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• Will The Chinese Government Strip Hong Kong Of Its Colonial Markers?

  18-06-2021 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ultimately, one wonders what item of Hong Kong’s colonial baggage the next publicity-seeker will attempt to steal away. – The Critic
  
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• Anthony Braxton: Still Pushing At The Edges Of Jazz

  18-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A conversation with him can easily pinball from contemporary politics to ancient Egypt. But what he’s most eager to talk about now is ZIM Music — his latest structural model in a lifelong pursuit to locate clarity within chaos.” – NPR
  
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• Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas Speak Up

  18-06-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Life as a pioneer, life in a pandemic: They have been friends for over half a century, and have held each other up through far harder times than this last disorienting year. – The New York Times
  
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• Is “Improving” Your Personality A Thing?

  18-06-2021 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Maybe we should all try to become more compassionate or honest or forgiving, but there’s no comparable moral demand for shy people to become extraverted, or for excitable people to be more placid. – Psyche
  
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• Mimicking Clubhouse, Spotify Adds Live Audio Chat Function

  18-06-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Greenroom app lets any user host or participate in live rooms, as well as record live conversations. – Variety
  
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• Naples, Florida Tries And Tries, But Just Can’t Settle On Arts Policy And Funding

  18-06-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Hours devoted to discussing, refining, retooling and rejecting arts policies for Collier County over the last 10 years: Roughly 500 Committee meetings, public forums and legislative sessions that included discussion of creating arts policy here.– Naples Daily News
  
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• Two Members Of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Quit, Slamming Inaction

  18-06-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There has been no contrition, no humility, little recognition of our faults, no inspiring leadership. We do not wish to be associated with a group, ostensibly dedicated to honest journalism and free speech, that relies on consultants and lawyers to speak for them in vague, legalistic terms.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Actors’ Equity And Producers Settle On COVID Safety Rules For Broadway Tours

  18-06-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The 17-page agreement says that producers must require all members of the traveling company to be fully vaccinated and mandates free weekly virus tests. Also: ‘absolutely no interaction’ will be permitted between performers and audience members.” – The New York Times
  
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• Edinburgh Festivals Warn Of Bankruptcy If COVID Rules Aren’t Changed

  18-06-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Our festivals, and creatives across the sector, are effectively prohibited from trading our way through to recovery, while hospitality and sports are being supported to do so to the maximum safe extent.” – The Stage
  
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• Using Dance To Heal Rape Survivors In Congo

  18-06-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘I started doing this because of the girls who came to us in a state of silence. They were raped at a young age and they didn’t know how to express themselves. They were so withdrawn,’ said [dance teacher Amina] Lusambo. Now the same women line up in brightly coloured leggings for her classes, where they learn to reconnect with their bodies. ‘You can do more in one month of dance than in three months of psychotherapy,’ Lusambo said.” – Reuters
  
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• UK Libraries To Save Irreplaceable Collection Up For Auction

  18-06-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost entirely inaccessible since 1939, the library was put together by Victorian industrialists William and Alfred Law at the turn of the 20th century, and is a literary treasure trove that had experts dancing with excitement. – The Guardian
  
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• Walk on the wild side: Madge Gill brings flashes of colour to a landscape of grey

  18-06-2021 18:08
  
  The painter, who survived tragedy by throwing herself into art, has been honoured with a dazzling trail through east London – full of walls, bridges and underpasses adorned with her thrilling worksAll is grey today at Cody Dock. The Lea – London’s second river, which snakes its way through the east of the city – is a greenish grey. Its banks are a muddy grey. The vast sky is a cotton wool grey. And the high-rises on the distant horizon are a bluey grey.So the reds, yellow
  
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• Massive New National Museum Of Norway, Home Of ‘The Scream’, Has Opening Date

  18-06-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Initially slated to debut in 2020, the museum in Oslo — officially called the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design — will now open on June 11, 2022. The [complex], which has been in the works for seven years, brings the collections of three of Norway’s most important art institutions — the former Kunstindustrimuseet, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Gallery — under one roof.” Here’s a first look inside the building, des
  
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• What Is “Internet Literature”?

