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• How Korea Became A Major Cultural Exporter

  03-11-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Once streaming services like Netflix tore down geographical barriers, the creators say, the country transformed from a consumer of Western culture into an entertainment juggernaut and major cultural exporter in its own right. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Booker Prize Winner:

  03-11-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Booker judges pronounced Damon Galgut the winner, praising his novel for its “unusual narrative style that balances Faulknerian exuberance with Nabokovian precision, pushes boundaries, and is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century.” – The New York Times
  
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• DC City Council Approves Two New Arts Commission Members Over Objections Of Its Chairman

  03-11-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The controversy comes as the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has dramatically reshaped its policies to focus on diversity and equity and to broaden its reach to serve the entire city. Its $38.4 million budget is one of the nation’s largest. – Washington Post
  
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• Jazz Guitarist Pat Martino, 77 — Overcame Amnesia To Perform Again

  03-11-2021 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 1980, brain surgery left him with no memory, but he painstakingly relearned the instrument, and his own past, and went on to three more decades of innovative musicianship. – The New York Times
  
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• The Cultural Revisionism Industry

  03-11-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Over the past few years, a certain genre of media has found opportunity in debunking false conceptions of the semi-recent past and meditating on the cultural factors which contributed to their initial spread. – Gawker
  
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• Rehabilitating Chuck Close

  03-11-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Where Close’s work ultimately lands in the canon of American art will serve as the art world’s first test case for how an artist who faced sexual harassment allegations in life will be remembered in death. – Artnet
  
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• Mark-Anthony Turnage Writes Music For A Soccer Match

  03-11-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Granted, this isn’t just any match: it’s the still-legendary 1989 English Premier League championship in which the London team Arsenal pulled off a dramatic last-minute win against Liverpool. Here the composer writes about how the unusual project came about. – The Guardian
  
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• What Do Hybrid Performances Look Like After COVID?

  03-11-2021 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It may be counterintuitive, but the consensus view is the best way to produce the emotional intensity of a live performance is to create programming distinctly different from the work being done onstage. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Inigo Philbrick, “The Bernie Madoff Of Art Dealers”, Will Plead Guilty To Fraud

  03-11-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2020 he was indicted on multiple charges of wire fraud and identity theft and fled to Vanuatu in the South Pacific, where he was ultimately arrested; deemed a flight risk, he’s been in custody in New York ever since. – Artnet
  
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• JackTrip: Solving The Internet’s Latency Problem For Musicians?

  03-11-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We now have 60,000 users and we just hit the 100,000-hour mark of people making music on our platform. We’re excited to be a part of solving this problem.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• After 80 Years, The “City Of Arts” Diego Rivera Dreamed Of Is Open

  03-11-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 13-building complex opened this weekend (in Mexico City) with around 64,600 square feet of gardens, workshops, and performance and exhibition spaces.” Amazingly, the six-year project was completed for less than $1 million. – ARTnews
  
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• Orchestras Continue Progress On Diversity During COVID

  03-11-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With racial sensitivities heightened since the 2020 murder of George Floyd, classical music groups nationwide have increasingly highlighted BIPOC performers and composers. – Dallas Morning News
  
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• Not Your Grandfather’s Native American Dance Troupe

  03-11-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When Indigenous Enterprise appeared on World of Dance, Kenneth Shirley described the group’s style as ‘Native American with a little bit of hip-hop.’ And the influence of hip-hop is discernible in footwork and bounce, but most of all in attitude.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg As Cultural Director Of The Internet? Er…

  03-11-2021 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though the term “metaverse” suggests a fully articulated sci-fi realm, Zuckerberg is using it to glamorize a network of virtual and augmented reality apps and gear, like headsets. – The New York Times
  
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• “Internet Culture” Reporting Is Technology Reporting (So Let’s Call It That, Okay?)

