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• An Art Consultant Talks About The Chaotic State Of The Art Market

  17-05-2022 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some NFTs, 50 artists you’ve never heard of, and then three artists who actually should be in an evening sale. – The New York Times
  
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• Scientists Want To Know Which Problems Are Too Difficult

  17-05-2022 23:01 via quantamagazine.org
  
  Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time — before the end of the universe, say. If not, they are simply far too difficult. – Quanta
  
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• What Music And Physics Have In Common

  17-05-2022 22:35 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Just like with classical music, physics has been populated by architects and dreamers, careful workmen and inspired explorers, bursts of geniuses and sustained acts of creativity. It is worth spending some time discussing what the word “style” might even mean. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• A New Generations Of Deaf Artists (And Arts)

  17-05-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, we need to understand that scores of talented deaf writers and creatives have always been there, and have always deserved to be heard. What’s changing now is the hearing world’s willingness to listen. – The Guardian
  
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• An LA Studio Collective That’s Something Different

  17-05-2022 21:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s something way beyond a conventional studio, where it’s just an artist working on paintings. They’re walking through each other’s studios, they’re promoting each other.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Atlantic To Launch A New Book Imprint

  17-05-2022 21:32 via publishersweekly.com
  Atlantic Editions will publish between six and 12 nonfiction titles per year, all trade paperbacks, sold for $12.85. Each book will be “a single-author collection of essays from the Atlantic’s pages, focused on a single topic.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Choreomania: The Great Strasbourg Dance Plague Of 1518

  17-05-2022 21:03 via bbc.com
  
  That summer, dozens of Strasbourgeois found themselves dancing and hopping uncontrollably for days on end, and more than a few died of exhaustion and hunger.  And that wasn’t the only instance of such a phenomenon in medieval Europe, a mystery still unsolved. – BBC
  
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• When Ukrainian Music Thrived

  17-05-2022 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “This is an excellent moment to think about why we attach the term ‘greatness’ to Russian, but not Ukrainian, culture. So why do we only know composers who we consider to be ‘great Russian’ composers?” – The New York Times
  
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• Peter Greenaway, Cinema’s Most Playful Post-Structuralist

  17-05-2022 20:04 via variety.com
  
  “Right off the bat, Peter Greenaway wants to make clear that he’s never really taken himself seriously as a filmmaker — although like so many of the paradoxes that comprise Greenaway’s identity, it’s not wise to take such a claim too seriously.” – Variety
  
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• Why a Heightened Concern For Cultural Appropriation Now?

  17-05-2022 19:27 via bbc.com
  
  “It’s easier than ever to steal a motif or a craft technique and transfer it on to a piece of clothing that is either mass produced or appears on a runway without credit or compensation to their original communities.” – BBC
  
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• As An Election Approaches, Australia’s Main Opposition Party Announces A More Expansive Arts Policy

  17-05-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The Australian Labor Party “has pledged more transparent funding to arts and cultural institutions, an examination of a national insurance scheme to protect the live performance sector from further shutdowns, and a plan to boost Australian content on multinational streamers.” – The Guardian
  
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• Wondering About The Orchestra Canon…

  17-05-2022 18:28 via simonwds.medium.com
  
  Simon Woods: “Redefining the canon” strikes me as a fundamentally pointless endeavor, as it still allows that there is some kind of objective set of values available to us that can help decide what’s in and what’s out at any one time. – Medium
  
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• Madrid show explores graphic art’s role as tool of resistance in Latin America

  17-05-2022 18:28
  
  Graphic Turn: Like the Ivy on a Wall at Reina Sofía looks at calls for social justice and responses to repression Forty-three kites bearing 43 black-and-white faces hang from the ceiling of the Reina Sofía, each one a mute appeal for answers, remembrance and justice.Close by, T-shirts and posters clamour for equality, a forest of placards commemorates the detained, disappeared and dead of Uruguay’s military dictatorship, and an icon of the struggle for Peruvian independence u
  
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• DeafBlind People Are Adapting ASL Into A Language Of Touch

  17-05-2022 18:02 via newyorker.com
  
  Protactile, as the new language is called, started with people (usually sighted) signing ASL into the hands of DeafBlind folks.  But many of ASL’s signs don’t really come across in touch, so DeafBlind people have been gradually developing their own vocabulary and linguistic conventions. – The New Yorker
  
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• Alex Ross: Why The South Dakota Symphony Is One Of America’s Most Interesting Orchestras

