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• Does The Art World Still Have A Sense Of Humor?

  03-09-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Red tape and regulations have largely put paid to a congenial and very possibly no-less-profitable art world, as has the workload in oppressed, ever-leaner organisations dominated by accountants or hit by government cuts. – Apollo
  
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• Study: Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Is Pretty Accurate

  03-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd performance and a given fact checker. – Wired
  
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• Why Big-Name Writers Are Signing On With Substack

  03-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Writers flirting with the Substack idea would be better seen in footballing terms: they are probably going out on loan from their existing publishers, not transferring for good. – The Guardian
  
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• Judge Sentences Right-Wing Extremist To Read Classics

  03-09-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Start with Pride And Prejudice and Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope. “On January 4 you will tell me what you have read and I will test you on it.” – BBC
  
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• China Bans “Effeminate Men” From TV

  03-09-2021 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Previously, the regime has expressed official concerns and cracked down on youth online gaming, boy band culture, gambling, cryptocurrency and sports. The moves are part of discouraging what it sees as unhealthy attention to celebrities and certain distracting activities. – Deadline
  
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• At Last, China’s Notorious “Ghost Cities” Are Getting Some Actual Inhabitants

  03-09-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early in the 2000s. the People’s Republic created a string of new mega-developments — building much faster than people were moving in. Images of wide boulevards and flashy architecture completely devoid of people spread worldwide. Finally, folks are arriving and the cities are showing some life. – Bloomberg Businessweek
  
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• SAG-AfTRA Elects New Leaders

  03-09-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Fran Drescher has been elected president of SAG-AFTRA and, in a split decision, her opponent’s running mate, Joely Fisher, has been elected national secretary-treasurer. – Deadline
  
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• It’s the Met’s First Opening Night Since The Pandemic And First Opera By A Black Composer. Meet The Man Who’s Singing The Lead

  03-09-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Justin Davidson profiles Will Livermore, a 33-year-old baritone who’d been specializing in comic parts such as Papageno and Figaro. Now he’s taking on the role of the furious Charles in composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles Blow’s memoir Fire Shut Up in My Bones. – New York Magazine
  
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• NYC To Consider Repealing Cabaret Ban On Dancing

  03-09-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Legislation proposed on Aug. 26 by Adams and New York City Council Members Keith Powers and Mark Levine would “end the city’s zoning laws over dancing and entertainment, so establishments would be regulated based on capacity venue, rather than zoning” reads a New York City Council press release. – New York Post
  
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• Saleem Kidwai, Scholar Who Revealed India’s Queer Past To The World, Dead At 70

  03-09-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “By translating literature about same-sex love from 15 Indian languages composed over more than 2,000 years,” the anthology he co-edited “challenged the modern homophobic idea that homosexuality was a foreign import. Homosexuality wasn’t a foreign import. Homophobia was.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Joe McCarthy Grills Aaron Copland: “As your Communist Part record is extremely long . . . “

  03-09-2021 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As your Communist Party record is extremely long, I think counsel [i.e., Roy Cohn] will want
  
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• Apply Now: Master of Arts in Arts Administration at Florida State University (FSU)

  03-09-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you passionate about the arts? Are you in search of a career full of meaning and opportunity? If so, have you considered a career in Arts Administration?The MA program in Arts Administration educates aspiring cultural leaders about the practice and theory of socially responsible arts administration. In addition to discussion-based courses, our highly engaged faculty employ experiential learning opportunities to deeply engage students in learning about the practices most critical to sustainin
  
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• The Happy, Sad Life Of Painter Bob Ross

  03-09-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The sad end of the Bob Ross story is just not as compelling as its joyful beginning and middle. – The New Republic
  
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• As It Gears Back Up, Here’s What American Theater May Have Learned During Its 18-Month Break

  03-09-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pride-in-resilience, show-must-go-on attitude has started, at last, to be paired with other questions: Whose show? Why must it go on? Last year’s reckoning revealed the shoddiness of the American theater system: baked-in racism, pay scales that undershoot the cost of living, a rigid gerontocracy.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Just How Paranoid Is LA MoCA? (A Lot!)

