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• Are You Stuck In “Goblin Mode”?

  01-04-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  “Goblin mode” is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm. This state of being is defined by behaviours that feel reminiscent of deep lockdown days – never getting out of bed, never changing into real clothes, grazing from tins or packets instead of cooking… – The Conversation
  
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• How To Stop DoomScrolling

  01-04-2022 23:01 via wired.com
  
  “Doomscrolling is essentially an avoidance technique used to cope with anxiety, so wherever you are vulnerable to anxiety, doomscrolling can become an unhealthy coping mechanism.” – Wired
  
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• Scientist Proposes That Information Might Be The “Fifth State Of Matter”

  01-04-2022 22:32 via popularmechanics.com
  
  The mass-energy-information equivalence principle Melvin Vopson proposed in his 2019 AIP Advances paper assumes that a digital information bit—used for digital data storage today—is not just physical, but has a “finite and quantifiable mass while it stores information.” – Popular Mechanics
  
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• Why Australia Needs A Ministry Of Culture

  01-04-2022 22:01 via artshub.com.au
  There is abundant evidence to show the government’s financial support for the arts and culture has been significantly reduced over many years. Today the arts don’t even rate a mention in the title of the government department responsible for them. – ArtsHub
  
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• Time For Hollywood To Rethink Its China Strategy?

  01-04-2022 21:32 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In 2021, just 20 revenue-sharing U.S. titles were released in Chinese cinemas, compared with 31 U.S. tentpole releases before the pandemic, in 2019. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Charo Is Not A Ditzy Cuchi-Cuchi Woman, She Only Plays One. She Is A Very Serious Guitarist.

  01-04-2022 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  She studied with Andrés Segovia and is a virtuoso in classical and flamenco styles. “At her shows, after she sings and gyrates to a set of disco numbers,” writes Amanda Hess, “she slips backstage, emerges in the tuxedo, picks up the guitar and blows everybody’s mind.” – The New York Times
  
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• Through the lens of Hoda Afshar: rocks and ritual on Iran’s windswept islands – in pictures

  01-04-2022 21:00
  
  For her latest work, Iranian-born Melbourne-based photographic artist Hoda Afshar – best known for highlighting the plight of refugees on Manus Island – returned to her homeland to photograph the lives and landscapes on the enigmatic islands off the southern coast of Iran, in the Strait of Hormuz. Incorporating documentary portraiture, landscape and video installation, the Speak the Wind series is part of the Photo 2022 international festival of photography showing in Melbourne and r
  
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• Conservative Media Groups Says It Will Spend $100 Million On Kids Programming (To Counter Disney)

  01-04-2022 20:32 via axios.com
  
  “Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in a statement. – Axios
  
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• Meet The Guy Who Plays The Western Villains In Chinese Movies

  01-04-2022 20:04 via bbc.com
  
  Almost nobody knows him back home in England, but in China — thanks to a chance meeting while waiting to renew his visa — Kevin Lee (or Kaiwen Li in Chinese) has become a familiar face in several popular action franchises. – BBC
  
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• NY Public Libraries Ended Late Fees. Old Books Began Rolling In

  01-04-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “I can’t tell you how stressed out these fines made our customers,” said Tienya Smith, a librarian who runs the branch in Long Island City, Queens. “Not having these fees erases all of that.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Guardian view on museums and communities: shaping the future | Editorial

  01-04-2022 19:25
  
  The UK’s galleries need not just protect the past. They can be ethical actors in the presentThe 20th-century philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer considered the encounter between the viewer and a work of art to be a dynamic relationship. Meeting a work of art made in the past involves a jolt, a reaction, an actual event, in the present. Coming across the same work of art later will set up another event, another reaction, in which the artwork will be, as it were, activated afresh by the intellect
  
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• Ashton Hawkins, 84, The Man Who Made The Met Work

  01-04-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  If his name was less well known to the museumgoing public than those of Met directors like Thomas Hoving or Philippe de Montebello, two towering figures under whom Mr. Hawkins served, he was their near-equal when it came to the ultra-rarified networks that undergird the museum. – The New York Times
  
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• The Racy Roots And Louche Beginnings Of Kabuki Theatre

  01-04-2022 18:04 via apollo-magazine.com
  
  It’s now an elaborate, rarefied classical art form, but kabuki got its start in the red-light district across the river from Kyoto in 1603, and several of the genre’s important conventions were introduced as ways to curb all the vice tied up with kabuki in its early years. – Apollo
  
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• Mikhail Baryshnikov On The Russian War On Ukraine

  01-04-2022 17:32 via sfexaminer.com
  
  “From the start of the invasion of Ukraine by the armies of Vladimir Putin, I’ve felt deep dread and a certainty that this will be a bloody and horrific conflict,” writes Baryshnikov, in the submission titled, “The Ukrainians are fighting for all of us.” – San Francisco Examiner
  