  17-05-2022 17:31 via newyorker.com
  
  “I’ve experienced very few concerts at which a classical-music organization seemed so integral to its community.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Ukrainian Soldiers Make Archaeological Find While Digging Defenses In Odesa

  17-05-2022 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  While digging ditches in anticipation of a potential Russian attack, Ukrainian military men discovered several amphorae (bottle-necked ceramic containers) estimated to be up to 2,500 years old. – ARTnews
  
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• Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000

  17-05-2022 16:44
  
  Maud Lewis sold her paintings on Nova Scotia roadsides but found a larger audience after a documentary chronicled her life and work A Canadian painting that was swapped 50 years ago for a grilled cheese sandwich has sold at auction for an “astounding” C$350,000.“Black Truck” by the folk artist Maud Lewis sold for ten times its assessed value, setting a new high mark for a painter whose popularity has surged in recent years. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I feel your country’s anger’ – why the memorial to Britain’s Covid dead will be set ablaze

  17-05-2022 16:44
  
  David Best’s temple-like monument will be filled with mementoes and notes from bereaved relatives – then torched. The Burning Man sculptor explains how this will create a path to peaceI’m asking David Best about the significance of objects and there’s a stunned silence on the line. “When you ask me that, I’m still thinking about your husband dying in 2018,” he finally replies before pausing again – overwhelmed by my very personal cue. “Just t
  
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• The 389-Year-Old Oberammergau Passion Play Has Recovered From COVID

  17-05-2022 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  “Depicting the life, persecution, death and resurrection of Jesus, … the oldest continuous running amateur theatre production in the world will open on Saturday with a 103-performance run until October … after having been thrown off its usual schedule by two years owing to the latest pandemic.” – The Guardian
  
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• A New Museum In Senegal For Repatriated African Art

  17-05-2022 16:04 via artnews.com
  
  Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the museum and community center called Bët-bi (Wolof for “the eye”), to open in 2025 in the country’s Senegambia region, will (among other activities) serve as a way station for returned African artworks whose destination countries aren’t ready to preserve them. – ARTnews
  
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• Rescued From The Clutches Of The Sex Toy Collective, “The Believer” Magazine Will Go Home To McSweeney’s

  17-05-2022 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  “After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again being run by the company which first owned it.” – AP
  
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• Saved: Dallas’s Classical Radio Station Will (Probably) Be Taken Over By The Region’s NPR/PBS Affiliate

  17-05-2022 15:02 via dmagazine.com
  
  WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio business.  Pending City Council approval, WRR’s license and operations will be transferred to KERA, which will maintain the station’s classical music format and staff. – D Magazine (Dallas)
  
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• With A Billion Downloads, The Economist Has Become A Podcasting Powerhouse

  17-05-2022 14:35 via adweek.com
  
  The magazine’s flagship audio property, a daily news podcast called The Intelligence, averages 3.9 million downloads each week and 2.5 million unique listeners a month; collectively, The Economist‘s five podcasts have had 1 billion downloads since launch in 2016. – Adweek
  
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• Simon Preston, Organist And Choirmaster With A Major Recording Legacy, Dead At 83

  17-05-2022 14:00 via tinyurl.com
  
  With Christopher Hogwood’s Academy of Ancient Music, Preston and his Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford released landmark period-instrument recordings of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and several Haydn Masses. As soloist, among his 100+ recordings were the complete organ works of Bach and Handel for DG. – Gramophone
  
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• Chief Curator, Palm Springs Museum

  17-05-2022 07:36 via artsjournal.com
  Chief Curator
  Department: Curatorial
  Reports to: Executive Director / CEO
  Summary: The Chief Curator is responsible for directing the curatorial department, overseeing all exhibitions and publications, and developing, managing and displaying the permanent collection.OverviewThe Palm Springs Art Museum (PSAM) returned from a long COVID closure with a new Executive Director / CEO and we are coming in strong to our next stage of growth and impact. We are looking for someone who wants to be a part
  
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• Director of Development- Broad Stage

  17-05-2022 07:25 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryServing as a key member of the leadership team, the Director of Development (DOD) will lead and mentor an accomplished and engaged development team in achieving Broad Stage’s ambitious revenue goals while aligning to Broad Stage’s mission and values. The DOD will provide significant operational oversight, ensuring the effective use of systems including the PatronManager (Salesforce) database, and ensure strong donor cultivation, recognition, and stewardship practices.
  
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• 100+ UK Music Festivals Pledge To Take Tougher Stand On Sexual Violence

  17-05-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the key promises is that “all allegations of sexual harassment, assault and violence will be taken seriously, acted upon promptly and investigated”. – The Guardian
  
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