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• Nicolas Berggruen And His Ideas

  12-04-2022 23:34 via nytimes.com
  
  e established the Berggruen Institute. A prolific networker, Berggruen has recruited so many prominent names to the institute’s roster of supporters and advisers that it has been described as his own personal Davos. – The New York Times
  
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• What Happened When Researchers Paid Fox News Watchers To Watch CNN Instead

  12-04-2022 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers found surprising results. – The Guardian
  
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• The Age Of Cultural Dopes

  12-04-2022 22:25 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  A cultural dope is someone like me or you, a consumer of culture or a “creative content provider” who produces, or consumes, the preexisting cultural artifacts of the dominant political economy while functioning under the illusion that what they are creating or consuming is “new.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• The Wages Of Information

  12-04-2022 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  We have established a culture that expects us to have opinions on everything, and even rewards us for unexpected and implausible ones. Those of us privileged to fall within the clicking and scrolling classes would like to have something to show for our daily efforts. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Charlotte Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director

  12-04-2022 21:03 via charlotteobserver.com
  
  “The dance company announced Thursday that Alejandro Cerrudo, 41, will be its next leader. Cerrudo has worked as a dancer and choreographer for 24 years, most recently as resident choreographer at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle.” – The Charlotte Observer
  
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• The Woman Who Would Bring Stability To LA’s MoCA

  12-04-2022 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The remarkable rate of leadership churn is widely seen as having hurt MOCA’s credibility with donors, artists and the public at a time when other institutions, like the Broad, LACMA, and the Hammer Museum — as well as galleries like Hauser & Wirth — have energized the city’s world-class arts scene. – The New York Times
  
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• She’s Turned A Little RV Into An Eight-Seat Touring Cinema

  12-04-2022 20:02 via bbc.com
  
  “Until fairly recently, Kerry Jones’s caravan lay rotting and forgotten about in her garden in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders — a home for discarded bric-a-brac. But during the COVID-19 lockdown the artist and filmmaker saw new potential in the (trailer) and resolved to turn it into a tiny, travelling cinema.” – BBC
  
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• We Thought War Was Over For The Modern World. Now We Have To Rethink

  12-04-2022 19:28 via adamtooze.substack.com
  
  Russia’s assault on Ukraine is shocking, therefore, not only for its violence, but for the fact that it reopens the question of war as such and thus also the question of history. – Chartbook
  
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• This Spanish Artist Gave An Empty Medieval Chapel An Flamboyant Makeover — Without Asking Permission

  12-04-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  After being hit by “intense inspiration,” Jesús Cees has spent much of the past two years painting vivid murals on the previously blank walls of a deconsecrated 14th-century chapel.  He was denied permission to paint in 2018, so he “decided to do it and ask for forgiveness later.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Computers Will Never Think Like Us

  12-04-2022 18:32 via freethink.com
  
  Human consciousness, in other words, in part consists of understanding abstract and indirect meanings. And it is precisely this sort of understanding that artificial intelligence is incapable of. – FreeThink
  
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• Outgoing Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada Abruptly Quits His Other Orchestra  

  12-04-2022 18:01 via vienna.at
  
  Citing “insurmountable differences” with the orchestra’s superintendent, Orozco-Estrada announced his immediate resignation as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony, a job he started only in September 2020.  The move comes about two weeks after orchestra musicians voted against extending his contract. (in German) – Vienna.at
  
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• What NFTs Have To Do With Dance

  12-04-2022 17:32 via dancemagazine.com
  
  The disparities between the dance and tech communities can seem pretty vast, yet the two have found an odd, contemporary synergy in NFTs: non-fungible (as in, one-of-a-kind) tokens (as in, a thing). – Dance Magazine
  
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• Studio Space For $1 Per Square Foot — Where? And How Is It Possible

  12-04-2022 17:03 via msn.com
  
  Western Avenue Studios & Lofts, a former textile mill in Lowell, Mass. (about 25 miles from Boston), was purchased last month by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, which set the complex up as a nonprofit along the lines of a land conservation trust. – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Arts And Culture Issues In The French Presidential Campaign

  12-04-2022 16:35 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The subject has been largely skipped so far, though far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has said she plans to privatize the French public broadcasting networks and incumbent Emmanuel Macron promises to continue the €300 culture pass for teens. Many arts figures fear censorship if Le Pen wins. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Connecticut Man Pulls Artworks Out Of The Garbage, Finds They’re Worth Big Money

  12-04-2022 16:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  When Jared Whipple first picked up the works, which came from an abandoned barn in Watertown, he figured he could use them in a “haunted art gallery” setup for Halloween.  It turns out the pieces were made by American abstract expressionist Francis Hines. – Artnet
  
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• “Sarah, Plain and Tall” Author Patricia MacLachlan Dead At 84

  12-04-2022 15:34 via msn.com
  
  “Mrs. MacLachlan wrote more than 60 children’s books during her half-century career, … (and is) known to millions of young readers (for her) novel about two motherless farm children and the gentle woman who comes to the prairie to make them whole.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Boston Symphony Cancels May European Tour As COVID Strikes Yet Again

  12-04-2022 15:01 via msn.com
  
  BSO management says that 31 musicians (so far) in the orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus have recently tested positive for the virus.  The four-city tour was to be done jointly with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the music director the two bands share, Andris Nelsons. – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Publishers Get Final Win In Suit Against Maryland’s Library E-Book Law

  12-04-2022 14:33 via publishersweekly.com
  
  The statute required any publisher selling e-books in Maryland to make those e-books available to libraries “on reasonable terms.”  The American Association of Publishers sued for an injunction blocking the law; that was granted, and Maryland’s attorney general has now decided not to appeal. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• “Cabaret” And “Life Of Pi” Sweep London’s Olivier Awards

  12-04-2022 14:05 via playbill.com
  The revival of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley won seven awards, including Best Musical Revival, Best Director, and all four acting categories for musicals. The adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi took five trophies: Best New Play, both male acting prizes and two design awards. – Playbill
  
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• Well pickle my walnuts! The Vasseur Baltic artists’ award 2022 – review

  12-04-2022 13:06
  
  Baltic, Gateshead
  Two out of three of the artists have gone for experiments in fermentation – but it’s Laleh Khorramian’s kaleidoscopic prints that are really mouthwatering
  Pickling isn’t usually seen as an art form. But two out of the three artists in the Vasseur Baltic artists’ award have been fermenting: Ima-Abasi Okon to explore the probiotic benefits of fermentation and Fernando García-Dory to showcase the pickling skills of a local community interest co
  
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• Turner prize: Trafalgar Square whipped cream and fly sculpture among shortlist

  12-04-2022 12:25
  
  Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin in running as prize returns to Liverpool for first time in 15 yearsThe artist who installed the fourth plinth sculpture in Trafalgar Square featuring a dollop of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a drone and a fly has been shortlisted for this year’s Turner prize.Heather Phillipson joins Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin on this year’s shortlist for the prize, as it returns to Liverpool for the first time
  
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