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• The Arts World — At War With The Culture Wars?

  21-04-2022 23:31 via deadline.com
  
  Following the lead of activist filmmakers and stars—who ran especially hot on social media during the long months of Covid lockdown—the industry has clearly aligned itself with progressive positions on inclusion, racial equity, gender and transgender rights, gun control, border enforcement, abortion… – Deadline
  
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• What Does It Mean To Make Art?

  21-04-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Implicit in the phrase “the artist’s life” is the idea that this is a life apart. We are not so quick to rhapsodize about the insurance agent’s life or the plumber’s. – The New York Times
  
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• What Researchers Are Learning About Language From Teaching AI

  21-04-2022 22:28 via nautil.us
  
  The difficulty in understanding transformers lies in their abstraction. Whereas a conventional program follows an understandable process, like outputting the word “grass” whenever it sees the word “green,” a transformer converts the word “green” into numbers and then multiplies them by certain values. – Nautilus
  
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• Is Netflix’s Stumble An Inflection Point For Streaming?

  21-04-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Is there such a thing as too many streaming options? How many people are really willing to pay for them? And could this business be less profitable and far less reliable than what the industry has been doing for years? – The New York Times
  
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• Why Is Netflix Losing Subscribers? It’s Become Cable TV

  21-04-2022 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Since NBC took back The Office and HBO Max did the same with Friends, well, it can’t exactly be said that the emperor has no content. It’s just that Netflix’s whole approach favors quantity over quality. – The Guardian
  
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• Pianist Alexei Lubimov’s First Interview Since Moscow Police Tried To Break Up His Concert

  21-04-2022 21:04 via van-magazine.com
  
  “The police said they were just following orders, and they obviously didn’t know the music or why they had these orders. … Anyway, they were late, because we’d already played Silvestrov’s music. So Schubert ended up sacrificing himself for Silvestrov and Ukraine.” – Van
  
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• Why Researchers Are Leaving Australia In Droves

  21-04-2022 20:32 via smh.com.au
  
  My peers are burnt out, despondent and thinking of leaving the sector. Everybody has told me to leave the country, even if I am able to find a job here. Alongside precarious short-term contracts and chronic overwork, which are common everywhere, the government has cultivated a set of policies which demonstrate its neglect. – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Ben Vautier’s Cry From the Heart: ‘What to Do?’

  21-04-2022 20:31 via artsjournal.com
  Ben VautierThe noted Nice-based Fluxus writer and artist Ben Vaurtier sends out a message, regularly by email, to friends and others. But the one that came the other day was unusual. Rather than simply conveying news of cultural and artistic events that personally interest him, it was something of a cris de coeur. Translated into English from his typically direct French prose, which he versifies, it began this way:
  because I don't know what to do anymore.
  My head doesn't work anymore
  My thoughts
  
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• Mills College, Where American Avant-Garde Music Got Wild (And Ultimately Kinda Cool)

  21-04-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Dave Brubeck, and Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh are alumni. John Cage, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Roscoe Mitchell, and Morton Subotnick taught there — not to mention former department head Robert Ashley, who would get stoned before lectures. – The Guardian
  
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• Study: Public Art Reduces Traffic Accidents

  21-04-2022 19:29 via hyperallergic.com
  
  A study conducted by Bloomberg Philanthropies examined 17 sites over two years, before and after they were painted with “asphalt art” (art on surfaces such as roads, sidewalks, and underpasses). – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Weird World of Nonprofit Governance

  21-04-2022 19:01 via artsjournal.com
  The latest episode in the #ArtsManaged video series explores governance, that weird world of collective leadership that inspires and requires so many books, articles, workshops, and difficult conversations. Why is governance so hard? Here are three discomforts, and one dangerous comfort, that might make it so.TRANSCRIPT
  One of my favorite descriptions of what a nonprofit governing board does came from an older gentleman during a strategic planning project I was running, where he piped in from th
  
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• And Just Who Is Joe Kahn, The New York Times’ New Top Editor?

  21-04-2022 19:01 via nymag.com
  
  For one thing, he’s the first executive editor who may be wealthier than the paper’s owners. (He is heir to a large retailing fortune.) And, finds profiler Shawn McCreesh (former assistant to Maureen Dowd), Kahn is erudite, disciplined, and very, very earnest. – New York Magazine
  
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• How Big Publishing Consolidated

  21-04-2022 18:32 via publishersweekly.com
  As 2022 began, the U.S. trade publishing business was dominated by what has been called the Big Five—Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan.  – Publishers Weekly
  
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• France’s Top Stage Awards Underscore The Massive Divide Between State-Funded And For-Profit Theatre

  21-04-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Molières were designed to bridge the gap between (the) two opposing production models. … The distinction has long structured French theater and shaped its aesthetics,” with commercial theatre tending toward light entertainment and state-funded companies more intellectualized and experimental work. The gap, however, hasn’t been bridged. – The New York Times
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal art collection up for auction

