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• Welcome To The Cheech: Major Chicano Museum Opens

  15-06-2022 23:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Cheech Marin has amassed a collection of more than 700 paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed-media works by Chicano artists.In art-world circles, Marin’s trove of Chicano art is believed to be the largest such collection in the world. – The New York Times
  
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• A Fluxus Pioneer Explains It All

  15-06-2022 22:56 via tinyurl.com
  
  On June 21, Nye Ffarrabas turns 90. She is “in the midst of several new Fluxus projects”. When asked whether she had any advice for her 20-year-old self, without hesitating she smiled and said, “Forget the 1950s.”
  
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• How BAM Expanded Its Audience During The Pandemic

  15-06-2022 22:32 via variety.com
  
  “BAM isn’t just for one audience. We were consistently sold out this season and more often than not had a standby line. That’s because the programming is doing lots of different things. And that diversity of programming allows us to reflect the diversity of this borough.” – Variety
  
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• Renee Fleming – Keepin’ On Keepin’ On

  15-06-2022 22:01 via sfcv.org
  
  A good run indeed. At 63, an age when many if not most opera singers have retired, Fleming is still keeping extremely busy — and her projects have nothing to do with nostalgia. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• In Which I Attempt To Convince You Of The Value Of Reality TV

  15-06-2022 21:31 via mic.com
  
  For many Americans, watching so-called lowbrow, “mindless” reality TV — the type of content that doesn’t further our intellect in any tangible way — is just part of our culture. – Mic
  
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• James Baldwin On Fire Island

  15-06-2022 21:01 via lithub.com
  
  He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959) and Blues for Mister Charlie (September 1963).  It wasn’t a comfortable place for him, and not only because the Grove was, back then, very white. – Literary Hub
  
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• Russia’s Cultural Brain Drain, In The Words Of The Brains Who Have Drained

  15-06-2022 20:03 via gq.com
  
  Actress Renata Litvinova: “I suddenly realized that maybe I’m never going back.” Director Kirill Serebrennikov: “I continue to allow myself the illusion that my departure was not a permanent escape.” Scientist Ilya Kolmanovsky: “With time, people will come to understand that Putin’s invasion was also an attack on Russia.” – GQ
  
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• ‘Colours help my heart and mind to heal’: Hiromi Tango, the artist using rainbows to cheer up the world

  15-06-2022 19:30
  
  After a childhood shrouded in silence and depression, Tango has dedicated herself to a loud, vibrant career, exploring how colours interact with the brain and make us happyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFrom her studio in Tweed Heads, in the New South Wales northern rivers region, artist Hiromi Tango has become well-known for making rainbow art to aid her mental health and that of others. Yet for the two years prior to the pandemic, she wore only white: her
  
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• New AI Breakthrough Makes Startling Pictures, Raises Questions About Creativity

  15-06-2022 19:25 via thedailybeast.com
  
  It’s leaps and bounds ahead. It raises immediate questions about how these technologies will change how art is made and consumed. It also raises questions about what it means to be creative when DALL-E 2 seems to automate so much of the creative process itself. – The Daily Beast
  
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• How Did Stanley Kubrick Ever Get Away With Making A Hollywood Movie Out Of “Lolita”?

  15-06-2022 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “Forced to excise or elide some of the book’s thorniest elements for the sake of (the film’s) being allowed to exist at all, … Kubrick flirts with bad taste by recasting sections of the movie as a dark comedy – a contrast that make its sadder moments all the starker.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Much Responsibility Do You Have To Be An Informed Citizen?

  15-06-2022 18:44 via psyche.co
  
  There are two reasons why it is unclear whether positing a personal responsibility to be informed improves our information practices. – Psyche
  
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• Jaron Lanier: A Non-Obvious Way To Fix Social Media? Groups!

  15-06-2022 18:35 via theatlantic.com
  
  The point is that the people in the groups know one another well enough to take on the pursuit of trust and quality, and to rid their groups of bots. Perhaps the size limit should be in the low hundreds, corresponding to our cognitive ability to keep track of friends and family. – The Atlantic
  
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• Is It Telling, In This Age Of Mistrust, That Tom Hanks Is Playing A Bad Guy?

  15-06-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department.”  Hanks discusses finding his way into Col. Tom Parker (in the upcoming Elvis) and working with “a particular countenance that I carry into any movie.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Donor Run Amok: A Museum Sells Its Soul

  15-06-2022 17:29 via latimes.com
  
  Welcome to Long Beach. Here at Cal State University, Kleefelds in the Kleefeld at the Kleefeld are the new norm. Disturbingly so. It’s a train wreck, and a serious disservice is being done to students. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Discovery Of 13,000 Ancient Artifacts Sheds Light On Lost Culture Of Sanxingdui

  15-06-2022 17:04 via scmp.com
  
  The find, which includes bronze, jade, gold, and ivory pieces, many intact, is at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province.  The site was the center of an advanced Bronze Age culture that flourished over 4,000 years ago and disappeared around 1100 BCE, leaving no writing behind. – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• How Pixar Grew From A Little Experimental Studio Into A Global Gold Standard For Animation

