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• Walls that talk: how to buy real art in lockdown, from budget finds to custom commissions

  30-08-2021 19:30
  
  Want an original artwork in your home but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you and your empty feature wall coveredYou’ve been locked down and staring at the walls for months. It’s time for a change of scene.Related: From the Pilbara to Australia’s classrooms: meet the Indigenous kids teaching the nationRelated: ‘Oozing both class and sass’: From Country to Couture – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Is There Too Much Music?

  30-08-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  he source of discovery is the last 70 years of music. It’s all brand new, right now. So you’re competing with every song that has ever come out.” –BBC
  
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• Agi Katz obituary

  30-08-2021 17:34
  
  My mother, Agi Katz, who has died aged 83, set up her own art gallery, the Boundary, in the St John’s Wood area of London in 1986, and ran it until her death. It was a thriving place, much loved by the art world and the local community, and was infused with the vitality that had been Agi’s hallmark ever since she had arrived in the UK from Hungary in the late 1950s.Agi was born into a Jewish family in Budapest just before the second world war. When Hungary was occupied by the Germans
  
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• The End Of Fans?

  30-08-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At this tumultuous moment, I think we each have to decide for ourselves which pieces of art to keep, and which to throw out. Perhaps fandom — defined as the attachment to the artist as creator — should no longer be the point. – CNN
  
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• How To Nurture A Classical Music Community During A Pandemic

  30-08-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For violinist Jennifer Koh, the answer crystallized early in 2020: Hire composers, and get on Instagram. – NPR
  
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• Nobody Makes Superheroes Like Australia

  30-08-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DC and Marvel got you bored? Hunt down Captain Invincible, Griff the Invisible, or, even better, the TV series Cleverman, told from an Indigenous Australian perspective. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Vice President, HR & Inclusion (Opera Philadelphia)

  30-08-2021 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Opera Philadelphia is seeking a Vice President, Human Resources & Inclusion to add to its senior management team. The organization is committed to equity and inclusion practices and they know this new senior management position is instrumental in holding themselves and the organization accountable to the work. They will be looking to the successful candidate to guide them in determining and directing staffing goals and strategies to support the fulfillment of their mission.Work Shouldn&rsquo
  
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• What A Classical Retelling Means To Its Writer, And Its Audience

  30-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Madeline Miller’s 2011 book The Song of Achilles has, she says, helped readers come out to their parents; has inspired people to earn Ph.D.s in Classics; and even led to some intense tattoos.– The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Jeopardy’s Next Big Headache

  30-08-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What kind of vetting do they have over there at Sony, anyway? – Washington Post
  
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• Here Are The Fall’s Award-Bait Films

  30-08-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In theory, four fall film festivals are about to take place, with masked, vaccinated, and tested participants. “Yes, the last Oscars were just four months ago. But there’s no shortage of intriguing awards season hopefuls premiering at these festivals.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Donald Newlove, 93, Author Who Explored The Depths Of Drink

  30-08-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Newlove wrote hundreds of articles, essays, and stories; novels; and several books of advice for writers as well. Once sober, he called his former muse “Drunkspeare.” – The New York Times
  
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• Using Artists – And Art – To Revive A Town In Cornwall

  30-08-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s a revival in the town of St. Austell, thanks to the history of clay. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Outdoor Concerts In Ireland Where Musicians Arrive By Canal And Barge

  30-08-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sounds gloriously picturesque: “There’s a tall lamp standing on the stone quayside at a lock in rural Co Carlow on a warm and clear evening. Beside it, a cream and green barge is moored, with a mixing desk on the bow and a few cables trailing on to the bank up towards the lamp.” – Irish Times
  
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• Let’s Talk About Luma Arles

  30-08-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The art park (project? bioregion?) in France is a bit unclear right now. Luma “is a wonderland of good intentions. They certainly don’t pave the road to hell, but they do offer versions of desirability that are at odds with each other.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Is Seeing Live Theatre Worth All Of The COVID Precautions And Stress?

  30-08-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles McNulty, in Los Angeles, says yes, but: “Anticipating the stress of the new COVID-19 protocols, I forgot the old stresses, the lunatic driving at Hollywood and Vine, the $25 parking fee (‘credit card only, please’). The woman sitting behind me returned after intermission with a bag of potato chips.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Micki Grant, Composer And Trailblazer, 92

  30-08-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Grant was the first in so many categories. First woman to write the book, lyrics, and music to a Broadway musical. One of the first Black actors with a long-running character on a soap opera. And when she couldn’t win – see 1986’s flop Phillis, about Phillis Wheatley – she bounced back. – The New York Times
  
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• Courtauld’s art treasures return home for grand reopening

  30-08-2021 13:47
  
  London gallery to showcase impressionist works that were out on loan during three-year redevelopmentRenoir’s once shocking La Loge is back from Belfast. Van Gogh’s show-stopping Self-portrait With Bandaged Ear has arrived from Amsterdam. Seurat’s Young Woman Powdering Herself from Edinburgh. A long white wall will soon have eight Cézannes, once art lovers in Bergen have finished admiring them.“It is so thrilling. We’ve missed them,” said Ernst Vegelin va
  
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• Good Thing It Wasn’t Banksy

  30-08-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or was the graffiti artist after whom the NY Police Department sent a drone, a helicopter, and several cars actually the next potential Banksy or Basquiat? – Vice
  
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• The Opera Tenor Who Likes To Take His Audience To The Edge

  30-08-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Australian tenor Stuart Skelton on Wagner: “Singers are like athletes doing long-distance competitions. You get to the point where you’ve reached your physical limits. You hit the wall. Then it’s a mental game of trying to dig deep into your technical resources to keep going.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• When The NYT Book Review Minced Few Words

  30-08-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You might call the headlines “brutally honest,” if you were being kind. “Novel or Nightmare?” one asks. “Two Pathetic Books,” one proclaims. – The New York Times
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Can Kind Of Produce New Yorker Cartoons, But Those Captions

  30-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comics artist Ilan Manouach and AI engineer Ioannis Siglidis developed the Neural Yorker, an artificial intelligence (AI) engine that posts computer-generated cartoons on Twitter.” The results can be hilarious – or deeply unsettling. – Hyperallergic
  
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• City of Chicago, music promoter

  30-08-2021 00:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lollapalooza 2021 had some 385,000 attendees (without significant Covid-19 outbreak, fortunately) but featured little of host Chicago’s indigenous talent or styles.And that’s just wrong, declared Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events commissioner Mark Kelly, launching the month-long Chicago in TuneMark Kelly, photos © Lauren Deutsch“festival” at a reception August 19. Here’s the still-evolving event calendar of hundreds of local music performances &
  
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