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• The Chinese Writers For The New Generation Of Chinese

  23-02-2022 23:29 via lithub.com
  
  Having come of age at a time of unprecedented prosperity and opportunity, many have been spoiled and are referred to as “little emperors,” doted upon by their parents, kitted out in designer labels, and free to think only about themselves. – LitHub
  
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• Why More Cities Are Dismantling Rather Than Demolishing

  23-02-2022 23:01 via wired.com
  
  Deconstruction, city officials say, is a green alternative to demolition, sending up to 85 percent less material to landfills. Building materials and construction account for just under 10 percent of the world’s energy-related global carbon emissions. – Wired
  
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• How Henry Louis Gates Changed The Literary Canon

  23-02-2022 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  As a literary critic, Gates made an impact on the field by helping to establish a canon of African American literature—one that was neither separatist nor a mere appendage to the traditional, white canon. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Subsuming The Australia Council Is A Bad Idea

  23-02-2022 22:01 via artshub.com.au
  
  The proposal to replace the Australia Council is evidence of why it is not– or at least, not yet – up to the task of leading the sector as a whole. – ArtsHub
  
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• What Drives Your Art?

  23-02-2022 21:32 via linkedin.com
  
  It’s not about the art. It’s not about the money. It’s not about the donors. It’s not about the audience. It’s not about the artistic “vision.” It’s not about the board. It’s not about giving employment to local artists. It’s not about employing a staff. It’s not about the annual gala. It’s about measuring the impact on your community.  – Alan Harrison
  
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• U.S. Bans Import Of Antiquities From Afghanistan

  23-02-2022 21:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The policy was conceived as a preemptive measure to prevent artifacts sourced illegally during last year’s Taliban takeover from flooding the international market. However, experts fear the rushed regulations may have dangerous counter effects” — like returning objects seized in the U.S. to the Taliban. – Artnet
  
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• Retirees At The Getty Object To Offloading Their Pensions

  23-02-2022 20:28 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Former employees of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have slammed its decision to hand its pension plan over to an insurance company, describing the move as “deeply disappointing” for the “richest art institution in the world”. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• England To Spend An Extra $100 Million On Arts Outside London

  23-02-2022 20:04 via yorkshirepost.co.uk
  
  “An additional £75m will be put towards creative arts outside of the capital between now and 2025, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced.” – Yorkshire Post
  
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• The Guardian view on Jan Pieńkowski: funny, frightening, brilliant | Editorial

  23-02-2022 19:44
  
  The artist understood that children can be scared by books – safelyLike all great children’s storytellers or illustrators, the Polish-born artist Jan Pieńkowski instinctively understood that fear is an unavoidable and necessary part of childhood – and that how a child’s emotions are contained and held is crucial when it comes to an individual’s learning to operate in the world. Pieńkowski, who died on Saturday, used fear to great effect in his works: one o
  
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• Long Wharf Theatre Giving Up Its Longtime Home

  23-02-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  As the company remade itself, it faced a real estate quandary: whether to renew its expiring lease at the New Haven Food Terminal, just off Interstate 95, where it has been performing for 57 years. – The New York Times
  
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• The Founders Of The Razzie Awards Explain Why And How They Do It

  23-02-2022 19:01 via vulture.com
  
  “We don’t consider ourselves a slap in the face; we look at ourselves as a banana peel on the floor. … These people got paid $1 million or more, we assume. And if you got $1 million and you got nominated for a Razzie, you still have $1 million.” – Vulture
  
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• Linguists Analyze “Q” Writings And Identify The Author

  23-02-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Two teams of forensic linguists say their analysis of the Q texts shows that Paul Furber, one of the first online commentators to call attention to the earliest messages, actually played the lead role in writing them. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘A Poem for Patriots’ and ‘Upside the Morning’

  23-02-2022 18:20 via artsjournal.com
  Two books by Mark Terrill have arrived with ekphrastic poems of enormous appeal: The Salvador-Dali-Lama Express, a slim volume of 32 poems, attractively produced in 2009 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company, and Great Balls of Doubt, a collection of 96 poems with illustrations by Jon Langford, published in 2020 by Verse Chorus Press.
  Here are two poems with images from daily life and the thoughts they arouse, both excerpted from The Salvador-Dali-Lama Express.Main Street Rag’s Editor&rsq
  
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• Rescuing A Group Of Afghan Hip-Hop Dancers

  23-02-2022 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  A group of 19 breakdancers, parkourists, rappers and family members escaped Kabul days after the Taliban arrived and are now in hiding in a neighboring country. Asia One, a California breakdancing star who’s been a long-distance mentor, is mobilizing to get them out safely. – The Guardian
  
