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• Checking In With Claire Chase’s Multi-Decade Flute Project

  27-12-2021 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Since 2013, she has been commissioning scores for a monumental project called “Density 2036”; when it comes to completion, in the designated year, it will have added as many as a hundred pieces to the flute repertory. – The New Yorker
  
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• E.O. Wilson, 92, Often Referred To As Darwin’s Successor

  27-12-2021 22:32 via washingtonpost.com
  Dr. Wilson was an eloquent and immensely influential environmentalist and was the first to determine that ants communicate mainly through the exchange of chemical substances now known as pheromones. – Washington Post
  
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• YOLA Grand Ambitions For Music In LA

  27-12-2021 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  It is one of the most vivid examples of efforts by major arts organizations across the country to bring youth education programs out into communities, rather than concentrating them in city centers or urban arts districts. – The New York Times
  
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• The Landmine Field That Is Pop Christmas Music

  27-12-2021 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  With Christmas pop the companies are on tricky ground. As one company executive put it, the Christmas record needs “an indefinable atmosphere.” Sex is not part of it. – The Guardian
  
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• Arts Administrator Christopher Newton, 85

  27-12-2021 20:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Among Newton’s contributions were the development of distinctive Shaw Festival seasons, the establishment of a permanent acting ensemble and the creation of an artistic training program now known as the Slaight Family Academy. – CBC
  
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• Identity Crisis? Universities Are “Triaging” Away Humanities

  27-12-2021 20:01 via thebaffler.com
  
  Suddenly, faculty in these departments are expected to justify why they exist and why anyone would need a degree in English. – The Baffler
  
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• NY State Tries Out A Universal Income For Artists

  27-12-2021 19:28 via timesunion.com
  
  Creatives Rebuild New York is a new initiative that will provide monthly, no-strings-attached payments for up to 2,400 artists with financial need. A second component of the program will fund and facilitate employment for 300 artists at dozens of small-to-mid-size community arts organizations statewide. – Albany Times-Union
  
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• Amazon As A Grand Narrative

  27-12-2021 19:02 via nplusonemag.com
  
  “The relation of Amazon to fiction, to story, is more than one of convenience, going to the core of its corporate identity,” Mark McGurl writes: “the company sees itself in terms of an unfolding epic narrative of astounding achievement it can’t find enough ways to narrate.” n+1
  
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• Yes, Movies Can Still Score: Spider-Man Breaks Box Office Record

  27-12-2021 18:29 via deadline.com
  
  Worldwide box office is $1.05B which makes Sony’s No. 2 film of all time, behind only Spider-Man: Far From Home ($1.13B). No Way Home is also the No. 1 title of the year worldwide — and one of the only movies of the modern era to ever reach $1B without China. – Deadline
  
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• Does Art Really Have Role When Times Are Bad?

  27-12-2021 18:01 via thepointmag.com
  
  To Thomas Mann, the ironist was always serious in play. But does playing seriously mean playing unapologetically, letting oneself be nothing but a player? Or does it mean taking play seriously, as an activity with its own conditions of possibility, among which are both an appreciative audience and a certain pathos of distance?  – The Point
  
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• TokTok Is A Wildly Creative Place. But TikTokers Struggle To Grow Beyond It

  27-12-2021 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s become clear is that the skill set that led to big-tent triumph on the app in 2019 and 2020 is, by and large, sized to the medium. Given more room to breathe in other formats, most of TikTok’s superstars are still figuring out how to create beyond the phone. – The New York Times
  
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• Framed: Marc Fennell unpacks the NGV art heist that rocked Australia

  27-12-2021 17:30
  
  SBS documentary goes beyond the politics, headlines and ransom notes to investigate the 1986 disappearance of Picasso’s Weeping WomanFramed is streaming on SBS on Demand in Australia. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click hereIn the mid-1980s, the Melbourne arts community was divided. In the underground, there was a vibrant punk music and arts scene, while the big arts institutions, such as the National Gallery of Victoria, were seen as old-school and out of date &
  
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• The World Has A Plan To Try To Save Indigenous Languages. Not The US

  27-12-2021 17:01 via artsjournal.com
  The U.S. has an incredibly rich heritage of Indigenous languages ranging from Anishinaabe to Cherokee, Navajo to Tewa. But they are almost all endangered, in part because  the U.S. spent two hundred years and $2.81 billion trying to destroy them. – The Hill
  
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• Some Of The Creative People We Lost This Year

  27-12-2021 16:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Artists, musicians, technologists, actors, innovators and more. – The New York Times
  
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• In The 80s Booksellers Took Over A Belgian Town. Now The Tourists Have Left…

  27-12-2021 16:02 via washingtonpost.com
  A band of booksellers moved into the empty barns and transformed the place into a literary lodestone. The village of about 400 became home to more than two dozen bookstores — more shops than cows, its boosters liked to say — and thousands of tourists thronged the winsome streets. – Washington Post
  
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• Michiko Kakutani On Joan Didion

  27-12-2021 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Decades ago, she was already pointing to the startling disconnect between much of the American public and the political and media elites who “invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life” — a disconnect that today is fueling populist politics and partisan divides. – The New York Times
  
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• Kaywin Feldman’s Plans For The National Gallery

  27-12-2021 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “I feel like I was hired with one clear mandate from the board which, they like to say, is to put the ‘national’ back in the National Gallery and think about how we serve the American people, because our funding in large part comes from the American taxpayers.” – The Guardian
  
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• Watch: “Music Man” Understudy Kathy Voytko Steps In At Last Minute. Hugh Jackman Pays Tribute

  27-12-2021 14:32 via broadwayworld.com
  
  Jackman told the audience “Kathy, when she turned up at work at 12 o’clock could have played any of 8 roles. It happened to be the leading lady. She found out at 12 noon today and at 1 o’clock she had her very first rehearsal as Marion Paroo. This is unprecedented. – Broadway World
  
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• Painter Wayne Thiebaud, 101

  27-12-2021 13:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Truth be told, Mr. Thiebaud was not really a Pop painter. Detractors sometimes tried to pigeonhole him as one or as an illustrator. In fact, like many of the historical artists he admired, he was a virtuoso of the everyday and its deep, subtle symbolism. – The New York Times
  
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• “African Origin” Show’s Shortfalls at Metropolitan Museum: Facile Face-Offs, Repatriation Equivocations

  27-12-2021 01:18 via artsjournal.com
  The chief raison d’ètre for The African Origin of Civilization, the Metropolitan Museum’s homage to “cultural diversity” (as its
  
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• Wayne Thiebaud, painter of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes, dies at 101

  27-12-2021 00:02
  
  Gallery says California artist who started as an animator but rejected pop art label worked past the age of 100 The American artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose luscious, colorful paintings of cakes and San Francisco cityscapes combined sensuousness, nostalgia and a hint of melancholy, has died. He was 101.His death was confirmed in a statement on Sunday by his gallery, Acquavella, which did not say where or when he died. Continue reading...
  
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