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• Banksy Decides To Own — Files For Trademarks On His Work

  24-06-2021 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trademarks apply to the use of the images on a huge range of goods including posters, handbags, umbrellas, bedsheets, clothing, rugs and many more. – The Age (Melbourne)
  
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• Survey: Scots Ready To Attend Arts Events Again

  24-06-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The audience attitudes survey for national arts agency Creative Scotland has found that outdoor events currently have much more appeal to potential audiences than indoor entertainment. Nearly two thirds of Scots said they would be comfortable attending outdoor theatre, music or comedy shows. – The Scotsman
  
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• The Extraordinary Musician And Teacher You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

  24-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  I sat in on some of his lessons, and was mesmerized. What a mind! What profound, probing musicianship! And what a strange man… – Van
  
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• Reset: The Visual Artists’ Impact In Shaping Hip Hop Culture

  24-06-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jean-Michel Basquiat was part of a constellation of young graffiti artists who used New York City’s streets and subways as their canvases before going on to take both the art world and hip-hop culture by storm. – The New York Times
  
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• Once A Rarity, Broadway Will Have Seven Plays By Black Writers This Season

  24-06-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  These plays arrive at a time of intensified attention on racial inequity in many corners of society, including the theater industry. – The New York Times
  
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• Why We Should All Love Epigraphs

  24-06-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thomas Swick: “The epigraph page is like a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author with his or her beloved quotation from a great mind or celebrated scamp that perfectly reflects, or distills, the essence of what follows. … I am always disappointed when I don’t find one. It’s like looking at a man in a suit who’s not wearing a tie.” (Just as long as it’s not in Latin.) – Literary Hub
  
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• Biden’s Picks For Replacement Members On National Council On The Arts

  24-06-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Biden’s planned nominees for the National Council on the Arts are wildly diverse in their experiences and artistic disciplines. – NPR
  
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• Study: Virtual Concerts Are Here To Stay

  24-06-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of those who participated in a virtual event, 88% said they plan to do so again even when in-person gatherings return. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Judith Farr, Poet And Emily Dickinson Scholar, Dead At 85

  24-06-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A longtime professor at Georgetown University, [she] published two seminal academic books examining the place of art and nature in Dickinson’s poetry, The Passion of Emily Dickinson (1992) and The Gardens of Emily Dickinson (written with Louise Carter, 2004). Dr. Farr also ventured into the realm of fiction and poetry, penning an epistolary novel about Dickinson as well as a poetry collection of her own, What Lies Beyond (2019).” – MSN (Washington Post)
  
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• AI And The Mystery Of Consciousness

  24-06-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The collective confusion around the arrival of virtual beings, the horror mingled with wonder, is apparent right from the start. – LitHub
  
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• Taking Stock Of The Destruction At Dobson Pipe Organ Builders

  24-06-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The factory — where the organs of Verizon Hall at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York, Merton College Chapel in Oxford, and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles were built — burned to the ground last week. While scans of the company’s final design drawings still exist, completely lost are the instrument then under construction (destined for Sydney); all supplies, tools, and treated wood and metal for pipes; and all prelimin
  
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• ‘They thought we were terrorists’: meet Joe Rush, the world’s most outrageous outsider artist

  24-06-2021 16:39
  
  The punky master of mutoid art was once a pariah, thrown out of Britain for his anarchist ways. Now, he’s the king of Glasto and a national treasure. Joe Rush relives 40 years of sticking it to the ‘straight world’“They thought we were terrorists,” says Joe Rush, remembering the day not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall when he and a fellow anarchist took over a patch of no man’s land at the heart of the German capital. They filled it with military hardwa
  
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• ‘They thought we were terrorists’: meet Joe Rush, the master of mutoid art and king of Glastonbury

  24-06-2021 16:39
  
  The punky master of outsider art was once a pariah, thrown out of Britain for his anarchist ways. Now, he’s a national treasure. Joe Rush relives 40 years of sticking it to the ‘straight world’“They thought we were terrorists,” says Joe Rush, remembering the day not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall when he and a fellow anarchist took over a patch of no man’s land at the heart of the German capital. They filled it with military hardware: tanks and artille
  
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• Fury Over Choice Of Bosses For Pompidou Center’s Brussels Branch

  24-06-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A jury made up of museum professionals selected Kasia Redzisz, a senior curator at Tate Liverpool, to be artistic director of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, the museum’s outpost in the Belgian capital. But the museum’s board partly overruled the jury’s decision, appointing as co-director Bernard Blistène, the jury’s runner-up and director of the Pompidou’s Paris flagship until the end of this month. (Senior cultural officials in France must retire after age 65; Blis
  
