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• Minutes? Hours? Who Needs Them? We Need A New Time Measure

  14-04-2022 23:28 via wired.com
  
  Weeks, days, hours, minutes—especially minutes—are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology’s lesser sibling. In the globalized information environment we currently enjoy, we should and must construct better timescales. – Wired
  
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• Department Of Untruths: Careful Who You Call A Liar

  14-04-2022 23:01 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  We should hesitate to call someone a liar because we are not privy to other people’s motives or states of mind. That a statement is untrue can usually be established beyond reasonable doubt; that the person who said it knew it was untrue is harder to establish. – Prospect
  
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• Should Readers Be Allowed To Return E-Books Even After They’ve Read Them?

  14-04-2022 22:34 via mhpbooks.com
  
  This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even sharing tips on how to do so. Amazon allows readers to return ebooks up to 14 days after purchase, even if the whole book has been read. – Melville House
  
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• David Mamet Returns To Broadway, Politics In Tow

  14-04-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  He wrote last year on the website UnHerd that he had been “elected a non-person by the Left many years ago,” and added: “It’s uncomfortable, and it’s costly and sad to see the happy fields in which I played all those decades — Broadway, book publishing, TV and film — fold up and Hail Caesar, but there it is.” – The New York Times
  
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• Peter Gelb On Canceling Putin

  14-04-2022 21:31 via playbill.com
  
  In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook of Hitler, not the Cold War. He has now made it impossible for the Met to work with his artistic cronies or those cultural entities he subsidizes. – Playbill
  
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• A Brief History Of IMAX

  14-04-2022 21:01 via qz.com
  
  “Born in the late 1960s in the minds of two Canadian filmmakers looking to improve the documentary film-watching experience on the festival circuit, IMAX has now become synonymous with blockbusters that regularly achieve multi-billion-dollar box office results.” – Quartz
  
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• What Manner Of Beast, This BBC?

  14-04-2022 20:31 via lrb.co.uk
  
  For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in history. – London Review of Books
  
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• The Disappearing Art Of Thai Royal Porcelain

  14-04-2022 20:03 via nationalgeographic.com
  
  Hand-painted benjarong was a super-luxury product in the 18th and 19th centuries, and early 20th-century Buddhist temples were clad in benjarong shards. Yet the craft had died out by 1930 and would now be gone altogether, but for a group of artisans who revived it in the 1980s. – National Geographic
  
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• Seattle Arts Organizations Come Out Of The Pandemic With New Support Models

  14-04-2022 19:29 via seattletimes.com
  
  “You truly know exactly the kind of organization you’re funding through this model, as well as how big of an impact you actually make.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Money for nothing: receipt for ‘invisible art’ sells for $1.2m

  14-04-2022 19:06
  
  A receipt written by the French artist Yves Klein auctioned by Sotheby’s in Paris has been hailed as a precursor to NFTsHow much would you pay for nothing?For one private European art collector, it is $1.2m. That’s the amount paid at a recent Sotheby’s auction in Paris for a receipt written by the French artist Yves Klein to prove the ownership of one of his “invisible art” pieces – now being billed by collectors as a precursor to NFTs. Continue reading...
  
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• Confessional Theatre Is Having A Big Moment Just Now.  Why So?

  14-04-2022 19:02 via artshub.com.au
  
  “While hardly a new genre, confessional theatre is unique in its focus on the true stories of its creators and its intimate insights into their personal lives. But why have we seen a wave of these theatre stories in recent years?” Writer Jo Pickup offers some explanations. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Time Out London To Quit Its Print Magazine

  14-04-2022 18:31 via bbc.com
  
  The magazine began life in 1968, peaked in the late 1990s, but has seen numbers dwindling since changes to the publishing business as a whole. – BBC
  
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• Ex-CEO Of Sydney Symphony Claims She Was Fired For Investigating Sexual Harassment

  14-04-2022 18:04 via limelightmagazine.com.au
  
  Emma Dunch was sacked by the orchestra’s board in December, allegedly because of problems with her leadership style and relationships with funders. Court filings indicate that Dunch maintains she was terminated after initiating an investigation of sexual misconduct and bullying at the orchestra extending over two decades. – Limelight (Australia)
  
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• Appreciating Charnett Moffett as a solo bassist

  14-04-2022 18:01 via artsjournal.com
  Saddened that bassist Charnett Moffett has died of a heart attack at age 54, I post this appreciation — also serving as a profile —
  Charnette Moffett, from video of The Bridgewritten in 2013 to annotate his solo bass (!) album The Bridge, which he described as “my most personal and challenging release so far.”
  Solo bass records are rare, and might seem to appeal mostly to bassists and bass aficionados. But on The Bridge Charnett Moffett, the charismatic bass virtuoso with
  
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• Did Movies Really Become The World’s Dominant Art Form In The 20th Century?

