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• Jane Campion’s Bones

  03-12-2021 23:32 via latimes.com
  
  “I’m an old dog in the game,” Campion says, smiling. “I’m careful about the bones I care to chew on. I want something with a deep enough scope, something that will hold up.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Florida School Called TikTok High, After Dance Videos

  03-12-2021 23:01 via patch.com
  
  The videos featuring students – many of them uniformed athletes at Venice High School – dancing at the school with the staircase as their backdrop, as well as parody and reaction videos, have racked up millions of views in recent weeks. – Patch
  
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• A Dancer Who Doesn’t Look Like The Others

  03-12-2021 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  The 23-year-old has returned to dance from injury and uses his wheelchair and crutches to perform. He said it should be easier for others like him to enter the profession in future. – BBC
  
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• How Amazon Made Book Selling The Way We Read

  03-12-2021 22:31 via bookforum.com
  
  The populist turn has put into question whether a comparatively very small group of authors—no matter how diverse—should really hog the scholarly limelight, especially when their productions constitute such an unrepresentative sample of all the imaginative or fictional texts. – BookForum
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Fired Its Docents – A Struggle To Redefine American Museums

  03-12-2021 22:01 via msn.com
  The ramifications of what happened at the Art Institute will play out for years. Depending who’s talking, it’s about diversity, gratitude or merely the future of museums. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Bookstore Lost 400,000 Books In A Fire. Then The Community Stepped Up

  03-12-2021 21:28 via leaderlive.co.uk
  
  Thousands of books, filling two shipping containers, have been donated – and more are coming in all the time. – The Leader
  
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• Oscar Tang Dynasty: Met Renames Wing for $125-Million Donor & Ups Its “Emergency Relief Fund” to $100 Million

  03-12-2021 21:08 via artsjournal.com
  At some cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum, naming rights can have expiration dates. That famously happened with the
  
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• The Diagram Prize For The Oddest Book Title Of 2021 Goes To —

  03-12-2021 21:01 via thebookseller.com
  Is Superman Circumcised?, which is, in fact, a serious study of the origins of the DC Comics character (subtitle: “The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero”). It won the public vote against five other finalists by 28 percentage points. – The Bookseller (UK)
  
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• Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Choreography

  03-12-2021 20:32 via artsjournal.com
  University of California Los AngelesRequisition Number: JPF07063The Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD) in the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA invites applications for a tenure-track (Assistant or Associate Professor) position specializing in choreography/dance. The ideal candidate has an active choreographic profile, is committed to time-based performance as a form, and is preferably working from a perspective and practice not currently represented by the existing ten
  
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• Why It’s So Difficult To Design Communities Resilient To Climate Change

  03-12-2021 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The recent passage of a $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill is a big step toward tackling some of those problems, but as East River Park shows, even when money is at hand, our convoluted systems often make it difficult or impossible to find consensus and work at the speed and scale required. – The New York Times
  
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• Mezzo Jamie Barton Intends To Dismantle The Patriarchy, Or At Least Its Standard Opera Repertory

  03-12-2021 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “I’ve spent a lot of years doing roles where I’m the third person in a love triangle, … and the lead soprano almost always has to kill herself, and those stories are 1,000% created by the patriarchy, and I’m not interested in them anymore.” – The Guardian
  
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• NBC’s Live “Annie” Was “Pleasant”

  03-12-2021 19:29 via washingtonpost.com
  You probably tuned in to NBC’s “Annie Live!” for one reason: to see if it would be a train wreck. – Washington Post
  
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• Spain’s “Scrap Cathedral”

  03-12-2021 19:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Using bricks and wood scavenged from building sites, shards of stained glass, and stacked oil drums for pillars, former monk Justo Gallego spent six decades constructing a church of his own design in outer Madrid. He died last weekend, but a nonprofit will finish the building. – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• It’s Not You: Why It’s Getting More Difficult To Understand Movie Dialogue

  03-12-2021 18:29 via slashfilm.com
  
  “It’s really a gumbo, an accumulation of problems that have been exacerbated over the last 10 years … that’s kind of this time span where all of us in the filmmaking community are noticing that dialogue is harder and harder to understand.” – Slash Film
  
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• The Pivot That Got One Of L.A.’s Biggest Dance Centers Through The Pandemic

  03-12-2021 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “In August, the Los Angeles-area stalwart the Lab closed its dance space, a 12,000-square-foot location. … Instead, it has transformed from a dance studio into a ‘creative agency and lifestyle brand,’ as its website says — a feat of survival, and a strategic one.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sondheim And The Art Of Mentoring

  03-12-2021 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  As a mentor, as a letter writer, as an audience member who showed up far beyond Broadway to witness new work, he quietly, faithfully nurtured generations of theater makers. – The New York Times
  
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• The Choreographer Who Designs Movement For People To Use Computers With