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• Eduardo Chillida review – sculptures that clutch at the air like a goalkeeper

  24-06-2021 16:21
  
  Hauser & Wirth Somerset
  The Basque sculptor was a former professional footballer – and that awareness of the space around him informed his cerebral yet intensely physical workA torso, a rounded head, one arm crossed and holding the shoulder, the other lifted, elbow raised, the hand gripping the back of the neck. The shapes are simplified and we might almost have seen any number of sculptures like this. Although it is called Yacente or Recumbent, Eduardo Chillida’s 1949 plaster, c
  
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• Restrictions On Movie Content In China And Hong Kong Put Hollywood In Difficult Position

  24-06-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As Hollywood faces a deteriorating relationship with China, it appears committed to keeping the flame alive even if that means going to humiliating lengths. … On June 11, Hong Kong authorities announced that any movie deemed ‘a threat to national security’ would henceforth be banned from distribution. … The policy, which mimics mainland rules that already have stifled the film industry in the country and abroad, is certain to affect Hollywood’s limited abi
  
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• More Details About Pretty Yende’s Detention At CDG Airport (She Was Not Strip-Searched)

  24-06-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Yende took to social media to share her experience, saying she was ‘stripped and searched like a criminal offender’ during the ordeal, which lasted more than two hours. While she was not asked to remove her clothes, she says, the police told her, without explanation, to take off her shoes and kept her in a cold, dark room. She suggested that she had been singled out because she is Black.” – The New York Times
  
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• NEA Expands Access To Millions In Pandemic Relief Funding

  24-06-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The National Endowment for the Arts announced Wednesday that it will make $80 million in pandemic relief available to more arts and cultural organizations, including first-time applicants and those that have never received support from the federal arts agency. The relief funds will also support local arts agencies that will distribute the federal dollars to grass-roots organizations in their communities.” – MSN (Washington Post)
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Venues Get Lifeline From Scottish Government

  24-06-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Scottish Government and the city council have joined forces to offer £1.3 million worth of support to leading venue operators to help offset the impact of possible restrictions and extra health measures. … The Fringe funding is aimed at helping to pay for the costs of creating temporary outdoor venues, which public health experts say are much less risky for major events.” – The Scotsman
  
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• Chief Of London’s Barbican Centre To Depart (Is This About The Racism Controversy?)

  24-06-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Nicholas Kenyon, the Barbican’s managing director for 14 years” — and, prior to that, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of the BBC Proms — “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 leaving in the autumn, adding that … he had been planning the move for some time.” – The
  
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• Julian Opie review – we need so much more from art than this empty irony

  24-06-2021 13:27
  
  Pitzhanger Manor, London
  Staged in Sir John Soane’s Ealing mansion, Opie’s brand of dot-eyed simplicity – epitomised here by a sterile model town showpiece – is stuck in the 90sA Julian Opie woman is striding towards the facade of Sir John Soane’s mansion in Ealing. This animated, larger-than-life figure in the forecourt is a flat sculpture for the digital age, flickering in white lines on a black screen mounted on a plinth. If you don’t know what I mean by a
  
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• Vulva decor: is Cara Delevingne’s vagina tunnel the start of something big?

  24-06-2021 12:11
  
  The model and actor has a new household installation - a pink tunnel where she goes to think. Vulval art and design has an ancient history, but it’s becoming more popular than everShould you swap all your doors for a vagina tunnel? This is the pressing question raised by a video tour from the model and actor Cara Delevingne, who takes Architectural Digest around her LA home, and I believe the answer has to be “yes”. In her living room, a secret door in the mirrored panelling re
  
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• Call the copse! The sudden flourishing of culture about trees

  24-06-2021 07:00
  
  From a fake forest in central London to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard told from the orchard’s point of view, writers, directors and artists are exploring the roots of natureLet me tell you a story. Long, long ago, the Pelasgians, a people who lived in Thessaly, planted a forest grove in honour of Demeter – the goddess who breathes life into seeds, who makes young leaves unfurl, who unclenches the grip of winter, who taught humans how to bind straw into sheaves. The forest was so den
  
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• How meme stars of the early internet are striking it rich with NFTs - podcast

  24-06-2021 04:00
  
  The growth of non-fungible tokens has given rise to massive windfalls for those behind early virals. Sirin Kale and Alex Hern explain allOn 28 May 2016 the photographer Jeff McCurry was taking pictures of a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla called Harambe in Cincinnati zoo when a child entered the enclosure. The zookeepers reacted by shooting the gorilla dead. The child was unhurt. What was a local story suddenly became a global phenomenon due to the combination of social media and McCurry&rsq
  
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