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• Reconsidering The History Of Humanity

  21-10-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Humanity was not restricted to small bands of hunter-gatherers, agriculture did not lead inexorably to hierarchies and conflicts and there was not one mode of social organisation that prevailed, at least until thousands of years after the introduction of agriculture. – The Guardian
  
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• Is This 12 Hours Of Documentary Theatre Or Is It Displaying People As If They Were In An Exhibit?

  21-10-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The show 12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse consists solely of dozens of people talking about, or actually doing, what they do for a living: a midwife lecturing about the birth process, an astrophysicist talking about stars, a chef making dinner, a decorator hanging wallpaper. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Never sold a painting in his life – but died worth $100m’: the incredible story of Boris Lurie

  21-10-2021 19:45
  
  The difficult, devastating work of the Holocaust survivor turned painter is being celebrated at a new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage“He never sold a painting in his life, lived in hovels, yet died worth about $100m,” says Anthony Williams, chairman of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, at a press preview for Boris Lurie: Nothing to Do but Try. “He was,” he later says with a sigh, “a complicated man.”The paradox of Boris Lurie’s liv
  
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• Quick Study: Local Arts Agencies as Creative Connectors

  21-10-2021 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  
  To celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month, this episode of Quick Study looks at the critical role of local arts agencies in a post-COVID-19 environment. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website.
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• A New Shakespeare-Style Theatre In The UK North

  21-10-2021 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shakespeare North Playhouse is on course to open next summer, joining only a handful of historically accurate, wooden-framed theatre auditoriums in England. – The Stage
  
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• Tribute Or Marketing Stunt (Or Both)? Secretive Seattle Street Artist Stalks Manhattan Recreating “Shadowman”

  21-10-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Hambleton painted his dark silhouette figures around the Lower East Side in the 1980s, becoming “the godfather of street art.” The artist known as Nullbureau has lately been painting fresh copies of Hambleton’s Shadowmen around New York, and some Hambleton devotees are outraged. – The New York Times
  
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• 25 TV Shows That Are Defining/Reflecting The 21st Century

  21-10-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These are the series that are both influential and significant, that have broken new ground, that have reflected life specifically in this century, or that have changed the culture of TV in some way. – BBC
  
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• Picasso Lived His Entire Life In France Under Surveillance

  21-10-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For more than 40 years, his Catalan connections, his communist leanings and his celebrity made him a suspect in the eyes of the French police and intelligence services. His request for naturalization was denied. He was the target of xenophobia and identity politics.” – The New York Times
  
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• What Fuels Conspiracy Theories

  21-10-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New research suggests that it’s not just negative emotions that contribute to the appeal of conspiracy theories. People can also find conspiracy theories entertaining – and the more entertaining people find them, it seems, the more likely they are to believe in them. – Psyche
  
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• With His “Team TERF” Routine, Dave Chappelle Dishonors A Long Line Of Great Black Performers

  21-10-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Artists from Richard Pryor to Moms Mabley to Ma Rainey “took big risks to affirm LGBTQ people and be honest about their own sexuality. … Chappelle is doing something they never did — making a career of going after a group even more reviled than Black people.” – CNN
  
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• Disgraced During #MeToo, Garrison Keillor Tries For A Comeback

  21-10-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Five years after he retired from A Prairie Home Companion, four years after accusations led public radio and publishers to drop him, Keillor is self-publishing and doing speaking gigs before forgiving audiences. He has no regrets, but his account of things is, well, sanitized. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Black Americans Should Absolutely Appropriate European Opera (Though Not Necessarily Like This): John McWhorter

  21-10-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Writes the Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones and William Grant Still’s Highway 1, U.S.A., “the tradition being appropriated here is based on a philosophy of composition and audience reception hardly inevitable.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Believer, Award-Winning Literary Magazine, To Close

