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• How Libraries Shape Our Literature

  18-02-2022 23:28 via lithub.com
  
  Books reach Americans in multiple ways these days, not only as e-books. They might arrive as audio books, in serialized form through online services, and so on. Likewise, book clubs have remained and even increased their popularity. Yet no matter how we see it, the act of reading is in decline. – LitHub
  
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• Ultimate Brag In Social Media: “I Can’t Stop Thinking About…”

  18-02-2022 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  If one person shouts that she can’t stop thinking about something, the natural response is not to join in her particular obsession but to yelp that you, too, have something that you are obsessed with. An unspoken competition takes place to see who can profess their passion. – The New Yorker
  
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• Reimagining NPR To Serve Everyone

  18-02-2022 22:32 via niemanlab.org
  
  In his new book, Chávez uses media industry data and 50 interviews with public media workers to argue that NPR’s growth has come at the expense of serving Latinx audiences in the U.S. – NiemanLab
  
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• Claim: NFTs Are Nothing But A Scam

  18-02-2022 22:32 via salon.com
  
  I think people accurately recognize that just by watching people get involved in crypto. You watch an artist who starts selling NFTs, and over the course of months, their artwork itself shifts and it starts becoming more and more about crypto itself. – Salon
  
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• A Music Conspiracy Theory: Tuning “A” To 432

  18-02-2022 18:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  I’d never encountered the 432 Hz phenomenon. Its lore has all the hallmarks of your archetypal conspiracy theories. No one version dominates, but most accounts include a selection of the following tropes. – Van
  
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• William Kraft, Who Helped Make Los Angeles A Hotbed Of New Music, Dead At 98

  18-02-2022 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At the L.A. Philharmonic, Kraft was principal timpanist, composer-in-residence, and associate conductor; he co-founded the L.A. Phil New Music Group, with which he started the orchestra’s now-famous Green Umbrella concerts of contemporary music. (Kraft was also Stravinsky’s preferred percussionist.) – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Rothko and Warhol among ‘legendary’ art collection being sold in divorce

  18-02-2022 17:54
  
  Further 30 works from Macklowe collection to be auctioned in New York in May after billionaire couple’s splitA never-before-seen masterpiece by Mark Rothko and one of Andy Warhol’s last self-portraits are among the dozens of works to be auctioned this spring as part of the sale of one of the greatest collections of modern contemporary art ever assembled.The Macklowe collection, which was amassed by the real estate magnate Harry Macklowe and Linda Burg, an honorary trustee of New York
  
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• How California’s Gig-Economy Law Changed LA Theatre (Perhaps Forever?)

  18-02-2022 17:27 via thestage.co.uk
  According to a dozen LA-area artistic directors interviewed, the annual budget of small arts organisations has spiked by an average 40%, disproportionately punishing companies operating on less than $300,000 a year, particularly common in a state with a dearth of public funding for the arts. – The Stage
  
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• Inside San Francisco’s Emerging Black Composers Project

  18-02-2022 17:02 via kqed.org
  
  The joint program of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is now working with its first class of fellows, who get commissions for new scores as well as mentorship from Esa-Pekka Salonen, Edwin Outwater, and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. – KQED (San Francisco)
  
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• Why Is Joe Rogan’s Podcast Such A Big Deal? It’s Not Politics. It’s Demographics.

  18-02-2022 16:35 via niemanlab.org
  
  “Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of others — to listeners across the political spectrum. His unique skill is drawing from that spectrum a massive, young, largely male audience that advertisers highly covet.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• How Brazil’s Version Of Joe Rogan Got Himself In Hot Water, Too

  18-02-2022 16:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan’s, made an argument this week that, on free-speech grounds, Brazil’s Nazi party should no longer be outlawed. And the merda hit the fan. – The New York Times
  
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• Arts Venues Grapple With Whether To Require (And How To Enforce) Audience Masking

  18-02-2022 15:33 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  “Venue staff are increasingly on their own, leaving ushers, house managers, security staff and box office managers in the crosshairs of different audience members’ diametrically opposed preferences as they deal with the fallout of unclear and inconsistent COVID guidance from government officials.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Is This Broadway’s Worst Job? Front-Of-House COVID Compliance Officer

  18-02-2022 15:04 via timeout.com
  
  Says one, “There are so many moments where I’m shocked by humanity. Once when I called out for proof of vaccination and photo IDs, a man said, ‘I got my proof of vaccination tattooed on my ass. Want me to pull my pants down?'” – Time Out New York
  
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• Harper Lee’s Executor Will Not Get To Take The “To Kill A Mockingbird” Film Rights Back From The People Lee Sold Them To

  18-02-2022 14:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she’s done in other cases) argued that the aged Lee was basically tricked into signing the earlier contract. The court disagreed. – The New York Times
  
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• UK Seizes Three NFTs And Arrests Three People On Tax Evasion Charges

  18-02-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the IRS equivalent in the United Kingdom, announced earlier this week that it had seized three NFTs and about $6,800 worth of crypto from three individuals who are currently embroiled in a $1.9 million tax fraud case.” (Hm. How would one seize an NFT?) – ARTnews
  
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• Surrealism goes global, artists open their studios and Damien Hirst shows a macabre master – the week in art

  18-02-2022 13:53
  
  The Tate’s ambitious surrealism survey opens its doors and the Ikon Gallery opens up 100 years of artists’ studios – all in your weekly dispatchSurrealism Beyond Borders
  An ambitious attempt to see surrealism not just as something that happened in Paris, Belgium and Spain but as a global movement with branches from Egypt to Mexico.
  • Tate Modern, London, 24 February to 29 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Research: Stress Might Have Gotten A Bum Rap

  18-02-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A growing body of research suggests that it is our beliefs about our feelings, as much as the feelings themselves, that determine their effects on the brain and body. Negative views of stress and anxiety often exacerbate our problems. – The Guardian
  
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