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• Baltimore Museum Of Art Director Makes Ready To Depart For SFMoMA

  06-06-2022 23:30 via baltimoresun.com
  Later this summer, Bedford begins his new gig leading the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which has a budget that’s roughly three times as large as the BMA’s. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Why Diversity On Canadian TV Is Superficial

  06-06-2022 23:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  “I don’t think anyone has any idea of the cultural impact that small data set is having on the country as a whole,” says the APTN’s Jones. Coles has some idea. One of the findings that surprised her most was how much an “imagined audience” was used to justify decisions “laced with racism, sexism, homophobia.” – The Walrus
  
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• Dancing The CanCan At Le Moulin Rouge

  06-06-2022 22:31 via thestar.com
  What many of the 600,000 patrons who annually pass beneath its iconic red windmill entrance probably don’t know is that the Moulin Rouge is not quite as quintessentially French as you might think. – Toronto Star
  
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• Ukrainians Are Using Their Smartphones To Help Defend Their Country. Are They Still Civilians?

  06-06-2022 22:01 via wired.com
  
  Technically speaking, as soon as a user in a war zone picks up a smartphone to assist the army, both the technology and the individual could be considered sensors, or nodes, … blurring the lines between civilian and combatant activity. – Wired
  
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• Could Software Flag Students At Risk Of Doing Harm? Early Tests Suggest Maybe Not

  06-06-2022 21:02 via slate.com
  
  What they claim to do is to scan billions of social media posts with really sophisticated AI to identify threats of potential violence or self-harm. … These models may not be very sophisticated or that this might be a really hard problem to solve even if the models are very sophisticated. – Slate
  
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• Survey: Nearly Two-thirds Of College Students Are Afraid To Freely Speak Out On Campus

  06-06-2022 20:31 via insidehighered.com
  
  The percentage of college students who believe the political and social climate on their campus prevents people from freely expressing themselves rose from 54.7 percent in 2019 to 63.5 percent in 2021. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• Maryland’s E-Book Public Library Law About To Be Overturned

  06-06-2022 20:02 via publishersweekly.com
  
  First introduced in January 2021, the Maryland e-book law required any publisher offering to license “an electronic literary product” to consumers in the state to also offer to license the content to public libraries “on reasonable terms.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Computers Shaping Our Music

  06-06-2022 19:32 via nmbx.newmusicusa.org
  
  My contention is not that the quality of music decreased, but that the changing consumption method devalues each moment of recorded sound. The immense quantity of music now available makes the pool larger, and thus the individuals (songs/tracks/works) inherently have less value. – NewMusicBox
  
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• Is TikTok The Future Of Book Publishing?

  06-06-2022 19:02 via publishersweekly.com
  
   Obscure backlist titles are being thrust into the spotlight, generating sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. Every chain bookstore now prominently displays BookTok titles, pushing Oprah’s selections back to the next table.– Publishers Weekly
  
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• The true meaning of fine – and not so fine – art | LLetter

  06-06-2022 18:38
  
  Patrick Doorly on when art can indeed be classified as badRebecca Keating writes “Bad art … is undoubtedly … still art” (Letter, 31 May). Not in its most general and historical sense of an activity that can be done well or badly, where the art lies in doing it well. (There is an art to writing a letter that gets published in the Guardian.) Nor in the sense of Art with a capital A, which, according to the late Sir Ernst Gombrich, has no existence. This usage depends the
  
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• Canadian Painter Christopher Pratt, 88

  06-06-2022 18:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Pratt was often called one of Canada’s greatest painters over the course of his extensive and successful career, which earned him appointment to both the Order of Canada and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador. His work is held in galleries from coast to coast to coast. – CBC
  
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• The Queen In Popular Imagery

  06-06-2022 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Possibly, the urge to set the Queen in humble domestic surroundings is linked to her frequent manifestation in the nation’s dream life. Like other famous people, her appearance in the sleeping mind is thought to represent the urge for acceptance and fulfilment, or alternatively the threat of authority. – The Guardian
  
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• Christo Before He Was Christo

