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• Will The Supreme Court Finally Declare Copyright Piracy Theft? (Wait… What?)

  18-11-2021 23:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  For quite some time, there’s been an esoteric debate running in intellectual property circles as to whether copyright infringement is best characterized as thievery. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Why Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla Is Stepping Down In Birmingham

  18-11-2021 23:01 via inews.co.uk
  
  If this period of enforced home life made her reassess her priorities – she lives in Salzburg with her husband and their two children – she was not alone. – iNews
  
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• Q&A with Lucy Glendinning Extraordinary British Sculptor Works from Inside Out

  18-11-2021 22:38 via artsjournal.com
  Some of her pieces are to be exhibited at Art Miami (Nov. 30 – Dec. 5, 2021)From left: Feather Child 3/ The Unknown Boy 2/Folding GirlThese sculptures have a striking “innerness,” an interiority of gaze and stance. They also express a human connection to animal origins. Is that what you intended?GLENDINNING: I like the idea of the works being internalised as if contemplating themselves. Sometimes this is deliberate and sometimes this is how they turn out — so to spea
  
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• A Sharp Rise In Demands To Ban Books In Libraries

  18-11-2021 22:28 via time.com
  
  “We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges. I’ve worked for ALA for 20 years, and I can’t recall a time when we had multiple challenges coming in on a daily basis.” – Time
  
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• “Mundi” Fun Day: The Prado Joins “Salvator’s” Detractors; Modestini, Its Restorer, Again Argues It’s a Leonardo

  18-11-2021 22:15 via artsjournal.com
  Prado museum downgrades Leonardo’s $450m Salvator Mundi in exhibition catalogue
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• Why Did We Organize Time Into Seven-Day Weeks?

  18-11-2021 22:02 via artsjournal.com
  The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, David Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Does Sad Music Make Us Feel Better?

  18-11-2021 21:31 via theconversation.com
  
  It can act as a social surrogate. Sad music can be experienced as an imaginary friend who provides support and empathy after loss. – The Conversation
  
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• The Scheme That Saved Classical Music In Melbourne Is Expanding To The Rest Of Australia

  18-11-2021 21:03 via theage.com.au
  
  Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed 430 performances, with over $1.6 million going to musicians during one of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world. In 2022, as the Australian Digital Concert Hall, it will transmit 200 programs by performers from Perth to Brisbane to Hobart. – The Age (Melbourne)
  
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• Education As A Class Indicator (But Maybe Not How You Think)

  18-11-2021 20:29 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Historically, in America, the true strength of the Classics and of a Classical education has not been among the elite but among the rising middle class. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• The Guardian view on Frida Kahlo: forging her own identity | Editorial

  18-11-2021 20:12
  
  Her value is not in her stupendous auction prices, but in her hard-won road to artistic greatnessA late self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold this week at a New York auction house for $34.9m. That makes her the most expensive Latin American artist ever, eclipsing her husband, Diego Rivera, whose reputation, as well as his prices, once outshone hers. Kahlo, nearly 70 years after her death aged 47, has become one of the most famous self-depicted faces in art. Her visage, with its confrontational gaze
  
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• Climate Change Is Damaging Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art

  18-11-2021 20:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Veteran archaeologists have noted visible changes just over the past half-century or less. Much of the rock art is painted on sandstone, which absorbs water from rains that are getting heavier; some of that stone is collapsing as salt expands and contracts in more variable weather. – The Guardian
  
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• Technology Is Promising Boosts To Your Enlightenment

  18-11-2021 19:31 via vox.com
  
  Technoboosts include brain stimulation, which uses electric currents or other means to directly target certain brain areas and change their behavior, and synthetic psychedelics, which are lab-created versions of drugs such as ayahuasca. – Vox
  
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• Zadie Smith Never Meant To Write A Play. A Press Release Made Her Do It.

