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• Tubing Streaming Stars Are Burning Out

  28-01-2022 23:31 via bbc.com
  
  Twitch is now being criticised for encouraging streamers to spend an unhealthy amount of time on the platform and then not doing enough to support them. – BBC
  
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• How To Think About Being Online

  28-01-2022 23:01 via hbr.org
  
  The key to cutting through the confusion is to see that digital transformation is not a single thing, but a multi-faceted journey with differing goals depending on your industry and digital maturity. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Berlin Considers Plan To Ban Cars From City Center

  28-01-2022 22:32 via dezeen.com
  
  Campaign group Berlin Autofrei has proposed a law to limit private car use within the Ringbahn train line in the German capital, an area of 34 square miles. The city government will now formally consider the petition, with a decision due to be announced in February. – Dezeen
  
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• A Return To Western Liberalism?… That’s Problematic

  28-01-2022 22:01 via newstatesman.com
  
  When some commentators call for a return to classical liberalism, they forget that it rested on the moral foundations of Jewish and Christian monotheism and the historical contingency of Western global power. Today Europe is post-Christian in its moral culture. – New Statesman
  
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• Just How Does The Dallas Museum Of Art Expect To Pay For A Major Expansion?

  28-01-2022 21:31 via dallasnews.com
  
  The involvement of wealthy donors sets up a balancing act for the DMA at a time when patrons’ money is under more scrutiny perhaps than ever before – Dallas Morning News
  
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• Some Of The Best-Loved Scenes In Iconic Movies Are Only There Because Of Test Screenings

  28-01-2022 21:02 via bbc.com
  
  Anne Archer shooting Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Julia Roberts dancing with Rupert Everett to end My Best Friend’s Wedding. The freeway dance that opens La La Land. All there thanks to test audiences. And that Kevin Costner baseball movie nearly went out under the title Shoeless Joe. – BBC
  
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• How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Simulation? (No, Really…)

  28-01-2022 20:32 via nautil.us
  
  Can you prove you’re not in a simulation? You might think you have definitive evidence that you’re not. I think that’s impossible, because any such evidence could be simulated. – Nautilus
  
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• What Should Be Done With Fascist Monuments After The Fascists Have Been Ousted?

  28-01-2022 20:04 via artsjournal.com
  Most Nazi monuments in Germany were torn down after 1945, but in Spain and Italy many of the buildings and statues glorifying fascism are still standing — and there are arguments over them to this day. What to do? The city of Bolzano in the Italian Alps had some ideas. – BBC
  
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• Just So You Know: This Is What Streaming Platforms Pay Artists Per Stream

  28-01-2022 19:31 via erienewsnow.com
  I think we can all agree that this system is not set up for independent artists with a growing fanbase. The benefits of this pay-out scale are designed for the established, mega-stars with millions, or even billions of streams. – Erie News Now
  
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• Theatres Are Experimenting With Varied Curtain Times — Again (And That’s A Good Thing)

  28-01-2022 19:01 via thestage.co.uk
  It was only from the 1970s that American commercial theater settled on the rule: start at 8:00 for evening shows and 2:00 for matinees (maybe 3:00 on Sundays). COVID has loosened that rule — and though ticketholders have to pay attention, they now have more choice and flexibility. – The Stage
  
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• Data: Who Gets To Be A Resident Choreographer

  28-01-2022 18:32 via dancedataproject.com
  The position of resident choreographer, while it does not exist at every company and varies between organizations, represents job stability, resources, and artistic opportunity for choreographers, who otherwise tend to operate as freelancers or gig-workers. – Dance Data Project
  
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• There Will Be No Picasso NFTs After All

  28-01-2022 18:03 via apnews.com
  
  “After a granddaughter and great-grandson of the artist trumpeted the upcoming sale, lawyers for the family said Thursday that his heirs have not authorized the launch of any such ‘Picasso NFT.'” Later, the business manager for the great-grandson, Florian, said, “Maybe we should have been a bit more clear.” – AP
  
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• The Essential Opera Quality

  28-01-2022 17:27 via post-gazette.com
  
  Opera demands engagement. It’s best if it accomplishes this by being creatively provocative or ravishing or infuriating, but as long as there’s enough to mull over to defeat tedium then all’s square. The worst operas are the ones that inspire nothing but boredom in a captive audience that can’t change channels. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• An Alvin Ailey Star Choreographs His First Piece For A Big Ballet Company (New York City Ballet, No Less)

  28-01-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jamar Roberts, who only stopped dancing for the Ailey company last month and who remains its resident choreographer, says that the new work is very different than he thought it would be in the spring of 2020, when it was supposed to have premiered. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Beginning of modern Britain’: Tudor portraits go on display in Bath

