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• Why This University Professor Resigned

  10-09-2021 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Students are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. – Bari Weiss
  
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• The Problem With Music About 9/11

  10-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is composing a piece of music linked to 9/11 a straightforward means of evoking a type of uncomplicated emotional reaction? Is this disaster a safe “hook” to hang any vaguely sad or lamenting music that actually has nothing to do with the event? – The Conversation
  
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• Gymnasts Are Getting Dancier — And Getting Attention

  10-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Recently, it seems, an NCAA routine goes viral every year not necessarily for its technical content, but for the sheer quality of the dancing. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Pioneering Theatre Critic Andy Propst, 56

  10-09-2021 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Propst is best known as the founder of AmericanTheaterWeb.com, an early online home for America’s not-for-profit theaters, and the first serious attempt to provide a comprehensive listing of theaters and theatrical events on the Internet. – TheatreMania
  
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• Why The Arts Struggled To Express 9/11

  10-09-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For a long time it was safer to go small. – The New York Times
  
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• Have A Look At The New Yorker’s Original Mission Statement

  10-09-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So many things about the magazine — in both content and design — are recognizable today that it’s easy to forget that, when Harold Ross was trying to launch The New Yorker in the 1920s, none of it was there. – Gothamist
  
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• Why Bach Is So Compelling

  10-09-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To appreciate the music of Bach, it can be instructive to understand both the mechanics and the mechanic: the musical systems, and the man himself – setting aside any received wisdom about his purported brilliance. – Aeon
  
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• Stand-Up Comedians Look Back On Their First Shows After 9/11

  10-09-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every comedian’s response to the attack wasn’t necessarily positive, just like every American’s wasn’t. Comedy didn’t save the country after 9/11, but it did reflect it.”– Vulture
  
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• Why Hybrid Film Festivals Are The Future

  10-09-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Online festival screenings have attracted large and enthusiastic new audiences for independent and artist-led film. The hybrid edition of Sundance 2021 reached an audience 2.7 times larger than the 2020 edition in Utah, with over 600,000 audience views. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Heathcote Williams’s Credo ‘If Poetry Isn’t Revolutionary, It’s Nothing’

  10-09-2021 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is a collector’s alert. Open Head Press is about to release Juggling Ghosts, a series of previously published poems and essays by Heathcote Williams in a slipcased, numbered edition of 500 copies about his encounters — live and otherwise — with William Burroughs, Harold Pinter, Dylan Thomas, Sinclair Beiles, Christopher Marlowe,Lord Buckley, Christopher Smart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michael Lesser, Alan Turing, Diogenes of Synope, William Blake and the Tigers of Wrath.
  
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• Designers Are Working To Make US Airports Less Miserable (And Maybe Even Pleasant)

  10-09-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A clutch of new terminals and recent upgrades to existing concourses from New York City to San Francisco demonstrate ways both small and large — from muting the televisions to installing indoor gardens — that airports are trying to ease psychic turbulence on the ground.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Sad, Confused Final Days Of Robert Indiana

  10-09-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whether Indiana was the subject of fraud and abuse—and how much he knew about it all, if that was the case—is something we’ll likely never fully understand. – ARTnews
  
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• Xi Jinping’s Crackdown Is Reshaping China’s Culture

  10-09-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just this year, authorities have gone after social media, high-profile actors, highbrow artists, reality TV, K-pop fans, feature films, video games, and “sissyness”. Intelligentsia both within and beyond China, worried about a return to Mao-era totalitarian control, are calling this “the great leap backward.” – The Guardian
  
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• Elizabeth McCann, 90 – Broadway Producer Extraordinaire

  10-09-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a dizzying four-decade career she won nine Tony Awards and gave New York audiences more than 60 Broadway productions, including such hits as “Equus,” “Amadeus” and “Les Liaisons Dangereuses.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Real-Life ‘Black Swan’ Homicide? TV News Takes On The American National Ballet Fiasco

  10-09-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours does a 42-minute report on founders John and Ashley Benefield, the idealistic dance company that collapsed just as it was beginning operations, and the conflicts that led to one of the couple shooting the other. – CBS News
  
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• Boston Globe And Boston University To Relaunch 19th-Century Abolitionist Newspaper

  10-09-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Envisioned as a 21st-century online successor to the United States’ first anti-slavery newspaper, The Emancipator will operate as a not-for-profit and will focus initially on commentary, with plans to add audio-video, longform nonfiction, data visualization, and history annotation. – Nieman Lab
  
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• After 18 Months Dark, Metropolitan Opera In Mad Dash To Reopen

  10-09-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the head of the makeup and wig department puts it, “I would love about six months. We have six weeks.” – The New York Times
  
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• Poetic paintings, Nazi darlings and a cloud-surfing photographer – the week in art

  10-09-2021 16:00
  
  Masterworks from Helen Frankenthaler and Gerhard Richter go on show and St Ives dances to Sax’s tune – all in your weekly dispatchHelen Frankenthaler
  This poetic and dreamlike abstract expressionist painter belongs in the company of Pollock and Rothko as a modern great.
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, from 15 September. Continue reading...
  
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• RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily

  10-09-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Royal Shakespeare Company’s artistic director is taking indefinite compassionate leave (the UK equivalent of family/medical leave) to care for his husband, actor Antony Sher, as he faces a terminal illness. – The Guardian
  
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• NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart

  10-09-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After working as an international correspondent starting in 2004, she became host of the Sunday morning flagship in 2017. She made the announcement on Twitter, saying, “Like much of the US, I need a break!” – Current
  
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• M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date

  10-09-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion of dissident artist Ai Weiwei), but the official opening date is set: November 12. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm

  10-09-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A student of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he made his solo debut at 18 with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and developed an extensive international career and a wide-ranging discography. – The Strad
  
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