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• If Democracy Is Institutions, What Institutions Are Democracy?

  02-12-2021 23:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Political institutions differ considerably from one purportedly democratic society to the next. Voting procedures, representation schemes, conceptions of free speech, and judicial arrangements are not uniform across societies that are widely regarded as democratic. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Has America Lost Its Imagination?

  02-12-2021 23:01 via artsjournal.com
  Americans used to go to movie theaters to watch new characters in new stories. Now they go to movie theaters to re-submerge themselves in familiar story lines. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Art World Power 100 List

  02-12-2021 22:32 via artreview.com
  
  NFTs (and with them cryptocurrency and all that comes with it) have upended the art market, bringing contemporary art and millennial meme culture crashing together.  – ArtReview
  
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• The Universal Story (But Why?)

  02-12-2021 22:01 via quillette.com
  
  From one point of view, it’s obvious that, despite exceptions, most stories portray “goody-baddy” dynamics—from nursery rhymes to juicy gossip, from ancient folktales to Holy Scripture, from lowbrow reality shows to award-winning documentaries. The question is, why? – Quillette
  
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• Why Orchestra Percussion Sections Aren’t Diverse

  02-12-2021 21:29 via icareifyoulisten.com
  
  At minimum, percussion students need a room to practice in — usually in a large single family home and not an apartment — over $10,000 for instruments, and $6,500 per year for lessons. And this is to say nothing of other crucial training opportunities, which come at an additional cost. – I Care if You Listen
  
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• A Playwright-Turned-Librettist Considers Opera’s Centuries-Long Penchant For Adapting Pre-Existing Properties

  02-12-2021 21:02 via van-magazine.com
  
  Adaptations from well-known sources go right from the beginnings of opera as a distinct genre circa 1600 (Peri’s Euridice and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo) to the remarkable flowering of new opera (especially chamber opera) in the US today. And there are good reasons for that. – Van
  
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• One Of Canada’s Top Contemporary Groups Calls It Quits

  02-12-2021 20:28 via ludwig-van.com
  
  “We have been here for 35 years. We have made 300 creations, several international tours, 11 Canadian tours, and 70 concerts across the country.Before, the word “fatigue” was not even a reality for me, but time does its work.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Italy Shows Britain (And The Rest Of Us) How To Return The Parthenon’s Looted Friezes

  02-12-2021 20:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports has announced that Italy will return a fragment of the Parthenon Frieze, which has been on loan as part of a cultural exchange.” – Artnet
  
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• Why The World’s Best Chess Players Are Too Good To Win

  02-12-2021 19:28 via fivethirtyeight.com
  
  Accurate is the word of the match so far. Inevitably, the string of draws is the main narrative out of Dubai; no one has won a regulation game in the world championship in more than five years. But wins at this rarefied level most often come thanks to an opponent’s mistake. – FiveThirtyEight
  
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• Female Filmmakers Are Rethinking And Reworking The Western

  02-12-2021 19:03 via bbc.com
  
  “These female-made Westerns are really tackling toxic masculinity and the ways in which men’s attempts to prove themselves as men can backfire, rather than glorifying the myth of the cowboy as the older, traditional Western did.” – BBC
  
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• The Rise Of The Media “Comfort Creator”

  02-12-2021 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “With the terror of a global pandemic sending anxiety sky high and rendering TV one of the few safe entertainment outlets, the desire for comfort has become particularly noticeable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sweating the Big Stuff for Small Nonprofits – Plus New Jobs Numbers

  02-12-2021 18:05 via artsjournal.com
  In the first few months of the pandemic, I often heard speculation about the extent to which shutdowns, event cancellations, social distancing, and a reluctance to travel would affect the finances of different arts organizations. Some contended that only the largest organizations, with their steady endowments and loyal patron lists, would power through. Others pointed to the inflexible cost structures of those organizations and argued that smaller and nimbler entities would recover faster over
  
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• “The Russian Proust”, Who Died At Auschwitz, Will Have A Novel Published In English For The First Time

  02-12-2021 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Yuri Felsen (né Nikolai Freudenstein), born in St. Petersburg in 1894, fled to Paris after the Revolution and was considered by Russian émigrés to be a near-equal of Nabokov. His first novel, Deceit, published in Russian in 1930; will see print in English next spring. – The Guardian
  
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• It’s Been Ten Years Since Robert Battle Took Over Leading Alvin Ailey Company

  02-12-2021 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “The knee-jerk thing is to overcorrect,” he continued. “But sometimes you need to double down in your mission. Sometimes you have to think about what doesn’t change, what shouldn’t change.” – The New York Times
  
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• Iridescent: Gerwyn Davies’ colourful, camp costume sculptures

  02-12-2021 17:30
  
  Playing with ideas of gender and class, the Sydney-based photographic artist poses at colonial trophy homes and reimagines their inhabitantsMinnie Macgregor’s deadpan portrait, taken circa 1899, hangs on the sitting room wall of Meroogal, a timber house with gothic trimming her relatives owned at Nowra on the New South Wales south coast. Her “insanely massive” hair in the photograph drew queer artist Gerwyn Davies to her story.The photograph was taken before Macgregor fell ill.
  
