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• What Drove The 60s Boom In British Jazz

  20-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In 1966, 1968 – this was a time of liberation. We were all involved in anti-apartheid marches, CND marches, embracing different cultures. It all fed into the music and brought a freedom to it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Show Of The Year: Six Of The Most Beautiful Paintings In The World

  20-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Why would a display of just six Titian paintings at a small New England museum qualify as the art event of the year, and possibly the decade? – Washington Post
  
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• How Fan Fiction Is Changing Writing

  20-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In online communities, the number of voices informing a work grows as readers comment on one another’s posts and learn together. – The Atlantic
  
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• Cinematographers Call On Producers To Stop Dangerous Long Working Days

  20-08-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Reasonable rest demands that the employers not treat our members like machines that can just work until they are broken and then be replaced.” – Deadline
  
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• How Live Dance Came To Times Square At The Very Height Of Lockdown

  20-08-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the spring of 2020, mad with cabin fever, Jena VanElslander and a few friends started meeting every so often just to dance in the emptiness of Midtown Manhattan. A year later, her TSQ Project is still doing that, only with fully choreographed shows. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Folger Theatre Gets A New Artistic Director

  20-08-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Karen Ann Daniels, 45, has been director of the Public Theatre’s Mobile Unit since 2019 and before that had similar audience-engagement responsibilities for six years at the Old Globe Theatre in her hometown of San Diego. – Washington Post
  
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• The Tempestuous, Scandalous Life Of England’s First Female Fiction Writer

  20-08-2021 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lady Mary Wroth, a noble at James I’s court, had two bastard children with an Earl who ignored them and dumped her. The cream of London society was horrified when she put those secrets, and many of theirs as well, into a novel and play. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Do Women Philosophers Do Different Philosophy?

  20-08-2021 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Underlying this question is a sense that our voices are not seen as philosophers’ voices, but primarily as women’s voices. It is as if women would necessarily have a distinctive point of view, as a group. – Aeon
  
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• Chuck Close obituary

  20-08-2021 19:32
  
  Painter of huge portraits that explored the relationship between painting and photographyIn the 1960s Chuck Close, fresh from art school, was sitting in a New York restaurant when Jasper Johns walked in, passing by his fellow diners in total anonymity despite the older painter’s great fame. After seven decades of self-portraits, Close, who has died aged 81, never suffered the same fate, his face recognisable to generations of museum-goers. In 2017 this storied career abruptly ended followi
  
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• San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House Gets New, Roomier Seats

  20-08-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  San Francisco Opera chief Matthew Shilvock: “The seats have historically been patrons’ No. 1 concern for the building. Letters to me. Letters to the box office. Letters to the city. And with some justification. We had springs coming through some of the seats.” – The New York Times
  
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• Essays in the Works About That ‘Bastard Angel’

  20-08-2021 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The late poet Harold Norse, né Rosen, was a born maverick whose splendid Memoirs of a Bastard Angel is a delicious account of his life and involvement with some of the most celebrated American and British writers of the 20th century, among them William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Charles Bukowski. Now Clemson University Press is planning to bring out a collection of personal and scholarly essays about his poetry a
  
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• When The Wires Of Our Brain Get Crossed

  20-08-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some 4 percent of the population experiences this kind of cross-sensory linking, and studies have shown it’s more prevalent in creative people. – Nautilus
  
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• The Supreme Court Threw Out This Filmmaker’s Suit Against North Carolina. Now He Has Another Chance

  20-08-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Rick Allen sued NC for (ahem) pirating his footage of the salvage of Blackbeard’s ship, the justices unanimously ruled that citizens can’t sue states in Federal court. But a different Court decision offers Allen a new angle: the 5th Amendment’s Takings Clause. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• In your face: how Chuck Close built images and tore them apart

  20-08-2021 17:51
  
  Face blindness meant the photorealist artist, who has died aged 81, had to dismantle and reconstitute, making every cell of his pixellated portraits ever more dramaticChuck Close, painter of outsized photorealist portraits, dies aged 81Hugely enlarged, Chuck Close stares back at you from behind his glasses, a cigarette lodged in the corner of his mouth. It is a face with a what-you-looking-at stare, and you look back, dwarfed by his image, thinking get-out-of-my-face in return.Taking us from the
  
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• Our art deals with real injustices, some in Palestine: no wonder we faced opposition « Forensic Architecture

  20-08-2021 17:35
  
  Our battle to restore a statement to a Manchester exhibition was really about what can and can’t be said in cultural spacesOn Wednesday, protesters in Manchester reclaimed one of the city’s main cultural institutions. Despite the rain, pro-Palestine activists gathered in front of the closed doors of the Whitworth gallery, part of the University of Manchester. It was because of their persistent action, and 13,000 letters sent to the gallery, that part of our exhibition, a printed stat
  
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• New “Jeopardy” Host Steps Down

  20-08-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the last several days it has become clear that moving forward as host would be too much of a distraction for our fans and not the right move for the show.” – Washington Post
  
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• The ‘Netflix Of Italian Culture’ Is Coming (And A Lot of It Will Be Free)

  20-08-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Operating along the lines of France TV’s Culturebox, the streaming service ITsART.tv offers concerts, theater, dance, opera, virtual museum tours, cinema, and documentaries. It’s already online in Italy and Britain and will debut in the rest of Europe and the US in coming months. – Variety
  
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• Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Is Sending Art Out To Small Towns

