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• Why Writers Need Agents

  01-07-2021 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Writers need agents more than agents need writers. They have needed them since the late 19th century, when an increasingly literate public fed by the magazines and single-volume prints made possible by the invention of Linotype printing created a lucrative industry. – The Guardian
  
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• Let’s Talk About Green Things In Movies (Fascinating)

  01-07-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  What makes a good greensperson? The best of them know how and where to get things, no matter how rare or obscure or out of season. – The New York Times
  
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• How The Pandemic Has/Is Changing The Ways We Look At Art

  01-07-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  What I did not expect was how these installations would speak to one another, and to me, about the pandemic. – Artnet
  
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• Why We Need Distrust In Our Civic Discourse

  01-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes distrust is not only appropriate but is also a way to initiate the conversation that’s needed for civic friendship. Distrust, in a democracy, can actually be a good thing. – Psyche
  
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• No Surprise: European Movie Box Office Down 70 Percent Last Year

  01-07-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The European box office plunged 70.4 percent last year, down $6.04 billion (5.1 billion euro) from $8.5 billion (7.2 billion euro) in 2019 to $2.5 billion (2.1 billion euro). – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Florida Man Says He’s The One Who Invented Invisible Sculpture, May Sue Artist Who Just Sold One

  01-07-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In early June in Milan, conceptual artist Salvatore Garau auctioned off an “immaterial sculpture” for €15,000. Now performance artist Tom Miller points out that he (with a crew of workers!) installed a similar work, titled Nothing, in a Gainesville park in 2016. He and his attorney have written Garau to seek a settlement. – Artnet
  
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• Arts Business Ownership – Statistics on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

  01-07-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the U.S. there are limited public data on the demographics of leadership and staff (as opposed to artists and participants) at arts organizations. Absent these statistics, one of our analysts turned to the Annual Business Survey (ABS), a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation. – Sunil Iyengar
  
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• An NFT Of The Internet’s Source Code Sells For $5.4 Million

  01-07-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  With bidding starting at $1,000, a total of 51 collectors competed for the NFT during a sale titled “This Changed Everything.” The winning bid was place around 10 minutes before the end of the auction. – ARTnews
  
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• The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky

  01-07-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra, Les Siècles, like to play concerts with Rameau in the first half and Ravel in the second, or Debussy with Boulez, all on instruments from the composer’s era (and, where possible, nation). Here’s a Q&A where he talks about how that works and why such a band was his dream. – The New York Times
  
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• Memory Champ: Trick Your Brain To Remember

  01-07-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  This technique of linking images with places is called the memory palace, and it’s particularly useful for remembering the order of certain elements. – Wired
  
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• Lucinda Childs At ’81 On Paper’

  01-07-2021 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  “She’s most associated with the Judson Dance Theater and New York’s downtown arts scene of the ’60s and ’70s, a hub of radical musicians, artists, performers, cheap loft studios and experimental happenings. But Childs has worked steadily since, particularly in Europe, and latterly as an opera director, too.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Ancient Humans Adapted To Be Smart

  01-07-2021 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the things we’re learning from new fossil discoveries is there appears to be these different species of early human, or hominin, coexisting on the landscape with different anatomies or adaptations in their feet and legs. – Nautilus
  
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• An awkward, lifeless shrine – the Diana statue is a spiritless hunk of nonsense | Jonathan Jones

  01-07-2021 18:34
  
  The only provocative thing about Ian Rank-Broadley’s characterless sculpture is how shamelessly it plays up to mawkish Diana worshipIan Rank-Broadley’s statue of Diana, commissioned by her sons, was kept secret until its unveiling as if it might be wildly provocative. Looking through the artist’s previous oeuvre, I noticed he has a taste for the nude and created a statue for the late Felix Dennis called Lord Rochester, His Whore and a Monkey. That raised the fascinating prospec
  
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• Let’s Give Mae West Credit As The Auteur She Was

  01-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  She doesn’t get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and because she didn’t direct her films. But she did write them, and she often adapted them from stage plays she did direct as well as write and star in. – The New York Times
  
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• Banksy “Adjustment” Of Mount Rainier Painting Sells For $6 Million

  01-07-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Banksy added an asterisk and a tiny bit of corporate-speak to the painting’s bottom right-hand corner: “*Subject to availability for a limited period only.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Michigan Opera Theatre seeks Director of Marketing and Communication

  01-07-2021 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the appointment of Artistic Director Yuval Sharon and Associate Artistic Director Christine Goerke, MOT’s Director of Marketing and Communications is crucial in expressing the company’s commitment to re-define the experience of opera in Detroit.Director of Marketing and Communications
  Classification: Full-time, Exempt
  Department: Marketing and Communications
  Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, occasional weekends/evening performances as needed
  Posting ends: July 31s
  
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• William and Harry unveil Diana statue at Kensington Palace

  01-07-2021 17:07
  
  Bronze artwork depicts princess flanked by children to represent ‘generational impact of her work’The sons of Diana, Princess of Wales have unveiled a long-awaited statue of her in Kensington Palace.In the shadow of their mother’s likeness cast in bronze, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex put on a united front. With Diana’s siblings watching, William and Harry pulled away a cloth covering the monument that will remind visitors to the palace, her former home, ab
  
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• ‘La Madre De La Telenovela’, Delia Fiallo, Dead At 96

  01-07-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  She started out writing radio serials in 1940s Cuba, switched to TV, fled the Castro regime in 1966 and started over completely in Miami — going on to write the scripts for 40 of the massively popular Spanish-language prime-time soap operas and becoming the genre’s first superstar author. – MSN (Washington Post)
  
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• New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum Of Any Kind

  01-07-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire floor to the new American L.G.B.T.Q.+ Museum, expected to open in 2024. – The New York Times
  
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• Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade

  01-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership was down a bit, public TV audience was up quite a bit, and podcasts keep growing. – Inside Radio
  
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• Brittany Howard: ‘I think back and I can’t even recognise that kid now’

  01-07-2021 15:56
  
  Continuing our series where stars recall their teenage obsessions, the Alabama Shakes frontwoman remembers fishing, home recording and leftfield spiritualityWhen I was 11 years old, I saw my first live band performance, in our old gym at school. Some kids who were four years older than me had a band and they played cover songs: Weezer, Pearl Jam, Nirvana – lots of grunge music. I remember thinking it was a superpower because they could make people dance. That’s when I knew that was w
  
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• Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years

  01-07-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she instituted a new rotating artistic directorship structure at the Wilma. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison

  01-07-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star’s 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here’s a legal explainer. – The New York Times
  
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• San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits

  01-07-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from the post on Monday, June 28, after less than two years on the job. An announcement from the company gave no reason for the decision.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe

  01-07-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there’s still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors, and the crowds will be a lot smaller, but the live, in-person Fringe is back. – BBC
  
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• A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses

  01-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated, and people of an older generation who didn’t have access to the means of cultural production and needed the patronage of newspapers and publishing houses to get their voices heard.” – The Observer
  
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