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• Bookshop Fined By Hungarian Government For Selling Book Featuring LGBT Families

  09-07-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The shop has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the picture book for featuring such families. – The GuardianThe Guardian
  
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• How They’re Planning To Televise The Tokyo Olympics Without Fans

  09-07-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Those plans include an “online cheer map” and a “fan video wall” that will be made available to TV rightsholders, and which will also be accessible via the Olympics website. – The Hollywood Reporterhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nbc-olympics-without-fans-tv-plans-1234979504/
  
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• What An Anti-Racist Organization Looks Like and How the Cultural Industry Can Respond to Racial Injustices

  09-07-2021 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
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• Study: Public Broadcasting Has To Do Better Programming for Teens

  09-07-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Overall, our interviews suggest that there is a significant gap in youth understanding of the value of public media as something distinct from commercial media.” – Currenthttps://current.org/2021/07/study-points-to-ways-public-media-could-build-teen-and-tween-audience-and-risks-of-not-trying/
  
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• Claim: Streaming Is A Dark Hole That Is Killing Indie Films

  09-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Independent filmmakers “need the real curators, the festivals, academies, critics. We need producers who will fight for a voice that is unique, rare, ambitious and challenging.” – The Hollywood Reporterhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/cannes-streaming-helping-killing-independent-film-1234979168/
  
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• Why The American Sitcom Has Endured for So Long

  09-07-2021 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you look at what people watch on streaming platforms, it’s all sitcoms. What’re the most valuable properties out there? – The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/08/cnn-history-of-the-sitcom-why-it-endured
  
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• Can Walking Tours Be Turned Into Theatre?

  09-07-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alexis Soloski considers four of them currently running (if that’s quite the word) in New York City, suggesting that they can be a good post-lockdown reintroduction to the experience of being an audience member. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• What’s At Stake For Arts Venues Stranded By Bungled Federal Assistance Program

  09-07-2021 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since the program was created with the passage of the Save Our Stages Act in December, the grant been plagued by glitches and delays. – San Francisco Chroniclehttps://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/as-economy-reopens-bay-area-venues-left-behind-by-bungled-federal-program
  
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• Former UK Culture Minister Calls For Electronics Tax To Fund Arts

  09-07-2021 19:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a column co-written with artist Yinka Shonibare, Ed Vaizey, culture minister under David Cameron and now in the House of Lords, argues for a 1%-3% per device tax on electronics manufacturers that would go into a “Smart Fund” to support arts throughout the UK. – London Evening StandardLondon Evening Standard
  
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• Just How Do You Determine What’s Cultural Appropriation?

  09-07-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scholarly consensus regarding cultural appropriation has long accepted that the lines between cultural appreciation and appropriation may be difficult to clearly determine in real time, and especially within the contemporary social media-driven zeitgeist. – The Conversationhttps://theconversation.com/what-is-cultural-appropriation-and-how-does-it-differ-from-cultural-appreciation-162331
  
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• Is This A Time To Open A New Performing Arts Conservatory?

  09-07-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even as institutions are merging and closing due to the pandemic, Danny George and Ricky Loftus George are planning to receive students at the Norwalk Conservatory College in Connecticut, 90 minutes from New York, next year. Then they have to get accredited. – Inside Higher EdInside Higher Ed
  
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• We All See The World Through Our Own Lenses. So What About a Lens of Dance?

  09-07-2021 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As we emerge from the pandemic, we’re not just walking around without masks, we’re learning how to re-enter our bodies. – The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/arts/dance/using-the-wisdom-of-dance-to-find-our-way-back-to-our-bodies.html
  
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• British Art Show 9 review – is this really the art of a country in crisis?

  09-07-2021 18:11
  
  Aberdeen Art Gallery
  There’s lots of self-indulgent ‘radicalism’ here but plenty of humour too – and a magic mushroom-inspired DraculaI am not a dog person and nor apparently is the artist Patrick Goddard. The talking dog in his film Animal Antics has an irritatingly smug voice and an unpleasant view of the world, predicated on its own sense of superiority to animals not blessed with the gift of speech. Yet it is a dog and a dirty one at that. “Have you ever tried t
  
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• This Woman Has Been Playing Piano For 104 Years, And She’s Still At It

  09-07-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Colette Maze was born in 1914, began picking out melodies on the keyboard by age three, released her first CD at 84, and recorded Debussy at age 103. She still practices four hours a day. – Classic FMClassic FM
  
