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• English City Experiments With Design In Public

  07-06-2021 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Set to open in autumn next year, and operate virtually, online until then, the £4.5m Farrell Centre will occupy a former 19th-century department store close to the university’s architecture school, on a prominent corner facing the civic centre. It is planned to host exhibitions, events, office space for startup companies working in the built environment, and, most importantly, a big scale model of the city where new proposals will be shown for all to scrutinise. – The Guardian
  
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• Princeton Drops Latin And Greek Requirements For Classics Study

  07-06-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The policy change at Princeton presumes the existence of various potential contributions that classics students knowing no Latin or Greek could have been making to classroom discussions before now. What are those contributions?” – The Atlantic
  
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• Music Stars Demand Streaming Music Regulation

  07-06-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  It argues that streaming via services such as Spotify and Apple Music be legislated more like radio. “The law has not kept up with the pace of technological change and, as a result, performers and songwriters do not enjoy the same protections as they do in radio,” the letter states. “Today’s musicians receive very little income from their performances – most featured artists receive tiny fractions of a US cent per stream and session musicians receive nothing at all
  
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• New York To Stage A Mega-Concert In August To Signal End Of The Pandemic

  07-06-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Seeking a grand symbol of New York’s revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple acts and has called on Clive Davis, the 89-year-old producer and music-industry eminence, to pull it together. – The New York Times
  
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• Howard Herring talks digital in the arts

  07-06-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The President and CEO of the New World Symphony discusses the impact of digital environments on our art and audiences. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• Why Are Non-Profit Endowments Under-performing The Markets?

  07-06-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Today, it’s possible to capture the average growth of the stock market through passive index funds, which if balanced with some government bonds, have realized 10% returns over the last 100 years. It’s hard to fathom why an endowment would spend so much time and money on actively managing its investments to do considerably worse than that. – Hyperallergic
  
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• ‘It took every cell in my body to the edge’: on Black tenderness in Australian art

  07-06-2021 19:30
  
  It takes a lot of strength to display vulnerability in a hostile world. Shantel Wetherall spoke to artists who are taking that riskOf the hundreds of works in the National Gallery of Victoria’s recent blockbuster Triennial, one piece stopped me in my tracks. Hannah Brontë’s immersive video work Eye Hear U Magik enveloped onlookers in a tender, ethereal story of women’s knowledge, passed down through generations.How brave it was for Brontë to refuse the opportunity to
  
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• Conceptualizing The Palestinian Museum

  07-06-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As part of the new programs strategy I developed in 2019, we reconceptualized our mission as providing emancipatory learning experiences about Palestine. A learning experience may be an exhibition, a virtual-reality simulation, a family open day, school visits, a young designer’s summer school, symposia, publications, concerts, a play. Learning experiences can also be aesthetic experiences, inasmuch as they affect perceptions, senses.” – ArtForum
  
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• Why Do We Take The Tyranny Of Time For Granted?

  07-06-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For most people, the last class they had devoted to clocks and time was early in primary school,” Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York who has been studying clocks for more than 30 years, told me recently. “There’s this thing that is central to our entire society, that’s built into all of our electronics. And we’re wandering around with an early primary school level of knowledge about it.” Noema Magazine
  
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• Amsterdam Is Falling Apart

  07-06-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Sinkholes are appearing in its small streets, and nearly half its 1,700 bridges are rickety and need repairs, frequently requiring trams to cross at a snail’s pace. As a huge project to shore up the canal walls gets underway, the city is beginning to look like one gigantic construction site.” The New York Times
  
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• Study: The Size Of Your Eyes’ Pupils Correlates With Intelligence

  07-06-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now work conducted in our laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that baseline pupil size is closely related to individual differences in intelligence. The larger the pupils, the higher the intelligence, as measured by tests of reasoning, attention and memory. – Scientific American
  
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• A Keith Haring Mural In Barcelona Is Under Threat

  07-06-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Haring painted the mural inside a nightclub in 1989. The nightclub turned into a billiards hall, and the mural was preserved, but now the building is slated for demolition. What should, what will, happen to the mural? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Cinque Gallery Gives Us Another Chapter Of Black Art History

  07-06-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cinque, founded by Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis in 1969, showed more than 450 artists of color during its 35-year existence. “The fact that Cinque sustained itself for more than three decades attests to an indisputable fact: the existence of at least two art communities, which were separated along color lines.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Author Naomi Wolf Spreads So Many Anti-Vaccine Myths That She’s Banned From Twitter

  07-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One might even call them all lies. “The author variously claimed that vaccines were a ‘software platform that can receive uploads’ and that ‘the best way to show respect for healthcare workers if you are healthy and under 65 is to socialise sensibly and expose yourself to a low viral load.’ In her most recent post, she argued that ‘vaccinated people’s urine/feces’ (sic) needed to be separated from general sewage supplies/waterways until its impact
  
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• A Choreographer Learns To Rest, To Improvise, And To Feel Joy

  07-06-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  During what we might call “the long 2020,” choreographer Kyle Marshall experienced quite a bit of change. “In this next step of his career, he said, he’s more focused and more comfortable making decisions. But the pandemic made also him realize something else: Just how exhausted he was.” Now he’s trying to be more intentional, working more carefully with his dancers and creating work that celebrates life and wonder. – The New York Times
  
