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• Hong Kong’s M+ makes A Play For Global Attention

  12-11-2021 23:24 via artnews.com
  
  A decade ago, the international art world derided Hong Kong as a “cultural desert.” The opening of the multibillion-dollar M+ museum epitomizes the city’s ambition to shake off stereotypes by creating “Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture.” – ARTnews
  
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• Now Venice Is Drowning In Billboards

  12-11-2021 23:01 via apollo-magazine.com
  
  The giant billboards now or until recently plastered across the churches for products ranging from OPPO smartphones to Recarlo jewellery – signal that these companies are financing the restoration of the fragile facades. – Apollo
  
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• Weapon Of Mass Distraction: Why Facebook’s “Metaverse” Is An Illusion

  12-11-2021 22:29 via nymag.com
  
  In actuality, Facebook is basically spending $10 billion on a prayer that, in the short run, it might change the conversation. It gives them an opportunity to talk about the metaverse instead of insurrection and teen depression. – New York Magazine
  
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• Christopher Walken Paints Over A Banksy On Camera

  12-11-2021 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  The spokesperson said in a statement: “We can confirm that the artwork at the end of ‘The Outlaws’ was an original Banksy, and that Christopher Walken painted over that artwork during the filming of this scene, ultimately destroying it.” – CNN
  
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• Cryptopunks: How A Market For NFT’s Was Born

  12-11-2021 21:32 via wired.com
  
  If spending this kind of money on something as flimsy as a JPEG seems absurd, recall that collectors have bought empty space, a closed gallery, and a duct-taped banana. The fine art world hasn’t been held back by such concerns. – Wired
  
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• Sylvère Lotringer, Who Founded Semiotext(e) And Brought French Theory To America’s Art World, Dead At 83

  12-11-2021 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We leave it to you to speculate on which direction St. Peter will send him for that, but his work did spark enormous changes in American arts and intellectual life — not least through the riotous 1975 colloquium “Schizo-Culture” he organized at Columbia. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Is Science Fiction An “Inadequate Response” To Existential Threat?

  12-11-2021 20:34 via popmatters.com
  
  As projections of nuclear fear themselves recede into memory, new fears (of global warming, environmental collapse) have come to replace them, locating such films within the wider context of apocalypse culture. This suggests that we have indeed entered an age of complacence. – PopMatters
  
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• In A Time Of Crisis And Pestilence, Vaudeville As Social Critique

  12-11-2021 20:04 via publicdomainreview.org
  
  Not, in this case, the early-20th-century American genre of variety show. This is 19th-century Parisian vaudeville: popular boulevard comedies depicting simply drawn characters from the bourgeoisie — and sometimes including sharp social satire, as during the cholera outbreak of 1832. – The Public Domain Review
  
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• Co-opting Woke

  12-11-2021 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Charles Blow: “Perhaps no other word of the moment is so under attack as “woke,” a word born as a simple yet powerful way of saying, be aware of and alert to how racism is systemic and pervasive and suffuses American life.” – The New York Times
  
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• Writers Ought To Be Trained The Way Actors Are

  12-11-2021 19:01 via catapult.co
  
  “Actors in training get to try out different techniques and approaches, learning to develop a character through movement, script analysis, or emotional connection; they take classes honing their bodies and voices. In my MFA writing program, we got … workshop and some books.” – Catapult
  
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• A New University To “Fix” Education? It Needs A Rethink About What’s Broken

  12-11-2021 18:29 via newrepublic.com
  
  UATX’s founders for years have used their various platforms to bemoan the state of higher education and propose how to fix it. They’re about to get a crash course in the real-life challenges of the job. – The New Republic
  
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• Are Some People’s Brains Simply Wired Better For Dance?

  12-11-2021 18:05 via theconversation.com
  
  Well, there’s no point in trying to deny that some people have more natural aptitude. However, writes neuroscientist Gayle Doherty, everyone has the ability to feel and respond to rhythm and can, with some work, dance well enough to enjoy it. – The Conversation
  
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• Why Are Some Classical Music Institutions Resisting Broadening Their View of Music?

