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• Famed Music School Falls Silent As Taliban Take Afghanistan

  27-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The students are very fearful about their future – not just of their education and their [music] programme, but also about their life. They do not feel safe in Afghanistan.” – BBC
  
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• America’s Founding Colonial Stories Are Nice Fairy Tales. The Reality Was Less Flattering

  27-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The political leaders and famous personages that tower over our imaginations are condensed to life-size. They make grubby, horrid choices; they bumble, fumble, and scheme their way through moments of import. – The New Republic
  
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• The Quiet Value Behind The Enduring Success Of “Antiques Roadshow”

  27-08-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a show whose segments are punctuated by dollar amounts, there’s actually a quiet, persistent suggestion to direct our aspirations somewhere else: history, family, sentiment, even love. – The Atlantic
  
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• Our Misperceptions Of How The Brain Works

  27-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Scientists have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences.” But these “are poor guides for understanding how brains are structured or how they work.” – Quanta
  
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• How The Counterculture Became The Main Culture

  27-08-2021 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a truism that high culture, as it used to be known, has been steadily losing its authority since the rise of mass culture in the early twentieth century. – New Criterion
  
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• Eventually, One Gets Old Enough To Really Appreciate Proust

  27-08-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Like Marcel, we’ve spent decades building our models of the world, and like him we’re starting to see them for the gimcrack that they are. We’re beginning to sense just how much effort is involved in holding a person together.” – Literary Hub
  
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• How Publishing Literature Has Changed

  27-08-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most authors have day jobs, which is nothing new; Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. The difference in 2021 is that traditional side careers are less viable and also less “side.” – Vanity Fair
  
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• Thanks To Streaming, Indian TV Is More Daring Than It’s Ever Been (Or Is It?)

  27-08-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like to claim that today’s groundbreaking shows deal provocatively with difficult social issues — but some of the ground has been broken before. – BBC
  
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• Data Science: The Creepiest, Most Ominous Word In Macbeth

  27-08-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It turns out that Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again. – OneZero
  
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• At Last, Dorothy Parker Has A Tombstone, Complete With Epitaph

  27-08-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Leave for her a red young rose,
  Go your way, and save your pity;
  She is happy, for she knows
  That her dust is very pretty.” – The New York Times
  
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• Was The Nuclear Family As Our Primary Social Unit A Mistake?

  27-08-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer for individuals and more unstable for families. – The Atlantic
  
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• Nocturnes — The Best Music To Help With Your Pandemic-Induced Insomnia

  27-08-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter’s “eight-hour lullaby” Sleep, Anna Meredith’s Four Tributes To 4am, and Craig Armstrong’s new Nocturnes for two pianos, here are suggested soporifics for the stressed-out. – BBC
  
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• How Finland Gets Support For The Arts? Make Politicians Museum Interns

  27-08-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers’ rooms, archives and, for example, the reception rooms for objects. – Finnish Museums Association
  
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• This One Weird Trick Changed Medical Illustration Forever

  27-08-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture that were crucial to their images while letting body parts in the background remain vague in a way that photography can’t do. – Forbes
  
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• For Over A Century, Black American Composers Have Gotten Attention In Europe That They Couldn’t Get At Home

  27-08-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From William Grant Still, William Dawson, and Florence Price to expatriates working there today, African-American composers whose music has been quickly forgotten here have looked to audiences across the Atlantic, where “they listen to my music instead of looking at me.” – The New York Times
  
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• Letter: Colin Painter obituary

  27-08-2021 16:15
  
  As chair of the NATFHE (National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education) art section, Colin Painter made meetings more memorable than any other trade union gatherings I can recollect.Our discussions, rather than focusing on pay and conditions, were of the professional practice of art and education, after which one or another performance artist whom Colin had invited would undertake a piece of work. On one occasion this was so dramatic (it involved the repetitive scratching of th
  
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• Following In García Lorca’s Footsteps, Bringing Cinema To Remote Spanish Villages

  27-08-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project called La Barraca de Cine is bringing a screen and projector to any village that has no movie theater. – The Guardian
  
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• Bo Spassoff, Director Of The Rock School: The Exit Interview

  27-08-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he’s gleaned from nearly four decades at the front of the studio” of the much-admired Philadelphia ballet academy. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Broadway League Turns To Oprah To Convince Theatergoers To Come Back

  27-08-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Winfrey is narrator for the audio and video components of a multi-million-dollar campaign across print, broadcast, and social media to convince COVID-wary audience members to go ahead and see a show. – The New York Times
  
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• Details Of Venice’s Planned Day-Tripper Tax Are Set

  27-08-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Regional lawmakers have approved a “contributo di accesso” ranging from €3 to €10 based on the time of year, and day visitors will have to make a reservation. Overnight tourists, who already pay hotel occupancy taxes, are exempt. – Artnet
  
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• Actors Stranded In Sydney With No Work Or Money By Lockdown And Border Closures

  27-08-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the Delta variant on the rise in the city, many Melbourne-based actors who had been performing in Sydney were contractually obligated to their shows. Now theatres are closed, the border between New South Wales and Victoria states has slammed shut, and they’re stuck. – The Guardian
  
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• Weird dreams, the ruins of Palmyra and Dippy the dinosaur – the week in art

  27-08-2021 14:00
  
  Louise Bourgeois and Edvard Munch get existential, the ancient ruins destroyed by Isis briefly rise again and a giant dinosaur skeleton moves in to Norwich – all in your weekly dispatchChikako Yamashiro
  This Japanese artist explores the history of her birthplace, the island of Okinawa, which remained under American control from 1945 to 1972 and is still home to several US airbases.
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• Consultant – New York or London, AEA Consulting

  27-08-2021 06:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  AEA Consulting is a global consulting firm setting the standard in strategy and planning for the cultural and creative sector. We are currently seeking exceptional candidates for the position of Consultant to join us in our mission to harness the power of art, culture, and creativity to realize the full potential of people and places around the world.Consultants are crucial consulting team members who drive AEA’s project delivery and project management work, while supporting business devel
  
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• Office Administrator, AEA Consulting, Beacon, New York

  27-08-2021 03:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  AEA Consulting, a global consulting firm setting the standard in strategy and planning for the cultural and creative sector, seeks an Office Administrator to assist the organization in its Beacon, New York, office. We are looking for an energetic, professional team player who can execute flawlessly in a stimulating, fast-paced environment. The Office Administrator reports to the Managing Principal, providing executive support to him, and works closely with the Manager of Finance and Administrati
  
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