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• Tracking The Word Choice Vectors In Rap Music

  09-03-2022 23:28 via lithub.com
  
  There’s an appealingly simple sociolinguistic view, one my grizzled inner skeptic appears to have embraced, whereby words function as vectors of status: where vocabulary and diction map faithfully to acculturation and lifestyle, where every social stratum has its vernacular and every vernacular its social stratum.  – LitHub
  
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• Ken Robinson: What Does Education Mean Now?

  09-03-2022 23:01 via edutopia.org
  
  What does it mean to be educated now? As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do, and the world around you—the core purpose of education is to enable students to understand both worlds. – Edutopia
  
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• Geffen Hall Is Fully Funded And Will Open Year Early

  09-03-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The project’s leaders announced on Wednesday that they had raised their goal of $550 million to cover the cost of the renovation, and that the hall will reopen to the public in October, a year and a half ahead of schedule. – The New York Times
  
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• How Did Intelligence Evolve Biologically?

  09-03-2022 22:03 via aeon.co
  
  The processes of intelligence are so intricate, so multilayered and baroque, no wonder some people might be tempted by stories about a top-down Creator. But we know evolution must have been able to come up with intelligence on its own, from the bottom up. – Aeon
  
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• 100 Years After It Sank, Shackleton’s Ship Found In Antarctica (and In Remarkable Condition)

  09-03-2022 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The Endurance was found off the coast of Antarctica, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by its captain, Frank Worsley. It has not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915. – The Guardian
  
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• Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director

  09-03-2022 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol’s ‘red notice'” for fugitive criminals; he was released after Italy’s justice minister intervened. (Until last year, Lavrenchuk was the controversial artistic director at Odesa’s opera house.) – The Guardian
  
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• Arts Venues Sue Small Business Administration Over COVID Money

  09-03-2022 20:23 via crosscut.com
  
  Nearly 50 rejected venue grant applicants have taken the SBA to court, including escape rooms, a dance convention, a circus arts company, a ministry, a Manhattan jazz club, a “pet event” organizer and Michigan’s state fair. About fifteen cases have been resolved, with $52.7 million in venue grants awarded to those businesses. – Crosscut
  
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• How Little Has Survived Of Medieval European Literature? More, And Less, Than One Might Expect

  09-03-2022 20:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “A team using techniques more commonly used to track wildlife estimates that 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works produced in medieval Europe survive today. For individual manuscripts, or handwritten copies of literary works, that figure drops to 9 percent.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Is Having Two Museum Directors Better Than Having One?

  09-03-2022 19:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  “There’s a lot of structural change underway and nobody knows where this is going. I think there’s a strong desire from all the actors to rethink how these institutions should run.” – Artnet
  
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• A Different Way To Approach Deciphering Quipu, The Incas’ Knotted-String Language?

  09-03-2022 19:04 via lithub.com
  
  Scholar Silvia Ferrara suggests that — since we don’t have a Rosetta Cord giving us a text side-by-side in Inca knots and Spanish letters — we take an approach something like the way Amy Adams’s linguist character in Arrival deciphered the aliens’ squid-ink emissions. – Literary Hub
  
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• How To Fight Disinformation

  09-03-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  So is a country’s level of media literacy anything more than a measure of the wealth and the education of its population? How can we tell if a country’s disinformation curriculum is the reason its population is relatively protected against online falsehoods? – The New York Times
  
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• Belarus Free Theatre Does Its First Show Together Since Fleeing The Country Last Fall

  09-03-2022 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  In the wake of the stolen presidential election and Lukashenko’s vicious crackdown on the subsequent demonstrations, the underground troupe decided to go into exile. Now they’re in London to stage a production that premiered two years ago in Minsk and is now more timely than ever. – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Careful Of Boycotting Russian Artists and Institutions. It’s Difficult To Come Back

  09-03-2022 17:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Almost on the hour, we’re hearing about cultural boycotts, departures of curators and directors, and the shuttering of institutions. The moral convictions behind these choices cannot be doubted. Yet I feel compelled to caution about cutting ties too rashly, and with no clear pathway back to normalcy.” – Artnet
  
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• Dazzling, subversive, confronting: inside Queer, a landmark Australian art show

  09-03-2022 17:30
  
  From ancient Egypt to Kylie, this NGV exhibition celebrates camp, gender, love and activism, to dispel the idea that art ‘is heterosexual until proven otherwise’Walking through Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection is an experience of sensory overload. Classical paintings and busts make way for rumbling video works and mannequins dressed in high fashion. Behind glass, there are objects old and new: an ancient teapot, a pair of Comme des Garçons shoes.My gaze keeps wandering b
  
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• Edmund Keeley, Who Brought Cavafy And Seferis To The English-Speaking World, Dead At 94

  09-03-2022 17:03 via artsjournal.com
  As translator, scholar, and critic, he played a major role in showing Americans that Greece has a thriving modern culture alongside its ancient history. He was C.P. Cavafy’s leading champion, and his translations of poets George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis helped earn them Nobel Prizes. – The New York Times
  
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• Ranks Of Women Cinematographers Are Slowly Growing As Schools’ And Guilds’ Efforts To Train Them Bear Fruit

