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• Inmates Who Produced A Podcast In San Quentin Now Get Paid To Do It After Release

  28-09-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ear Hustle is produced by the folks at San Quentin Radio, working with San Francisco public radio station KALW. Here, co-host and co-producer Rahsaan “New York” Thomas, still “inside,” writes about how colleagues now on parole have transitioned to paid work on the podcast. – Current
  
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• Curious creatures and lush landscapes: The Nature Conservancy Australia 2021 photo contest

  28-09-2021 19:30
  
  After a year-long Covid delay, the Nature Conservancy photo contest announces its winners – a showcase of Australian natural wonders Continue reading...
  
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• Why Is This Noted Antiquities Scholar Being Accused Of Theft Of Artifacts?

  28-09-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is an understatement to say that the dispute over Dirk Obbink and the papyrus has shaken a scholarly world where ancient texts are entrusted to a set of experts whose erudition and experience have singled them out as special. – The New York Times
  
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• Wole Soyinka On Publishing His First Novel In 48 Years

  28-09-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It is meant to indict us also, the governed, as a people who have jettisoned the humane values that that same society impressed on my upbringing. Yes, I would give much to bludgeon Nigeria into accepting that Black Lives do Matter!” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Some Worrying Trends In Fundraising For Public Radio

  28-09-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since FY16, median new donor counts have fallen 8%. During that time, median sustaining donors have dropped nearly 18%. – Current
  
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• Danish artist delivers empty frames for $84k as low pay protest

  28-09-2021 18:28
  
  Denmark museum of modern art says Jens Haaning’s Take the Money and Run violates legal agreementIn an unexpected reinterpretation of an earlier work, a Danish artist has left a museum with empty frames, a depleted bank account and red faces all round.Rather than applauding Jens Haaning’s artistic commentary on modern capitalism, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in northern Denmark has said the artist is in violation of a legal agreement – and in possession of more than $84,000
  
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• An Afghan Artist Recounts Her Desperate, Failed Attempt To Escape The Taliban

  28-09-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Taliban are being pressured on many issues like women’s rights and journalists’ safety, but there are no discussions about the rights and safety of artists. We can’t raise our voice here, we are in hiding.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Eric Schmidt: How Artificial Intelligence Will Interact With Us

  28-09-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We need to think now of what happens when artificial intelligence is co-resident with us in the world. It lives with us; it watches us; it helps us, maybe interferes with us occasionally. We don’t really know. – The Atlantic
  
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• Even At Age 78, Mike Leigh Is As Exacting About Interviews As He Is About His Films

  28-09-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You just couldn’t work the way he does – his scripts are improvised, not written, resting on collaboration, trust, instinct, bravery – without weighing every word, cross-examining every sentence. Otherwise it would just be baggy. He takes this perfectionism into every interview, every conversation:” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Does Classical Music Humor Keep Getting More And More Lame?

  28-09-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Time was, Dudley Moore could dash off a witty parody of a Beethoven sonata or Britten folk song arrangement. These days, NPR Classical and Britain’s Classic FM tweet cartoons about John Cage’s 4’33” or, god forbid, the sort of viola jokes we told in middle school. – Van
  
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• 16th-Century Documents Stolen From Mexico’s National Archives Have Been Recovered

  28-09-2021 16:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The rescue of these manuscripts “comes amid a strong effort by the Mexican government to stop the international trafficking of national heritage objects, with mixed results.” Security and physical conditions at the National Archives have been particularly bad. – ARTnews
  
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• Senior Leadership Opportunity – Ravinia Festival Chief Brand, Marketing & Communications Officer

  28-09-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Senior Leadership Opportunity – Ravinia FestivalChief Brand, Marketing & Communications OfficerRavinia®, North America’s oldest and most musically diverse music festival, presents over 140 different events throughout the summer. These concerts range from Yo-Yo Ma to John Legend to the annual summer residency of the nation’s finest orchestra, The Chicago Symphony. Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play programs serve over 75,000 adults and children throughout Chicagoland and a
  
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• Managing Director, Performance Garage

  28-09-2021 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Performance Garage, a non-profit dance center and theater in Philadelphia, in its 21st year of serving the Philadelphia dance community, seeks a dedicated, organized full-time Managing Director. The Performance Garage serves as a home for dance artists and dance making with classes, rehearsals, and intimate performances. As a non-union, non-university affiliated dance center, the Performance Garage serves a distinct need with the ecosystem of dance in Philadelphia by providing professional, affo
  
