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• The Fascinating Political History Of Dubbing Movies

  14-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dubbing is a brilliant tool for film censorship. Sound films began to appear in the early 1930s, a time when many countries were falling under the sway of totalitarian regimes. – The ConversationThe Conversation
  
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• Why It’s So Easy To Ridicule The Art World

  14-07-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The contemporary art world is, more often than not, represented as a ridiculous shell game in which empty provocation is propped up by canny marketing and rampant financial speculation. – ARTnewsARTnews
  
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• “An Outsized Image Forged From Undersized Gifts” — How Did Eugene Ormandy Do It?

  14-07-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  His baton technique was, er, idiosyncratic; he couldn’t conduct complex meters; he could be cruel. And after 44 years as music director, seemingly everyone was relieved to see him retire. Yet he and the Philadelphia Orchestra became worldwide legends together. – Classical Voice North AmericaClassical Voice North America
  
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• The Serendipity Of Almanacs

  14-07-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almanacs are an anomaly in the 2021 literary landscape, a choose-your-own adventure of print culture. So much of reading, especially online, is about seeking: looking for a fact, an image, a bit of information. – Los Angeles Review of BooksLos Angeles Review of Books
  
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• The Italians Who Dangle From Ropes To Repair Historic Sites

  14-07-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “EdiliziAcrobatica’s team has rock-climbed up and abseiled down some of Italy’s most significant historic monuments. … Suspended from ropes, the acrobatic technicians can perform a whole range of tasks, from the waterproofing of roofing to welding.” – ApolloApollo
  
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• Washington’s Signature Theatre Picks A New Leader

  14-07-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matthew Gardiner takes over the 32-year-old company, which operates two performance spaces in Arlington’s Village at Shirlington, at a tumultuous inflection point. – Washington PostWashington Post
  
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• Remember Waacking? It’s Back

  14-07-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The kinetic, flamboyant, arm-waving dance style was born in the Black and Latino gay nightclubs of L.A., spread via the TV show Soul Train, faded away after the 1980s, and found a long-term home in East Asia. – The GuardianThe Guardian
  
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• Mapping The Reopening: A TRG Report

  14-07-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  55% of U.S. organizations plan to host performances before October 2021. U.K. arts and culture organizations are even more optimistic, with 83% planning a return to performance before September 1. – TRGTRG
  
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• Donald Pippin, San Francisco’s Pied Piper Of Opera, Dead At 95

  14-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For 40 years, he and his resourceful company, Pocket Opera, used young singers, small instrumental groups, and librettos in English to bring unfamiliar works to thousands of new audience members. His dozens of libretto translations are still in use all over the globe. – San Francisco Classical VoiceSan Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• How Musical Memories Evolve

  14-07-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our unreliable memories of musical events are only partly the result of faulty powers of recall. Another contributing factor is the aging process. – The Nightingale’s SonataThe Nightingale's Sonata
  
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• What Happens If An Archivist Sneezes On A Centuries-Old Manuscript?

  14-07-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First, for God’s sake, he shouldn’t wipe it off himself. (This lesson was learned the hard way.)Beyond that, there are ways of repairing the damage, or at least keeping it from getting worse. – The AtlanticThe Atlantic
  
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• Would you pay £63 for a chicken? The artist who built a street to show house price madness

  14-07-2021 16:43
  
  When Doug Fishbone came across an abandoned apartment complex in Cork, he decided to recreate it in a gallery – to highlight everything that’s wrong with our property-fuelled financial systemA grim concrete wall greets visitors to the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. It fills the full height of the space, hemmed in by a corrugated steel fence. You might think you’d walked into a room still under construction – until you notice the street lamp. It casts an eerie glow across t
  
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• Pornhub Is Now Offering Virtual Museum Tours

  14-07-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The website has launched “Classic Nudes“, a curated selection of NSFW art at the Louvre, the Met, the Prado, etc. View the works online or in person with your phone; adult actor Asa Akira is your audio guide. The promo video features none other than Jeff Koons’s ex, Cicciolina. (second item) – ArtlystArtlyst
  
