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• NYC To Give Brooklyn Museum $50 Million

  22-11-2021 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  “I’ve been dreaming of this since I joined the museum a little over five years ago,” Pasternak said. “Our exhibitions and public programs have been embracing ideas for 21st-century museums, but our building is absolutely mired in the 19th century. So it’s time to catch up.” – The New York Times
  
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• New Facility Signals San Francisco Conservatory Community Attitude

  22-11-2021 22:28 via msn.com
  Bowes Center signals a major expansion of the Conservatory of Music, which has most of its academic and performance spaces a few blocks away on Oak Street. – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• Eddie Redmayne: Playing “Danish Girl” Trans Character Was A Mistake

  22-11-2021 21:44 via variety.com
  
  “No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake,” Redmayne told The Sunday Times. – Variety
  
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• Writer Robert Bly, 94

  22-11-2021 20:55 via nytimes.com
  
  He “galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men’s movement with a best seller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity.” – The New York Times
  
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• Opera As Mountains To Be Summited

  22-11-2021 20:15 via newyorker.com
  
  Matthew Aucoin finds impossibility to be a constant in the history of opera. “The art form’s first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Italy strove to re-create the effect of ancient Greek drama, which of course they had never heard.” – The New Yorker
  
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• We’ve Made Progress. But The Thing About Progress Is It Has To Progress…

  22-11-2021 19:28 via linkedin.com
  
  Those without the vision to produce art as means toward an end, rather than the end itself, have placated the wealthy donors who are also the users of the product. – Alan Harrison
  
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• What If We Stripped Humanities Education Back To First Principles?

  22-11-2021 18:44 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  The Catherine Project’s commitment, borne out beautifully by our seminars thus far, is that great books are supremely egalitarian: They move and challenge us all alike. Indeed, what proves great books great is that they’ve stood the test of time. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Theatre Norms: Always Changing

  22-11-2021 18:04 via theconversation.com
  
  The 19th century brought about the popularization of the proscenium arch: an architectural feature that effectively separates the audience from the actors on stage. Alongside this structural shift, a change in lighting also reinforced the separation between audience and performers. – The Conversation
  
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• Two Books Explore What It’s Really Like To Be A Ballerina

  22-11-2021 17:29 via alastairmacaulay.com
  There are dancers, and there are ballerinas. Just like there are cooks, and then there are chefs. – Alastair Macaulay
  
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• Pianist Stephen Hough: Music Isn’t Icing On The Cake Of Life, It Is Life

  22-11-2021 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hough played the first live, streamed concert after shutdown to an empty hall in London. “It was a reminder of how important a cog music is in life. Don’t take it for granted. Tell our political leaders it’s not just entertainment.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Deep Emotional Appeal Of Nature Photos

  22-11-2021 16:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Photos of animals bypass logic and get directly to the heart. One photographer makes sure her subjects are looking directly at the camera: “We don’t have a common language, and like eye contact between humans, it creates such a connection.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Turned Jonathan Larson’s Solo Show Into A Filmed Rock Opera

  22-11-2021 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  It’s not a direct adaptation: “Miranda and his co-writer Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen) have added music from Larson’s other shows, tweaked some of the character arcs and even removed an entire subplot about Twinkies.” – BBC
  
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• How Saturday Night Live Turned Itself Into The Internet

  22-11-2021 15:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Given the anxious state of the world today, watching the show has started to feel uncannily like doomscrolling through a social-media feed.” That’s mixed with daffy bits, of course – just like Twitter. – The Atlantic
  
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• San Antonio Symphony Musicians Strike To Prevent Personnel And Pay Cuts

  22-11-2021 15:30 via spectrumlocalnews.com
  
  Mary Ellen Goree, principal second violin: “I cannot sit on stage in my chair knowing that 26 of my colleagues lost their jobs just so I could hold onto two-thirds of mine. … It’s a moral issue.” – Spectrum News (San Antonio)
  
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• We Need To Puncture Our Knowledge Bubbles

  22-11-2021 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “What we don’t know — about the lives of our neighbors and fellow citizens and why they think the way they do — is almost as important as what we do know.” – The New York Times
  
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• An Ancient Book’s Journey From Irish Bog To Museum

  22-11-2021 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It was a scary path. “Archaeologists placed the ‘conglomeration’ of squashed pages, leather and turf in a walk-in cold store in the museum at 4C. But there was no manual in the world to guide Gillis on how to go about the task.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• An Appreciation Of Dave Hickey, Prolific Art Critic

  22-11-2021 14:45 via lithub.com
  
  Christopher Knight: “Lots of smart people write smart things about art but nobody was a better writer than Dave. … Hickey, a brilliant and cantankerous wit, wrote for the ear. His work needed reading, not scanning, and rewarded effort with pleasure.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Gary Shteyngart On The Keys To Writing Novels Quickly

  22-11-2021 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  The novelist, who says it doesn’t get any easier no matter how many you’ve written, has a few tips like, well, write what you know; stop drinking so much; and use his “patented technique called WNW.” – LitHub
  
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• A Man Who Helped Loot Cambodia Wants To Atone, And Recover The Artifacts

  22-11-2021 14:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Toek Tik was “an unschooled man from a thatch-roofed hut who recently began disclosing to authorities how he oversaw hundreds of confederates as they swept through temple ruins, pillaging sculptures and other treasures.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Online Art Shows Phoning It In?

  22-11-2021 14:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  After all, we’ve had nearly two years to experiment and make them at least decent, if not great. – Hyperallergic
  
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• This Year, Says The Palme D’Or Winner, Women Kicked ‘Serious Ass’ In Film

  22-11-2021 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  The winner at Cannes, Julia Ducournau is excited “about the current boom in female horror; she particularly rates British films by Rose Glass (Saint Maud) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge).” Women, she says, have a special relationship with horror. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• How Pianist Bruce Liu Won The Chopin Competition

  22-11-2021 13:30 via cbc.ca
  
  According to the Canadian pianist Liu, the answer after an extra COVID year was spontaneity. “That was the challenge, actually: to not get bored of yourself after playing these pieces and practising them for thousands of hours.” – CBC
  
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• Lockdown Band The Verinos Tells Middle-Aged Women It’s Time To Make More Music

  22-11-2021 13:15 via bbc.com
  
  “‘Often there’s that idea that you’re just going to dig your garden and go to Zumba or visit a National Trust property,’ songwriter and guitarist Ruth Miller said. ‘We want to be in a punk band. We don’t want to just watch daytime TV.'” – BBC
  
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• When taking the bins out is a blissful escape: sketches of lockdown with a baby

  22-11-2021 09:00
  
  Pia Bramley set out to draw babies that weren’t just ‘squashed adults’. The results were funny, frank and struck a chord with other new parents during the pandemic“Their proportions are strange,” says Pia Bramley. “They exist completely at odds with the rest of the world.”The artist is talking about drawing babies, something she has been doing a lot of since her son, Fran, was born two years ago. She describes seeing Marlene Dumas’s giant watercolo
  
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