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• The Fall Of Rome Didn’t Happen When You Think It Did

  08-10-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. The fact that it has since become recognized as the end of an epoch shows how history can be misused to justify otherwise unpalatable actions in the present. – Time
  
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• The Right To Be Forgotten: Should Newspapers Have To Remove Your Name If You Ask Them?

  08-10-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The big concern here is that, basically, news organizations are now willingly performing much more extreme acts of censorship of their own content than what is being done in the EU under legal mandate. For some reason, most of them don’t acknowledge that.” – CJR
  
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• New Player In Billion-Dollar Music Rights Management

  08-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HarbourView is the latest player in what has become a high-stakes contest in the music business: the ownership and control of catalogs of songs, which streaming outlets like Spotify and Apple Music, along with a growing flank of social-media and gaming platforms, need to keep their users engaged. – The New York Times
  
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• When Jan Swafford Was Asked To Review An AI-Written “Beethoven Tenth” Symphony

  08-10-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Not for me,” I said. “I know pretty much what I’ll think about it, and my review could get snarky.” “If so, that would be all right with us,” VAN said. “Well, OK,” I groaned back. So here I am and here goes. 
  
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• Oscar Wilde — Martyr? Wit? Predator? Artist? “Posing Somdomite”? All Of The Above, Which Is Why We Misunderstand Him

  08-10-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The refracted versions of self that appear in his writing allowed him to test out real-life modes of being; in turn, the acts of duplicity he practiced in his life generated daring new forms of artistic self-expression.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Of Poetry, Plagiarism, And Artistic Influence

  08-10-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Where were the limits exactly, in what was deemed to be a case of poetry plagiarism? How many lines that emerged while writing, any poet might ask, could be traced back to some half-remembered source? – LitHub
  
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• Explaining The Unexplainable Career Of Laurie Anderson

  08-10-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sam Anderson: “The anti-careerism of her career is part of what has made her illegible to mainstream audiences. Although a legend in some circles, she is totally unknown in others.” Observes Julian Schnabel, “It’s not really a career. She’s really unemployable.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• The Transformative Conductor: David Alan Miller @ 30 Years Leading The Albany Symphony

  08-10-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The orchestras I’ve worked with have been a bit like ocean liners. Very big, little hard to turn around. And I would say the Albany Symphony is like a sailboat. It’s flexible, it’s responsive, it can really turn on a dime. And a lot of that is David.”  – Albany Times-Union
  
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• How A Little Book-Of-The-Month Mail-Order Club Laid Ground For The Gay Rights Movement

  08-10-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In early-1950s America, Donald Webster Cory had probably the largest L.G.B.T. mailing list in the country, and maybe in the world.” (Mr. Cory was not, strictly speaking, a real person.) – The New Yorker
  
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• The New Musicology: Beethoven Was Just an “Average White Composer”?

  08-10-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These various controversies are far from simple disputes between ‘conservatives’ and ‘progressives’ but emblematic of a discipline in which some protagonists lack a sense of its purpose and identity, or any real belief that music has value in and of itself.” – The Spectator
  
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• So How Did the Elgin Marbles End Up At The British Museum In The First Place?

  08-10-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The short answer is that Lord Elgin simply took them from the Parthenon and shipped them home to London. True as such, but, as this backgrounder explains, Elgin had reason to believe that he was doing the right thing and had legal permission to do it. – ARTnews
  
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• Edward Snowden: Balancing Risk, Reality And Facts

  08-10-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it; to stake out the resilient middle ground between denying danger altogether and finding nothing but danger everywhere. – Edward Snowden
  
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• Verbatim Drama, Straight From Real Life, Comes To Broadway

  08-10-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tina Satter, whose Is This A Room is a transcript of the FBI interrogation of intelligence leaker Reality Winner, and Lucas Hnath, whose Dana H. is his mother’s account of her months-long abduction, talk about the importance of telling living people’s real stories onstage. – The New York Times
  
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• What Runaway Hit “Squid Game” Shows About South Korea’s Problems (It Isn’t Pretty)

  08-10-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “(The Netflix series’s success) might be somewhat ironic given that Squid Game is all about socioeconomic divides, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, and the desperation of Korea’s financially destitute class of laid-off workers.” – Vox
  
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• “A Gonzo Ethnography of Academic Authority”: Tenured Princeton Professor Gets Fired And Goes Nuts (Or Goes Nuts And Gets Fired)

  08-10-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alejandro Zaera-Polo, having been pushed out as dean of Princeton’s architecture school in 2014, was dismissed from the faculty by unanimous vote of the relevant committee. He proceeded to compile an 813-page document and five hours of video making his case — and justifying Princeton’s decision. – Curbed
  
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• “Friends, We Are In For The Adventure Of A Lifetime”: Salonen’s Inaugural Concert At San Francisco Symphony Augurs Well For His Tenure

  08-10-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Joshua Kosman: “To say that a new era … has begun at Davies Symphony Hall is true as far as it goes. But that doesn’t begin to convey how transformative an event this was. … Something new and splendidly unpredictable is afoot.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Dance Alumni Sue UNC School Of The Arts, Alleging Pattern Of Sexual Abuse

  08-10-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Seven plaintiffs who attended UNCSA as undergraduates during the 1980s give detailed descriptions of predatory behavior, including long-term affairs, by instructors in the school’s dance department. – The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
  
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• Into paradise with Sebastião Salgado and fresh sensations at the Tate – the week in art

  08-10-2021 15:00
  
  The Brazilian genius tours the rainforest, Anicki Yi fires up the Turbine Hall and cubism heads for the gutter – all in your weekly dispatchSalgado: Amazônia
  The great photographer Sebastião Salgado unveils his most moving project yet – a rich and startling journey into the rainforest he calls “a paradise on Earth”.
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• Kennedy Center’s Backstage Workers Vote To Authorize Strike

  08-10-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The unanimous vote by members of the IATSE local comes more than a year after the expiration of their previous contract. Still at issue, say union reps, are staffing levels and pay, including overtime. Management claims the sides are not far apart. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• The 50 Largest Contemporary Dance Companies In The U.S.: A Look At The Numbers

  08-10-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Among the key finds in this new study are that, in the aggregate, contemporary dance in the U.S. operates with less than a quarter of the money that American ballet has, and that gender parity in leadership is achieved. – Dance Data Project
  
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• Long Tail/Long Game

  08-10-2021 11:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Row X Blog by Hannah Grannemann
  I’ll just say it straight out, so you know where I’m coming from: I hope many organizations choose to keep and grow their digital programming as we come out of the pandemic. I think it’s great for audiences, a solid strategy for organizations that can handle it operationally and financially, and for the arts field to increase participation.
  I’ve been thinking a lot about the strategy of the Long Tail as I watch arts organizations and artist
  
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• Afghanistan’s Cultural Sector Goes Underground

  08-10-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Afghanistan, work in the field of arts and culture is probably one of the hardest jobs.. but we did it because we loved it. We had finally reached a stage where we were established and recognised… But everything is destroyed and we are stuck.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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