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• How Gorecki’s Third Symphony Became A 90s Pop Icon

  29-04-2022 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Unsurprisingly, the recording did not start life intending to keep the company of Madonna and Prince – but in late 1992 the symphony was soaring high. For 11 weeks it was among the 40 bestselling albums in the UK, peaking at No 6 in early February 1993. – The Guardian
  
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• The Links Between Music And Personality Type

  29-04-2022 23:01 via gramilano.com
  
  The researchers found global correlations between extraversion and contemporary music; between conscientiousness and unpretentious music; between agreeableness and mellow and unpretentious music; and between openness and mellow, contemporary, intense and sophisticated music. – Gramilano
  
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• UK Art Dealer: Brexit Has Killed Our International Sales

  29-04-2022 22:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  Since the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, Shovlar’s income has dropped by 60%. He says trade with the EU, where 99% of his clients are based, is now “virtually impossible” and the 30 to 50 sales he was making a week have dwindled. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Portrait Of A Small Bookstore (In Film)

  29-04-2022 22:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Tannenbaum’s GoFundMe didn’t just meet its target – staggeringly, it actually doubled its $60,000 goal in just two days of operations, instantly changing The Bookstore from a business that had long operated in the red to one that was flush with cash reserves. – The Guardian
  
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• The Fraught Relationship Between Publishers And Social Network Platforms

  29-04-2022 21:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  Despite 20 years of often difficult relations, a clear recognition of the “frenemy” dynamic at play, and the reality of intensifying competition for attention, advertising, and consumers’ cash, many publishers still actively seek to collaborate with platform companies. – NiemanLab
  
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• The Great Big Dialect Hunt

  29-04-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s what the University of Leeds is calling its project to digitize its huge collection of field recordings of vernacular speech in regional England in the 1950s and ’60s — and to update that collection with the way people speak around the country today. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Pessimism Is Useful

  29-04-2022 20:32 via aeon.co
  
  We are so quick to equate pessimism with passivity or fatalism or despair, and to reject it on that basis – for, of course, we do not want a philosophy that tells us to give up. But is that really what pessimism means? – Aeon
  
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• Films From Africa Are Better And More Plentiful Than Ever.  When Will North American Audiences Start Catching On?

  29-04-2022 20:01 via cnn.com
  
  Better and less expensive equipment, the growing festival circuit, and, most of all, the rise of streaming video have made it easier for Africans to get films made and for viewers overseas to see them. (Not to mention that Nigeria now has one of the world’s largest film industries.) – CNN
  
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• Why Kids Are Great At Philosophy

  29-04-2022 19:26 via theatlantic.com
  
  Children are sophisticated thinkers, more than capable of abstract thought. They’re creative too. Indeed, in some ways, kids make better philosophers than adults. They question things grown-ups take for granted. And they’re open to new ideas. We can learn a lot from listening to kids—and from thinking with them. – The Atlantic
  
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• For The First Time, There’s A Comprehensive Reference Source On Indian Art — And It’s Online And Free

  29-04-2022 19:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “An upstart museum in (Bangalore) has launched an open-source digital encyclopedia of … the subcontinent’s rich artistic history, dating from 10,000 years ago to the present. Included on the free platform, which went live last week, are thousands of articles on famous artists, movements, disciplines, techniques, and other topics.” – Artnet
  
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• What Exactly Is TikTok (And How Does It Work?)

  29-04-2022 18:28 via fastcompany.com
  
  What’s surprising is that content fueling viewership only comes from a small subset of TikTok’s user base—a statistic similar to YouTube. Only 33.9 percent of TikTok users publish content to the platform, compared to 69.9 percent of Instagram users who publish their own photos and videos. – Fast Company
  
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• Flemish Modern Architecture Used To Be Notoriously Ugly.  New Buildings There Now Are Really Cool.  How’d That Happen?

  29-04-2022 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “It is an astonishing output for a region of six million people, featuring elegant libraries and special educational needs schools, as well as dramatic concert halls and bridges – in a place once derided as ‘the ugliest country in the world’.”  Oliver Wainwright explains the change. – The Guardian
  
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• Ukraine accuses Russian forces of seizing 2,000 artworks in Mariupol

  29-04-2022 17:43
  
  City council is reportedly preparing materials to initiate criminal proceedings over mass cultural lootingRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesUkrainian officials have accused Russian forces of seizing “over 2,000 artworks” from museums in the occupied city of Mariupol and moving the pieces to areas of the Russian-controlled Donbas region.“The occupiers ‘liberated’ Mariupol from its historical and cultural heritage. They stole and moved more than 2,000 unique exhibits
  
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• The Hugely Successful Musical Created On/Through TikTok

  29-04-2022 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Over the course of creating The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, Barlow and Bear played to other fans of the show via TikTok: They rehearsed their songs, interacted with fellow performers and contributed to the thriving creative fan culture for which the video platform has become known. – The Conversation
  
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• Is It True That Doris Lessing Blithely Abandoned Her Children To Live The Creative Life?  Not Exactly.

