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• What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year

  24-03-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  The streaming giant said 52,600 artists earned more than $10,000 (£7,500) from Spotify in 2021. Of those, 130 were paid more than $5m (£3.8m) over the last 12 months. – BBC
  
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• ‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid

  24-03-2022 22:59
  
  He created the image file format that defined an internet culture for decades in 1987 while working at CompuServeIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then a gif is worth millions. The image file format has been a defining element of internet culture for decades, with glass-raising DiCaprios and mic-dropping Obamas facilitating self-expression in a faceless digital world. And we have one man to thank for all the jokes, snark and praise: Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the gif, who died last week,
  
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• Quote Mill: Do These References Actually Mean Anything?

  24-03-2022 22:27 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Think of all the speeches peppered with statements attributed to revered predecessors. Listeners are supposed to infer that the speaker has drawn upon a vast reservoir of material gathered from a lifetime of reading. But no: it was probably a quote pulled from such a compilation after two or three minutes of looking. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Today’s Slang Versus Yesterday’s Cool Words

  24-03-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Whenever I see people in old movies say “Swell!” or the like, I always wonder what other kinds of things they said when we weren’t listening. There’s no reason to think they weren’t as linguistically fun as we are now. – The New York Times
  
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• Is Our Ability To Distinguish Geometry What Distinguishes Humans?

  24-03-2022 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  What was the simplest task in the geometric domain — independent of natural language, culture, education — that might reveal a signature difference between human and nonhuman primates? The challenge was to measure not merely visual perception but a deeper cognitive process. – The New York Times
  
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• When Bad News Strikes Your Small Arts Organization (Can You Recover?)

  24-03-2022 21:01 via post-gazette.com
  
  Growth under these conditions is incredibly difficult, and of course the pandemic has thrown a giant monkey wrench in operations for nonprofits around the country, including Resonance Works. Where to begin? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Using VR To Study Pompeii’s Design Choices

  24-03-2022 20:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  The paper argues that eye-catching elements in a Pompeiian home would have been important status symbols, with buildings designed to highlight some features while minimizing others. Using angled walls or building raised floors, for instance, would have made a home’s interior seem larger and more impressive. – Artnet
  
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• On Artists, Addiction, And The End Of The Myth That The Two Go Together

  24-03-2022 20:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. … The myth of the high-functioning addict whose great work was fueled by liquor and drugs has become, if not entirely passé, at least less visible.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• The Internet’s Powerful Currency: Shame

  24-03-2022 19:29 via newyorker.com
  
  What’s curious about the brutality that fuels Internet shaming frenzies is that in real life—that is, IRL, in the usual online parlance—most of us would hesitate to consign a normal nobody to nationwide notoriety and several years of unemployment. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Author Of The Graphic Memoir “Gender Queer” On Having Her Life Story Caught Up In The Culture Wars

  24-03-2022 19:03 via slate.com
  
  Maia Kobabe: “I’m learning that a book being challenged or banned does not hurt the book and does not hurt the author. The book is selling better than ever. … A book challenge is like a community attacking itself. The people who are hurt in a challenge are the marginalized readers.” – Slate
  
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• Former NY City Ballet Dancer Starts New Career As Surgeon

  24-03-2022 18:31 via nypost.com
  
  Likolani Brown Arthurs, 36, spent 15 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. Now, she’s moving to a new stage: NYU Langone’s operating theater, where the retired ballerina will begin her surgical residency. – New York Post
  
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• This Brave And Skillful Actor Is On Standby For Every Male Role In “Hamilton”

  24-03-2022 18:05 via theage.com.au
  
  “Jimmie ‘JJ’ Jeter … is halfway down the Australian Hamilton cast list, described merely as ‘standby’. But he’s played every single male role in the show – including the title role on Broadway for a month. And at any moment he might be asked to do it again.” – The Age (Melbourne)
  
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• Pianist Boris Berezovsky Dropped By Management After Pro-Putin War Comments

  24-03-2022 17:32 via classical-music.com
  
  At one point he said: ‘There are important political analysts in the West who claim that it is their part of the world that is to blame for the situation in Ukraine.’ At another moment the 53-year-old pianist asked a military officer: ‘Should we really care about the timeline (of the ‘military operation’)? – Classical Music
  
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• These Days, Being A Public Librarian In America Can Be Dangerous