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• The Medieval Manuscripts That Offer Health Care And Household Tips

  01-04-2022 17:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Compiled by a French noblewoman circa 1256 and copied across Europe over the next two centuries, the Régime du corps (“body regimen”) survives in 70-odd manuscripts that “offer a window into many aspects of everyday medieval life – from sleeping, bathing and preparing food to bloodletting, leeching and purging.” – The Conversation
  
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• YouTube’s Most Notorious Stars Seem To Be Burning Out Or Growing Up

  01-04-2022 16:35 via buzzfeednews.com
  
  “Many of them seem tired of the demands of online celebrity and seem to be moving on from pushing for ever more shocking videos. And while it’s made them a lot of money, it seems many of YouTube’s biggest stars are facing reckonings about whether it’s been worth it.” – BuzzFeed
  
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• Facebook And Instagram Hired Republican Strategy Firm To Trash TikTok In The News Media

  01-04-2022 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s umbrella corporation for Facebook and the companies it’s bought, has been paying conservative consulting group Targeted Victory to place letters to the editor and op-ed essays portraying TikTok as a danger to American children and teens. – The Guardian
  
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• Frank Auerbach: Unseen review – art that restores a sense of what it is to be human

  01-04-2022 15:23
  
  Newlands House Gallery, Sussex
  Holocaust orphan Auerbach’s stunning paintings – tangled masses with hints of horror – have been brought out of the Tate’s vaults to resonate poignantly in a time of warIt would be lovely to write about Frank Auerbach, just once, without mentioning his childhood, and I suspect the artist would prefer it. But as war once again destroys cities and people in Europe, his story has terrible relevance. Frank Helmut Auerbach was born in Berlin in 1
  
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• Classical Radio In The US Has Done Astoundingly Well Through The Pandemic

  01-04-2022 15:04 via current.org
  
  “Stations rose to the occasion to provide refuge from a world that felt scary and uncertain. That has translated into ratings records” — WDAV in Charlotte actually reached no. 1 in its market — “strong fundraising and a reminder of the value of classical stations to local arts organizations.” – Current
  
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• Russian Artists Abroad On Putin’s War And Oppression And The Prospects Of Returning Home

  01-04-2022 14:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Sarah Kaufman talks to performers who’ve been expatriates for decades but sometimes work in Russia (such as conductor Vladimir Jurowski) and one (theater director Dmitry Krymov) who happened to be traveling to a gig in Philadelphia when the war started and won’t be going back. – The Washington Post
  
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• $1.3 Million Worth Of Looted Asian Art Impounded From Ivy League School

  01-04-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  “More than a dozen artifacts linked to infamous antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor were seized from an (unnamed) Ivy League school’s art gallery on Wednesday by Homeland Security. Twelve of the 13 artifacts were allegedly looted from India, and one item originated from Burma.” – ARTnews
  
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• The power of Auerbach, the perils of Venice and seaside pleasures from Martin Parr – the week in art

  01-04-2022 13:00
  
  Head to Petworth for Frank Auerbach, Greenwich for Canaletto and Bournemouth forthe beach– all in your weekly dispatchFrank Auerbach: Unseen
  One of the most powerful painters of modern times gets a survey of his work so far.
  • Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, from 2 April Continue reading...
  
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• James Butler obituary

  01-04-2022 12:04
  
  One of Britain’s leading figurative sculptors whose subjects ranged from Richard III to Jomo KenyattaJames Butler, who has died aged 90, was one of Britain’s foremost figurative sculptors. His lively and popular representations of national and local heroes, from Richard III in Leicester to the footballer Billy Wright in Wolverhampton, grace many a British square, street and stadium precinct.Butler came to prominence in 1972, when he was elected a full Royal Academician, and received
  
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• Nashville Symphony Orchestra seeks COO

  01-04-2022 06:40 via artsjournal.com
  The Nashville Symphony invites applications and nominations for the position of Chief Operating Officer, available in the spring of 2022.The OpportunityThis position presents a unique opportunity to join a dynamic organization in a thriving and expanding community known the world over as Music City. The Nashville Symphony has occupied a singular role in Nashville’s history, collaborating with artists from diverse genres and crafting a distinctive body of work celebrating the music of Amer
  
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• The Protestors Who Have Been Protesting Russian Performers For Years

  01-04-2022 00:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Even as the annexation of Crimea faded from the media, Signerbusters kept showing up to concerts, draped in Ukrainian flags, equipped with signs and spirit. Sometimes there were just two or three of them present. Still, for eight years, Signerbusters say they have never missed a show. – Washington Post
  
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