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• Louise Bourgeois And Her Exploration Of Pain

  29-06-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The subject of pain is the business I am in,” Louise Bourgeois once remarked. Like Emily Dickinson whose business was “circumference,” Bourgeois circled her subject all her life. – The Yale Review
  
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• Scientists Use Scans To Determine Whether National Gallery Vermeers Are Authentic

  29-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The two paintings are not obvious fakes. Indeed, one is considered a masterpiece, but they are unusual in the oeuvre of Vermeer: smaller than his other works, and painted on wooden panels instead of canvas. – The New York Times
  
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• Juilliard Pulls Video Of Zukerman’s Racist Masterclass

  29-06-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At one point, Zukerman told a pair of students of Asian descent that their playing was too perfect and that they needed to add soy sauce, according to two participants in the class. – The New York Times
  
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• Watching Pinchas Zukerman’s Offensive Juilliard Masterclass In Real Time

  29-06-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I did watch the virtual class unfold live, and I can attest that this was the appropriate course.” – Violinist.com
  
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• Using Novels To Predict The Next War

  29-06-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The idea that novelists are modern-day Cassandras – “speaking always truths, never grasped as true” – may sound positively esoteric. – The Guardian
  
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• An Intimacy Coordinator Explains How Exactly He Works On Set

  29-06-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Your boundaries can change given the person, given who’s in the room, given I’m on a sofa not a bed, that changes how I feel about how we’re shooting this scene. Consent is very specific to the context and the moment, and if anything changes, that can change consent level.” (podcast plus transcript) – Slate
  
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• Tania León interview, 1989

  29-06-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music composition has not often been interviewed in the popular press, so here’s a Q&A I conducted with her as published in 1989 by Ear magazine. – Howard Mandel
  
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• Martha Baer, 82, Dies: Contemporary-Art Rainmaker in Christie’s Early Days in New York

  29-06-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  I like to pay special tribute on CultureGrrl to art professionals who took time from their busy lives to deepen my limited understanding of art and the artworld, back when I was beginning my own professional journey. Martha Baer was one always reliable, unfailingly gracious source of help and knowledge. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Picasso and Mondrian paintings found as builder arrested over Athens gallery theft

  29-06-2021 20:49
  
  Works by 20th-century masters recovered nearly a decade after audacious burglaryA Picasso gifted to the Greek people by the artist in honour of their resistance to Nazi rule has been found in a gorge after a builder admitted to stealing the masterpiece and two other artworks in an audacious theft from the National Gallery in Athens nearly a decade ago.For nine years, Head of a Woman had lain hidden in the home of the self-described art lover alongside Stammer Windmill, a work by the Dutch painte
  
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• Judge Strikes Down Feds’ Monopoly Case Against Facebook

  29-06-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The judge eviscerated one of the federal government’s core arguments, that Facebook holds a monopoly over social networking, saying prosecutors had failed to provide enough facts to back up that claim. – The New York Times
  
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• A New American Heroine: Sapphire’s ‘Push’ At 25

  29-06-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tayari Jones: “The miracle of Sapphire’s gift is that she weaves her sharp social commentary and critique into the fabric of this story without shredding its fibres. This is a novel about people and their problems, not problems and their people..” – The Guardian
  
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• What Might Have Been — A Plan For NPR To Be An Arts Powerhouse

  29-06-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once upon a time, kids, NPR was to have taken its place among other national broadcasters around the world to become the standard for music, and yeah, news. But, to paraphrase, stuff happens. – Current
  
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• Broadway’s ‘Harry Potter And The Cursed Child’ To Be Cut By Half

  29-06-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before the pandemic, the award-winning hit played in two parts running a total of more than five hours. As theaters reopen, Cursed Child will remain as it was in Europe and Australia, but in North America it will be reduced to a single part, length as yet undetermined. – The New York Times
  
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• YouTube Buys Naming Rights For New 6000-Seat Theatre In LA

  29-06-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 6,000-seat performance venue at the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, Calif., will be called “YouTube Theater.” – Variety
  
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• Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stephen Dunn Dead At 82

  29-06-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He departed from the ‘confessional’ style of self-lacerating poetry and considered himself instead a ‘meditative’ or observational poet. Writing in a plain, unfussy style that often sounded like prose with the reins loosened, he addressed the ways ordinary experience can be fraught with emotional complexity, sadness and humor.” – MSN (Washington Post)
  
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• ‘Iconic gay image’: history of sailors and sex explored in Barcelona exhibition

  29-06-2021 17:46
  
  Catalan city is hosting new show looking at relationships between men who spend their lives at seaA new exhibition at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona seeks to tell the story of the romantic and sexual reality of men who spend their lives at sea.El desig és tan fluid com la mar (Desire Flows Like the Sea) aims to evoke the lives of men living in isolation but at close quarters and whose intimate lives were once clandestine out of necessity because homosexuality was and, and in many places
  
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• Turns Out AI Can Be Pretty Easily Fooled By Patterns

  29-06-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The ability to succeed at the task can be thought of as a foundation for all kinds of inferences that humans make. – Quanta
  
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• LA’s Echo Theater: 25 Years As A Hotbed Of Offbeat New Work