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• Assistant Director of Recruitment, Ohio University

  28-09-2021 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Assistant Director of Recruitment supports the College of Fine Arts and Undergraduate Admissions in integrated efforts to identify, recruit, admit, and enroll undergraduate students on the Athens campus. Creates and pursues strategies to attract a well-qualified, diverse pool of undergraduate students to the University and the college.
  Serving as a member of the Undergraduate Admissions team, the incumbent reports to the associate director for recruitment and outreach in Undergraduate Admiss
  
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• This Year’s Tony Awards Show Was In A Difficult And Delicate Position

  28-09-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Helen Shaw: “Looking back while looking forward was the impossible job of this year’s (ceremony). Instead of razzle-dazzling us, the host Audra McDonald (and, in the second half, Leslie Odom Jr.) had the job of surveying the pandemic wreckage, all of it still piling up.” – Vulture
  
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• The Late-Period Pietà Michelangelo Intended For His Own Tomb Has Been Restored

  28-09-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What’s more, conservators and scholars involved say that the restoration has put to rest the big myth surrounding the sculpture: that Michelangelo went at it with a hammer out of dissatisfied frustration. (He had a better reason for never completing it.) – The New York Times
  
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• London’s Barbican Centre Is Hemorrhaging Staff: Report

  28-09-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Current and former employees are using terms like “mass exodus”, “freefall”, and “climate of fear” to describe the situation at the central London venue. The turmoil comes in the wake of reports of racism and other discrimination there. – The Stage
  
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• Pittsburgh Symphony Keeps Manfred Honeck For Six More Years

  28-09-2021 14:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 63-year-old Austrian conductor has extended his contract as the orchestra’s music director through the 2027-28 season, which will be his 20th at the PSO’s helm. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Turner prize 2021 review – lashings of creativity in a collectivist clash

  28-09-2021 13:24
  
  Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, CoventryThe decision to have only artists collectives nominated has resulted in a show that ranges from a recreation of a 1980s Northern Irish gay bar to pretentious prattling about fishCelebrating the creativity of people who see the world in a non-standard way has a radical history in art. It goes back to the German doctor Hans Prinzhorn and his collection of asylum patients’ art that inspired the expressionists and surrealists. And let’s not forget
  
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• Turner prize 2021 review – perverse, condescending and occasionally striking gold

  28-09-2021 12:00
  
  Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, CoventryThe bizarre decision to have only artists collectives nominated has resulted in a wonky show that ranges from a recreation of a 1980s Northern Irish gay bar to pretentious prattling about fishCelebrating the creativity of people who see the world in a non-standard way has a radical history in art. It goes back to the German doctor Hans Prinzhorn and his collection of asylum patients’ art that inspired the expressionists and surrealists. And let&rsquo
  
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• Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything review – wonders beyond The Great Wave

  28-09-2021 11:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Rare black and white sketches by the Japanese genius are magnificent explorations of the human conditionLike me, you may think of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose long and brilliantly productive life ended in 1849, and see a blast of blue. The sensual colours of his woodblock prints, those exquisite shades of sea and sky, are what stay with you. But the British Museum’s new show strips away those seductive colours and reduces Hokusai to black and white.
  
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• Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything review – beyond The Great Wave on a philosophical quest

  28-09-2021 11:00
  
  British Museum, London
  Rare black and white sketches by the Japanese genius are magnificent explorations of the human conditionLike me, you may think of the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, whose long and brilliantly productive life ended in 1849, and see a blast of blue. The sensual colours of his woodblock prints, those exquisite shades of sea and sky, are what stay with you. But the British Museum’s new show strips away those seductive colours and reduces Hokusai to black and white.
  
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• Earliest European portraits of African men on show together for first time

  28-09-2021 11:00
  
  Rijksmuseum says change in focus prompted by renewed interest in wake of Black Lives MatterThe two earliest portraits of men of African descent in the history of European art are being exhibited together for the first time in their 500-year history, reflecting a change of focus championed by the Black Lives Matter movement, curators at the Rijksmuseum have said.Among more than 100 portraits by Renaissance artists being showcased by the museum in Amsterdam from Tuesday are Albrecht Dürer&rsq
  
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• Surreal scenes and broken dreams: 2021’s best street photography – in pictures

  28-09-2021 08:00
  
  From a giant eyeball on the subway to a winged dog at a wedding, here’s the year’s best photography at street levelContinue reading...
  
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