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• The Man Who Spent 60 Years Building His Own Cathedral

  03-06-2022 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The cathedral’s crypt would be his burial place. And he’d be buried there because it was his cathedral. He’d designed it entirely in his head, without a single measurement or calculation on paper, without a record of any of the materials he’d used. And he had done it largely by himself. – The Guardian
  
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• Deconstructivist Legacy In Architecture: Constant Revolution

  03-06-2022 23:01 via dezeen.com
  The idea that a building was a means to solve problems and serve clients, to which postmodernism only added the idea that the results should be properly and effectively communicated and scaled to a diverse audience, was crumpled up and replaced with shards, fragments, and experiments. – Dezeen
  
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• Hollywood Makes Progressive Movies? The Data Say Otherwise

  03-06-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  I’ll stipulate that the people who make movies may skew progressive in their beliefs, commitments and voting patterns. The movies themselves tell another story. – The New York Times
  
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• Not Quite Music, But Sorta? (In An AI Kind Of Way)

  03-06-2022 22:01 via newyorker.com
  
  James Blake’s new album, “Wind Down,” is created in collaboration with the A.I.-powered app Endel, which collects data on individual users from devices like the Apple Watch and generates personalized ambient music in real time. – The New Yorker
  
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• Meyne Wyatt doesn’t hold back: ‘I was always a bit of a ratbag’

  03-06-2022 22:00
  
  The actor, playwright and painter may be a polymath – but there’s one role he won’t be taking: politics. ‘You have to kiss arse. Yeah, it’s not my bag’City of Gold is on now at Sydney theatre companyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastAt Meyne Wyatt’s father’s wake, Ken and Ben Wyatt were talking politics.Ken Wyatt, Meyne’s uncle, was until recently the Liberal minister for Indigenous Australians; Ben Wyatt, M
  
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• Why People Love Sending Gifts To The Queen

  03-06-2022 21:32 via theconversation.com
  
  For the last year, we have conducted interviews with people who have given at least one gift to a member of the royal family to try to understand the motivation of these present-givers. – The Conversation
  
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• All About Green Screens

  03-06-2022 21:01 via qz.com
  
  “For more than a century, filmmakers have been using the ‘green screen’ technique. … So where did it come from? And why is it so popular? And most importantly: why is it green? It’s time, for once, to let the green screen occupy the foreground instead of the background.” – Quartz
  
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• Everyone Is Hating On The State Of Book Reviews. But What Are They Even For?

  03-06-2022 20:33 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
   If, in fact, book reviews are on the whole too positive, as some suggest, does this mean that the purpose of book reviewing is to sniff out what’s rotten? Or, if book reviews are too negative, does this mean that public-facing literary criticism’s purpose is to highlight what’s worth reading? – LA Review of Books
  
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• Alexei Ratmansky Reconstructs Petipa’s “Harlequinade”

  03-06-2022 20:04 via theage.com.au
  
  It’s a “miracle,” he says, that a ballet in 1900 was notated at all, let alone that the notation survives. As for teaching the movement to performers in 2022, he says, “I very much disagree with the idea that the technique of the dancers is so much better now. I think it’s just different.” – The Age (Melbourne)
  
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• UK Police Censor Violent Rap Music. Should They?

  03-06-2022 19:30 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Even a hardened civil liberties advocate would have to down a stiff drink and say a prayer or two before defending someone’s right to publically mock murder victims and their families. – The Critic
  
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• The Ancient Egyptian Discoveries At Saqqara Just Keep Coming

  03-06-2022 19:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “This week, archaeologists from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the recovery of more than 250 sarcophagi, 150 bronze statues and a variety of other antiquities from the site. The remarkably well-preserved objects in the necropolis are still in good — and sometimes colorful — condition.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Behold The Modern Literary Festival — What An Uncreative Place!

  03-06-2022 18:24 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The growth of British literary festivals over the past few decades has been an exponential development. It has also changed the idea of what people expect from authors. – The Critic
  
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• Inside Harvey Weinstein’s Disastrous Criminal Defense

  03-06-2022 18:02 via newyorker.com
  
  “Weinstein had proved his skill at storytelling in the movie business. But trials are not movies, shot under controlled conditions and revised in the editing room.” An excerpt from Ken Auletta’s Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence. – The New Yorker
  
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• A Uranium Jubilee for the Queen of the Arms Trade

  03-06-2022 17:47 via artsjournal.com
  Text by Heathcote Williams.Editing and narration by Alan Cox.
  
