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• 2000 Irish Artists To Get Basic Incomes

  13-04-2022 23:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time spent developing a creative practice and producing art,” reads a press release for the initiative. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Margaret Atwood: Feelings As Explanation, Not Excuse

  13-04-2022 23:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not excuses or justifications. – The Atlantic
  
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• Hollywood Shoots Record Number Of Productions In Canada In 2021

  13-04-2022 22:32 via thestar.com
  
  They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also remained afloat, with some government underpinning, though it saw a dip in production of 12 per cent. – Toronto Star
  
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• Designing Ukraine Refugee Shelters That Are Livable

  13-04-2022 22:01 via dezeen.com
  The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five minutes to build with the help of three people. – Dezeen
  
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• Ancient Australian Rock Art Threatened

  13-04-2022 21:29 via nationalgeographic.com
  
  These artifacts are 10 times older than the pyramids of Egypt. Dating back tens of thousands of years, this cluster of one million images on the Burrup Peninsula is like an artistic encyclopedia, depicting human and environmental evolution. – National Geographic
  
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• How Thomas More And Thomas Cromwell Ended Up Glaring At Each Other Across A Fancy Fifth Avenue Fireplace

  13-04-2022 21:01 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  That fireplace is at The Frick Collection in midtown Manhattan, and on each side of it are Hans Holbein’s famous portraits of Henry VIII’s two ministers.  Penelope Rowlands retraces the paintings’ journey into Henry Clay Frick’s mansion. – The American Scholar
  
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• Cities Not Working? Why Not Build New Ones?

  13-04-2022 20:31 via bloomberg.com
  At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. – Bloomberg
  
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• Nature Writing Should Be As Unsentimental As Nature Is

  13-04-2022 20:03 via aeon.co
  
  “Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn’t all look at them too closely, or for too long – but, if we don’t look at them at all, I’m not sure what our writing is for.” – Aeon
  
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• Broadway Box Office Stays Steady

  13-04-2022 19:30 via deadline.com
  
  In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the previous week. Attendance was 225,256, a tiny 1% drop. Average ticket price for all shows was $125.77. – Deadline
  
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• Spoilers And Their Relationship To Relentless Capitalist Excess, Explained

  13-04-2022 19:02 via vox.com
  
  In which Emily St. James argues that the culture’s arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which entertainment conglomerates keep people hooked on their ever-expanding mass of product. – Vox
  
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• Report: Pre-K School Causes Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Harm

  13-04-2022 18:33 via psychologytoday.com
  Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. – Psychology Today
  
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• Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – close encounters of the slightly hokey kind

  13-04-2022 18:18
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  This sprawling galactic installation is a mash-up of political, literary and pop culture sci-fi references with a diorama including everyone from Yayoi Kusama to Diana, Princess of Wales
  ‘Tell me if you start to feel dizzy,” the operator says, clamping the virtual reality helmet to my head, as I sit on one of a row of little padded stools, somewhere in the carpeted intergalactic welcoming pavilion whose exterior is cunningly disguised as the Serpentine Gall
  
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• Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5 review – close encounter of a slightly hokey kind

  13-04-2022 18:18
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  This sprawling galactic installation is a mash-up of political, literary and pop culture sci-fi references with a diorama including everyone from Yayoi Kusama to Diana, Princess of Wales
  ‘Tell me if you start to feel dizzy,” the operator says, clamping the virtual reality helmet to my head, as I sit on one of a row of little padded stools, somewhere in the carpeted intergalactic welcoming pavilion whose exterior is cunningly disguised as the Serpentine Gall
  
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• In Australia’s Election, Nobody’s Talking About The Arts. So What Are The Parties’ Arts Policies?

  13-04-2022 18:04 via artshub.com.au
  
  “Just because a policy isn’t written down, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. … By examining a party’s record, we can assess the values that underlie their actions, and start to get a sense of their unwritten arts and cultural policies. So where do the parties stand?” – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Police Play Copyrighted Music To Thwart Viral Video

  13-04-2022 17:32 via washingtonpost.com
  Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social media sites, which can remove content containing unauthorized materials. – Washington Post
  
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• Watching “Servant Of The People” Now That Volodymyr Zelensky Is Actually President

  13-04-2022 17:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  “(It’s) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in the nation’s living memory. This isn’t merely life imitating art; it is art that seems to have created the conditions under which life imitated it.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Russian’s Rich Lexicon Of Profanity Has Become A Tool In Ukraine’s Resistance

  13-04-2022 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  “Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has played a big part both in Moscow’s professed motivations for this invasion and in Kyiv’s defiant response.” – The Guardian
  
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• Dance Salad, A Festival “Born In Brussels, Brought Up In Houston”

  13-04-2022 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  For 25 years, an enterprising Texan named Nancy Henderek has been bringing major artists to her hometown for a three-day festival with “bite-size samplings” (hence the name) from multiple works and companies on each program. And she helps edit some of those works herself. – The New York Times
  
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• A Group Of Napoleon’s Personal Effects, Stolen Years Ago, Were Found On eBay

