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• Why Art Ought To Be A Daily Habit

  27-01-2022 23:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Arthur Brooks: Engaging with art after worrying over the minutiae of your routine is like looking at the horizon after you’ve spent too long staring intently at a particular object: Your perception of the outside world expands. – The Atlantic
  
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• Did Marshall McLuhan Lead Us To Fake News?

  27-01-2022 23:01 via quillette.com
  
  McLuhan’s doctrine was attractive to the Boomers because it explained that everything the older generation knew, or thought they knew, was an illusion. Everything the Boomer tribe intuitively felt, on the other hand, was real. – Quillette
  
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• You Think AI Ought To Make Moral Judgments For Us? (Psst! It’s Already Happening)

  27-01-2022 22:32 via nautil.us
  
  Recently, some scientists taught an artificial intelligence software, called Delphi (after the ancient Greek religious sanctuary), to make moral pronouncements. Type any action into it, even a state of being, like “being adopted,” and Delphi will judge it (“It’s okay”). Delphi is a “commonsense moral model.” – Nautilus
  
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• Director of Production – Prior Center for Performing Arts

  27-01-2022 22:24 via artsjournal.com
  About College of the Holy Cross:Founded in 1843 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the College of the Holy Cross is among the nation’s leading liberal arts institutions. A highly selective, four-year, exclusively undergraduate college of 3,100 students, Holy Cross is renowned for offering a rigorous, personalized education in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.Holy Cross highly values the unique skills, perspective, talents and passion that each employee contributes to its learning community. To wor
  
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• Oops: Nielsen Admits It Undercounted Viewership And Cost Ad Dollars

  27-01-2022 21:59 via variety.com
  
  Between April and the end of the 2021, the VAB says, Nielsen did not count “one and a half billion impressions” in 20 top events.  The group believes the true total of advertising dollars lost during the period could be more than $350 million. – Variety
  
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• Why Is It Taking So Long To Develop More Female Conductors?

  27-01-2022 21:41 via irishtimes.com
  
  “If you don’t have role models, it’s much harder to see yourself as a conductor – and there were male musicians who wouldn’t see themselves as conductors either.” – Irish Times
  
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• Kennicott: Why It’s Difficult To Know What To Make Of The Academy Movie Museum

  27-01-2022 21:32 via washingtonpost.com
  The Academy Museum, like the Newseum before it, does an imperfect job of balancing two basic identities and purposes, one essentially self-promotional, the other more civic-minded. It is both a shrine and pantheon, and a space for exhibitions and education. – Washington Post
  
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• I Was At The Auditions For “Shortbus”, John Cameron Mitchell’s Sex Movie

  27-01-2022 21:03 via vulture.com
  Back in 2003, journalist Mark Harris had been going to write a book about the film and its process; now, as Shortbus is being reissued, he’s revisited his notebooks. “This is going to be complicated. BOUNDARIES.” – New York Magazine
  
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• How Alternative Art Spaces Changed LA

  27-01-2022 20:29 via hyperallergic.com
  Despite the chorus of mainstream voices that had written off Los Angeles as essentially devoid of noteworthy cultural activity, the 1970s gave rise to one of the city’s most important art-historical developments of the latter half of the 20th century: a flourishing network of alternative spaces. – Hyperallergic
  
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• On Transitioning From Porn To Standup Comedy (Yes, This Is A Thing)

  27-01-2022 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Despite being seemingly worlds apart, comedy and porn have always been linked in some form or another. From the goofy humor of X-rated spoofs to … edgy comics who live to shock the prude out of us, both styles of entertainment require a certain level of fearlessness.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Guardian view on memory in art: fallible yet magical | Editorial

  27-01-2022 19:34
  
  Works by great creators such as Jack B Yeats and Tolstoy show how an unreliable recall of the past can be transfiguredThe National Gallery of Ireland’s exhibition of the work of Jack B Yeats, soon to conclude, is most encouraging for those who feel that they have yet to fulfil their creative potential. The artist made many of his most avant garde works when he was in his 70s and 80s, a period in which he was also at his most prolific as an oil painter. As an artist, he ended up worlds away
  
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• The Taylor Swift Debacle — Why Questioning Her Authorship Is A Dumb Idea

  27-01-2022 19:33 via theconversation.com
  
  Calling out fellow songwriters for not writing their own material is bad form for musicians, particularly so given that the definition of songwriting has become ever more fluid over time, and depends greatly on the genre of music. – The Conversation
  
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• Two Of This Year’s Most Eagerly Awaited Cookbooks Are Now At The Bottom Of The Ocean

  27-01-2022 19:02 via grubstreet.com
  
  Turkey and the Wolf, from the much-heralded New Orleans sandwich shop, was due to drop next month; New York Times columnist Melissa Clark’s Dinner in One was to appear in March. But the copies were on a ship that lost 60 of its containers overboard. – Grub Street
  
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• Does Passing Down Ballet Tradition Hinder Advancement Of The Art Form?