  06-06-2022 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  “The moment you look at these early works you cannot help being fascinated they have such a strong physical presence. And the exhibits include one of the very few barrel structures still existing because most of them got destroyed when Christo and Jeanne-Claude moved to New York.” – The Guardian
  
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• Top Gun Reboot Breaks Box Office Records

  06-06-2022 17:02 via variety.com
  
  Those returns rank among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in domestic box office history. They also push “Top Gun: Maverick” to $291 million in North America, enough to overtake 2005’s “War of the Worlds” ($243 million) as Cruise’s highest-grossing film ever at the domestic box office. – Variety
  
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• It’s Her Biggest Hit: Mariah Carey Being Sued Over “All I Want For Christmas”

  06-06-2022 16:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The 53-year-old US singer and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff are named in a lawsuit brought by the songwriter Andy Stone claiming that Carey and her collaborators “knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign” to infringe Stone’s copyright for the song. – The Guardian
  
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• Assessing Osmo Vanska’s Impact On The Minnesota Orchestra

  06-06-2022 16:01 via minnpost.com
  
  One of the reasons for Vänskä’s success in Minnesota has been that right from the start he gave the orchestra what it wanted: discipline and hard work. – The Star-Tribune (Mpls)
  
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• How Geoff Dyer Fell In Love With The Blues

  06-06-2022 15:29 via spectator.co.uk
  Listening to Kimbrough and Burnside I feel that, at last, in my early sixties, I’ve entered a corner of that foreign field, that vast and crowded zone of meaning. – The Spectator
  
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• Who Is Diagnosing Where We Are In History Right Now?

  06-06-2022 15:02 via lrb.co.uk
  
  It is now more than half a century since the heyday of political modernism and the sociological project that accompanied it. Are we still, today, postmodern? Are we really still grappling with the fallout of 1968? – London Review of Books
  
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• Those Magazines Of Conspicuous Consumption As The World’s Financial Insecurities Grow

  06-06-2022 14:28 via nymag.com
  
  “We engage wealth as a journalistic subject. Tom Wolfe called it ‘plutography.’ At the T&C offices, we call it our ‘crazy money’ stories. – New York Magazine
  
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• Fandom Fueled By Social Media Has Gotten Out Of Hand

  06-06-2022 14:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Fans are increasingly demanding a return for the precious resource of their attention, their clicks and eyeballs and adulation. We may call celebrities influencers, but we want to influence them too. We are the customers, and our gaze is money. – The New York Times
  
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• Chief Registrar / Director of Exhibitions

  06-06-2022 13:00 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION: Chief Registrar / Director of Exhibitions
  Neue Galerie New York
  Full timeRequirements:Provides strong leadership and management in all areas of collection and exhibition managementArranges all packing and shipping, including arranging courier accommodations, both for the permanent collection and special exhibitionsReviews facility reports, insurance policies and loan agreementsManages all staff within the department, consisting primarily of a preparator/exhibitions coordinator, associa
  
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• EastEnders goes Warhol with a 100-hour bender in the Queen Vic – The Lock-In review

  06-06-2022 10:00
  
  The Queen Adelaide pub, London
  Stanley Schtinter has made an epic film out of all the scenes set in the soap’s famous bar. Showing in East End pubs, the Warholian result is a spellbinding – and frequently baffling – meditation on timeTime seems to be slipping in a bank holiday lock-in at an East End pub, where I nurse my beer and watch people in another pub in another decade, drinking their sorrows away, fighting and sharing the latest gossip from Albert Square. You notice the
  
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• ‘Portals into the past and future’: the artist soaking her works in Britain’s bogs

  06-06-2022 09:00
  
  Left to densify in bodies of water, Tanoa Sasraku’s unique textiles take you on a beguiling journey into ancient British history For the 26-year-old artist Tanoa Sasraku, coming of age in Plymouth had its challenges. As a biracial, gay teenager, few people looked like her, and her desire for romantic love went unanswered. Instead, she found kinship not with a person, but a wilderness. “I constantly fantasised that, if I just got out of Plymouth, I would find this intangible thing,&rd
  
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