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• Dance Is Huge On Insta And TikTok. Is It Also Harmful?

  15-11-2021 23:15 via post-gazette.com
  
  Users who look at videos and pictures of bodies deemed attractive by broader society will be shown more of those images, potentially feeling worse about their own looks by comparison.  – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• 45,000-Year-Old Painting Of A Warty Pig Upends History Of Art

  15-11-2021 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  The famous animal paintings in the Chauvet cave, of France, are dated at around thirty-five thousand years old; the Sulawesi warty pig outdoes them by roughly ten thousand years. – The New Yorker
  
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• Wolfgang Fischer obituary

  15-11-2021 22:13
  
  My friend Wolfgang Fischer, who has died aged 87, was born in Vienna and carried that city with him to London, where he spent 32 years as an art historian, art dealer and writer, running Fischer Fine Art gallery until returning permanently to Austria on retirement in 1995.He opened the gallery – co-founded with his father, Harry – in 1972 with a selection of important works by 19th- and 20th-century artists. Later exhibitions introduced classical Austrian modernists including Gustav
  
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• Five Books That Will Change The Way You Think About Climate Change

  15-11-2021 21:46 via artsjournal.com
  In contrast to the simplistic idea that all we need to do is implement a set of technological and lifestyle changes, they offer a new way of understanding and relating to nature. – The Conversation
  
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• The Trope Of “Hot” Women In Literature

  15-11-2021 21:02 via lithub.com
  
  A cursory review of Western literature and fiction suggests that the instinct to render fictional heroines “hot” has both a long history and one which continues to this day. – LitHub
  
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• We Each Process Color Differently. Here’s How

  15-11-2021 20:14 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  Colour has a life beyond any individual perception. It exists as both the quality of a thing as well as an approach to that thing, or “a dance between subjects and objects, mind and matter.” – Prospect
  
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• Outsider Fashionista Passes Torch To 20-Year-Old, Takes Life, And A New Museum Is Born

  15-11-2021 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Professionally, Steven Klein created logos and slogans for hotels and restaurants. But he belonged to no agency. Instead, as an independent consultant, he was a walking encyclopedia — and booster — of pop culture from the 1970s. The New York Times
  
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• Greek PM to make Parthenon marbles key issue in meeting with Boris Johnson

  15-11-2021 19:17
  
  Kyriakos Mitsotakis to argue reunification of ‘stolen’ sculptures is matter outside remit of British MuseumThe Greek prime minister will make the Parthenon marbles the key issue in upcoming talks with Boris Johnson in London, arguing the reunification of the “stolen” sculptures is an intergovernmental matter that lies outside the remit of the British Museum.Determined to raise the issue in his first Downing Street visit, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is also expected to emphasise t
  
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• Your Social Status Versus Your Moral Status

  15-11-2021 18:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Within the state and between the state and those it governs, personal relationships are much less significant than they used to be after a centuries long effort to redescribe them as ‘corruption’. But they are merely down; not out. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• ‘so like the realm of / love and ardor’

  15-11-2021 18:17 via artsjournal.com
  © Marcel DuchampWORLD OF TROUBLESo like the realm of
  love and ardor
  the singularity of death
  has come to this —
  in a world of trouble
  we shrink,
  abandoned, into history.This multiplicity of dying
  is hard on the living —
  our past is clarified and
  subtracted from the finite,
  hurled into the infinite
  unknowable —
  as it has ever been.© JH
  
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• Woman Interrupts Guthrie Performance With Half Hour Racist Rant

  15-11-2021 18:02 via bringmethenews.com
  
  Patrons attending A Christmas Carol were seated and ready for the 7:30 p.m. showtime when a woman began screaming in the crowd. According to social media posts from witnesses, the woman ranted for upwards of 30 minutes. – Bring Me The News
  
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• Writing the wrongs of the climate crisis | Letters

  15-11-2021 17:47
  
  Meirion Bowen applauds Ben Okri’s stand, while Trevor Jones supports the wake-up call that less is moreBen Okri (Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days, 12 November) is quite right. Artists have often worked during wars and other crises, asserting the importance of positive expression in the face of many events and activities that are depressing and likely to cause disillusionment. This was the case in the 1930s
  
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• Beer mat artist delighted as David Hockney weighs in on wellness

  15-11-2021 17:43
  
  Hockney sends message to artist Mr Bingo after buying mats featuring phrase ‘bored of wellness’Sick of those Qigong sessions? Wolverine claws not doing it? Medical grade charcoal drink less tasty than it once seemed? Then you have a soulmate in David Hockney, who finds wellness boring, bossy and ridiculous.His views on the vast, seemingly unstoppable industry have been revealed after Hockney’s assistant bought 10 packs of beer mats featuring an image of an ashtray and a cigaret
  
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• Tommasini To Step Down As NYT Classical Music Critic

  15-11-2021 17:31 via artsjournal.com
  At year’s end, Tony will step down as The Times’s chief classical music critic. It is a position he has held since 2000, giving him the longest tenure in the role since Olin Downes. – The New York Times
  
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• Putting The Fun Back Into Franz (Schubert)

  15-11-2021 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And the puppets; don’t forget the puppets. Instead of a quiet recital hall, “Schubert’s songs grew from entertaining evenings of spontaneous, alcohol-fuelled interaction, with dressing up, games and stories.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What To Learn From Being The Target Of (Deeply) Hateful Attacks For What You Write

