdant, and most romantic public parks. (Today, its permanent residents include the orchestra’s late music director Leonard Bernstein.)” And for the musicians who will take part, they will
  
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• It’s Time To Abolish Museums

  28-05-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does that sound hyperbolic? It is, a bit. It’s time to abolish what musuems have been in order to see what they can be, how we can be. “Museums exert control over how we vision ourselves, past, present and future. They are the time loops that hold and hoard the works of art that can help us chart a course towards collective liberation. Through maintaining control of a broad swath of artworks and artifacts the museum maintains control of the tools that we use to tell stories about ou
  
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• Prizewinning Composer Sara Glojnaric Talks About How Music And Identity Intersect

  28-05-2021 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sara Glojnarić, who won Berlin’s “Neue Szenen” competition last year, explains that being a woman, being queer, and working against racism all intersect in her work, and she believes others’ identities are reflected in their work as well. When she was in school at Stuttgart, she says, “our professor, Martin Schüttler, encouraged us to engage with that, to work with our identities in our music. He made it clear that we mustn’t run away from who we ar
  
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• Humans Might Not Be Cut Out For Universal Morality

  28-05-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are there biological or other scientific causes for our moral beliefs? If so, how does that affect our moral beliefs and choices? It’s a bit complex: “Our evolutionary conditioning might have made it impossible for us to acquire knowledge of objective moral truths, even if they exist. The other is that our evolved psychology might make it impossible in any case for us to live according to objective moral standards.” – Nautilus
  
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• John Steinbeck Really Did Write A Werewolf Novel. No Way His Estate Is Letting You See It.

  28-05-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The manuscript, Murder at Full Moon, was completed in 1930 but was never published. A single copy has been sitting, mostly forgotten, in an archive in Texas since 1969. It includes drawings by Steinbeck himself. A scholar of American literature at Stanford University is pushing for the book to be published, but the agents for Steinbeck’s estate vehemently refused this week.” – The New York Times
  
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• Blindsiding Movie Talent With Streaming Is Probably The New Normal

  28-05-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gotta keep those subscriber numbers up with direct to streaming movies! But … how do agents, producers, directors, and actors feel about this? It’s not ideal right now: “Talent typically has little leverage should a studio decide to put a title onto a streaming service, sources say. It did not readily occur to either agents or studios that contracts for projects releasing in 2021 — drawn two to three years ago, before some of the major services had launched — woul
  
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• How Biden’s New, De-Trumpified Commission Of Fine Arts Could Make A Real Difference

  28-05-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Philip Kennicott: “The new members aren’t just visionaries with a firm command of inspiring rhetoric; they know how to read a plan, look at a model, scrutinize a drawing and make precise comments about the small questions of design, materials, spacing, proportion and light. … Rather than simply assess the impact and design of selected federal projects, most of them in the District, the CFA could become a clearinghouse for progressive design thinking throughout the federal gov
  
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• France Reveres Roland Petit. Why Doesn’t It Perform His Ballets More Often?

  28-05-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Even in Petit’s home country, his works haven’t been staged with great regularity. Nor do companies seem especially interested in resuscitating any of the dozens of full-length works or shorter ballets he created over the course of a long career. It’s a curious schism: Despite the relative obscurity of much of Petit’s work, he remains much-revered in France, where he is still described as a great choreographer who is pivotal to a French ballet heritage.” &nd
  
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• Musicians Don’t Make Good Money From Streaming, But Is That Spotify’s Fault?

  28-05-2021 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The amount of money people are spending on music hasn’t changed from when we bought albums at the record store or CDs by Sony subscription service – but the way musicians get the money, and how much money they get, is radically different. “When we talk about per stream rates, what we’re doing is sort of smushing all of this data together and dividing it up and looking at averages and trying to work out basically where they are. When you do that with Spotify, you come out
  
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• Charles Larson, Who Established Study Of African Literature In U.S. Academia, Dead At 83

  28-05-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As a professor at American University in Washington, where he joined the faculty in 1970, Dr. Larson taught some of the first classes offered to U.S. students on African writers. At a time when the literary canon consisted almost entirely of works by British and American authors, he helped secure a place in American academia for writers including [Chinua] Achebe and Wole Soyinka.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Inside TikTok’s New Incubator For Black Creators

  28-05-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The app – long derided both for squelching LGBTQIA voices and exploiting Black creators – reacted to the George Floyd protests by starting an incubator for Black voices. How’s it working now? “Program members bonded. … They shared legal advice, sample media kits, tips on talking to potential agents or collaboration partners and the stresses of turning a hobby into a career.” And, TikTok says, the program will likely be expanded. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe’s Bumpy Return To Work

  28-05-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not only are audience members (at a quarter of pre-COVID capacity) required to stay six feet from each other, so are all the actors and crew. That’s presenting quite a traffic management puzzle for director Sean Homes as he restages his 2019 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Elizabethan theatre’s reopening. – The New York Times
  
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• Lancashire artist to pay 150 people to howl in memory of last wolf in England

  28-05-2021 16:38
  
  Jamie Holman will film mass howl at Preston bus station to symbolise end of wildness in EnglandThe Lancashire artist Jamie Holman is paying 150 people £10 each to howl in unison as part of his upcoming exhibition, a memorial to the last wolf killed in England.Holman put out the call for participants on his Twitter account last month, asking people to join him at Preston bus station on Sunday 30 May to “contribute to a piece of art”. Holman says the performance will run from 2-4
  
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• ‘It’s about being a pack again’: Lancashire artist organises mass howl in memory of last wild wolf