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• The Moomintrolls’ Essence Came From Tove Jansson’s Island

  07-06-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Author and illustrator Jansson found her dream island when she was in her ’50s. “Klovharun in the Finnish archipelago is tiny – some 6,000 sq metres – and isolated, ‘a rock in the middle of nowhere,’ according to Jansson’s niece, Sophia. It has scarcely any foliage, no running water and no electricity. Yet for Jansson, it was an oasis. For 18 years she and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä spent long summers there, heading out from Helsinki as soon as t
  
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• The Creator Economy Owes A Lot To Gaming Site Twitch

  07-06-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Twitch entered the picture 10 years ago, most creators – writers, artists, makers, eaters of food on YouTube– weren’t yet earning money through digital patronage. That has changed, and dramatically. Co-founder Justin Kan says “he and his cofounders spent years ruminating on how to make people interact online and give each other money. Should they have a sidebar chatroom? (Yes.) Emotes? (Definitely.) Career potential? (Yes.) The end goal wasn’t live video; it w
  
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• Conductor And Soundmaker Yoshi Wada, Of Fluxus Art Collective, Has Died At 77

  07-06-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wada wrote and performed music that “was characterized by dense, sustained sounds that could create mind-bending acoustic effects. He borrowed widely from different musical traditions — Indian ragas, Macedonian folk singing and Scottish bagpipes — all while supporting his musical life by working in construction” – which meant that sometimes, tools of the trade (like plumbing pipes) became instruments. – The New York Times
  
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• The BAFTA TV Awards Didn’t Pick Faves This Year

  07-06-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You did win two awards – best mini-series and leading actress, which Coel dedicated to the production’s intimacy director: “Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process.” – Variety
  
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• Pose Showed How To Tell Great Trans Stories

  07-06-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The show, whose third season, and run, ended on Sunday night, was set at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the gay and trans subcultures in New York. And yet, it wasn’t about Capital-T Tragedy. – Slate
  
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• The Motion Picture Museum’s Timing Was Unlucky – And Very Lucky

  07-06-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s new L.A. museum was delayed, and delayed and delayed again – the last delay coming from the pandemic – that worked in its favor for staying up-to-date: “While the 300,000-square-foot, $482 million museum, designed by Renzo Piano, has been under construction, the movie business has been going through a process of deconstruction, brought about by seismic social movements like #OscarsSoWhite, #MeToo and Black
  
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• Jeanette Winterson Is Literally Burning Her Own Books

  07-06-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Happy Pride Month! Um: The author of the groundbreaking Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and many other experimental, daring works wrote on Twitter, ““Absolutely hated the cosy little domestic blurbs on my new covers. Turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind! Nothing playful or strange or the ahead of time stuff that’s in there. So I set them on fire.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Backdrops to a riot: JR on how his confrontational street art went global

  07-06-2021 13:53
  
  His portraits of his Paris neighbourhood summed up its residents’ anger. Now his subversive installations straddle borders, float on boats and envelop favelas. We speak to the elusive artist“I didn’t spend enough time in school for any of the teachers to remember me. The only role models I had were the guys in the neighbourhood doing graffiti,” reflects JR, on his journey from street-smart tagger to world-famous conceptual artist. “I guess what’s nice is now,
  
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• Backdrops to a riot: how JR’s confrontational street art went global

  07-06-2021 13:53
  
  His portraits of his Paris neighbourhood summed up its residents’ anger. Now his subversive installations straddle borders, float on boats and envelop favelas. We speak to the elusive artist“I didn’t spend enough time in school for any of the teachers to remember me. The only role models I had were the guys in the neighbourhood doing graffiti,” reflects JR, on his journey from street-smart tagger to world-famous conceptual artist. “I guess what’s nice is now,
  
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• How Academic Freedom Ends

  07-06-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just look to Hong Kong, where by the time a group of University of Hong Kong academics gathered in a town hall meeting in May. “The assembled faculty pressed [administrators] on whether HKU would provide legal assistance if they were arrested for allegedly violating the law while working, what to do if students reported professors on a government tip line, and what educators may be forced to teach.” There was no reassurance: “The marching orders to suppress freedoms are being
  
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• Publishing Is So Easy To Spoof

  07-06-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Or so says Zakiya Dalila Harris, the author of The Other Black Girl. The book is a combined thriller and social satire that was indeed inspired by Harris’ experiences. “Part of me enjoyed editing and I felt I was good at it, but it’s also an exhausting job for an entry-level person in terms of the pay. I was also one of the very few black people in the company – it wasn’t as bad as Nella in the book, but I was the only black woman in editorial in a full-time positi
  
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• Why ‘In The Heights’ Took So Long To Become A Movie

  07-06-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The movie has been in development since 2008. “The project stalled for many years between different directors and studios, because executives wanted more well-known Latino actors to star, such as Shakira or Jennifer Lopez. They also wanted more stereotypical storylines for the characters, such as pregnancies and gang violence.”But Hamilton changed all that. – NBC
  
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• Matters of life and death: Kneehigh theatre’s wild times – in pictures

  07-06-2021 01:01
  
  The award-winning Kneehigh theatre company has announced it is closing down. Revisit its past hits including Rapunzel, A Matter of Life and Death and The Tin Drum Continue reading...
  
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