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• Orchestra League President: There Are Three Issues Going Forward

  03-06-2022 17:31 via medium.com
   Simon Woods: “I keep coming back to three defining issues that I believe will fuel our artistic creativity and our financial success.” – Medium
  
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• Australia’s New Arts Minister Promises That The Government Will Stop Attacking The Arts

  03-06-2022 17:03 via artshub.com.au
  
  That this should be considered news says something about the state of things in Australia after years of rule by the conservative Coalition. Declared Tony Burke, the arts minister for the newly elected Labor government, “The nine-year political attack on the arts and entertainment sector is now over.” – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• This Week In Art Restoration Mishaps, A Historic Clock Tower In Prague

  03-06-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 600-year-old Orloj, … one of Prague’s most famous landmarks, is at the centre of an embarrassing row amid claims that an artist endowed it with likenesses of his friends and acquaintances in an expensive restoration project, possibly as a joke.” – The Guardian
  
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• After 22 Years, The International African American Museum Has An Official Opening Date

  03-06-2022 16:02 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Built on a Charleston waterfront wharf where more than 100,000 enslaved Africans were brought ashore after the Middle Passage, will officially open the weekend of January 21, 2023. More than $100 million has been raised for its construction and operation. – Hyperallergic
  
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• San Diego Rep Cancels The Marquee Production Of Its Current Festival

  03-06-2022 15:34 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  
  Ali Viterbi’s multi-award-winning In Every Generation was to be the centerpiece of this year’s JFest (officially, the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival). Previews, scheduled to start last Thursday, simply didn’t happen, and this week the theater officially cancelled “due to personal and financial reasons.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• A Guy Who Was “Mad At His Girl” Smashed Up Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth $5 Million At The Dallas Museum Of Art

  03-06-2022 15:01 via nbcnews.com
  On Wednesday night, 21-year-old Brian Hernandez broke into the museum, went up to display cases and started smashing.  He told the guard who intercepted him that he did it because “he was mad at his girl”; the guard told him to sit down until the police came, and he did. – NBC News
  
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• Ann Gillespie obituary

  03-06-2022 14:56
  
  My sister Ann Gillespie, who has died aged 87, was an artist who co-founded a design studio in the 1960s and later became an art therapist.Ann was born in Poole, Dorset, to Ken Reason, who managed a printing works for Kodak, and Hilda (nee Whittlestone), a housewife and primary school teacher. After schooling at James Allen’s girls’ school in south London, at 16 she went to study at St Martin’s School of Art, and at 17 she travelled with a friend to Florence, returning with ske
  
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• Picasso faces down his hero while Henry Moore gets stoned – the week in art

  03-06-2022 14:54
  
  Picasso goes toe to toe with his unlikely hero Ingres, Moore’s primordial forms go on show in Somerset, and punk feminist Penny Goring lets rip – all in your weekly dispatchPicasso Ingres: Face to Face
  A head-on encounter between the greatest artist of the 20th century and his unlikely neoclassicist hero Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
  • National Gallery, London, until 9 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Legislature Defunds Iowa Public Radio, Which Expects No Major Changes As A Result

  03-06-2022 14:33 via insideradio.com
  
  “The good news is that the public broadcast group has been operating without much help from the state or its Board of Regents for years, … with more than 75% of its funding coming from individuals, businesses, and corporations.” – Inside Radio
  
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• National Symphony In DC Extends Gianandrea Noseda’s Contract As Music Director

  03-06-2022 14:05 via msn.com
  
  The Italian conductor, who became music director in 2017, has extended his term through the 2026-27 season.  (As of last September, he is also music director of Zurich’s well-funded opera house.)Says NSO principal flutist Aaron Goldman, “However long we can keep him, we want to.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• ‘Perception and deception’: Australian glass art prize winner plays tricks on the eye

  03-06-2022 08:37
  
  Tim Edwards spent 35 hours grinding his work into a glass illusion that took out the $15,000 Tom Malone prizeArtist Tim Edwards has won the prestigious Tom Malone prize for Australian glass art with a work that plays tricks with the viewer’s eye.The winning work, titled Ellipse #8, is a luminous blue form about 45cm tall, and from some angles it’s impossible to tell whether the glass is two- or three-dimensional. Continue reading...
  
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• Director of Major Gifts, Metropolitan Opera

  03-06-2022 03:12 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Major Gifts is a senior member of the Met’s development staff and oversees two divisions within the department: a Major Gifts team of 9 and a Prospect Research team of 4. The Major Gifts team is responsible for raising unrestricted gifts of $25k+ annually (FY22 goal: $31M) from 400+ individuals and for securing an additional $90M/year in restricted gifts and pledges for the Transforming the Met campaign and other special projects. The Prospect Research team maintains donor
  
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• Jon and Linda Ender Chief Executive Officer and Director

  03-06-2022 01:09 via artsjournal.com
  Jon and Linda Ender Chief Executive Officer and Director
  Tucson Museum of Art
  Tucson, AZThe Current Situation and OpportunityThe Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block’s (TMA) mission is Connecting Art to Life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding. With TMA’s centennial celebration only two short years away, its vision for the future builds on its history of providing hundreds of thousands of adults a
  
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