  18-06-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The way Internet Literature treats its relationship to the world—and the anxiety of that treatment—is what distinguishes it as a form, and that goes straight to the heart of what distinguishes the Internet itself as a technology: the link. – LitHub
  
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• Art For The Nose: In Paris, An Exhibition Of ‘Olfactory Sculptures’

  18-06-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We have art for the eyes and music for the ears, but what about about creative stimuli for our sense of smell? A new show at Phillips auction house in Paris is addressing this question through a new show of olfactory sculptures by six artists, including Joana Vasconcelos and Adel Abdessemed, which incorporate uniquely created fragrances by perfumers.” – Artnet
  
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• McGraw-Hill Sold By One Private Equity Firm To Another At 88% Profit

  18-06-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eight years after it bought McGraw-Hill Education for $2.4 billion, Apollo Global Management has reached an agreement to sell the company to another private equity firm, Platinum Equity, for $4.5 billion. The proposed purchase comes about a year after MH and Cengage called off their merger following opposition from the Justice Department.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• NPR Gets Fourth Regional News Hub, This One For Midwest

  18-06-2021 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thanks to a $4.7 milion grant from former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, the newsroom will be based at KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, and will also include as partners St. Louis Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, and Nebraska Public Media. The other three regional hubs are in California, Texas, and the Gulf States (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama). – Inside Radio
  
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• Fluid bodies, decadent fables and a rescue for Gormley’s iron army – the week in art

  18-06-2021 16:00
  
  Christina Quarles entwines broken bodies, Helen Frankenthaler is like a ticket to New York and Barbara Hepworth searches for secret music – all in your weekly dispatchChristina Quarles: In Likeness
  Paintings of furiously entwined, fragmentary, fluid bodies by this hot American artist.
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• Cincinnati Symphony Music Director Louis Langrée To Step Down In 2024

  18-06-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s difficult because I am very happy here. And this orchestra has made me a better conductor. But I can’t just think of myself. I also have to think of the orchestra and its future. I’m convinced that when things are calmer at the end of this pandemic, it will be the time for the orchestra to open a new chapter of its history, which means a new direction and a new face.” – The Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• ‘Like a Rothko dancing wildly to jazz’ – Helen Frankenthaler review

  18-06-2021 15:14
  
  Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London
  She invented staggering new ways to paint, but it was the men who followed her who got all the credit. Now this towering figure is finally getting her dueYou generally have to go to New York to do abstract expressionism properly. For a moment, among Helen Frankenthaler’s very, very big paintings, I thought I was there among the skyscrapers, until I looked out of the window and saw some blokes sweating outside a Georgian sandwich shop.Forgetting the everyday
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra To Consolidate With Kimmel Center Under New Organization

  18-06-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Philadelphia Orchestra president and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky will become leader of the new parent company upon finalization of the deal, and Kimmel president and CEO Anne Ewers” — who initiated and championed the deal — “will retire. … While pressures brought on by the pandemic sparked talks toward the move, the benefits of the new structure are independent from the pandemic shutdown and abrupt disappearance of ticket revenue, leaders say.” &nda
  
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• New Yorker Union Members And Condé Nast Agree On Contract

  18-06-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After a protracted battle that nearly led to a workers strike, the staffers at three Condé Nast publications — The New Yorker, Ars Technica and Pitchfork — have come to an agreement on their first union contracts. … In the end, the unions got what they wanted. They secured salary floors of $55,000 a year upon the contracts’ ratification and an increase to $60,000 by 2023. There will be guaranteed annual raises of 2% to 2.5% and all units have organized com
  
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• Journalist Janet Malcolm, 86

  18-06-2021 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A longtime New Yorker staff writer and the author of several books, the Prague native practiced a kind of post-modern style in which she often called attention to her own role in the narrative, questioning whether even the most conscientious observer could be trusted.” – AP
  
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• Seattle Art Museum To Ditch “Greatest Hits” Narrative To Be More Inclusive

  18-06-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The way the [American] galleries are organised now is a greatest-hits presentation very much focused on masterworks” by white artists from the 1600s to 2000s, she notes, including oil paintings, works on paper, sculptures and the decorative arts. “It’s very traditional and focused on a march through history that is ahistorical.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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