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• Meet the Co-creators of Modern Warrior LIVE–US Army Veteran Jaymes Poling and Musician Dominick Farinacci

  26-05-2022 23:59 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Modern Warrior LIVE is a unique and moving theatrical experience that mixes first-person narrative with music and multimedia to chronicle US Army Veteran Jaymes Poling’s story of his three deployments to Afghanistan and subsequent transition back home. In today’s podcast, I speak with its co-creators, Jaymes Poling and jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci about the conception of Modern Warrior LIVE and their process of working together—both in creating the show and performin
  
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• Meet Glimmerglass’s New Director

  26-05-2022 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Robert Ainsley succeeds Francesca Zambello, who led Glimmerglass, a summer festival of opera and theater, for more than a decade. In an interview, Ainsley said he was committed to building on Zambello’s efforts to “make this an art form for everyone.” – The New York Times
  
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• New Technology Makes Lost Cities Of The Amazon Visible From The Air

  26-05-2022 23:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient ruins of a vast urban settlement around Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon that was abandoned some 600 years ago. – Smithsonian
  
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• Do The Words We Use Really Change The Way We Think?

  26-05-2022 22:35 via nytimes.com
  
  John McWhorter: For example, the pathway from “crippled” to “handicapped” to “disabled” to “differently abled.” New words ultimately don’t leave freighted ideas behind; they merely take them on. – The New York Times
  
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• Of Funding, Arts, And Innovation

  26-05-2022 22:01 via commonwealthmagazine.org
  
  Pre-COVID, Boston’s arts organizations had a pragmatic approach—they prioritized ticket sales over experimentation. As a result, Boston’s arts sector produces fewer new works than its peer cities.Without new sources of funding, this innovation disparity will likely increase. – Commonwealth
  
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• Melding Indigenous Music With Avant Garde Experimenting

  26-05-2022 20:32 via pitchfork.com
  
  The record is an unusual proposition: A rare fusion of pow wow—an Indigenous culture of music and dance—and experimental electronic production. Holding it all together are sampled live recordings of pow wow singing and drumming stretching back decades. – Pitchfork
  
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• Even Sleeping Sickness Can Be The Subject of An Opera

  26-05-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman have written Awakenings, based on the late neurologist Oliver Sacks’s memoir/case study about treating encephalitis lethargica patients and about to premiere in St. Louis. (And this isn’t even the first opera based on an Oliver Sacks case study.) – The New York Times
  
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• It’s Not Over Until Deaccession Diva Sings: How the Major Spring Auctions Went Tone-Deaf for Museums

  26-05-2022 20:01 via artsjournal.com
  In my previous post about auction sales of artworks that museums might reasonably have hoped to receive as gifts
  
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• Casualty Of War: Russian Artists, Scientists, Creatives, Are Leaving

  26-05-2022 19:32 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  How low has Putin driven Russian culture? Here are two indications. Thousands of scientists and other intellectuals along with hundreds of ballet dancers and other artists are leaving or trying to leave Russia, ashamed of Putin’s wars and immobilized by his repression. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Inigo Philbrick — The Rise And Ruin Of A Talented And Charismatic Art Dealer

  26-05-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  He had knowledge, taste, charm; two high-profile galleries; a beautiful partner and baby daughter. Now he’s in prison for fraud, internationally reviled, and owes $86 million. As one friend-turned-victim puts it, through “a toxic mix of arrogance and alcohol, … he’s sabotaged his entire life for short-term greed. It’s just stupidity.” – The Guardian
  
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• Brilliant Scientific Breakthroughs Are The Product Of Their Context And Culture

  26-05-2022 18:31 via newstatesman.com
  
  The scientific revolutions of the last four centuries took place not just at the same time as political and religious conflict, invasion and enslavement, but because of these things. – New Statesman
  
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• Here’s The Guy Who Oversees All Of Netflix’s Standup Comedy Shows

  26-05-2022 18:01 via vulture.com
  
  Robbie Praw, who spent 12 years as programmer at Just for Laughs in Montreal before joining Netflix in 2016, talks about how he chooses which comedians to present, whether Netflix is focusing too much on “politically incorrect” material, and mounting the company’s, and Los Angeles’s, first-ever major comedy festival. – Vulture
  
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• Basquiat Was A Subversive Artist. Now He’s Just A Brand

  26-05-2022 17:32 via jacobinmag.com
  
   Sanitized and caricatured by corporate marketing schemes, Basquiat’s work has been defanged. Today, Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand. – Jacobin
  
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• A New Festival To Showcase A Midcareer Playwright New York Ought To See More Of

  26-05-2022 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Volt, an annual project whose first featured writer is Karen Hartman, is meant to spotlight, as founder Val Day put it, “somebody who (is) more widely produced in the regions, who (has) a fairly large canon of work which deserved to have eyes on it in New York.” – The New York Times
  
