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• For A Long Time The Purpose Of Art Was To Shock Against Norms. But Why?

  07-01-2022 23:28 via 3ammagazine.com
  
  Somewhere in the 19th century the notion develops that a work of art can be most effective when it’s ugly, when it deeply mirrors certain social realities and presents them in such a way that the audience is spurred to immediate action. – 3AM Magazine
  
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• Want To Be A Successful Artist? Find A Rival

  07-01-2022 23:01 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  A study of composers during from 1750-1899 discovered that they were significantly more productive when they lived in close proximity to other composers. The most likely way of accounting for this is the inherent rivalry that arises when creative people encounter each other daily. – Ted Gioia
  
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• The “Change” Binary Of Music

  07-01-2022 22:33 via newmusicusa.org
  
  The urge to be static rose concurrently with the urge to change. And so, in the twenty-first century, we’re presented with a choice: to look ahead or to look down. Not back or backwards, not into the past (because pastness cannot be and is not always equated with stasis), but down. – NewMusicBox
  
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• Music Critic Richard Freed, 93

  07-01-2022 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Mr. Freed was active for six decades, contributing regularly to The Washington Post, the New York Times and the old Washington Star, among many other publications. He had an extended association with Stereo Review. – Washington Post
  
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• IMAX: Time To Rethink What Movies Are

  07-01-2022 21:24 via fastcompany.com
  
  For the right kind of movie, people really want a cultural, theatrical experience. Period. And they want to see the right kind of movie in a communal way with their friends and their family, and they want to share it the way they’ve always shared it. – Fast Company
  
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• Martin Luther’s German Bible Is Now 500 Years Old

  07-01-2022 21:02 via dw.com
  
  Some colorful facts surrounding one of history’s most consequential translations: Luther wrote it while a fugitive; some first editions included woodcuts by Lucas Cranach; in the room where it was written there’s a stain on the wall because Luther allegedly threw his inkwell at the Devil. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• Anger As Motivating Force

  07-01-2022 20:28 via aeon.co
  
  As almost anyone can confirm, manifest anger is by its nature felt and received with an intense immediacy, bringing to life the bodily and emotional resonances of the word ‘feelings’. And yet it is also peculiarly slippery, liable to hide and dissemble, to disguise. – Aeon
  
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• A Rusty Old Water Tank In The Australian Outback Becomes A Chapel Of Music And Light

  07-01-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Deep in the red-dirt semidesert of interior New South Wales, composer Georges Lentz and architect Glenn Murcutt created the Cobar Sound Chapel, visually a cross between Peter Zumthor and James Turrell, with a 24-hour “digital string quartet” by Lentz on loop. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• We’re Drowning In Data. And We’re Not Much Good At Accessing It. Maybe AI Can Help

  07-01-2022 19:28 via venturebeat.com
  
  Some 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last 2 years alone. In total, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, with the number continuing to grow. Yet while the amount of data that we produce has grown exponentially, our understanding of how to manage it has not. – VentureBeat
  
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• Why Lynn Nottage Looks On The Bright Side

  07-01-2022 19:01 via wnycstudios.org
  
  “The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat, Clyde’s) breaks down her remarkable career and shares how, as an optimist at heart, she finds the light and resilience in unexpected stories.” (audio) – WNYC (New York City)
  
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• “Don’t Look Up” Smashes Netflix Viewing Records

  07-01-2022 18:32 via variety.com
  
  In its second week on the streaming platform, the disaster movie has recorded 152,290,000 hours streamed between Dec. 27 and Jan 2, putting it right at the top of its leaderboard of globally viewed English-language films. – Variety
  
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• Why Some Of The Earliest Depictions Of The Buddha Show Him Wearing Greek Tunics

  07-01-2022 18:04 via psyche.co
  
  Yes, it’s ultimately because of Alexander the Great, but not directly. Among the unusual facts about this story is that many Greeks in ancient India adopted Buddhism and that Indian Greeks were the first to depict Siddhartha Gautama in human form. – Psyche
  
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• NLRB Orders Orchestra To Pay Musicians $276K For Missed Concerts

  07-01-2022 17:31 via masslive.com
  
  Local 171 of the American Federation of Musicians, representing 71 SSO musicians, had offered to forgo the settlement if board members would instead resign and the money go toward putting on a 2022 concert season. – MassLive
  
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• Actor Sidney Poitier, 94

  07-01-2022 17:12 via cnn.com
  
  “(He) overcame an impoverished background in the Bahamas … to rise to the top of his profession at a time when prominent roles for Black actors were rare. … At the same time, as the lone Black leading man in 1960s Hollywood, he came under tremendous scrutiny.” – CNN
  
