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• Why Are Cities Still Building Super-tall Buildings?

  15-09-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m almost insulted by the reminder that the high-rise virus continues to spread. Waste of energy, waste of resources, almost impossible to protect indefinitely. A physical reflection of late-capitalist, winner-takes-all approach to economics. And all priapic phalluses to boot.” – dezeen
  
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• No, Not All Judgments Or Opinions Are Equal

  15-09-2021 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Popular dogmas such as “judgments of artistic value are subjective” and “all judgments of artistic value are equal”, university literature departments have undercut aesthetic education, and given power to the market to decide what is good art. – PopMatters
  
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• How Things Change When Your Dance Video Becomes A Viral Sensation

  15-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  She’s earned a following of more than 250,000 on Instagram and 460,000 on TikTok — as well as amassing 15.3 million likes on TikTok. – Lake Geneva News
  
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• Our Classrooms In Crisis

  15-09-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At this moment of ferocious contestation over the meaning of the classroom, we might a closer look at what actually goes on there. – Boston Review
  
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• This A Cappella Quintet Can Mimic Your Electronic Devices

  15-09-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Traditional a cappella groups cover pop lyrics and full music beds with impressive skill. But one group in South Korea, called MayTree, is taking the genre further to mimic the digital devices that occupy our lives.” (audio) – The World (PRX)
  
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• Problem: Making AI Addicts

  15-09-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When we look to concrete problems in present-day AI systems, we see other — stranger — ways that things could go wrong with smarter machines. One growing issue with real-world AIs is the problem of wireheading. – The Conversation
  
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• It’s Not Easy To Be Both A Professional Dancer And Religiously Observant

  15-09-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “By and large, the North American dance community is secular and leans politically to the left. For Orthodox Jews as well as some evangelical Christians, Catholics and Muslims, among others, carving out a career in dance while practicing their faith remains a challenge.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Blowback On Productivity

  15-09-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you accept that increased productivity helps the common good, the question becomes how to reliably achieve these increases. Until recently, the answer to this largely involved optimizing systems. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Short, Soft-Spoken, Fey Truman Capote Was So Popular With The Strong And Powerful

  15-09-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the beginning, they’d look down on him. But everybody who took the time to speak with him was captivated by his intellect; it was his stardust. … These super-masculine men were first intrigued by his intellect, then they were impressed by the force of his personality.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Most Diverse Booker Prize Finalists List Ever

  15-09-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Four debut novelists – Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas Stuart and Brandon Taylor – are up against the acclaimed Zimbabwean Tsitsi Dangarembga, and the Ethiopian-American Maaza Mengiste for the £50,000 award. – The Guardian
  
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• Subversive sexuality amid the smell of cow dung – Duncan Grant: 1920 review

  15-09-2021 17:28
  
  Charleston, East Sussex
  This exhibition at the Bloomsbury group artist’s mural-filled former home joyously recreates his intensely sexual first solo show The tale of Venus and Adonis has been used in various sexually ambiguous ways for centuries. Shakespeare adopts the voice of the goddess in his long poem Venus and Adonis: she pleads with her lover – or is it the Bard’s? – not to leave, not to go on the boar hunt in which he’s doomed to die. Its lyricism is echoed
  
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• The Gender Gap Is Growing In Our Universities

  15-09-2021 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In almost every rich country, women earn the majority of bachelor’s degrees. Almost every country that gives men and women equal access to education discovers, within a few decades, that women are doing better. – The Atlantic
  
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• Loving Or Hating Ebooks: The Quality Of ‘Bookiness’

  15-09-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Whether you love or hate ebooks is probably a function of what books mean to you, and why. … What it means to read, what the experience of reading requires and entails, and what makes it pleasurable or not, is not so easy to pin down.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Professional Classical Musicians Have The Same Physical Problems (Other) Athletes Do

  15-09-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LA Phil violist Ingrid Hutman: “When we’re injured, we tend to go to sports doctors because that’s what’s available. It’s very difficult to find practitioners who understand the peculiarities of musicians and what we do.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• LA MoCA Makes it Official: Johanna Burton Will Be Its Solo Director

