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• Is Social Media Like Alcohol Addiction?

  17-09-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To me, it sounds like alcohol—a social lubricant that can be delightful but also depressing, a popular experience that blends short-term euphoria with long-term regret, a product that leads to painful and even addictive behavior among a significant minority. – The Atlantic
  
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• Wave Of New Plays By Black Playwrights…

  17-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plays are arriving at an existentially challenging moment for Broadway, when theaters have been closed for a year and a half, when the Delta variant has set back the nation’s recovery from Covid, when tourism is way down. – The New York Times
  
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• Science Works On Explaining How Much Sleep We Need

  17-09-2021 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although great progress has been made in developing sophisticated models and explaining phenomena such as circadian rhythms, jetlag and details of EEG recordings of the sleeping brain, these advances are belied by the difficulty of developing a general quantitative theory for why we sleep. – Aeon
  
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• ‘The immensity of our loss’: 650,000 white flags show American lives lost to Covid

  17-09-2021 22:11
  
  In America: Remember, an outdoor art installation, will stand for 17 days near the Washington monument in the nation’s capitolA sea of more than 650,000 white flags is lining the National Mall near the Washington monument in the nation’s capitol to represent the American lives lost so far to Covid-19.The outdoor art installation titled, In America: Remember, by social practice artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, is scheduled to stand for 17 days from Friday in the shadow of the White
  
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• Body-Shaming In Opera

  17-09-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Diversity applies to pretty much everybody except fat people,” opera critic Uwe Friedrich tells me. The pressure to conform to a societal ideal of beauty has “increased enormously” in recent years. – Van
  
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• Researchers Explore What Juices The Echo Chamber

  17-09-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something that they read on Twitter.” – NiemanLab
  
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• What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?

  17-09-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Osita Nwanevu: “The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy that rewards speed, quantity, and deference to algorithms designed for the profit of three or four tech companies.” – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• How The Pandemic Is Changing How Lincoln Center Works

  17-09-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Usually, our work requires a year or two in advance planning. But now we’re building the plane as we’re flying. So it’s really shown us that we can be nimble. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns

  17-09-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s through the Blaxploitation ’70s and beyond. The latest example, The Harder They Fall, is fiction but depicts real historical figures. – The New York Times
  
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• Osage Nation Decries Sale Of Important Prehistoric Cave Art

  17-09-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two-cave system is nestled within a 43-acre stretch of land in Missouri, about 60 miles west of St. Louis. Scholars have called it “the most important rock art site in North America” because of a collection of 290 prehistoric glyphs on its walls. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Afghan Singers Recount Their Flight From The Taliban

  17-09-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The BBC interviewed half a dozen musicians who have had instruments smashed, relatives killed, and threats issued since the extremists took over Afghanistan last month. They now all in hiding in Pakistan, hoping to find refuge in another country. – BBC
  
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• School Mural Altered In LA After Community Complaints

  17-09-2021 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artwork was part of a 2016 project to place murals around the campus. Two years later, the Wilshire Community Coalition, a group led by Korean Americans, spoke out against the sun rays that prominently radiated from Ava Gardner’s profile. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• In Crimea, Russian Government Is Trying To Wipe Out Tatar Heritage: UNESCO Report

  17-09-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The report ascribes a goal of erasing traces of their cultural presence on the peninsula and weakening ‘the fundamental role of the indigenous Muslim people in the history of Crimea’ as a mean of ‘historical justification for its occupation.'” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why This Musicologist Quit Academia

  17-09-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have scholars fired, has become to seem like it has become endemic. – Harper-Scott
  
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• Myanmar’s Arts Community Is Caught Between Military Dictators, Floods, Economic Turmoil, And COVID

  17-09-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People are focused on survival … and caring for their loved ones,” says one artist in Yangon. Adds another, “It’s dangerous to do a good show now, since … it is impossible to speak about the present in Myanmar without putting yourself in danger.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Ivan Turgenev on Aging He Did Not Picture Life’s Sea as the Poets Depict It

