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• Jennifer Packer Talks About How Painting Works

  16-06-2021 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’ve never seen a painting that looked real, but I’ve seen paintings that felt real. – Cultured Magazine
  
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• Rethinking “Lord Of The Flies”

  16-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Responses to Golding’s work tend to be polarised, varying from the adulatory to the contemptuous. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Of Course Networks Are Sexy Right Now. But You, Yourself, Are Not A Network

  16-06-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The network idea is so powerful in our connected world, that it’s tempting to apply it to everything. But not to us… – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why This SF Symphony Cellist Is Eager To Perform In-Person Again

  16-06-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether you’re singing along with “Messiah” or rocking with Metallica, the common auditory input of the rhythm and melody, plus the visual input of musicians and conductor, causes our brains to “entrain” or synchronize to this shared sensory awareness. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Mapping Canada’s Indigenous Culture and Language

  16-06-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The online, interactive map divides the province up into Indigenous territories, including some areas where there is overlap, with sections featuring language, art and culture. – CBC
  
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• ‘A Star Is Born’: The History Of The Asterisk

  16-06-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The little mark’s use in texts goes back at least to Aristarchus, the second-century BC compiler and editor of Homer’s epics; it continued through the Middle Ages, the birth of printing, the mass market for books, and the advent of text messaging. And it meant something different in each of those times; these days, it seems to serve at least three separate purposes. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• What Was Said

  16-06-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  In May and June the Community Engagement Network hosted Conversations addressing the topic Benchmarking Equity. While we did not take the advisability of benchmarking as a given, the premise of the discussions was that without some form of accountability, statements committing to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion can easily be as toothless as “thoughts and prayers” about gun violence. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Big Thinker Edward de Bono, 88

  16-06-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Through his 60-plus books, including The Mechanism of Mind (1969), Six Thinking Hats (1985), How to Have A Beautiful Mind (2004) and Think! Before It’s Too Late (2009), as well as seminars, training courses and a BBC television series, De Bono sought to free us from the tyranny of logic through creative thinking. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Choking On Sanctimony And Lacking In Compassion’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Slams Social Media’s Social Justice Warriors

  16-06-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.” – The Guardian
  
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• New Study: What Accounts For The Lack Of Women In Jazz?

  16-06-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among audiences, the government survey data showed that more men than women report attending jazz concerts, and that the gap is larger for jazz than for rock. – The Conversation
  
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• ‘Midcentury Modern’ Was A Thing In American Classical Music, Too

  16-06-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Composers from that same time period, say, the ’30s to the ’60s — the likes of Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Elliott Carter, George Perle, Harold Shapero, Roger Sessions, and others neglected for decades by America’s musical institutions — have been experiencing an uptick in interest of late, particularly at summer festivals and in recording projects.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• ‘We’re working towards Afrofuturism’: inside a radical new NFT exhibition

  16-06-2021 19:03
  
  The world’s first physical gallery for NFTs is hosting a new exhibition, curated by a 17-year-old artist, centered on Black creativity and liberation“The past four years felt so horrible. I think it all crashed down on me at that moment,” remembers Diana Sinclair, recalling how she cried before the media announced the results of the 2020 election. Sinclair, who describes themselves (they/she) as a 17-year-old Black queer woman, says the action was unlike them, so much so it was
  
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• Rem Koolhaas And Patrick Doan Re-imagine Maps Of Europe

  16-06-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  National boundaries, it would seem, hold very little meaning at all. The squiggles hint at other political geographies, from the deeper past or some unimaginable future.– European Review of Books
  
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• Running A Theatre From The Kitchen Table During A Pandemic

  16-06-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Marissa Wolf was midway into her first full season as artistic director at Portland Center Stage and had just opened The Curious Incident of The Dog In the Night-time in March of 2020. – The New York Times
  
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• MacKenzie Scott Gives Tens Of Millions To Arts Organizations

  16-06-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The lack of fanfare associated with the June 15 announcement, which came in the form of a simple Medium post rather than a costly PR blitz, was part of the point, according to Scott. – Artnet
  
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• For First Time, Indigenous Australian Choreographer Will Lead Non-Indigenous Dance Company

  16-06-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Daniel Riley, who comes from the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales, spent 12 years dancing with and choreographing for Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s (and possibly the world’s) most prominent indigenous dance company. At the beginning of 2022, he starts work as artistic director of the company’s oldest contemporary dance troupe, the Adelaide-based Australian Dance Theatre. – ABC (Australia)
  
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• Tensions Seethe Inside America’s Biggest Public Radio Station

  16-06-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Employees at [WNYC] are terrified that criticizing their station’s leadership could result in being singled out for layoffs and reprimands by human resources.” Employees express particular concern about editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper, hired away from The San Francisco Chronicle one year ago this month. Says one staffer, “I can’t remember a time when newsroom morale has been lower.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• Looted artefacts withdrawn from UK auction after Ethiopia’s appeal

  16-06-2021 16:05
  
  Ethiopian government asked auction house to ‘stop cycle of dispossession’Two artefacts that were taken during colonial-era looting by British forces in Ethiopia have been withdrawn from auction after the Ethiopian government appealed to an auction house selling them to “stop the cycle of dispossession”.Busby auctioneers in Bridport, Dorset, has withdrawn a leather-bound Coptic bible and a set of horn beakers from a sale on 17 June after the Ethiopian embassy in London dis
  
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• How Many Streaming Services Can One Person Be Expected To Pay For? We’re Starting To Find That Out

  16-06-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The average number of video streaming services utilized per U.S. user has fallen for the first time, according to technology research firm Omdia. … ‘In the past, many have posited an ultimate limit to the number of services a consumer will be able to manage,’ Omdia highlighted. ‘With U.S. growth stumbling, many will be asking if seven is the new ceiling for video streaming video services (pay and free).'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Marin Alsop Is Proud Of Her Baltimore Symphony Tenure — And Frustrated, Too

  16-06-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If I had it to do all over again, I would not have tried so hard to move the BSO out of the Ivory Tower. Sometimes you have to say, ‘OK, this is not where people want to go. Try to enjoy the orchestra and community as much as you can.’ … I didn’t have problems with any one individual. It’s more about an ethos and a philosophy of how you want to exist in a community. I had pushed as hard as I could push.” – The Baltimore Sun
  
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• Madrid’s Reina Sofía examines Latin America’s artistic boom

  16-06-2021 06:00
  
  Dangling artist, dead dog and lovingly tangled mattress help convey volatile past in new showThe black and white photograph of a dead dog, taken in Lima in 1989, that now hangs on the immaculate walls of the Reina Sofía in Madrid seems to have little in common with the Caetano Veloso album covers also on display or, come to that, with the image of a young Chilean artist suspended by his feet alongside a map of his homeland.But they – and the 100 or so other works that make up the mu
  
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• ‘Extraordinary experimentation’: Madrid’s Reina Sofía celebrates Latin America’s artistic boom

  16-06-2021 06:00
  
  Dangling artist, dead dog and lovingly tangled mattress help convey volatile past in new showThe black and white photograph of a dead dog, taken in Lima in 1989, that now hangs on the immaculate walls of the Reina Sofía in Madrid seems to have little in common with the Caetano Veloso album covers also on display or, come to that, with the image of a young Chilean artist suspended by his feet alongside a map of his homeland.But they – and the 100 or so other works that make up the mu
  
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