  21-04-2022 17:44
  
  Late supreme court justice owned works by artists including Pablo Picasso and Andy WarholAn auction of artwork, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, and other personal items owned by the late supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars next week.Much of her collection of paintings and ceramics forms a 115-lot modern art auction hosted by the Potomack company of Alexandria, Virginia, in an online catalog. An additional collection e
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s art collection and personal items up for auction

  21-04-2022 17:44
  
  Among the late supreme court justice’s items up for sale are a mink coat, ceramics by Picasso and a Warhol soup can paintingAn auction of artwork, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, and other personal items owned by the late supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars next week.Much of her collection of paintings and ceramics forms a 115-lot modern art auction hosted by the Potomack company of Alexandria, Virginia, in an o
  
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• Struggling To Understand (It’s More Difficult Than Ever)

  21-04-2022 17:31 via wired.com
  
  Not understanding makes bad things happen. When we don’t understand why lightning strikes or ships sink or babies die, sacrificing virgins might seem a viable approach. – Wired
  
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• What Happens When Big Corporations Take Over Local Newspapers? A New Study Says —

  21-04-2022 17:02 via niemanlab.org
  
  — that there’s “an immediate drop in content.” The drop isn’t exactly a surprise, but what one lead researcher found “shocking” was that the fall, and the staffing cuts that lead to it, happen so quickly after acquisition. – Nieman Lab
  
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• National Geographic Discovers Philadelphia’s Thousands Of Murals

  21-04-2022 16:35 via msn.com
  
  Mural Arts Philadelphia started as an anti-graffiti program, drafting the taggers to paint something building owners and community members would be happy, not angry, to have.  Now the 4,000+ murals are a symbol of the city, and hundreds of locations are on Mural Arts’ waiting list. – MSN (National Geographic)
  
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• Ken Taylor obituary

  21-04-2022 16:25
  
  My friend Ken Taylor, who has died of cancer aged 61, had a passion for culture in its broadest sense and, although he trained and practised as an architect, he contributed equally meaningfully as an artist and curator.The completion of Quay House, a joint development with his wife, Julia Manheim, in 2002, marked them out as a pioneering force in the burgeoning cultural regeneration of Peckham, south London. What was originally a redundant milk depot at 2c King’s Grove was transformed over
  
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• Standup Comedians Say Audience Behavior Just Keeps Getting Worse

  21-04-2022 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “There’s something in the water,” said Nish Kumar. … “I’ve had a few conversations with other comics and there’s a sense that something doesn’t quite feel right.”  And while the shift seems more noticeable since the pandemic, COVID lockdowns don’t seem to be the sole explanation. – The Guardian
  
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• Venice in Vantablack: Anish Kapoor’s disappearing act

  21-04-2022 16:02
  
  The artist learned of the technology that absorbs nearly all visible light in the Guardian. As two shows featuring it open, he talks of a ‘stupid’ spat, his new foundation and dismay with England“This fucking place!” The voice of the artist rang out through the elegant halls of the Accademia, Venice’s most important gallery, home of masterpieces by Titian, Veronese and Giorgione. Frustrated, Anish Kapoor gathered up a bucket and other detritus left over from the tec
  
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• For This Summer, At Least, Lincoln Center Is Replacing The Mostly Mozart Festival

  21-04-2022 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Summer in the City”, running mid-May to mid-August (and including six Mostly Mozart programs), is the first festival under chief artistic officer Shanta Thake, appointed with the mission of expanding beyond classical music and dance to spoken poetry, hip-hop, and other genres seen as less exclusive. – The New York Times
  
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• Producers Of “Rust” Get Maximum Fine For Negligence In Alec Baldwin’s Shooting Of Cinematographer

  21-04-2022 15:04 via cnn.com
  
  The report from New Mexico’s Occupational Health & Safety Bureau found that the crew “demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety” and “willfully violated” established safety protocols for handling firearms on a film set, thus Leading to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. – CNN
  
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• Actor Robert Morse Dead At 90

  21-04-2022 14:32 via variety.com
  
  He first gained fame in the Broadway and film versions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. That show won him his first Tony; his second was for Tru, his one-hander about Truman Capote. His major late-career success was as the venerable advertising guru in Mad Men. – Variety
  
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• Allegations Of Toxic Culture Behind Giant LA Dance Competition

  21-04-2022 14:05 via seattletimes.com
  
  Behind the bright lights and pulsing music, some dancers say they were sexually assaulted, harassed and manipulated by the company’s powerful founder and famous teachers and choreographers, according to a joint investigation by The Associated Press and the Toronto Star. – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Managing Director- ZACH Theatre

  21-04-2022 03:18 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the board of trustees as a co-leader with the Producing Artistic Director, the Managing Director will jointly lead ZACH Theatre’s strategic direction. With responsibility for overseeing all aspects of theatre management including fundraising, human resources, operations, finances, education, and marketing.
  Creating a donor and stakeholder-centric culture and implementing the organizations strategic plan, the Managing Director will support the Producing Artistic
  
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