  27-01-2022 18:31 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “We’ve been told forever that what you receive from your teachers, you are then passing on to your students. And I think in that way we are losing the accumulation of new research and information. As the information changes, sometimes we stay attached to our old language.” – Pointe
  
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• English Teachers In Britain Say They Need More Diverse Books In The Curriculum

  27-01-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Asked which changes to the English syllabus they felt would most help their students, 80% of secondary school teachers, and 69% of primary school teachers, said they wanted more diverse and representative set texts.” 99% of British students graduate without having studied a book by a nonwhite author. – The Guardian
  
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• Data Scientists Set About Completing Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony. In The Process…

  27-01-2022 17:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  “I have spent the past two years immersed in writing a book about the man and his music. Beethoven’s most appealing feature is his progressive impetus, his need to flout precedent, to prick the pompous and kick the fools. The new AI confection is made by ticking digital boxes.” – The Critic
  
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• At Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin State Opera, Things Are More Strained Than Ever

  27-01-2022 17:05 via van-magazine.com
  
  “For decades, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle shared common interests. Now, ’til death do us part’ has become a burden. Complicating the dynamics of this stagnant marriage is a third party: Berlin’s Culture Department, … (seemingly) unable to intervene in the quagmire at the Staatsoper.” – Van
  
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• Art historian and 2021 MacArthur Fellow Dr. Nicole Fleetwood discusses the profound significance of the art created by incarcerated people.

  27-01-2022 16:52 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Professor, art historian, and curator Dr. Nicole Fleetwood has spent years exploring the art of incarcerated people and how it is essential to our understanding of mass incarceration and the people it affects. A 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Fleetwood began this work as she reflected on her family’s and community’s history of imprisonment. The project grew into an award-winning book Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration and a traveling museum exhibition also titled “Mark
  
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• Justin Peck Got His New Dance Piece From His Baby Daughter

  27-01-2022 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “We came up with the structural pattern that starts the ballet!” said the choreographer, who had been moving around building blocks with his toddler while listening to Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices — which is now the work’s score, with sets by Eva LeWitt (Sol’s daughter). – The New York Times
  
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• What’s Going To Happen To Chicago’s Amazing Theater Scene As COVID Stretches Into A Third Year?

  27-01-2022 16:01 via msn.com
  “Has one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?” asks Chris Jones. “Certain truths seem to have revealed themselves” — and not only that one can’t predict the course of a virus. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Jad Abumrad Is Leaving “Radiolab”

  27-01-2022 15:34 via vulture.com
  
  “It’s a momentous occasion, but for close observers, this development doesn’t entirely come out of nowhere. … Radiolab isn’t going anywhere, and Abumrad has left the show in capable hands.” – Vulture
  
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• Seattle Symphony Crisis: Board Chair Digs In

  27-01-2022 15:02 via postalley.org
  
  The exodus of two-thirds of both administrative staff and board members — culminating in the resignation of music director Thomas Dausgaard — since the arrival of CEO Krishna Thiagarajan just over three years ago indicates a problem. What’s happening now is not how a healthy organization would handle things. – Post Alley (Seattle)
  
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• Perfectly Intact 2,000-Year-Old Glass Bowl Discovered In The Netherlands

  27-01-2022 14:35 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists unearthed the blue vessel in Nijmegen, the country’s oldest city, while doing excavation work for a green housing project. – ARTnews
  
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• United States Artists Announces Its 2022 Class Of Fellows

  27-01-2022 14:00 via unitedstatesartists.org
  The 63 recipients of unrestricted $50,000 grants are spread across ten disciplines: architecture and design, craft, dance, film, media, music, theater and performance, traditional arts, visual art, and writing. – United States Artists
  
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• ‘We have to be more humble’: the artist predicting our climate future

  27-01-2022 13:16
  
  From disappeared mountains to continent-crossing palm trees, Noémie Goudal’s work uses deep climate history to depict the world we’re heading into‘This show is very much about paleoclimatology – how scientists are studying the past climate partly to understand what happened but also partly to help them predict what will happen in future and how we can plan for it,” says Noémie Goudal. “It’s by looking at the past, at changes in heat and the
  
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• Unsettling Settlement: Montreal MFA & Bondil (Museum’s “Profoundly Hurt” Ex-Director) End Their Legal Dispute

  27-01-2022 04:28 via artsjournal.com
  When I last wrote (here and here) about the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the place was in an
  
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• Washington State School District Takes Aim At “To Kill A Mockingbird”

  27-01-2022 00:01 via crosscut.com
  
  The teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.” – Crosscut
  
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