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• It Appears That Chimpanzees Have Their Own Language, Complete With Words And Simple Sentences

  26-05-2022 16:32 via salon.com
  
  Researchers have found that a troop of 46 chimps in the Ivory Coast has 390 unique vocal sequences that they use among themselves.  They employ “single vocal units,” combine them into double units, and in turn combine those doubles into three-unit sequences. – Salon
  
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• The Art, And The Power, Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s War Videos

  26-05-2022 16:01 via wired.com
  
  “They serve as field reporting, pleas for weapons, arias that glorify Ukraine. But the videos 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, … clarifying, day by day, democracy’s reason for being.” – Wired
  
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• After 27 Years, The Opera About Harvey Milk Has Been Completely Reworked

  26-05-2022 15:33 via nytimes.com
  
  Composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie have removed 70 minutes, and many cameo roles, from Milk, and made arrangements for orchestras of 66 and 31 players, down from over 80. Says Wallace, “There’s not a single bar that’s the same, even though it’s definitely the same opera.” – The New York Times
  
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• “We Need A National Memorial To Gun Violence, Now.”

  26-05-2022 15:04 via msn.com
  
  “It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. … After every mass shooting, turn on the lights and the microphones, and let no political leader who makes the symbolic pilgrimage escape speaking actual truth on the site.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Ex-Director And Curators At The Louvre Detained For Questioning In Antiquities Trafficking Case

  26-05-2022 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down as director last year when his contract wasn’t renewed, as well as the head of the museum’s Egyptian art department and the editor of the journal Revue d’Egyptologie, were questioned about items sold to the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Met Museum. – ARTnews
  
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• Bèlè, Martinique’s Very Own Dance Of Emancipation

  26-05-2022 14:30 via theconversation.com
  
  An Afro-Caribbean repertoire of quadrille square dances (accompanied by drumming and singing) that combines a complicated vocabulary of symbolic movements with improvisation, bèlè is seeing a revival on the island after long years of discouragement by a central government in Paris keen to promote continental French culture. – The Conversation
  
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• Germany Raises Its Arts Spending Even More

  26-05-2022 14:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  As American arts workers watch and weep with envy, “Germany’s new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has announced a 2022 budget of €2.3 billion ($2.4 billion). The figure is an increase of €148 million ($156 million), or 7 percent, over last year’s budget.” – Artnet
  
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• Birmingham Hockley flyover murals get listed status

  26-05-2022 12:03
  
  Artworks by sculptor William Mitchell, designed to encourage public interaction, earn Grade-II accoladeA group of concrete murals on a flyover in Birmingham, known as a “brutalist climbing wall”, have been given listed status.The three-banked mural walls flanking the entrance to the Hockley flyover underpass feature geometric shapes and abstract patterns and were designed by the sculptor William Mitchell to encourage public interaction. Continue reading...
  
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• Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review

  26-05-2022 11:04
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  From the grief of loss to the despair of impotence and the misery of work, the Scandinavian master wallows gloriously in pain, filling the soul with the ecstatic sorrow of his coloursWe love anniversaries. This year is being pushed as the centenary of modernism, since The Waste Land and Ulysses were both published in 1922. But Edvard Munch had TS Eliot and James Joyce beat. In 1892, Munch painted the first modernist masterpiece of the city, anticipating their radical vi
  
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• DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & EDUCATION

  26-05-2022 05:06 via artsjournal.com
  DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & EDUCATION – MCC Theater, New York, NYMCC THEATER seeks a dynamic and experienced Director of Public Engagement & Education to lead organizational initiatives that will ensure robust community and student engagement with MCC’s productions and programs. The ideal candidate will bring the ambition and proven track-record to develop and execute public engagement and education programming, while always strengthening the connection between a diverse
  
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• Vice President or Associate Vice President- Executive Search

  26-05-2022 04:58 via artsjournal.com
  Executive Search PracticeRecruiting top executive, artistic, and senior management professionals in the arts and culture sector is serious business. ACG ensures that inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and success (IDEAS) are central to its executive search process. The firm’s unique methodology highlights organizational successes and opportunities, minimizes hiring biases, and improves the overall selection process. ACG utilizes a collaborative executive search process, involving many s
  
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• Rare Aboriginal art to return to Australia after Victorian government chips in $500,000 at last minute

  26-05-2022 04:24
  
  Two works from 1897 by Wurundjeri artist William Barak purchased at auction in New York Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Victorian government has contributed $500,000 to secure the purchase of two rare artworks by Wurundjeri artist William Barak at auction in New York, in order to bring them back to the state.The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Corporation had raised $117,627 via a crowdfunding page to buy the artworks – a painting and a parrying shield &nd
  
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