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• Visa Delays Are Crippling US Music World

  15-10-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The delays have hampered many industries, but they are particularly upending classical music, which relies on stars from all over the world to make a circuit of leading concert halls and opera houses. – The New York Times
  
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• How Opera Invented The Modern Fan

  15-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Theater impresarios quickly recognized them as their ideal audience: the true-blue fans who reliably subscribed to the whole opera season; bought programs, auto­graphed photos; and drummed up the anticipation and conversation that kept theaters in business. – LitHub
  
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• Is There A Role For Art In A Post-Liberal World?

  15-10-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The liberal beliefs that underpin today’s international art world are only shared by a tiny minority of the global population. Yet the West’s art establishment continues to label as “bad” anything that does not conform to such orthodoxies. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• An Audio Producer On The Process Of Becoming Deaf

  15-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I know neither birdsong nor silence, and yet am acutely aware that countless people struggling with their own version of “life is unfair” would trade their lot for mine in a heartbeat. I know this intellectually, but a loss is still a loss, and mourning takes time. – Vince Werner
  
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• The Benefit Of Watching Horror Movies

  15-10-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People can derive pleasure from recreational horror, whether in a haunted attraction or in front of the screen. For some, it is about maximum stimulation; those people are the adrenaline junkies. But for others, it is about keeping fear at a tolerable level. Aeon
  
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• The Professor Who Showed Us That Teaching Writing Is More Than Just Correcting Mistakes

  15-10-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mike Rose at UCLA “heralded a paradigm shift in the way writing is taught in our educational system. … (He) asked teachers to understand students as whole people, with mixed feelings about academic writing, who are nonetheless trying to do a very difficult thing.” – The New Yorker
  
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• From stargazing with the Mabo family to colonial artefacts, reappropriated: inside Tarnanthi 2021

  15-10-2021 21:00
  
  Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  Festival puts the colourful and the uncomfortable of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on show Gail Mabo was around eight years old when her father, the late Eddie Koiki Mabo, first traced out for her the story of Tagai the hunter in the night sky above the Torres Strait Islands. “As Tagai moves through the sky, he dictates when it’s time for planting, when it’s time for harvesting, and when it’s time to hunt t
  
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• Tracking Arts Unemployment: Still Grim

  15-10-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As of August 2021, the national rate had fallen below 6% while the sector rate increased to over 10% once again. – SMU Data Arts
  
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• Michael Cullimore obituary

  15-10-2021 20:09
  
  My stepfather, Michael Cullimore, who has died aged 84, was a watercolour artist who exhibited widely from the 1960s all around the country. Michael’s paintings are in many public collections including those of the Welsh Arts Council, the National Museum of Wales, Salisbury Museum, the Creasy Collection, Salisbury Library, Bournemouth Orchestras, Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum and Bournemouth and Devizes Museum.Born in 1936 in Bradford on Avon, he was the son of Richard Cullimore, a
  
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• London Mayor Announces Plan For Huge New Cultural District

  15-10-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The former industrial district in Newham, East London, a big destination for new immigrants, will get film, music, and art studios as well as performance venues and community workspaces. The mayor says the project will create 35,000 jobs and 4,000 new homes over 20 years. – The Stage
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Fires 150 Docents

  15-10-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once you cut through the blather, the letter basically said the museum had looked critically at its corps of docents, a group dominated by mostly (but not entirely) white, retired women with some time to spare, and found them wanting as a demographic. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Board Chair Explains Why 150 Docents Were Fired

  15-10-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robert M. Levy: “In order to succeed, the Art Institute and our peer group must let go of the museum tenet of “this is how we have always done it” and explore new ways to ignite enthusiasm in our visitors.” – Chicago Tribune
  
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• K-Pop Isn’t Just Music, It’s Become A Dance Genre

  15-10-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the comical horseback-riding step in PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ to the carefree peace-sign–wielding grooves in BTS’s ‘Permission to Dance,’ K-pop choreography often goes viral. … Nearly every K-pop song has corresponding choreography that hits each accent in the track.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Rotten Tomatoes And Measuring The Divide Between Critics And Audience

  15-10-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new Disney Plus documentary on Dr Anthony Fauci, which explores the personal side of the controversial figure, has a certified 91 percent approval rating from critics and a mere 2 percent from audiences. – The Spectator
  
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• Atta Kwami obituary

  15-10-2021 18:24
  
  Painter, printmaker and sculptor whose colourful work drew on the vernacular art of his native GhanaSince July, visitors to Folkestone harbour have encountered a double archway brightly painted with a geometric pattern in an array of colours. A part of the Kent town’s triennial art festival, it is the work of the Ghanaian-born artist Atta Kwami, who has died aged 65.Kwami, who lived in both Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, and, from 2009, Loughborough, in Leicestershire, said the sculptu
  
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• As Netflix Has More International Hits, Subtitles Are Becoming A Serious Issue

  15-10-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some observers have been criticizing the English titles for Squid Game in particular, with one Korean-American even saying “If you don’t understand Korean, you didn’t really watch the same show.” The format’s constraints make it a tricky business — and one hugely affected by Netflix. – The Guardian
  
