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• The Arts’ Digital Problem

  18-03-2022 23:03 via theconversation.com
  
  Digitalization has affected both the demand and supply for cultural content. Increasingly sophisticated technology and adoption of digital devices to experience things remote because of the pandemic have developed a taste for new ways to “tour” museums, “attend” theatre and participate in book readings. – The Conversation
  
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• Met Animates Under-Seen Rococo With Disney

  18-03-2022 22:28 via artforum.com
  
  The Met’s eighteenth-century “decorative arts” usually languish in the museum’s emptiest galleries. Yet when Disney animated them into characters like the candlestick Lumiére in Beauty and the Beast or into scenes in Cinderella (1950)… – ArtForum
  
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• Why Are Black Women Museum Leaders Quitting?

  18-03-2022 22:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  The swift departures of these women in leadership positions have generally been swept under the proverbial rug, where these women quietly navigate the complexities of their short tenures. – Artnet
  
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• How The Dua Lipa Plagiarism Case Could Change Music

  18-03-2022 21:31 via slate.com
  
  If either Artikal Sound System or Linzer and Brown win their case, songwriters may have even more to worry about. Will one measure of similar music be legitimate grounds for a lawsuit then? – Slate
  
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• Remembering Dance Critic Clement Crisp, 95

  18-03-2022 21:01 via theartsdesk.com
  
  Crisp’s dance reviews for the Financial Times – “the pink ‘un” – from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and – often – their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight. – The Arts Desk
  
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• The Anti-Putin Songs That Have Gone Viral In Ukraine

  18-03-2022 20:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  A track titled “Bayraktar,” of indeterminate origin, has been receiving hundreds of thousands of plays online, and is in rotation on Ukrainian radio. Over a simple beat, a gravelly voice insults Russian President Vladmir Putin’s forces. – The Atlantic
  
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• Neal Stephenson, The Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Sci-Fi Writer

  18-03-2022 19:59 via thebaffler.com
  
  His 1992 novel Snow Crash is the source of the trem “metaverse”; his 1999 Cryptonomicon basically predicted cryptocurrency. With fans from Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates to Peter Thiel to Sergey Brin, “Neal Stephenson might be the most influential novelist among business tycoons since Ayn Rand.” – The Baffler
  
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• 15 Things That Suck About Museums

  18-03-2022 19:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Walking around a museum can feel a little off-putting when you know that workers aren’t being paid a fair wage — and, in the case of the Penn Museum, are even subject to union busting. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Why Don’t More North American Orchestras Have Adequate HR Staff?

  18-03-2022 19:01 via van-magazine.com
  
  Orchestral musicians have difficult jobs, yes. But they have notoriously low job satisfaction, and the workplace atmosphere can become fraught or even toxic. But orchestra personnel managers rarely have HR training, and few administrations have personnel professionals to manage the problems that inevitably arise. – Van
  
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• Classical Music, Politics, And The Ethics Around War

  18-03-2022 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  The reactions to people being banned and insisting, Oh, we’re not politicians, we’re artists, and therefore what we’re doing is not political—I think that musicologists are alert to that and raise an eyebrow and say, like, No, even if you think you’re not political, we’re all political actors. – The New Yorker
  
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• How Brooklyn Mack Suddenly Found Himself In Charge Of A Ballet Company

  18-03-2022 18:02 via postandcourier.com
  
  The company is the one where Mack first studied, Columbia Classical Ballet in South Carolina. Last fall, artistic director Radenko Pavlovich visited his hometown, Sarajevo — and never came back, becoming ballet master there and recommended his star pupil to fill in at CCB for the season. – Free Times (Columbia, SC)
  
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• End Of An Era: Humana Theatre Festival Calls It Quits

  18-03-2022 17:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Several of the more than 400 plays presented at the festival have gone on to win wider accolades — “The Gin Game” by D.L. Coburn, “Dinner With Friends” by Donald Margulies and “Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley, all won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama — and the event is often regarded as a milestone in the careers of emerging playwrights. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Nobody can even find a photograph of him. He’s quite mysterious’ – OMD’s Andy McCluskey on Maurice Wade

  18-03-2022 17:31
  
  The Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark founder fell in love with the British painter’s empty landscapes – and convinced Robbie Williams to buy one. He explains their melancholic beautyAndy McCluskey remembers vividly the first time he came up close and personal with a Maurice Wade painting. The Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark co-founder was at a gallery in Hale, Cheshire, enquiring about a different artwork altogether when it stopped him in his tracks. “I walked in and there i
  
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• In Russia, Ballet Has Always Been Tied Up With Politics And Diplomacy

  18-03-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “As a wordless art, dance travels well. With strong links to the Kremlin, the Bolshoi has been hailed as Russia’s ‘secret weapon’ by former prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, sent abroad to ‘achieve our goals’, he said, unabashed about using the ballet studio as an arsenal of soft power.” – The Guardian
  
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• Does The Rock ‘N Roll Hall Need A Name Change?

  18-03-2022 16:32 via cleveland.com
  
  When the artists being nominated and inducted are questioning their own “rock and roll” credentials, does the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have a fundamental problem? – The Plain Dealer
  
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• Quick Study: The Arts in Social Prescribing

  18-03-2022 16:21 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we discuss the phenomenon of social prescribing of the arts, its traction in the UK, and growing interest among arts/health researchers and practitioners. A transcript of this podcast is available at the NEA website.Click here for the most recent episode of Quick Study.
  
