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• Canadian Theatre Icon Martha Henry, 83

  22-10-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Only 12 days before her death, Henry gave her last performance as the character “A” — an older, dying woman — in Stratford’s production of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” – Toronto Star
  
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• We’re Not Supposed To Call It The Brexit Festival, But Here You Have It…

  22-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Unboxed: Creativity in the UK – formerly known as Festival 2022 and derided by some as a “festival of Brexit” – draws on arts, science, engineering, technology and maths in a government-backed £120m celebration of ingenuity. – The Guardian
  
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• The Insidious Harm Of “Inspiration Porn”

  22-10-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I’ve “come to see Keller’s mainstream image and story as a textbook example of “inspiration porn,” where disabled people’s lives are flattened into saccharine narratives about overcoming adversity, usually designed to make nondisabled people feel uplifted and grateful.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Social Media Problem: We’re Talking Too Much

  22-10-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A lot is wrong with the internet, but much of it boils down to this one problem: We are all constantly talking to one another. Take that in every sense. Before online tools, we talked less frequently, and with fewer people. – The Atlantic
  
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• Synchronised spinning and the invisible PM: Australia’s best political cartoons of 2021

  22-10-2021 21:00
  
  Australian cartoonists cast a satirical and sceptical eye over politicians. The results are informative, insightful, cutting, acidic and hilarious. Russ Radcliffe created the annual Best Australian Political Cartoons series in 2003 to highlight and record the year’s top offerings. Here, Guardian Australia’s photographer-at-large Mike Bowers picks out some of his favourites from this year’s edition• The 2021 edition is published on 1 November and can be pre-ordered at Scrib
  
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• Major Social Media Influencer. Black And Queer Activist. Ballet Star. Meet Harper Watters

  22-10-2021 20:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Houston social-media influencer is a gay Black man with a gift for the absurd and a passion for platform heels. He’s also a star dancer in one of the world’s most rigid, gendered, and segregated art forms.” – Texas Monthly
  
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• Can You Really Be A Better Person Taking Masterclasses Online?

  22-10-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Williamson, the company’s chief operating officer, told me, “I think it’s legitimately possible for us to create an algorithm that builds a personalized catalogue that leads you to become the best person you can be.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Fully Trained Dancers Are Finding A New Home In Burlesque

  22-10-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the growing number of women who have found their way to nightlife performance from a concert-dance background, burlesque can feel pretty close to a feminist utopia — one where women’s bodies and choreographic voices are celebrated.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Giant Puppet Finishes Four-Month Refugee Walk From Syria To UK

  22-10-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Little Amal, whose name means hope in Arabic, was created by Handspring, the company that made the equine puppets in War Horse. She stands 3.5 metres (11ft 5in) tall and is operated by a team of eight puppeteers working shifts to control her legs, arms and facial features. – The Guardian
  
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• Is Eight Shows A Week Too Much To Ask Of Actors?

  22-10-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The schedule is famously wearing, especially for leads in demanding roles. (Come the holidays, they sometimes do ten shows a week.) As Broadway returns from the pandemic shutdown, some performers are asking that their standbys go on more frequently, and some producers are obliging. – TheaterMania
  
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• The Unprecedented Logistics Behind Getting Broadway Up And Working Again

  22-10-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broadway shows stopped dead in their tracks in March 2020. The production teams simply had to hurriedly depart their stages with scenery still in place, costumes hanging on racks and dressing rooms abandoned — leaving behind a kind of theatrical Pompeii. – Washington Post
  
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• This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.

  22-10-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts “financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000 at last count. You can check out books and movies, but also sewing machines, bicycle repair kits and laptop computers.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Indigenous Australia, holograms and the Beano – the week in art

  22-10-2021 17:45
  
  An epic collection of Indigenous paintings and objects arrives in the UK from the Museum of Australia, while radicals from Picasso to Dennis and Gnasher are breaking all the rules – all in your weekly dispatchSonglines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
  An epic gathering of Indigenous Australian art, on tour from the National Museum of Australia, that gives a platform to the world’s most ancient living culture.
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• Seriously? Send Your Art To Space?

