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• John Cleese Making A Show On Political Correctness

  24-08-2021 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s so much I really don’t understand, like: how the impeccable idea of ‘Let’s all be kind to people’ has been developed in some cases ad absurdum.” – Irish Times
  
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• We’re Living Through A Time Of Disasters. Will They Make Us Tougher Or…

  24-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After surviving a disaster, a minority of people become more resilient, so that, should another disaster strike, they are better able to cope. For most people, though, the stress compounds. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Grateful Dead Archive Contains Thousands Of Streamable Concerts. But What’s Really Cool Are The Fan Comments

  24-08-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Read in bulk, certain repetitions emerge. Recordings are “tasty” and “crispy,” “gifts” and “treats,” but also “killer” and “monsters.” Eyebrows bounce and mouths hang loose. – N + One
  
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• Wanted: Theatre Directors Without Vision

  24-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The laser focus on a director’s vision is problematic. It sets the director up as a prophet rather than a leader. It focuses on a destination, an imagined end goal, and not on the journey.” – Howlround
  
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• Whistled Languages Are Not Dead Yet

  24-08-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In at least 80 cultures worldwide, people have developed whistled versions of the local language when the circumstances call for it. … By studying whistled languages, (linguists) hope to learn more about how our brains extract meaning from the complex sound patterns of speech.” – Knowable
  
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• Martin Scorsese On Working With Fran Lebowitz

  24-08-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “My approach to our conversation was to listen to her; I would get angry, happy, inspired,” Scorsese explains. “Fran is, to me, asking very serious questions even when she’s being humorous about things. Deadline 
  
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• Color Wars: The Art World’s Silliest Feud May Have Produced Some Actual Good

  24-08-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack (“the world’s blackest black”), Stuart Semple led a chorus of furious objections to the idea of owning a color. Despite plenty of puerile one-upmanship between the two since, the quarrel has led Semple to create some genuinely new pigments. – CNN
  
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• Life, Death and Numbers: Ann Patchett on the Members Of The National Academy Of Arts And Letters

  24-08-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two hundred and fifty members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters are writers, composers, visual artists, and architects. It is a fixed number. When a member dies, potential new members are nominated and voted on. – Harper’s
  
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• Mass Exodus And An Unholy Mess At France’s Most Prestigious Classical Music Competition

  24-08-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition is in crisis after its artistic directors — pianist Bertrand Chamayou, violinist Renaud Capuçon, and La Scala CEO Dominique Meyer — and a large part of its staff have quit, reportedly fed up with mismanagement and money troubles. (in French) – France Musique
  
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• Dance Is Physical, Sure, But Why Don’t We Focus More On The Mental Preparation?

  24-08-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  In this day and age, it has never been so important to have the tools to cultivate a mindset of self-belief. “Especially nowadays with social media, it’s so difficult to not compare yourself.” – Eleanor Pugsley
  
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• UNESCO Calls For Preservation Of Afghanistan’s Heritage, But Who Will Actually Protect It?

  24-08-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As an executive of the Institute for Art and Law tweeted: “It would be for other states, or international bodies like the United Nations, to seek enforcement.” Uh-huh … – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis’ Unconventional Podcast Model

  24-08-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ellis’s storytelling approach, that of serializing his memoir on a podcast, allows him to exploit both types of unreliable narrator: the one who knows they’re unreliable and the one who doesn’t. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Under New Censorship Law, Hong Kong May Retroactively Ban Older Films

  24-08-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Authorities are tightening their grip on the screening of films with a series of censorship law amendments that will include empowering the city’s No. 2 official to ban previously approved productions if they are deemed threats to national security.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes ‘Spectacular’ Debut Before Dance World’s Elite

  24-08-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The company has played the Kennedy Center, and it performed at the Olympics in Atlanta (1996) and London (2012), but perhaps none of those occasions will be as important for its future as its triumphant performances this month at Jacob’s Pillow. – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Associate/Professor in Performing Arts Leadership, University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

  24-08-2021 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Duties: The appointee will:
  work alongside departmental leadership to re-envision the Performing Arts Management and Entrepreneurship (PAME) undergraduate minor in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance; teach performing arts management at the undergraduate level with the potential of engaging graduate students through existing or new course offerings; participate in the development of an arts leadership curriculum that embraces anti-oppressive methodologies and commits to advancing access, di
  
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• “The Theatrical Arm Of The Civil Rights Movement”

  24-08-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Free Southern Theater was founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to travel around 1960s Mississippi, performing for poor Black farmers to let them know about the battle to secure their right to vote. – American Theatre
  
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• Blaxit: The African-American Artists Following In The Footsteps Of DuBois, Baker, Baldwin, And Simone

  24-08-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Taking advantage of the free movement a US passport provides, and tired of the disadvantages that come with dark skin at home, these performers, writers, and visual artists are making lives and careers overseas. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Texas Performance Venues In A Tight Spot Over Vaccine Passports

  24-08-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In June, Gov. Abbott signed a law making it illegal for most businesses to require proof of vaccination from customers. But a growing number of performers are refusing to play venues that don’t require audience members to provide such proof. – The Dallas Morning News
  
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• Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Reopens At Last

  24-08-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a six-year refurbishment of the glass-fronted building.” – AP
  
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• Josephine Baker To Be Instated In France’s Panthéon

  24-08-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The expatriate American singer-dancer, who arrived in Paris in 1925 and became a legend, will become only the sixth woman, and the first Black woman, to be included among the 80 “immortals” memorialized in the French capital’s most august monument. – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• Broadway Power Brokers Sign On To Transformative Diversity Reforms

  24-08-2021 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The agreement commits Broadway and its touring productions not only to the types of diversity training and mentorship programs that have become common in many industries, but also to a variety of sector-specific changes. The New York Times
  
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