  29-06-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artistic director Chris Fields: “We’ve had a very simple system at the Echo. We read a play every week amongst ourselves and talk about it. If we respond, we’ll do a public reading. … Actors would invite other actors, many of them new transplants to L.A., and so we really started to develop our network. And that really trickled down over the years.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• To Protect Your Orchestra Players From COVID, Change Their Layout: Study

  29-06-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A study undertaken over the past season by the Utah Symphony and University of Utah researchers found that a new seating arrangement could reduce the spread of aerosols by a factor of 100. The key principle? The equivalent of making a smoker sit by the window. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Fluid desires: Sailors’ sexual chemistry depicted in Barcelona

  29-06-2021 16:16
  
  The Catalan city is hosting a new exhibition that explores the relationships of men who spend their lives at seaA new exhibition at Barcelona’s mmb maritime museum seeks to tell the story of the romantic and sexual reality of men who spend their lives at sea.El desig és tan fluid com la mar (Desire is as Fluid as the Sea) aims to evoke the lives of men living in isolation but at close quarters and whose intimate lives were clandestine out of necessity because homosexuality was and,
  
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• They’re Back To Dancing At Jacob’s Pillow, Even If It’s All Outdoors

  29-06-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  The dance festival in the Berkshires is coming back from last summer’s cancellation, the first in its 89-year history, and the destruction of its Doris Duke Theater by fire last November, while its other theater, the Ted Shawn, is under renovation. – MSN (Washington Post)
  
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• Stolen Picasso And Mondrian Works Recovered In Greece

  29-06-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Picasso’s Head of a Woman and Mondrian’s Stammer Windmill, taken from the National Gallery of Greece in 2012 in a seven-minute robbery, were seized in Keratea, a country town outside Athens. A suspect has been arrested and has reportedly confessed. – BBC
  
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• Painting Falls Off Wall, Turns Out To Be Lost Rembrandt

  29-06-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Adoration of the Magi hanging in a country house near Rome was assumed to be a copy. But, five years ago, the owners sent it to restorer Antonella di Francesco after it suffered an “accidental trauma” — and, as she worked on the canvas, she gradually realized that it was the real thing. – CNN
  
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• Lyric Opera Of Chicago Sees Reason, Will Have Intermissions

  29-06-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  About six weeks after announcing that, as a COVID safety measure, it would eliminate intermissions when it resumes live performances — and just over a month after critic Chris Jones issued the cry “Let the people pee without missing a note!” — the company has reversed course. – Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center Changes Name

  29-06-2021 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Penn Live Arts is the new moniker for the group and series long known as the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The switch comes as the major arts presenter evolves to become more closely integrated with Penn students, faculty, and curriculum, and as it plans to increase the number of presentations it does in locations beyond its campus at 36th and Walnut Streets.” – MSN (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Manchester international festival 2021: the best poetry, from Arcadia to Poet Slash Artist

  29-06-2021 08:00
  
  Lemn Sissay and Hans Ulrich Obrist combine art and poetry to sublime effect, and an installation explores our place within natureParticipatory art at MIF 2021Live music at MIF 2021Community art at MIF 2021A question is posed in the group show Poet Slash Artist: what is poetry and what is art, and what happens when they come together? Its answers run the length and breadth of the city, in the form of outdoor artwork by such diverse poet-artists as Tracey Emin, Precious Okoyomon, Lubaina Himid, Sk
  
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• Manchester international festival 2021: the best community art, from Cephas Williams to Kemang Wa Lehulere

  29-06-2021 08:00
  
  A portrait project on an epic scale, and a poetic, funny and deeply personal celebration of intimacy and connectionPoetry at MIF 2021Live music at MIF 2021Participatory art at MIF 2021From local to global, this year’s festival shines a spotlight on Manchester’s diverse communities, with two projects that start in the city but have international reach. In the words of festival director John McGrath: “The ways in which artists have used the opportunity of the festival to reflect
  
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• Manchester international festival 2021: the best art, from dance delights to a sideways Big Ben

  29-06-2021 08:00
  
  A vast and extraordinary new dance work, and an iconic London landmark relocated to the heart of ManchesterPoetry at MIF 2021Live music at MIF 2021Community art at MIF 2021Manchester international festival is an audacious proposition at the best of times – an 18-day celebration of culture that brings together local, national and global artistic talent for a series of world premieres in art, music, theatre and beyond. The fact that the 2021 edition of the festival is going ahead at all, org
  
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• Enrollment and Engagement Lead, Evening Division position available at The Juilliard School

  29-06-2021 07:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Enrollment and Engagement Lead is responsible for the enrollment and student recruitment of the Evening Division, and supports the leadership, management, and artistic direction of Juilliard ’s continuing education and non-matriculating programs throughout the year.Only candidates that submit a resume and cover letter, indicating salary requirements will be considered.Responsibilities (essential functions):Ensures recruitment goals are met by identifying and communicating with current
  
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• Suffering Under The Weight Of Happiness

  29-06-2021 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wanting to copy the happiest people in the world is an understandable impulse, but it distracts from a key message of the happiness rankings—that equitable, balanced societies make for happier residents. – The Atlantic
  
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