  17-09-2021 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He fell to thinking . . . slowly, listlessly, wrathfully. He thought of the vanity, the uselessness, the vulgar falsity of all things human. All the stages of man’s life passed in order before his mental gaze (he had himself lately reached his fifty-second year), and not one found grace in his eyes.”Ivan Turgenev
  [Photo: Félix Nadar]“Everywhere the same ever-lasting pouring of water into a sieve, the ever-lasting beating of the air, everywhere the same self-decep
  
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• Why This Filmmaker In Myanmar Is A Fugitive From The Junta

  17-09-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Director Na Gyi and his wife (and leading actor) would be in hiding even if their latest film weren’t about a lesbian romance: they gave financial help to people striking against the coup. Here’s a Q&A he gave from a safe house. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Jane Powell, Wholesome Star Of Classic Movie Musicals, Dead At 91

  17-09-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “An actress and singer who first appeared in movies as a teenager, (she) became a sunny stalwart of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, most notably opposite Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding and Howard Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.” – The Washington Post
  
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• A smirking masterwork and Christo’s posthumous triumph – the week in art

  17-09-2021 16:00
  
  Hals dazzles London, Shonibare devises a Royal revamp and Liverpool gets a lesson in sex and death – all in your weekly dispatchFrans Hals
  A constellation of engrossing portraits by this great Dutch artist focuses attention on the Wallace Collection’s most charismatic treasure, his masterpiece The Laughing Cavalier.
  • Wallace Collection, London, 22 September to 30 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Here’s The First-Ever Piano With 108 Keys

  17-09-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The instrument, designed and handmade by Wayne Stuart of Stuart & Sons in Australia, has a nine-octave range, two octaves more than a standard grand piano and about the same as most pipe organs. – Classic FM
  
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• Stephen Sondheim, At 91, Is Working On A New Musical

  17-09-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As he told Stephen Colbert this week, “I’ve been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and it’s called Square One. … With any luck, we’ll get it on next season.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Previously Unknown Van Gogh Is Now On View In Amsterdam

  17-09-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Study for ‘Worn Out,’ as the drawing is being called, has lived in a private Dutch collection since the first decade of the 20th century. Its current owner … approached the museum to determine if it was a legitimate van Gogh.” – Artnet
  
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• Paris’s Musée d’Orsay ‘Can No Longer Be A Tourist Factory,’ Says Its New Director

  17-09-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That would be Christophe Leribault, until now director of the city’s Petit Palais and, before that, of the Musée Delacroix. He replaces Laurence des Cars, who was recently appointed director of the Louvre. – Artforum
  
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• Seeing Steinbeck anew

  17-09-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review a streaming webcast of the stage version of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Here’s an excerpt.
  *  *  *Streaming webcasts of theatrical performances are growing increasingly scarce as Broadway producers and drama companies begin opening their doors once more. Yet their value remains undiminished, for streaming video gives regional companies a national profile and makes shows available to viewers who either find it dif
  
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• The art of fashion – in pictures

  17-09-2021 08:00
  
  Drawing on Style is an exhibition celebrating rare and unseen fashion illustrations from the 1930s to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition, many of which have never gone on public view before, include works by contemporary master David Downton, the glamour of fifties couture drawn by René Gruau, work by René Bouché, known for his illustrations for Vogue, and the contemporary works of both Jason Brooks and artist-in-residence for Dior, Bill Donovan.• Drawing on
  
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• Senior Manager, Concert Operations and Booking

  17-09-2021 06:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Description: The Senior Manager, Concert Operations and Booking is tasked with supporting the Artistic Department to produce world-class performances and to find additional opportunities for the Handel and Haydn Society to perform in New England and beyond. This position works with the Vice President of Artistic Planning to create and present H+H’s live performances, recording projects, tours, and other artistic initiatives. The position’s two main charges are to book runout and tour
  
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