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• Someone Created A Fake Cormac McCarthy Account And Twitter Verified It (Oops)

  03-08-2021 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Twitter acknowledged the mistake on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson said: “The account referenced was verified by mistake and that has since been reversed. – The Guardian
  
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• Objections To An East London Mega-Entertainment Sphere

  03-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What we now face is a massive live entertainment venue, almost as tall as Big Ben, covered with nearly a million garish LEDs, programmed to display videos and adverts. – The Guardian
  
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• Departing Philly: Timothy Rub Joins the Exodus of Major Museum Officials UPDATED

  03-08-2021 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who wants to be an art museum director?The list of major museums searching for new heads is
  
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• Beginning August 16th, You’ll Need Vaccination Proof To Attend NYC Shows

  03-08-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If you want to participate in society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated. It’s time,” tweeted NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Meet Lincoln Center’s New Artistic Director

  03-08-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shanta Thake, most recently an associate artistic director at the Public Theater, will assume the role of chief artistic officer at the center, the nation’s largest performing arts complex, as it works to broaden its appeal beyond classical music and ballet. – The New York Times
  
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• Does Social Media Make It More Difficult To Act Morally?

  03-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What if it’s degrading our capacity for moral attention — the capacity to notice the morally salient features of a given situation so that we can respond appropriately? – Vox
  
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• MTV Is 40 Years Old. It Changed American Culture

  03-08-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Given the commercial and cultural behemoth it would become, MTV’s launch was inauspicious. – The Conversation
  
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• Maybe We Should Give Saint-Saëns A Little More Respect

  03-08-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the face of (the) modernist revolution, Saint-Saëns (kept) churning out tasteful, perfectly formed, self-consciously harmonious music.– The Guardian
  
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• How The Creative Class Broke America

  03-08-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Brooks: “These days, your education level and political values are as important in defining your class status as your income is. Because of this, the U.S. has polarized into two separate class hierarchies—one red and one blue.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Blanka Zizka On The Biggest Challenge In American Theater

  03-08-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Because of the constant need to fundraise, says the outgoing director of the Wilma in Philadelphia, “the people who are actually creating the work are the only people who are freelancers. How do you run theaters when you are surrounded by administrative staff only?” – The New York Times
  
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• Is It Fashionable To Be Ignorant?

  03-08-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is not at all difficult to find books on the broad scope of human knowledge written by authors who really know nothing other than that there are other people who know a lot about many separate things. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Heather Jansch obituary

  03-08-2021 19:16
  
  My mother, Heather Jansch, who has died aged 72 following a stroke, was a renowned sculptor who specialised in images of the horse in driftwood and bronze. Her work is held in collections across the world but she is perhaps best known for sculptures exhibited at the Eden Project in Cornwall, where she was a resident artist. One of her sculptures there became known as the Eden Horse. It was voted visitors’ favourite piece of work. Heather spent many years perfecting the translation of her c
  
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• To Thwart Art Thieves, Authorities And Museums Are Going High-Tech

  03-08-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They’re employing advances like liquid fingerprinting nanotechnology and tiny rare-earth magnets — as well as futuristic tech that’s to persuade thieves and looters to leave art where it is, or to recover stolen items before they disappear for good.” – Artnet
  
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• Want A Job In The Pittsburgh Symphony? Here’s How It Works…

  03-08-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, there are currently 13 openings in the violin, viola, bass, flute and percussion sections, a high number of openings for the roughly 100-member ensemble. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Roberto Calasso, Giant Of Italian Literature, Dead At 80

  03-08-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His influence came not only through his own prolific writing — most notably in a series of books that retold ancient European, Egyptian, and Indian myths — but as editorial director of the Adelphi publishing house, where he had surprising success in making challenging books popular. – The Guardian
  
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• Is Classical Music’s Racial Reckoning A Death Sentence?

  03-08-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The campaign against classical music is worth examining in some detail, for it reveals the logic that has been turned against nearly every aspect of Western culture over the last year. – City Journal
  
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• Music Is Taking A Bigger Role At The Olympics

  03-08-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The games are moving beyond the John Williams fanfares and national anthems, writes Michael Andor Brodeur. “And not just as background, but as a means of making the ultimate athletic test of human achievement more human.” – The Washington Post on MSN
  
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• London’s Science Museum Signed Non-Disparagement Clause In Sponsorship Agreement With Shell

  03-08-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The “gagging clause” was part of the contract for the oil giant’s financial support for this summer’s climate change exhibition at the museum, a show titled “Our Future Planet.” – Channel 4 News (UK)
  
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• Urgent Hiring : Artistic Director

  03-08-2021 16:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana is seeking candidates for the position of Artistic Director. We have created an extensive Position Statement that describes the position and the important role that this person will play at this important time for the organization and for arts within our community. The Phoenix Theatre has a long history of producing thought-provoking and cutting-edge plays. It is widely recognized as a leading voice, collaborator, and contributor withi
  
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• Tavis Smiley Wants To Build Nationwide Black Talk Radio Network

  03-08-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The veteran broadcaster, who lost his talk shows on both public radio and PBS after revelations that he had had sexual relationships with subordinates, launched KBLA in Los Angeles in June as an “unapologetically progressive” and “unapologetically Black” news-talk AM station. – Inside Radio
  
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• National Museum Of Dance Shuts Down

  03-08-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The future of the museum” — which has had financial and administrative problems ever since it opened in 1987 — “and its affiliated school in a restored bathhouse in Saratoga Spa State Park is unclear. It is being absorbed into the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.” – Albany Times Union
  
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• UK Court Slaps Down Planned Highway Tunnel Near Stonehenge

  03-08-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A High Court ruled that the transport ministry’s project for a two-mile, £1.7 billion tunnel near the monument didn’t include a mandated risk assessment and didn’t give enough consideration to alternatives that might cause less damage to the site’s archaeology. – Artnet
  
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• Director Of Hay Festival Resigns After Misconduct Investigation

  03-08-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Peter Florence, who founded the famous literary event with his parents in 1988, stepped down after an inquiry confirmed a staffer’s accusation of bullying. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Orford Ness: the apocalyptic art zone at war with nature

  03-08-2021 07:00
  
  UFO sightings, a Nazi invasion, nerve gas trials, unexploded bombs … the strange Suffolk enclave of Orford Ness has always inspired artists, and now it hosts the most unsettling project yetIt is one of Britain’s strangest landscapes, a spit of land off the Suffolk coast littered with the rusting junk of a mysterious and sinister past. Over the decades, musicians, film-makers, artists and writers have been sucked into its ghostly orbit, captivated by what the great existential wander
  
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