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• Fake Music Is Taking Over Streaming Algorithms

  10-04-2022 22:01 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  Can you really reach a larger audience by getting on a background jazz playlist than taking home the most coveted Grammy? I hate to share the bad news, my friends, but the world has changed. – Ted Gioia
  
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• Will Broadway’s Next Big Hit Be Found On TikTok?

  10-04-2022 21:31 via fastcompany.com
  
  TikTok is a new frontier for investors and producers to find new works—and for creators to create and promote them—but it remains to be seen whether it can translate into a viable new model for live theater. – Fast Company
  
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• Connecticut mechanic finds art worth millions in dumpster at abandoned barn

  10-04-2022 21:31
  
  Work by Francis Hines, who wrapped buildings and paintings and died at 96 in 2016, found in dumpster and now destined for salePaintings and other artwork found in an abandoned barn in Connecticut turned out to be worth millions of dollars.Notified by a contractor, Jared Whipple, a mechanic from Waterbury, retrieved the dirt-covered pieces from a dumpster which contained materials from a barn in Watertown. Continue reading...
  
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• A Panel Discussion Gives Away A Toxic Architecture Culture

  10-04-2022 21:01 via latimes.com
  
  What began as a SCI-Arc panel on the professional aspects of working in architecture mushroomed into a full-blown controversy that has led to the suspension of two faculty members at L.A.’s famously avant-garde architecture school. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• High School Cancels Musical After It Opens Because Of “Mature” Themes

  10-04-2022 20:28 via amp.modbee.com
  The musical, a high school adaptation of the Broadway show “Be More Chill,” was scheduled to run Thursday through Sunday, according to signs posted at the school. The signs advise “mature themes – parental guidance suggested.” – Modesto Bee
  
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• Russian Artists, Ukrainian Artists, Cancel Culture

  10-04-2022 20:01 via eurozine.com
  
  While the world debates whether to cancel or to welcome artists and writers who suddenly feel like leaving Russia amidst its economic collapse, it neglects the crucial question: will Russia succeed in executing Ukrainian culture once again? – Eurozine
  
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• Plagiarism Lawsuits Are Multiplying In The Age Of Streaming

  10-04-2022 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In an age of YouTube and Spotify, how do we know if one artist heard another artist’s song, especially if they are relatively unknown, or if they both had the same idea? – The Guardian
  
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• David McKee helped to shape my life as an artist | Letter

  10-04-2022 19:23
  
  The children’s author and illustrator David McKee was a formative influence on Richard Deacon I was a boarding pupil (on a Devon county scholarship) at Plymouth College, a direct grant school, from September 1960 until July 1968. The art master there was Derek Holland. He ran an after-school art class, where it was possible to make sculpture and use materials that were difficult within the confines of a school timetable.At first this existed in a dusty basement beneath the library, but aft
  
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• Inside A London Toe Shoe Factory

  10-04-2022 19:02 via bbc.com
  
  Freed of London, based in Hackney, has been making pointe shoes for almost a century. But while being one of the only producers of the shoes in the UK means that business is booming, the technique has been added to a red list of endangered crafts at risk of being lost. – BBC
  
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• Converting Odessa’s Catacombs Into Bomb Shelters

  10-04-2022 18:28 via newyorker.com
  
  The Ukrainian port city of Odesa sits atop a labyrinth of catacombs—technically, limestone quarries—which constitute perhaps the world’s largest network of urban tunnels, extending ten stories deep and tracing some fifteen hundred miles beneath the streets. – The New Yorker
  
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• What’s Up With Pop Music’s Addiction To Nostalgia?

  10-04-2022 18:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  What explains our love of throwback sounds right now? Are we comfort-listening through hard times? Or is the industry just finally able to see (and monetize) a type of listening we’ve always done? – The Atlantic
  
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• How Book Customers Browse For Books

  10-04-2022 17:29 via slate.com
  
  To create a space that is intentional in its gathering of materials meant to provide intellectual and literary stimulation, a space wholly devoted to books, be it a bookstore, a library, or a personal collection, is to understand the fulfillment provided by the activity of rumination and reflection. – Slate
  
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• Finland Says Seized Russian Art Should Be Returned

  10-04-2022 17:02 via artsjournal.com
  The paintings and sculptures, valued at 42 million euros ($46 million), had been on loan from Russian museums to institutions in Italy and Japan. They were seized last weekend in Finland on suspicion of contravening European Union sanctions imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. – The New York Times
  
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• A Poet Speaks of the Debacle of Our Lives

