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• How The Week Shapes Our Perception Of Time

  16-11-2021 23:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  When you think it’s a Tuesday and it turns out to be Wednesday, you feel disoriented in a way that you don’t typically if you think it’s the 26th and it turns out to be the 27th. That’s the change: the real grip on our time consciousness that the week exerts. – The Atlantic
  
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• How Marcella Hazan Became An Italian Food Guru

  16-11-2021 23:03 via newyorker.com
  
  At the height of her career, she became so popular that Bloomingdale’s created a boutique in its storefront on Fifty-ninth Street called Marcella Hazan’s Italian Kitchen, stocking it with her homemade pasta Bolognese and extra-virgin olive oil from Tuscany. – The New Yorker
  
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• Oxford University’s Library Was A Mess. Then Sir Thomas Bodley Made An Extraordinary Offer

  16-11-2021 22:28 via lithub.com
  
  Over the course of fifteen years, until his death in 1613, Bodley would oversee the transformation of Oxford’s library from this empty shell to the finest institutional library in Europe. – LitHub
  
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• Big Thinkers Get Together To Debate “Information Disorder”

  16-11-2021 22:01 via niemanlab.org
  
  Mis- and disinformation are not the root causes of society’s ills but, rather, expose society’s failures to overcome systemic problems, such as income inequality, racism, and corruption, which can be exploited to promote false information online. – NiemanLab
  
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• Machine Learning Is Teaching Us How To See The World Differently

  16-11-2021 21:28 via aeon.co
  
  The opacity of machine learning systems raises serious concerns about their trustworthiness and their tendency towards bias. But the brute fact that they work could be bringing us to a new understanding and experience of what the world is and our role in it. – Aeon
  
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• Being Bilingual Really Does Help Your Brain. It Took America A Long Time To Figure That Out

  16-11-2021 21:03 via lithub.com
  
  From the start of World War I, for about 50 years, scientists and the government were convinced that using another language alongside English decreased brain function as well as making one less than fully American. Finally we’re getting to understand why and how that’s not true. – Literary Hub
  
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• Pushing And Shoving — Why Music Riles The Young

  16-11-2021 20:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Why are generation after generation of young people drawn to these places where they’re pushed, jostled, pummeled or worse? Why do they run into a seething crowd? – The New York Times
  
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• Davóne Tines Is Transforming The Song Recital — And Maybe Even Classical Singing Itself

  16-11-2021 20:02 via newyorker.com
  
  The bass-baritone has made programming an art in itself, building evenings around a sermon or a Langston Hughes poem, slipping from Bach to jazz to Julius Eastman to plantation chant to R&B to Caroline Shaw. And, writes Alex Ross, he makes all of it matter. – The New Yorker
  
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• Christie’s Ploughs Ahead With Controversial Pre-Columbian Sale, But a Third Fails To Sell

  16-11-2021 19:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  The house’s “Pre-Columbian Art & Taíno Masterworks” sale was preceded by an in-person protest, a slew of media articles, and a petition that circulated on change.org, signed by 44,767 supporters trying to halt the sale. – Artnet
  
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• A Political Consultant Turns The Story Of His Downfall Into An Autofiction Musical

  16-11-2021 19:04 via cjr.org
  
  Hank Morris was a serious player until then-New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo prosecuted him. His new show, A Turtle on a Fence Post, “is not journalism. It’s … easier to swallow, because the audience is given clear permission to leave believing whatever they want.” – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• The Little Engine Trying To Chug Its Way Up The Hill: Literary Review Of Canada Turns 30

  16-11-2021 18:32 via thestar.com
  
  Thirty years on, the LRC still feels like a very Canadian experiment, addressing the country’s challenges even as it faces them itself. – Toronto Star
  
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• As Audience For Foreign-Language Streaming TV Soars, There’s A Shortage Of Translators For Subtitles

  16-11-2021 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Talk to some of the skilled professionals who do the translating, however, and it seems this is yet another case where there’s not a labor shortage, there’s a pay shortage. And yes, quality is suffering. – The Guardian
  
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• Art from acrimonious divorce raises $676m at Sotheby’s in New York

  16-11-2021 17:37
  
  Works by Warhol, Rothko and Pollock sold in most valuable auction ever held at Sotheby’sAn acrimonious divorce in which the warring parties were ordered to sell an art collection including works by Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko after being unable to agree its worth, has resulted in the most valuable auction ever held by one of the world’s leading art houses.More than $676m(£503m) was paid for the Macklowe Collection, amassed over more than half a century by the r
  
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• A Climate Change Imperative For Artists

  16-11-2021 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  We have to find a new art and a new psychology to penetrate the apathy and the denial that are preventing us making the changes that are inevitable if our world is to survive. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Dancing Is Good For Your Physical And Mental Health (According To Neuroscience!)

