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• Workers At The Whitney Museum Protest Wages At Gala

  20-05-2022 23:54 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Workers at the museum rang bells, chanted, and cheered when taxi drivers and chauffeurs who just dropped off their employers honked in support of them, holding signs that read “Honk for a Fair Contract” and “Union Strong.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Ways Disabilities Are Being Portrayed Are Changing

  20-05-2022 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Children’s literature is definitely getting better at representation. Indeed, when I asked disabled friends and acquaintances to name their favourite disabled character, almost all of them highlighted books aimed at younger readers. – The Guardian
  
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• The Morality Of Critics

  20-05-2022 23:01 via thepointmag.com
  
  Although perhaps you might say that literary critics in a certain sense are custodians of the language. I think there has been a tradition, including people like Edward Said, Susan Sontag and Raymond Williams, who were not so much critics as they were moralists. – The Point
  
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• Could a New $100 Million Movie Studio Transform Newark’s Economy?

  20-05-2022 22:35 via nytimes.com
  
  One study estimated that the Newark project could bring as many as 600 long-term jobs and a constellation of new business opportunities to the city, the state’s largest with a population of 312,000 and a median household income of less than $38,000. – The New York Times
  
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• How Our Memory Is Becoming More Specialized

  20-05-2022 22:01 via thebaffler.com
  
  Memorizing can become a highly specialized act, based on regular practice and rehearsal. A singer, though fully capable of performing the role of say Aida, is unlikely to be able to memorize an epic poem that is similarly long. – The Baffler
  
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• Head Of Cannes’ First Tiktok Festival Jury Quits Over Concerns About Independence

  20-05-2022 21:26 via deadline.com
  
  “The difficulty is that TikTok is a marketing-focused company and fails to understand creators and their independence…They kept asking me for reports on our progress, even though we hadn’t even seen each other,” he said. – Deadline
  
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• Elspeth Barker, Journalist Who Wrote “One Of The Best Least-Known Novels Of The 20th Century,” Dead At 81

  20-05-2022 20:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Published when she was 51, Barker’s O Caledonia won several awards and was popular in Europe for several years, then faded away. She parlayed the book’s success into a busy career as a journalist and essayist, known for being quirky and free-spirited, but never wrote another novel. – The New York Times
  
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• What It’s Like To Spend Your Life In Translation

  20-05-2022 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of dictionaries. And if our language doesn’t give us a word that another language contains, it may be that we won’t think or feel things that speakers of other languages do. – The New York Times
  
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• One Of India’s Bravest Playwrights Takes On Her Touchiest Subject Yet: The Man Who Murdered Gandhi

  20-05-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Anuparna Chandrasekhar has wriiten about a sex tape going viral in conservative India to the notorious 2012 gang rape on a bus in Delhi.  Her latest, The Father and the Assassin, examines the journey of Nathuram Godse from boy-raised-as-a-girl to Gandhi-admiring journalist to Hindu nationalist assassin. – The Guardian
  
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• What Cancer Therapy Is Teaching Us About The Vast Complexity Of The Human Condition

  20-05-2022 19:29 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  How can immunotherapy cure a 65-year-old, newly retired man of Stage IV lung cancer, restoring the promise of his golden years with his family, but do nothing for the 55-year-old woman whose cancer robs her of decades of life? We do not know. – LA Review of Books
  
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• For The First Time, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” Is Being Produced As She Wrote It In 1906

  20-05-2022 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering shipwrecks) in French. But it was produced, with cuts, first in German, then in English, then not at all. This summer sees the original version’s premiere. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘The rich have got much richer’: why art sale prices are going through the roof

  20-05-2022 18:50
  
  Auction houses are recording a boom in sales after a return to pre-pandemic levels of supplies of worksAs a straight return on investment, it’s hard to beat “Untitled”, a 1982 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, the African American street artist who became a global cultural icon, featuring a horned African mask on an abstract background across a canvas almost 5m wide.In 2004, the painting sold for $4.5m. Back on the market 12 years later, it fetched $57.3m, then a record for a Basqu
  
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• Elizabeth Rose obituary

  20-05-2022 18:47
  
  My daughter, Elizabeth Rose, who has died aged 33 from the effects of Crohn’s disease, was a talented artist and curator and disability advocate who documented her illness on social media.Elizabeth developed Crohn’s in her teenage years and thereafter led an extraordinary artistic life, despite the steady progression of the disease, which led to the complete loss of a functioning digestive system. Continue reading...
  
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• How Does Activist Art Fit In The Big Business Of Art Selling?

