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• Swiss Bank Suspends Ai Wei Wei Account

  08-09-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The bank informed me that it was terminating my account in Switzerland. They did this, they wrote, in accordance with a new policy of closing all accounts with people who have had criminal records. – BBC
  
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• Taliban Destroys Musical Instruments At National Institute

  08-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amid Taliban rule, shocking visuals have been reported from Kabul’s National Music Institute as the Taliban has reportedly destroyed musical instruments including piano and drum set. – RepublicWorld (India)
  
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• “Culture Wars” Are The Wrong Frame For Where We Are Now

  08-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conventional wisdom has it that cultural divisions now matter most, and that plenty of people feel they have nothing in common with liberal, supposedly “globalist” elites. Yet that idea is far from the truth. – New Statesman
  
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• What’s Happened To Books In The Digital Age

  08-09-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “So what happens when the oldest of our media industries collides with the great technological revolution of our time?” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Why A Women’s Prize For Fiction?

  08-09-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ever since the prize was first mooted in the early 1990s, many have wondered whether the prize is necessary, patronising, or even fair. A common position amongst its detractors is that the prize is sexist and discriminatory. – The Conversation
  
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• The Awesome Power Of TikTok To Sell Backlist Books

  08-09-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A large community of TikTok users have carved out a corner called ‘BookTok’. BookTok influencers are predominantly teenagers and young women, … (and) when a book catches on among users (a common hashtag on BookTok videos is #TikTokMade­Me­ReadIt), the real-world results can be impressive.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• How “The Wire” Changed Television Viewing

  08-09-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unlike the then-popular CSI-style investigative American cop show, The Wire embraces the cold-hearted nature of ancient Greek tragedy. – The Conversation
  
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• Broadway’s Costume Shops Rush To Prepare For Reopening Nights

  08-09-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Broadway rolls out its return, costumers are again busy with the meticulous, mess-making handiwork that makes the industry sparkle onstage. … ‘When you need a costume for Hamilton, … you can’t just buy it from the 18th-century clothing shop down the street.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Ten Years After The Self-Published “Fifty Shades Of Gray,” Self-Publishing Has Evolved

  08-09-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The phenomenon of self-publishing is often linked to online book production methods. However, there is a much richer history of self-publishing that goes further back than its digital counterpart. – The Conversation
  
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• Making Sound Art From The Bells Of Notre-Dame De Paris

  08-09-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artist Bill Fontana is currently working to record the sounds that the (cathedral) ‘hears’ through its ten monumental bells, with plans to livestream the audio at IRCAM in Paris next year, and hopefully at museums and cultural sites around the world in the future.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• A Plan (And A Bill) To Create A New Federal Writers Project And Hire 900 Writers

  08-09-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  A reborn FWP might enable us to confront five of the more pressing problems afflicting America today, a quintet we might think of as The Five Nobodies. – USA Today
  
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• Dreams Bound to Turn Real Making a Chapbook of Poems and Drawings

  08-09-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A high-speed glance at the dummy shows the pages in sequence.Pages 4 and 5 on Barcham Green paper ready for sewn binding. Cold Turkey Press, 2021.
  
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• Adult Swim At 20: How The Cartoon Network’s Cheapo Experiment Made Good

  08-09-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By all accounts, it was a minor miracle that Adult Swim ever made it off the drawing board. … It seems right that one of modern TV’s most consistent generators of bizarro humor — and cult followings — had origins that were, themselves, pretty freewheeling.” – The New York Times
  
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• San Francisco To Get Its Own Institute Of Contemporary Art

  08-09-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ali Gass, formerly the head of the ICA San Jose and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, has raised $2.5 million to start a new institution called the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. – The New York Times
  
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• This Woman Dancing In A Park Is The Actual Poster Girl For NYC’s Reopening — But The NYPD Tried To Shut Her Down

  08-09-2021 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The City Hall commissioned poster, captioned “NO STOPPING NEW YORK,” shows Kanami Kusajima dancing in Washington Square Park. But she uses a small speaker, and since this summer’s battles over loud partying there, the cops have been after her for using amplified music. – Curbed
  
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• Ancient Chinese Heritage Sites In Henan Imperiled By This Summer’s Floods

  08-09-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The province has five UNESCO World Heritage sites and 420 sites with national heritage status. Record rain in July led to floods that killed more than 300 people and caused $18 billion in damage — including to ancient monuments and active archaeological sites. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Motion Picture Academy’s Museum Is Opening Way Past Schedule — Thank Goodness

  08-09-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After spending more time in development hell than any other project in Hollywood, the museum was plagued by more production and budgetary setbacks than Apocalypse Now.” Yet, argues Mary McNamara, the delays have allowed the museum to offer things it couldn’t have otherwise. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Houston Ballet’s Resident Choreographer Departing After Three Decades

  08-09-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After more than 30 years as Resident or Associate Choreographer with the Houston Ballet,” said Christopher Bruce in a statement, “both the company and I feel … it would be appropriate for me to step aside in order to allow another choreographer (an) opportunity.” – Houston Chronicle
  
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• Richard Wagner’s Great-Granddaughter, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, In Coma Following Near-Drowning

  08-09-2021 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 76-year-old former administrator, who worked at (among others) Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and the Met and was co-director at Bayreuth 2008-2015, was pulled “lifeless” from the Isar River near her home in Munich on Sunday. (in French) – Forumopera
  
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• Chinese Communist Party Warns Celebrities About Moral Behavior

  08-09-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At a meeting in Beijing titled “Love the party, love the country, advocate morality and art,” officials told entertainment and media figures that they must “consciously abandon vulgar and kitsch inferior tastes, and consciously oppose the decadent ideas of money worship, hedonism, and extreme individualism.” – The Guardian
  
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• Pianist Maria João Pires Injured In Fall

  08-09-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 77-year-old was to perform on Sunday at the Riga Jurmala Festival, but she tripped and fell in the street, injuring her shoulder. After a day’s hospitalization in the Latvian capital, she was discharged and has returned to Portugal to recuperate. (in Spanish) – Scherzo (Spain)
  
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• Snapshot: an interview with Helen Frankenthaler

  08-09-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Helen Frankenthaler is interviewed by Eugenia Zukerman on CBS Sunday Morning in 1984:(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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• Is Making Wine Making Art?

  08-09-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although winemakers have vision and bring that vision of what a particular wine should taste like to the blending table, their art depends inevitably on nature and nature’s “creativity.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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