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• Don’t Be So Quick To Call It A Cult

  09-07-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If we accept that cult members have some degree of volition, the job of distinguishing cults from other belief-based organizations becomes a good deal more difficult. – The New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/12/what-makes-a-cult-a-cult
  
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• Telling a flat-out truth | Brief letters

  09-07-2021 17:15
  
  Exploration | Noise | Sculpture | Life’s certainties | Boris JohnsonWhy on earth is it good news, in this time when the environment is under attack, to send out a ship to “pound” through – that is, damage – ice (Antarctic expedition to renew search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance, 5 July)? This is of spurious scientific benefit and instead reflects an intrusive curiosity, not exploration. It also models behaviour that others may follow.Dr Cleo Van VelsenLondon
  
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• New Yorker Cartoonist Danny Shanahan Dead At 64

  09-07-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over three decades he published more than 1,000 witty single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker and other magazines, with characters ranging from cats and monkeys to Lassie and Batman. But he spent his final year under a serious cloud. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Why Amazon Really Bought MGM

  09-07-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Jeff Bezos bluntly put it in 2016, “When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes.” But isn’t Amazon’s own studio enough? No, it is not. – WiredWired
  
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• Hunter Biden’s Gallerist Will Keep Buyers’ Identities Secret, Even From The Artist

  09-07-2021 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Both the dealer himself and the White House say this will prevent even the appearance of influence-buying by purchasers of paintings by the President’s son. Transparency advocates say it’s exactly the wrong move. – The Washington Post on MSNThe Washington Post on MSN
  
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• Real-Life Protagonist Of ‘Cat Person’ Comes Forward

  09-07-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker story went viral in 2017, Alexis Nowicki got a flood of text messages from people she knew asking if it was about her. Turns out it was, even though Nowicki had never met the author. Here’s how she figured that out. – SlateSlate
  
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• Owner Sues French State For Right To Sell Leonardo Sketch Abroad

  09-07-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once the drawing was identified as a da Vinci, the Culture Ministry put an export ban on it and offered to buy it for €10 million. The current owner has an independent valuation of €15 million. He won’t sell for less; the government won’t pay more. – ArtnetArtnet
  
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• From a Dada pioneer to a tragic goldfish bowl – the week in art

  09-07-2021 15:00
  
  Sophie Taeuber-Arp gets a UK retrospective, Aberdeen surveys British art, Kneebone makes connections, and Walpole’s cat is honoured – all in your weekly dispatchSophie Taeuber-ArpAn overdue fresh look at this modernist pioneer who helped invent both Dada’s punk ethos and abstract art’s spiritual calm.• Tate Modern, London, 15 July-17 October.Continue reading...
  
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• Closure Of Five South London Arts Meccas Cost UK Economy £330 Million: Study

  09-07-2021 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  The report says that dark houses at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Young Vic, Southbank Centre, and dance company Rambert led to an economy-wide loss of 5,500 jobs and £330 million — but that the institutions could help lead London’s recovery – The StageThe Stage
  
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• National Ballet Of Canada Names New Artistic Director

  09-07-2021 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hope Muir, Toronto-born and currently AD at the Charlotte Ballet in North Carolina’s largest city, will succeed Karen Kain at the start of 2022. – CBCCBC
  
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• Replay: The original cast of West Side Story performs “Cool”

  09-07-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The original cast of West Side Story performs “Cool” on The Ed Sullivan Show. The song is by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and the choreography is by Jerome Robbins. This episode was originally telecast by CBS on September 14, 1958:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Lucian Freud’s gay relationships explored in new exhibition

  09-07-2021 08:00
  
  Julian Machin, curator, pieces together story that also involves Adrian Ryan and John MintonLucian Freud had a famously complex love life fathering children with many women but before all that there was a passionate, secret and enduring gay relationship involving two other young artists, a new exhibition reveals.The writer and curator Julian Machin has pieced together a story the artist tried to suppress and one, he argues, which helps us better understand the art of Freud. Continue reading...
  
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• How Young People Are Demanding Change In Dance

  09-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I was really inspired by all the young people I saw demanding change, whether in how they were taught dance history, the shoes they were given the option to wear in class, who got hired or admitted into ballet schools and the teachers they would be learning from. – Pointe MagazinePointe Magazine
  
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