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• How The Word “Performative” Got Corrupted

  13-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What is worse, the meaning of performative in contemporary parlance, while not very precise, is almost exactly the opposite of the word’s original meaning. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Why Do We Still Care About Shakespeare?

  13-09-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing? Why do we still care? – Washington Post
  
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• What’s The Next Defining Tech Era?

  13-09-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So what can we see bubbling up in techland at the moment? If you believe the industry, metaverses (plural) – basically conceived as massive virtual-reality environments – might be a big thing. – The Guardian
  
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• Jacksonville Symphony Seeks Director of Major Gifts

  13-09-2021 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Position Title: Director of Major Gifts
  Status: Full-Time/Exempt
  Reports To: Vice President & Chief Advancement OfficerPosition SummaryThe Jacksonville Symphony Advancement Department raises funds through donations from individuals, corporations, foundations, the public sector, and special events to support artistic and educational programming and general operating expenses. The Director of Major Gifts role will be responsible for expanding the base of major gift donors, primarily from indi
  
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• Bill Rauch On The Performing Arts Center At The World Trade Center

  13-09-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The PAC will be the final piece of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, a three-story building — 129,000-square feet with three flexible venues that allow for 11 different possible configurations, ranging from 84 to 1205 seats. – New York Theatre
  
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• The Mercury Prize Glorifies Albums When No One Listens To Albums Anymore

  13-09-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since the turn to online services, however, the award has undertaken an additional role. It is upholding the idea of the album in the face of technological change. Even the televised event is structured like a record. – The Conversation 
  
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• Moloko to Publish Dutch Mordant

  13-09-2021 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  “ALL DRAWING FROM THE IMAGINATION I’D CONSIDER A FORM OF AUTOMATIC DRAWING; IF IT EXISTS, IT WILL EXIST ONLY FOR THE FIRST TIME.” — Gerard Bellaart
  From left: Back cover, spine, front cover, an interior page. Click to enlarge.
  I think [my images] arise from the instinctive tendency to not look for semblances or analogies. Meaning, to find all that happens in spite of me—imagination versus verisimilitude. One forever seems to be looking for a dimension not
  
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• LA’s New Movie Museum Has A Weird Omission: Music

  13-09-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The studios, of course, have a long and famous history of cluelessness when it comes to soundtracks. They’ve tossed countless original scores into the trash to reduce clutter. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why Young Korean Musicians Are Ascendant In Classical Music

  13-09-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thierry Loreau, a Belgian filmmaker and TV director, sees the domination of young Koreans in classical music competitions as a cultural phenomenon, labeling it the “K-classics generation.” – Korea Times
  
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• Time To End Artsploitation

  13-09-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation. Salaries were so low that full-time employees worked extra jobs. An hourly rate in visitor services and the bookstore teetered just above minimum wage. – The Baffler
  
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• A College Honors Class Turned Its Zoom Fan Fiction Into A Film Deal

  13-09-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last year, The Great Gatsby came out of copyright, and that’s a good thing for a The Great Gatsby 2.0 honors seminar at the University of Iowa. – LitHub
  
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• The Podcast About The Book Reporting On The Massive Flop That Was Bonfire Of The Vanities

  13-09-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Julie Salamon’s book stunned the country – especially Hollywood. It “portrayed the world of big-budget studio filmmaking as a high-stakes battle, in which three mercurial factions — the artists, the executives and the audience — are ever at odds with themselves and each other.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Awful Way The CIA Used Louis Armstrong

  13-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The CIA used the musician in what was then the Congo. “It’s genuinely heartbreaking. He was brought in to serve an interest that was completely contrary to his own sense of what was right or wrong. He would have been horrified.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Creative Arts Emmys Have Crowned Multiple Winners Already

  13-09-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Primetime Emmys are coming up soon, but some shows cleaned up early at the Creative Arts Emmys as well. Here’s the whole list. – Entertainment Weekly
  
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• The Larger Narrative Arc Of Colson Whitehead’s Novels

  13-09-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, it’s weird jobs. “All these different jobs provide existential questions about how the world works and how they work, how they function, I guess.” – Slate
  
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• Coronavirus Art, But Make It Optimistic

  13-09-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a retired nurse saw that hundreds of vaccine vials were empty and going in the trash, she set about creating something from them instead. – NPR
  
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• The Movie Museum Is Finally Open

  13-09-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new PR line is that “the long-awaited cathedral of movies is landing at just the right time — perhaps when the film industry needs it most.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Paintings Within A Painting Of Matisse’s The Red Studio

  13-09-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new show puts it all in context – and explains why Matisse suddenly decided, when the painting was finished, to make it red. – The New York Times
  
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• Could This Facebook Ruling In Australia Eventually Lead To The End Of Comments?

  13-09-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A court ruling “promises to upend what has been a core principle of who gets blamed for bad behavior online — in ways that, if repeated, could have the effect of stifling public speech.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Glasgow Gets Back Its 26-Ton Floating Head

  13-09-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After decades forgotten and unclaimed in a boatyard, then carefully restored, Richard Groom’s Floating Head is back. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Nicaragua’s Government Is Arresting Prominent Writers Before A Presidential Election

  13-09-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “State prosecutors in Nicaragua have ordered the arrest of one of the country’s most prominent writers, Sergio Ramírez, accusing the 78-year-old novelist of inspiring hatred and conspiring to destabilize Nicaragua.” Those charges sound common these days in Nicaragua. – LitHub
  
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• Theatre Has An Internship Problem

  13-09-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or, you might say, an exploitation problem. – American Theatre
  
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• Just because: Leonard Bernstein’s “The Age of Anxiety”

  13-09-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Krystian Zimerman, Leonard Bernstein, and the London Symphony perform Bernstein’s “Age of Anxiety” Symphony in 1986. The work, inspired by W.H. Auden’s book-length 1947 poem of the same name, is introduced by a short interview with Bernstein:
  (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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• Michel Laclotte, Champion Of The Musee D’Orsay And The New Louvre, 91

  13-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though debate was hot about the M d’O, as it’s now marketed in Paris, that “was a tepid academic tiff compared with the one that erupted when plans for a multiphase renovation and expansion of the Louvre, called the Grand Louvre, were unveiled in the early 1980s.” – The New York Times
  
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• Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’

  13-09-2021 11:00
  
  Researchers use AI to reveal runs of artistic success are commonly preceded by an experimental phaseWhether it is the director Marta Meszaros, or the artist Jackson Pollock, those in creative careers often experience a particular burst of success.Now researchers have used artificial intelligence to reveal such “hot streaks” are commonly preceded by an experimental phase followed by a focus on one particular approach once the winning period has begun. Continue reading...
  
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