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• BBC Chief Says Culture Wars Make It More Difficult To Be Impartial

  22-09-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I think the culture wars are raging, I think we’ve got a real battle on our hands. I walk a tightrope every day on this, but we’ve got to fight for it.” – BBC
  
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• Picasso’s Daughter Pays French Taxes With Nine Artworks

  22-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It is an honour for our country to welcome these new artworks by Picasso. They will enrich and deepen our cultural heritage.” – ARTnews
  
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• What Will Happen To Online Performances When We’re Back In Theatres?

  22-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ‘We’ve had thousands of years to get good at [in-person] but virtual connection is new, and we need to do some interrogation of the form to see how we get that same catharsis, buzz and deep connection that draws us to theatre.’ – ArtsHub
  
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• Has Philosophy Really Been Replaced By Science?

  22-09-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A perennial favorite of this alleged replacement of philosophy with science is the claim that, while philosophers haven’t been able to really get ahead on the issue, science tells us unequivocally that there is no free will. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why Do We Refer To Some Composers With Only Their Last Name?

  22-09-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who gets last-name-only treatment and who requires a full identification is a weightier, more politically fraught question than it might initially seem. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• When Did America’s First Black Theater Open? Exactly 200 Years Ago

  22-09-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater” (which opened on Sept. 17, 1821 with Richard III) “entertained hundreds of Black New Yorkers with both classic and original work, alongside operas and ballets.” – The New York Times
  
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• Inside The New Academy Movie Museum

  22-09-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the May Co. building will be celebrated as a fine work of adaptive reuse, what will ultimately define the Academy Museum is its spherical theater, which attaches to the north face of the building via series of bridges, one of which is lined with red carpet. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Saadi Yacef, The Man Who Started “The Battle Of Algiers”, Dead At 93

  22-09-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He didn’t start the battle itself, but he was the top military man in Algeria’s war of independence. When that was won, the new government wanted a movie about it. So Yacef found director Gillo Pontecorvo and co-produced and starred in the 1966 film. – The New York Times
  
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• New Movie Academy Museum Succeeds At Celebrating Movies The Oscars Don’t

  22-09-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Perhaps the most notable alcoves of the Academy Museum are those where it resists the obvious, or at least takes a break from celebrating the already amply celebrated. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Aspen Santa Fe Ballet May Be Gone, But Its Successor Is Now Taking The Stage

  22-09-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The former company shut down in March after 25 years, but five of its dancers, with one colleague and choreographer Ben Needham-Wood, have formed Dance Aspen, just now giving its first performance. Here the executive director and a company member discuss what they’ve learned so far. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Disney CEO: World Is Changing For Talent Contracts

  22-09-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The problem, Bob Chapek said, is that the company has found itself grappling with talent contracts that were struck three or four years ago — long before the race to streaming and before the COVID-19 pandemic upended Hollywood. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Vantablack, The World’s Blackest Black? Hollywood’s Going To Be All Over It (And Vice Versa)

  22-09-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been itching to put it to work. But Vantablack’s complicated application technique has been a hindrance —until a recent, surprisingly simple innovation. – Fast Company
  
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• Signature LA: The Richard Neutra Houses

  22-09-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Their stories say something deeper about Neutra’s achievement, which has less to do with stylish surfaces than with underlying rhythms—the search for a shelter that is also open to the world. – The New Yorker
  
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• Cityscape East River NYC (9-20-2021)

  22-09-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A pair of NYPD patrol boats were stationed in the East River at the approach to the 59th Street Bridge. Each was fitted out with a manned, high-caliber machine gun. There was no boat traffic as there usually is — no barges going upriver, no tug boats churning heavy wakes behind them, no sail boats moving lazily with the current, no speedboats — all apparently prohibited due to the opening session of the U.N. located nearby on the Manhattan bank of the river. Many streets in the surr
  
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• Yes, Music Really Can Be Infectious — Statisticians Apply Epidemiology To Pop Songs

  22-09-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pattern of music downloads after their release appears to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease – and electronica appears to be the most infectious genre of all.” – The Guardian
  
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• Frida Kahlo estimated $30m self-portrait set to smash records

  22-09-2021 16:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Diego y yo is expected to become most valuable Latin American artwork ever publicly soldA sorrowful Frida Kahlo self-portrait which shows her cheating husband, Diego Rivera, in the centre of her forehead, is expected to smash auction records as it becomes the most valuable work of Latin American art ever publicly offered for sale.Sotheby’s announced on Wednesday it was offering for sale a 1949 painting titled Diego y yo (Diego and I) with an estimate in excess of $30m. Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix Is About To Milk The Hell Out Of Roald Dahl’s Stories

  22-09-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and will expand their existing deal to … create a universe across animated and live action films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, live theater, consumer products and more.” – Variety
  
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• Is The Future Of Newspapers 24/7 Online, With Actual Newsprint Only On Sundays?

  22-09-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That’s already the case in Little Rock and Chattanooga, while the Tampa Bay Times prints only Wednesdays and Sundays. Many other papers throughout the US have cut some hard-copy days, especially Saturdays. Yet they all post news online all week long. – Local News Initiative (Northwestern University)
  
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• Major Italian Baroque Painting Turns Up At Ordinary Suburban New York Church

  22-09-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  An art history professor happened to be in the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle when he saw a painting that made him do a “double take.” It turned out to be Cesare Dandini’s Holy Family with the Infant St. John, dating from the 1630s. – Artnet
  
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• The Rivals: As The Delta Variant Rages, Sydney Reopens Its Theatres While Melbourne Stays Closed

  22-09-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The difference is not in case numbers; it’s in state government policies. New South Wales (Sydney), governed by the conservative Coalition, has relatively laissez-faire rules (and higher COVID caseloads), while Victoria (Melbourne), governed by Labor, has been unusually strict with lockdowns, masking rules, etc. – The Guardian
  
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• Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi At Last Has An Opening Date (And It’s Not Soon)

  22-09-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital’s Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of 2026, 16 years after the originally planned opening and a full two decades after the project was announced. – Artnet
  
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• France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Conflict-Of-Interest Scandal

  22-09-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the finalists for this year’s Prix Goncourt, The Children of Cadillac, was written by François Noudelmann, the romantic partner of one of the 10 jurors, Camille Laurens. What’s more, Laurens recently savaged a competing book on the shortlist in a review for Le Monde. – The Guardian
  
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• Looking for a new England: strange sightings in the south-east – in pictures

  22-09-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stormtroopers, ghostly figures and runaway hens … a new book of photos examines the peculiarities of Kent and beyond Continue reading...
  
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