  16-11-2021 17:05 via msn.com
  “Wouldn’t it be great if science could confirm … that dancing is one of the best things we can do for our heath, joyful well-being and even our brain power? That’s what brain scientists Julia F. Christensen and Dong-Seon Chang set out to prove.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Some Encouraging Data On Whether And When Audiences Will Return

  16-11-2021 16:33 via culturaldata.org
  
  “In this blog, we first examine the historic impact of COVID on performing arts ticket sales and then we use the data to simulate three plausible ‘what-if’ scenarios – realistic worst-case, realistic best-case, and idealized best-case – to predict the impact of each scenario on ticket sales.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• ‘She has invaded all our lives’ – Tong Yang-tze, the artist making calligraphy cool

  16-11-2021 16:18
  
  From railway signs to perfume bottles to Taiwan’s official passport stamp, the artist is giving ancient lettering a modern twist. How will her work go down at Honk Kong’s controversial new M+ gallery?The most striking thing about Tong Yang-tze, sitting inside her modest Taipei studio residence, is her confidence, and the sense that she’s had it all along. Now in her late 70s and considered one of Taiwan’s foremost calligraphers and artists, Tong grins and jokes over cups
  
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• As People Continue To Work From Home, Will Weeknight Performances Remain Feasible?

  16-11-2021 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Fewer people than back in The Time Before will be able to swing by the theater or concert hall after leaving the office. Will they come in from home? In no American city does the question loom larger than in San Francisco. – The New York Times
  
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• Spotify Moves Into Audiobooks The Silicon Valley Way — By Buying A Company

  16-11-2021 15:34 via variety.com
  
  The acquisition of audiobook platform Findaway lets Spotify “quickly bring a large catalog of audiobooks to its massive user base … in the way the company jump-started its push into podcasts with the acquisitions of Gimlet, Anchor, Parcast and The Ringer.” – Variety
  
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• Return of Parthenon marbles is up to British Museum, says No 10

  16-11-2021 15:32
  
  Spokesperson’s comments before Boris Johnson meets Greek PM appear to signal softening of positionReturning the Parthenon marbles to Greece is a matter for the British Museum, Downing Street has said, apparently reversing longstanding UK government opposition to the idea, reiterated by Boris Johnson as recently as March.Johnson was scheduled to meet the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, at No 10 later on Tuesday, and Mitsotakis was expected to argue that the reunification of the &
  
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• Strike Averted As IATSE Accepts Deal With Hollywood Studios

  16-11-2021 15:01 via variety.com
  
  “The membership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted to ratify a new three-year agreement, ending the threat of the first national strike in the union’s history. The vote was unusually close.” – Variety
  
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• One-Day Strike Called At Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

  16-11-2021 14:35 via apnews.com
  
  “More than 96% of the union, which represents public-facing staff, library workers, educators, curators, conservators, and administrative and professional workers, voted to picket outside the museum (on November 17). … Workers are concerned about pay, safety, workplace diversity, requiring union membership and job growth.” – AP
  
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• La Mama Theatre Rises From The (Literal) Ashes

  16-11-2021 14:00 via artshub.com.au
  No, La MaMa in New York didn’t burn down. But La Mama in Melbourne did. Founded in 1969 and an important venue for developing new Australian plays, La Mama was destroyed by fire in 2018, just short of its 50th anniversary. Here’s how it got rebuilt. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• No straight lines: Alison Bechdel and the unstoppable rise of queer comics

  16-11-2021 09:01
  
  The artist discusses her role in an eye-opening new documentary that trails the history of LGBTQ+ comic books and the people behind themAmong other things, the story of LGBTQ+ liberation is a story of spaces. For as long as the LGBTQ+ community has sought freedom and equality, it has been essential for this group to have places both concrete and metaphorical where they can safely gather, emote, care for one another and understand their identities.Those spaces have not always been so easy to find
  
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• Pace University – Program Head of Musical Theater

  16-11-2021 07:30 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationFor more than 100 years, Pace University (Pace) has been preparing students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience and the New York advantage. Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in the College of Health Professions, Dyson College of Arts and Scienc
  
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• Emelin Theatre – Executive Director

  16-11-2021 07:23 via artsjournal.com
  OrganizationThe Emelin Theatre (Emelin) was founded in 1972 and brings world class performing arts to Westchester County, New York. Pre-COVID, the Emelin presented more than 125 events each year and is committed to building back to that level of programming as swiftly and safely as possible. The innovative and eclectic programming includes all genres of music, comedy, dance, and vibrant family programming, plus a broad range of independent and international film. With a mission to promote a cult
  
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• Work You’re Ashamed Of? (The Cultural Implications)

  16-11-2021 00:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Whether or not a certain line of work is shameful or honorable is culturally relative, varying greatly. Farmers, soldiers, actors, dentists, prostitutes, pirates and priests have all been respected or despised in some society or other. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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