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• Apple Streaming Has Been Crap For Classical Music. So It Bought An Expert

  17-12-2021 23:27 via ludwig-van.com
  
  With a view to improving that experience, presumably, Apple acquired dedicated classical music streaming service Primephonic in August 2021. In a press release, the company promises Apple Music subscribers “a significantly improved classical music experience.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• The Further Adventures In Testing Whether Hybrid Performances Of Theatre Draw Audiences

  17-12-2021 23:01 via americantheatre.org
  
  “The show sold a bit below their historical average—which the company anticipated, not least because of the rising concern around yet another COVID variant—but streaming tickets wound up accounting for 28 percent of their box office revenue and 33 percent of the overall number of tickets sold. – American Theatre
  
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• The Problem With Grand Narrative Histories Of Humanity

  17-12-2021 22:31 via aeon.co
  
  By producing an overarching story of life, Big History is meant to fill the void that was left by the processes of secularisation that have dismantled the holistic narratives that were provided by traditional religious systems. – Aeon
  
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• Is The Sackler Disgrace A Warning To Other Potential Museum Funders?

  17-12-2021 22:02 via apollo-magazine.com
  
  The resulting glare is sure to have a dampening effect on future donations from individuals or families whose wealth derives from practices today considered unethical or otherwise problematic. Museums and boards with ties to fossil-fuel companies, for instance, have long been targets of criticism. – Apollo
  
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• Images of India: from courtesans and colonial rule to a child’s-eye view – in pictures

  17-12-2021 20:00
  
  Since its invention in the 1840s, photography has played an integral part in Indian art history. Although it is often said that India is the most photographed country in the world, the history of its representation is more complicated, and more political, than initially meets the eye. Visions of India: From the Colonial to the Contemporary is the first major survey of Indian photography in Australia and will be on show at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne until 20 March 2022Illuminating Ind
  
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• Was Modernist Architecture Really The Product Of Brain Damage?

  17-12-2021 18:32 via archdaily.com
  
  Why should it matter that the people who gave us modern architecture in the 20th century had traumatic brain damage and disorders? For one, the information reframes our understanding of how modern architecture came to be. – ArchDaily
  
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• New Art Museums Are Opening All Across Australia

  17-12-2021 18:01 via afr.com
  
  “An injection of more than $2.4 billion has already resulted in five major openings since late 2020, with another half-dozen projects well under way. Now … the recipients of all this dosh finally have a chance to show us how it is being spent.” – Australian Financial Review
  
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• China Cracks Down On The Dancing Grannies

  17-12-2021 17:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Under legislation to update China’s noise pollution ordinances, to be sent to lawmakers next week, dance enthusiasts will face limits on the volume of their music and times that they are allowed to occupy public spaces.– Washington Post
  
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• Sydney’s Arts Venues Are Getting Very, Very Worried About Omicron

  17-12-2021 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  As summer arrives, COVID is spreading again in New South Wales; experts expect 25,000 new cases per day in the state by late January. Administrators are looking nervously at London and New York, where performances or even runs get cancelled when company members get infected. – The Guardian
  
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• The Last-Minute Saviors Of The Paris Opera Ballet

  17-12-2021 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “When Valentine Colasante was called up to replace an injured dancer in the Paris Opera’s Don Quixote, a three-hour ballet that she had performed exactly once before, she didn’t even have time to be nervous.” And she was lucky: she had three days’ notice. – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• A Bunch Of Public Radio Stations Are About To Get Additional Frequencies

  17-12-2021 16:02 via current.org
  
  This fall FCC offered a rare opportunity to apply for new non-commercial signals. Public radio networks in New England, the South, and especially the Intermountain West plan to use the new frequencies to expand coverage in rural areas they haven’t yet reached. – Current
  
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• Anthony Tommasini’s Farewell Essay As New York Times Chief Classical Critic

  17-12-2021 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  While he can’t help mentioning some things that he believes mustn’t remain as they are now, the title of this piece is “What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music”, and it’s something of a gratitude list. – The New York Times
  
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• Juilliard School Gets $50 Million To Expand Program For Young Black And Hispanic Schoolkids

