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• How Our Brains Prioritize Urgency Over Importance

  30-09-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The “mere urgency effect” describes our tendency to prioritize tasks we perceive as time-sensitive over tasks that aren’t time-sensitive, even when the rewards of the non-time-sensitive task are objectively greater. In other words, urgency trumps importance every time. – Fast Company
  
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• America As Internet Meme (What Could Go Wrong?)

  30-09-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The ultimate joke of Americancore might be that sense of disillusionment. – The New Yorker
  
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• Are Theatre Critics Being Too Kind?

  30-09-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emerging from its forced hibernation for live performance, theater appears to be in trouble, so our compassionate reviewers/publicists/reporters feel duty bound to come to the rescue. The rah-rah is uninhibited: troupes must be supported… – Arts Fuse
  
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• Science Why It’s Difficult To Enjoy Success

  30-09-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We know from research that purchasing an experience leads to more enduring happiness than purchasing a possession. But a study from Cornell found that this bias also applies to the anticipation of the upcoming purchase. – Fast Company
  
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• Studies Say Trigger Warnings May Be Harmful

  30-09-2021 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The results of around a dozen psychological studies, published between 2018 and 2021, are remarkably consistent: trigger warnings do not seem to lessen negative reactions to disturbing material in students. Some studies suggest that the opposite may be true. – The New Yorker
  
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• Department Chair, Arts Administration, Education and Policy -The Ohio State University

  30-09-2021 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Department: Arts Administration, Education and Policy
  Position: Department Chair
  Rank: Associate Professor or ProfessorDescription:The Ohio State University seeks a department chair who will provide ambitious and innovative leadership for its Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2022. The chair will serve as the administrative head of the Department, with oversight of faculty, staff, curriculum, budget, and strategic direction. The new chair
  
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• New Vision For Orchestral Pops?

  30-09-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   Orchestral pops programming now ranges from film scores, cartoon medleys and video game music to rap artists and jazz and circus acts. It’s whatever fusion of orchestral music and flavor-of-the-day entertainment the ensemble selects. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Want To Learn A New Language As An Adult? It’s Much Easier If You Learn Alongside The Kids

  30-09-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New research suggests that it’s not as difficult as experts previously thought for adults to pick up a new language. Immersing yourself in a new language as a family might just be one of the most effective — and easiest — ways to learn a new language.” – National Geographic
  
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• Uh Oh – A Looming Book Shortage?

  30-09-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   “This fall, the global publishing business can expect disruption in shipping, increases in costs throughout the supply chain, shortages in consumables used for packing and shipping, and shortages in manufacturing supplies for books and printed matter.” – Jane Friedman
  
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• How A Paris Museum Convinced Russia To Lend Out Its Most Important Collection Of Impressionist And Modern Art

  30-09-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The collection of the brothers Morozov, full of Picassos, Monets, van Goghs, Matisses and such, is split between the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Tretyakov and Pushkin in Moscow. Here’s how the Fondation Louis Vuitton persuaded authorities to allow the first exhibition of the collection abroad. – Artnet
  
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• Why You Shouldn’t Be Defined By Your Work

  30-09-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just as our entertainment culture encourages us to self-objectify physically, our work culture pushes us to self-objectify professionally. – The Atlantic
  
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• Why Are Gen Zers And Young Millennials Binging On ‘The Sopranos’?

  30-09-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The streaming stats are high. There are multiple podcasts, a book, a new prequel (The Many Saints of Newark), and memes galore, many of them left-leaning. Willy Staley argues that the young’uns see a lot of themselves and their country in the show. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Toronto International Film Festival’s Joana Vicente Is New CEO Of Sundance

  30-09-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While in Toronto, she navigated how TIFF will meet the challenge of showcasing Hollywood and world cinema as younger filmmaking talent increasingly opts for streaming platforms rather than the traditional cinema house to get their latest work viewed by worldwide audiences. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Using Artificial Intelligence To Complete Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony

  30-09-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, it has now been done, and the AI researcher (already known for robot-created art) who led the tech side of the project —working with pianist/musicologist Robert Levin as well as a composer and a computational music specialist — writes on how they went about it. – The Conversation
  
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• Jasper Johns – Where Is The Love?