  20-05-2022 18:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Can activism thrive within the strip-lit booths of essentially glorified trade shows? And does the commodification of protest art render its radical impulses null and void? – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Calvin Royal III Takes Mother Jones To The Ballet

  20-05-2022 18:03 via motherjones.com
  
  The crusading lefty investigative magazine profiles Royal, a principal dancer at ABT and one of the still-all-too-few Black stars of classical ballet. The marquee pull quote: “We have to break ballet out of the 18th century.” – Mother Jones
  
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• Virtual Reality Gets Smelly: Startups Are Trying To Bring Aroma To The Metaverse

  20-05-2022 17:05 via fastcompany.com
  
  “Today, as metaverse engineers, designers, and architects map out the look of digital future experiences, for some, smell has become a key part of the puzzle. Whoever defines the smell-o-verse first will lead this nascent category, meaning the smell-off is ON.” – Fast Company
  
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• Goddesses, she-devils and a tangle with textiles – the week in art

  20-05-2022 16:35
  
  Lonnie Holley scours Britain for material, demons seize the British Museum and feminist fabrics come to Cambridge – all in your weekly dispatchLonnie Holley: The Growth of Communication
  This evocative assemblage artist born in Birmingham, Alabama, shows work inspired by recent visits to the UK that use found British stuff.
  • Edel Assanti, London, until 2 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Researching The Smells Of The Ancient World With Modern High Technology

  20-05-2022 16:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  Using mass spectrometers and techniques from the field of molecular biology on residues from ancient containers, refuse, and even dental tartar, archaeologists and historians have been working to rediscover aromas ranging from myrrh to condiments to Cleopatra’s perfume. – Artnet
  
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• Looters Who Stole Idols From Hindu Temple Return Them After Being Tormented By Nightmares

  20-05-2022 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “We have not been able to sleep, eat and live peacefully. We are fed up with the scary dreams and are returning your valuables,” said a note left by the thieves who had taken ritual objects from a temple to Balaji, an incarnation of Vishnu, in Uttar Pradesh state. – The Guardian (AFP)
  
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• Britain Agrees To Serious Negotiations With Greece About Returning The Parthenon Marbles

  20-05-2022 15:31 via artnews.com
  
  “The United Kingdom will hold formal talks with Greece regarding the potential repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, which have been in the British Museum since 1816. … The contested sculptures were stripped from the Acropolis in 1801 by Lord Elgin while Greece was under Ottoman occupation.” – ARTnews
  
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• Roots Music Star And Macarthur Genius Rhiannon Giddens Returns To Her First Art Form, Opera — As A Composer

  20-05-2022 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  She came to prominence as co-founder of string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, moved to a solo career, and now directs the Silkroad Ensemble, the world-music group founded by Yo-Yo Ma.  But she trained as an opera singer, and her first opera is now premiering at Spoleto USA. – The New York Times
  
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• Popular Podcast “Reply All” Is Ending Next Month

  20-05-2022 14:30 via theverge.com
  
  A staff memo from Gimlet Media chiefs said that “the decision to end this iteration of the show” was made as the series’s two hosts, Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi, were leaving. The move comes after a turbulent 18 months at Reply All, Gimlet, and parent company Spotify. – The Verge
  
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• Artist Gerhard Richter, Even At 90, Could Not Stay Retired

  20-05-2022 14:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Five years ago the German painter, one of Europe’s most prominent living artists, announced that he was ending his career.  But he couldn’t stop painting, and now he has a major exhibition at a museum near Basel. – Artnet
  
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• “Audiencing”: Introducing the Routledge Companion to Audiences and Performing Arts

  20-05-2022 10:10 via artsjournal.com
  
  Row X blog by Hannah Grannemann
  I wish I had known the term “audiencing”[1] during my arts management career. Fumbling with my words in meetings, I tried to get others to see audiences as more than ATMs, obstacles to work around, or sleepy citizens in need of moral awakening. Joining a noisy, packed lobby, I also couldn’t find words to describe the buzzy post-show feeling of elation on opening night after having been present when performers and audience had become enmeshed, cr
  
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• What You Need to Know About NFTs

  20-05-2022 07:22 via artsjournal.com
  You’ve heard about them everywhere – blockchain and NFTs are the way to maximize your organization’s role in Web3. Read our primer to understand their history, impact, and legal implications across the arts.Arts Management & Technology Laboratory
  
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• New arts hub opens in heritage building in Sydney’s Macquarie Street

  20-05-2022 06:39
  
  RGB Creative space brings together a dozen cultural organisations in bid to revive sector and entice people into city after Covid lockdownsFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingArtists and musicians are being handed keys to the heritage-listed registrar general’s building in Sydney’s CBD in an effort to spark a new creative hub in politician and lawyer-laden Macquarie Street.The temporary hub, near Hyde park and
  
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• Why the long face? Artist pilloried after creating half-horse, half-man sculpture

  20-05-2022 06:00
  
  Aidan Harte was thrilled to be asked to make a statue of a púca, a mythological mischievous spirit, but then his troubles beganIn Irish mythology, a púca is a mischievous, shapeshifting spirit that can take the form of a horse and entice unwary travellers on to its back for a wild ride.Aidan Harte knows how that feels. Eighteen months ago the sculptor was commissioned to create a 2-metre tall bronze statue of a púca for the town square in Ennistymon, County Clare. Continue r
  
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• ‘Bring them home’: Australian crowdfund campaign seeks to buy Wurundjeri art at New York auction

  20-05-2022 04:06
  
  Aboriginal heritage council says it will need to raise $1m to secure bid for two works by artist William Barak at Sotheby’s auctionGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingOne of Melbourne’s Aboriginal heritage councils is facing a race against the clock, in a bid to stop two culturally significant artworks being lost to Australia when they go under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York auction house next week.The two works – an earth pigment and charcoal on paper
  
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• We Need A New Conversation About Music Powered By AI

  20-05-2022 00:02 via nmbx.newmusicusa.org
  
  We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed music is here, and the conversation needs to change. – NewMusicBox
  
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