  13-04-2022 15:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The items — portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, locks of the emperor’s hair, and his inkwell set — were stolen from a historic house museum in far southeastern Australia in 2014. Earlier this year, a Melbourne art dealer discovered the Josephine portrait listed on eBay for A$250. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Arena Stage’s “Toni Stone” Was Cancelled Mid-Run Because The Lead Actress No Longer Felt Safe Onstage

  13-04-2022 15:04 via washingtonpost.com
  “Santoya Fields said it wasn’t an illness that led to her being unable to take the stage; it was the impact of what she described as an unsafe workplace and a lack of organizational support.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Largest Van Gogh Exhibition In U.S. In 20 Years Opens This Fall

  13-04-2022 14:36 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “The coming Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts will include 72 Van Goghs, with 56 paintings and 16 works on paper … (and) will for the first time reveal the story of the artist’s rise to fame in the US.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Long Beach Opera Wasn’t Racist Or Sexist, Just Poorly Managed: Investigation

  13-04-2022 14:08 via sfcv.org
  When three staffers resigned last month, they claimed a culture of racism and misogyny kept them from being able to do their work, and the company engaged an outside investigator.  She found that, yes, they were hindered from working properly, but not because of bigotry or prejudice. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• ‘We’re in a post-truth apocalypse’: meet Foka Wolf, Birmingham’s billboard prankster

  13-04-2022 13:19
  
  He ridicules the PM and offers penis enlargements to SUV drivers by hacking public adverts. The anonymous artist tells us why ‘people will believe anything’What started, in 2018, as “a bit of a wind-up” quickly turned into a political act. Approaching 30 and after a string of self-described “menial” jobs post-art school (manual labourer, chalkboard writer and a brief two-week stint as a graphic designer), Birmingham-based Foka Wolf was restless. He stuck up a
  
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• ‘Painting is like a cockroach or a shark, perfectly evolved’: artist Seth Price

  13-04-2022 09:00
  
  He’s made films, written books and is excited by NFTs. So why has the technology-loving New York artist decided to break out his easel? Seth Price is slippy. Since the 1990s the artist has been producing genre-defying works that cross film with technology, photography with archaeology, sculpture, map-making and even zoology – all while making music and writing memoirs and fiction. Now, as tech is the mainstream movement in art, he’s opening his first show of paintings. Well, so
  
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• Assessing Engagement

  13-04-2022 08:13 via artsjournal.com
  I have spent most of the last twelve years advocating for a robust understanding of the nature and value of effective community engagement for arts organizations. While much (much) work remains to be done, there does seem to be greater acceptance of the need for substantive relationship building on the part of arts organizations.
  Assessment
  Assessment is another matter. There remains a lack of common understanding of community engagement. That makes assessment extremely difficult! Beyond that t
  
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• Yours for $200m: why Warhol is now worth more than Picasso

  13-04-2022 07:00
  
  One of his portraits of Marilyn Monroe is expected to shatter records at auction next month. But was Andy Warhol just an ‘affectless hero’ of the media age? Or was he the greatest and most profound artist of his era?Andy Warhol: obsessively commercial pop artist, the patron saint of reality television, Facebook, Instagram, selfies, TikTok and every other imaginable fulfilment of his prophecy that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Or so it might appear. But that is
  
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• Yours for $200m: how Warhol overtook Picasso to become the most prized artist of the 20th century

  13-04-2022 07:00
  
  One of his portraits of Marilyn Monroe is expected to shatter records at auction next month. But was Andy Warhol just an ‘affectless hero’ of the media age? Or was he the greatest and most profound artist of his era?Andy Warhol: obsessively commercial pop artist, the patron saint of reality television, Facebook, Instagram, selfies, TikTok and every other imaginable fulfilment of his prophecy that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Or so it might appear. But that is
  
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• ‘We all participate’ – Edward Burtynsky on photographing the epic ravaging of Earth

  13-04-2022 07:00
  
  From toxic lakes to stripped mountains, he is the great chronicler of eco atrocities – and his roots lie in Ukraine. The photographer talks about Putin, trauma and what will surviveWhen Edward Burtynsky and I first speak, he’s been organising a print sale for Ukraine: editions of two large-format photographs, which raise nearly C$750,000 (£455,000) in a matter of hours.It takes me a moment to remember that this is personal, very much so – Burtynsky may have grown up on th
  
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• Sr. Director of Education

  13-04-2022 05:26 via artsjournal.com
  The Old Town School of Folk Music is seeking a strategic and innovative leader for its Education Programs.The Role:The Senior Director of Education is responsible for ensuring the growth and smooth operation of high-quality programs across the portfolio, deepening Old Town School’s engagement with our current audiences and broadening the School’s reach to new audiences in neighborhoods across Chicago. Reporting to the CEO, the Senior Director of Education will lead a talented, dedica
  
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• How Poetry Can Aid Science

  13-04-2022 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all sorts of people engage with science. – The Conversation
  
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