  30-09-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Almost everything you want from art is present: cogent ideas, flawless execution, a sweeping sense of history and a personal stamp that identifies every piece as unmistakably the work of a unique and capacious mind. But where are love and generosity? – Washington Post
  
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• Universities Are Screwing Over The Working Dancers Who Teach As Adjunct Professors

  30-09-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite teaching seven classes a week, I was ineligible for health benefits. I had no job security and no time to look for other work. … If we lose our bodies to injury or exhaustion, we lose our ability to make money or artistic work.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Burying Art, Hiding Books, Smuggling Movies: Afghans Fearfully Prepare For The Taliban’s Cultural Police

  30-09-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Islamists now in control in Kabul have not yet stated any cultural policies other than that any art, music, publishing, film, and the like that’s permitted must conform to Islamic law. (As interpreted by whom?) Artists within Afghanistan are not hopeful. – The Washington Post
  
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• The Little-Known Cave Art Of The American Southeast

  30-09-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Outdoor rock art made by ancient Native Americans in the Southwest is familiar to many; not so with the underground pictographs in the southern Appalachians, which date from 6,500 years ago up to the 13th century CE, during the Mississippian Period. – The Conversation
  
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• Drama League’s Directors Project To Get Multimillion-Dollar Overhaul

  30-09-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The broadened Directors Project will offer fellowships for early-stage directors, programs to help mid-career theater directors transition into film and television, and assistantships for young BIPOC creatives to shadow established BIPOC directors.” – Variety
  
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• Chicago Public Radio Station WBEZ To Acquire Chicago Sun-Times

  30-09-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chicago Public Media, WBEZ’s parent organization, will take on the newspaper as a new division, according to a letter of intent approved by the board of directors. The plan was initiated by Sun-Times principal investor Michael Sacks in an attempt to secure the money-losing title’s future. – Robert Feder
  
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• To Make Its Concert Halls COVID-Safe, Singapore Goes High-Tech

  30-09-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  State-of-the-art filterless air purifiers and an “ionisation curtain” (a row of snake plants with ionisers attached to draw in aerosols) at the front of the stage are among the measures being taken to reassure live audiences. – The Straits Times (Singapore)
  
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• Violinist James Buswell Dead At 74

  30-09-2021 14:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After debuting with the New York Philharmonic at seven and studying at Juilliard, he became one of the key members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His recording of Barber’s Violin Concerto, one of many he made for Naxos, was nominated for a Grammy. – The Strad
  
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• Is this the world’s most inclusive art fair?

  30-09-2021 07:33
  
  The Superfine art fair aims at boosting women, LGBTQ+ and artists of colour by tackling systemic art world issues that give too much power to gatekeepersWelcome to perhaps the world’s most diverse art fair: Superfine, which focuses on contemporary art and prides itself on its inclusivity, boasting an outsized representation of artists of color and LGBTQ+ and female artists.Under the Superfine umbrella, three concurrent art fairs featuring 130 artists will for five days share the space of a
  
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• Anish Kapoor on vaginas, recovering from breakdown and his violent new work: ‘Freud would have a field day’

  30-09-2021 07:00
  
  Why has the artist painted scenes of bloodletting, decapitation and a woman with 10,000 breasts? He’s scared to talk about it – but he can explain his fascination with vaginas and the world’s blackest black
  At 67, Anish Kapoor, with a knighthood, a Turner prize and a retrospective due at the Venice Biennale next year, appears determined to strip away his own artistic skin. Like Marsyas – the satyr flayed alive by Apollo, whose gory fate Kapoor once commemorated in a 150m-
  
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• How The Smithsonian Crowdsourced Weather Reports In The 1800s

  30-09-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Institution handed out weather monitoring equipment to 150 volunteer observers across the country. Each day their reports arrived by telegraph, and the Smithsonian generated a national weather map displayed on the National Mall. The map became a popular attraction. – Smithsonian
  
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