  24-03-2022 17:02 via electricliterature.com
  
  Amanda Oliver, author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, recounts some incidents from her years working in the DC library system, cautioning against the romanticization of public libraries and their equalizing role in society. – Electric Literature
  
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• Slaughterhouse 6

  24-03-2022 16:44 via artsjournal.com
  “Odessa like Dresden one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It is utterly unbelievable.”—  Gerard Bellaart 
  ISOLATEDThe crows scream
  and fly to town in whirring flight:
  soon it will snow —
  happy he who now still has a home! . . .The world — a gate
  to a thousand wastelands dumb and cold!
  Whoever has lost
  what you have lost, rests nowwhere . . .—Friedrich Nietzsche
  
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• Louisville Orchestra Creates A Creators Corps

  24-03-2022 16:31 via courier-journal.com
  The Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps will employ and house multiple full-time composers, called “creators,” to represent all musical genres. In return, the creators will regularly present new music for both the Louisville Orchestra and the community. – Louisville Courier-Journal
  
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• With Hollywood Cutting Them Off, Russian Movie Theaters Are Turning To Bollywood

  24-03-2022 16:04 via themoscowtimes.com
  
  Without access to big American blockbusters that reliably put butts in their seats, cinema chains in Russia will turn to domestically-made films as well as titles from Latin America and East Asia, but they’ll depend most on Indian movies, which have pulled in big audiences there before. – The Moscow Times
  
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• At Nearly 80, Meredith Monk Is Finally Creating Music Other Performers Can Do Without Her

  24-03-2022 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “It’s difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. … When other people want to do my work, I insist that they work closely with me or members of my ensemble before they even start.” – The Guardian
  
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• Photojournalist Lynsey Addario on showing the face of war

  24-03-2022 15:13 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been making news herself lately: she recently took what many consider to be a war defining photograph–that of a church worker, a mother and her children killed by a mortar as they tried to flee the Russian bombardment outside Kyiv. It’s a photograph that resonated around the world, showing clearly the cost civilians are paying for the war in Ukraine.  Working regularly for the New York Times, Addario has been documenting the cost of war—
  
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• A Dance Company Finds Its Way After The Sudden Death Of Its Founder

  24-03-2022 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When Nai-Ni Chen died in a swimming accident in Hawaii last December, her company’s executive director — also her widower, Andrew Chiang — was unsure whether to disband the company or attempt to keep it alive. Gia Kourlas reports on the trio of women Chiang turned to. – The New York Times
  
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• The Oscar-Nominated Film “CODA” Will Be Adapted As A Stage Musical

  24-03-2022 14:35 via deadline.com
  
  The adaptation will be done by the film’s producers and Deaf West Theatre, the Los Angeles company known for its hit Broadway productions of Big River (2004) and Spring Awakening (2016). – Deadline
  
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• Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery

  24-03-2022 14:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as their own, was destroyed by an airstrike on Monday morning, Ukrainian media and the head of Ukraine’s artists union reported.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel Paris)

  24-03-2022 13:34 via news.artnet.com
  
  The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced “Parris Pluss” or “Paree Pluice”?) – Artnet
  
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• We’ve Been Calling Machu Picchu By The Wrong Name All This Time

  24-03-2022 13:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO World Heritage Site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu – the name of a peak overlooking the ruins – or simply Picchu.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘She’s creating her own language’: Christine Sun Kim’s unique sound art

  24-03-2022 07:52
  
  The acclaimed artist discusses her work and relationship to sound and sign language, showcased in a large new mural in New YorkAt the Queens Museum, artist Christine Sun Kim’s newly completed mural features the words TIME OWES ME REST AGAIN, scrawled in black, spanning a crisp white wall, 40ft high and 100ft wide. The familiar action lines you would recognize from comic books set the words in motion: “TIME” hops along a pair of bouncing curves; “OWES” zips down to t
  
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• Executive Director – Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

  24-03-2022 03:28 via artsjournal.com
  05_Petal PICKETTExecutive Director – Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre – PBT seeks a collaborative and engaged organizational leader to build on its strong financial foundation and to guide it into a new era of imagining what a ballet organization can be.PBT’s dancers, staff, faculty and board members bring a passionate commitment to its success. Working closely with the Artistic Director and the Board, the Executive Director will develop, evaluate, and execute strategies to connect m
  
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