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• This Time, We’re Really Anxious (A History)

  17-11-2021 23:31 via psyche.co
  
  Of course, anxiety never went away. Depression might have seemed ubiquitous, but people in the late 20th century hardly had less to be anxious about or more to be depressed about. – Psyche
  
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• A New Model For Funding Art?

  17-11-2021 23:03 via artshub.com.au
  It pools 100 medium-sized donation of $1,000 each, with the total amount going to one not-for-profit project. Community projects apply and have their applications assessed by the collective of $1,000 donors, who shortlist and select the successful recipient through democratic vote. – ArtsHub
  
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• How Punk Rock Of The 70s And 80s Figured Out Safe Concerts

  17-11-2021 22:32 via slate.com
  
  Venues for punk shows were numerous, encompassing everything from pet grooming stores to nonprofit community centers. The small-venue approach lent itself to the formation of a self-regulating community. – Slate
  
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• Theatre That Breaks Pre-Pandemic Rules

  17-11-2021 21:59 via latimes.com
  
  It’s a musical experiment that questions the long-accepted rules of theatermaking and theatergoing, established and upheld before the pandemic. For example, a percentage of the masked audience traverses a dance floor, because why must they all be seated? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Hmnnn – UK Change Of Stance On Repatriation Of The Parthenon Marbles?

  17-11-2021 21:32 via amp.theguardian.com
  When Boris Johnson’s spokesperson was asked on Tuesday, he said: “I won’t pre-empt their meeting, obviously, but the possession of the marbles is a matter purely for the museum. It’s not one for the UK government.” – The Guardian
  
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• Many Of The Ancient Roman Stoics Were Proto-Feminists

  17-11-2021 21:03 via psyche.co
  
  Gaius Musonius Rufus wrote plainly, “If then men and women are born with the same virtues, the same type of training and education must, of necessity, befit both men and women.” – Psyche
  
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• Harry Potter Cast To Reunite For 20th Anniversary TV Special

  17-11-2021 20:28 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The release made no mention of Rowling when listing those participating in the retrospective. While Harry Potter remains a beloved franchise, Rowling sparked backlash from the trans community after saying that transgender individuals should be defined by their biological sex. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Former Ballerina To Get All Of €61,000 After Three-Decade-Long Case Against La Scala

  17-11-2021 20:02 via gramilano.com
  
  Sabina Galasso was a member of La Scala Ballet’s corps when, in 1991, the visiting Rudolf Nureyev picked her out for a lead in his Swan Lake. From then on, says Galasso, company leadership deliberately stifled her career. Only now has a final verdict come down. – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• Of Course It Does: China Unveils New Five-Year-Plan For Film

  17-11-2021 19:31 via variety.com
  
  The plan’s ultimate goal, however, is to build China into a “strong cultural power” by 2035 — one that can only be achieved, it says, by “adhering to the Party’s total leadership over film work.” – Variety
  
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• Artists need protection fit for the 21st century | Letter

  17-11-2021 19:13
  
  In an age of NFTs, we must ensure artist’s rights over their work are maintained, writes Gilane Tawadros, the chief executive of DACSAs the art market evolves with new and emerging technology such as NFTs, we must ensure that we protect the rights of artists through mechanisms such as the artist’s resale right – payments that, crucially, support artists’ ongoing practice and livelihoods, and ensure they have a continuing stake in the increasing value of their work.While s
  
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• Fifteen-Second Book Reviews On TikTok Have Amassed 26 Billion Views

  17-11-2021 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  BookTok, as it’s known, is an unusually lively corner of the mini-video app’s subculture: the most popular reviewers can get a couple hundred thousand followers, the most watched videos rack up a million or more views, and yes, they can affect sales. – The Guardian
  
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• Netflix Releases More Viewer Data, But…

  17-11-2021 18:32 via variety.com
  
  Let’s be clear: Netflix’s bigger bucket of Top 10 lists, even if they’re independently verified, is ultimately self-serving — designed to promote its most popular titles. – Variety
  
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• Quentin Tarantino is selling Pulp Fiction all over again – this time as art

  17-11-2021 18:09
  
  The director is being sued by the film production company, Miramax, for planning to sell ‘non-fungible tokens’ of the film he wrote and directed Name: Pulp Fiction.Age: 27. Continue reading...
  
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• Māori To New Zealand Anti-Vaxxers: Stop Using Our Dance In Your Protests

  17-11-2021 18:01 via npr.org
  The haka is a traditional (and rather intimidating) pre-battle dance that’s been made famous by New Zealand’s national rugby team. Demonstrators who oppose vaccine mandates have been doing the “Ka Mate” haka, and that dance’s owners, the Ngati Toa Māori, have told them to knock it off. – NPR
  
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• Hong Kong’s Ambitious New M+ Opens, Built For A Different Time, Different Politics

  17-11-2021 17:29 via washingtonpost.com
  The museum compares itself to Paris’s Centre Pompidou and New York’s Museum of Modern Art — but it has already moved to censor work as it walks a tightrope between its aspiration to be a world-class institution and the limits on free expression in Hong Kong. – Washington Post
  
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• Frida Kahlo self-portrait beats sale record set by cheating husband

  17-11-2021 17:09
  
  Diego y yo (1949) sells for $34.9m to become most expensive Latin American work to go under the hammerIt is one of Frida Kahlo’s last self-portraits and represents the artist’s vulnerability and emotional turmoil over her husband Diego Rivera’s adultery.Seven decades later, in a unique twist of fate, the painting has sold for almost $35m – making it the most expensive Latin American work of art to be sold at auction and beating the previous record held by Rivera himself.
  
