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• Groundhog Day Scenario: Opponents Of Obama Library Go Back To Court To Delay

  21-07-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In documents filed with the court last week, the Obama Foundation says an injunction that delays the Center will increase costs by “at least $2.2 million per month,” and will likely have a negative impact on fundraising. – Chicago ReaderChicago Reader
  
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• How To Get Businesses To Comply With The Americans With Disabilities Act?

  21-07-2021 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the A.D.A. to yield its promise of equal access for the disabled, it may indeed be necessary and desirable for committed individuals to bring serial litigation advancing the time when public accommodations will be compliant with the A.D.A.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Longtime Aspen Festival Opera Director Suddenly Dies

  21-07-2021 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Edward Berkeley directed classics and championed new operas in Aspen, while mentoring generations of emerging singers. He oversaw rehearsals in his signature shorts, high socks and sneakers and traveled almost exclusively by bicycle in Aspen. – Aspen TimesAspen Times
  
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• African Animators Are Using Cartoons To Save Endangered Languages

  21-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many African animators’ quest for representation goes beyond just having characters who look like them. Animation has also become a tool for preserving endangered African languages.” – Global VoicesGlobal Voices
  
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• Netflix Growth Slows Dramatically

  21-07-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company “added a mere 1.5 million paying members globally in the second quarter, which is down 85% from the same period last year, when it reported 10.1 million subscriber additions.” – Yahoo!Yahoo!
  
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• Here and Now

  21-07-2021 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drawing by Felicien Rops.The morning light takes its time 
  coming through the bedroom window.
  
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• The Cancelers Are Wrong: Chaucer Was No Rapist, Racist Or Anti-Semite

  21-07-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My decades of research show he was no raunchy proponent of bro culture but a daring and ingenious defender of women and the innocent…” – The ConversationThe Conversation
  
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• Mitigating The Brain – We’re Still Not Sure What Works

  21-07-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An essential but unanswered question in my field is: can the brain changes evoked by treatments – whether drug-based or psychotherapy – explain why only some people get better after each specific form of treatment?” – PsychePsyche
  
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• ‘The British Fox News’ Is Off To A Very Messy Start

  21-07-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Actually, ‘risible’ is the adjective the headline for this article uses to describe the first month on air of GB News. Here’s a shake-your-head rundown of the disarray, featuring Brexit archvillain Nigel Farage in the Tucker Carlson role. – Columbia Journalism ReviewColumbia Journalism Review
  
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• So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice: A Second Kennedy Center Honors This Year

  21-07-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have gone through the worst crisis in performing arts history. We need to celebrate the artists who have carried us through this time.” – Washington PostWashington Post
  
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• After Two Decades And $800 Million, Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Finally Welcoming Visitors

  21-07-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The museum’s programs are to reflect three core themes: the history of the site, the brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt’s global discoveries, and an examination of colonialism and its consequences.” – Deutsche WelleDeutsche Welle
  
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• It Only Took 145 Years: First Woman Conductor At Bayreuth Festival

  21-07-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A native of Brody, in western Ukraine, where she grew up in a family of musicians, Oksana Lyniv, 43, has spent the better part of the last two decades in German-speaking Europe. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• You Probably Hadn’t Heard Of The National Ballet Of Canada’s New Director. That’s Good.

  21-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hope Muir: “I feel like more people like me, who weren’t necessarily huge stars, are going to end up in these roles, with a somewhat different approach to what ballet can be: more diverse, with more access and transparency about what you are doing.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Big: Actors Equity Opens Up Membership

  21-07-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Actors’ Equity said it was waiving prior restrictions on membership in its quest to become a more equitable organization. – Broadway NewsBroadway News
  
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• France Now Requires COVID Pass For Visiting All Cultural Institutions

  21-07-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beginning July 21, the ‘pass sanitaire‘ or ‘health pass’ will be required for venues with more than 50 people. Visitors over 18 will be required to show a QR code with a record of full vaccination, or a negative … test from the previous 48 hours.” – ArtnetArtnet
  
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• Little Canaletto’s sublime city in the sky – Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited review

  21-07-2021 16:56
  
  National Gallery, London
  Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master’s Venetian magic into these five staggering views of a fortress in deepest GermanyWe like to identify great upheavals in the arts with new centuries. So Romanticism began on 1 January 1800? Well, Turner and Beethoven were well into their stride by then. And modernism came along on the same date in 1900? Hmm, that makes it hard to account for Van Gogh, Munch and Cézanne. The National
  