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• Facebook Dying? Unlikely

  23-02-2022 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  Facebook has already profoundly transformed how we understand ourselves in the digital age in a way that cannot be undone. Whether it survives is almost irrelevant — the problems that swirl around it will persist. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Henry Danton, Who Danced All Over The World And Still Taught Ballet At Age 100, Is Dead At 102

  23-02-2022 17:02 via apnews.com
  
  He started with Sadler’s Wells Ballet in London in 1940, appeared with the Paris Opera Ballet and with touring companies across four continents, then taught the national ballets of Colombia and Venezuela as well as at Sarah Lawrence and Juilliard before not-retiring to Mississippi in his 70s. – AP
  
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• A Brief History Of Food Writing, From Ancient Greece To Pete Wells

  23-02-2022 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “As with any compartmentalizing of genre, there is something in the title that implies a diminishment, as if today, as in ancient Greece, the act of eating were too frivolous to be worthy of serious meditation.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• Would you pay £15,000 for a portrait of me? Me neither | Adrian Chiles

  23-02-2022 16:20
  
  I had my picture painted by three artists for a TV show and was allowed to take home the one I liked best. Naturally I picked the most flattering - but did I make a terrible mistake? One day, nearly six years ago, I had to sit completely still for several hours at a time. I was having my portrait painted, you see, by three artists for the Sky programme Portrait Artist of the Year. As far back as primary school, I was diagnosed by several adults as having ants in my pants. I am afraid those ants
  
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• Time Was, Respectable Newspapers Hated Word Games — Even Crossword Puzzles

  23-02-2022 16:06 via bigthink.com
  
  “As far as the journalistic establishment was concerned, crosswords were another mindless fad used (by tabloids) as a substitute for good editorial, to keep readers coming back — much like BuzzFeed quizzes were in the 2010s.” Yet the ways that establishment described the effect of crosswords were tabloidesque. – The Big Think
  
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• The Audience At This Musical Behaved So Badly That The Director Just Ended The Show

  23-02-2022 15:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland Opera’s performance of Sondheim’s Into the Woods in Belfast last Saturday was cut short at the intermission after spectators moved around and talked so much that the cast complained to house management and ushers were abused as they tried to maintain order. – Belfast Telegraph
  
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• The Problem With Orchestras Programming Movies With Live Accompaniment

  23-02-2022 15:03 via msn.com
  
  It’s a good idea: audiences like it, and excellent music gets revived in the context it was meant for. It’s not the technical difficulty of synching precisely with the film. The difficulty, writes Michael Phillips, is with which movies are and aren’t available and why. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Art Generated By Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Copyrighted, Rules U.S. Copyright Office

  23-02-2022 14:35 via theverge.com
  
  “Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed Creativity Machine. The board found that Thaler’s AI-created image didn’t include an element of ‘human authorship’ — a necessary standard, it said, for protection.” – The Verge
  
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• One-Third Of The Oscar Categories Will Be Moved Off This Year’s Live Telecast

  23-02-2022 14:07 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will be announced and presented before the main ceremony and then edited into the live broadcast. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan – raw, boozy, sexual slices of real life and love

  23-02-2022 11:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  This life-affirming show tracks a revolutionary moment in art, as the US artist and his young Irish lover blow apart the claustrophobia of Victorian paintingAmerican cowboy James Abbott McNeill Whistler and his flame-haired Irish lover Joanna Hiffernan go on a wild rampage and shoot the art world of Victorian Britain to bits in this hugely enjoyable artistic and biographical romp. It’s such a well-told story it will doubtless inspire a so-so film coming to a streaming
  
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• February design news: bone light switches and feminist jewellery

  23-02-2022 10:19
  
  Renovating Indian water systems, celebrating London’s LGBTQ+ community and the man who designed 100,000 watches Design sometimes feels like a constant search for a better, brighter way to live life. A quest for new and innovative alternatives to the status quo. But, increasingly, is is the past that is presenting solutions. Two of this month’s stories look at revival rather than invention. Industrial designer Souhaib Ghanmi is investigating new ways to use animal bone. Currently cate
  
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• Director of Production

  23-02-2022 06:26 via artsjournal.com
  ABOUT USDeeply rooted in our local Beverly Hills community and influenced by cultural change, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, a public-private partnership with the City of Beverly Hills, strives to be a site for the convergence of relevant, dynamic performing arts, education and civic life, strengthening our local and global community is our role as a presenter, producer, educator and community resource. We approach our work with the pioneering creative spirit of Beverly Hil
  
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