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• The Case Against The Contemporary American Essay

  11-02-2022 23:30 via thedriftmag.com
  
  Explanations for the twenty-first-century personal essay boom are as various as the answers to an inkblot test, and nearly as revealing. – The Drift
  
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• A Warning That The Bamiyan Valley Will Collapse Within Ten Years

  11-02-2022 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In 2003, the area was put on Unesco’s World Heritage in Danger list. Now rapid building work and digging under the new rule of the Taliban, combined with environmental factors, are contributing to the speedy destruction of the Bamiyan Valley and its heritage. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Australia Arts Groups Feel The Freeze

  11-02-2022 22:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  The lack of CPI (which rose by 3.5% in the 12 months to December 2021 according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data) coupled with no increase in funding since 2017, means that multiple organisations have effectively had their core funding cut in real terms over the next four years. – ArtsHub
  
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• How Fringe Theories Multiply

  11-02-2022 22:01 via aeon.co
  
  Devotees of a fringe theory are usually committed to more than one. They might start with just one, but fringes have a way of agglomerating. The second puzzle emerges when you scrutinise the first. The accumulation of fringe theories is often not random – it has a structure. – Aeon
  
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• Belgian Museum Returns Nazi-Stolen Painting After 80 Years

  11-02-2022 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
  After years of research, the painting has been returned, the first restitution of any artwork looted from a Jewish family in the second world war by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, which covers six museums, with works spanning the old masters to Magritte. – The Guardian
  
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• The Extravagantly Painted Chapels Of Michoacán

  11-02-2022 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The walls and ceilings of these old places of worship, some of them dating back to the 1600s, illustrate Catholic stories and teachings and are painted in an imported European style, but their pigments — and their exuberance — are those of the indigenous Purépecha. – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• The “Most Important Archaeological Find In The UK” In A Century

  11-02-2022 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture discovered in east Yorkshire, due to be displayed at the British Museum, has been described as the most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last century. – The Guardian
  
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• The Rwandan Women’s Percussion Group Bringing Hutu And Tutsi Together

  11-02-2022 20:02 via csmonitor.com
  
  “Ingoma Nshya, … founded by Odile Gakire Katese in 2004, … arose to heal divisions after the 1994 genocide, which left around 800,000 people dead. … Members of Ingoma Nshya also had to overcome cultural stereotypes: Traditionally, drums have been the exclusive preserve of men.” – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• The End Of Mass Market Products

  11-02-2022 19:31 via shellypalmer.com
  
  Mobility, consumer expectations, and technology are evolving exponentially, and there is huge appetite for low-friction user experiences, on-demand delivery, and personalized manufacturing. These are the technologies that are completely reshaping this century’s consumer behavior. – Shelly Palmer
  
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• Will Dance Companies Keep Experimenting With Film And Video After They’re Performing Live Again?

  11-02-2022 19:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Material Confusion: Anachronistic Pigments in Botticelli’s “Man of Sorrows” Are Explained as “Restorations”

  11-02-2022 18:55 via artsjournal.com
  Knowledgeable experts must have been more than a little perplexed by the description published in The Art Newspaper (TAN)
  
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• Peter Jackson Tops Highest-Paid Entertainer List

  11-02-2022 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Last year he sold his fx company. Forbes estimates Jackson personally made about $600m in cash and $375m in stock from the deal, making him the third person in history to become a billionaire from making films, after Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. – The Guardian
  
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• Defining Afrofuturism (Can It Be Done?)

  11-02-2022 18:04 via playbill.com
  
  With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that’s even the right word). Here are five Black scholars invited by Carnegie Hall to answer the question “What is Afrofuturism?” – Playbill
  
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• MoviePass Is Back

  11-02-2022 17:31 via theverge.com
  
  “We’re looking at this from another point of view,” Stacy Spikes said of the company’s relaunch, adding that he now plans to run the business like a “co-op.” MoviePass users will be able to hold partial ownership of the company, with its most premium tier inclusive of a lifetime subscription. – The Verge
  
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• “What If John Lennon Was A World-Class Intellectual With An Insatiable Curiosity For Third World Literature?”

  11-02-2022 17:02 via newyorker.com
  
  A long, loving profile of Caetano Veloso, who has transformed Brazilian music more than once, was a famous exile during the dictatorship, and has become a leading voice of opposition to Jair Bolsonaro. – The New Yorker
  
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• An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever

  11-02-2022 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the ‘ballsy’ episode that thumbed its nose at Hollywood brass and pushed back against viewers already claiming that the Fox show was far past its prime.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Remember Ski Ballet?

  11-02-2022 16:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “On social media, it’s easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport — at Calgary in 1988 and Albertville in 1992 — surface frequently on YouTube and TikTok, to the fascination of dance and sports enthusiasts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?

  11-02-2022 15:33 via cnn.com
  
  “Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their doors or changing publication strategies — a trend made worse by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.” – CNN
  
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• Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”

  11-02-2022 15:02 via csmonitor.com
  
  “The books are kind of incidental. What we’re really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States? How do we want our children to be educated? What do we want to say about our history?” – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations

  11-02-2022 14:34 via nytimes.com
  
  The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters. The estate had tried to stop local productions of that script as Aaron Sorkin’s new version was headed to Broadway. – The New York Times
  
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• Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival

  11-02-2022 14:05 via wfmt.com
  
  Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival’s chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she’ll lead the Chicago Symphony in the first edition of a weekend event called the Breaking Barriers Festival, which “will celebrate diverse artists and leaders.” – WFMT (Chicago)
  
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• Cosmic Stonehenge secrets, Ai Weiwei looks back, and gay sex 11,000 years ago – the week in art

  11-02-2022 12:15
  
  The British Museum goes neolithic, the activist artist sits his work next to Chinese antiquities and LGBT+ history month begins with the deep human past – all in your weekly dispatchThe World of StonehengeThe secrets of Britain’s most renowned Neolithic monument should make for a fascinating show.
  • British Museum, London from 17 February to 17 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Long Wharf Theatre – Director of Marketing and Communications

  11-02-2022 03:21 via artsconsulting.com
  
  OrganizationLong Wharf Theatre has embarked on an unprecedented journey to usher in a new chapter for the Tony award-winning company. It is committed to building a boundary-breaking theatre with, for, and by the New Haven community, working to reimagine the experiment that is the new American theatre.The company is led by Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón and Managing Director Kit Ingui. Jacob joined Long Wharf Theatre in February 2019, bringing extensive industry experience, including po
  
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• Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt review – so dull and sentimental it’s offensive

  11-02-2022 01:01
  
  Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
  The iconoclast’s opposition to the Chinese state has been admirably brave. But this edgeless, confused and mawkish show suggests his art is less so In 1995 Ai Weiwei held up an ancient Chinese ceramic vessel, opened his arms to let it go, and stood there as it shattered. His new exhibition about craft and fakery includes a recent remake of Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn in Lego. It’s impressive how the black, white and grey Lego bricks create shadowy Warhol
  
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• What Happens When You Teach School Kids About Racism

  11-02-2022 00:01 via slate.com
  
  We are in a cultural moment in which teaching about racism and the world it has made is both essential and controversial. Critics rallying under the banner of “anti-CRT” describe this teaching as divisive and disturbing. But we can’t teach the history of the United States without teaching about slavery. – Slate
  
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