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• Pianist Alexander Toradze, 69

  12-05-2022 23:57 via classicfm.com
  
  During the second of the two concertos, he experienced acute heart failure while performing, but Toradze kept on playing, unaware of the medical danger. – ClassicFM
  
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• Study: Brain Fluid From Young Mice Improves Memory In Old Mice

  12-05-2022 23:32 via nature.com
  
  Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from young mice can improve memory function in older mice, researchers report today in Nature. – Nature
  
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• The “Big Beasts” Of The 1980s Literary Scene

  12-05-2022 23:01 via newstatesman.com
  
  In the 1980s more writers were able to earn a living from writing – though those writers were, of course, largely male and, broadly speaking, of privileged background. But as a rule the number of pounds I receive in 2022 is about the same as if I’d written the piece in 1996. – New Statesman
  
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• I Feel Like This Shouldn’t Happen…

  12-05-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The rub for many is that the phrase sounds wishy-washy, as if there is an epidemic of hedging amid a new generation. Some have suggested that discussions in meetings might be less productive or that we risk undermining our own arguments by using the phrase. – The New York Times
  
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• Breakthrough: Google Says It Will Pay 300 News Publishers In Europe For Their Stories

  12-05-2022 22:01 via reuters.com
  
  “So far, we have agreements which cover more than 300 national, local and specialist news publications in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Ireland, with many more discussions ongoing.” – Reuters
  
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• The iPod Is Finally Dead. Here Are All The Music Players It Vanquished

  12-05-2022 21:29 via tedium.co
  
  Some say it was overdue, some lament that it remains a missed opportunity, but the truth of the matter is, the iPod has left us, after years of neglect. – Tedium
  
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• With No Director, No Instruments, And, Sometimes, No Concert Hall, This Sextet Of Singers “Are Gonna Bleed For You.”

  12-05-2022 21:03 via msn.com
  
  Variant 6 does strange new music and even stranger old music in art galleries, ballets, and repurposed sawdust factories. And they know each other very well: says one tenor, “Jimmy and I have played a game where I’d offer his opinion and he would offer mine.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Alexander Toradze 1952-2022

  12-05-2022 20:52 via artsjournal.com
  
  The pianist Alexander Toradze, who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 69, was much more than
  
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• Ukrainian Dancers Have Spread To The Wind

  12-05-2022 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Some have taken up arms in their country’s defense or have been working to get medical supplies to the frontline. (One died after being injured when Russian shells hit Kyiv.) And many have fled the country, fanning out across Europe — both for safety and to keep dancing. – The New York Times
  
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• Meet The Mississippi Educator Who Was Fired For Reading Second-Graders “I Need A New Butt!”

  12-05-2022 20:02 via msn.com
  
  On March 1, Toby Price, assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary School in the Jackson suburbs, found himself having to sub at a virtual reading, and he figured seven-year-olds would get a kick out of the widely-available cartoon book. They did, but culture-warrior adults did not. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Some Like It Hot: Warhol’s “Marilyn” Underperforms at Christie’s While Bolstering Prices for Trendy Co-Stars

  12-05-2022 19:55 via artsjournal.com
  As a strategy for boosting bidding for works priced in the five- to six-figure range, the incongruous star turn
  
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• The Boston Classical Music Radio Station That Changed Its Approach And Won New Listeners

  12-05-2022 19:29 via bostonglobe.com
  
  CRB’s recent listener data suggests that a growing share of younger listeners are responding to that sense of discovery. In February 2014 the median age of CRB listeners was 74; as of this past February, it was 54, with 24 percent of listeners under age 35. – Boston Globe
  
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• The Problem With Actors Reading Audiobooks

  12-05-2022 19:04 via vulture.com
  
  Prompted by, among others, Diane Keating reading from Joan Didion’s Slouching Toward Bethlehem and Julie Harris reading Stuart Little (after which E.B. White recorded all his books himself), Mimi Kramer pinpoints the problem and its causes. – Vulture
  
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• So These Are Just The Realities Of Trying To Sell Theatre During COVID

  12-05-2022 18:32 via milwaukeemag.com
  
  Even with understudies and swing performers, The Rep had to cancel 15 out of 49 total shows due to the quantity of cases and people involved. That’s about a third of the total run. – Milwaukee Magazine
  
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• Depression Is Twice As Prevalent In The Performing Arts As In The General Population, Finds Researcher

  12-05-2022 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A review, commissioned by the British branch of Actors’ Equity, of 111 academic studies performed over 20 years found (among other conclusions) that, in addition to the depression figures, performers are from four to ten times (depending on the particular genre) as likely as regular folks to suffer anxiety. – The Guardian
  
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• What Happened To Seattle’s Dance Scene?