  18-11-2021 19:03 via bbc.com
  
  First of all, when her neighborhood submitted a bid to be London’s Borough of Culture, she agreed to participate, thinking it wouldn’t win. Then it did. So she had to come up with an idea. And she did — whereupon something entirely different (a play) was announced. – BBC
  
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• Why We Sleep

  18-11-2021 18:29 via science.org
  Sleep’s benefits extend far beyond the brain, and that muscles, the immune system, and the gut can all have a say in when and how sleep occurs. That work “might change our focus from studying sleep’s role in complex cognitive processes to how it impacts basic cellular function.” – Science
  
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• Jimmie Durham, Native American Artist And Activist (Or Was He?), Dead At 81

  18-11-2021 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “(He was) celebrated for incorporating traditional Native American imagery and materials into lively, unconventional sculptures before his claim of Cherokee ancestry was widely challenged, setting off an intense art-world debate over his authenticity.” – The New York Times
  
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• Students And Teachers Of The Afghanistan National Institute of Music Flee

  18-11-2021 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The school became known for supporting the education of girls, who make up about a third of the student body. The school’s all-female orchestra, Zohra, toured the world and was hailed as a symbol of a modern, more progressive Afghanistan. – The New York Times
  
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• How Children’s Radio Grew Popular And Then Faded Away

  18-11-2021 17:02 via tedium.co
  
  “Back in April, the only real player in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, which started life on the airwaves 25 years ago this week, quietly wound down. … Today’s Tedium looks back at the many attempts to sell kids on radio.” – Tedium
  
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• Finally, A Creative is Suing Over A Hollywood Studio’s Creative Accounting Of Profits

  18-11-2021 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Studios have long had a reputation for promising actors or writers a percentage of a movie’s profits, then using accounting tricks to show that the film made no profit, no matter how large the grosses. Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten has had enough. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• One Of New York’s Biggest Collections Of Antiquities Is In The Manhattan DA’s Office

  18-11-2021 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Antiquities Trafficking Unit is very much a victim of its own success. Set up in 2017 … to curb the smuggling of cultural heritage, it has seized 3,604 illicit items.” 2,281 of those are still there; here’s a look at eight of them. – The New York Times
  
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• UK royals’ Japanese artefacts to go on display at Buckingham Palace

  18-11-2021 15:57
  
  Exhibition will include items amounting to ‘one of finest’ holdings of Japanese art in the westJapanese treasures acquired by the royal family over almost four centuries are to go on public display for the first time next year in an exhibition at Buckingham Palace.The artefacts include rare examples of “unparalleled Japanese craftsmanship”, including armour, weaponry, porcelain, lacquer, woodcut prints, delicate fans and embroidered screens, said the Royal Collection Trus
  
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• Quick Study: Tracking the Viral Spread of Musical Genres

  18-11-2021 15:31 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we look at how statistical models for tracking infectious diseases can help researchers monitor the spread of popular music genres. The source article is here. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website.
  Click here for the most recent episode of Quick Study.
  
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• Even Ancient Egyptian Relief Carvers Had Interns, And They Messed Up Sometimes, Too

  18-11-2021 15:31 via artnews.com
  
  “Scholars have long believed that apprentices learned their craft before they were allowed to carve reliefs for rooms like this one,” the Chapel of Hatshepsut in Thebes. But one archaeologist says that apprentices did work on the wall reliefs: you can see the corrections the masters made. – ARTnews
  
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• Alumni Of University Of Utah’s Ballet Program Describe Body-Shaming, Intimidation, And Prejudice

  18-11-2021 15:04 via sltrib.com
  
  A dozen graduates wrote letters describing abusive and sometimes racist language as well as body-shaming and authoritarian attitudes. The school’s current director says progress has been and will continue to be made. (He even threw out the scales.) – The Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• ‘A chariot in the sky’: Lumiere festival of light in Durham honours Covid dead

  18-11-2021 14:34
  
  Installations bring dazzling illuminations to county in beloved biennial eventCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOne of the most peculiar monuments in the UK is about to get a little stranger when it is spectacularly lit up to be seen from as far as 20 miles away and accompanied by a blasting soundtrack including music by the 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen.Penshaw Monument is a 20-metre replica of the ancient Greek temple of Hephaestus built by the Victori
  
