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• What Canadian Orchestras Are Doing Online

  25-01-2022 23:31 via myscena.org
  
  A majority (69%) of orchestras are planning a hybrid (digital and in-person) season for 2021-22. Once halls return to full capacity audiences, 45.9% of orchestras plan to continue some of the digital activity they’re doing… La Scena Musicale
  
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• Social Media Is Flooding Us With Addictive Junk News

  25-01-2022 23:01 via salon.com
  
  A digital drug for anyone with a phone, and especially young people, the TikTok app uses random reinforcement — similar to a slot machine on the Las Vegas strip — to keep users scrolling. It has changed the way Americans tell and view stories. – Salon
  
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• The Weird Spat Over A Star NPR Reporter’s Report On The Supreme Court

  25-01-2022 22:33 via thedailybeast.com
  In her own telephone conversation with The Daily Beast, Nina Totenberg—a towering presence at NPR who has been there since 1975—responded to NPR’s public editor Kelly McBride, the justices, and general criticism of her story. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Why Spats In Academia Are So Nasty

  25-01-2022 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Reviewers are faced with essays that are additions to their already heavy workloads that could have used more time. And the inclination to take one’s frustrations out on the author is just too great. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Artists To “Meta”: We Don’t Trust You

  25-01-2022 21:32 via forbes.com
  
  Many have begun fleeing Instagram… They expressed skepticism that Meta, a social-media behemoth, could develop, launch and manage a marketplace where they weren’t looking over their shoulders. – Forbes
  
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• Meet The Organist Whose Concerts Get Protested By Conservative Catholics As Satanic

  25-01-2022 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Anna von Hausswolff can joke about it, but enraged demonstrators have actually shut down concerts of hers. All because a music blogger called her “the high priestess (of) satanic harmonies” and, in one track recorded 13 years ago, she sang “I made love with the devil.” – The New York Times
  
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• Rozanne Hawksley obituary

  25-01-2022 20:58
  
  Innovative textile artist whose work expresses love, loss, remembrance and rage against armed conflictThe work of Rozanne Hawksley, who has died aged 90, exemplifies the intersection of making skills, materiality and concept that characterises what is known as “textile art” in the UK. Such labelling, however, fails to capture a true sense of Rozanne’s unique artistic practice and examples of her work are found in collections as diverse as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, th
  
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• Medical Humanities — Using Art To Build Better Doctors

  25-01-2022 20:29 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Things like disease, disability, death, the processes of scientific experimentation and discovery, they don’t happen in a vacuum. They take place in the context of human experience — so these things are always in discourse with each other.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Why Do Certain Sentences Become Famous Independently Of The Works They’re Part Of?

  25-01-2022 20:02 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  “You can’t handle the truth!” or “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” “Celebrity sentences,” Nicola Sayers dubs them. “There are countless brilliant sentences that never make it to celebrity status. So what’s the formula? What elevates certain sentences above the others?” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Report: Why Did The Glasgow School Of Art Burn Down In 2018?

  25-01-2022 19:29 via bbc.com
  
  Following an investigation lasting more than three years, the final report concluded that the cause of the second blaze remained “undetermined”. It said this was due to extensive damage and the destruction of evidence. – BBC
  
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• Getting Copyright, And Compensation, For The Choreographers Of Hit Music Videos — Including TikTok

  25-01-2022 19:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Says dancer/choreographer JaQuel Knight, who founded Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to address the issue, “Over the past year and a half, so many of the biggest records were directly tied to TikTok dances. Those songs made millions. And the creators of the dances received zero.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Omicron Is Wreaking Havoc With Touring Broadway Shows

  25-01-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Touring, when we can perform, is going great — the audiences are showing up, and the audiences are enthusiastic. Touring is not going great when Covid sweeps through our company, which has happened to every one of our tours.” – The New York Times
  
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• Countries That Fund Public Broadcasting Better Have Healthier Democracies: Study

  25-01-2022 18:01 via niemanlab.org
  
  The question is: in which direction does the causality run? – Nieman Lab
  
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• Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – ‘I want to run away, but I can’t stop looking’

  25-01-2022 17:32
  
  Royal Academy, LondonAnimal cries and distorted bodies confront us at every turn in this dramatic survey of the artist’s shocking paintingsFrancis Bacon: Man and Beast is a frequently grim but endlessly fascinating parade through the Royal Academy’s main galleries. Room after room – all oxblood and indigo – track the artist’s development from the mid-1930s, with his early, Picasso-ish Crucifixion, to the end, with his last, somewhat unsuccessful and schematic 1991 p
  
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• COVID Is Changing The Way Film Festivals Work (For The Better)