  21-10-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The announcement comes seven months after high-profile editor Joshua Wolf Shenk was forced to resign after an indecent exposure incident on Zoom and multiple accusations of inappropriate behavior. The final issue will be February/March 2022. – AP
  
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• Interpol Says Illegal Excavations Of Cultural Heritage Sites Soared During Pandemic

  21-10-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Africa saw an increase in offenses related to digs, up from 44 incidents in 2019 to 153 in 2020. The starkest increase occurred in Asia and the South Pacific, from 42 to 1,563. In total, more than 35,000 items were reported stolen across the world.” – ARTnews
  
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• Nine Years In Prison For Former Principal At English National Ballet

  21-10-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yat-Sen Chang was convicted on twelve counts of sexual assault on female students in London between 2009 and 2016. Born and trained in Cuba, Chang, 49, danced with ENB from 1993 to 2011 and was, until his trial, ballet master at the theater in Kiel, Germany. – The Guardian
  
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• England’s Theatres Are Open, No Masks Or Distancing Required, And Feelings Are Mixed

  21-10-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “How are theater fans feeling about this new normal? Has the pandemic changed what they’re seeing, and how they’re seeing it? We spoke to [eight] theater enthusiasts to find out.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Clay feels perverse’ – Theaster Gates on working on Obama’s library and going back to pottery

  21-10-2021 07:00
  
  The superstar ‘social artist’ has revived derelict buildings and rescued a legendary record collection – but in lockdown, as two new UK exhibitions show, it was singing and throwing pots that made him happyTheaster Gates likes to get his hands dirty. His two new London exhibitions are dedicated to clay, and in one there’s a film of him singing with great gusto as he throws a pot. So it feels a shame not to be meeting one to one, but via laptop. The artist decided at the l
  
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• Australian government unveils plan to support Aboriginal artists and guard against fake works

  21-10-2021 06:25
  
  Artist collective welcomes extra funding but says new initiatives do nothing about unscrupulous dealers effectively holding vulnerable artists hostageGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe federal government has unveiled a new plan to support Indigenous artists in regional and remote Australia, including strengthened measures to guard against fake and counterfeit artworks.But a collective of Indigenous artists in the heart of the country have said that while the annual $5m adde
  
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• Piffaro the Philadelphia Renaissance band: A new sun rises again and again

  21-10-2021 05:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once the upstart child of the early-music counterculture, Piffaro the Philadelphia Renaissance Band is now downright venerable at age 40 as its founders are ceding leadership to a generation who learned about pre-Bach wind band literature by memorizing their recordings. Priscilla Herreid moves up through the ranks as the new director starting next season, replacing Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken who have jointly been given a lifetime achievement award by Early Music America. The worl
  
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• Associate Development/Database Management

  21-10-2021 02:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Job DescriptionDevelopment Associate/Database manager
  This position reports to the Development Director/External Affairs DirectorDuties and ResponsibilitieThe Development Associate/Database manager is an integral member of the AKLB Team. The position is responsible for supporting the day-to-day functioning of the Development Department as well as helping to ensure the success of all special events.
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• Roundabout Theatre Company – Director of Human Resources

  21-10-2021 02:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  OrganizationFounded in 1965 and based in New York City, Roundabout Theatre Company (Roundabout) has grown to become one of the country’s largest nonprofit theatrical institutions. Roundabout operates three venues on Broadway— American Airlines Theatre, Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and the historic Studio 54—and two venues off-Broadway—Laura Pels Theatre and Roundabout Underground Black Box Theatre, which are housed in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.With a
  
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• Friends of Chamber Music KC Seeks Artistic Director

  21-10-2021 02:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Friends of Chamber Music, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is searching for a dynamic and experienced Artistic Director to lead one of the country’s preeminent music series. Currently in its 46th season, The Friends of Chamber Music has earned a reputation for excellence, with programs and performers matched to create a season of deliberate artistic vision.The organization’s season has been comprised of about a dozen concerts from October through May in three series: The Intern
  
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