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• How To Become Wise? Learning Rather Than Persuading

  05-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most remarkable feature of Socrates’s approach is his punctilious politeness and sincere enthusiasm. The conversation usually begins with Socrates asking his interlocutor: Since you think you know, can you tell me…” – Boston Review
  
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• GENERAL DIRECTOR OPERA SAN JOSÉ

  05-08-2021 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  GENERAL DIRECTOR
  OPERA SAN JOSÉ
  San Jose, CaliforniaOpera San José (OSJ) invites applications and recommendations for the position of General Director.Reporting to the Board of Directors, the General Director provides for the overall leadership of this $5 million company, with ultimate responsibility for all creative and operational aspects of administration and production. The General Director is the primary leader in artistic planning, fund-raising, building relationships with i
  
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• Why It’s So Difficult To Design A Good Olympic Logo

  05-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paris is not the only city to struggle when trying to create a memorable logo. The history of Olympic logos shows it’s not easy to strike the tricky balance between capturing the spirit of the Games and that of the host city. – The Conversation
  
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• We’re Taught That Battle And Triumph Are Desirable. Is Neutrality A Better Option?

  05-08-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Our heroes are the warrior, the entrepreneur, and the activist, not the neutral parties. Neutrality appears cold, lifeless, effeminate, weak, and suspect. – Tablet
  
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• Haunting Pictures Of Cyprus’ Underwater Sculpture Park

  05-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum is within a marine protected area about 200 metres from Pernera beach and in water between eight and 10 metres deep, so is accessible to snorkellers, scuba divers and free divers. – The Guardian
  
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• People Are Quitting Jobs. Time For A Rethink?

  05-08-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reports of workers of all types have quit, are quitting, or are looking for reasons to quit. Many are not seeking a new job, either right away or ever. Some are calling it “The Great Resignation of 2021.” Alan Harrison
  
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• Russia Blocks Popular Online Community DeviantArt

  05-08-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Roskomnadzor, the country’s communications regulator, “said it had sent 145 requests to DeviantArt to remove unlawful content from its site since 2019, saying certain pages contained child pornography, pro-drug and pro-Nazi content, as well as other prohibited images.” – Reuters
  
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• Broadway Is On The Verge Of Reopening. Can It? Should It?

  05-08-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A week ago, there was great optimism that by Sept. 14 we would be raring to go. Now, I would say there’s cautious optimism, what with the delta variant and the many forms of communication coming out that there’ve been breakthrough cases.” – Bloomberg
  
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• No, Say Musicians, UK Government Has Not Solved Post-Brexit Touring Problem

  05-08-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We knew all this in January,” says the CEO of the musicians’ trade body. “The idea that the government has done something fantastic or that it has won some concessions is not correct. The announcement is not new information to the music industry.” – The Guardian
  
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• Texas’s Governor Forbids Mask Mandates. So People Will Go To Shows?

  05-08-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not really. In an informal KERA and Dallas Morning News survey conducted over the past few days, about 70% of more than 1,200 respondents said they do not feel safe or are unsure if they feel safe attending public arts events. – Dallas Morning News
  
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• We Need Better Plots About Friendship

  05-08-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “When friendship exists in the background, it’s unremarkable but generally uncomplicated. But when friendship becomes the plot, then the only story to tell is about how the friendship ended.” B.D. McClay argues that there can be more options. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• NYC’s Remarkable New Island Of Creativity

  05-08-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On 2.4 acres of lush lawns and man-made, sculptured hills, Little Island percolates daily with creative energy, fueled by talent recruited everywhere from the theaters of Broadway to the platforms of the subway. – Washington Post
  
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• Far from Frill—Large Investments in Campus Arts Facilities May Attract Higher-Tuition Students

  05-08-2021 18:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Photo by Loïc Fürhoff on Unsplash
  In the early 1990s, as a moon-eyed undergraduate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I often killed time between classes by straying into the Hopwood Room in Angell Hall. Named for Avery Hopwood (1882-1928), an alum and playwright whose Broadway credits include Getting Gertie’s Garter, the carpeted oasis lured few visitors—beyond faculty and students from the MFA program in creative writing. Upon entry, you met a round oak table, or
  
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• Artist’s paintings of poppies offer a visual diary of the pandemic

  05-08-2021 17:58
  
  Brian Clarke spent his lockdowns painting hundreds of spirit-lifting watercolours, which are now on display in LondonOn one level they are hundreds of joyful, spirit-lifting paintings of poppies. But for the artist Brian Clarke they are also a kind of diary of the pandemic – the highs, the lows, the loss and the hope.Clarke is best known for his architectural stained glass work, but he also paints and over the last year, through the lockdowns, he has been obsessively painting poppies.Brian
  
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• Phillip King obituary

  05-08-2021 15:33
  
  Sculptor at the forefront of a 1960s revolution in his discipline whose work explored basic forms and new materialsIn 1956, Phillip King, then a student of modern languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge, enquired casually at Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London, if there was an art school nearby. “There’s one next door,” was the reply. At St Martin’s School of Art King encountered Anthony Caro, who was teaching there. Back in Cambridge, King mounted a show
  
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• Grief, loss and resurrections at Edinburgh art festival – review

  05-08-2021 14:27
  
  Alongside calm reflections by Sekai Machache and Frank Walter are shows that engage with 21st-century traumas, from Covid-19 to the Baltimore riots The late Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite’s voice echoes through a 17th-century stone dovecote at the Jupiter Artland sculpture park. Sounding melodic but pained, we hear his reading of The 21 Days, a poem about the death of his stepson: “on the third day / of yr death. the water in my urine turn to blood / i cover the waterfront of the mi
  
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• The Gallery of Miracles and Madness by Charlie English review – the fate of Hitler’s ‘degenerate’ artists

  05-08-2021 08:30
  
  Salvador Dalí and Paul Klee admired their work – but asylum patients were left vulnerable when fellow artist Hitler came to powerIn 1922 Hans Prinzhorn, a Heidelberg psychiatrist, published a book that set the art world on fire. At first glance Artistry of the Mentally Ill didn’t sound as if it was breaking new ground. Ever since the 19th century, medical men working in asylums – “mad doctors” by another name – had pored over the drawings, paintings and
  
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