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• Saltz: A Whitney Biennial That Works

  04-04-2022 23:14 via vulture.com
  
  It’s great to have the Biennial back — to talk about, to love and hate — after it was postponed a year because of the pandemic. The Biennial has always trafficked in the contemporary, but this year’s offering, even with the inclusion of deceased artists, radiates with the power of now. – New York Magazine
  
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• Pianist Joseph Kalichstein, 76

  04-04-2022 22:28 via washingtonpost.com
  Over a career that spanned half a century, Mr. Kalichstein presented thoughtful, impassioned and deeply musical performances of the piano repertoire from Bach, Mozart and Brahms through the masters of the early 20th century, including Bartok, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. – Washington Post
  
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• The Choreography That Works On TikTok

  04-04-2022 21:45 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Although the dance challenge “aesthetic” has undoubtedly fed the app’s popularity, there’s more going on in the dance world of TikTok. – Dance Magazine
  
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• How Technology Is Connecting Musicians With Audiences

  04-04-2022 21:02 via post-gazette.com
  
  Here’s an app that helps connects smaller bands and audiences with venues off the beaten path, some of them way off. The majority of concert venues listed on SideDoor are in peoples’ homes — but there are also quirkier spaces. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Are Audiences Returning To Broadway?

  04-04-2022 20:14 via thestage.co.uk
  In aggregate, Broadway grosses are on the rise, consistent with what’s typically seen as spring begins in New York and a spate of new shows open. But those big numbers at the top end serve to mask some less bold numbers. – The Stage
  
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• ‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist

  04-04-2022 19:34
  
  AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da’s robotic arm moves slowly, dipping in to a paint palette then making slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her.This, according to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot – Ai-Da, is “mind-blowing” and “groundbreaking” stuff. Continue reading...
  
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• Daniel Harding With Some Wisdom About Conducting

  04-04-2022 19:32 via van-magazine.com
  
  At the beginning, you say something about legato, and people look at you like, “I don’t know what he’s talking about.” After a year, they say, “Oh yes.” Just by constantly raising the issue when you’re bothered by it, people start to understand what it is, what it feels like or what it sounds like. – Van
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet Performs In Support Of Russia’s War

  04-04-2022 18:44 via france24.com
  
  Among its goals are “support for the Russian audience, those who help our army” and “assistance to evacuees from Donbas”, referring to eastern Ukrainian regions controlled by pro-Moscow separatists. – France 24
  
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• Prado creates palette of odours to make scents of Brueghel painting

  04-04-2022 18:12
  
  Madrid gallery’s new exhibition will allow visitors to inhale fragrances of 10 items seen in The Sense of Smell The 17th-century Italian cardinal Federico Borromeo was so impressed with Jan Brueghel the Elder’s work that he once wrote to the artist, declaring he could smell spring itself in the minute petals and leaves that bloomed from the Flemish master’s brush.Four hundred years later, those with less olfactory imaginations can head to the Prado in Madrid to fill their nostr
  
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• On Reforming Classical Music’s Canon

  04-04-2022 18:02 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  The very concept of a historical canon has become toxic, and with classical music no longer the player it was 75 years ago, this antihistorical attitude threatens to drive appreciation of classical music even further from its one-time pride of place in general culture. – The American Scholar
  
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• Florence’s Uffizi gallery named Italy’s most visited cultural site for first time

  04-04-2022 17:51
  
  Institution’s huge popularity follows years of innovation under German-born director Eike SchmidtFlorence’s Uffizi gallery has become Italy’s most visited cultural site for the first time following years of innovation under the German-born director Eike Schmidt during which it has even branched out into contemporary art.Once a slow-changing bastion of tradition, it was announced on Monday that the institution famous for its Renaissance masterpieces had last year leapt past Rome
  
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• Cliburn Competition Chooses Six Russian Pianists To Compete

  04-04-2022 17:29 via dallasnews.com
  
  While decrying the invasion, a statement from the Cliburn says the Russian-born pianists “are not officials of their government, nor is their participation in the Cliburn state-sponsored.” – Dallas Morning News
  
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• The Phenomenon Called AOC

  04-04-2022 17:13 via artsjournal.com
  “How did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an unknown bartender and activist, become the youngest woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and one of its most talked-about figures? And what is her possible future?” Those are the two biggest questions to be posed to Lisa Miller, Rebecca Traister, and Michael Kazin at the Leon Levy Center for Biography.
  From left: Photo of AOC on the book cover; panelists Lisa Miller, Rebecca Traister, and Michael Kazin.The discussion — using
  
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• ‘We give them permission to deceive us’: the power and privilege of the magician

  04-04-2022 17:07
  
  In a new exhibition, artist Derek Fordjour looks at magic through the ages and how it speaks to our obsession with the art of the hustleAbout a year and a half ago, the artist Derek Fordjour picked up a copy of Black Herman’s Secrets Of Magic, Mystery And Legerdemain, a highly fictionalized memoir by the most esteemed Black magician of the early 20th century. “I’m not sure I believed his claims,” Fordjour tells the Guardian, recounting the magician’s improbable tale
  
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• Is There Any Way To Win The Fight Against Disinformation?

