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• How Did The Pandemic Affect The Indian Art Market?

  10-10-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some things went better, including a lot of pivoting to digital, but “Before the pandemic hit India, the annual India Art Fair took place in Delhi. ‘We were at an all-time high,’ said its director, Jaya Asokan. … Just weeks later, everything ground to a halt.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Great Novel Of The Internet Was Published In 1925

  10-10-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That novel? Mrs. Dalloway, of course. “‘We are all Mrs. Dalloway now,’ one writer put it.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Founder Of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Arrived Just In Time For The Great Fire

  10-10-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conductor Theodore Thomas’ first concert in Chicago was predicted to be “one of the most notable events in the history of music in Chicago.” Sure, except with no music: “By curtain time, Crosby’s, and much of the city around it, would be ash and ruin.” – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• Opera Singer Warns Of Brexit’s Damage To British Musicians’ Careers And Standing

  10-10-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If British musicians can’t travel to Europe easily and often, Dame Sarah Connolly says, their ability to be seen and to network will decline quickly and decisively. “How can we compete with our German, French, Portuguese, Austrian friends if we are not known?” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Maria Rosario Jackson, NEA Chair Nominee, On The Role Of Arts

  10-10-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jackson, a professor at Arizona State and a veteran arts administrator, “is a recognized expert in creative placemaking, a process that leverages arts, culture and design to spur economic development in communities and promote social change.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mustill Artworks Newly Archived at Emory University

  10-10-2021 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Took more than two years to make it happen, chiefly due to difficulties posed by the pandemic. So congratulations to the late artist’s widow, Norma Mustill, for donating the artworks to the university and to the library curators for seeing the project through. When conditions are back to normal, perhaps they will be able to exhibit them..wp-duotone-filter-6163306c740ad img { filter: url( #wp-duotone-filter-6163306c740ad );}Biographical note: Norman Ogue Mustill (1931-2013) was an American
  
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• Union President Says A Contract Or A Strike Is Mere Days Away As IATSE Talks Wrap Until Monday

  10-10-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What issues remain? So many, the union says – “‘the most grievous problems’ in the companies’ workplaces.” – Deadline
  
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• Playing Princess Is No Easy Role

  10-10-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At least, not when that princess is Diana, says actor Kristen Stewart. – BBC
  
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• Opera Performer Killed By Scenery On Bolshoi Stage

  10-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The accident happened to a member of the chorus during a scene change. “As the chorus kept singing and the orchestra continued to play, there was a sudden commotion onstage. Performers waved their arms and shouted ‘Stop!'” – The New York Times
  
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• A Brief Survey Of Men Having Opinions About Women Reading

  10-10-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You’d think men might sit out commenting on books written by women about female rage, but you’d be wrong.” – LitHub
  
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• Watch out! Contemporary artists take on the Beano – in pictures

  10-10-2021 18:00
  
  “It’s strange,” says Andy Holden, curator of new Somerset House exhibition, Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, “that a formula from 1938 still resonates today. That it survived the birth of children’s TV, computer games and a changing world.” The comic home of Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx has done more than survive, it’s flourished, becoming a formative influence on the generations that grew up reading it. To illustrate this, the show include
  
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• Stop Calling It Misinformation

  10-10-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s weaponized propaganda – and happily spread by armies of humans, as well as bots, online. – The Atlantic
  
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• Composer Louise Farrenc Is Making A Huge Comeback

  10-10-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though is it a comeback if the 19th-century composer was never as popular before as her work is now? “‘The symphonies and the overtures should hold a similar place as Schumann and Mendelssohn,’ said Yannick Nézet-Séguin.” – The New York Times
  
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• Black, Queer, And Other Theatre Artists Left The Flea To Protest Racism

  10-10-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now the Fled Collective artists are back, in collaboration with the theatre, after 18 months of restorative justice work. – American Theatre
  
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• Do We Need A New Bill Of Rights For An Artificial Intelligence-Driven World?

  10-10-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Absolutely, we do. “Some of the failings of AI may be unintentional, but they are serious and they disproportionately affect already marginalized individuals and communities.” – Wired
  
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• Book Sales Soared In Britain During Lockdown

  10-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Can the physical, print book continue its run this year? Independent bookstores would really like books to keep selling, even when people aren’t trapped at home. – BBC
  
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• Do Streaming Release Strategies Even Matter?

  10-10-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whether episodes are released week by week (Only Murders in the Building) or all at once to binge (Squid Game), well, experts haven’t yet seen “any data proving one strategy is definitely and consistently better than the other.” But: Viewers like choice. – Vulture
  
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• Netflix’s Trans Workers Protest Dave Chappelle’s New Special

  10-10-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The comedian has often told transphobic jokes, and the streamer’s workers are fed up. Software engineer Tara Field “tweeted a grim and long list of trans people who were ‘not offended’ by Chappelle’s comments — because they died in transphobic attacks before The Closer was released.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Portrait Of Chopin Bought At A Flea Market Turns Out To Be From The 19th Century

  10-10-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The portrait was peeling with age, and it hung for three decades in a private home in Poland after that consequential flea market find. “Only the artist’s first name, Alfred, is preserved.” – ABC News (AP)
  
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• Poussin and the Dance review – the greatest frozen ballet in all art

  10-10-2021 14:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  Bacchus and his cavorting retinue of centaurs, satyrs and naked nymphs are in constant motion and yet spellbindingly still in the precision-engineered art of Nicolas PoussinThe scene: a chain of dancers in a glade, Roman tunics fluttering beneath a sky torn between sunlight and fierce darkness. A man leaps, two women twirl, a third opens her arms in elegant arabesque. There is ballet, and there is raucous Scottish reeling. It is almost impossible to see whose hand links
  
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• The Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2021 – enter now!

  10-10-2021 13:00
  
  The annual award for aspiring cartoonists offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win a cheque for £1,000, with past winners going on to land film and book dealsCalling all aspiring cartoonists and graphic novelists: a little later in the year than usual, the Jonathan Cape/Observer/Graphica graphic short story prize opens for entries today. The competition is now in its 14th year and our stellar guest judges this time around are Samira Ahmed, the journalist and presenter of F
  
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• Feted, forgotten, redeemed: how Edmonia Lewis made her mark

  10-10-2021 08:30
  
  A bust rediscovered in a Scottish stately home has sparked fresh interest in the pioneering black US sculptorA bust by the first female black American to work as a professional sculptor went on show in the UK last week after languishing in a cupboard at a stately home for more than 100 years.The work, a bust of Christ, was created by Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) in her studio in Rome in 1870. Lewis was internationally renowned in her day but died in obscurity in London. She was buried in an unmarke
  
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