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• Aristotle’s Principles Of Storytelling Are As Fresh Now As Were Then

  23-05-2022 23:16 via aeon.co
  
  You may not agree with everything Aristotle says, but consider his ideas, and see if you don’t think they’re as fresh and brilliant today as they were 2,000 years ago. – Aeon
  
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• When The Artist IS The Content

  23-05-2022 22:32 via lithub.com
  
  Rather than the “death of the author” heralded by French novelist and philosopher Roland Barthes in the 1960s, are we now witnessing its counterpoint—a cultural sphere where nothing remains but a cult of celebrity being played out on digital platforms? – LitHub
  
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• New Opera’s Hot Right Now. But Where Are The Funny Operas?

  23-05-2022 21:46 via sfcv.org
  This isn’t to say opera shouldn’t be political — though I’m thoroughly skeptical of its ability to tackle social issues in a way that isn’t preaching to the choir — but that there should be equilibrium and variety. Where’s the balance? Where’s the funny? – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• The Neuroscience Behind Music That Gives You Chills

  23-05-2022 21:01 via bigthink.com
  
  It’s called “frisson,” and it’s the reason why music from artists featured on a recently released, scientifically-backed playlist of songs that researchers claim are likely to give people “chills.” – Big Think
  
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• Investigation: Live Nation Subsidiaries Got COVID Bail Out Money Intended For Indy Stages

  23-05-2022 20:15 via washingtonpost.com
  Live Nation as a parent company did not directly receive any money from the program, but the government relief to its subsidiaries still protected its investments and improved its long-term outlook, however slightly. – Washington Post
  
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• The End Of The Middle Class Musician?

  23-05-2022 19:31 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  It’s hard to figure out how many people are making a middle-class living on music streaming, but I note that you don’t earn the minimum wage on Spotify until you generate more than 3 million streams per year. – Ted Gioia
  
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• Want To Know What’s Wrong With Broadway? Producer Emanuel Azenberg Will Tell You

  23-05-2022 18:44 via newyorktheater.me
  
  We’ve chased away an audience. The theater owners hate the unions, the unions hate the producers and the producers hate the theater owner. None of them get their way and they all take it out on the customer. – New York Theatre
  
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• Canadian Government Wants To Spend $800 Million On Rebuilding BC Museum?

  23-05-2022 18:02 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  It has become a hot political issue: $789-million to build a new museum? That feels like a lot to some British Columbians, particularly as the pandemic drags on, family doctors are quitting while citing low pay, and affordable housing remains a pipe dream out here. – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• Iconic Seattle Actor John Aylward, 75

  23-05-2022 17:31 via seattletimes.com
  
  “An accomplished and widely respected actor, John left an indelible mark on the Seattle theater community and on everyone he collaborated with over his long career.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Book Diary – May 23 – What is Equity in the Arts? A First Look…

  23-05-2022 17:25 via artsjournal.com
  There are two ways to approach equity, which I’m going to define as a fair or just set of entitlements or outcomes among people, not necessarily equal, but fair.
  One way is to focus on people’s disposable income: what are people able to buy for themselves? How they spend their money is not the primary concern. If you and I have equal disposable income, and face the same prices when we shop, what does it matter if you spend more on rent and less on going out than I do, if we each hav
  
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• What AI And An Artist Do With Children’s Cartoons

  23-05-2022 17:00 via vice.com
  
  The result is probably not something you’d really want kids to watch. – Vice
  
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• The Royal British Columbia Museum Is About To Be Demolished

  23-05-2022 16:00 via thestar.com
  The claim: It’s for earthquake protection. The politics: Extremely complicated. The CEO’s claim: “Adding up all the issues and what it would cost to upgrade the building and fix its problems it makes more sense to build a new museum.” – Toronto Star
  
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• Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light

  23-05-2022 16:00
  
  The impressionist painter lacks the glitzy kudos of peers such as Monet and Degas but is celebrated in this study, tied to an exhibition of his workThe French impressionists have proved fertile territory for gallery-film specialists Exhibition on Screen, with offerings hat-tipping Monet, Degas, Renoir and their peers. This one extends the range slightly outside the usual suspects by taking as its subject the impressionists’ Danish-French elder statesman Camille Pissarro, whose oeuvre is pe
  
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• Russian Filmmakers Are Quietly Trying To Line Up Deals At Cannes