  25-01-2022 17:31 via wired.com
  
  Now that the movies being showcased at festivals might end up spending their opening weekend screening on your iPhone anyway, does it matter if the festivals that launched them happened on a bunch of laptops? – Wired
  
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• Cairo’s Biggest Makeover In Decades Is Focused On Egyptian Culture

  25-01-2022 17:05 via bloomberg.com
  “The renaissance of traditions spans everything from new museum exhibits to artisans integrating old crafts into modern furniture and designers selling handmade jewelry, bags and shoes online.” (Not to forget, of course, belly dancing.) “There’s also the redevelopment of buildings to champion Egyptian identity.” – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• Netflix’s First Original Feature In Arabic Accused Of “Moral Degradation”, “Inciting Homosexuality And Betrayal”

  25-01-2022 16:33 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The film, a Lebanon-set adaptation of the much-remade Italian film Perfect Strangers, includes unfaithful spouses, a gay character, and a woman removing her undergarments offscreen. While one politician even called the movie “a plot to disrupt Arab society,” many leading arts figures are defending it. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘You need glue, tampons and ice’: artist Every Ocean Hughes on how to help the dying

  25-01-2022 16:27
  
  Caring for her late grandmother inspired US artist Every Ocean Hughes to take end-of-life doula training. She talks corpse kits, Covid and queer deathOne Big Bag is a portrait of a young death doula: a holistic carer who tends to the wishes of a dying individual and assists their family after they die. In the film, made by US artist Every Ocean Hughes, a young woman details the contents of her “corpse kit”, while the items hang by strings from the ceiling at the respective heights of
  
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• As Big West End Shows Offer Massive Discounts, Smaller Shows Are Being Squeezed Out

  25-01-2022 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “Theatre producer David Pugh (fears) it could spell the end of plays in the West End. … By contrast with his show, where tickets have a top price of £59, major West End shows have cut prices to as little as £10.” – The Guardian
  
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• UK’s First Dedicated LGBTQ+ Museum To Open In London This Year

  25-01-2022 15:34 via standard.co.uk
  
  “The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in (King’s Cross) for the museum but hopes to eventually find a permanent home.” – London Evening Standard
  
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• Paris Surgeon Tried To Sell X-Ray Of Bataclan Shooting Victim As NFT

  25-01-2022 15:01 via france24.com
  
  Dr. Emmanuel Masmejean, an orthopedic surgeon who claims to have operated on five victims of the 2015 terrorist attack, listed on the NFT sales platform OpenSea an x-ray image of a forearm with a Kalashnikov bullet lodged in it. He now faces legal and professional disciplinary action. – France 24
  
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• Elza Soares, Brazil’s Grande Dame Of Samba, Dead At 91

  25-01-2022 14:35 via msn.com
  “(She) rose from the slums of Rio de Janeiro and became one of Brazil’s most popular singers of all time by fusing the traditional samba with bossa nova, Afro-Cuban, pop, soul, jazz and even punk sounds.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Dallas Museum Of Art Begins Planning For Major Expansion

  25-01-2022 14:10 via nbcdfw.com
  
  “‘We are now at the very early stages of planning what this will look like,’ says the museum’s director, Agustín Arteaga.” An architecture firm has been engaged to create a master plan and the city has been notified. – NBCDFW (The Dallas Morning News)
  
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• Julian Lennon to auction NFT of Paul McCartney’s notes for Hey Jude

  25-01-2022 12:48
  
  Other Beatles memorabilia including outfits and guitars to be sold as non-fungible tokens by John Lennon’s sonPaul McCartney’s original notes for Hey Jude are being sold, digitally at least, by the son of John Lennon.Julian Lennon has announced details of a Beatles memorabilia sale in which outfits, guitars and the song notes will be sold as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Continue reading...
  
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• Director of Leadership Giving

  25-01-2022 04:51 via artsjournal.com
  Position DescriptionPOSITION: Director of Leadership Giving
  REPORTS TO: Chief Advancement Officer; President & CEO
  STATUS: Full-time, exemptTHE ORGANIZATION:The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance encompasses the Dayton Ballet, Dayton Opera, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and a wide range of learning programs for children, youth, and adults. The organization’s education programs reach almost 75,000 students in 14 counties around the Dayton area. The annual budget is in the range of $7-8 mi
  
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• Why Is Canadian Architecture So Dreadful?

  25-01-2022 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Today, barring the newish Halifax and Calgary central libraries (which opened in 2014 and 2018, respectively), one wonders whether the average Canadian could name a building constructed in the past thirty years the country could be proud of. – The Walrus
  
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