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• Surge In Visitors at Chinese Heritage Sites. And Concerns…

  29-10-2021 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to a national survey in 2012, mainland China has more than 766,000 sites of immoveable cultural relics but only around 130,000 designated custodians. Short staffing means that some sites are left unguarded, while others are closed to the public. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How Museums Are Struggling To Change What/How They Present

  29-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Museums everywhere have worked to excavate more complex truths in their collections for years. In the ongoing grind of a pandemic that has exposed every manner of social division and inequity, the demand is for that work to accelerate. – Boston Globe
  
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• Are We Okay With Giving Up Beloved Buildings (and Even Cities) To Climate Change?

  29-10-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  So many values and sentiments of identity and belonging are invested in historic heritage. How will we cope with the much more substantial loss that awaits us? – Aeon
  
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• How “A Housewife From Winnetka” Started Collecting Data About Dance

  29-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The data project shows that, despite recent improvement, works performed by major ballet companies are still overwhelmingly choreographed by men. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Homer As A Manufactured Construct

  29-10-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Faced with uncertainty surrounding the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the ancients rushed to fill in gaps, in essence producing a biography of the poet who, it was assumed, must have lived at some point in the past. – Lapham’s Quarterly
  
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• Preserving Mexico’s Old-Time Popular Cinema — And Getting Some Respect From The World For It

  29-10-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Had they not been rescued from a dusty storehouse seven years ago, the original negatives of hundreds of Mexican movies featuring the likes of the silver-masked crime-fighting wrestler El Santo, a bikini-clad Batwoman and the Satan-worshipping Panther Women would have been lost forever.” – The Guardian
  
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• Exhausted and broke: Melbourne artists in survival mode as galleries prepare to reopen

  29-10-2021 21:00
  
  Covid lockdowns left the arts community on its knees. But the drive to create is still there and the industry is ready to returnFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesVic: hotspots; restrictions; vaccination rates by postcodeVaccine rollout tracker; cases and data trackerGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingGalleries across Melbourne will open their doors next week. But the community at the heart of Australia’s cultural capital is exhausted – and many are br
  
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• Has Amazon Really Changed Literature?

  29-10-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spotify-like Kindle Unlimited subscriptions have made fiction into an “‘always on’ utility” that prioritizes “serial plenitude over singular encounters.”– The Baffler
  
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• Turns Out Poland Is A Hotbed Of Sacred Choral Music

  29-10-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paweł Łukaszewski, now his nation’s leading living composer, has written a lot of good music for choir. So have his Polish colleagues and predecessors going back centuries, he says, and he’s started a festival in London to bring the rest of the world’s attention to it. – Bachtrack
  
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• Media Companies Believe The Blockchain Will Transform Their Businesses

  29-10-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With crypto and blockchain, the movie and entertainment industry is poised to reinvent its business functions, facilitating secure, transparent, and traceable transactions across the market. – Fast Company
  
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• Broken colour in Constable country | Letter

  29-10-2021 19:24
  
  The landscape artist’s painting style could have been the result of his colour-blindness and an influence on French impressionists, says David CockayneConstable may well be a forerunner of the later French avant garde, as Jonathan Jones suggests (The volcanic, uncontrollable visions of a master reborn – Late Constable review, 26 October). This is also down to his use of broken colour – applying dabs of paint without mixing them – as explained in The World Through Blunted
  
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• Victorian “Penny Dreadful” Pulp Novels Actually Contributed To Improving British Society (No, Really)

  29-10-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The cheap, cheesy horror stories became so popular, especially among older children and teens, that they were arguably a bigger factor in spreading literacy than was the introduction of mandatory public education. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Why Have 17,000 People Lost Their Jobs In Australian Universities?

  29-10-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before it happened, we in the sector viewed the prospect of such an outcome as intolerable: a Rubicon we would never allow to be crossed. – Sydney Review of Books
  
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• James Ivory, Still Working At 93, Says His Life As A Gay Man Has Been Too Easy

  29-10-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director half of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking duo (and the oldest person ever to win an Oscar) says he and Ismail Merchant weren’t public about their coupledom because of Merchant’s Indian family but had little problem in their industry. (Ivory’s also unusually frank about sex.) – The Guardian
  
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• Seven Rules For The Culture Wars

  29-10-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In culture wars, both sides like to refer to self-evident sources of ‘the truth’ – such that ‘every sensible person must surely be able to recognize’. But… the formerly reliable solid ground is being replaced by quicksand. – Eurozine
  
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• ‘True genius’ of Fragonard revealed after restoration of The Swing

  29-10-2021 17:14
  
  Rococo painting to go back on show at Wallace Collection with greater depth and detailA complex and delicate conservation process on one of the most celebrated paintings in French art history has revealed fresh vibrancy and detail that shows the artist’s “true genius”.Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing, created in 1767, was considered by many contemporaries as highly risqué for its depiction of a young woman revealing a glimpse of her undergarments from her p
  