  12-11-2021 17:34 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Joshua Kosman: How long can an artistic culture survive and thrive on the work of the same circumscribed set of a dozen or so dead white European males? – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Why Arts And Humanities Are Crucial To STEM Education And The Tech Industry

  12-11-2021 17:03 via weforum.org
  
  In the latest university rankings from Times Higher Education, the top two schools for arts and humanities in the world are, perhaps surprisingly, Stanford and MIT. TES Chief Knowledge Officer Phil Baty explains why, and why it matters. – World Economic Forum
  
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• Design Fiction? What Exactly Is That?

  12-11-2021 16:31 via weforum.org
  
  According to this manifesto, it’s “a tool for reimagining the past, present, and future. It makes scenarios real enough to feel possible, inspiring dialogue, interaction, and even policy changes.” Actually, it’s speculative fiction focusing on sustainable design ideas that aren’t (yet) practicable. – World Economic Forum (Neste)
  
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• Hollywood Has Joined The NFT Gold Rush

  12-11-2021 16:04 via variety.com
  
  Is this a potential long-term income source or an big old asset bubble? Opinions differ, but the studios aren’t letting even a short-term chance at monetizing their existing intellectual property slip by — and using yet another way to keep fans (literally) invested in their franchises. – Variety
  
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• Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale

  12-11-2021 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury to a group of 21st-century characters doing a pub crawl through the northwest London neighborhood where Smith grew up. – The New York Times
  
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• Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE

  12-11-2021 15:05 via msn.com
  “After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,” — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff — “Strathmore has reached a tentative agreement with its unionized box office staff that extends their contract through June 2024.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says It’s Not.

  12-11-2021 14:33 via artnews.com
  
  The catalogue for this fall’s Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World’s Most Expensive Artwork into the “attributed works, workshop or authorised and supervised by Leonardo” category. (Not that Salvator Mundi is actually there, mind you; its current whereabouts are still unknown.) – ARTnews
  
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• ‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor

  12-11-2021 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings (“basically Tudor wallpaper”) in a fantastical style ultimately based on the emperor Nero’s Golden Villa. – The Guardian
  
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• Cosmic craftwork, photos from oblivion’s edge and Banksy gets trashed – the week in art

  12-11-2021 13:51
  
  Great Greek thinkers flourish in ancient art, the frozen limits of the world are hauntingly captured and a Banksy meets with emulsion – all in your weekly dispatchAncient Greeks: Science and Wisdom
  Greek scientists theorised the existence of atoms and believed in a cosmic harmony that glows in the symmetries of their art and architecture. Meet the first great thinkers.
  • Science Museum, London, 17 November to 5 June Continue reading...
  
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• Replay: Illinois Jacquet plays “Flying Home”

  12-11-2021 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Illinois Jacquet plays “Flying Home” on The Ed Sullivan Show. The drummer is Jo Jones. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on July 10, 1949:(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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• Managing Director – Village Theatre

  12-11-2021 06:23 via artsjournal.com
  VILLAGE THEATRE with locations in Issaquah and Everett, WA, invites applicants and nominations for its Managing Director. The Managing Director (MD) will serve in a co-equal partnership with a new Artistic Director to be named in early 2022. Each will report to the Board through its President.
  This will be a new leadership structure for Village Theatre; previously, the Artistic Director reported to the Executive Producer. These two leaders will share the responsibility for institutional leaders
  
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• Banksy artwork deliberately destroyed by Christopher Walken in BBC comedy show finale

  12-11-2021 00:30
  
  Hollywood actor paints over original work, which was created for Stephen Merchant’s TV series The OutlawsA piece of art created by Banksy was painted over by Hollywood actor Christopher Walken in the final episode of BBC series The Outlaws.The six-part comedy-drama, which Stephen Merchant co-created with US writer and producer Elgin James, and also directed, follows a group of misfits renovating a derelict community centre in Bristol, as part of community service for crimes they have commi
  
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• Quebec Court Upholds Fines On Theatres That Portray Smoking Onstage (Even With Prop Cigarettes)

  12-11-2021 00:01 via thestar.com
  
  The theatres challenged the fines, claiming it violated their freedom of expression. They argued Quebec’s ban on indoor smoking goes too far, because it forbids actors from smoking even prop cigarettes onstage. – Toronto Star
  
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