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• Record Store Day Was Supposed To Help Small Stores. It’s Backfiring

  17-02-2022 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  This year, RSD offers 411 new releases, a fact that should leave those in the physical music business seething. Thanks to Brexit and the pandemic, we simply can’t make enough records. There is an international shortage of the various components required. – The Guardian
  
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• Canadian Minister Of Culture Says Streaming Companies Need To Step Up Support Of Canadian Culture

  17-02-2022 23:01 via cbc.ca
  
  In a debate Wednesday in the House of Commons about a bill to regulate online streaming, Rodriguez said updating the broadcasting law is long overdue and needs to cover commercial content on social media and streaming platforms. – CBC
  
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• Ever Wanted To Live Inside DisneyLand? Here’s Your Chance…

  17-02-2022 22:32 via vulture.com
  
  Disney Imagineers will help design these sub-developments, and this first effort “will welcome homeowners of all ages and will include at least one section expressly for 55+ residents” and a “voluntary club membership” with exclusive Disney programming. – New York Magazine
  
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• How Is It That Dance Takes Over The Body And The Mind?

  17-02-2022 22:01 via lithub.com
  
  History and culture offer a treasure trove of attempts to interpret dance’s unique power over our bodies and minds. – LitHub
  
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• How The Typewriter Imposed Changes On Chinese

  17-02-2022 21:31 via literaryreview.co.uk
  Chinese scholars and activists developed new means of analysing and ordering the written language to equip it for, among other things, literacy campaigns, library classification systems, typewriting and computing. – Literary Review
  
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• The Prado Digs Out And Displays Two Goya Sketches For The First Time In 121 Years

  17-02-2022 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  “Pursuing a more ‘panoramic approach’ to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches of Saint Bernardino of Siena preaching to an Aragonese king, as well as a reclining Venus by Titan.” – ARTnews
  
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• What The Post-Plague Years In Medieval Europe Can Teach Us About Post-COVID

  17-02-2022 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  As we move toward a new, post-pandemic era, the tensions in the labor market of the 14th century may have something to teach us about turmoil to come. – The New York Times
  
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• Paul Theroux Is (Re-)Figuring Out His Relationship With V.S. Naipaul

  17-02-2022 20:02 via lrb.co.uk
  
  “More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled”— Naipaul died in 2018, and, writes Theroux, was a far less difficult person in his final years — ” I have seen how complex our relationship was.” – London Review of Books
  
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• Bookstore Sales Up 28 Percent In 2021

  17-02-2022 19:29 via publishersweekly.com
  The rebound was not quite enough to bring 2021 bookstore sales back to 2019 levels, falling 1% below 2019 sales of $9.13 billion. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Simple Reason A Bunch Of Comedians Are Suing Pandora

  17-02-2022 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Let’s say (Robin Williams is) singing the words ‘reality, what a concept’ — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and (Pandora) would be paying the license. But because he said the words ‘reality, what a concept’ … they didn’t deal with it.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Quick Study: Some Stats on Book-Reading

  17-02-2022 18:38 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we take stock of recent studies about book-reading through print and digital media, and how patterns may have changed during the pandemic. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website.
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• Facebook… Er, Meta… Is Revamping Its Art Program

  17-02-2022 18:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  Open Arts was initially founded as a residency program at Facebook. Artists were commissioned to create work along with employees on site at the company’s headquarters, giving Facebook workers insight into the artistic process. – Artnet
  
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• Could Swahili Become The Lingua Franca Of The Entire African Continent?

  17-02-2022 18:01 via bbc.com
  
  “With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world’s 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to become the continent’s lingua franca.” – BBC
  
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• #ArtsManaged Video Series

  17-02-2022 17:50 via artsjournal.com
  As I wander the web, I notice only a few basic and foundational resources for arts and cultural managers, or those who aspire to the work. This is particularly true among short-form, video/media resources where people often turn for first-cut insights on a topic or task or career.As one drop in that blue ocean, I’ve now launched a YouTube video series called #ArtsManaged. These will be short (10 minutes or so) overviews of key issues or insights on Arts Management. First up, a definition o
  
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• New Midwest Powerhouse? Iowa Public Radio To Take Over Licenses Of Six University Stations

  17-02-2022 17:32 via insideradio.com
  
  IPR began managing broadcast operations at the stations in 2007 and now the Board of Regents of the universities will decide on a proposal that would have the group take ownership of the stations. – Inside Radio
  
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• John Aldus obituary

  17-02-2022 15:06
  
  Artist with a thought-provoking approach to what seemed familiar in Geneva and, for the last quarter-century, in LondonOn 31 January, the daily Tribune de Genève announced that four of Geneva’s best-known characters had suddenly been orphaned by the death of their maker, John Aldus, at the age of 81. These figures – a pair of art collectors, a poet and a pretty young woman, name unknown – were not actual Genevois but life-size, hyper-realist bronze sculptures of them, mi
  
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• Ansel Adams: rare photographs in stunning hi-definition

  17-02-2022 09:00
  
  Rare photos taken by Ansel Adams from the collection of David H Arrington, a passionate collector of Adams’ photographs from the beginning, will be offered for sale from 17 February at midday in Sotheby’s New York Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Charged with mystery’: LensCulture’s most artistic images – in pictures

  17-02-2022 08:00
  
  From communist cars to time-travelling children, the LensCulture Art photography awards 2022 features 39 artists pushing the boundaries of the medium Continue reading...
  
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