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• California Budgets $50 Million In Pandemic Relief For Small Theaters

  14-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The subsidy came after intense lobbying from small theaters concerned about their future after a 15-month shutdown. Compounding the effects was the prospect of sharply increased labor costs for many theaters as a result of a new gig worker law that took effect in 2020.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Court Throws Out Judge Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen

  14-07-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former Alabama jurist and Senate candidate sued the actor/mockumentarian over the scene in the Netflix series Who Is America? in which Baron Cohen’s supposed “anti-terrorism expert” wields a supposed “pedophile detector” which goes off as it gets close to Moore. – The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Meet Spoleto Festival USA’s First New General Director In 35 Years

  14-07-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Succeeding longtime chief Nigel Redden in October is Egyptian-American musicologist Mena Mark Hanna, a teacher, composer, Coptic Orthodox cantor (!), and former administrator at Houston Grand Opera. He is currently dean at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. – The Post and Courier (Charleston)The Post and Courier (Charleston)
  
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• Black artists take Britain’s pulse – and pose as Grace Jones: Untitled at Kettle’s Yard review

  14-07-2021 14:51
  
  Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
  Colonialism, sexuality and singers from the 70s and 80s are among the subjects in a show in which 10 artists don’t so much explore Black British identity as question our eraSix funk, soul and dance record covers by Black singers from the 70s and 80s are displayed in a grid on a wall at Kettle’s Yard. Next to them is a video installation showing the artist Harold Offeh in a domestic setting – an attic, a hallway, a bathroom – recreating the t
  
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• Can The Metropolitan Opera Start Its Season On Time? It’s Up To The Musicians’ Union

  14-07-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company, which was having money troubles even before the pandemic, finally has agreements with the unions for onstage (AGMA) and backstage (IATSE) workers. But negotiations over pay cuts with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents the orchestra, drag on. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Italy Bans Cruise Ships From Venice (And They Mean It This Time!)

  14-07-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An announcement to this effect was made earlier this year, but the mammoth passenger boats turned up anyway. But now the national government, eager to avoid UNESCO “World Heritage in Danger” status, has made it feasible for the rule to take effect August 1. – ReutersReuters
  
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• Diego Cortez obituary

  14-07-2021 13:37
  
  Curator who introduced Jean-Michel Basquiat to the art world through his influential 1981 show New York/New WaveDiego Cortez, who has died aged 74, was a linchpin of the New York underground in the 1980s, and instrumental in the career of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1978 he co-founded the Mudd Club, a multistorey venue of exposed brick and shabby red velvet furniture in a downtown area considered a no-go zone. Yet what People magazine described as the “punks, posers and the ultra-h
  
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• Snapshot: Buffalo Springfield appears on The Hollywood Palace

  14-07-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Buffalo Springfield plays a medley of “For What It’s Worth” and “Mr. Soul” on an episode of The Hollywood Palace originally telecast by ABC in 1967:(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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• Equity and Engagement

  14-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As I mentioned in What Was Said, the report on the Community Engagement Network’s May and June Conversations on Benchmarking Equity, participants frequently commented on the relationships between community engagement and work in pursuit of equity. I’ve long held that without a commitment to community engagement an arts organization’s DEI efforts are not likely to succeed (Doomed to Fail). But the Conversations went way beyond that. In particular, they kept citing the essence o
  
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• Toradze’s Piano Stories

  14-07-2021 05:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Behrouz Jamali has created the kind of film I had always hoped to see about Alexander Toradze.
  I permits Toradze to speak for an hour without abridgement or abbreviation. It abjures soundbites.
  I believe it should be seen by all devotees of the piano, and to fledgling pianists at music schools and conservatories.
  Born in Tbilisi in 1952, Toradze graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, toured the West as a Soviet artist, defected to the United States in 1983, and has since taught and lived in th
  
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