  28-05-2021 16:38
  
  Jamie Holman will film mass howl at Preston bus station to symbolise end of wildness in EnglandThe Lancashire artist Jamie Holman is paying 150 people £10 each to howl in unison as part of his upcoming exhibition, a memorial to the last wolf killed in England.Holman put out the call for participants on his Twitter account last month, asking people to join him at Preston bus station on Sunday 30 May to “contribute to a piece of art”. Holman says the performance will run from 2-4
  
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• ‘It’s about being a pack again’: artist to pay people £10 to howl like wolves at Preston bus station

  28-05-2021 16:38
  
  Jamie Holman will film 150 people howling at Preston bus station to symbolise end of wildness in EnglandThe Lancashire artist Jamie Holman is paying 150 people £10 each to howl in unison as part of his upcoming exhibition, a memorial to the last wolf killed in England.Holman put out the call for participants on his Twitter account last month, asking people to join him at Preston bus station on Sunday 30 May to “contribute to a piece of art”. Holman says the performance will run
  
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• Fear Of Deepfakes May Be Causing More Problems Than Deepfakes Themselves Are

  28-05-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Simon V.Z. Wood: “Searching for evidence that bad actors were weaponizing artificial intelligence for political gain, what I found instead was an emerging field of detection firms, government grantees, startups, academics, artists, and nonprofits that seemed to depend on one another to sustain interest in deepfakes. Call it the deepfake-industrial complex — or, perhaps, a solution in search of a problem. … The winners in this ecosystem of constant possible delusion are the pe
  
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• Okay, Public Radio: ‘Our Culture Of Host Hero Worship Creates Monsters, And It Is Long Past Time To Break This Cycle’

  28-05-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the wake of Bob Garfield’s firing from On the Media for what he’s described as “anger mismanagement,” Celeste Headlee — who endured mistreatment on and off the air as co-host of The Takeaway with the now-disgraced John Hockenberry — writes, “There is no such thing as a host who is ‘too big to fail.’ Executives in the past have made a devil’s bargain, [sacrificing] psychological safety and well-being for the majority for the comfort
  
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• After Investigation, Embattled Head Of Americans For The Arts Departs Permanently

  28-05-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Robert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive of the Washington-based advocacy organization Americans for the Arts who had been on paid leave since December amid workplace complaints, has agreed to retire effective immediately, the organization’s board announced Thursday.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sexual Abuse In El Sistema, Long Rumored, Is Now Being Brought To Light

  28-05-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Facebook post in late April from an alumna of Venezuela’s famous system of free musical education “has since sparked a collective portrait of teenage girls in El Sistema being systematically groomed by older male teachers, with coercive innuendos and propositions as everyday occurrences.” Said one former student of her oboe teacher, “His methods rested on an uplifting discourse of art, passion and intellect. According to him, I had to let myself be carried away by sexu
  
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• Plunder of Pompeii: how art police turned tide on tomb raiders

  28-05-2021 15:00
  
  Looters have plundered Italy’s cultural sites for years, but a crackdown by art police means recent trade has not been as fruitfulBy day, the tombaroli, or tomb raiders, marked out the spot. They used long, pointed tools to pierce the earth , beneath which there was a passage that would take them to Roman homes replete with treasure in Civita Giuliana, a suburb of ancient Pompeii, about 700 metres north-west of the main archaeological park.By night, they dug a network of tunnels. Each was
  
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• Hermitage Museum Satellite In Barcelona Gets Go-Ahead

  28-05-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The [St. Petersburg landmark’s] long-awaited Barcelona branch has finally been given the green light for development. The port of Barcelona’s board of directors announced on Thursday that a proposal for the Hermitage Barcelona was approved, despite considerable resistance from the city authorities. The building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Toyo Ito, is slated to open in 2024.” – ARTnews
  
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• Millions Lost: Australian Ballet Hit Harder By Pandemic Than Most Of Country’s Large Arts Orgs

  28-05-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Australian Ballet forfeited $32 million [Aus] in ticket revenue [and posted $2.4 million in operating losses] for 2020, a pandemic blow that it has only survived thanks to an outpouring of community and government support, plus a decision to raid its reserves and sell off investments. … It bucks the trend of many other major arts organisations including Victorian Opera, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra which chalked up pandemic profits on the back of
  
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• Ai-Da the robot painters, Iranian epics and a gaze at God – the week in art

  28-05-2021 14:06
  
  An uncanny robot gets creative, Iran presents 5,000 years of culture, a Polish chronicle makes his debut, and someone puts a rocket on the fourth plinth – all in your weekly dispatchAi-Da: Portrait of the RobotEnter the uncanny valley with this realistic humanoid robot who can draw “herself”. Is that art? So what is art? Plenty to think about. Read more.
  Design Museum, London until 29 AugustContinue reading...
  
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• Ai-Da the robot painter, Iranian epics and a gaze at God – the week in art

  28-05-2021 14:06
  
  An uncanny robot gets creative, Iran presents 5,000 years of culture, a Polish chronicle makes his debut, and someone puts a rocket on the fourth plinth – all in your weekly dispatchAi-Da: Portrait of the RobotEnter the uncanny valley with this realistic humanoid robot who can draw “herself”. Is that art? So what is art? Plenty to think about. Read more.
  Design Museum, London until 29 AugustContinue reading...
  
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• How Economics Lost Its Imagination

  28-05-2021 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s the dirty little secret that few of my fellow economics professors will admit: As those “perfect” research papers have grown longer, they have also become less relevant. Fewer people — including academics — read them carefully or are influenced by them when it comes to policy. – Bloomberg
  
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