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• Toronto’s 127-Year-Old Massey Hall Gets A Massive Update

  29-11-2021 23:12 via cbc.ca
  
  The goal of restoring a building, preserving its character while also updating it to suit today’s needs, was a monumental task done under the scrutiny of heritage departments and building inspectors, and many of Canada’s top musicians and music historians. – CBC
  
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• Crowdfunders Raised $50 Million In Crypto To Buy A Copy Of The Constitution. Now, A Problem…

  29-11-2021 22:29 via theverge.com
  
  Returning that much money has been a tricky process, though. Backers have to manually request refunds, so even a week later, tens of millions of dollars are still sitting in ConstitutionDAO’s pockets. – The Verge
  
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• When Each Of Us Is Turning Into An Investment Opportunity

  29-11-2021 21:44 via theatlantic.com
  
  Parallel shifts in culture and technology are forging a new paradigm. The rules around how we create and capture economic value are being rewritten, opening up new roads to the kind of wealth creation previously limited to a select few. – The Atlantic
  
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• France Inducts Josephine Baker Into Its Pantheon

  29-11-2021 21:01 via baltimoresun.com
  On Tuesday, a coffin carrying soils from the U.S., France and Monaco — places where Baker made her mark — will be deposited inside the domed Pantheon monument overlooking the Left Bank of Paris. Her body will stay in Monaco, at the request of her family. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Ode To The Intimate Pleasures Of The Harpsichord

  29-11-2021 20:14 via firstthings.com
  
  The piano is the instrument of expressive individualism; the harpsichord is the instrument of a vibrant, discursive life of the mind. It is the glorious vestige of an era when music was free from the impossible burdens that Romantics placed upon it. – First Things
  
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• Life Between Islands review: displaying the power and passion of Caribbean-British art

  29-11-2021 19:38
  
  Resistance and defiance and celebrations, arrivals, departures and returns: from photographs of protests to a Union Black flag, this timely show is an unmissable testament to creativityLife Between Islands is an exhibition of protests and pleasures, celebrations and insurrections. Several years in the making, and as important as it is timely – as well as long overdue – it is also an exhibition of arrivals, departures and returns. Filled with variety and complexity, the well- and less
  
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• John Sankey obituary

  29-11-2021 19:13
  
  My father, John Sankey, who has died aged 91, was a diplomat who took up historical research, having become fascinated by the life and work of Sir Thomas Brock, sculptor of the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace.Commencing his career in the Colonial Office in 1953, John received his first posting in New York at the United Nations. On his return, in 1964 he transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. After postings in Guyana, Singapore, Malta and the Netherlands, he returne
  
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• Grappling With The Enormity Of Losing Sondheim

  29-11-2021 18:44 via latimes.com
  
  Sondheim deserves a spot on playwriting’s Mt. Rushmore, for his contribution to the theater is as significant from a literary as it is from a musical standpoint. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Team Finds Ancient Iliad Mosaic 100 Miles North Of London

  29-11-2021 18:02 via apnews.com
  
  A decade on from uncovering the remains of King Richard III under a car park, the university’s archaeological team have unearthed a Roman mosaic featuring the great Greek hero of Achilles in battle with brave Hector during the Trojan War. – AP
  
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• Twelve Functions of Arts Management

  29-11-2021 17:48 via artsjournal.com
  Ask any arts professional or arts-management academic about the “functions” of arts management and they will likely have a ready list in mind. Production, marketing, management, finance, accounting, fundraising, and such, are common to division of labor in the arts. They show up in department names, job titles, conference workshops, and curriculum requirements in arts management degrees. But I haven’t seen many efforts to capture and sort these functions in more durable and con
  
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• Hollywood Celebs Are Starting Their Own Creative High Schools

  29-11-2021 17:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  With so many projects in production, “there’s an enormous amount of jobs in editing, in visual effects, in makeup and hair, that we can, that we should, be able to access. Why not access it with all of this young talent that we have in our own backyard? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Sondheim Placed The Musical Firmly At The Heart Of American Culture

  29-11-2021 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Before the pandemic, his songs permeated U.S. media. “His primacy within wider culture came from the widest possible acknowledgement that not only had Sondheim created a succession of groundbreaking hits, but that in the mostly reactionary world of the American musical, he was a revolutionary.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Duolingo’s Weird Sentences Show Us How Our Brains Work

  29-11-2021 16:30 via slate.com
  
  It’s all about “reward prediction errors” and “the sweet spot between rote and nonsensical.” Once you’ve learned the Swedish for “a clean reindeer” or the Yiddish for “a zebra in a pyramid,” you’re less likely to forget them. – Slate
  
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• Suzanne Lacy: What Kind of City? review – art that breaks down borders