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• A special time of year…really.

  02-12-2021 17:10 via artsjournal.com
  
  Row X blog by Hannah GrannemannYour audience circled December on their calendar last spring. They didn’t want to miss the holiday show this year. Seeing something earlier than December was possible…they’d have to feel it out…but they would really try to get back to their holiday show. The holidays just weren’t the same last year without a trip to the theater to see their favorite production. Anticipating the show this year would be a little light shining for them
  
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• Dominique Morisseau On Why She Pulled Her Play “Paradise Blue” From The Geffen Playhouse

  02-12-2021 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I felt in this situation that everybody’s wellness was not considered. The theater makers that were causing the harm were being centered over the people who were being harmed — and those who were reporting harm were told to wait it out and endure it.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The 11-strong Array collective on winning the Turner prize: ‘We’ll have to have a meeting about this!’

  02-12-2021 16:51
  
  The Belfast artists built an illicit drinking den and filled it with banners, ashtrays and scrawled-on mirrors to create a pointed portrait of Northern Ireland. What will they do with the £25,000 prize?It’s the morning after the night before, the night in which the 11-strong, Belfast-based Array Collective, along with two babes-in-arms and one tiny golden-haired child, stepped on to the podium at Coventry Cathedral in their sparkling finery to receive the Turner prize. Three of them
  
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• After 31 Years, A New Hint In The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

  02-12-2021 16:32 via msn.com
  A retired Boston jeweler says that, shortly after the 1990 heist, an acquaintance brought in a gilded bronze eagle for him to appraise — a piece that he recognized as stolen from the museum. – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Hashing It Out: Is “West Side Story” Worth Doing In 2021, Or Is It An Outdated Basket Of Harmful Caricatures?

  02-12-2021 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  As the Steven Spielberg/Tony Kushner film arrives, New York Times critics Jesse Green and Isabelia Herrera, playwright Matthew López, theater historian Misha Berson (author of a history of the show), and writer Carina del Valle Schorske (emphatically not a fan) have at the question. – The New York Times
  
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• Alvin Lucier, Pathbreaking Avant-Garde Composer, Dead At 90

  02-12-2021 15:31 via msn.com
  “During a career spanning six decades, Mr. Lucier moved from a respectable position as a traditional composer … to the near-personification of experimentalism in music, … writing pieces for brain waves, birdcalls, electronic devices, resonant bowls and, every so often, standard classical instruments.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Turner Prize 2021 Goes To A Mockup Of A Belfast Bar

  02-12-2021 15:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  Array Collective has become the first Northern Irish artist(s) ever to receive the award. The winning work, titled The Druithaib’s Ball, is a full-size replica of a shebeen (that’s Irish for speakeasy) festooned with protest flags and slogans. – Artnet
  
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• If Boris Won’t Make British Audience Members Mask Up, Then Venues Will

  02-12-2021 14:35 via nytimes.com
  
  When performances started up again in the UK over the summer, masks weren’t made mandatory (much to the alarm of some visitors from abroad). But with Delta and Omicron coronaviruses continuing to sicken people, venues are starting to insist that patrons wear face coverings. – The New York Times
  
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• After 30 Years, Director Of Australia’s Flagship Indigenous Dance Company Is Stepping Down

  02-12-2021 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Stephen Page became artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1991, two years after its founding, and has led it to awards and acclaim throughout Australia and overseas. The 56-year-old Page will depart at the end of 2022, succeeded by company member Frances Rings. – The Guardian
  
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• Museum rivalry could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind

  02-12-2021 11:05
  
  Rijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travelAmsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has announced a “first and last” exhibition of all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are fit to travel, as its director claimed growing museum rivalry makes such international cooperation unlikely in the future.Vermeer, whose most famous work is Girl with a Pearl Earring, dating from around 1665, is thought to have painted 35 masterpieces, of
  
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• From Miami to the metaverse! Art Basel hits Florida – in pictures

  02-12-2021 08:00
  
  Marina Abramović goes on a spiritual journey in Brazil and Francis Bacon enters an entirely new world at this year’s Art Basel Miami BeachContinue reading...
  
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• Executive Director of O’Shaughnessy

  02-12-2021 02:46 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummarySt. Catherine University and the Office of Institutional Advancement invite applications for the position of the Executive Director at The O’Shaughnessy.Visit our position profile for a full overview of this position, https://stkate.app.box.com/s/4yoxqamyjjssgouosyuupk7vj4lwcbbtThe O’Shaughnessy is one of the Twin Cities’ premiere venues for the performing arts. While performances in its 50-year history have represented many genres, in recent years the focu
  
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• Author Alice Sebold Apologizes To Man Cleared Of Her 1981 Rape Featured In Her Book

  02-12-2021 00:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “My goal in 1982 was justice – not to perpetuate injustice,” she said. “And certainly not to forever, and irreparably, alter a young man’s life by the very crime that had altered mine.”- The Guardian
  
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