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• Does Method Acting Have A Future In The 21st Century?

  17-11-2021 17:03 via americantheatre.org
  
  The Method’s two main teachers in America, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner, said in 1979 that they doubted it would outlive them. Well, it’s still here. Neighborhood Playhouse School director Pamela Kareman and Stella Adler Studio president Tom Oppenheim talk about the Method’s present and future. – American Theatre
  
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• Playwright Ed Bullins, Leader Of Black Arts Movement, Dead At 86

  17-11-2021 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Over a 55-year career in which he produced nearly 100 plays, Mr. Bullins sought to reflect the Black urban experience unmitigated by the expectations of traditional theater” and staged in Black theaters in such places as Harlem and Oakland. – The New York Times
  
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• King Solomon’s Mines, Archaeology, And Arguments Over The Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy

  17-11-2021 16:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  New finds at a remote site that’s been identified, dismissed, and re-identified as the Israelite monarch’s fabled copper mines have reignited debates about whether David and Solomon could have ruled over a great kingdom when no buildings from their period have ever been found. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Nobel-Winning Writer Orhan Pamuk Charged — Again — With Insulting Turkey And Turkishness

  17-11-2021 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The particular crimes he’s accused of this time are insulting Atatürk and making fun of the Turkish flag in his latest novel, Nights of Plague. A judge in Istanbul had rejected the case, but the attorney who brought the charges successfully appealed. – The Guardian
  
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• 4,500-Year-Old Sun Temple Uncovered In Egypt

  17-11-2021 15:01 via cnn.com
  
  A team of archaeologists working at Abu Ghurab, 12 miles south of Cairo, discovered this temple underneath the ruins of a temple that had been excavated in 1898. It is one of just six sun temples believed to have been built in ancient Egypt. – CNN
  
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• Frida Soars Past Diego For Most Expensive Work Of Latin American Art Ever Sold

  17-11-2021 14:33 via hyperallergic.com
  
  At an auction on Tuesday at Sotheby’s New York, Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait Diego y yo (depicting an image of her husband, Diego Rivera, on her forehead) sold for $34.88 million — roughly 3½ times the price of the previous recordholder, Rivera’s The Rivals. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Spain Drops Post-Brexit Visa Requirement For British Musicians

  17-11-2021 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “Spain’s announcement means UK musicians and their crew will no longer need visas for engagements of less than 90 days, a change in policy that came after months of lobbying from trade groups on both sides.” – The Guardian
  
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• Frida Kahlo self-portrait sold for record $34.9m at auction

  17-11-2021 12:11
  
  Diego y yo (1949) becomes most expensive Kahlo and Latin American work to go under the hammerA rare painting by Frida Kahlo has been sold at auction in New York for $34.9m, a record price for a work by the Mexican artist.At the same sale, a painting by the French artist Pierre Soulages broke a record for his work by reaching $20.2m. Continue reading...
  
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• Dürer’s Journeys review – magical sensual mystery tour is slowed to a sedate plod

  17-11-2021 09:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  The Nuremberg artist’s revelatory experiences in Italy and beyond, which transformed the Renaissance, should have made a thrilling show. What went wrong?In Albrecht Dürer’s print The Sea Monster, a woman lies, quite happy with her lot, on the back of a bizarre beast as he swims away with her. He has a scaly body, bearded human face and antlers. Wearing nothing much but a necklace, she rests her hand on her curvaceous hip as she watches the people screami
  
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• Getting It Right

  17-11-2021 08:00 via artsjournal.com
  As part of Engaging Matters’ 10th Anniversary, we are highlighting important and/or popular posts from the past. In reviewing such posts it became clear that many were grouped thematically. As a result, this Anniversary series will, for the most part, present the theme with links to relevant posts rather than simply re-posting individual items.Early this year, looking/hoping for a light at the end of the COVID tunnel, I wrote a series of posts addressing the need to take the opportunity f
  
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• ‘A deep, spiritual connection’: ancient families of Ivory Coast – in pictures

  17-11-2021 08:00
  
  Nuits Balnéaires worked with local artisans and craftsmen to tell the stories of the seven great families of the N’zima Kotokô tribe – from banana planters to gold miners Continue reading...
  
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• The US Constitution: Is It Holding Back a Fairer Culture Or Holding Us Back?

  17-11-2021 00:01 via bostonreview.net
  
  Two new books reveal the widening gulf between those who see the Constitution’s age as a sign of its wisdom and those who see it as the dead hand of the past. At stake is also a longer conflict about whether U.S. history is a matter of great changes or a changing sameness. – Boston Review
  
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