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• Artist Pays For Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Painting. Now The Painting Is Worth $272,000

  27-05-2022 23:31 via washingtonpost.com
  The sandwich, priced at $1.95, was made with fresh bread from a local Italian bakery, aged cheddar cheese and a substantial smear of butter to make it perfectly crispy — exactly how Kinnear liked it. – Washington Post
  
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• Orchestra League Launches New Commissioning Program

  27-05-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The initiative announced on Thursday will build on those efforts, pairing each of the six composers with five ensembles. The program, which will cost at least $360,000, will be financed by the Toulmin foundation. – The New York Times
  
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• Stiff Sentence For Artworld Fraudster Rattles Art World

  27-05-2022 22:31 via artnews.com
  
  In other words, the sentence was meant to scare off or inhibit potential fraudsters with the threat of substantial incarceration time. With it, Judge Stein seemed to view the art market as rife with fraud. – ARTnews
  
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• Meet Pitchbot – Media Criticism Through Parody

  27-05-2022 22:01 via cjr.org
  
  With his account, NYT Pitchbot imagines the Times formula for stories as a kind of wheezing algorithm, a bot churning out contrarian headlines and half-baked hot takes. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• Imagination Is Critical For Learning. So Why Don’t We Teach It?

  27-05-2022 21:32 via aeon.co
  
  Studying the imagination is the most exciting and accurate way to heal the terminal divide between the sciences and the humanities. But, more importantly, Imagination Studies, or imaginology, also promises to reunite the body and the mind, reintegrate emotion and reason. – Aeon
  
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• Today In Chutzpah: This Couple Tried To Shoplift A Basquiat

  27-05-2022 21:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  An as-yet-unidentified man and woman walked into Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan, headed to a Basquiat screen print, searched it on their phone, took it off the wall and tried to walk right back out.  A gallery assistant stopped them, though they did manage to steal a two-thirds-empty bottle of whiskey. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Latest AI Superpower? Describe An Image And The Computer Will Create It

  27-05-2022 20:28 via theverge.com
  
  In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output. Just to stress: that’s all it takes. You type what you want to see and the program generates it. – The Verge
  
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• Yes, Happily-Ever-After Is Okay In Serious Literature

  27-05-2022 20:04 via lithub.com
  
  “I argue that there’s something in our human DNA that seeks the Happily Ever After (HEA). … According to researchers, these fairytale endings can be traced as far back as the Bronze Age, long before literature had even the language to describe itself.” – Literary Hub
  
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• How Pacific Northwest Ballet Is Progressing With Diversity

  27-05-2022 19:32 via seattletimes.com
  
  “The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only be identified by the individual, but the company is currently about 45% individuals of color with five dancers identifying as Black or Brown.” – Seattle Times
  
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• This Young Man is A Natural Male Soprano, And He’d Like To Try Singing Lucia

  27-05-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Samuel Mariño, a 29-year-old Venezuelan whose voice never dropped, specializes in Baroque castrato roles, but he sees no reason not to sing female parts. (He already does Cherubino, written for a woman.) Oh, and he’s definitely not trans, but he sees no reason not to wear skirts, either. – The New York Times
  
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• Canada Tries To Make A Case For Internet Regulation Because Of… The Arts?

  27-05-2022 18:31 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from a pandemic where everything went virtual – only to reveal how much the physical and the actual matter. – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• Can Newcomers To Dance Follow What Happens In A Story Ballet?  Christopher Wheeldon Isn’t Worried

  27-05-2022 18:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “I don’t think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of the beauties of dance is that we get to escape into this poetic abstraction, even within a story ballet.” – The Guardian
  
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• Today’s Students — The Problem With “Excellent Sheep”

  27-05-2022 17:33 via bariweiss.substack.com
  
  Excellent sheephood is inherently competitive. Its purpose is to vault you into the ranks of society’s winners, to make sure that you end up with more stuff—more wealth, status, power, access, comfort, freedom—than most other people. This is not a pretty project, when you look it in the face. – Bari Weiss
  
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• Memory Lane: ‘It Was a Burning Hot Day in Paris’

  27-05-2022 17:05 via artsjournal.com
  “After going to see the Villa Seurat, where Henry Miller lived when he wrote Tropic of Cancer, we stopped at the Café Zeyer for drinks. The Zeyer, which he described as ‘a gaudy place with red plush and mirrors and polished brass,’ was where Miller often took a fine à l’eau and argued metaphysics with friends. It was a burning hot day in Paris. . . .” CW and JH at Le Zeyer, 2009. Photo: Supervert“Carl Weissner ordered be
  
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• It Takes Some Real Heroics To Keep Alaska Public Radio’s Far-Flung Stations On The Air

  27-05-2022 17:03 via current.org
  
  Beyond Alaska’s few cities, APR’s stations are sometimes the only local ones available, “mixing Morning Edition with all flavors of music, emergency announcements, swap-and-shop shows and personal announcements for family members in remote, roadless villages. … The station managers and engineers who keep it running are the unsung heroes.” – Current
  
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• Town Councilman In Wales Is Driven To Resign Because He Can’t Stop The Weird Rumor That He Is Banksy

