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• No Surprise: How AI Is Choosing The Next Pop Stars

  28-06-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Musiio is just one of many hi-tech firms changing the way songs are categorised, playlisted and promoted, to eventually reach the ears of millions. They’re fast, efficient and get attention for unheard-of acts. – The Guardian
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Sleek New Gehry Makeover

  28-06-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Philip Kennicott: “The changes at the Philadelphia Museum are stunning”. – Washington Post
  
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• Greek police recover two stolen paintings by Picasso and Mondrian

  28-06-2021 21:58
  
  Works by the 20th century masters recovered nearly a decade after their theft from the country’s biggest state art gallery in AthensGreek police have recovered two paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian, nearly a decade after their theft from the country’s biggest state art gallery in Athens.A statement late Monday said the two works were in the hands of the police, but provided no detail on their condition and on whether any arrests had been made. Continue
  
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• Louis Menand Takes On O. Henry

  28-06-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In New York, he began producing at an astonishing rate. He contracted to write a story a week for the Sunday World, and he continued to write for magazines. In 1904 alone, he published sixty-six stories. – The New Yorker
  
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• Sudden Move: Oregon Ballet Theatre Ousts Artistic Director

  28-06-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I was informed on Wednesday of this week that the board has decided to go a different direction in the AD role and that my resignation was required by [the end of the day]. This was an unexpected development.” – Oregon Arts Watch
  
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• Inimitable

  28-06-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is my privilege to partner a new Myrios Classics CD: Mozart’s two most important four-hand piano sonatas, importantly performed by Kirill Gerstein and Ferenc Rados. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• In Praise Of The Meritocracy

  28-06-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meritocracy, for all its flaws, may well be, like the democracy it has sometimes served, better than the alternatives. At the very least, we should be cautious about consigning it to the dustbin of history too soon. – Literary Review
  
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• A Social History Of The Asterisk

  28-06-2021 19:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  By the eighteenth century the asterisk was being deployed as a sort of censorship, covering up letters to represent a d**n vulgar word without actually b**y spelling it out. But, as W. Somerset Maugham points out, this has become somewhat outmoded. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• The Basic Tensions Between Individualism And The Greater Good

  28-06-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do we want conflicting disconnected atoms or thriving autonomous individuals? And what role do culture and society have in their formation? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why Big Video Game Companies Keep Imploding

  28-06-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dysfunction is baked into the video game production process, as it currently exists. The big-budget games industry is dominated by a few large companies, the publishers. – The New Republic
  
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• Sonia Boyce review – kaleidoscopic collage that gets under your skin

  28-06-2021 17:32
  
  MIMA, Middlesbrough
  Eye-popping wallpaper trails across sculpture and space like Boyce’s touch in a layered exhibition whose warm embrace of other artists doesn’t always leave enough room for its headlinerOur skin holds us in, is protective but porous, commonplace yet entirely unique. The largest organ, it carries us through the world defining how we feel physically and how we are perceived socially. To exist day-to-day without thinking of it is a privilege afforded to those with the
  
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• Bridget Christie: Ritual Britain made me proud to be British

  28-06-2021 17:31
  
  Morris dancers, druids, the Burryman – they’re all in Ben Edge’s spellbinding collaboration with the Museum of British Folklore, showcasing customs that stretch back into the mists of timeI’m Bridget Christie, a comedian, but I don’t just see comedy. Last weekend I went to a spellbinding exhibition of British folk art called Ritual Britain, set perfectly in London’s atmospheric Crypt Gallery in the bowels of St Pancras New Church in London.Exploring and celebr
  
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• “Banksy: Genius Or Vandal” Raises Ire Of Banksy Fans

  28-06-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The exhibition will take over a “secret” location in L.A. to be disclosed to ticket holders in July. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Emmy Nomination Voters Shouldn’t Miss These Shows

  28-06-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences wants to avoid a Hollywood Foreign Press Association-style meltdown, it really has to prove itself with these nominations. NPR’s Eric Duggans offers some institution-saving suggestions for the voters – and for the rest of us. – NPR
  
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• Jon Hassell, Trumpeter And Composer, 84

