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• Italian Police Find Missing Titian After Two Decades

  24-05-2022 23:32 via artnews.com
  
  Discovered by a Turin branch of the cultural heritage unit, a subsidiary of the Italian state police known as the Carabinieri, the 16th-century work, titled Portrait of a Man with a Beret, first went missing two decades ago from an undisclosed location. – ARTnews
  
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• Not What You Thinks: How The Internet Is Destroying Us

  24-05-2022 23:01 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  We can at least say of the oil economy that its environmental damage, and consequent destruction of the human world, is only an epiphenomenon, whereas for the internet, the destruction of the human is itself the source of value. – LA Review of Books
  
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• Untethered: Our Lives Without Cables

  24-05-2022 22:32 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  “If the trend towards mobile phones continues, and there’s little reason to believe it won’t, landline phones could soon become an endangered species, much like the VCR and other technological relics before it.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• How Are We Supposed To Talk About The Future?

  24-05-2022 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  I too grew up imbibing common technotopian fantasies of the late-20th Century zeitgeist, of a belief in humanity’s manifest destiny of multi-planetary spread and dominion.I just didn’t put the pieces of the puzzle together until I tried to understand climate change. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Schick Happens: Portrait Of The Master Percussionist

  24-05-2022 21:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “All these percussion solos from that period of time were written for young, acrobatic people. So the question is, what does an aging body, but a more experienced body, have to offer? And it turns out I’m a better player than I was. I don’t waste any time.” – The New York Times
  
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• “True Rhymes Are Marvels; A Slant Rhyme’s A Sin. Or Is It Vice Versa? Let The Battle Begin.”

  24-05-2022 21:03 via newyorker.com
  
  Adam Gopnik considers how “slant rhyme” (English teachers call it assonance) and rap’s constant use of it have revivified verse, both sung and spoken — and how long a history slant rhyme really has in the true-rhyme-impoverished English Language. – The New Yorker
  
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• Ukraine’s Best Filmmakers Are Recording The War

  24-05-2022 20:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The country’s leading filmmakers, including Oleh Sentsov, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Serhiy Myhalchuk and Olga Beshmelnitsyna, are in the trenches, often literally, documenting Russian atrocities and the impact of the Ukraine war on its citizens. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?

  24-05-2022 20:02 via bookriot.com
  
  Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now.  Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they’re reading any differently?  Here’s a look at what has and hasn’t been scrambled on the newer platform. – Book Riot
  
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• Just Switch It Off: Why Great Numbers Of Australians Have Quit The News

  24-05-2022 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
   Research from the University of Canberra found that heavy news use dropped from 69% in April 2020 to 51% in January 2021, while those expressing high interest in the news fell from 64% in 2016 to 52% in 2021. – The Guardian
  
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• A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On The Interwebs

  24-05-2022 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere … through May 29, the production doubles as a support group for self-identified internet addicts, disclosing their demons in haunting eight-part harmonies.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• A Deconstructivist Guide To The Universe

  24-05-2022 18:31 via dezeen.com
  The emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde’s apparent demise may have been rather exaggerated. – Dezeen
  
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• How The Standup Comedy TV Special Became A Genre Of Its Own

  24-05-2022 18:01 via vulture.com
  
  “The first decade or so of the 2000s wasn’t exactly a time of artistic evolution for the special, but the rapid increase in special-making created an audience aware of the form’s traditional tricks, tropes, and trappings — primed to get the joke when comedians started having fun with the form.” – Vulture
  
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• An Influential Literacy Educator Makes An About Face In How To Teach Reading

  24-05-2022 17:28 via nytimes.com
  
  It may not inspire political campaign ads the way critical race theory does, but the debate over how to teach children to read — perhaps the foundational skill of all schooling — has been just as consuming for some parents, educators and policymakers. – The New York Times
  
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• Kyiv’s Opera House Is Back To Putting On Opera

  24-05-2022 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “In a city that … became used to wailing air-raid sirens and the thuds of artillery from the suburbs, the audience was instead treated to the frothy melodies of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.” But they’re limiting the audience to 300 people so they can evacuate quickly if necessary. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Philadelphia’s City History Museum Was Doomed.  Thank Goodness A University Has Taken It Over.