  09-03-2022 16:35 via variety.com
  
  “The simple premise is that if you make a generational commitment — and about 25 to 30 years is a generational commitment — to flooding the market with exceedingly talented people from diverse backgrounds — in this case women — then you will make a change.” – Variety
  
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• Post-Industrial Parks Like New York’s High Line Are A Bad Idea, Argues Sociologist

  09-03-2022 16:02 via bloomberg.com
  Looking in particular at the High Line, the 606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston — all of which turned urban industrial detritus into expensively landscaped attractions — Kevin Loughran argues that these privately funded spaces divert city resources from parks in poor areas and enrich real-estate developers. – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• As Ukrainian Dancers Escape, European Companies Are Taking Them In

  09-03-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  In Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and elsewhere, ballet troupes have been helping their fleeing colleagues: finding them housing, letting them join class, and, if budgets permit, hiring them. The Mayor of Paris even gave the stranded Kiev City Ballet a residency at the Châtelet Theatre. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Did Sam Sanders Leave NPR? To Create New York Magazine’s New Culture Podcast

  09-03-2022 15:01 via bloombergquint.com
  
  Sanders, who created the weekly show It’s Been a Minute, is the fourth host of color in the past year to leave NPR for commercial media. He’s joining Vox Media, owner of New York magazine, where he’ll host a new weekly podcast for the magazine’s culture vertical, Vulture. – Bloomberg
  
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• Arsonist Sets Trash Fire In Akron Art Museum

  09-03-2022 14:33 via wksu.org
  
  “Akron police have arrested a man accused of breaking into the Akron Art Museum and starting a small trash fire Sunday. … Executive Director Jon Fiume says there was no harm to the museum’s collection, and the only real damage was to a small window.” – WKSU (Akron/Kent, OH)
  
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• Olivier Award Nominations Led By “Cabaret”, “Anything Goes”, “Life Of Pi”

  09-03-2022 14:05 via bbc.com
  
  “A new production of the musical Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley leads the Olivier Award nominations with 11. It’s followed by a adaptation of best-selling novel Life of Pi and a revival of Anything Goes, with nine each.” – BBC
  
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• Russia oligarchs still able to exploit UK art market loopholes, experts say

  09-03-2022 13:57
  
  Warning that laundering of Kremlin-linked cash will be possible despite PM’s claim there is ‘nowhere to hide’Russian oligarchs will be able to exploit legal loopholes around Britain’s art market to evade sanctions and launder money, experts have warned, despite Boris Johnson’s claim there will be “nowhere to hide” from a clampdown on Kremlin-linked wealth.It comes as the Labour MP Chris Bryant warned that “valuable assets” are likely to be tr
  
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• Feeling the pinch? Go shoplifting! The Bristol art project tackling the cost of living crisis

  09-03-2022 11:59
  
  From a glitzy ‘debt gala’ to a considerations about whether stealing is in fact ‘a radical act of commoning’, artist Rachael Clerke’s Transactionland aims to lift the lid on economicsIt’s unusual to find a shop that encourages shoplifting. In Bristol, a new store goes further, providing an outfit for the purpose that includes a coat with extra inside pockets and a scarf with pouches for penny sweets.Rachael Clerke would not survive long as a real shopkeeper. B
  
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• Do We Want Them?

  09-03-2022 08:00 via artsjournal.com
  This is by far the longest period that Engaging Matters has been “dark” since its beginnings over ten years ago. And as time has passed the negative inertia has gotten overwhelming. As a result, in attempting to resume my writing I’ve been thinking I should find a way to ease back in.
  Fortunately, Seema Rau at Museum 2.0 recently wrote a post (Do We Really Want People to Visit?) that makes it possible for me to venture back largely by highlighting her points. (Thanks Seema!)Th
  
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• The Andy Warhol Diaries: the inner life of an artist no one really knew

  09-03-2022 07:14
  
  In a new Ryan Murphy-produced docuseries, the personal life of the elusive artist is examined from crushing insecurity to struggles with sexualityIn The Andy Warhol Diaries, a new six-episode Netflix documentary executive-produced by Ryan Murphy, the familiar details of the artist’s life are mostly covered within the first hour. There’s his tortured youth in Pittsburgh, where he drew portraits of his fellow schoolmates in attempts to stop their bullying; his early fondness for Campbe
  
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• Ukrainians in race to save cultural heritage

  09-03-2022 07:00
  
  Many believe destruction of cultural assets is part of Kremlin strategy to ‘erase’ Ukraine as independent sovereign stateUkraine-Russia war – latest updatesStanding in front of Lviv’s Latin cathedral, Lilya Onyshchenko offered her view of the invading Russians. “They are barbarians. They don’t care what they destroy,” she said. “I haven’t met Hitler. I think Putin is worse. He’s a devil, not a human,” she added, standing in the hi
  
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• Agreement: Museums Can Remove Sackler Name Without Penalty

  09-03-2022 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The Sacklers would also lose their naming rights at museums and other entities that have received their financial contributions a win for activists who have long accused the Sacklers of using philanthropy to “artwash” their complicity in the opioid crisis. – Hyperallergic
  
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