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• Summer UK Music Festivals Beginning To Cancel For Lack Of Insurance

  23-06-2021 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A government-backed insurance scheme, or a lack of it, has become a make-or-break factor for festival organisers who are deciding whether to continue with this year’s events or pull the plug to avoid huge financial losses. – The Guardian
  
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• AI Used To Restore Rembrandt’s “Night Watchman”

  23-06-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is wonderful to be able to now see with our own eyes The Night Watch as Rembrandt intended it to be seen.” – BBC
  
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• After 25 Years Victoria Morgan Steps Down As Director Of Cincinnati Ballet

  23-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  To right the organization’s financial ship she had to make tough choices early on—the first task the company’s executive committee gave her was to release a third of the company’s dancers. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• A History Of America As Told Through Its Self-Help Books

  23-06-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  These “secular bibles” (the Bible is not one of them) are “books for daily life that ostensibly taught readers one subject, all while subtly instructing them about their role in society and their responsibilities to family and to country.” – The New York Times
  
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• Battle Of The Book Blurbs

  23-06-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one would dispute that a good blurb has crucial functions. – Prospect
  
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• Can LA Design Its Way Out Of A Housing Crisis?

  23-06-2021 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  During the second half of the last century and the beginning of this one, Los Angeles County fell a million homes behind, relative to its population growth, after becoming a single-family mecca. – The New York Times
  
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• When ‘Rent’ Came To Cuba

  23-06-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Andy Señor, Jr., a Cuban-American actor and director who played the role of Angel on Broadway and helmed productions of the musical around the U.S. and overseas, talks about directing the show’s first-ever staging in Havana, which happened at a key point in American-Cuban relations. (audio) – Variety
  
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• Music As Care

  23-06-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music as Care by Sarah Adams Hoover is a book devoted to “arts in health.” The topic is light years from my area of expertise so I was surprised when Sarah asked me to take a look at it. I am extremely glad she did. – Doug Borwick
  
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• Quick Study: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Arts Education

  23-06-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  For this entry, I’m sharing the latest episode of the NEA’s research podcast (Quick Study). This month, we look at promising study results from Boston’s public schools, where arts education has been linked to better attendance and overall school engagement. – Sunil Iyengar
  
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• What’s So Difficult About The Color Violet?

  23-06-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for colour science – I examined 139,892 works of art, searching for violet.” – Psyche
  
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• Robert Quackenbush, Who Wrote Stories Of Detectives With Feathers Or Fur, Dead At 91

  23-06-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His stories about Miss Mallard, an inquisitive duck who solves crimes around the world in plots that resemble Agatha Christie capers, were adapted into an animated television series in 2000. He also conceived of sleuthing critters like Sheriff Sally Gopher and Sherlock Chick, who starts his investigations immediately after hatching from an egg (he emerges holding a magnifying glass). … For his work on Detective Mole, who wears a trench coat and houndstooth deerstalker hat, he rece
  
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• Reconciling With Cezanne

  23-06-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line and, often, patches of watercolor. – The New Yorker
  
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• AI helps return Rembrandt’s The Night Watch to original size

  23-06-2021 15:42
  
  Rijksmuseum reproduces Dutch master’s work in all its glory, 300 years after it was cut to fit between doorsThe Night Watch by Rembrandt has enraptured millions visiting Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and its previous homes over the centuries, dazzling with its scale and fine detail.But it is only from today, thanks to the use of artificial intelligence to recapture some of the Dutch master’s genius, including the sweep of his brush strokes and perspective of his eye, that it can for
  
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• Barbican boss to step down after ‘institutional racism’ row

  23-06-2021 14:34
  
  Barbican denies Sir Nicholas Kenyon’s departure was prompted by claims organisation was ‘insidiously’ racistSir Nicholas Kenyon, the Barbican’s managing director for 14 years, is to stand down in September with the move coming shortly after criticism from the organisation’s own staff that it was “institutionally racist”.In a statement Kenyon confirmed he would be moving aside in the autumn, adding that it had been an immense privilege to lead the Barbica
  
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• Royal Academy of Arts apologises to Jess de Wahls in transphobia row

  23-06-2021 12:01
  
  Artist’s work had been withdrawn fromgift shop over comments about sex and gender made in 2019The Royal Academy of Arts has apologised to Jess de Wahls after the textile artist’s work was withdrawn from its gift shop over comments she made about sex and gender in 2019.De Wahls creates intricate embroideries and, according to her official website, “tackles subjects as wide ranging as feminism, misogyny & fetishism combined with creative textile recycling in her prolific outp
  
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• Tim Berners-Lee defends auction of NFT representing web’s source code

  23-06-2021 08:00
  
  Creator of the world wide web says digital asset is ‘totally aligned with the values of the web’Tim Berners-Lee has defended his decision to auction an NFT (non-fungible token) representing the source code to the web, comparing the sale to an autographed book or a speaking tour.The creator of the world wide web announced his decision to create and sell the digital asset through Sotheby’s auction house last week. In the auction, which begins on Wednesday and will run for one wee
  
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