  03-11-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Taylor Lorenz: “Why aren’t internet culture writers, who are primarily women and people of color, seen simply as technology or culture reporters? And do we really need the word ‘internet’ or ‘digital’ in front of things in the year 2021?” – Mirror
  
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• What Happened To Tony Soprano In The End? “Sopranos” Showrunner David Chase Finally ‘Fesses Up

  03-11-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Okay, it’s not really a surprise, but we finally get confirmation from the guy who made the decision, along with his feelings about the brouhaha around the show’s finale, what led him to make the prequel, and how he feels about film versus TV. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Tomb Of Chief Official To Pharaoh Ramses II Uncovered

  03-11-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 3,200-year-old monument was the burial place of Ptah-M-Wia, who was treasurer and chief scribe to Ramses the Great. It’s one of many impressive discoveries made over the past few years in Saqqara, an ancient necropolis south of present-day Cairo. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Opens Its Brand-New Building

  03-11-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chris Jones: “Contrary to the way it has sometimes been reported, Steppenwolf has not added a theater to its portfolio so much as replaced an inadequate one with a superior facility in a different configuration.” – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• One Of The World’s Largest Ancient Mosaics Restored and Unveiled In Jericho

  03-11-2021 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The tiled floor in Hisham’s Palace in the West Bank city dates back to the 8th century and covers nearly 900 square feet. – Al Jazeera
  
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• By 2100, Venice Could Crumble Into The Sea, Warn Scientists

  03-11-2021 13:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The European Geosciences Union reports that sea levels could rise three feet by the end of the century — and that’s before the seasonal high tides that flood the city every year. What’s more, salt from sea water is eating the foundations of Venice’s buildings. – The Hill
  
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• Supersize me: the painter giving rock’n’roll singles new dimensions – in pictures

  03-11-2021 08:00
  
  Morgan Howell creates giant 3D paintings of classic seven-inch singles, complete with crinkled sleeves. He talks us through his favourites … Continue reading...
  
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• Indigenous languages project urges Cop26 leaders to rethink ties to the land

  03-11-2021 08:00
  
  Living Language Land includes Namibian bushman’s word for ‘magical journey’ and one from Philippines to denote ‘a forest within a forest’Western leaders at the Cop26 climate summit have been urged to embrace a far more holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world by an art project celebrating indigenous minority languages.The Living Language Land project has identified 25 words from minority languages and dialects around the world – including N
  
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• What are the raw materials in your iPhone, Starbucks cup and bike? – in pictures

  03-11-2021 07:00
  
  The Dutch duo Studio Drift’s multipart show at the Shed in New York, Fragile Future, deconstructs the materials of daily lifeWhat happens if you reverse engineer the raw materials of everyday objects such as an iPhone, a Starbucks cup or a bicycle? Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of the Dutch art collective Studio Drift attempted to find out by stripping back the elements and depicting them proportionately in cubes and prisms.Titled Materialism, their show at the New York event space the S
  
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• What are the elements in your iPhone, Starbucks cup and bike? Visualized

  03-11-2021 07:00
  
  The Dutch duo Studio Drift’s multipart show at the Shed in New York, Fragile Future, deconstructs the materials of daily lifeWhat happens if you reverse engineer the raw materials of everyday objects such as an iPhone, a Starbucks cup or a bicycle? Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of the Dutch art collective Studio Drift attempted to find out by stripping back the elements and depicting them proportionately in cubes and prisms.Titled Materialism, their show at the New York event space the S
  
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• Art for bees: ‘mad-looking’ installation suits pollinators’ tastes

  03-11-2021 01:01
  
  Plant-based piece in Cornwall used algorithm to make design irresistible to bees, butterflies, moths and waspsShe admits that, to the human eye at least, her new installation may turn out a little garish – clashing colours, odd shapes, curious juxtapositions – but the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg doesn’t mind that at all.Ginsberg’s 55-metre long piece, which is taking shape at the eco-visitor attraction the Eden Project in Cornwall, is not designed, like most art, to p
  
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