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• Virginia Museum Of Contemporary Art’s Building Is In Such Bad Shape, They’re Considering Leaving It

  07-01-2022 16:35 via pilotonline.com
  The building in Virginia Beach is aging, not particularly attractive, difficult to find, and very leaky; not for the first time, there’s serious talk of moving. (But the main alternative is the city’s Visitor Center, which is in the median of I-264.) – The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
  
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• Andres Serrano on his Capitol attack film: ‘I like that word, excruciating’

  07-01-2022 16:26
  
  The provocative artist has made a shocking new ‘immersive experience’ for the one year anniversary of the 6 January attackAndres Serrano is not known as an especially political artist. The 71-year-old’s photographs are more accurately described as transgressive, perennially summed up with a singular point of reference: Piss Christ, his 1987 photo of a crucifix submerged in his own orange-tinted urine, which has over the years sparked multiple instances of national outrage. In t
  
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• Audie Cornish Makes A Public Statement About Her Resignation From NPR

  07-01-2022 16:03 via msn.com
  “I have had a great run with a company full of people I respect and admire. And I am ready to try something new. I also understand that 4 hosts leaving in a year – three of them POC women – is a red flag.” – MSN (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Public Radio Stations Join In A New Rural News Network

  07-01-2022 15:31 via current.org
  
  Colorado Public Radio and KOSU in Stillwater, Okla. are taking part in the first two pilot projects of the new venture, in (respectively) water use/scarcity and the economics of Native American communities. More than 20 other public radio stations have expressed interest. – Current
  
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• A soldier’s vision, astro masterpieces and the treasures of Kazakhstan – the week in art

  07-01-2022 15:09
  
  Pre-Soviet Kazakh culture goes on display, Turner steps in to bring fireworks to Edinburgh, and US painter and army veteran Marcus Jansen has a solo show – all in your weekly dispatchMarcus Jansen
  Visceral paintings of a world gone mad by this US army veteran.
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• Royal Winnipeg Ballet Settles Longstanding Lawsuit Over Pervy Photographer

  07-01-2022 15:04 via cbc.ca
  
  The company has agreed to pay C$10 million in compensation to former students who say that longtime instructor Bruce Monk manipulated them into posing for nude and/or sexualized photographs, which he then distributed. (The RWB fired Monk in 2015.) – CBC
  
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• Yoshitomo Nara: ‘My works’ roots are in fairytales, not comics’

  07-01-2022 15:00
  
  Housed in a custom space made from cast-offs, the Japanese artist’s cartoon girls blend fairytale lore with 60s-inspired protest, and have become more introspective though no less impressively wrought in cardboard and wood“Stop the bombs” reads the angry red writing in the storm cloud thought bubble above the little girl in a pale blue dress. Like all the children in the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings, she has puppydog eyes and a toddler’s outsized head,
  
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• Irish Government To Begin Experiment With “Basic Income” For Artists

  07-01-2022 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  While public consultation on the scheme is still in progress, the plan is for roughly 2,000 visual artists and performers to receive, for an initial three-year-period, an (anticipated) hourly rate of €10.50 ($12), paid weekly, for them to do their creative work. – BBC
  
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• Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich Dead At 82

  07-01-2022 14:05 via msn.com
  “(He) was part of the vanguard of New Hollywood filmmakers who helped reinvigorate American cinema, gaining wide popularity with 1970s movies such as The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon before suffering a string of personal and professional calamities.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Gripping musical melodrama

  07-01-2022 13:03 via artsjournal.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Irish Rep’s revival of The Streets of New York. Here’s an excerpt.*  *  *
  Theater lovers throughout America owe a huge debt to the Irish Repertory Theatre for having kept us sane and entertained by streaming exemplary, standard-setting video productions throughout the Covid-19 lockdown. Now the Irish Rep, for me New York’s finest off-Broadway theater, is reopening its doors with a revival of Charlotte Moore&r
  
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• Replay: Somerset Maugham in 1965

  07-01-2022 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Alan Pryce-Jones interviews Somerset Maugham at his villa on the Mediterranean in 1965:(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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• New York University – Visiting Assistant Professor, Performing Arts Administration Program – Full-Time

  07-01-2022 02:03 via artsjournal.com
  𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻The New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development invites applications for a 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor position of the Performing Arts Administration Program to begin September 2022. The appointed faculty member will join the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.We are committed to substantially diversifying the composition of our facul
  
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