  14-04-2022 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  LACMA is telling us that movies toppled painting and sculpture to became last century’s “greatest art form”? Hollywood is no slouch in the grandiosity department, but even the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LACMA’s new neighbor next door, knows better than to try to pull that one. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Putin Impersonator And Kim Jong-Un Impersonator Help Zelensky Impersonator Escape Ukraine

  14-04-2022 17:01 via msn.com
  
  The Ukrainian president has remained in Kiev, but for Umid Isabaev, the entertainer who looks like Zelensky (and played his body double on Servant of the People), Ukraine was not safe once the Russian military invaded. So two of Isabaev’s colleagues (it’s a small profession) intervened. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Being A Comedian May Be An Ideal Background For A World Leader

  14-04-2022 16:35 via zocalopublicsquare.org
  
  “Imagine if Zelensky’s hit show had been not Servant of the People, but Fury Force 5 or something similarly over-the-top, and Zelensky’s career had been more Arnold Schwarzenegger than Al Franken. Would his comment, ‘I need ammunition, not a ride,’ have had the same impact?” – Zócalo Public Square
  
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• How Intimacy Directors Work In Ballet

  14-04-2022 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Intimacy work for screen and theater doesn’t entirely translate to dance. In those fields, intimacy directors choreograph sexually charged scenes by setting the performers’ moves in advance, but for existing dance works, the choreography mostly can’t be altered, which limits their potential input.” – The New York Times
  
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• Introducing our New Podcast: The UnderTow

  14-04-2022 16:01 via artsjournal.com
  Today we introduce a new podcast — ArtsJournal’s “The UnderTow” – a more or less weekly deeper look at two or three stories from the past week.
  
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• Speaking of Poets Szymborska Had Something to Say

  14-04-2022 15:53 via artsjournal.com
  Wislawa Szymborska“Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it’s much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they’re attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself … When filling in questionnaires or chatt
  
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• 700-Year-Old Passover Manuscript At Center of Lawsuit Against Israel Museum Over Nazi Looting

  14-04-2022 15:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The so-called Birds’ Head Haggadah (ca. 1300) belonged to German parliament member Ludwig Marum, one of the earliest Jews to die in the Holocaust. His grandchildren (three of them survivors themselves) are suing the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where the book has been since 1946, for restitution. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Does The Spanish Language Explain The “Hispanic Paradox” In Health Outcomes?

  14-04-2022 15:04 via theconversation.com
  
  The “paradox” is that Hispanics in the US tend to have less heart disease and longer lifespans than non-Hispanic whites despite having higher risk factors. One researcher suggests that particular features of the Spanish language such as the diminutive suffix are a key element of the phenomenon. – The Conversation
  
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• Dr. William G Hamilton, Who Pioneered Dance Medicine, Dead At 90

  14-04-2022 14:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Ballet dancers may be the ‘athletes of God,’ as Albert Einstein supposedly said. But until Dr. Hamilton came along” as New York City Ballet’s resident orthopedic surgeon, “they were treated more like ethereal beings than physical bodies that could crack, tear and otherwise fall apart.” – The New York Times
  
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• CNN’s New Streaming Network Is About To Get Massive Budget Cuts

  14-04-2022 14:05 via axios.com
  
  “The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service, CNN+, over the next four years. Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total.” – Axios
  
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• Who Killed the KLF? review – Chris Atkins’ entertaining guide to true pop mavericks

  14-04-2022 08:00
  
  Documentary-maker Chris Atkins tells the strange story of gigantic chart hits and guerrilla pranking of the art worldBritish film-maker Chris Atkins is known for his excellent Bafta-winning documentary Taking Liberties in 2007 and also for his five-year jail sentence in 2016 for tax fraud involving falsified invoices: a conviction that sent a there-but-for-grace-of-God shiver through the British film world. It resulted in Atkins’s bestselling prison memoir A Bit of a Stretch, which also be
  
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• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Announces New Development Coordinator Position

  14-04-2022 06:39 via artsjournal.com
  The Washington State University Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, WA, is pleased to announce the opening of a new Development Coordinator position. The Development Coordinator will manage the museum’s exciting new membership program, advance community engagement and donor stewardship programs, and coordinate development events.
  The Development Coordinator will plan and produce dynamic events and programs for museum supporters, from members through high-level donors, and will communi
  
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• Library Of Congress Picks Recordings To Preserve

  14-04-2022 00:01 via npr.org
  The list usually includes what the LOC calls “sounds of history,” and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and WSB-Atlanta’s coverage of Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, vividly called by legendary sportscaster Milo Hamilton. – NPR
  
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