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• Can The New Bandcamp Save Indie Music?

  07-03-2022 23:14 via theguardian.com
  
   Bemused gamers and tech experts, meanwhile, wondered what possible uses a company such as Epic – itself 40% owned by Chinese gaming megacorp Tencent – might have for the direct-to-fan marketplace for MP3s of niche musical genres like vaporwave and chiptune. – The Guardian
  
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• This Artist Lost A Decade Of Work To Fire Just Before The Pandemic Caused A Lockdown

  07-03-2022 21:45 via artsjournal.com
  But the artist says the aftermath has made him calmer, and more focused on different goals. “I’ve been attempting to make paintings which speak to connection, reaching towards empathy. The noise of previous work gave way to something quieter.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Peak Subscribe: Are You Paying For Too Many Subscriptions?

  07-03-2022 21:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  The maturity of the subscription market varies by industry, but in some of the categories best known for these kinds of services, there are indicators that the ceiling is close, at least in the United States. – The Atlantic
  
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• Netflix Quits Russia

  07-03-2022 20:14 via variety.com
  
  Earlier this week, the streaming service had announced that it would pause all future projects and acquisitions from Russia, joining a growing list of companies that have cut ties with the country. – Variety
  
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• Meet The Russian Oligarch On The Guggenheim’s Board (Until Last Week)

  07-03-2022 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Vladimir Potanin has advised the Board of Trustees of his decision to step down as Trustee effective immediately,” the museum said. “The Guggenheim accepts this decision and thanks Mr. Potanin for his service to the Museum and his support of exhibition, conservation and educational programs. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Paul Martin obituary

  07-03-2022 19:16
  
  My friend Paul Martin, who has died aged 73 of pancreatic cancer, was a painter whose work was rooted in nature: preoccupied by the “scratchy, tough reality of things”. But his locations, and the figures which sometimes peopled them, were more metaphorical than representational: familiar but also otherworldly.Born in Bournemouth, Paul was the son of Alice (nee Moland), a secretary, and John Martin, a hydro-electric engineer, who died when Paul was 10. Paul grew up in Rugby, Warwicksh
  
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• How The Hermitage Artwashes Russia

  07-03-2022 18:44 via hyperallergic.com
  
  According to the 2021 State of Artistic Freedom Report by Freemuse, Russia detained 17 artists in 2020, a number exceeded only by Cuba. Artists are regularly fined, detained, and sentenced to prison, usually for political dissent or falling foul of the notorious “gay propaganda” law passed in 2013. – Hyperallergic
  
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• International Arts Organizations Scrutinize Russian Artists

  07-03-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Institutions are demanding that artists who have supported Mr. Putin in the past issue clear condemnations of the Russian president and his invasion as a prerequisite for performing. Others are checking their rosters and poring over social media posts to ensure Russian performers have not made contentious statements about the war. – The New York Times
  
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• Kyiv Dancers Quit To Fight In Ukraine Military

  07-03-2022 17:29 via classicfm.com
  
  Images have circulated online of a principal dancer and ballerina at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, in camouflage holding weapons. – ClassicFM
  
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• Kirov Dancers Quit To Fight In Ukraine Military

  07-03-2022 17:29 via classicfm.com
  
  Images have circulated online of a principal dancer and ballerina at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, in camouflage holding weapons. – ClassicFM
  
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• More Expensive Tickets For ‘The Batman’ May Mean More Expensive Tickets Forever

  07-03-2022 17:00 via variety.com
  
  Sure, AMC raised prices over The Batman‘s opening weekend, but Regal and Cinemark had already started raising prices with another blockbuster – Spider-Man: No Way Home. (But good news for indie fans: Those movies aren’t on the price increase list.) – Variety
  
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• The Difference Between An Indie Bookstore And An Amazon Bookstore

  07-03-2022 16:30 via washingtonpost.com
  A physical bookstore “requires superb customer service, dedicated staff who provide knowledgeable advice about what to read, an inviting environment in which to browse and shop, and literary activities. … Most of all, it demands a deep commitment to the local communities that sustain us.” – Washington Post
  
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• Conductor Of Bolshoi Quits Rather Than ‘Clarify’ Stance On Putin

  07-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “A prominent Russian conductor said on Sunday that he would resign from his positions with two orchestras — at the storied Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and in Toulouse, France — after facing intense pressure to condemn” the invasion of Ukraine. – The New York Times
  
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• Do These Rock Art Paintings Show Human Interactions With Ice Age Mammals?

