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• Why Are So Many Musicians Looking To Space For Inspiration?

  06-07-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is understandable that musicians believe in extraterrestrial beings: after a year socialising over Zoom or from behind a mask, every interaction IRL feels like you need to relearn social skills after arriving from another planet. – The Guardian
  
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• Let’s Take A Look At How Museums Deal With Ownership Of Nazi-Era Collections…

  06-07-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have repeatedly rejected the heirs’ claims for paintings that were sold at the same auctions. – The New York Times
  
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• Extraordinary Times: Smithsonian Natural History Museum Turns To Art To Demonstrate Climate Change

  06-07-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum staff decided the situation is so complex that they had to turn to photography and conceptual art to address it. – Washington Post
  
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• Resolving The Differences Between Conscious Choice And Intention

  06-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The decisions that I am aware of speak for me, the conscious agent, who I am and how I impact the world, either locally or, perhaps for some folks, in a more profound global way. These practical decisions about what to do are intentions I form. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• John McWhorter: What’s Wrong With The Language Police

  06-07-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apparently, we must retire victim, survivor, trigger warning, and African-American too. We must do so, that is, if we seek to ignore some linguistic fundamentals while also engaging in distinctly callow sociological calisthenics. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Danish Language Is So Weird That Even Danish Kids Have Trouble Learning It

  06-07-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Researchers] have found that the uniquely peculiar way that Danes speak” – mangled consonants and 40 different vowel sounds – “seems to make it difficult for Danish children to learn their native language – and this challenges some central tenets of the science of language.” – The Conversation
  
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• Savage Beauty — Take two

  06-07-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Three months ago I blogged about Min Xiao-fen’s exceptional new recording, White Lotus, in which her pipa is mated with Rez Abbasi’s guitar in music from her soundtrack to a classic Chinese silent film. NPR has now done a seven-minute feature on the disc. – Joseph Horowitz
  
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• At last! Live music, pure and uncompromised

  06-07-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  My first visit to the kind of concert that could’ve happened before March of 2020: the bold pianist Beth Levin at Bargemusic in Brooklyn. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• As It Said It Would, Academy Of Motion Pictures Expands And Diversifies Its Membership

  06-07-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Statistically, the 2021 class is comprised of 46 percent women, 39 percent underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 53 international members from 49 countries outside of the United States. – IndieWire
  
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• This Pair Returned MGM To Glory. Then Amazon Gobbled It Up. What Happens Now?

  06-07-2021 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy “have compiled a heady mix of A-list directors and compelling material they hope hearkens back to the days when Fred Astaire and Judy Garland roamed the [studio]. The next six months will show if their strategy pays off.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why The Statue Of Liberty Never Lived Up To The Hype

  06-07-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why does its meaning seem so unstable, especially now, as a small-scale copy makes its way from France to D.C., where it will be installed at the French ambassador’s residence later this month? – Washington Post
  
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• The Battle For 1776: America Struggles With, And Over, Its Founding Myths

  06-07-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For scholars, the rosy tale of a purely heroic unleashing of freedom may be long gone. But does America still need a version of its origin story it can love? … In civic life, where we stake our beginnings matters.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Toll COVID Is Taking On Opera

  06-07-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There was “great appetite when we reopened,” but “it’s been a little bit flat now,” whether because of the health pass requirement or the good weather and the reopening of cafe terraces. – The New York Times
  
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• How To Transition From Commercial Dancer To Choreographer

  06-07-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nine years ago, Del Mak decided he was done performing for artists like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and One Direction. ‘I’d done everything I wanted to, and I was tired of the rat race,’ he says. ‘My body was starting to hurt.’ The next obvious step? Choreography.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• How Is It That Gamers Are Better At Detecting Fraud Than Scientists Are?

  06-07-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Does it strike you as odd that so many people tuned in to hear about a doctored speedrun of a children’s video game, while barely a ripple was made—even among scientists—by the discovery of more than 80 fake scientific papers? – The Atlantic
  
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• Can You Still Play A Violin After Cutting It Up? For This Guy, The Answer Is Yes

  06-07-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A visit to the dungeon (that’s what he calls it) of Tyler Thackray, proud proprietor of the Instagram account @violintorture, dismemberer of instruments, creator of Franken-fiddles, and champion troll of self-serious string players. – The New Yorker
  
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• We Need To Diversify The Ranks Of Stage Managers, Too

  06-07-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Black stage managers and their white allies … are establishing new organizations for racial equity, creating more opportunities for up-and-coming stage managers of color, and even examining aspects of their job that may do more harm than good.” – The New York Times
  
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• Is This The First Known Piece Of Neanderthal Art?

  06-07-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two years ago in Germany’s well-known Unicorn Cave, archaeologists discovered a deer knuckle with diagonal lines deliberately carved in it, Carbon dating has shown that the bone is 51,000 years old — before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe. But is it actually art? – National Geographic
  
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• Damien Hirst on painting cherry blossom: ‘It’s taken me until I’m 55 to please my mum’

  06-07-2021 15:46
  
  The former hell-raising, hard-partying YBA known for slicing animals in half is now painting trees in bloom. Has he lost his edge? And why is his hair blue?The first thing that hits me when I see Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms isn’t the scale (monumental) or the palette (psychedelic) but the paint itself. It’s thick, sticky and a little bit nasty. Creamy-white and dusty-pink daubs swirl from the surface like meringue kisses, fragile and sugary sweet. Others are more chewy, like
  
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• Actors’ Equity Removes Mask And COVID Testing Requirements For ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Shows

  06-07-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Any Equity production where everyone backstage has had their shots may now let those folks do their work more or less as normal, though some safety rules are still in effect. But no meeting audience members at the stage door! – Playbill
  
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• Richard Donner, Who Directed Some Of The Late 20th Century’s Biggest Blockbusters, Dead At 91

  06-07-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Early in his career, he helmed episodes of many of the most iconic TV series of the ’60s, then he went on to direct The Omen, Superman, The Goonies, Scrooged, and the Lethal Weapon franchise. – Variety
  
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• Met Opera And Stagehands Union Reach Agreement

  06-07-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The company’s roughly 300 stagehands were locked out late last year because of a disagreement over how long and lasting pandemic pay cuts would be. But the opera house is in desperate need of workers … if it is to reopen in less than three months.” – The New York Times
  
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• England’s Arts Venues Can Operate At Full Capacity Starting July 19

  06-07-2021 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just two more weeks, then no more three-foot distancing and no more mandatory masks, said Boris Johnson. – Variety
  
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• Ban imposed on overseas sale of John Gould’s landmark ornithological studies

  06-07-2021 13:44
  
  Export bar on Gould’s Original Drawings, valued at £1.2m, will run until September to allow domestic institutions time to raise money for purchaseThe UK government has put a temporary ban on a collection of “exquisite” works by the celebrated 19th-century ornithologist John Gould from leaving the country, in an attempt to save them for the nation. Related: Pecking order: how John Gould dined out on the birds of AustraliaContinue reading...
  
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• Melbourne’s augmented reality: is public art the remedy to the city’s pandemic malaise?

  06-07-2021 05:18
  
  Flinders Quarter Augmented Arts Walk is one of many attempts to revive the city’s economic hub. But is it working?Paris has its Latin Quarter and Barcelona its Gothic Quarter, but who ever knew Melbourne had a Flinders Quarter? Running from Flinders Street to Collins, down Elizabeth and up Swanston, it takes in some of the city’s most famous laneways, including Degraves Street and Centre Place. The name’s provenance is disputed – it may or may not have come about when the
  
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