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• What Guston’s Cartoon Klan Tells Us

  25-05-2022 23:56 via theatlantic.com
  
  Guston didn’t know what to say about the Klan or about racial violence, except that he knew to fear it as a Jew, and to both oppose and feel implicated in it as a white American. Nearly 50 years after he painted The Oracle, I can’t honestly say I know more. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Conflicts Of Ego It Takes To Be A Writer

  25-05-2022 23:32 via nationalaffairs.com
  
  The act of writing poses a predicament for anyone who recognizes the temptations of pride and self-aggrandizement. We simultaneously desire to attract recognition and seek to avoid it. We want to engage an audience, yet we see that approbation flatters our egos and that criticism is painful. – National Affairs
  
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• LA MoCA Imports New Chief Curator From Tate Modern

  25-05-2022 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  An L.A. native, Clara Kim has been senior curator of international art at Tate Modern since 2016, where she organized an acclaimed survey of artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen in 2020 and Kara Walker’s lauded Turbine Hall commission, Fons Americanus, in 2019. – ARTnews
  
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• Edmonton Symphony Music Director Departs For Germany

  25-05-2022 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  What everyone agrees on is that this very talented and still very young conductor will have the kind of opportunities in Germany that simply aren’t available here. – Edmonton Journal
  
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• Study: Male Film Critics Dominate

  25-05-2022 22:01 via variety.com
  
  The report, titled “Thumbs Down: Film Critics and Gender, and Why It Matters,” shows that in early 2022, males continue to outnumber their female counterparts by more than 2 to 1 in the U.S. – Variety
  
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• Would We All Be Better Off without Philanthropy?

  25-05-2022 21:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Philanthropists rarely make the large, unrestricted gifts that the receiving institutions really want, and so the two parties bargain: over the purpose and the control of a gift, over the form of credit, over how much the institution has to raise from other sources as a condition. – The New Yorker
  
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• “Imagineering” Existed For Decades Before Disney Trademarked The Word

  25-05-2022 20:57 via tedium.co
  
  The people who coined the word, it seems, were the Word War II-era marketers at, of all companies, Alcoa.  And through the 1980s and ’90s, there were at least five books with “Imagineering” in the title. Here’s the story of the word and how Disney co-opted it. – Tedium
  
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• The New Energy Behind Street Dance

  25-05-2022 20:32 via mic.com
  
  “Dancing is a form of escapism for some of us,” Diamond Hardiman, a 28-year-old dancer from Chicago, tells me. “So it’s about being real and honest, yes. But at the end of the day it’s also about being tough. You know, like, solid. And being free.” – Mic
  
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• More Inflammatory Opinions From David Mamet (About Theater, Not Just Politics)

  25-05-2022 20:02 via americantheatre.org
  
  “What play did you ever see that’s changed your life? That’s not the purpose of theatre.” “Acting has nothing in the world to do with feelings. Zero. … What I’m looking for in an actor is the knowledge and courage to stand still and say the stupid fucking words.” – American Theatre
  
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• How Ukraine’s Most Prominent Novelist Is Recording The War

  25-05-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “I think everybody should do what he can do best for the country. The snipers should kill the enemy. The singers should sing for the soldiers and the refugees. What I can do is write and tell things, and that is what I am doing.” – The New York Times
  
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• Gerda Rubinstein obituary

  25-05-2022 19:05
  
  My mother, Gerda Rubinstein Stevens (she used her maiden name for her work), who has died aged 90, had a long and prolific career as a sculptor, first in the Netherlands and then in the UK.Gerda was born in Berlin; two years later, in 1933, the family moved to Amsterdam. In 1940, her father, Willem Rubinstein, an outerwear designer and garment-maker, was taken by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he died. Continue reading...
  
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• If We Described Someone As “A Vocal Figure Skater”, Whom Would You Picture?  Probably Not Allan Clayton

  25-05-2022 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  You’d probably picture some winsome soprano singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, not a big, bearded tenor who sings Peter Grimes. But that’s how composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn describe Allan Clayton, for whom they wrote the title role in their Hamlet. – The New York Times
  
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• Cow you see me, cow you don’t: Spanish town’s Osborne bull turns sky blue

  25-05-2022 19:02
  
  Anonymous artist behind billboard’s makeover says it was ‘just a poetic endeavour’In the 65 years since their unmistakeable silhouettes first appeared on Spanish hillsides, the bulls created to advertise Osborne brandy have hosted cinematic trysts, been given a Guernica paintjob, and even borne a phone-checking, coffee-drinking Batman.Until a fortnight ago, however, no bull had ever vanished, almost completely, into the blue depths of the Spanish spring sky. Today, thanks to an
  
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• Director Guillermo del Toro: The Current State Of Movie-Making Is Unsustainable