  04-04-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Yes, but it won’t be top-down. “Factchecking outfits may do good work, but they are missing a crucial component: the power of the crowd. Because, as well as counterfactual communities, we’ve also seen what you might call truth-seeking communities emerge around specific issues.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Apparently, The Erotic Thriller Will Be Streamed

  04-04-2022 16:30 via vulture.com
  
  They’re “movies you want to watch at home,” according to Nicole Kidman – and they’re hard to make without falling into sexist tropes, so studios just won’t back them as theatrical releases. But streaming? Well. Even Fatal Attraction is up for a streaming series remake. – Vulture
  
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• Michelle Materre Was A Tireless Advocate For Black Indie Film

  04-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Materre, who has died at 67, distributed Daughters of the Dust in the 1990s, as part of her work as “a distributor and educator who promoted Black women’s voices in film and released influential independent movies by Black creators.” – The New York Times
  
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• Lockdowns In China Are Killing Movie Theatre Returns, Again

  04-04-2022 15:45 via variety.com
  
  The Chinese box office absolutely crumbled last week. “The current [outbreak] epicenter is Shanghai, where a megacity of 25 million people has been locked down in two phases for much of the past week.” – Variety
  
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• National Gallery Renames Degas Painting

  04-04-2022 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  They’re Ukranian Dancers, not Russian Dancers – and it’s not just a stunt during the war. The director of London’s Ukranian Institute said last week, “Curators have no problem presenting Jewish, Belarusian or Ukrainian art and artists as Russian.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Tony Bennett Became The Second-Oldest Winner In Grammy History, At 95

  04-04-2022 15:15 via latimes.com
  
  Bennett has 20 Grammys now, and “received his first Grammy nominations at the fifth Grammy Awards in 1963.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• It’s Not So Easy To Transform Into Julia Child

  04-04-2022 15:00 via vulture.com
  
  Just ask Meryl Streep. But it’s probably even harder when you’re British. “Before the release of the Meryl Streep–starring film Julie & Julia in 2009, Sarah Lancashire had never heard of Julia Child. ‘She had no public persona in the U.K.,'” Lancashire said. Now she is Julia. – Vulture
  
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• An Illustrator’s Attention To Detail Leads To The Discovery Of A New Species

  04-04-2022 14:45 via atlasobscura.com
  
  That discovery came nearly 150 years after Marianne North drew the plant, in Borneo. She was a different kind of illustrator – she used oils, and painted the surroundings. “Not only did Marianne tie down exactly where [plants] grew, her paintings also indicated the environmental conditions they grew in.” – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Has The Internet Ruined April Fool’s Day?

  04-04-2022 14:30 via slate.com
  
  Or, more likely, has April Fool’s Day ruined the internet? “People, us included, get so easily hoodwinked, and … this has led us to a place where we start to suspect that nothing online is real.” – Slate
  
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• Charlotte Bronte’s Tiny Book Of Poems, Long Lost, Has Now Been Found

  04-04-2022 14:15 via nytimes.com
  
  She created tiny books, as did her sisters, when she was a young teen, to amuse her family and to help create her imaginary world. This one was last seen at auction in 1916. – The New York Times
  
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• Who Better To Tell A Story Than A Liar?

  04-04-2022 14:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Elena Ferrante’s work argues that people lie for a deceptively simple reason: It’s an act of creation, not unlike writing.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Macbeth Pauses On Broadway After Daniel Craig Tests Positive For COVID

  04-04-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  First, it canceled a full day of shows. “Then, late Saturday night, the production said that it was canceling all performances until April 8 “due to the detection of a limited number of positive covid test results within the company.” – The New York Times
  
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• When British And American Actors Play Australian

  04-04-2022 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sometimes they get the accents right (Kate Winslet, on her second try), or sort of right (Kate Winslet, on her first try). Sometimes, not so much (Jude Law). – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Easter in Art review – a parade of masterpieces of Christian suffering

  04-04-2022 12:00
  
  It may be familiar, but from Giotto to Manet, the extraordinary western religious art filmed for this documentary is a colossal cultural achievement“We need to understand where we’ve been, in order to understand where we’re going,” says art historian Dr Jennifer Sliwka towards the end of this film about classical western art that focuses on the Easter story, and it neatly sums up the film’s basic proposition. This parade of masterpieces, from the Italian Quattrocent
  
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• Joy Labinjo: ‘I wanted to correct the notion that Black people arrived in Britain with Windrush’

  04-04-2022 10:00
  
  For her latest show, the Dagenham-born artist bridges the personal and the political by bringing forgotten but crucial figures back to lifeJoy Labinjo is one of those lucky people who describes their childhood as “idyllic”. Born in 1994, she grew up playing in the streets of Dagenham, running between her family’s three-bedroom semi-detached and her grandparents’ house a few streets down to drink cups of tea and dip biscuits into them until they were soggy. There were birt
  
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• Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul review – a woman in her own image

  04-04-2022 08:00
  
  The painter conveys her spiritual connection with a fellow obsessive and ascetic artist in this fascinating book of imagined correspondence that lays bare the creative processAs its title somewhat suggests, the artist Celia Paul’s second book takes the form of a series of letters to Gwen John, whose life, she believes, was “stamped with a similar pattern” to her own, and a postcard of whose painting The Convalescent she keeps in her studio (just one look at it, she says, and he
  
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