  03-09-2021 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the end of the day Wednesday, a museum email arrived in my inbox with the almost-but-not-quite-news — along with a certifiably crazy list of demands for how the story must be covered by the Los Angeles Times. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Meet LA MoCA’s Next Director

  03-09-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joanna Burton joined the Wexner in early 2019 after its longtime director, Sherri Geldin, retired. In May, she hired Kelly Kivland away from the Dia Art Foundation in New York to be the Wexner’s chief curator and director of exhibitions. – ARTnews
  
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• A New Resource We Didn’t Realize We Needed: The Black Film Archive

  03-09-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Maya Cade, by day the audience development strategist at The Criterion Collection, built up a full register, with synopses and links, of about 250 Black films dating from 1915 to 1979 that are available to stream — a body of work that’s often forgotten today. – Vulture
  
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• Ballet Companies Try To Make This Year’s Nutcrackers COVID-Safe

  03-09-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some are imposing restrictions on performers and audience members under 12, who remain ineligible for vaccines. Others are trying to minimize contact between young artists and other dancers, by holding auditions over Zoom or equipping costumes with face masks.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Gay History Exhibit Went Up At Missouri’s State Capitol. Then It Came Right Back Down.

  03-09-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights” opened last weekend and was supposed to be there through Christmas. It lasted four days. The State Senate’s only gay member is furious. – The Kansas City Star
  
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• Helen Marten review – Turner winner’s new show leaves you gasping

  03-09-2021 15:55
  
  Sadie Coles HQ, London
  This is an exhibition teeming with sex, philosophy and the fragments of catastrophe – from multilayered abstract paintings to an embossed bar of soapA number of drawings by Helen Marten hang in the small rear gallery at Sadie Coles HQ. A close up of a coyote’s belly and abdomen, delicately drawn; a cat; people playing pool. Some make me think of surrealist André Masson, others, medieval woodcuts or cartoons from the 1920s. Among them is a pale-coloured p
  
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• As D.C. Changes Its Arts Funding Model, Things Are Getting Contentious

  03-09-2021 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After last month’s announcement that the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities is moving $5.3 million in grants from large, traditionally dominant institutions to smaller, often minority-focused ones, the big guys are starting to fight back. – Artnet
  
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• The World Beneath the World of Arts Management

  03-09-2021 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a surprising and sobering truth that, after centuries of scientific inquiry, we only understand a tiny fraction of what makes up our universe. Everything we can see and name and touch – including ourselves, the objects around us, the Earth, the sun, all the other stars, and all the galaxies – adds up to five percent of the mass that evidence suggests is there. Says National Geographic:
  Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash
  The rest of the universe appears to be made of a mys
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Revamps Its Artistic Directorship

  03-09-2021 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three associate artistic directors, Scarlett Kim, Mei Ann Teo, and Evren Odcikin, join artistic director Nataki Garrett “to serve as a nonhierarchical team working to transcend traditional text-centric models and give priority, resources and space to theater artists across media and professions.” – The Mail Tribune (Medford, Oregon)
  
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• The state of painting, Black British resistance and a fake Banksy NFT – the week in art

  03-09-2021 13:21
  
  Lisa Brice and Peter Doig feature in a sweeping survey, Tottenham Rights highlight Black communities and an unlucky buyer falls foul of an elaborate hoax – all in your weekly dispatchMixing It Up: Painting Today
  A state of the art survey of contemporary painting that stars Peter Doig, Lisa Brice, Oscar Murillo and many more.
  • Hayward Gallery, London, 9 September to 12 December Continue reading...
  
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• Shredded Banksy artwork goes back under the hammer

  03-09-2021 13:00
  
  Street artist’s Love is in the Bin, formerly Girl With Balloon, is up for auction at Sotheby’s in OctoberA Banksy painting that partially shredded itself after being sold at auction is going back under the hammer.The subversive street artist stunned the art world when his Girl With Balloon attempted to self-destruct in London in 2018 immediately after the conclusion of the auction. Continue reading...
  
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• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain review – Cumberbatch’s cat artist drowns in quirk

  03-09-2021 08:15
  
  Benedict Cumberbatch’s portrayal of eccentric Edwardian artist famed for his cute cats is brimful of star cameos but gets lost in mannered performances Here is a sentimental biopic that buries you in a fusillade of quirks and tics and flicks, an overegged pudding of a film with producer-star Benedict Cumberbatch once again going into Sherlock Turing mode. He plays eccentric Edwardian artist and illustrator Louis Wain, a lively and arguably brilliant man who might today be considered neurod
  
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• How street art is helping young migrants paint a brighter future in Italy

  03-09-2021 07:30
  
  An innovative community project has brightened buildings, ‘brought people together’ and provided an emotional outlet after traumatic journeysJadhav*, 18, from Bangladesh, arrived in Italy 10 months ago, but is still haunted by memories of his journey with people smugglers across the Mediterranean Sea.“There were 156 people packed into a small boat. There were women and children,” says Jadhav in broken Italian and Bengali translated on a smartphone app. “Waves were c
  
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