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• The Tories’ Culture-War Politics Have Britain’s Museums Confused And Worried

  18-03-2022 16:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  Administrators and staffers are “‘taken aback’ by the apparent cognitive dissonance between directives … to increase diversity and improve access both in their programming and infrastructure, and the blowback received from members of the government when they complied. The apparent catch-22 has created a culture of fear.” – Artnet
  
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• Annie Flanders, Who Founded Details Magazine, Dead At 82

  18-03-2022 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “In a way, she formed that ’80s culture, which became not just an American phenomenon but an international one. We who were in the trenches (couldn’t) see it ourselves. … Annie was able to stand back and see the glamour in it and sell tickets to it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Would Chekhov Weep? A Drama Critic On Russia’s Bombing Of The Mariupol Theater

  18-03-2022 15:01 via msn.com
  
  Peter Marks: “Russia is a nation of passionate theater-, music-, and dance-lovers. … It is beyond comprehension that terrified women and children could turn to a theater for physical security and have their safe space shattered by a (Russian) force set on destroying Chekhov’s humane legacy.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Renaissance codpieces, Jenny Saville on the Holocaust and fungi fun – the week in art

  18-03-2022 14:49
  
  Hew Locke brings his bricolage to Tate Britain, the V&A explores male fashion ancient and modern, while robot futurism hits St Ives – all in your weekly dispatchHew Locke
  This artist of warm, expansive bricolage takes on the vast spaces of Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries
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• There Are 200 Priceless Artworks From Moscow On View In Paris. Will They Make It Back To Russia?

  18-03-2022 14:32 via slate.com
  
  The exhibition from the Morozov Collection — estimated to be worth $2 billion, with pieces by (among others) Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, and some of Russia’s greatest artists — at the Fondation Louis Vuitton may be the most popular art show in French history.  And it’s now in a difficult position. – Slate
  
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• Can The Art World Live Without Its Fixes Of Russian Oligarchs’ Money?

  18-03-2022 14:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The Russian robber barons’ colossal fortunes have had an outsize effect not only on the commercial market, but on museums and not-for-profit galleries and exhibitions as well. – The Guardian
  
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• UK Revokes RT/Russia Today’s Broadcast License

  18-03-2022 13:34 via bbc.com
  
  The media regulator Ofcom’s announcement said, “Following an independent regulatory process, we have found that RT is not fit and proper to hold a licence in the UK.” Ofcom currently has 29 investigations into the “due impartiality” of the news channel’s coverage. – BBC
  
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• What’s The Most Fortified Building In Odessa? The Opera House

  18-03-2022 13:05 via msn.com
  
  “The barricades blocking the path to the Odessa Opera and Ballet begin three blocks away. Two more walls like that further protect the entrance. Antitank hedgehogs — metal rods welded together in a cluster — fill the spaces between the cordons.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Ukraine’s best loved artist: the peasant woman whose terrifying paintings fooled Stalin

  18-03-2022 13:00
  
  Maria Prymachenko, honoured on Ukraine’s money, created seemingly happy scenes of animals and rural life. But look closer and you can see the horrors unleashed on her country by a brutal dictatorAt the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, two colossal pavilions faced each other down. One was Hitler’s Germany, crowned with a Nazi eagle. The other was Stalin’s Soviet Union, crowned with a statue of a worker and a peasant holding hands. It was a symbolic clash at a moment when
  
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• Ukraine’s best loved artist: ‘Once again a symbol of survival in the midst of a dictator’s war’

  18-03-2022 13:00
  
  Maria Prymachenko, honoured on Ukraine’s money, created seemingly happy scenes of animals and rural life. But look closer at this peasant woman’s work and you can see the horrors unleashed on her country by StalinAt the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, two colossal pavilions faced each other down. One was Hitler’s Germany, crowned with a Nazi eagle. The other was Stalin’s Soviet Union, crowned with a statue of a worker and a peasant holding hands. It was a symbolic
  
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• Ukraine’s best loved artist: ‘A symbol of survival in the midst of a dictator’s war’

  18-03-2022 13:00
  
  Maria Prymachenko, honoured on Ukraine’s money, created seemingly happy scenes of animals and rural life. But look closer at this peasant woman’s work and you can see the horrors unleashed on her country by StalinAt the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, two colossal pavilions faced each other down. One was Hitler’s Germany, crowned with a Nazi eagle. The other was Stalin’s Soviet Union, crowned with a statue of a worker and a peasant holding hands. It was a symbolic
  
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• Cannibalism and genocide: the horrific visions of Ukraine’s best loved artist

  18-03-2022 13:00
  
  Maria Prymachenko created seemingly happy scenes of rural life. But look closer and you see the terror unleashed on her country by Stalin. Now her work has once again become a national symbol, duplicated at rallies worldwideAt the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, two colossal pavilions faced each other down. One was Hitler’s Germany, crowned with a Nazi eagle. The other was Stalin’s Soviet Union, crowned with a statue of a worker and a peasant holding hands. It was a symbolic
  
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• Ryan Gander’s dolos opens a sculpture trail for the Yorkshire coast

  18-03-2022 08:00
  
  ‘Giant brutalist-looking shape’ can only be finished by nature, says the artist, making a point about the climate crisis Putting a large concrete block used to protect coastlines against erosion at the top of a cliff rather than at the foot of it is odd, the artist Ryan Gander cheerfully admits.Calling it art may also get some people’s backs up too. But that’s fine. “I love Korean and Japanese food and I detest pizza,” he said. “That doesn’t mean w
  
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