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• Little Canaletto’s sordid city in the sky – Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited review

  21-07-2021 16:56
  
  National Gallery, London
  Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master’s Venetian magic into these five sublime views of a fortress in deepest GermanyWe like to identify great upheavals in the arts with new centuries. So Romanticism began on 1 January 1800? Well, Turner and Beethoven were well into their stride by then. And modernism came along on the same date in 1900? Hmm, that makes it hard to account for Van Gogh, Munch and Cézanne. The National Gal
  
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• Asians May Seem Ubiquitous In Classical Music, But They Still Face Discrimination

  21-07-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Interviews with more than 40 Asians and Asian-Americans in the classical world reveal that, in 2021, many still have to put up with astoundingly prejudiced treatment and feel themselves locked out of positions where decisions are made. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Maybe Netflix’s Move Into Video Games Isn’t Such A Great Idea

  21-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Said one securities analyst. “This is like Starbucks saying, ‘We’ve decided to get into the FedEx business because people come to our store already. They can pick up their package when they get their coffee.'” – Fast CompanyFast Company
  
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• Sound Crew Stages Walkout At Williamstown Theater Festival

  21-07-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  They’d been working 13-hour days with no overtime pay, outdoors with expensive electronics during an unusually wet summer. When a final tech rehearsal was delayed and they were told to set up in the still-pouring rain, they walked out. The artistic director cried. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Gil Wechsler, Who Lit The Met Opera’s Productions For Decades, Dead At 79

  21-07-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company’s first-ever resident lighting designer, he illuminated 112 productions over 20 years (1976-1996), and some of his work is still in use. He was affectionately called “the Prince of Darkness” because he was so astute about where not to aim the lamps. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Edinburgh International Festival Director Announces Departure

  21-07-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fergus Linehan, who came to the EIF from the Sydney Festival in 2014, reveled that next year’s festival will be his last. – The ScotsmanThe Scotsman
  
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• Stags, space ports, Covid jabs and free dinners: how local museums are shaking up the nation

  21-07-2021 14:19
  
  The Museum of the Year shortlist has just been announced. We look at the five finalists, from the Essex gallery feeding deprived children to the wee museum with big plans up near John O’Groats‘Albert Hirst’s pies were legendary,” recalls Ian McMillan, the poet known as the Bard of Barnsley. He’s talking about his favourite exhibit at Experience Barnsley: a carrier bag for the long defunct butchers. “Personally, I prefer Potters of Wombwell. But that’s he
  
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• Britain’s five best museums – featuring space ports, Covid jabs and free dinners

  21-07-2021 14:19
  
  The Museum of the Year shortlist has just been announced. We look at the five finalists, from the Essex gallery feeding deprived children to the wee museum with big plans up near John O’Groats‘Albert Hirst’s pies were legendary,” recalls Ian McMillan, the poet known as the Bard of Barnsley. He’s talking about his favourite exhibit at Experience Barnsley: a carrier bag for the long defunct butchers. “Personally, I prefer Potters of Wombwell. But that’s he
  
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• UNESCO Revokes World Heritage Status Of Liverpool Waterfront

  21-07-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The UN’s cultural heritage organization had been warning for years that unchecked building development was destroying the beauty and character of the old port city’s docks and their grand Victorian structures. – BBCBBC
  
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• ‘People don’t realize the realities of prison’: telling Kalief Browder’s story through art

  21-07-2021 08:12
  
  Artist Coby Kennedy constructed a plexiglass cell to show people the confined space that a wrongly imprisoned teen was placed in for almost two years at Rikers Island“Kalief [Browder] and his family, everything that happened to him ... It hit me in the gut, like, real hard,” artist Coby Kennedy tells the Guardian. “But for the sculpture itself, the real impetus of the sculpture was how the average person doesn’t really realize what’s going on in this country. They d
  
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• ‘People don’t realize the realities of prison’: telling Kalief Browder’s devastating story through art

  21-07-2021 08:12
  
  Artist Coby Kennedy constructed a plexiglass cell to show people the confined space that a wrongly imprisoned teen was placed in for almost two years at Rikers Island“Kalief [Browder] and his family, everything that happened to him ... It hit me in the gut, like, real hard,” artist Coby Kennedy tells the Guardian. “But for the sculpture itself, the real impetus of the sculpture was how the average person doesn’t really realize what’s going on in this country. They d
  
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