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• Of NFTs, Art, And Cynical Branding

  11-05-2022 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Setting aside the fact that this may be one of the most depressing sentences that anyone has ever written about art, if “branding” does make up a 50% share of what it takes to become “a world-conquering artist”, it makes sense that NFTs are conquering a very similar space. – The Guardian
  
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• Ukraine Makes Finals Of The Eurovision Song Contest

  11-05-2022 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Ukraine’s folk-rap band Kalush Orchestra has qualified for the final. But the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises Eurovision, ruled that no Russian act would be able to participate this year, after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. – The Conversation
  
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• Geroge Carlin Is Popular Today — Comedy That Outlives Its Time

  11-05-2022 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Carlin is a venerated figure in his chosen field who unites performers as disparate as Joe Rogan and Jim Gaffigan, but he’s also someone whose influence transcends comedy. – The New York Times
  
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• How To Recover Post-Great Book

  11-05-2022 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  This “post-book blues” thing is a side-effect that doesn’t seem to get mentioned much, if at all. It’s not an in-person relationship as such, but it is one forged in a unique, unwritten contract with the reader or listener. – BBC
  
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• The Rise Of Right Wing Comedy (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)

  11-05-2022 21:32 via fastcompany.com
  
  While liberals lost their way doing “Orange Man Bad” comedy during the Trump administration, a new ecosystem emerged of right-wing comedians—on podcasts, YouTube, and, yes, Fox News—that’s been growing increasingly popular. – Fast Company
  
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• Brazilian Town Erects Christ Statue Even Taller Than Rio’s

  11-05-2022 20:57 via news.artnet.com
  
  The figure of Christ the Redeemer that reigns over Rio de Janeiro is 98 feet tall (not including the pedestal or the mountain it sits atop). This new statue, Christ the Protector, is in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, a small city closer to Montevideo than to São Paulo. – Artnet
  
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• The Difficulties Of Protecting Cultural Heritage In War

  11-05-2022 20:32 via artnews.com
  
  “It’s still a way to erase identity,” said Corine Wegener, on why culture continues to be a major target in contemporary warfare. Some 200 cultural sites in Ukraine have already been reported to have been targeted in the war with Russia. ARTnews
  
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• Making An Opera Out Of “Hamlet” Is A Very Tricky Feat. How Did Brett Dean And Matthew Jocelyn Do It?

  11-05-2022 20:02 via playbill.com
  
  For a start, you have to cut more than three quarters of Shakespeare’s four-hour text.  And you have to find some way to make those all-too-famous lines — “the elephants in the room,” composer Dean calls them — compelling and singable. (They had an ingenious idea for that problem.) – Playbill
  
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• The Decline And Demise Of Print Magazines

  11-05-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  This accelerating erosion has not been big news during a time of pandemic, war and actual erosion, and yet the absence of magazines authoritatively documenting such events, or distracting from them, as they used to do with measured regularity, is keenly felt. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout

  11-05-2022 19:30
  
  Custodians of petroglyphs in remote north-west say Woodside’s $12bn ‘carbon bomb’ spells disaster for culture and climateAs the last of the sun’s rays curl away from the coast in Australia’s remote north-west, Josie Alec opens her arms and sings in traditional language to a mass of ochre-coloured rocks along Hearson’s Cove. But her voice competes with the low rumble of a gas production plant less than a kilometre away, its flared emissions lightly hazing the s
  
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• “She Became America’s First Starlet”: Edna St. Vincent Millay And The Price Of Youthful Fame

  11-05-2022 19:04 via newyorker.com
  
  “During the 1910s and ’20s, Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. … But fame is rarely an unmixed blessing, particularly when it arrives early in life. Like Judy Garland or Britney Spears, Millay had to grow up in public.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Apple Finally Kills The Iconic iPod

  11-05-2022 18:35 via protocol.com
  
  The iPod debuted in 2001, and it changed everything. While other devices existed that let you carry around your MP3 collection, the iPod quickly became ubiquitous for the ease with which you could buy songs and add them to the device. – Protocol
  
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• Shooting From the Lip

  11-05-2022 18:16 via artsjournal.com
  Having Read Your Email‘I will not reply / to yours …’ per Wislawa Szymborska.
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• Brave Defiance Or Foolhardiness?  Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Is Reinstalling Its Collection

  11-05-2022 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, like most of its counterparts in Ukraine, hid its collection to protect it from destruction or looting by invading Russian forces. Now some of its artworks are going back on display in the museum’s 18 branches across Lviv province. – The New York Times
  
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• Netflix Says Ad-Supported Streaming Will Debut Late This Year

  11-05-2022 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Netflix offers a variety of payment tiers for streaming access; its most popular plan costs $15.49 a month. The new ad-supported tier will cost less. – The New York Times
  
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• A Tourist Trips, Falls On, And Rips A 17th-Century Painting

  11-05-2022 17:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  An elderly American woman, who may have been feeling ill or may have tripped on the slightly raised platform, landed on Guido Reni’s St. Francis receiving the stigmata (1612) at Rome’s Galleria Borghese. The damage? A 1½-inch “slight superficial tear.” – Artnet
  
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• Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club Have Unionized And Are Picketing Their Employer

  11-05-2022 16:35 via thenation.com
  
  When two of their colleagues were fired for complaining to management about unsafe working conditions, the dancers at Star Garden in North Hollywood voted to unionize with the independent labor organization Strippers United (and were promptly locked out). Antonia Crane, founder of that union, reports the story. – The Nation
  