  10-04-2022 16:53 via artsjournal.com
  William ‘Cody’ Maher is an expatriate American poet and performance artist living in Berlin. His most recent book of poems, The Return, was published in 2020.William ‘Cody’ MaherTHE DEBACLE OF OUR LIVES
  (Odessa circa '91-'92)Let us be clear about something
  I have been meaning to give this lecture now for years
  I know my lectures have not been what they were intended to be
  I mean to say my lectures have fallen on deaf ears
  That have been trampled upon by wild beasts
  They
  
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• International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Picks A New Leader

  10-04-2022 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  George E. Lewis, a professor of music at Columbia University known for his groundbreaking work in electronics, will take the helm as artistic director later this month. Lewis, 69, a trombonist and frequent collaborator with the ensemble, will be the first Black leader in its 21-year history. – The New York Times
  
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• An AI Breakthrough In Creating Images

  10-04-2022 16:01 via technologyreview.com
  
  “One way you can think about this neural network is transcendent beauty as a service,” says Ilya Sutskever, cofounder and chief scientist at OpenAI. “Every now and then it generates something that just makes me gasp.” – MIT Review
  
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• The Heart Of Video Game Culture

  10-04-2022 15:28 via newyorker.com
  
  “Film has Cannes. Video games have G.D.C.,” Marie Foulston, a London-based curator and producer of video-game and digital-art exhibitions, told me. “It has become a nexus, or focal point, for video-game culture.” – The New Yorker
  
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• What, Exactly, Is The Point Of The Venice Biennale?

  10-04-2022 15:02 via artreview.com
  
  Looking at the superyachts in the Grand Canal, that the Biennale is a prism of wealth inequality that we’re effectively sanctioning. We go anyway, get numb, tell ourselves it’s important to meet people and grasp the current narrative. But you can’t really grasp it on any kind of granular level. – ArtReview
  
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• The New New Thing: Video Game Book Clubs

  10-04-2022 14:32 via wired.com
  
  Unlike many “real” book clubs and video game podcasts, they’re less interested in new releases—focusing instead on detailed analysis of popular retro titles. – Wired
  
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• Keith Hill obituary

  10-04-2022 14:31
  
  My husband, Keith Hill, who has died aged 87, was an accomplished “outsider artist”, a self-taught sculptor in wood and stone whose work was shown in many galleries in the UK and abroad. He was also a community worker and local politician, an opera lover, a francophile and a flat-racing aficionado. Keith was a risk-taker. When he wanted to do something, he went ahead, and if it worked out, that was fine; and if it didn’t he might try something else.Keith was born in Chingford,
  
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• Why We Find The Internet So Exhausting

  10-04-2022 14:02 via wired.com
  
  It’s not just that you’re the product. You’re also the laborer, the factory, and the logistician. You’re also the resource. And your boss is crowdsourced. – Wired
  
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• ‘We got a kick out of it’: art forgers reveal secrets of paintings that fooled experts

  10-04-2022 10:30
  
  Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their captureTheir forgeries of 20th-century masters such as Max Ernst and Fernand Léger duped the art world into parting with millions of pounds – until a modern pigment gave them away.Now, after serving lengthy prison sentences, Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene have told the story behind the hundreds of paintings that tricked even the artists’ families.
  
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• The week in TV: The Split; Art That Made Us; House of Maxwell

  10-04-2022 10:30
  
  Abi Morgan’s sharp legal family drama returns; a journey around Britain’s creative history inspires; and the Maxwell saga is raked over againThe Split (BBC One) | BBC iPlayerArt That Made Us (BBC Two) | BBC iPlayerHouse of Maxwell (BBC Two) | BBC iPlayerIf there’s one thing I find heartening in a chaotic world, it’s the escapist thrill of watching a programme crafted by a creative talent at the very top of their game. Which is a roundabout way of saying: Abi Morgan’
  
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• Raphael review – the peerless artist in the round

  10-04-2022 10:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  Tranquil saints and sultry beauties populate an unmissable exhibition of the elusive Renaissance master’s workRaphael, at the National Gallery, is a revelation. It could hardly be otherwise, in a sense, since this is the first exhibition outside Italy ever to encompass every aspect of his stupendous career. It runs through paint, chalk and print, wool, bronze and ink, and from the earliest drawing of himself at 15, with doe eyes and a half-formed nose, to the last
  
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• Walter Sickert painted himself in many roles … but not Jack the Ripper

  10-04-2022 09:00
  
  A Tate retrospective portrays the English artist as a master of disguise, and in thrall to his early stage careerA major Tate Britain exhibition opening this month will be the first to display a rare early self-portrait of Walter Sickert, the influential English painter, that shows how his early career on the stage drove his ever-changing art.The string of self-portraits includes a small pen and ink sketch from 1882, found in Islington’s Local History Centre, in which the artist leans forw
  
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