  29-11-2021 16:13
  
  Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth
  The US artist’s projects have helped raise cleaners’ wages and shone a spotlight on unpaid labour. Would this insightful show have the same energy?It is the morning after the preview of Suzanne Lacy’s new solo show at the Whitworth and there is a buzz about the place. Apparently there was a banquet for 150 people, a choir of Sufi singers and a bus load of visitors from Lancashire. The staff have the tired, twinkling eyes that come with a
  
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• When Non-Horror Movies Feel A Lot Like Horror

  29-11-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “How do you know if you’re watching a horror movie when there’s no killer or monster, exorcism or blood? It’s a decades-old question that’s being asked about new films that blur the line between a movie with horror and a horror movie.” – The New York Times
  
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• Good Thing Library Fines Are Out Of Style

  29-11-2021 15:45 via nbcnews.com
  A sequel to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was checked out in 1910 and returned, anonymously, to the Garden City library near Boise, Idaho. – NBC
  
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• Developers In Britain Are Challenged To Stop Destroying And Start Retrofitting

  29-11-2021 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s in order to save the world – no, really. “Our throwaway building culture is one of the key reasons that UK construction has such an appalling carbon footprint. The planning system could make re-use of existing buildings the default.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Virgil Abloh, A Barrier-Breaking Designer Who Was Compared To Warhol And Koons, Has Died At 41

  29-11-2021 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Abloh was a theorist with sometimes controversial opinions on fashion. “For him clothes were not garments but fungible totems of identity that sat at the nexus of art, music, politics and philosophy.” – The New York Times
  
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• Netflix May Dominate The First Awards Of The Season

  29-11-2021 15:00 via variety.com
  
  The Gotham Awards sees Netflix’s Passing and The Lost Daughter square off on the movie side, and let’s not even get into what may happen with Squid Game for TV. – Variety
  
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• Recovering From A Rough Gig At SNL, Natasha Rothwell Hit It Big On Insecure

  29-11-2021 14:45 via latimes.com
  
  The showrunner for Insecure, where Rothwell, post-writing gig at Saturday Night Live, has written and played Kelli: “The idea that anybody would try to f— squash her talent or try to keep her brilliance under a lampshade — like, can you imagine?” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Repatriation Of Benin’s Bronzes Should Be Only The Beginning

  29-11-2021 14:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Museums in Europe and the U.S. have more to do to help Nigeria showcase the bronzes safely and well, argues an advisor to a new museum in Nigeria. “It will take time, patience, and deep discussions about establishing practices that will guide these decisions going forward.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• An Ancient University Gets An Addition And A Makeover

  29-11-2021 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Rowan Moore is mostly a fan of two Oxford colleges’ innovations, but he adds, “All of [this] leaves me wishing there was more work like this outside the privileged enclaves of Oxford.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• NPR’s Books Rec App Changes Its Name, Keeps Its Attitude

  29-11-2021 14:00 via npr.org
  NPR’s beloved books editor Petra Mayer died a few weeks ago, and so “Books We Love” is named and created “in the spirit of Petra that we don’t do best [books]. We do the greatest books for you, whatever you want to read.” – NPR
  
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• Huge star atop Sagrada Família rekindles residents’ complaints

  29-11-2021 13:52
  
  Locals in Barcelona accuse religious foundation in charge of Gaudí‘s masterpiece of highhandednessA gigantic 12-pointed star was installed on Monday on one of the main towers of the basilica of the Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece that has been a work in progress since 1882.But the star is unlikely to brighten the mood of local residents whose lives have been blighted for years by the city’s biggest tourist attraction, which before the pandemic b
  
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• Land Acknowledgements Are Exhibitionist Pabulum

  29-11-2021 13:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  “A land acknowledgment is what you give when you have no intention of giving land. It is like a receipt provided by a highway robber, noting all the jewels and gold coins he has stolen. … It is difficult to exaggerate the superficiality of these statements.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Royal Ballet dancer to auction world’s first ballet NFTs

  29-11-2021 13:00
  
  Natalia Osipova hopes to ‘broaden appeal’ of ballet by selling unique digital copies of performancesShe is one of the world’s most acclaimed dancers, dazzling audiences with performances at the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballet. Now Natalia Osipova is fusing her centuries-old art form with the latest digital technology.Osipova, principal dancer at London’s Royal Ballet and currently appearing as Giselle at the Royal Opera House, has created the world’s first non-fungible
  
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• Curator of Tate Caribbean-British exhibition says UK museums must face up to past

  29-11-2021 11:50
  
  Life Between Islands features artists of Windrush generation and explores Black power movement in UKBritish institutions must take responsibility for their history of benefiting from slavery, the curator of a new landmark exhibition of Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain has said.Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now features artists working across film, photography, painting, sculpture and fashion. They include those of Caribbean heritage as well as those inspired by t
  
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