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• The Battle For Good Sentences

  24-09-2021 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A sentence might sound promising in your head but crumble during its translation to the page. It might get maimed when shaved or become disfigured when tweaked, rejigged, or retrofitted. It might not be compatible with its neighbors. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Updating Books For The TikTok Era

  24-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon’s Kindle Vella spotlights the growing market for episodic stories, designed for mobile devices, unfolding as larger narratives over time. – GeekWire
  
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• Is Social Media Eroding Our Appreciation Of Art?

  24-09-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  From influencing creation, curation and perception, there’s no denying social media is changing the way we experience art. It’s an effective tool for generating excitement and keeping audiences engaged. But is it standing in the way of a genuine appreciation of art? – ArtsHub
  
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• Looted Ancient Gilgamesh Tablet Returned To Iraq

  24-09-2021 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Oklahoma-based company Hobby Lobby—whose billionaire owner Steve Green founded the Museum of the Bible in 2018—purchased the tablet from Christie’s for nearly $2m in 2014, with the intent to display it at the museum. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• ‘A few of the legends’: the 39-year journey to put a face to the world’s great photographers

  24-09-2021 22:00
  
  In 1982 Peter Adams finished a photography course in Australia. As the celebratory drinks flowed an idea materialised that would take him on a journey spanning 374,592km (he did the maths) around the world. The purpose of this grand endeavour was to photograph and interview some of the world’s best-known photographers. Thirty-nine years later the result is being bound at the printers in the form of a book that documents 300 of the world’s most prolific photographers Continue reading.
  
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• Sundance Institute’s Head Of Indigenous Inclusion Reflects On 20 Years Of Programming

  24-09-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bird Runningwater has built upon the organization’s foundations of Indigenous inclusion, helping to develop a pipeline of Indigenous creative talent and expand their cultural reach across storytelling both in the U.S. and beyond. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A Preview Guide To The Oddest Tony Awards Anyone Can Remember

  24-09-2021 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Originally scheduled for June 7, 2020, the awards have been delayed — and delayed again, after nominations were announced last October — in an attempt to bolster a pandemic-hobbled industry. Here’s a look at how we got here after so much uncertainty.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Revolution In How/Why We Work

  24-09-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The moral structure of work is up for grabs. And with labor-friendly economic conditions, workers have little to lose by making creative demands on employers. We now have space to reimagine how work fits into a good life. – The New York Times
  
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• “Where True Authority Resides” — Oprah Winfrey And The Power Of Confession

  24-09-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What sets Oprah apart … is her understanding that we crave not only the thrill of seeing secrets exposed but also the pretense that therapeutic peace inevitably follows. Oprah makes money on our hunger as well as on our hunger’s aspiration to be resolved.” – The Yale Review
  
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• Newly Discovered Fossil Footprints Suggest Humans Were in North America 21,000 Years Ago

  24-09-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Until now, scientists believed humans travelled south into the Americas when this ice barrier began to melt –  16,500 years ago. But we have discovered  fossil footprints that suggest humans first set foot on the continent thousands of years earlier. – The Conversation
  
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• Joint Acquisition: Some Museums Are Starting To Purchase Art Together

  24-09-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As museums struggle to regain financial stability after pandemic lockdowns, answer calls to diversify their collections, and watch art prices soar ever higher, the option of splitting costs and sharing possession of new artworks is catching on. – ARTnews
  
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• Kristy Edmunds Named New Director Of Mass MoCA

  24-09-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Edmunds has been a leading voice in the arts in Los Angeles, having steered CAP UCLA since 2011. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• E.M. Forster’s Most Influential Novel Was The One He Couldn’t Publish

  24-09-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As it circulated in manuscript (it was only published posthumously) from the author to Christopher Isherwood and onward, Maurice “became first an open secret and eventually the center of a sort of private reading club for gay male writers, critics, and friends, for decades.” – The New Republic
  
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• What Social Media Needs To Learn From Traditional Media

  24-09-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Even if there were a dozen major social networks, each one would still need to deal with the content dilemmas plaguing the existing juggernauts. There’s no road to healthier online discourse without some level of self-imposed professional guidelines. – Wired
  