  27-05-2022 16:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Pembroke Dock town councilor William Gannon, age 58, was just elected earlier this month, but he couldn’t quell rumors about his supposed illicit artistic activities in January, which he believes may have been started by his political opponents.” – Artnet
  
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• Why Is Russia Looting Ukraine’s Museums?  It’s Not Just Greed

  27-05-2022 16:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “These latest thefts are in keeping with Putin’s attempts to erase Ukraine’s independent history and promote his own expansionist model of a new Russian empire. … These works have been chosen to undermine Ukraine’s national identity. Paintings by western European artists have not been targeted.” – The Guardian
  
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• Only At Disney World Could Live-Action Role-Playing Become This Elaborate

  27-05-2022 15:32 via newyorker.com
  
  “For more than a decade, Imagineers — Disney designers and researchers — have been looking into LARPs and interactive theatre, and running ‘playtests’ in the (theme) parks.” On the Galactic Starcruiser, the current state of the art, Disney World gives Star Wars fans an immersive LARP experience two nights long. – The New Yorker
  
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• Kevin Spacey Charged With Four Counts Of Sexual Assault In The UK

  27-05-2022 15:05 via apnews.com
  
  “British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement that came as the actor was in court in New York testifying in a different case.” – AP
  
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• Former Director Of The Louvre Is Officially Indicted For Complicity In Fraud And Money Laundering

  27-05-2022 14:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  The charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down last year, concern five antiquities allegedly taken illegally from Egypt and sold to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. – Artnet
  
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• For The First Time, An Indian Novel Wins The International Booker Prize

  27-05-2022 14:06 via bbc.com
  
  The £50,000 prize for Tomb of Sand will be split equally between author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell. – BBC
  
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• Munch masterpieces, open-air Emin and a pint-pulling EastEnders jamboree – the week in art

  27-05-2022 14:00
  
  Munch shows his bleak brilliance, Tracey goes pastoral, the Queen Vic opens all hours and Hockney gets sketchy – all in your weekly dispatchEdvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen
  Some of Munch’s most powerful and bleakly beautiful paintings in a quietly devastating display.
  • Courtauld, London, until 4 September Continue reading...
  
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• Bangarra’s Stephen Page and artist Destiny Deacon win $50,000 lifetime achievement awards

  27-05-2022 13:03
  
  Page and Deacon both won the Red Ochre prizes at the 2022 First Nations Arts awards on Friday night for their life workGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastLast year, choreographer, dancer and director Stephen Page announced that he was stepping down as artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, after 31 years in the job. On Friday night, Page was named the recipient of a $50,000 lifetime achievement award, at the Australia Council’s First Nations Arts awa
  
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• ‘Ukraine’s heritage under attack’: why Russia is looting museums

  27-05-2022 12:00
  
  2,000 stolen artworks attest to Putin’s desire to erase a nation’s history – like so many despots before himRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesAs Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, the director of the Museum of Local History in Melitopol in the south-east of the country, Leila Ibrahimova, arranged for a hoard of gold artefacts from ancient Scythia to be hidden. Just a few weeks later, she was kidnapped and interrogated by Russian troops. They demanded to know where the Sc
  
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• But is it art, Ma’am? Robot’s platinum jubilee Queen portrait unveiled

  27-05-2022 07:00
  
  Humanoid artist Ai-Da pays tribute to monarch with painting but critic calls it ‘a cynical, transparent con’At first glance, the Queen could be wearing a tin hat with camouflage netting set against a thunderous sky. A commentary on the inevitable conflicts and turbulence that took place during her 70-year reign, perhaps. Or a thoughtful juxtaposition of stability and instability.But no, it seems that Ai-Da, the robot artist who painted the Queen’s portrait to mark her platinum
  
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• Director of Development- North Carlina Museum of Art

  27-05-2022 02:11 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) and an employee of the NCMA Foundation, the Director of Development (DoD) will have primary responsibility for the Museum’s annual fundraising, membership, and stewardship programs. The DoD will be a highly skilled and effective manager and fundraiser who has a proven track-record of securing six-figure gifts and will carry a portfolio of major donors and prospects along with the responsibility for growing and managing a top-
  
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• Director of Programming at The Joyce Theater

  27-05-2022 02:08 via artsjournal.com
  The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York’s leading dance presenting organization, seeks a full-time Director of Programming. Integral to shaping The Joyce Theater’s local and international acclaim, the director of programming works with the executive director to curate and manage the artistic programming at The Joyce Theater. They travel extensively to identify the best companies for The Joyce Theater’s stage.
  The director of programming, in collaboration with the executive direc
  
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• Actor Ray Liotta Dead At 67

  27-05-2022 01:30 via msn.com
  
  Best known for Something Wild, Field of Dreams, and Goodfellas, “in a decades-long, genre-spanning career, Liotta played criminals, cops, a baseball star, a preacher and even Frank Sinatra.” – MSN (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Denmark Imposes Tax On Streamers To Support Local Programming

  27-05-2022 00:01 via reuters.com
  
  Lawmakers in Denmark have agreed global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney, must pay a levy of 6% of their revenue in the country to support local TV production. – Reuters
  
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