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• Towards A New Definition Of Scholarship

  29-03-2022 23:32 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  “We believe the time has come to move beyond the tired old ‘teaching versus research’ debate and give the familiar and honorable term ‘scholarship’ a broader more capacious meaning, one that brings legitimacy to the full range of academic work.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• The Difficulty Of Telling History

  29-03-2022 23:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  There is no one past. There are countless pasts. Mine. Yours. The billions, or at least millions, of people who were alive at any given moment. The great, great majority of them never meeting or even knowing of each other, having no discernible influence on each other. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Why This Moment Of Crises Is An Opportunity For Artists

  29-03-2022 22:32 via bloomberg.com
  Change is an act of creation, and that’s what artists do: Through a process of imagining, trying and building, artists create experiences that connect us to our own agency and power. We are in a moment when we urgently need these artists, culture bearers and creative workers. – Bloomberg
  
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• A San Francisco Dance Powerhouse Turns 50

  29-03-2022 22:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  The dance school offers an array of classes that are now both virtual and, finally, in-person. The theater offers some 150 performances a year of dance, music and performance art. The ODC umbrella embraces the Healthy Dancers’ Clinic, which offers free diagnostic services and seminars. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• The Motion Picture Academy Says It’s Trying To Be More Diverse. How’s It Doing?

  29-03-2022 21:29 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Even after that change, and after another year of invitees in 2021 that continued the trend, the Academy still stands at 81 percent white and 67 percent male. And, as a THR analysis of the 17 voting branches shows, the gains have been uneven, among the crafts in particular. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Not To Be Outdone By Abu Dhabi, Qatar Is Building Three More Major Museums

  29-03-2022 21:03 via artnews.com
  
  As Abu Dhabi continues work on its starchitect-studded Saadiyat Island cultural district, Qatar is following suit with Lusail (designed by Herzog and de Meuron), the Qatar Auto Museum (OMA), and the Art Mill (Elemental) joining the National Museum (Jean Nouvel) and the Museum of Islamic Art (I.M. Pei). – ARTnews
  
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• Indian State Gives Money To Takes Young Students To Museums

  29-03-2022 20:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Bihar’s Ministry of Education has pledged to provide 20,000 rupee ($260) to every primary school in the state for museum visits, with the money going towards transport, entry tickets and lunches. While the sum might not seem great, multiplied by the state’s 67,000 eligible schools, it amounts to more than $17.4m. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Over 20 Years, Grant Gershon Has Transformed The L.A. Master Chorale

  29-03-2022 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Before he took the helm, it was a group of largely amateur singers doing “the chestnuts of the golden age of choral music.” Now its 100 members are AGMA-card-carrying pros with whom Gershon has given 45 world premieres, and the group’s budget has doubled. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Internet As An Idea (That We’re Trapped In)

  29-03-2022 19:32 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  The crisis really heats up when the algorithm’s structuring power bends back upon us and constrains us into thinking of ourselves as if we were algorithmic systems. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• A National Geographic Brief History Of Hula

  29-03-2022 19:04 via nationalgeographic.com
  
  How a sacred Hawaiian dance and music ritual was canceled, commercialized, and finally, revived. – National Geographic
  
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• How Much Of Their Work Should Choreographers Post Online?

  29-03-2022 18:31 via dancemagazine.com
  
  It’s a complex calculus, asking artists to become experts in marketing, video editing and budgeting, in addition to dancemaking. But when it comes to curating your digital dance footprint, finding the sweet spot between too much and too little can yield a huge payoff, allowing for all kinds of new opportunities. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Even With The Will Smith-Chris Rock Bitch-Slap, There Are Two Americas

  29-03-2022 18:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  Jemele Hill: “By that I mean: Black people and white people aren’t necessarily talking about the incident in the same way. … I can’t help but notice the disproportionate outrage that many people in white America — and many in the Hollywood elite — are showing.” – The Atlantic
  
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• ‘We saved each other’: Alvaro Barrington’s 90s hip-hop exhibition

  29-03-2022 17:46
  
  The artist has assembled a tribute to the 90s hip-hop stars who defined an era and struggled against a society that tried to label them as lesserFor his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, London-based artist Alvaro Barrington hosted an all-day barbecue in the Blum & Poe gallery parking lot and invited Ghostface Killah to perform. From the pop-up stage, the Wu-Tang Clan scion looked out on the crowd and bashfully called it “mixed”; there were adult Ghostface fans as well their
  
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• The Music Catalog Business Is Booming

  29-03-2022 17:31 via tinyurl.com
  
  Catalog valuations have shot up in recent years. In 2021, investors paid multiples equivalent to around 22 times the net publisher’s share of royalties—a standard industry measure of income—up from 11 times in 2015, data from investment bank Shot Tower Capital shows. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• RT America, The Russian State Broadcaster’s DC Bureau, Was Just Weird

  29-03-2022 17:03 via theatlantic.com
  
  “But its weirdness is much harder to explain if you can’t look at any of its deeply weird clips,” most of which have vanished from the Web. “From the start, the channel was staffed by has-beens, oddballs, and extremely young people.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Aaron Sorkin Is Writing A New Script For “Camelot”

  29-03-2022 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  André Bishop, chief of Lincoln Center Theater (where the show debuts next fall) and director Bartlett Sher asked Sorkin to consider the project. “It was the fastest I’ve ever said yes to anything.” Among the changes he’s making is removing everything magic or supernatural from the script. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Post-Sacklers, Museums Are Adding “Morals Clauses” To Donor Agreements

  29-03-2022 16:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “When a wealthy donor agrees to support an institution in return for naming rights, the lawyers increasingly draw up contracts with carefully worded ‘morals clauses’. Such clauses ‘allow an institution to protect themselves in the event of a donor falling from grace.'” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine In Jordan

  29-03-2022 15:34 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “Located in the Khashabiyeh Mountains …, the shrine features two large standing stones carved with anthropomorphic figures, as well as an altar and hearth. The team also found almost 150 marine fossils and a small-scale model of a ‘desert kite’ trap used to capture and slaughter wild gazelles.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Did Target Yank A Bunch Of LGBTQ Books From Its Website?

  29-03-2022 15:01 via publishersweekly.com
  “On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books — many of them by debut authors — were inexplicably missing from Target’s website, despite a number of the titles having previously been listed for pre-order.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• New York City’s New Mayor Suggests Cutting $72 Million From Arts Budget

  29-03-2022 14:33 via hyperallergic.com
  
  In February “the mayor released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 that proposes slashing one-third of the city’s culture budget. So how does the mayor’s grandiose rhetoric about New York’s cultural comeback match up with his budgetary policy?” (Poorly.) – Hyperallergic
  
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• British Museum facing legal action over Parthenon marbles 3D scan refusal

  29-03-2022 11:32
  
  Institute for Digital Archaeology says it intends to serve injunction against museum imminentlyThe British Museum is facing legal action from one of the UK’s leading heritage preservation organisations over its refusal to allow the 3D scanning of a piece in its Parthenon marbles collection. The Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) has said it would serve an injunction against the museum imminently, raising the stakes in the dispute between the two. Continue reading...
  
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