  25-05-2022 18:25 via artsjournal.com
  “We are in the present losing more movies from the past faster than ever before. It seems like we aren’t, but the mere disappearance of physical media is already having corporations curating what we watch, faster for us.” – IndieWire
  
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• “Linguistic Convergence” — Why Folks Tend To Start Mimicking The Speech Patterns Of The Folks They’ve Been Talking With

  25-05-2022 18:01 via theconversation.com
  
  “People tend to converge toward the language they observe around them, whether it’s copying word choices, mirroring sentence structures or mimicking pronunciations. … In fact, people converge toward speech sounds they expect to hear – even if they never actually hear them.” – The Conversation
  
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• Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Has Been Shepherding Through Some Big Changes

  25-05-2022 17:03 via vanityfair.com
  
  “Four years ago, Alicia Graf Mack — a former star of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey — took the reins of the dance division, with plans to usher in an altogether more diverse experience. The pandemic, alongside changing conversations around race and gender, shifted that evolution into high gear.” – Vanity Fair
  
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• Looks Like Even France’s Film Industry Has Had Enough Of Roman Polanski

  25-05-2022 16:35 via variety.com
  
  His career flourished there after he fled statutory rape charges in the US in 1973. But there was a huge backlash when he won three Césars for An Officer and a Spy in 2019, and he couldn’t get French financing (and had trouble getting actors) for his latest film, The Palace. – Variety
  
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• Is That Long-Lost Painting The Italian Police Just Recovered Really A Titian?

  25-05-2022 16:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  The Carabinieri say so, but at least two prominent art professionals disagree: Titian scholar Andrea Donati (“sensationally wrong … I cannot even see the shadow of Titian in this portrait”) and art historian and former Italian culture minister Vittorio Sgarbi (“If that’s a Titian, I’m Napoleon!”). – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• “This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO

  25-05-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Roger Lynch: “We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million that interact with us on social media. Our audience is already telling us that’s not the way they interact with us.” (podcast with transcript) – The New York Times
  
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• “Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed

  25-05-2022 15:01 via mic.com
  
  “Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe. … At worst, the environment was a space where they were objectified and often preyed upon.” –Mic
  
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• Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically

  25-05-2022 14:33 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise of streamers to widespread consolidation that has led to giant conglomerates dominating and squeezing out smaller, more adventurous releases.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister

  25-05-2022 14:05 via thenationalnews.com
  
  Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in the position for only 22 months. (France has had 15 culture ministers in the past 30 years.) – The National (Abu Dhabi)
  
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• Spanish photographer Ouka Leele, star of the Movida Madrileña, dies aged 64

  25-05-2022 13:46
  
  Artist and poet played leading role in cultural explosion that followed end of Franco dictatorshipThe Spanish photographer, artist and poet Ouka Leele, one of the greatest and brightest talents of the Movida Madrileña cultural explosion that followed the end of the Francisco Franco dictatorship, has died at the age of 64.Born Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma in Madrid in 1957, Leele began drawing, painting and devouring history of art books at an early age. After studying photography,
  
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• ‘He’s sabotaged his entire life for greed’: the $86m rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick

  25-05-2022 13:33
  
  With galleries in Mayfair and Miami, a Made in Chelsea romance, and art-world backing, this young art dealer looked like he had it made. So how has he ended up in prison?He has been condemned as a “serial swindler”, who duped art investors into parting with an eye-watering $86m, but his victims will never forget the charm and charisma of Inigo Philbrick.The suave American dealer, with a gallery at an exclusive London address, a Midas touch that brought soaring profits in art sales an
  
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• Director of Audience Development

  25-05-2022 06:22 via artsjournal.com
  This cross-departmental role will shepherd the Symphony’s work to radically expand the number of people who engage
  with our mainstage concert offerings, particularly in the area of classical music.Working closely with the Executive Director (CEO), the Director of Audience Development will shepherd
  organizational innovation to develop a much broader audience for classical music. This position will be
  in charge of advancing and refining the new strategies, processes, methods, and tactics env
  
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• What Museums Can Do and Orchestras Cannot Do

  25-05-2022 05:02 via artsjournal.com
  
  Winslow Homer: “Lost in the Grand Banks”I keenly anticipated the Metropolitan Museum’s current Winslow Homer retrospective. Titled “Cross-Currents,” it comprises
  
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• Report: Only 22 Percent Of UK Music Festival Headliners Are Women

  25-05-2022 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  Two major projects were launched in 2017 aimed at getting more female acts on stages – ReBalance and KeyChange – after a BBC study had found around 80% of headliners were all-male. Five years on, new analysis by the BBC indicates there’s been little change at the top of the bills. – BBC
  
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