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• London’s Barbican Center Commits To “Radical Transformation” After Investigation

  10-11-2021 23:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The external review, which interviewed 35 people, identified “a lack of diversity in the organisation, an absence of confidence in HR systems and in the handling of complaints and in managers to deal with or take seriously concerns of racism”. – The Guardian
  
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• Cities Are Spreading Like Organisms

  10-11-2021 23:01 via aeon.co
  
  In a widely cited paper from 2007, on a number of common measures of innovation and wealth creation, cities deliver benefits that exceed what we would expect by a simple scaling up of the numbers of people involved, and at lower cost in terms of the infrastructure required. – Aeon
  
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• Ludovic Morlot Appointed To Lead Barcelona Orchestra

  10-11-2021 22:32 via arabalears.cat
  
  Morlot, born in Lyon in 1974, will replace Kazushi Ono. The contract with the OBC is for four years, with a minimum of eleven weeks of work with the orchestra each season, of which eight would be for seasonal concerts, two for recordings and one for festivals. – Ara Balears
  
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• Niall Ferguson: Why I’m Starting A New University

  10-11-2021 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Those of us who were fortunate to be undergraduates in the 1980s remember the exhilarating combination of intellectual freedom and ambition to which all this gave rise. Yet, in the past decade, exhilaration has been replaced by suffocation. – Washington Post
  
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• Musicians: Suffocating In The Gig Economy

  10-11-2021 21:32 via brooklynrail.org
  
  Many musicians have watched, cringing, as the term “gig economy” has become a defining term of the national economic Zeitgeist. Not just because the word “gig” is our word—it originated with jazz musicians in the 1910s—but because, in a larger sense, we are the original gig workers. – Brooklyn Rail
  
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• How Can Today’s Piano Students Learn To Improvise? The Same Way They Did In The 18th Century

  10-11-2021 20:58 via earlymusicamerica.org
  
  John Mortensen has made a thorough study of how music students in Baroque-era Naples were taught to improvise harmony and counterpoint, then a basic skill. And he’s seeing interest from present-day students who don’t want to play the same hundred pieces everyone else does. – Early Music America
  
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• John Cleese Cancels Cambridge Union Appearance Over Speaker Blacklist

  10-11-2021 20:29 via telegraph.co.uk
  
  “I was looking forward to talking to students at the Cambridge Union this Friday, but I hear that someone there has been blacklisted for doing an impersonation of Hitler I regret that I did the same on a Monty Python show, so I am blacklisting myself before someone else does.” – The Telegraph (UK)
  
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• Chinese Composers Are Making Western Classical Music Their Own

  10-11-2021 20:02 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  In fact, there have been composers in China writing for European instruments for over a century. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, though, the country has produced several generations of accomplished composers — and developed an audience eager to hear new scores. – Prospect
  
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• Portland’s Iconic Super Bookstore Faces Uncertainty

  10-11-2021 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The latest plot twist has foreshadowed a potentially unhappy ending. Like the rest of Portland’s urban core — and like downtowns across the United States —Powell’s is contending with staggering uncertainty. – The New York Times
  
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• The Building Industry Helped Create The Climate Crisis. The National Building Museum Wants To Help Solve It.

  10-11-2021 19:04 via msn.com
  “The construction industry is responsible for nearly 40 percent of global carbon emissions, and it must be part of the solution, says museum president and executive director Aileen Fuchs, … (who believes) the museum is the perfect space for hashing out solutions.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Study: Listening To Familiar Music Boosts Brain Function

  10-11-2021 18:31 via news-medical.net
  
  “We have new brain-based evidence that autobiographically salient music -; that is, music that holds special meaning for a person, like the song they danced to at their wedding -; stimulates neural connectivity in ways that help maintain higher levels of functioning.” – News Medical
  
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• Here’s The First State To Requires All High Schoolers To Take A Media Literacy Course

  10-11-2021 18:01 via axios.com
  
  The Illinois legislature approved the rule this summer — almost entirely along party lines. Republicans seem to assume out-of-hand that the class will be anti-conservative; supporters say there’s no political agenda other than “giving students tools to develop their own BS detectors.” – Axios
  
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• Theatre Workers Aren’t Just Leaving Jobs, They’re Leaving Theatre

  10-11-2021 17:31 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Theater salaries, even for full-time jobs, are so low so often that the weekly nationwide theater newsletter Nothing for the Group recently debuted a section called That’s Not a Living Wage. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• What Will Change The Way Hollywood Portrays Muslims? Maybe Just This Directory

  10-11-2021 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When a co-founder of the Pillars Fund advocacy organization discussed this issue within the industry, he heard repeatedly that decision-makers didn’t know where to find Muslim actors, writers and directors to hire. So the group created the Pillars Muslim Artist Database. – The New York Times
  
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• Snapshot: Tony Bennett sings “If I Ruled the World”

  10-11-2021 16:46 via artsjournal.com
  Tony Bennett and the Woody Herman Herd perform “If I Ruled the World,” by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on March 21, 1965:(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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• This Theatre Is Avoiding Founder’s Syndrome By Shutting Down When Its Founder Retires