  15-09-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two weeks ago, she was named executive director, working alongside Klaus Biesenbach, whose title was changed to artistic director. Last Friday, Biesenbach was appointed to lead Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Now MoCA says Biesenbach won’t be replaced and Burton will be the sole director. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Public Radio Is Moving Into The ‘Urban Alternative’ Format

  15-09-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is giving a total of $1.3 million to public stations in Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Jackson, Mississippi to develop digital services offering “hip-hop/R&B music while remaining true to public radio’s values.” Similar channels are in place in Chicago, Denver, Houston, and Norfolk. – Inside Radio
  
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• The New Yorker’s Archivist Counted Up Decades’ Worth Of Nonwhite Writers’ Bylines, And …

  15-09-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Erin Overbey: “As someone who’s done the research, seen all the numbers, I can tell you that things are simply not changing quickly enough to present real, concrete progress.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Japan’s ‘Nobel For The Arts” To James Turrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Sebastião Salgado, Glenn Murcutt

  15-09-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Praemium Imperiale, including ¥15 million ($136,000) for each recipient, is awarded for painting (Salgado, a photographer), sculpture (Turrell, a light artist), music (Ma, a cellist), architecture (Murcutt), and theater/film (no prize awarded this year). – Deutsche Welle
  
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• The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)

  15-09-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, the Greek capital’s grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the high-end restaurants that service gallery patrons, bustin’ out all over. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Snapshot: Lewis Milestone’s 1939 film of Of Mice and Men

  15-09-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 1939 film version of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Merideth and Lon Chaney Jr., directed by Lewis Milestone, and scored by Aaron Copland:(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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• Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor Experience

  15-09-2021 06:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Director of Marketing, Communications, and Visitor Experience is responsible for the strategic development and oversight of all communications and marketing activities for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis—including digital strategies, public relations, advertising, social media, and audience development efforts—as well as visitor services, which includes front-of-house operations, shop, café, bar, and the Museum’s facility rental program.
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• Artistic Director – Geva Theatre Center

  15-09-2021 05:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  GEVA THEATRE CENTER (Geva) in Rochester, NY seeks a highly creative, collaborative, and community-minded leader to serve as its next Artistic Director as it approaches its 50th Anniversary Season in 2022. The Artistic Director will be a true partner to Geva’s Executive Director in producing the highest quality artistic offerings and continuing an essential dialogue with the Rochester, NY community that has supported the institution for close to half a century.
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• Producing Artistic Director – Classic Stage Company

  15-09-2021 05:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY (CSC) in New York, NY seeks a Producing Artistic Director to lead the organization and bring current and future supporters and fans along on an exciting journey to challenge the traditional perception of classic work by reimagining great stories across the world’s repertoire that illuminate our common humanity.
  The Producing Artistic Director will possess a flair for thoughtful artistic curation combined with entrepreneurial zeal and a talent to execute plans that cel
  
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• ‘Heartbroken’ Osage Nation leaders decry sale of sacred Missouri cave with ancient artwork

  15-09-2021 03:40
  
  Indigenous leaders had hoped to purchase the land, which is home to 1,000-year-old drawings and was auctioned off for $2.2mA Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago was sold at auction Tuesday, disappointing leaders of the Osage Nation who hoped to buy the land to “protect and preserve our most sacred site”.A bidder agreed to pay US$2.2m to private owners for what’s known as “Picture Cave,” along with the 43 hilly acres that s
  
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• ‘Heartbroken’ Native American leaders decry sale of sacred Missouri cave with ancient artwork

  15-09-2021 01:48
  
  Osage Nation leaders had hoped to purchase the land, which is home to 1,000-year-old drawings and was auctioned off for $2.2m A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago was sold at auction Tuesday, disappointing leaders of the Osage Nation who hoped to buy the land to “protect and preserve our most sacred site”.A bidder agreed to pay US$2.2m to private owners for what’s known as “Picture Cave,” along with the 43 hilly acres tha
  
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• Data’s In: Disney To Release All Its Movies In Theatres First

  15-09-2021 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It comes after Disney’s successful theatrical release this month of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. – BBC
  
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