  15-06-2022 16:33 via theringer.com
  
  “Going back to its earliest days, Pixar was always a place where some minds succeeded by solving intractable problems with vim and whimsy, and others by tackling existential issues with cold, hard code. And all these years later, it still is.” – The Ringer
  
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• Voguing — Dance, Subculture, Liberation Movement

  15-06-2022 16:01 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  The hybrid of dance, costuming, satirical mimicry and other ingredients that has provided community to several generations of Black and Hispanic queer people is featured in a new HBO Max competition show, Legendary, that hopes to do for voguing what RuPaul’s Drag Race did for drag. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• Talking About “The Book Of Mormon” With Three Guys Who’ve Been In Its Cast For All 4,000 Broadway Performances

  15-06-2022 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale (“all the old white guys”), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) “joined a reporter at the theater one afternoon last week to discuss the musical’s staying power, and how it’s changed with the times.” – The New York Times
  
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• After 110 Years, “Poetry” Magazine Has Its First Black Editor

  15-06-2022 15:04 via msn.com
  
  In a Q&A, Adrian Matejka, a multiple award-winner who holds an endowed chair at Indiana University and was the state’s poet laureate from 2018-19, talks about his plans for the magazine and diversity and equity at its parent, the Poetry Foundation. – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Norway’s New National Museum Looks Like A High-Tech Fortress.  What Is It Protecting?

  15-06-2022 14:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  “This is a building that says ‘No’: after years of delays, here is a complex of enormous hard-edged boxes clad in dark gray slate with few windows and zero funky details. … On a satellite view, it would look like Google obscured the building for security reasons.” – Artnet
  
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• The Head Of London’s Royal Opera Writes About Race, Representation, Black- And Yellowface, And Typecasting

  15-06-2022 14:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Oliver Mears: “Notwithstanding their subject matter, these operas are masterpieces. Instead of cancelling them we should find creative ways to live with them. … Vigorously diversifying across the board, rather than ghettoising particular singers in particular totemic operas, feels like by far the best way forward for the art form.” – The Guardian
  
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• Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction

  15-06-2022 13:00
  
  Painting, based on black and white photograph, was last exhibited in 1965 when it was part of a triptychA Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud not seen in public since it was first exhibited 57 years ago is to be auctioned with an estimated price of more than £35m.Sotheby’s on Wednesday announced what is believed to be the most valuable contemporary work to be offered in London in almost a decade. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘What a Tory exhibition this is’ – the RA’s climate crisis Summer Exhibition

  15-06-2022 12:01
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Wilting flowers, soppy woodlands, a porcelain model of a disposable cup … this climate kitsch is about as concerned about the environment as Boris and Carrie JohnsonEarth’s plight is desperate but that doesn’t mean artists necessarily have anything to say about it. Some do, and have been making powerful environmental art for years. Richard Long has a piece here, the latest in a lifetime of walking through landscapes making ephemeral markers of sticks and
  
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• ‘A huge labor of love’: the Lou Reed exhibition years in the making

  15-06-2022 08:07
  
  At the New York Public Library, an expansive new exhibition shares previously unseen personal artifacts and demosWhat is it like to sift through the archives of a cultural icon? That’s a question Don Fleming knows the answer to on a deep level. “There were all of these boxes in storage and nobody really knew what was in them,” Fleming says of his wide-eyed wonder. “So we’d go from box to box, all being opened for the first time in years. Some were not that interesti
  
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• ‘The Beatles? I was more a fan of the Beach Boys’: Peter Blake at 90 on pop art and clubbing with the Fab Four

  15-06-2022 07:00
  
  The groundbreaking artist documented the birth of youth culture and created the most famous album cover in history. Now with a new exhibition, he talks about what inspires him – from corn dollies to music hallsPeter Blake’s wife, Chrissy, is lovingly protective of her husband, who will turn 90 on 25 June. I don’t know where she has been listening, but when she hears the word “Beatles” she pops into the upstairs lounge where he is ensconced in an armchair.“Let
  
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• Director Of Development at Portland Center Stage!

  15-06-2022 06:25 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryPortland Center Stage is seeking an innovative, seasoned Director of Development to join our team.The Director of Development serves on the PCS leadership committee, reporting directly to the Managing Director, and works closely with the Artistic Director and the Board of Directors to create, implement, and manage the fundraising plan at Portland Center Stage. The Director of Development will be a hands-on, deeply involved community fundraiser who provides exceptional leadership
  
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• Artistic Director – Cleveland Play House

  15-06-2022 06:20 via artsjournal.com
  Cleveland Play House seeks its next Artistic Director – only the tenth Artistic Director in its storied 107-year history. The Artistic Director will be an individual who is confident, experienced, capable of energizing an entire company, and who will guide this historic LORT organization, building on its celebrated reputation for excellence.
  This is a rare opportunity to lead one of the country’s oldest and most revered regional theatre companies. Cleveland Play House has engaged Man
  
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