  23-05-2022 15:45 via variety.com
  
  “Despite the festival’s public posturing … Russian buyers are meeting with top sales agents at the Marché du Film. Their numbers are substantially down, but there’s no question that Putin’s Russia is open for business on the French Riviera.” – Variety
  
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• Yes, A Working Parent Can Take In A Biennial

  23-05-2022 15:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  With a lot of planning and flexibility, of course.And a sense of humor. “Let’s consider this my ’embodied perspective,’ however frazzled and distracted that might be.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Vast Majority Of People Absolutely Will Not Pay For News

  23-05-2022 15:15 via niemanlab.org
  
  Running from one free trial to another, even news junkies often think information demands to be free – to the consumer, that is. “Only 17% of respondents said they had paid for online news in the past year. … This was, in fact, an improvement.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Amanda Claridge, The Archaeologist Who Brought Us The Ruins Of Rome, 72

  23-05-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Claridge “revealed the details of what, to a casual observer, might seem a homogeneous slice of the long-ago,” making the ruins speak to any general reader or visitor to the Eternal City. – The New York Times
  
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• What Does It Take To Get Older Audiences Back To The Movies?

  23-05-2022 14:45 via latimes.com
  
  Why, just a little Downton Abbey magic, of course. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How A 1972 Production Of Godspell Changed The Comedy World Forever

  23-05-2022 14:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood, Andrea Martin, and Paul Shaffer all walked into a theatre. This is a (rollicking) oral history of the experience. “Jesus starts his narration, and we look up and Andrea has a dinner roll in her mouth.” – Washington Post
  
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• Zelensky And The Art Of Storytelling

  23-05-2022 14:15 via wired.com
  
  The comedian-turned-president’s video dispatches “have done more than win Ukraine moral and military support. They have created a serialized manifesto—one that makes the case for liberal democracy over oligarchic autocracy.” – Wired
  
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• Groups Invade The Red Carpet At Cannes To Protest Violence Against Women

  23-05-2022 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Sunday’s group was “carrying a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held. The group, dressed in black, also set off black smoke grenades as they paused on steps in front of the Palais des Festivals.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Iran Tightens The Screws On Its Filmmakers

  23-05-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  During a crackdown over general protests about food prices,the government has arrested or threatened many documentary filmmakers. The government take credit for filmmakers’ success abroad – but wants to control them at home. – The New York Times
  
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• The Former KKK Warehouse That’s About To Become An Arts Center

  23-05-2022 13:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  In Fort Worth, the site of at least one brutal lynching is set to become a space for “arts and community healing.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Attention Arms Race

  23-05-2022 13:15 via fastcompany.com
  
  All that glitters is not pepperoni. It’s not just advertisers competing with each other on Instagram, it’s TikTok competing with Netflix competing with YouTube competing with LEGO Star Wars competing with … a new Stranger Things pizza app? – Fast Company
  
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• Beyond The Scream: why Edvard Munch was no one-hit wonder

  23-05-2022 09:00
  
  The first showing outside Scandinavia of a collection of the Norwegian master’s lesser-known works presents an artist aiming to present the full spectrum of profound human emotionsFew artists are as strongly associated with a single painting as Edvard Munch is with The Scream. Even before its endless memeability became apparent it was as much a fixture of popular culture as of art history. But there has always been more to Munch than his most famous work, and a new show at London’s C
  
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• Beam me up, Priti! The sci-fi about teleporting refugees that feels very real

  23-05-2022 09:00
  
  Set in a futuristic detention camp, Meriem Bennani’s eye-popping films follow immigrants caught zapping over borders. With Patel’s Rwanda plan, says the animator, it no longer seems far-fetchedFive months ago, a pretty important envelope dropped into the mailbox of Meriem Bennani’s lawyer. The Moroccan-born, New York-based artist had been granted a green card, and was now a lawful, permanent resident of the US. “It’s weird,” she says over a glass of sparkling
  
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• Greece rebuts British Museum claim Parthenon marbles were ‘removed from rubble’

  23-05-2022 06:00
  
  Museum’s deputy director had told Unesco meeting contested treasures ‘were not all hacked’ from Greek templeThe dispute over the Parthenon sculptures has deepened after Greece rejected a claim by the British Museum that much of the statuary, removed at the behest of Lord Elgin, was retrieved “in the rubble” around the monument.The assertion, made at a Unesco meeting on Friday, added a new twist to the long-running cultural row and came only days after it emerged tha
  
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