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• More Than Half Of Arts And Heritage Jobs In UK Were Lost Due To COVID

  18-11-2021 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  “(A study) revealed the industry suffered a 60% decline in output because of restrictions. It said about 55% of jobs — 450,000 people — were furloughed in the sector, second only to hospitality, and well above the national average of 16%.” – BBC
  
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• 2021 National Book Awards Go To Jason Mott, Tiya Miles, Malinda Lo, Martín Espada, Elisa Shua Dusapin

  18-11-2021 14:05 via apnews.com
  
  Mott’s Hell of a Book won for fiction; Miles’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack for nonfiction; Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club for young people’s literature; Espada’s Floaters for poetry, and Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho for literature in translation. – AP
  
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• Sign of the times: row over street art shines light on Spain’s divisions

  18-11-2021 12:59
  
  Madrid council orders removal of street art featuring left and rightwing heroes as Socialist-led government proposes prosecution of Franco-era crimesFor the past 11 months, the two walls that make up a street corner in east Madrid have engaged in a mute but bitter debate that mirrors the faultlines, fights and ferocities of Spanish politics.On the left wall are 24 street signs commemorating poets and writers including Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Victoria Kent and Carme
  
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• ‘The greats are all here’: readers’ favourite UK permanent exhibitions

  18-11-2021 12:00
  
  From impressionists in Wales to pre-Raphaelites in Yorkshire, a huge wealth of culture is on tap across the UK – and entry to museums and galleries is often freeThe ceramics collection at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent must be among the best in the world – I would say even better than that held by the V&A. It’s free and easily accessible if you’re in the Midlands. The collection covers everything from prehistoric jugs, the history of househol
  
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• VP, Executive Search – Tom O’Connor Consulting Group

  18-11-2021 04:02 via artsjournal.com
  The Vice President, Executive Search works as a pivotal member of the Tom O’Connor Consulting Group (TOCG) leadership team and will carry out searches on behalf of our arts and culture clients in a variety of functional areas. As with all TOCG roles, the position is full-time remote with occasional in-person meetings required in New York City at company expense.Reporting to President Tom O’Connor (who will maintain a portfolio of searches) and with support from Director of Recruitme
  
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• Director of Marketing & Communications, Theatre for a New Audience

  18-11-2021 03:59 via artsjournal.com
  Theatre for a New Audience seeks a Director of Marketing & Communications to join its team. Reporting to the Founding Artistic Director, this is a results-oriented leadership role overseeing earned revenue, audience development and retention, and brand awareness efforts. The Director leads the team on traditional and digital advertising, CRM, direct mail and email marketing, data analysis, and reporting. For a full position description, see https://www.tfana.org/about/workwithusResponsi
  
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• Pacific Symphony Senior Leadership – Vice President of Marketing and Communications

  18-11-2021 03:56 via artsjournal.com
  THE OPPORTUNITYReporting to the President and CEO, the Vice President of Marketing and Communications is a key strategic leader responsible for deepening relations with audiences and community members through best in class marketing and engagement strategies designed to increase and exceed the Symphony’s overall earned revenue goals. These institutional goals will maximize the total household participation and revenue through coordinated communication, recognition and patron engagement tac
  
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• Vice President of Philanthropy

  18-11-2021 03:44 via artsjournal.com
  Job Title: Vice President of Philanthropy
  Reports to: President & CEO
  Classification: Full-time – Salaried – Exempt
  Employment is At-Will – either the employee or the employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.About The Phoenix Symphony:
  It’s an exciting time to join The Phoenix Symphony as our organization entered its benchmark 75th Anniversary Season of 2021-22. As one of the greater Phoenix area’s la
  
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• As Beirut’s Conditions Deteriorate, Its Orchestra Plays On

  18-11-2021 00:01 via learningenglish.voanews.com
  
  As the value of Lebanese money fell, the 100 or so musicians in the orchestra watched the value of their pay fall from $3,000 to around $200. Most foreign musicians left the orchestra and the country. It is not clear how long the orchestra can keep going. – Voice of America
  
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