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• Frieze, phones and avant garde fashion – the week in art

  15-10-2021 17:42
  
  The Frieze art fair is in full swing in Regent’s Park, Martin Boyce is on the blower in Glasgow and Lucy McKenzie is playing tricks on the eye in Liverpool – all in your weekly dispatchLucy McKenzieA retrospective of the Glasgow-born artist’s architectural paintings and forays into avant garde fashion.
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• Twelve Predictions About The Future Of Music

  15-10-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dead musicians will start by giving tours in concert halls, but as the cost of the technology goes down, they will begin performing everywhere. – Ted Gioia
  
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• This “Library” Lends Artworks To Hundreds Of Museums

  15-10-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Since 1984, the Broad Art Foundation (yes, as in Eli and Edythe) in Los Angeles has made more than 8,700 loans (well over 200 a year) to nearly 600 institutions. How does it work? Here’s a look at the operation’s logistics. – ARTnews
  
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• Landscape Architect Who Rehabs Contaminated Sites Is Inaugural Winner Of Oberlander Prize

  15-10-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Julie Bargmann, whose firm is called D.I.R.T. (“Dump It Right There”) has been given the first Oberlander Prize, a $100,000 biennial award for landscape architecture. Justin Davidson explores how Bargmann’s approach leaves onsite as much as possible of what’s there and uses nature for cleanup. – Curbed
  
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• Gallerist Margo Leavin, Who Helped Make L.A. Into A Contemporary Art Capital, Dead At 85

  15-10-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For more than 40 years, she presented some of California’s most important artists (e.g., John Baldessari, Alexis Smith) and major solo shows of the likes of Jasper Johns and Sol LeWitt. Her archive was considered consequential enough that the Getty Research Institute bought it. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Higher Education Is Now An American Culture War Battleground. Public Radio Could Get Trampled.

  15-10-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many listeners don’t realize how enmeshed public radio is with higher ed: two-thirds of NPR outlets are affiliated with colleges or universities, many of which own the stations’ licenses. As culture war politics erupt at universities (e.g., Nikole Hannah-Jones and UNC), public radio becomes vulnerable. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Just What Are Esa-Pekka Salonen And His “Collaborative Partners” At The San Francisco Symphony Up To? They’re Not Sure Yet

  15-10-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Esperanza Spalding: “You may know who you’re writing for, the instrumentation, the length. … But once you actually start populating the spaces with notes and phrases, it changes. You can’t know what the shape of something you’ve never done before is going to be.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• And Who Are These San Francisco Symphony “Collaborative Partners”, Anyway?

  15-10-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s what to know about Nicholas Britell, Julia Bullock, Claire Chase, Bryce Dessner, Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly, Carol Reiley, and Esperanza Spalding. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Royal Shakespeare Company Is UK’s First Performing Arts Institution Given Official Status As Research Organization

  15-10-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The designation, more typically given to universities, makes the RSC eligible for government research grants and will allow it to expand its work as a “teaching theatre.” – The Stage
  
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• Spain To Give Every 18-Year-Old A €400 Culture Pass

  15-10-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The program, budgeted for 2022, is similar to those established in France (€300) and Italy (€500). A key difference is that the money will be divided so that not all of it can be spent only on theater tickets or books or opera. – The Local (Spain)
  
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• Enniskillen mounts Oscar Wilde tribute with flight of gold-leaf swallows

  15-10-2021 13:55
  
  Installation inspired by The Happy Prince will be accompanied by similar celebration of Samuel Beckett, who like Wilde was educated in the townIn The Happy Prince, one of Oscar Wilde’s most popular stories, the statue of a Prince begs a swallow to give his gold leaf and jewels to the poor people of his town. Now Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, where Wilde spent his school days, is honouring one of its most famous literary inhabitants, with the installation of more than 100 gold-leaf sculp
  
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• The Spanish Gallery review – would you like a scary fresco with your sherry and tapas?

  15-10-2021 11:08
  
  Bishop Auckland, County Durham
  This new museum has big dreams – but that old Spanish magic doesn’t hit you until you reach the frescoes. Great place for a tapas bar, thoughGreat Spanish geniuses of the Renaissance and baroque era are celebrated by Bishop Auckland’s newest museum but it makes no mention of the most influential of all, Miguel de Cervantes. Perhaps because Cervantes’ Don Quixote tilting at windmills would strike too close to home. For this gallery, in a conv
  
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• Cambridge college to be first in UK to return looted Benin bronze

  15-10-2021 11:00
  
  Jesus College will give sculpture of a cockerel back to Nigeria, which could spark a wave of repatriationsA Cambridge college is to become the first British institution to return one of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria later this month in what has been described as “a historic moment”.Jesus College, University of Cambridge, will return the bronze cockerel to Nigerian delegates on 27 October, in a handover ceremony that Nigerian officials say offers “hope for amicable resolutions&rd
  
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• Art lovers at Frieze London – in pictures

  15-10-2021 08:00
  
  Photographer Sarah Lee went to Frieze art fair in Regent’s Park, London, and trained her eye on the people taking in the show Continue reading...
  
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