  12-05-2022 17:26 via crosscut.com
  
  The lack of support manifests in a dearth of affordable studio space, limited funding and fewer platforms for emerging artists to perform. It’s an about-face for a city that has nurtured Western dance traditions for more than 100 years. – Crosscut
  
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• Michael Tilson Thomas’s Greatest Gift To Miami: The New World Symphony Wallcasts

  12-05-2022 17:03 via msn.com
  
  “(They are a) miracle that brings in throngs, as many as 3,000 or maybe more, of people out on a Saturday night” — in Miami Beach, no less — “to sit on aluminum chairs or picnic blankets and listen to music that is centuries old.” – MSN (The Miami Herald)
  
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• “There’s A Financial Cliff Ahead Of Us”: For Performing Arts In L.A., COVID Recovery Is Slow, Unsteady, And Nerve-Wracking

  12-05-2022 16:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As one director of a presenting venue puts it, “It’s like, we’re driving straight up (to) the cliff … but we’re swerving and bumping and jogging, and there’s still a cliff there. We know it’s coming, but we have no idea when we’re gonna get there.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Enough Museums Want To Return Looted Benin Bronzes That There’s Now A Backlog

  12-05-2022 16:05 via msn.com
  
  So far, of 56 US institutions surveyed, 16 museums are in the process of returning Benin Court artworks, and five more would do so if requested. Added to similar efforts in other countries, there are now more repatriation requests than Nigerian officials can promptly process. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• “It Sounds Like A Spy Novel”: How Masha Of Pussy Riot Escaped From Russia

  12-05-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Maria Alyokhina had been under house arrest for months, but when, in April, Putin announced that she was to be sent back to a penal colony, she improvised an escape that involved a disguise as a food delivery worker, crossing Belarus incognito, and smuggled travel documents. – The New York Times
  
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• How Many Ukrainian Cultural Sites Have Russian Forces Destroyed In This War?

  12-05-2022 15:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  UNESCO’s confirmed count stands at 127, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the number is nearly 200. Much of that destruction was clearly deliberate; “Targeted attacks on museums” said Zelensky, “this wouldn’t cross even a terrorist’s mind. But this is the army that’s waging war on us.” – Artnet
  
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• European Box Office Still Hasn’t Recovered From COVID-19

  12-05-2022 14:33 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Attendance and revenue at movie theaters in the EU and UK are up from 2020 and 2021, yes, but they’re still well below half of what they were before the pandemic. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Warhol of bird painting – Vic Reeves, AKA Jim Moir, and his uncanny avians

  12-05-2022 14:22
  
  Grosvenor Gallery, London
  The artist and comedian is a keen birdwatcher – and it shows in these intense, meticulously detailed portraits that are both funny and full of pop art twistsArt by celebrities is often risible. But there is nothing unintentionally funny about the technically excellent paintings of Jim Moir, AKA Vic Reeves. Nor is he playing it for laughs. There are no jokes here, just precise, intense portrayals of birds.Moir, a keen birdwatcher, has clearly spent a lot of time lo
  
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• After $500 Tickets Made News, Prices For West End’s “Cock” Are Suddenly Down By Half

  12-05-2022 14:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Just a day after incredulity and scorn over £400 ticket prices (double those of Hamilton) hit social media and then news outlets, seats in the stalls are now listed at £175 ($216), with seats that had been £350 ($432) and £300 ($371) now £150 ($185) and £125 ($154). – The Guardian
  
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• My brother the superhero: how the death of comic book legend Steve Dillon inspired a creative awakening

  12-05-2022 07:00
  
  Glyn Dillon designed costumes for Star Wars, while his brother Steve created the Preacher comic strip. When Steve died at 54, Glyn bought a ladder and some vast canvases - and poured his grief into painting
  In the autumn of 2017, graphic novelist turned film costume designer Glyn Dillon took an unusual trip to New York. He checked in to a particular hotel, requested a specific room to sleep in and spent his time in the city wandering around a select handful of streets. He was, he says, hoping th
  
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• Archibald prize 2022: the small Sydney studio breaking big ground

  12-05-2022 02:30
  
  Studio A has become a leading centre for artists with intellectual disability – and with four works up for the portrait prize, they’re getting the recognition they deserveArchibald prize 2022 finalists: Benjamin Law, Helen Garner, Taika Waititi and more – in picturesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastDo not be fooled by the cheerfully chaotic atmosphere of Studio A. In the heart of Crows Nest on Sydney’s lower north shore, this is a place
  
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• Wyeth Foundation Curator, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection

  12-05-2022 02:05 via artsjournal.com
  Wyeth Foundation Curator, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection
  Brandywine River Museum of Art
  Chadds Ford, PANew PositionThis new senior curator position has emerged from a three-way collection sharing partnership between the Brandywine River Museum of Art (BRMA), the Farnsworth Art Museum (FAM), and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art (WFAA). Funded by the WFAA, the Wyeth Foundation Curator (Curator) will be responsible for the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth collections located at the Brandywine and the
  
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• Josh Hawley’s Copyright Law Proposal Is Deeply Unserious

  12-05-2022 00:01 via theverge.com
  
  This is not a radical rethinking of copyright. It is regression as a meme, a fart in the wind, an empty and cynical gesture meant for a future fundraising email. All because Disney is the latest punching bag for a Republican party. – The Verge
  
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