  15-11-2021 16:30 via latimes.com
  
  Nikole Hannah-Jones on what she’s learned: “Power doesn’t flash what it’s going to do. … It doesn’t signal what it’s going to do. It moves silently behind the scenes and makes impact and then once everything is figured out announces itself.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• When The Uffizi Almost Sued Pornhub

  15-11-2021 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  To be fair to Pornhub, the Birth of Venus is definitely a “classic nude.” But the larger issue is about how museums make money – and during COVID, “as in-person activity slumped, sales of licensed goods rocketed.” Is it too much exposure? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Lee Maracle Propelled Herself And Other First Nations Writers Into Canadian Consciousness

  15-11-2021 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Maracle died at 71, after having “chronicled the effect of Canadian settlement on the land’s Indigenous people and the persistence of discrimination, only to find herself in recent years championed by the very cultural and political establishment she had spent her career attacking.” – The New York Times
  
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• Reviving A Dying Record Label In The Era Of Streaming

  15-11-2021 15:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  Claddagh Records, founded in the ’50s to preserve Irish musical heritage, fell on hard times in the 2000s. But now a deal with Universal Music Ireland has changed its trajectory. – Irish Times
  
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• Novelists Could Take A Cue Or Two From Poets

  15-11-2021 15:15 via lithub.com
  
  Or so says a novelist who took a poetry class that helped her move forward after a stale period of writer’s block. – LitHub
  
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• England’s Artistic Culture Stretches Beyond London

  15-11-2021 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  You might think that’s obvious, but it’s not necessarily so to those in the capital city. Even during COVID, “London draws all the oxygen, not to mention the cash; once again, it’s as if nothing could possibly be happening anywhere else.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How To Stay Focused When The World Turns A Spotlight On You

  15-11-2021 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  National Book Award finalist and MacArthur “genius” grant winner Hanif Abdurraqib keeps to himself most of the time, far from the madding crowds. “I’m not trying to be aloof,” he says. “My superpower is that I mind my own business.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why People Still Collect, And Enjoy, DVDs

  15-11-2021 14:30 via cbc.ca
  
  One librarian explains, “There’s an interesting sort of equity piece to DVDs. … They’re popular with people who can’t necessarily afford the paid subscription services or don’t necessarily have the equipment at home or the internet connection to be able to stream.” – CBC
  
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• So Sorry That We Missed National Cliche Day

  15-11-2021 14:15 via salon.com
  
  Oh: “Cliché comes from the printing process when a metal plate was used to physically transfer ink to paper. The term echoes the imitative sound of the plate coming off the page and was a way to represent an image again and again in nearly identical form.” – Salon
  
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• Younger Media Viewers Love Subtitles

  15-11-2021 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  There’s the popularity of K-dramas, for one, but also, “originally intended to help those with hearing problems, subtitles have become an essential aid for following a show for many people – especially if other distractions and devices are competing for their attention.” – BBC
  
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• The (Re)Rise Of The Movie Musical

  15-11-2021 13:45 via latimes.com
  
  Charles McNulty: “A musical must establish its own aesthetic logic without apology to rational etiquette. We may think we’re living in a purely realistic drama but our inner lives are belting à la Ethel Merman.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Wild Side Of Poussin

  15-11-2021 13:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  It’s likely you find the French artist a bit, well, staid. Boring, even. But: “Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the cloak of scholarship and respectability.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Donors Withhold Gifts To Protest Changes At Hamptons Sculpture Garden

  15-11-2021 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  A longtime director fired, a bequest altered, plans for the sculpture garden to become a museum – there’s a lot going on at LongHouse Reserve. (Some board members say there’s not, and it’s a “what do they call it, the ‘noisy minority.'”)– The New York Times
  
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• Thousands Of Venezuelan Musicians Gather In Attempt To Win Guinness Book Of World Records’ Biggest Orchestra

  15-11-2021 13:00 via washingtonpost.com
  “The musicians, all connected to the country’s network of youth orchestras, performed a roughly 10-minute Tchaikovsky piece outdoors under the watchful eyes of independent supervisors with the job of verifying that more than 8,097 instruments were playing simultaneously.” – Washington Post (AP)
  
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• Ennui will rock you: books, games and more for getting through burnout

  15-11-2021 11:00
  
  From Death in Venice to virtual husbandry in Stardew Valley, Guardian critics suggest culture to help cope with exhaustionAs a cure for burnout – the bone-deep exhaustion and broken spirit – it would be hard to find a movie less suitable than Seconds, director John Frankenheimer’s brilliant but sobering morality tale from 1966. As a film about those same symptoms though, nothing has done it better since. Throughout the first act, a weary New York banker is a study in alienation
  
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• Museums v business: the growing market for cultural digitisation

  15-11-2021 07:00
  
  As sales of licensed goods soars, battles loom over the use of works by long-dead artistsThis summer, the Uffizi gallery threatened to sue Pornhub for using its masterpieces in a “classic nudes” video. “Some people think of museums as boring, stuffy or dull,” posed the adult streaming site. “But what if we told you they housed a collection of priceless porn?” The video re-enacted erotic scenes from art history using artworks including Botticelli’s Birth
  
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• Dvorak’s Prophecy — Online Wednesday

  15-11-2021 06:34 via artsjournal.com
  
  It’s my pleasure to be Kirill Gerstein’s guest this Wednesday for his “Kronberg Academy” online seminar – that’s
  
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