  07-03-2022 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Or are the painting actually not very old at all? “Where Dr. Iriarte’s team sees potential giant ground sloths and Pleistocene horses, Dr. Urbina and Dr. Peña see modern capybaras and horses.” – The New York Times
  
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• Kennedy Center, Other Monuments Light Up In Colors Of Ukraine’s Flag

  07-03-2022 15:30 via npr.org
  It’s not simple: “Creating these immense light installations isn’t a matter of changing some lightbulbs. The Kennedy Center Production Department used 48 sheets of lighting gels and a 67-foot lift to place the gels over 144 lights.” – NPR
  
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• Children’s Lives Are Dramatic, And This Author Knew It

  07-03-2022 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Shirley Hughes, a beloved British author who died last week at 94, “created art, stories and poetry that took children’s feelings as seriously as others take adults’ feelings.” Thus her more than 60 years of success, and lasting influence. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Toronto Film Fest Suspends Russian Government-Backed Entries And Participants

  07-03-2022 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  But TIFF also “voiced its solidarity with ‘the people of Ukraine and those within Russia who stand against these attacks,’ noting films from independent Russian filmmakers are still welcome.” – CBC
  
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• The Mythmaking At The Heart Of The Western Genre

  07-03-2022 14:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Westerns aren’t about gunfights or stagecoaches. They’re about how an extreme landscape boils human storytelling down to the essentials. …The Western is Greek tragedy for America’s rugged individualism—and also for its machismo.” – The Atlantic
  
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• If You’re A Journalist, You Probably Don’t Want To Call Yourself A Storyteller

  07-03-2022 14:30 via niemanlab.org
  
  Republicans and Democrats alike lose faith in the (mostly broadcast) reporters who have the word “storyteller” in their bios, a study says. “Some negative responses included sentiments like ‘Storyteller to me sounds like a well-trained liar.'”  – Nieman Lab
  
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• How Belfast Sounded During Lockdown

  07-03-2022 14:15 via bbc.com
  
  One PhD student at Queens University recorded it all. “Like many cities throughout the UK, Belfast had previously been dominated by the sound of human activity. During lockdown, these were replaced by subtle industrial, urban and natural sounds.” – BBC
  
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• Michael Tilson Thomas On Music, And Death

  07-03-2022 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  “To speak to MTT about music is not so far removed from speaking frankly of life and death. His music — whether conducting or composing — has everything to do with the push-and-pull of opposing forces and the musical space in between them.” – Washington Post
  
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• Jane Campion Is Displeased With The Academy For Removing The Design Awards

  07-03-2022 13:45 via variety.com
  
  The director, whose The Power of the Dog has 12 nominations, says that’s because “the designer is one of the very first people I bring onto a team. All the work that [they] do as designers is so vital, and it is really deeply valued.” Just not live.  – Variety
  
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• What Happened When One (Very Big) Reality TV Show At Long Last Integrated Its Casts

  07-03-2022 13:30 via latimes.com
  
  “The messiness on … points to a central crisis within the ‘Real Housewives’ universe: Can shows predicated on entitlement and endless pot-stirring evolve into entertainment that is over-the-top and meaningfully inclusive at the same time?” (Uh … not so far.) – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Feud Over A Removed Painting Entirely Closes A Museum In Israel

  07-03-2022 13:15 via theguardian.com
  
  In short, one artist’s work was removed for being “antisemitic,” and then other artists covered their work in protest, the museum’s chief curator resigned, and now the museum has closed. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• A Poem About Suffering Was Not Wrong

  07-03-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A close reading of Auden’s “Musée des Beaux-Arts” reveals a lot about Europe just before WWII – and, perhaps, about our own times. – The New York Times
  
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• Creation from destruction: why postwar British art has never been more relevant

  07-03-2022 10:00
  
  Tumult, anxiety and an openness to reconstructing society are at the heart of a new show, featuring works by Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres and Frank BowlingThere is no more appropriate venue in which to stage a survey of post-second world war art in Britain than the Barbican in London. Like much of the painting, sculpture and photography on display, the arts centre itself emerged out of the devastation of the second world war. Literally built on a City of London bomb site, it was also an ambitio
  
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• ‘These are our local heroes’: the artist painting murals of hope in a Zimbabwe township

  07-03-2022 08:30
  
  Basil Matsika hopes his joyful murals of Mbare’s music and sports stars will inspire others to look beyond the area’s poverty and crimeStreet artist Basil Matsika paints murals of local musicians and daily life in the streets of Mbare, one of Zimbabwe’s oldest townships, in the capital Harare. With his brush and paint jar, he says he communicates deep sentiments of hope amid the overwhelming landscape of poverty.While many see Mbare as a crime-ridden neighbourhood, Matsika, 40,
  
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• Surreal: art’s weirdest worldview bounces back a century after its birth

  07-03-2022 06:30
  
  Literary and artistic movement enjoying another golden age, with international events and exhibitions
  A century ago in the ateliers of Montparnasse in Paris, surrealism was born from the gloom of the first world war that had engulfed and devastated Europe.The cultural movement led by the French writer and poet André Breton would give rise to artists of international renown including Max Ernst, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and Salvador Dalí. Continue reading.
  
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