  22-10-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uplift promotes ‘Constellation Vault’: ‘a platform for commercial promotion and exhibition in low Earth orbit’. ‘The Constellation Vault will offer patrons the exclusive opportunity to acquire highly coveted items for private sale and auction in space, delivered upon return to Earth.’ Apollo
  
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• The “Immersive Transcript”, A New Way To Make Podcasts Accessible To Deaf Audiences

  22-10-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Transcripts are hardly uncommon in podcasting but they’re often an afterthought, littered with omissions and inaccuracies thanks to automated transcription. … For their new show More Than This, Vox Media set out to create a podcast that could also be seen and felt. – Nieman Lab
  
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• The High-Tide Flooding In Venice Is Only Getting Worse

  22-10-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says the chief caretaker of St. Mark’s, which sits at the city’s lowest point, “I can only say that in August, a month when this never used to happen, we had tides over a meter five times. I am talking about the month of August, when we are quiet.” – AP
  
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• Unknown Arshile Gorky Painting Discovered Behind Later Artwork On Paper

  22-10-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The newly discovered work, called Untitled (Virginia Summer) and dated ca. 1946-47, was found when the Arshile Gorky Foundation sent out The Limit (1947) for routine conservation. – Artnet
  
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• Pianist Yundi Li Arrested On Immorality Charge In Beijing

  22-10-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Li, who earned fame in the West in the ’00s and became a household name in China, was arrested with a sex worker — and promptly expelled from the musicians’ union, crippling his career. State TV warned that “anyone who challenges laws and social morality is doomed.” – Bloomberg Quint
  
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• Alec Baldwin, Firing Prop Gun On Set, Kills Cinematographer And Wounds Director

  22-10-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While filming a scene on location near Santa Fe for the feature Rust, which he co-wrote, is producing and stars in, Baldwin discharged a prop pistol loaded with blanks and hit director of photography Halyna Hutchins, now dead, and director Joel Souza, hospitalized. – Santa Fe New Mexican
  
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• Bernard Haitink, Revered Conductor, Dead At 92

  22-10-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Known especially for his Mahler and Bruckner, Haitink had long tenures at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera in London, and Glyndebourne Festival and spent periods as (unofficially but in effect) interim chief conductor at the Boston And Chicago Symphonies. – BBC
  
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• Facebook Agrees To Pay News Outlets In France For Content

  22-10-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Facebook said Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by people on the social network. … The financial terms weren’t disclosed.” – AP
  
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• In need of a shape-up

  22-10-2021 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway transfers of Thoughts of a Colored Man and Dana H. Here’s an excerpt.
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  Barbershops of the old-fashioned three-chair type are integral parts of Black urban neighborhoods, quasi-community centers where the locals not only get their hair cut but hang out, see friends, swap gossip, and shoot the breeze. I learned this from “Barbershop,” Tim Story’s charming 2002 screen comedy about a 40-year
  
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• Replay: Ralph Richardson appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line?

  22-10-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ralph Richardson appears as the mystery guest on an episode of What’s My Line? originally telecast live by CBS on July 28, 1963. Bennett Cerf, Peter Cook, Arlene Francis, and Phyllis Newman are the panelists and the host is John Daly:
  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Transverse Orientation review – beauty and disgust from Dimitris Papaioannou

  22-10-2021 12:40
  
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Fake babies waving to the audience, an imposing puppet bull and an optical illusion of entwined limbs combine in a cocktail of contradictionsIs there anywhere else you’d find slapstick and Botticelli’s Venus sharing the same stage, a brooding Minotaur and a woman sandwiched in a camp bed like it’s a mouse trap? Let alone a (fake) baby torn from the oozing gloop of its amniotic sac who then sits up and waves to the audience. All these things live tog
  
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• Five Observations on the Arts 18 Months into COVID: Finances

  22-10-2021 05:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Many arts organizations are coming out of the COVID shutdown in better financial shape than they were going in.
  
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