  28-06-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hassell blended modern technology with ancient instruments and traditions to create what he called “Fourth World” music. “Hassell’s music floated outside the genre boundaries of classical music, electronica, ambient music or jazz. He described Fourth World as ‘a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques’ and, elsewhere, as ‘coffee-colored classical music of the future.'” &
  
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• The Art Of The Biden White House

  28-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Obamas borrowed 142 pieces from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art, the other recent occupants 12. The Bidens haven’t started borrowing yet – but it will happen, and curators think they know what the couple will want. “Even as they embrace the Obamas’ modern and contemporary inclinations, the Bidens’ time as second family suggests their artistic sensibilities are less MoMA chic and, at times, more mom-and-pop.” – Washington Post
  
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• A Deal With The Artist Near San Francisco Allows The Flintstone Home To Remain

  28-06-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not sure there’s any way to explain this except to just … well: “In a dispute that pitted property rights against government rules and played out in international media, Florence Fang, a retired publisher, defended her colorful and bulbous house and its elaborate homage to The Flintstones family, featuring sculptures inspired by the 1960s cartoon along with aliens and other oddities.” Fang (mostly) won. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Diverse Dance Companies Suddenly Have A Wealthy New Benefactor

  28-06-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  MacKenzie Scott, ex-spouse of Jeff Bezos who was heavily involved in launching Amazon in the 1990s, gave generously to many pandemic (and perenially) cash-strapped dance companies in her latest philanthropic efforts. “This round of gifts promises to have an especially large impact on New York dance, with generous aid to some of the city’s most diverse companies. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater got $20 million, which it plans to use to commission new work, perform Ailey&
  
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• You Might Not Have Heard Of A Big Hit Jesus Show

  28-06-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The show has just arrived on Peacock, but it was a hit before that, garnering about 750,000 viewers for its season 2 opener as the super prestigey Mare of Easttown got 1 million viewers. “Take it from a critic and a Christian with an aversion to Christian entertainment: The show is good. I’d stop short of calling The Chosen a prestige drama, but it looks and feels downright secular.” Production values? Acting? Writing? Good throughlines? Check, check, check, check. &
  
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• Brussels Museum Backpedals A Bit From Plan Called Both Sexist And Nepotistic

  28-06-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The board of Kanal-Centre-Pompidou had decided to name a woman artistic director – and then added a male co-director. Nearly 800 European art dignitaries didn’t buy it. “‘Internationally renowned and appreciated, Kasia Redzisz has been selected by the jury for this job,’ the open letter said. ‘She is a competent and experienced woman and there is not the slightest doubt that she would not be perfectly capable of doing this job on her own. Teaming her up with
  
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• Frederic Rzewski, Pianist And Composer Known For His Political Views, 83

  28-06-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Rzewski’s anti-establishment thinking stood at the center of his music-making throughout his life.” – The New York Times
  
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• Liverpool Is About To Be Stripped Of Its UNESCO Status

  28-06-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And Boris Johnson doesn’t care at all. In fact, he’s putting another monument – that’s right, unbelievably, Stonehenge!? – at risk as well. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• ‘I hope people remember it all their lives’: Why Marta Minujín wants to reinvent Big Ben

  28-06-2021 08:00
  
  She partied with Warhol, rollerskated with Rauschenberg and fed Argentinians a giant panettone phallus. Now Marta Minujín is set to dismantle a replica of Britain’s big bonger – in ManchesterNext month, Marta Minujín, the Argentinian artist credited with being a pioneer of installation art, will create an artwork that has been 40 years in the making. Using a library of 20,000 books representing British politics, she aims to recreate London’s most iconic timepiece,
  
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• ‘I hope people remember it all their lives’: Why Marta Minujín wants to destroy Big Ben

  28-06-2021 08:00
  
  She partied with Warhol, rollerskated with Rauschenberg and fed Brazilians a giant panettone phallus. Now Marta Minujín is set to dismantle a replica of Britain’s big bonger – in ManchesterNext month, Marta Minujín, the Argentinian artist credited with being a pioneer of installation art, will create an artwork that has been 40 years in the making. Using a library of 20,000 books representing British politics, she aims to recreate London’s most iconic timepiece, B
  
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