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• “Hopepunk” — Dystopian Sci-Fi Gets An Antidote

  18-01-2022 20:02 via bbc.com
  
  “‘Cautionary tales are very important,’ says Becky Chambers, one of the leading authors associated with the hopepunk movement, who has won a much-coveted Hugo Award for her sci-fi Wayfarer series. ‘But if that is all that you have, you risk nihilism.'” – BBC
  
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• Why Does Classical Music Stay Mired In The Hits?

  18-01-2022 19:31 via nightingalessonata.com
  Over the previous couple of generations, the canon has changed but it has consistently seemed to have been limited in scope and dependent on big names to anchor programs. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• What’s The Secret Ingredient That Makes UCLA Gymnastics Team Videos Go Viral? The Choreographer

  18-01-2022 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “In her first two years as UCLA’s choreographer, Bijoya ‘BJ’ Das has set the internet aflame with three viral floor routines. … Breaking the internet has become an annual tradition in Westwood, but … Das keeps the focus on something simpler: fun. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Auction of Roman villa with Caravaggio mural fails to attract any bids

  18-01-2022 18:41
  
  €471m price tag of villa containing only ceiling mural ever painted by Italian master to be reduced by 20% The sale of a 16th century villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by the Italian master Caravaggio has been rescheduled and the asking price reduced by 20% after an auction on Tuesday failed to attract any bids.Villa Aurora was put on the market for €471m (£393m) amid a bitter inheritance dispute between the three sons of the villa’s last owner, t
  
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• How Animals Process Music

  18-01-2022 18:29 via animalwellnessmagazine.com
  
  First, it’s important to note that our furry friends process sound somewhat differently than we do. Human society is largely sight- and touch-focused. Domesticated dogs and cats, conversely, are renowned for their strong sense of hearing. – Animal Wellness Magazine
  
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• Artist to weld copy of Dachau gate in Leeds performance piece

  18-01-2022 18:16
  
  Rachel Mars will create replica of concentration camp entrance over three days as part of Transform festivalA replica of the entrance gate to the Dachau Nazi concentration camp is to be recreated over three days in Leeds for an art project asking questions about what memorials are for and who has the right to make them.Dachau was constructed a few miles from Munich in 1933. During the war it became a death camp where more than 41,000 people were murdered before US troops liberated it on 29 April
  
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• The British Are Champions Of Classic Theatre — So Why Do They Shortchange This Great Classic Playwright?

  18-01-2022 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Michael Billington: “In France the 400th anniversary of Molière’s birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with a deafening silence. But then we have always been slightly wary of Molière.” In translation, that is. Adaptations, on the other hand … – The Guardian
  
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• The $500M Villa In Rome Where Galileo Walked — It’s For Sale

  18-01-2022 17:32 via npr.org
  In past centuries, it had some notable visitors: Galileo, Goethe, Stendhal, Gogol, Tchaikovsky and Henry James. At the top of the hill stands the 30,000 square foot Villa Aurora. Built in 1570, it’s recently undergone some restoration. – NPR
  
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• The World’s First NFT Musical (You Just Knew It Was Coming)

  18-01-2022 17:05 via playbill.com
  
  The set of digital collectibles offered by the producers of Ross Golan’s The Wrong Man “will be a mix of music, graphics, and film, including the full animated musical, vinyl, posters featuring artwork from the musical, and a previously unreleased track from Golan.” – Playbill
  
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• Indigenous Curators Are Helping Museums Reframe The Entire Story Of American Art

  18-01-2022 16:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  “With the aid of curators and artists from Native American backgrounds, curators across the U.S. are broadening narratives, questioning stereotypes, and collapsing categories.” – Artnet
  
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• Special Grants Let Bay Area BIPOC Arts Groups Get One Of The Most Important Things An Organization Can Have

  18-01-2022 16:02 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  And that is? Their own real estate. A $3 million Performing Arts Acquisition Fund from the Hewlett Foundation has enabled five community-based groups buy the spaces in which they do their work. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• CNN+, The Upcoming Streaming Service WarnerMedia Is Hurling Cash At

  18-01-2022 15:34 via vanityfair.com
  
  The news giant has already poached Audie Cornish from NPR and Chris Wallace from Fox for CNN+ (rumor has it they dangled $20 million at Rachel Maddow), and it’s bringing on its own stars (Anderson Cooper, Sara Sidner) as well. The suits insist, “This is not CNN 2.” – Vanity Fair
  
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• Greece to step up Parthenon sculptures pressure amid signs tide is turning

  18-01-2022 15:12
  
  Campaign for British Museum to return of antiquities boosted by support from the Times newspaperGreece has vowed to intensify its campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures amid “optimistic” signs that British public opinion has shifted markedly in favour of returning the prized “Elgin” marbles to Athens.The Greek government said it would step up pressure for the fifth-century BC antiquities to be enjoyed in their entirety, within view of the Acropolis, af
  
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• Greece to step up Parthenon marbles pressure amid signs tide is turning

  18-01-2022 15:12
  
  Campaign for British Museum to return of antiquities boosted by support from the Times newspaperGreece has vowed to intensify its campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon sculptures amid “optimistic” signs that British public opinion has shifted markedly in favour of returning the prized “Elgin” marbles to Athens.The Greek government said it would step up pressure for the fifth-century BC antiquities to be enjoyed in their entirety, within view of the Acropolis, af
  
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• Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is That? (An Explainer)

  18-01-2022 15:01 via bbc.com
  
  It’s the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that has a television. Here’s an explanation of how that money is spent, why the fee was just frozen, and why the Tories want to kill it. – BBC
  
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• Hamburg’s Massively Expensive Elbphilharmonie Has Proven A Massive Success

  18-01-2022 14:35 via theguardian.com
  
  By the time the concert hall opened in 2017, it was six years late and had cost €866 million, ten times the initial budget. Five years on, concert audiences have tripled, subscriptions have quadrupled, and the “Elphi” is a beloved symbol of the entire city. – The Guardian
  
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• The Louvre Threatens To Sue Marine Le Pen For Using Its Image In A Campaign Video

  18-01-2022 14:00 via news.artnet.com
  
  The far-right National Rally party released a 3½-minute video this weekend showing its presidential candidate speechifying to the camera while walking back and forth in front of the Paris museum — whose management is very unhappy at being dragged directly into politics like this. – Artnet
  
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• ‘Who’s to say it’s not real?’ Street artist Kaws on creating Fortnite’s first exhibition

  18-01-2022 12:50
  
  The New Yorker has made a virtual art show to take place within the smash-hit game – and a real-life one at London’s Serpentine with a touch of augmented reality. Can it get young gamers into galleries?For Brian Donnelly – known as Kaws since his graffiti beginnings in 1990s New York – art has always been a communication tool. From street art to vast public commissions, he says, “it’s a chance to create a dialogue”. His desire to bring art to the masses
  
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• ‘Waiter! A bottle of 1975 Warhol please’ – why every great artist has to do a wine label

  18-01-2022 07:00
  
  Picasso chose a Mouton Rothschild, Yoko Ono a vintage chianti. But why do artists love doing wine labels – and can they enhance the quaff? Our writer enters a world where labels are so prized, drinkers get them as tattoosHere’s a good pub quiz question: what do David Shrigley, Tracey Emin and, er, Prince Charles have in common? The answer is they’ve all painted works of art you can order in a restaurant. Because while a wine bottle may provide only the slenderest of canvases, t
  
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• Ted Gioia Remembers Terry Teachout

  18-01-2022 00:01 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  “I always appreciated that warmth and compassion, but again I was hardly surprised. I had experienced it myself.” – Ted Gioia
  
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