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• Time To Re-Question The Idea Of Cultural Appropriation?

  17-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The very concept of “cultural appropriation” is misbegotten. As I’ve previously argued, it wrongly casts cultural practices as something like corporate intellectual property, an issue of ownership. – The New York Times
  
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• An Epic Battle For Control Of Hollywood

  17-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The bigger question facing studios, streaming services and talent agencies: How should stars and filmmakers be paid for movies and TV shows now that the business model is shifting quickly? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Francis Fukuyama Famously Declared The End Of History. Well…

  17-08-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Fukuyama, the demise of the Soviet Union testified to the “total exhaustion of viable systemic alternatives” to––and thus, the “unabashed victory”––of “economic and political liberalism.” – Hedgehog Review
  
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• The Late Michael Thomas, 85, Cultural Curmudgeon (& Loyal CultureGrrl Donor)

  17-08-2021 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yesterday I had the sad task of deleting the late Michael Thomas (who died on Aug. 7) from my
  
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• Why Thinking Rationally Is Such A Challenge

  17-08-2021 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not that we don’t think—we are constantly reading, opining, debating—but that we seem to do it on the run, while squinting at trolls in our phones. – The New Yorker
  
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• We Process Historic Events With Images. Afghanistan Is A Complicated Image

  17-08-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Phil Kennicott: “Countries, like travelers, want to make sense of things, which is why we reach for an image — a quick metaphor, a ready-made analogy — that will seal history in amber, give it a moral, cast it as a fable.” – Washington Post
  
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• Director Of Salt Lake City’s Largest Theatre Company Resigns After Lies On His Résumé Are Caught

  17-08-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christopher Massimine came to the Pioneer Theatre in 2019 after seven years at National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, where he doubled the budget and oversaw the hit Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof. You’d think that would be enough — but Massimine did not. – The New York Times
  
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• National Company Of “Wicked” Hires “Director Of Social Responsibility”

  17-08-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Working closely with labor unions and other production partners, Christina Alexander will implement strategic procedures related to hiring practices to identify qualified candidates from underrepresented communities. – Playbill
  
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• Co-Founder Of Snopes Caught In Plagiarism Scandal

  17-08-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Mikkelson and his then-wife started Snopes.com in 1994 in “a quest to debunk misinformation online.” But a BuzzFeed investigation has found that he plagiarized dozens of stories from news outlets, frequently under a pseudonymous byline. – BuzzFeed
  
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• My Conversations With Suzanne Farrell

  17-08-2021 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Farrell is the only dancer who could inflect solos with such a dense and bewildering array of ideas that I felt I needed at once to see that performance again to work out what I had seen.” – Alastair Macaulay
  
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• Thomas Quasthoff Is Singing Again — But Only Jazz

  17-08-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The acclaimed bass-baritone experimented with jazz (including one album) before he made a surprise retirement announcement in 2012. Now, at age 62, he says: “It’s a different kind of singing, but I have now learned a new instrument – the microphone – and I love it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Barbara Kruger On Being An Artist, A Consumer (And Not Being A TikTok Star)

  17-08-2021 18:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in this digital universe. Digital life has been emancipating and liberatory but at the same time it’s haunting and damaging and punishing and everything in between. It’s enabled the best and the worst of us.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why would anyone pay $500,000 for a painting by Hunter Biden? | Arwa Mahdawi

  17-08-2021 18:17
  
  He’s not an established artist – or critically acclaimed. Yet his works are apparently being sold for surprising amountsIt looks like the prodigal son is a painter now. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s child, has apparently been dabbling with paints for years. Now his hobby has turned serious: starting soon, you can pick up one of his colourful creations from a gallery in New York’s SoHo. It will cost you, though: the pieces are reportedly priced between $75,000 and $500,000.Who
  
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• Curtis Institute Lets Go Its Longtime Star Oboe Teacher

  17-08-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Woodhams, who retired after 40 years as the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal oboist in 2018, was told by the music school that his teaching contract will not be renewed. No reason has been given other than “Curtis has decided to move in a different direction.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Theatre’s Employment Problems

  17-08-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The harsh reality of layoffs and rehiring has sparked much confusion and pain among theatre workers, especially the technicians whose shops have sat empty for over a year and a half but now need to be filled with skilled practitioners. – American Theatre
  
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• Another Glass Ceiling Breaks As Black Female Leaders Arrive At Dance Companies

  17-08-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sarah Kaufman talks with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell; Dionne Figgins, Eliot Feld’s successor at Ballet Tech; UNC School of the Arts dean of dance Endalyn Taylor; and Carolyn Adams, the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation’s new director of education. – The Washington Post on MSN
  
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• Deepfakes Are Now Being Used In Business Presentations

  17-08-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some bigwigs at EY (formerly Ernst & Young) have started using AI-assisted videos of themselves to impress customers. One partner, for instance, used the software’s translation function to make a video of his avatar speaking fluent Japanese for a client there. – Wired
  
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• Robber Steals A Monet, Then Drops It As He Tries To Escape

  17-08-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The thief grabbed Monet’s The Voorzaan and Westerhem Island (1871) from the Zaans Museum, just north of Amsterdam, on Sunday morning. When a passerby tried to stop the culprit and his accomplice from escaping, a shot was fired but both hero and painting were unharmed. – Artnet
  
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• R. Murray Schafer, Canada’s Leading 20th-Century Composer, Dead At 88

  17-08-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “(He) composed a large body of music in all genres — symphonic, chamber, opera, choral and oratorio — and was best known for his groundbreaking creations that were performed outdoors and incorporated sounds from nature into his music.” (It was Schafer who gave us the term “soundscape.”) – CBC
  
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• Hachette Will Pay $240 Million To Buy Leading Indie Publisher

  17-08-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  No, they’re not spending that kind of money for a literary press. Workman Publishing is the company behind the Page-a-Day calendars and the Brain Quest and What To Expect When … series of informational books. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• New Zealand Goes Into Full Lockdown

  17-08-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After months with no restrictions and no locally transmitted cases of COVID, the appearance of one new patient has prompted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to close all performances, museums, film and TV production, and most businesses for three days (seven in Auckland). – AP
  
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• How Napoleon Systematically Plundered Europe’s Art

  17-08-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These were not smash-and-grab operations. He sought out experts to advise him on which cultural treasures to ship back to Paris. Napoleon wanted to expand the art collection in the Louvre palace. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• UC San Diego – Stuart Collection – Director

  17-08-2021 08:27 via feedproxy.google.com
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  An important factor in creating a sense of belonging and a vibrant, welcoming campus for students, faculty, and staff is the use of physical space, including the activation of outdoor spaces through culturally diverse art. In addition to the 21 existing installations, the newest project, Concordance, by artist Ann Hamilton is well underway. Embedded in a prominent campus walkway, Hamilton’s work features the writings of authors and scholars from diverse backgr
  
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• Where Dancers Go To Rehab As Performances Resume

  17-08-2021 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dr. David Weiss, an orthopedic physician with the NYU Langone facility in Kips Bay, compared the runup to Broadway’s comeback to a training camp where professional athletes get back into game shape. – New York Daily News
  
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