  24-05-2022 16:33 via msn.com
  
  “Interviews with more than a dozen museum professionals suggest that the Philadelphia History Museum ended up in (storage) far from the heart of the city because it was too diffuse, its vast collection too randomly accumulated, its many narratives unexplored, and its funding sparse and never assured.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• There Was More To Frank Langella’s Firing Than Just Ignoring The Intimacy Coordinator’s Blocking

  24-05-2022 16:02 via deadline.com
  
  “One word consistently used by virtually everyone when describing Langella’s behavior” on set for Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher “was ‘toxic’ as they recalled (wildly) inappropriate comments and behavior. … People who worked with Langella on the Netflix series provided more detail about some of the incidents.” – Deadline
  
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• Our Time on Earth review – ear-splitting obstacle course of barmy solutions to the climate crisis

  24-05-2022 15:50
  
  Barbican Curve gallery, LondonWhether pondering dinner with pests, reinventing myself as a vegetable or being deafened by a waterfall that sounded like industrial machinery, this hectic show made me want to flee“Breathe,” whispers the disembodied voice in the darkened threshold to the Barbican’s Curve gallery. “Just one breath, shared by all living things.” The air we breathe comes from sea creatures and trees, it tells me, with a sort of irksome intimacy. Beyond th
  
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• ABT’s Incoming Director Could “Quietly Blow Up The Entire Way We Think About Ballet”

  24-05-2022 15:34 via msn.com
  
  “Susan Jaffe, who recently turned 60, has in mind such steps as opening up artistic processes to the public and soliciting views from balletgoers and other stakeholders on the delicate task of updating thorny works from the classical canon. It’s an audience-first approach.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• “The Art World’s Bernie Madoff”, Inigo Philbrick, Gets Seven Years In Prison

  24-05-2022 15:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Prosecutors accused Philbrick of committing ‘one of the most significant frauds in the art market’s history,’ describing his operation in a sentencing memorandum as ‘Ponzi-like.’ … He is alleged to have sold shares totaling more than 100 percent in artworks he didn’t own, falsified contracts, forged signatures, and invented fictitious clients.” – Artnet
  
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• Beeple’s Twitter Was Hacked, And A Lot Of Money Was Lost

  24-05-2022 14:35 via artsjournal.com
  “Teasing a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, the hacker first tweeted out a raffle entry and then a link where followers could claim one of 200 free NFTs Beeple was supposedly offering, … possibly resulting in the loss of over $438,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.” – ARTnews
  
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• A Civil Lawsuit Against Bill Cosby Heads To Trial

  24-05-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Because the criminal case was overturned – though for reasons unrelated to Cosby’s guilt or innocence – “the significance of Ms. Huth’s suit has risen in the minds of some of the many women who have accused Mr. Cosby of being a sexual predator.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It’s so joyful and full of promise’: a modernism exhibition aims for hope

  24-05-2022 09:01
  
  At a new exhibition at the Whitney in New York, a look back at early 20th-century modernist art offers optimism and also a rare diversityAlthough the dawn of the 20th century was a time of war, pandemic and social upheaval, it also brought with it an undeniable sense of hope and opportunity that was central to the modernist art that was flourishing at the time. Visionary new aesthetics were being unleashed on to the world, and artists truly believed in the revolutionary potential of their work.
  
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• Director of Production- Guthrie Theater

  24-05-2022 06:47 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the Artistic Director, the Director of Production serves on the Guthrie’s senior management team and oversees all production department operations. This position directly provides supervision and oversight of the following positions: Technical Director, Head of Props, Costume Director, Head of Sound, Head of Lighting and Projection, Production Manager, and Assistant Production Manager.
  As a senior team member, the Director of Production works collaboratively wi
  
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• Roman sculpture up for auction in US linked to disgraced dealer

  24-05-2022 06:00
  
  Exclusive: researcher calls for sale of marble head of Greek philosopher Antisthenes to be haltedAn archaeologist is calling for a US auction house to withdraw a monumental Roman sculpture from sale, claiming he has photographic evidence of its direct link to a dealer involved with illicit trade.Prof Christos Tsirogiannis, whose academic research focuses on antiquities and trafficking networks, said Hindman Auctions in Chicago should cancel its auction of the portrait head of Antisthenes, the Gr
  
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• The UnderTow: Subscriptions are the New Business Model of Choice. So Why are Subscriptions Failing the Arts?

  24-05-2022 04:10 via artsjournal.com
  Is it the subscription model that’s not working or is it the way the arts do subscriptions?
  
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• The UnderTow: Subscriptions are the New Business Model of Choice. So Why are Subscriptions Failing in the Arts?

  24-05-2022 04:10 via artsjournal.com
  Is it the subscription model that’s not working or is it the way the arts do subscriptions?
  
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• In The Age Of TikTok, TikTok At Cannes Hits Some Speed Bumps

  24-05-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Filmmakers from 44 countries submitted films to the competition, all between 30 seconds and three minutes in length. The top prize was shared between two directors… – The New York Times
  
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