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• You Can Now 3D-Print Yourself A Whole Gallery’s Worth Of Miniature Historical Statuary

  24-09-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A user of the 3D-printing platform Sketchfab has assembled digital renderings, ready to download and print fabricate, of artworks ranging from an ancient Egyptian funerary mask to Bernini’s fountain in Rome’s Piazza Navona to Hussar armor. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Only Degree Program In Dance In The State Of Arkansas Has Been Axed

  24-09-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock formally voted last week to eliminate the school’s BA in dance. A formerly tenured professor in the department is reaching out to other campuses. – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  
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• Ebony Magazine’s Former CEO Committed Fraud To Keep It Alive, Alleges SEC

  24-09-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Willard Jackson, who was forced out in 2020, is one of several men accused of diverting crowdfunded investment money raised for marijuana-related business ventures; he allegedly used his share to keep Ebony out of bankruptcy (which it ended up declaring anyway). – MarketWatch
  
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• Lightning bolts, smart toilets and radical pottery – the week in art

  24-09-2021 16:00
  
  Printmaking genius Hokusai is at the British Museum, the Turner comes to Coventry, and ancient nomads pitch up in Cambridge – all in your weekly dispatchHokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything
  A unique cache of drawings by one of the world’s best-loved artists offers a closer look at the genius who created the Great Wave.
  • British Museum, London, from 30 September Continue reading...
  
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• Last Suspect In Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery Dead At 85

  24-09-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert Gentile, a mob figure who did several stints in prison on unrelated charges, refused for decades to speak with FBI agents about the 1990 theft — even after a handwritten list of the stolen artworks, with estimated values, was found in a raid on his home. – Artnet
  
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• London Arts Orgs And Audiences Are Jeopardizing Their Comeback By Being Lax About COVID

  24-09-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Pullinger finds that, while venues’ staff may be masked themselves, they’re not requiring patrons to have face coverings or proof of vaccination (to be clear, they’re following the lead of Boris Johnson’s government), and he looks with envy at safety measures in Europe and New York. – Bachtrack
  
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• The Man Who Sold His Skin review – art-world satire runs only skin deep

  24-09-2021 15:00
  
  Serious themes are undercut by the flippant tone of this story about a Syrian refugee who becomes a conceptual art objectHere is a muddled caper of movie that doesn’t know what it wants to say; it doesn’t work as a satire of the international art market, nor as a commentary on the racism of white European culture. And its attitude to Syria is undermined by a silly and unconvincing ending that leaves a strange taste in the mouth. It is inspired by the Belgian conceptual artist Wim Del
  
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• It’s Just Too Much Trouble For EU Groups To Hire British Musicians Post-Brexit, Warns Simon Rattle

  24-09-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People who are normally hired by organisations abroad are being told, ‘I’m sorry, we just don’t have the capacity to bring somebody from the United Kingdom, it is too complicated and too expensive.” – London Evening Standard
  
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• British Museum enters world of NFTs with digital Hokusai postcards

  24-09-2021 14:30
  
  Partnership with new platform LaCollection aims to inspire next generation of art collectorsThe British Museum is venturing into the emerging world of non-fungible tokens by partnering with a new platform to launch digital postcards of the work of Katsushika Hokusai.NFTs – unique digital assets stored on the blockchain – have gripped the arts sector since the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, made history in March by selling an NFT for $69.4m. Continue reading..
  
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• Riccardo Muti Extends Chicago Symphony Contract For One More Season

  24-09-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His term as music director was set to expire next summer, but with the pandemic having shut down CSO concerts for the period when guest conductors would have auditioned to succeed him, Muti will stay on until August of 2023. – AP
  
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• Sponges, blood cells and sound-art: the exhibition hoping to cure my cancer

  24-09-2021 13:23
  
  The UK’s first ever cancer research exhibition pairs up patients with researchers to show the creative paths taken on the cutting edge of human discoveryShortly before the pandemic hit, I found myself dressed in a red lab coat, trying to find a cure for blood cancer. Although that might be overstating things a little. It’s Professor Dominique Bonnet who is at the cutting edge of cancer research, whereas I was just tagging along for a day at the Francis Crick Institute, hoping to get
  
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