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• So What’s Happened To The Troubled Magazine “The Believer”? It’s Been Bought By The Owner Of Sex Toy Collective

  11-05-2022 16:02 via thedailybeast.com
  
  As an Instagram post by Believer co-founder Ed Park put it, “Not a joke.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• ‘We had a seething disdain for each other’: Jake Chapman on splitting from brother Dinos

  11-05-2022 16:01
  
  One of the most enduring partnerships of the YBA movement is over. Yet their gleefully nasty, provocative aesthetic lives on in the first solo show by the ‘Colonel Kurtz of the Cotswolds’ Jake Chapman’s new exhibition is called Me, Myself and Eye so I shouldn’t have been surprised that he, himself, him was there at the door. This pop-up show is, he says, just a small taster of a huge quantity of work he’s made recently. And it’s appetising, if like me you enjo
  
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• They’re Going To Put A Zipline And Cable Car Into Old Jerusalem

  11-05-2022 15:34 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The plan, first approved by Netanyahu’s government and just affirmed by city authorities, will involve a half-mile zipline from a ridge between East and West Jerusalem into the Peace Valley and a cable car to the Western Wall of King Herod’s Temple. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• To Punish Disney, Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces A Bill To Curtail Copyright

  11-05-2022 15:01 via variety.com
  
  “Hawley’s bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would also seek to retroactively limit Disney’s copyrights.” Introducing the legislation, Hawley explicitly cited “woke corporations like Disney … pandering to woke activists.” – Variety
  
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• $500 Tickets For A Play In London’s West End? Yes, To This We’ve Come

  11-05-2022 14:33 via timeout.com
  
  The £400 price for the revival of Mike Bartlett’s play Cock, featuring Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey, isn’t advertised.  Some poor guy ordered online and found himself paying £920 ($1,134) for two seats — that’s £400 plus a £60 processing fee per ticket. The producers’ response? Supply and demand. – Time Out (London)
  
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• Google Has Turned Off Ability To Buy Kindle, Audible Books In The Amazon App

  11-05-2022 14:05 via arstechnica.com
  
  When you visit the Amazon app, you can still buy physical books, but digital purchases now show a “Why can’t I buy on the app?” link instead of a purchase button. – Ars Technica
  
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• Bob Dylan unveils his largest-ever sculpture, of a railway freight car

  11-05-2022 12:38
  
  Rail Car, which Dylan describes as representing ‘perception and reality at the same time’, is installed on tracks in a Provence vineyardBob Dylan’s largest-ever sculpture, of a railway freight carriage, has been unveiled on a French vineyard.The monumental piece, entitled Rail Car, is built from about seven tonnes of iron and installed on train tracks at Château La Coste in Provence. Exposed to the elements, it features motifs of ladders, wheels and tools. Continue readin
  
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• Takeaway spoons, solitary confinement and a nuclear camera: 10 must-see shows at London Gallery Weekend

  11-05-2022 10:48
  
  Galleries across London will show contemporary art from across the world this weekend – for free. Here are our top picksLonnie Holley grew up in 1950s Alabama scratching a living from selling people’s castoffs, and the self-taught artist’s intuitive, compulsively made assemblages still give new life to unwanted flotsam. Though his art is rooted in the deep south, it is Suffolk’s former military test site, Orford Ness – the basis for a new song cycle commissioned by
  
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• We Wish (A Lot of Things)

  11-05-2022 08:00 via artsjournal.com
  FantasylandAs is fairly common for me, I’ve been thinking recently about Stephen Sondheim lyrics. The Prologue to Into the Woods contains long lists of wishes. Here’s just one list from Jack (and the Beanstalk)’s mother:
  I wish my son were not a fool.
  I wish my house was not a mess.
  I wish the cow was full of milk.
  I wish the house was full of gold-
  I wish a lot of things…
  There are so many things for which we wish.
  We wish:Everyone (or at least many more people) valued
  
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• Painters, posers and poodles: Peter Fetterman’s favourite images – in pictures

  11-05-2022 08:00
  
  A new book brings together 120 photographs from the gallerist’s collection. Together, they tell the story of 20th century photographyContinue reading...
  
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• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center seeks Director of Touring and Artistic Planning

  11-05-2022 04:13 via artsjournal.com
  The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is seeking a Director of Touring and Artistic Planning. This position offers a unique opportunity to an experienced, creative, and entrepreneurial individual to work closely with CMS’s Artistic Directors in virtually all areas of a robust and growing touring program nationally and internationally.The Director of Touring and Artistic Planning is responsible for a) maintaining close contact with the Artistic Directors and Director of Artistic Plann
  
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• Austin Opera seeks Director of Business Operations & Analytics

  11-05-2022 04:02 via artsjournal.com
  Austin Opera is seeking a Director of Business Operations & Analytics to ensure the effective implementation of the company’s strategic plan and optimal efficiency in operations pertaining to finance, information technology, and human resources.The Director of Business Operations will serve as the point person for Austin Opera’s finance consultants (Radar Nonprofit Solutions) and IT providers, overseeing the effective delivery of services and ongoing operations. In partnership w
  
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• Call for Entries 16th International ARC Salon Competition

  11-05-2022 03:55 via artsjournal.com
  When talking about competitions and exhibitions dedicated to 21st Century Realism, The Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon is the largest in the world in terms of entries, and the most diverse in terms of categories and international participation.
  This makes the International ARC Salon Competition the most influential and far-reaching competition for Contemporary Realism in the world, with over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through partnerships with prest
  
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