  29-04-2022 17:04 via slate.com
  
  Julie Phillips: “When I actually looked at Lessing’s life, I didn’t find either heartless abandonment or a bold dash for freedom. Unsurprisingly, the author who brilliantly laid bare the dissatisfactions and self-deceptions of mid-20th-century women’s lives … had a much more complicated story.” – Slate
  
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• Leonard Bernstein Wrote A String Quartet? Who Knew?

  29-04-2022 16:35 via artsjournal.com
  “Music for String Quartet was composed by an 18-year-old Bernstein in 1936 while he was at Harvard. You can tell, authenticators agree, from the familiar scratch of his signature. … It could be Bernstein’s first major composition — or minor … Barely anybody has ever heard the thing.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Wheelchair Aerial Dance — With Barbed Wire (Oh, Yes, There’s Such A Thing)

  29-04-2022 16:01 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Alice Sheppard of the disability dance company Kinetic Light: “It kind of made sense. If you’re making a work about barbed wire, of course it would be aerial.” (Er, of course.) She and her colleagues had never studied aerial dance, so they figured it all out from scratch. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Britain, At Last, Gets A National LGBTQ Museum

  29-04-2022 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The opening of Queer Britain at king’s Cross in London, “is an important milestone for a minority that has only enjoyed widespread public acceptance and significant legal protections for the briefest of periods, and is, in a sense, still blinking, slightly dazed, in the light.” – The Guardian
  
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• Will Fort Worth End Public Arts Funding Altogether?

  29-04-2022 15:03 via fwweekly.com
  
  “People who work in the arts in (the Texas city) say City Manager David Cooke is seeking to gut funding for Arts Fort Worth and Fort Worth Public Art, claiming his ultimate goal is to privatize public art and arts funding in general.” – Fort Worth Weekly
  
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• Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work

  29-04-2022 14:51
  
  National Trust puts artist’s largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnishLayers of yellowed varnish have been painstakingly removed from a John Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge to reveal new detail of the early 19th-century Thames skyline and a bright blue sky.The painting – the largest created by Constable – “has been dramatically transformed by the conservation treatment”, said Sarah Maisey, senior remedial con
  
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• Can An Old Industrial City In England’s Northeast Produce A Rival To The Edinburgh Fringe?

  29-04-2022 14:34 via chroniclelive.co.uk
  
  Culture officials in Newcastle envision an event with “the same spirit, vibe and inclusivity as the Edinburgh Fringe” but including art shows, concerts, and dance as well as theatre.  They’re planning a pilot for August 2023, with a full-fledged festival in the summer of 2024. – The Chronicle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
  
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• Golden age inspiration, green neon in Dorset and the raw power of nature – the week in art

  29-04-2022 14:21
  
  Modern artists draw on classic Dutch painting, Jeremy Deller gets subversive and the plein-air roots of impressionism – all in your weekly dispatchReframed: The Woman in the Window
  Rachel Whiteread, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and others reveal how the depiction of women in Dutch golden age paintings has inspired contemporary artists.
  • Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 4 May to 4 September Continue reading...
  
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• Future Shock review – like a pretentious nightclub where no one is dancing

  29-04-2022 14:21
  
  180 The Strand, London
  It claims to showcase the art of the future, but surely we have more to look forward than dry ice, lights and music that sounds like the contents of Brian Eno’s dustbin
  When you’ve seen one laser carving clouds of smoke to create illusory 3D spaces that warp and shift before your eyes, you’ve seen them all. And I saw this special effect in Back to the Future: The Musical, so the two installations that use it in the latest subterranean art spectacular in t
  
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• English National Opera’s Online Breathing Lessons Help Long-COVID Sufferers: Study

  29-04-2022 14:05 via inews.co.uk
  
  “The programme, developed with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, is led by professional singers from the ENO and focuses on breathing retraining through singing techniques, using lullabies as its musical starting point.” – iNews (UK)
  
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• The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activism

  29-04-2022 12:00
  
  A Los Angeles exhibit by Aram Han Sifuentes shows the connection between fabric and her passion for political actionSewing and textiles have always been a part of the artist Aram Han Sifuentes’ life. Her South Korean immigrant parents operated a dry cleaning business, and she mended her own clothing from a young age.But it wasn’t until she began learning more about immigrant justice and social justice, while making art on the side, that she saw the connection between textiles and her
  
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• Chief Marketing Officer – Overture Center for the Arts

  29-04-2022 03:21 via artsjournal.com
  The Position:Overture Center for the Arts seeks a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to lead the organization’s marketing and communications functions. Overture Center for the Arts operates under a shared leadership structure rooted in collaborative decision making, communication, and transparency. This is a unique opportunity for a motivated marketing leader to shape the future of a multi-venue, world class performing arts center working within a collaborate management model.As a collaborative
  
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• Executive Director – Artists For Humanity

  29-04-2022 03:08 via artsjournal.com
  Artists For Humanity (AFH) provides Boston’s under-resourced teens with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design, using creativity to build equity. We began with the ambitious and unconventional idea that young people can provide, through their innate talent and vision, contemporary creative services to the business community.
  We have become a leader in youth development and are the largest onsite employer of Boston teens, with 300+ youth employed annually in
  
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• What Happened To Method Acting

  29-04-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In 2022, in our heyday of superhero blockbusters and bingeable story lines, the Method seems to be fading away. – The New York Times
  
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