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• Michael Tilson Thomas Has Emergency Brain Surgery

  06-08-2021 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thomas, 76, will now embark on a monthslong course of therapy and has canceled all his public appearances through the end of October. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• In Cuba, Dance And Politics Have A Long History Together

  06-08-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The history of dance in Cuba” — from the Alonsos’ national ballet company in 1948 to today’s protests — “shows us how artists not only negotiated with the state, but also related to and drew inspiration from their … imagined national community to express themselves.” – The Washington Post on MSN
  
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• Scientists Use AI To Translate Ancient Text

  06-08-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers at University of Notre Dame are developing an artificial neural network to read complex ancient handwriting based on human perception to improve capabilities of deep learning transcription. – Tech Xplore
  
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• Traveling Talkies: India’s Itinerant Cinema Tents Are Fading Away

  06-08-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Starting in the 1950s, small companies would roam the village festival circuit, setting up tents and showing old films with aging projectors cast off from the cities. Yet, as cell phones and internet service reach rural India, the market for traveling talkies is disappearing. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Bringing India’s Folk Musicians Back Into The Mainstream — And Getting Them Paid

  06-08-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Seventy percent of India’s musicians practice folk, but they earn only 2% of the industry’s revenues. … Many listeners today only hear the genre through movies, or adapted by indie bands,” something the nonprofit Anahad Foundation is working to change. – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• What Does US Theater Need? Shared Leadership, Salaried Jobs For Artists, Continued Digital Exploration: Study

  06-08-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The survey of 75 leaders also found a need to safely discuss big ideas. “Right now we do not have an ability to have a healthy conversation. … There’s fear and apprehension in the field, and we have to figure out how to talk to each other.” – Variety
  
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• Emeka Ogboh’s Brexit lament, the brilliant Joan Eardley and a Viking hoard – the week in art

  06-08-2021 15:57
  
  Ogboh fills Edinburgh’s Burns Monument with sound, Eardley’s seascapes get a welcome outing and a detectorist’s extraordinary find – all in your weekly dispatchEmeka Ogboh: Song of the Union
  A sound installation of Robert Burns’s Auld Lang Syne, sung in the languages of the EU, to protest and mourn Britain’s departure.
  • Burns Monument, Edinburgh, until 29 August Continue reading...
  
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• Gotham Awards Eliminate Gendered Acting Categories

  06-08-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ceremony honoring independent film “will replace its best actress and best actor categories with a single category for outstanding lead performance. For the first time, there will be a category for supporting roles: outstanding supporting performance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Greece Closes Acropolis As Wildfires Burn And Athens Chokes On Smoke

  06-08-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Across southern Europe, large wildfires have so far killed eight people and caused mass evacuations while also threatening to damage ancient cultural sites. In Greece, authorities have partially closed the Acropolis and other major archaeological sites while battling with dozens of conflagrations around Athens.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• UK Gov’t Announces $1 Billion Insurance Plan To Cover Performance Cancellations Due To COVID

  06-08-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Live Events Reinsurance Scheme, a partnership with Lloyds, sets aside £750 million to offer cancellation insurance that private companies have been unwilling to provide during the pandemic. The plan will open in September and run for a year. – Variety
  
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• Ethiopia’s Ancient Rock-Hewn Churches Captured By Tigrayan Rebels

  06-08-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Residents of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site that’s home to 11 landmark 13th-century churches and a major pilgrimage destination for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, have fled — along with government troops — as soldiers from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front march in. – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• England’s cathedrals host art from Sheffield steel to a model moon

  06-08-2021 11:48
  
  Eclectic range of exhibitions across country aimed at catering to pent-up thirst for art after lockdownFrom 18,000 paper doves suspended on 15 miles of ribbon in Liverpool to an illuminated model of the moon in Bristol and a celebration of steel in Sheffield, England’s newly reopened cathedrals are hosting an eclectic range of art installations this summer.Cathedrals have been exhibiting art in their cavernous spaces for years, along with hosting helter-skelters, ice rinks, corporate dinne
  
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• SFMoMA Cuts Programs — Community Calls Out Disconnect Of Values

  06-08-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Are you really telling the Bay Area that you spent the last year and a half forging diversity, equity and inclusion committees, to then eliminate the three most diverse and accessible programs that foster a sense of connection and support for local artists?” – Los Angeles Times
  
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