  28-01-2022 16:42
  
  Portraits are reminders of 16th-century issues that are ‘still with us today’, says museum directorA new exhibition of portraits of Tudor monarchs highlights the continuing relevance of the issues that defined the 16th century, including relations with Europe, religious conflict and the birth of empire, according to its host museum.The paintings of the five Tudor monarchs and their key advisers tell a story of the “beginning of modern Britain, Britain in the world,” said
  
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• ‘Beginning of modern Britain’: iconic Tudor portraits go on display in Bath

  28-01-2022 16:42
  
  Portraits are reminders of 16th-century issues that are ‘still with us today’, says museum directorA new exhibition of portraits of Tudor monarchs highlights the continuing relevance of the issues that defined the 16th century, including relations with Europe, religious conflict and the birth of empire, according to its host museum.The paintings of the five Tudor monarchs and their key advisers tell a story of the “beginning of modern Britain, Britain in the world,” said
  
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• Remember When Damien Hirst Sold That Diamond-Covered Skull For $100 Million? Turns Out That Was A Lie

  28-01-2022 16:35 via news.artnet.com
  
  The artist has now admitted that the very widely reported sale of the piece (titled For the Love of God) in 2007 never actually happened and that the bedazzled bundle of bone has been sitting in a London warehouse all this time. – Artnet
  
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• Even In A Scary Time Like This, The Head Of One State Arts Funder Is Optimistic

  28-01-2022 16:02 via msn.com
  Massachusetts Cultural Council executive director Michael Bobbitt is “convinced the crisis presents an opportunity to restructure arts funding, transforming the sector into one that is more affluent, inclusive, easier to navigate, and higher profile than it ever was before.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Meet The Publisher Who Picks Up The Books Big Houses Have Just Cancelled

  28-01-2022 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Skyhorse Publishing acquired the books by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey, Norman Mailer and others that were dropped when controversy hit. Says Skyhorse chief Lyons, “All you hear is the takedown of the author and no analysis of the book itself.’ Critics accuse him of “a libertarianism of convenience.” – The Guardian
  
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• Tennessee School Board Bans “Maus”, Art Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel About The Holocaust

  28-01-2022 15:01 via cnn.com
  
  The board governing the McMinn County school district in southeastern Tennessee deemed the Pulitzer-winning book inappropriate for eighth-graders because of a drawing of a nude dead woman and some “rough, objectionable language.” – CNN
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra Posts Third Consecutive Multimillion-Dollar Deficit

  28-01-2022 14:33 via startribune.com
  
  Damn you, COVID-19! yet the good news is that 2020-21 season’s shortfall, $6.3 million, is down by almost half from the previous season. And donations were up by 23%. Not too bad for an orchestra that played only 13 live-with-audience concerts. – The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  
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• Van Gogh reflects, Bacon feels beastly and a ‘lost’ masterpiece is restored – the week in art

  28-01-2022 14:29
  
  The Dutch genius’s self-portraits go on display in London, the Tudors are in Bath and Coventry opens its windows to the art world – all in your weekly dispatchVan Gogh: Self-PortraitsHarrowing and intimate encounters with a man who saw right through himself.• Courtauld Gallery, London, from 3 February to 8 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Lucy Rowan Mann, Who Ran The Naumburg Foundation And Its Classical Music Competition, Dead At 100

  28-01-2022 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  She started working at the foundation in 1972 and continued until this year, and the prestigious competition and awards she administered helped launch many impressive careers. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It will stay in our hearts’: Port Talbot prepares to bid farewell to its Banksy

  28-01-2022 13:38
  
  Mural that materialised in 2018, attracting tourists and inspiring a street art trail, to be taken from industrial town in WalesThey sang, recited poems and reminisced fondly about that wonderful winter’s day when the town of Port Talbot woke to find a mural by the street artist Banksy on the walls of a steelworker’s garage.Three years on, the piece – Season’s Greetings – is on the brink of leaving this industrial corner of south Wales, and residents gathered to bid
  
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• Inside Britain’s least-known art collection are works that should be ours to enjoy | Kirsty Major

  28-01-2022 11:00
  
  A rarely publicised tax scheme says owners must allow the public to see their treasures – so why is it so hard to access?A portrait hangs above a fireplace in a living room. The artist’s hand must have hardly lifted off the page as he traced the sitter’s face. It feels odd to be taking in a piece by such a renowned artist, set above family photos and trinkets.I ask if I can take a photograph to remember it better, but the man sitting behind me in an armchair responds very polit
  
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