  17-12-2021 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The gift from the California foundation Crankstart will enable Juilliard to increase enrollment in its Music Advancement Program from 70 to 100 students, provide free tuition to all of them, and help pay for musical instruments. – The New York Times
  
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• Quentin Blake: ‘I’m not so committed to cheering everybody up, you know’

  17-12-2021 15:00
  
  He may be best known for bringing children’s books by Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen to vivid life, but a new documentary reveals the more serious side to illustrator’s careerQuentin Blake’s ascent to national treasure status has been fuelled by a 70-year career as an illustrator, most prominently of children’s books, and works by one writer in particular. His distinctive and revelatory conjuring of Roald Dahl’s world is one of the glories of late-20th century illustr
  
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• Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Steps Down

  17-12-2021 14:33 via americantheatre.org
  
  After five years, Paige Price will depart at the end of this season, having led the company through a difficult period that included a financial crisis and temporary shutdown even before the COVID crisis. – American Theatre
  
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• Clarice Smith, Beloved DC-Area Painter And Philanthropist, Dead At 88

  17-12-2021 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  She and her late husband donated many millions to humanities endeavors in greater Washington — notably to the National Gallery of Art, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland, where she gave $15 million for the performing arts center popularly called “The Clarice”. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• From Bruegel’s boozers to Hirst’s horrific ashtray: what are the wildest parties in art?

  17-12-2021 13:41
  
  Summon some Flemish yokels. Send for some Venetian aristocrats. Then open the ale and party to the sound of bagpipes … if you can’t get to a Christmas bash this year, come to art’s best knees-ups insteadHas your Christmas party been cancelled? Or perhaps you never got an invitation in the first place. Fear not. However socially distanced this festive season becomes, you can always soak up some fun from the great party scenes in art.Would you rather dance in the village square
  
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• Cary in the sky (with Aldous and Clare)

  17-12-2021 13:03 via artsjournal.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review Lincoln Center Theater’s premiere production of Flying Over Sunset. Here’s an excerpt.
  *  *  *I didn’t know what to make of LSD. It was illegal, of course, and Sgt. Joe Friday assured me on “Dragnet” that taking it was the first step down a short road to psychotic hippiedom. Yet the radio was simultaneously full of trippy hit singles like the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” and the Beatles
  
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• Replay: Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers in 1966

  17-12-2021 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers perform “Dinah” on a 1966 episode of ABC’s The Hollywood Palace:(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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• Kapoor experiments, Sickert broods and aliens visit Tate Modern – the week in art

  17-12-2021 13:00
  
  A great sculptor tries out painting, Edwardian unease comes to Liverpool and Anicka Yi’s strange creatures continue to float through the Turbine Hall – all in your weekly dispatchAnish Kapoor
  Explosions of colour and intimations of horror: the paintings of a great sculptor who’s not afraid to try something totally new.
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• John McWhorter on “Dvorak’s Prophecy”

  17-12-2021 05:25 via artsjournal.com
  
  In his New York Times columntwo days ago, John McWhorter wrote of Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate
  
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• Bolz Center for Arts Administration Center Director Search

  17-12-2021 02:58 via artsjournal.com
  The Bolz Center for Arts Administration in the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) seeks a Center Director who can provide intellectual and administrative leadership of the MA in Arts & Creative Enterprise Leadership program, build institutional bridges across campus and in the greater community, and teach core arts management, entrepreneurship, and leadership courses. The Director provides instruction associated with more than one lecture or laboratory course, assists with the design and exe
  
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• Bark Ladies: the painters reimagining ancestral beings, mermaids and the Yolŋu universe – in pictures

  17-12-2021 01:22
  
  A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria – Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala – celebrates the NGV’s collection of more than 70 bark paintings and larrakitj (painted hollow poles) by female artists from the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in north-east Arnhem Land. Five of the 11 artists are living and continue to work out of the Yolŋu-run art centre.The works explore Yolŋu conceptions of the universe, fire, totems, spiritual beings and animals as w
  
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• Do Computers Need To Be As Smart As Humans? Probably Not

  17-12-2021 00:01 via wired.com
  
  Will deep learning eventually become “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), matching human intelligence in every way? I don’t believe it will happen in the next 20 years. – Wired
  
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