  03-12-2021 17:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Lins Derry “is one of the world’s foremost experts on the design of choreographic interfaces: the practice of using carefully designed bodily motions (think: using ‘pinch-to-zoom’ or swiping right or left on your mobile device) to bring humans and computers into productive dialogue.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Antony Sher, One Of Britain’s Great Stage Actors, Dead At 72

  03-12-2021 16:33 via bbc.com
  
  Though an accomplished writer and screen actor, he was most admired for theatre classics from Shakespeare to Pinter. In 1985, for Richard III and Torch Song Trilogy, he became, he said, “the first actor to win an [Olivier] for playing both a king and a queen.” – BBC
  
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• After 25 Years, “Citizen Ruth” Is Relevant Again, And Star Laura Dern Is Very Pleased

  03-12-2021 16:01 via vulture.com
  
  In this Q&A, she says that in 1996, Harvey Weinstein and Miramax deliberately buried the movie, but that young people today (including her daughter’s friends) have discovered it and love it, especially now that Roe v. Wade is in jeopardy. – Vulture
  
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• Why Sexual Grooming And Abuse Seem To Happen So Often In Ballet

  03-12-2021 15:35 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “Unfortunately, ballet’s rigid hierarchy, job scarcity and conditioning of dancers to be compliant makes it a comfortable environment for perpetrators to thrive in.” Kathleen McGuire examines how it happens and what might be done to prevent it. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Four Constraints of Arts Enterprise

  03-12-2021 15:21 via artsjournal.com
  Why is it that some arts initiatives or disciplines tend toward commercial markets, others non-commercial? Some tend toward complex and durable nonprofit organizational forms and some toward episodic projects? Some are independent of major media companies and others deeply dependent? And how and why do some initiatives evolve from one dynamic to another over time — from a scrappy and episodic theater collective, for example, to full-on corporate, venue-owning not-for-profit (like Steppenwo
  
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• Psychedelic cats, Louise Bourgeois’ dreams and the world’s first coffee house – the week in art

  03-12-2021 15:08
  
  Louis Wain’s extraordinary cats, uncanny surrealism in Liverpool and a look at Islamic coffee culture from Sufi pioneers to the Ottoman empire – all in your weekly dispatchDerek Jarman
  The visionary film-maker was also a powerful artist. This is a full survey of a great British radical.
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• Biggest-Ever Vermeer Show Is Coming, And It Could Be The Last

  03-12-2021 15:02 via theguardian.com
  
  At least two dozen of the 35 surviving paintings of Johannes Vermeer will be on display in the spring of 2023 at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, whose director says he expects to borrow every Vermeer that isn’t too fragile to travel. – The Guardian
  
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• Medieval Rock-Hewn Churches Of Lalibela Retaken By Ethiopian Government Forces

  03-12-2021 14:30 via aljazeera.com
  
  The UNESCO World Heritage Site and pilgrimage center has been one of the battlegrounds in the civil war between Ethiopia’s central government and rebels from Tigray province, whose forces captured the town in August. – Al Jazeera
  
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• NPR Morning Edition Host Noel King Is Leaving For A Sort-Of Competitor

  03-12-2021 14:04 via axios.com
  
  She is moving to Vox Media as editorial director and co-host (with current host Sean Rameswaram) of Today, Explained, Vox’s morning news podcast. What’s more, WNYC has agreed to distribute Today, Explained to public radio stations nationwide. – Axios
  
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• He went down to the crossroads

  03-12-2021 13:03 via artsjournal.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Lantern Theater Company’s hybrid-theater streaming production of Me and the Devil. Here’s an excerpt.
  *  *  *Robert Johnson’s celebrity was wholly posthumous, the result of the 29 records that he cut in 1936 and 1937. An itinerant regional blues singer and guitarist born in Mississippi in 1911, he performed mainly in small towns in the Mississippi Delta, and his death at age 27 prevented him from attaining wi
  
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• Replay: Cream plays “Crossroads”

  03-12-2021 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Cream plays Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads” live at Fillmore West in 1968:
  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Underground forests and whispering walls: the weird worlds of Lord Whitney

  03-12-2021 11:25
  
  As they reveal their Christmas commission at Harewood House, the two ‘connoisseurs of make-believe’ explain how their immersive installations soothe the soul It is hard to pin down exactly what Lord Whitney does. On paper, the Leeds-based artist studio has built music video sets for Nicki Minaj, art-directed promo footage for The Voice, built a fantastical world for Chambord liqueur, recreated scenery from hit Netflix shows and transformed the underbelly of Leeds Town Hall into a for
  
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• From utopian dreams to Soho sleaze: the naked history of British nudism

  03-12-2021 08:00
  
  A new book details how nudism began as a movement of intellectuals, feminists and artists, only to be suppressed by the state. But our attitudes to nakedness also tell us a lot about ourselvesWhen Annebella Pollen was 17, she left behind her strict Catholic upbringing for the life of a new-age hippy, living in a caravan and frolicking naked among the standing stones of Devon, while earning a living by modelling for life-drawing classes. That early experience, followed by a relationship with a br
  
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