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• When Rudy Giuliani Tried To Shut Down The Brooklyn Museum

  29-10-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a new memoir, Arnold Lehman, who was director of the museum at the time, looks back at the culture-war media circus that broke out over the 1999 exhibition Sensation, and especially over Chris Ofili’s painting The Holy Virgin Mary. – ARTnews
  
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• COVID Killed Quite A Few Dance Companies, And The Survivors Are Scared

  29-10-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  As dance companies are returning to the stage, the ghosts of those that no longer exist haunt the field. … Dance advocates see the vanished organizations as troubling signs that the art form, routinely under financial stress, may be shrinking, its structures drastically changing. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Why People Really Cancel Their News Subscriptions

  29-10-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Nieman Journalism Lab asked its readers who had cancelled to tell them why, and hundreds did. Ideological or political bias was cited, but it was by no means the primary reason. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Constable hits Stonehenge, Hogarth does Europe and witches get a makeover – the week in art

  29-10-2021 15:57
  
  The Royal Academy shows a new side to the landscape artist, Tate Britain takes Hogarth to the Continent and Deborah Roberts is in a fragmented mood in Liverpool – all in your weekly dispatchLate Constable
  A tremendous gathering of Constable’s intense, expressive paintings that will open all eyes to his genius.
  • Royal Academy, London, from 30 October until 13 February. Continue reading...
  
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• The Behemoth Of Broadway Licensing Companies May Be Up For Sale

  29-10-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You may not know of Concord Theatricals, but in the past five years, it has bought up Samuel French, Tams-Whitmark Music Library, and rights to the shows of Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Its majority owner — for now — is Michigan’s state pension fund. – Forbes
  
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• Off-Broadway’s Leading Awards Eliminate Gender From Acting Categories

  29-10-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Lucille Lortel Awards will honor outstanding lead performer and outstanding supporting performer in a musical and in a play, thus cutting the number of acting awards almost in half (a single category is being added for outstanding ensemble). – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• “Utterly Astounding”: Well-Preserved Roman Statues Found On Route Of Britain’s Planned High-Speed Railway

  29-10-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Statues of a Roman man, woman and child have been uncovered by archaeologists at an abandoned medieval church on the route of the HS2 high-speed railway.” – The Guardian
  
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• NBCUniversal Loses Half A Billion Dollars On Its New Streaming Service

  29-10-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Comcast on Thursday reported $230 million in revenue and a $520 million adjusted loss related to NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock in its third-quarter earnings report. That compared to $41 million in revenue and an adjusted loss of $233 million in the comparable year-ago period.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• In praise of working girls

  29-10-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review an off-Broadway revival of Mrs. Warren’s Profession and a Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change. Here’s an excerpt.
  *  *  *Time was when George Bernard Shaw’s effervescent comedies of ideas were seen on Broadway with fair regularity, but those days are long past. All the more reason, then, to praise David Staller, the artistic director of Project Shaw, a long-running series of semi-staged concert readings of th
  
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• The Guide #6: is the gig up?

  29-10-2021 12:29
  
  In this week’s newsletter: with case numbers high, four critics take the temperature of live performance● Don’t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt is a strange time for live culture at the moment. On the surface, much of the industry seems to have returned to something close to normal: heads are being banged at gigs, popcorn scarfed down in cinemas, and applause is rippling through theatres. Yet at the same time, Covid case numbers are at concerning levels (i
  
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• Giddy thrills and heightened fears: critics on what it’s like to be back at live shows

  29-10-2021 12:29
  
  Gigs and cinemas are packed, but with Covid cases rising have things really returned to normal? Four critics take the temperature of live performance● Don’t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt is a strange time for live culture at the moment. On the surface, much of the industry seems to have returned to something close to normal: heads are being banged at gigs, popcorn scarfed down in cinemas, and applause is rippling through theatres. Yet at the same time, Covid c
  
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• Franz Kafka drawings reveal ‘sunny’ side to bleak Bohemian novelist

  29-10-2021 10:00
  
  Surreal drawings by author of The Trial – which he demanded be burnt after his death – to be publishedStricken with self-doubt, paranoia and existential despair, the writings of Franz Kafka have taken generations of readers on what the author called “the descent into the cold abyss of oneself”.A trove of 150 drawings, retrieved from a Swiss bank vault in 2019 after years of legal wrangling and presented to the public for the first time on Thursday, offers a more cheerful
  
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• Study: Sell An Idea By Focusing On “Why” Or “How”?

  29-10-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Should she focus on why her idea is useful or should she instead promote a more concrete focus on how the idea works when pitching to an audience of investors? – Harvard Business Review
  
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