  20-08-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Uffizi Diffusi,’ or ‘Scattered Uffizi,’ an initiative concocted by the gallery’s director, Eike Schmidt, … aims to build stronger ties between the famous Florentine museum and towns scattered throughout the surrounding Tuscany region by lending them artworks usually kept in storage.” – The New York Times
  
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• “Pass Over”, Broadway’s First Play Since Lockdown, May Be In Trouble

  20-08-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One unnamed producer says, “The show is bleeding money,” and not all of the initial capitalization had been raised when previews began on Aug. 4. Opening night is now three weeks earlier than previously announced, perhaps so reviews can spur more ticket sales. – Forbes
  
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• Actors, Get Your Damn Shots Or Get Off The Damn Stage: L.A. Times

  20-08-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles McNulty: “Whatever excuses you may have for not doing everything in your power to avoid taking up a scarce hospital bed or putting a friend, family member, colleague or perfect stranger into one, I don’t want to hear them.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Substack Is Becoming A Platform For Fiction

  20-08-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Authors including Elle Griffin, John McWhorter, Maggie Stiefvater, and Matt Taibbi use the service to serialize new books or publish short stories exclusive to their newsletter audiences … [and] the latest of (them) is Anand Giridharadas.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Yoko Ono’s broken pottery and the fragility of love – the week in art

  20-08-2021 15:00
  Ono’s participatory artwork returns after 50 years, while Ellen Harvey exhibits her vanished tourist sights alongside Turner’s paintings – all in your weekly dispatchYoko Ono
  Help mend Ono’s broken pottery in a participatory artwork she first staged in 1960s London.
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• Artist Chuck Close, 81

  20-08-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “(His) larger-than-life portraits, some composed of thousands of small but intricate paintings that served as pixels, made him one of the most renowned artists of the past half century.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Last Suspect In Dresden Green Vault Robbery Arrested

  20-08-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Six men took part in the theft of priceless historic jewelry from the city’s Residenzschloss in 2019; all are now in custody. While their names have not been released, the six are believed to be members of Berlin’s Remmo crime family. – ARTnews
  
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• Replay: Allegra Kent and Arthur Mitchell dance Balanchine’s Agon

  20-08-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Allegra Kent and Arthur Mitchell dance the pas de deux from George Balanchine’s Agon in a 1973 film. Mitchell created his role in the work’s 1957 New York City Ballet premiere. The score was written for Balanchine by Igor Stravinsky:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Chuck Close, painter of outsized photorealist portraits, dies aged 81

  20-08-2021 11:56
  
  Career of painter known for his huge and highly detailed portraits was later marred by allegations of sexual harassmentChuck Close, known for creating huge, highly detailed, photorealist paintings of himself and fellow artists, has died aged 81.The painter rose to fame throughout the 1970s and 80s, depicting peers including Philip Glass and Cindy Sherman. But his career was marred by numerous allegations of sexual harassment made in 2017 but dating back to 2005. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Come on this journey with me’: Elaine Mitchener, Britain’s boldest vocalist

  20-08-2021 11:00
  
  Classically trained with a three-octave range, the genre-exploding performer dissolves her voice into astonishing gasps and stutters to confront the horror of colonial historyPerforming her piece Sweet Tooth, Elaine Mitchener’s hands become someone else’s. Flesh is poked, buttocks are slapped, breasts are grabbed. Her fingers reach inside her mouth, fish-hooking her cheeks into a grimace, and she is dragged about the stage by invisible others. Her breath becomes shallow and panicked,
  
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• Yeah, Truth, Reality And Facts. But Our Culture Runs On Feelings

  20-08-2021 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A pragmatist ethics calls for prioritising feelings instead of facts, because a truly humanist democracy is sentimentalist rather than rationalist. – Aeon
  
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• This Dark Country by Rebecca Birrell review – Bloomsbury’s female artists

  20-08-2021 10:00
  
  Whether painting apples or Staffordshire dogs, these British female artists saw a radical side to domestic lifeAccording to Rebecca Birrell, there was nothing remotely still about the still lifes that British female painters produced in the first third of the 20th century. While Vanessa Bell’s apples, Gluck’s flowers and Nina Hamnett’s saucepan might appear to speak of modest ambitions and domestic self-containment, Birrell argues that these works positively buzz with political
  
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• ‘They call us bewitched’: the DRC performers turning trash into art – photo essay

  20-08-2021 07:01
  
  Dolls found in rubbish dumps, radio parts and discarded flip-flops are among items used to create surreal costumes by a Kinshasa collective highlighting political and environmental issuesAs a child, Shaka Fumu Kabaka witnessed the atrocities that took place during the six-day war between Ugandan and Rwandan forces in his home town of Kisangani in June 2000. “It was not even our war, but a war between two foreign armies,” he said.Shaka Fumu Kabaka in his costume, Matshozi 6 Jours (Six
  
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• Covid Casualties: National Gallery Pulls Out of Major Show of Genoese Baroque Art UPDATED

  20-08-2021 00:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Having just gotten my Pfizer booster shot (thank you, Walgreens), I returned home to the temperature-raising news that the
  
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• Disney Adds AI: Are You Ready To Speak With Your Favorite Fantasy Character?

  20-08-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How long before Disney replaces the humans who portray characters in its parks with machines? Today, impressive robot stuntman; tomorrow, creepy robot Cinderella signing autographs outside the castle. – The New York Times
  
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