  10-11-2021 16:35 via msn.com
  First Folio Theatre, a small Equity company in the Chicago suburbs, will close when David Rice retires in 2024. He and his wife founded First Folio in 1996; they had other sources of income, and the theatre can’t afford to properly pay a successor. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Think There Aren’t Any Serous Female Magicians Or Jugglers? Let’s Make That Idea Disappear

  10-11-2021 16:02 via msn.com
  Los Angeles magician Krystyn Lambert and puppeteer Pam Severn have launched a new variety show called “No Man’s Land” featuring circus artists, jugglers, ventriloquists, comics, and, of course, prestidigitators — the goal being “normalize female-dominated shows.” – MSN (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Sadler’s Wells Reveals Plans For New Dance Center In London’s Olympic Park

  10-11-2021 15:34 via whatsonstage.com
  
  Sadler’s Wells East, one of the anchors of the coming East Bank arts district, will include a 550-seat theatre presenting numerous dance genres, a choreographic school, rehearsal spaces, and a new Hip Hop Theatre Academy where the UK’s Olympic breaking team will train. – Time Out (London)
  
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• Attendance At The World’s Most Visited Museums Plunged By 78% In 2020

  10-11-2021 15:01 via weforum.org
  
  The two most-attended are the same as most years, the Louvre and the National Museum of China; below them, pandemic closures changed the rankings considerably, with the Met falling to eighth and the most popular Smithsonian museums gone from the top 15. – World Economic Forum
  
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• Actor Dean Stockwell Dead At 85

  10-11-2021 14:33 via theguardian.com
  
  After a successful but unhappy career as a child star, he left and returned to acting several times: in the late ’50s and 60s, winning two prizes at Cannes; in ’70s B-pictures; under ’80s and ’90s auteurs Demme, Altman, Lynch, etc.; and finally in science fiction TV. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘It’s too much!’ – the Courtauld’s Van Goghs, Monets, Cézannes, Goyas and Bruegels are reborn

  10-11-2021 14:15
  
  Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London
  After a two-year revamp, this extraordinary collection is back – in a brighter, roomier, friendlier space. The Old Masters have never looked so magnificentThe first time I visited the Courtauld Gallery, I managed to spill paint on the floor in front of Claude Monet’s 1873 Autumn Effect at Argenteuil. Almost 100 years after Monet painted this placid but flaring river scene, the young Searle was perpetrating his own autumn effect on the gallery
  
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• Canada’s $100K Giller Prize Goes To Omar El Akkad For “What Strange Paradise”

  10-11-2021 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author who lives in Portland, Oregon, El Akkad describes his novel as “a repurposed fable. It’s the story of Peter Pan inverted and recast as the story of a contemporary child refugee.” – CBC
  
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• Two top art institutions given £800k to tackle racial inequality

  10-11-2021 08:01
  
  Wysing Arts Centre and the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute will use funds toamplify black and Asian artistsTwo leading art institutions have been awarded £800,000 to address racial inequality in visual arts, which will allow 120 artists to collaborate with almost 30 museums and galleries across the country.The Freelands Foundation has announced “unprecedented” long-term funding, part of a multimillion-pound commitment, to initiatives led by Wysing Arts Centre and the UAL Decolo
  
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• Marketing and Engagement

  10-11-2021 08:00 via artsjournal.com
  Image for ACE Program from AFAC websiteIt has been some time since I have had the courage to discuss marketing here. When I first did so many years ago I quickly learned that my view was hopelessly colored by the unfortunate marketing habits of many arts organizations–self focus, ignorance (sometimes willful) of the interests of the people they were trying to reach, and an elitist use of “inside baseball” language in promotional materials. I think I’ve learned a lot sinc
  
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• Melbourne art critic reviews melting Murdochs without noticing Rupert or Lachlan

  10-11-2021 07:15
  
  Robert Nelson of the Age admits ‘sometimes the eyes aren’t enough’ after missing the point of the installation in his review.What’s your worst professional blunder? Tell us in the comments belowGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingWhen the Age’s art critic Robert Nelson reviewed a one-day art project in Melbourne on the weekend he noted the audience was looking at an installation by a UK conceptual artist in “puzzlement”.“You could
  
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• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles – Director

  10-11-2021 06:08 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationThe San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (Museum) is the first museum in the United States to focus exclusively on quilts and textiles as an art form and stands proudly in the worlds of both art and craft. The Museum’s mission is to share and celebrate the art and culture of textiles, with a vision to become a world-class museum valuing excellence, accessibility, and a welcoming experience. Now at a critical juncture for strategic growth, the Museum’s board of directo
  
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• The Washington Ballet seeks General Manager, The Washington Ballet School

  10-11-2021 05:50 via artsjournal.com
  The Washington Ballet welcomes applications and nominations for the position of General Manager of The Washington School of Ballet, available in early 2022.The Companyhttps://www.washingtonballet.org/The 2021-22 Season marks the 45th Anniversary of The Washington Ballet (TWB) and the fifth season led by the Company’s internationally acclaimed Artistic Director, Julie Kent. Deeply committed to the development of the dancer and the art form, Kent provides leadership, vision, and oversight t
  
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