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• Epic Labor Battle At Sydney Bookstore

  28-07-2021 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Such disputes reflect a growing recognition across the publishing industry that the prestige and attractiveness of working in and adjacent to creative and cultural sectors – and the passion of its workers – can also form the preconditions for low wages and insecure work. – The Guardian
  
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• Enough With The Era Of Visionary Museum Directors

  28-07-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That era should be over. The director’s job is to set clear priorities for staff, to mentor, coach, and be clear-sighted about what is next; to leverage the expertise of the board; to make hard choices when needed. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Lessons From Shared Crises: Community Connection Matters

  28-07-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the Blitz and other collective crises have taught us, resilience is not a given and has to be managed with an understanding of peoples’ fears and wishes, including their need for connectedness. – Psyche
  
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• Report: Worldwide Building Of Arts Facilities Was $5.9 Billion Last Year

  28-07-2021 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite last year’s dip, there’s reason to think that the cultural sector is coming back strong. Even amid global uncertainty about travel, cities doubled down on investment in cultural attractions. – Artnet
  
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• Design Museum Gets Its 11th Director Since 2013

  28-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some employees said that a carousel of different directors bringing new approaches has exhausted staff, strained relationships with some artists and damaged trust in the board. Former directors described the institution’s woes as reflective of bad board governance. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Critics’ Opinions Matter

  28-07-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’ll claim that my response to art is more complex than the average museumgoer’s because it’s my professional responsibility—and passion—to be as well informed as I can about what I’m looking at (and where, when, and why I’m looking at it).” – Vasari 21
  
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• How Matt Damon Keeps Complicating Our Ideas About Matt Damon

  28-07-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You only have to look a bit closer at Damon’s career, at the notion of Matt Damon, Movie Star we have in our heads, to see that nice might be an ingenious sleight-of-hand, an illusion of sorts. Because that darkness is there.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• American TV’s Journey In The 21st Century Has Been From Irony To Sincerity

  28-07-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Two decades ago, TV’s most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of dark or acerbic detachment. Today, they’re more likely to be earnest and direct.” James Poniewozik explores the how and why. – The New York Times
  
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• Spotify Now Has 165 Million Subscribers – More Than Apple And Amazon Combined

  28-07-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As for the rest of Spotify’s Q2 2021, the company reported 365 million monthly active users—a growth of 22% YOY. Total revenue was €2.33 billion, or about $2.75 billion. That’s an increase of 23% YOY. – Fast Company
  
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• West African Talking Drums Really Can Imitate Speech, Say Researchers

  28-07-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yorùbá speech, that is. The West African language is tonal, using three different pitches, and dùndún drummers can adjust the tension on their drum heads to change pitch, stroke by stroke, to match Yorùbá syllables and words. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre — Under A Microscope

  28-07-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I hope that the theatre generally, will be open to the idea that when you limit yourself to doing only primarily white theatre for primarily white audiences, there is well over half the city you are excluding.” – American Theatre
  
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• 12th-Century Organ, By Far The World’s Oldest, To Be Reconstructed

  28-07-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The pipes and carillon bells of the instrument were discovered a century ago at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Scholar-performer David Catalunya says the pipes are near-perfectly intact and that, over the next five years, he’ll make them playable again. – Aleteia
  
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• Choreographer Drew McOnie On What Success Looks Like

  28-07-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Success isn’t how many awards you win, or how many five-star reviews you get. Success is built on how quickly you bounce back, how you take the lessons. Everything in between is just wounded ego.” – The Guardian
  
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• “Sunday In The Park With George” Barely Escaped Being A Disaster

  28-07-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First, Stephen Sondheim couldn’t come up with songs because he didn’t think James Lapine’s script needed any. So began a cascade of calamities, right up to the Broadway opening, until the show shocked everyone involved by getting 10 Tony nominations and a Pulitzer Prize. – The New York Times
  
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• The Man Who’s Saving Rohingya Folk Tales

  28-07-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mohammed Rezuwan is himself one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya driven out of Myanmar by that country’s military and mobs. He now travels around the refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, recording and translating his people’s traditional stories. – PRX’s The World
  
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• The Hermitage Hops On The NFT Train

  28-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following in the footsteps of the Uffizi in Florence, the St. Petersburg museum will auction off digital tokens of five works in its collection, one each by Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Monet, van Gogh, and Kandinsky. – Artnet
  
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• Amar Ramasar, Last Remaining NY City Ballet Dancer Involved In Sexting Scandal, Will Retire

  28-07-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 39-year-old’s decision to end his 20-year career with the company next May comes three years after the scandal roiled City Ballet and two weeks after colleague Georgina Pazcoguin revealed in a book that he would regularly tweak her nipples as a greeting. – The New York Times
  
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• How Activists Got New York The Beautiful New Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library

  28-07-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The much-praised new branch of the New York Public Library, across 5th Avenue from the famous flagship, wasn’t supposed to happen. The NYPL board was bent on selling the branch property — until The Nation reported on the plan and advocates set furiously to work. – The Nation
  
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• Young People Are Using France’s Culture Pass To Buy … Manga

  28-07-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Granted, the program was only just gearing up when the pandemic closed arts venues, but officials’ hopes that 18-year-olds would use their few-strings-attached €300 to sample high culture are being punctured by reality. – The New York Times
  
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• UNESCO’s Latest World Heritage Sites

  28-07-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Among the monuments added are Madrid’s Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park, the old port of Guangzhou, Peru’s ancient Chankillo observatory, Mexico’s 16th-century Tlaxcala Cathedral, Ramappa Temple in south-central India, Sudanese-style mosques in the Ivory Coast, and the city of Nice. – The National (Abu Dhabi)
  
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• Cuts to art subjects funding ‘walk us back 60 years’, says artist Helen Cammock

  28-07-2021 12:33
  
  UK’s decision to slash subsidy is designed to stifle criticism from artists, Turner-prize winner saysThe Turner prize-winning artist Helen Cammock has condemned the government’s decision to halve higher education funding for some arts subjects, calling it a move that will “walk us back 60 years” and make the arts a pursuit for the rich.Cammock said the funding cuts, which were signed off last week and will slash the high-cost funding subsidy for creative and arts subjects
  
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• Ten Years

  28-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week marks the tenth anniversary of Engaging Matters. That’s hard for me to believe. In that time this blog has had a little over 500 posts, mostly written by yours truly but also spiced up with work from some brilliant guests. When we began there was a frantic (for me) pace of two posts per week. After a few years writing that much “ate my lunch” so I cut back to one per week. Over the last two years the writing has become gradually more . . . occasional. The slowing has
  
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• The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis – Managing Director

  28-07-2021 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  OrganizationThe Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) debuted in 1966, originally in partnership with Webster University at the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts. Since that time, The Rep has become a prominent arts organization in St. Louis and has received national recognition for its artistic work with its mainstage productions and the Imaginary Theater Company for youth. The Rep seeks to present a wide array of theatrical styles and periods within their programming and views t
  
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• InstantEncore To Launch New Digital Program Service

  28-07-2021 06:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  InstantEncore will launch a new service this summer to provide arts organizations with a digital alternative to printed programs. Developed in response to COVID-19, InsideGuide reduces physical contact points at arts events by delivering digital programs to patrons’ mobile devices. Arts organizations can also reduce their printing and shipping costs while retaining ad revenue.InsideGuide presents traditional program information and more in an interactive, mobile-first format.Deliver conte
  
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• Simon Rattle: We’ve Lost Many Musicians in the Pandemic

  28-07-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Many of the first-choice people said, ‘Look I’m sorry, I’m not doing this any more. I have a family. I had to take another profession. Six months ago, I’d have welcomed it’,” he said. – The Guardian
  
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