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• Stewart Brand, The Super Salesman

  16-06-2022 23:31 via thenation.com
  
  Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life, Brand’s salesmanship has been so outstanding that scholars of the American 20th century have secured his place as a historical figure. – The Nation
  
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• Stradivarius Violin Sells For $15 Million

  16-06-2022 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The violin, made in 1714 by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari, belonged to virtuoso Toscha Seidel, who not only used it on the score for the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” Hollywood classic, but also no doubt while teaching his famous student Albert Einstein. – Yahoo!
  
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• Did Yoko Ono’s Celebrity Doom Her Art?

  16-06-2022 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  Like any artist, Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. Whether she sought them or not, though, she has both. – The New Yorker
  
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• Is Spotify Just Not That Good A Business?

  16-06-2022 22:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Questions about its profitability outlook often have been seen as keeping a lid on its stock. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• It’s The Purity Of Ideology That Gets In The Way

  16-06-2022 21:32 via vpostrel.substack.com
  
  The quest for purity informs cancel culture. It pushes partisans to ever-greater extremes, even when those positions are politically self-defeating. It turns historical heroes /into villains and closes nuclear power plants in the face of climate change. – Virginia Postrel
  
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• Can An Artist Really Make A Living Online With A Thousand Serious Fans?

  16-06-2022 20:57 via newyorker.com
  
  That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who’ll each spend $100 annually to support your work, that’s a good middle-class living. That didn’t work out in the ’90s or ’00s, but might it be possible now? – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Is The Entertainment Industry Obsessed With Pre-existing Content?

  16-06-2022 20:32 via newyorker.com
  
  Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. There are sprawling franchises. There are reboots, dark and gritty or comic and winking, of properties that have barely had time to recede into nostalgia. – The New Yorker
  
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• One Of America’s Hottest Young Playwrights Is Putting Down Syndrome Onstage

  16-06-2022 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is “the rare play to feature both a lead character — and a lead actor — with Down syndrome.” (Arbery himself has a sister with Down syndrome.) – The New York Times
  
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• Swimming Home by Judy Cotton review – a mosaic memoir of a creative life

  16-06-2022 19:30
  
  The Australian artist and journalist has written her first book at 80 – and the result is a confident and lean autobiography, recalling a mother who was ‘determined to be unhappy’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastWhen Australian-born artist Judy Cotton was struck down by Lyme disease in the 1990s – having been bitten by a tick at her country home in Lyme, Connecticut – she had to find a way to create art through the crippling pain.
  
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• What Radio Hosts Bring To Classical Music

  16-06-2022 19:27 via stringsmagazine.com
  
  Throughout the country, radio hosts play a key role in bringing classical music into the everyday lives of listeners and connecting them to the classical community. – Strings
  
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• Has A Stolen Altarpiece From Italy Been Sitting In The Cleveland Museum Of Art For A Century?

  16-06-2022 19:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister of Cultural Heritage to pursue the restitution of the artwork to Italy.” The Cleveland Museum says this is the first they’ve heard of it. – Artnet
  
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• This String Quartet’s Board Fired Them. Now The Board Has Been Replaced And Musicians Rehired

  16-06-2022 18:32 via pressherald.com
  
  The resolution was reached with help from two attorneys who read about the plight of the fired quartet members – cellist Myles Jordan, violinists Ferdinand “Dino” Liva and Lydia Forbes and violist Kirsten Monke – and wanted to support them. – Portland Press Herald
  
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• The answer to the Parthenon marbles dispute: George Osborne and a 3D printer | Simon Jenkins

  16-06-2022 17:55
  
  If the British Museum chairman is serious about returning the treasures to Greece, making copies offers a face-saving solutionThe British Museum chairman, George Osborne, has mooted the possible return of the Parthenon (or Elgin) marbles to Greece. This is thoroughly good news. He is not the first to suggest a “marbles deal”, but he is the first to suggest that “seeing them in their splendour in Athens” is a virtue to be sought. More importantly, he seems to accept that t
  
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• On Ambition: From Nixon to Keats to Elvis, from Little Richard to Samuel Johnson, from Moses to Hannibal, Lenin to Alexander the Great, Spinoza to Ghandi to Albert Camus

  16-06-2022 17:33 via artsjournal.com
  OUTSIDE IN:Hinges and SwivelsI know of no writer who covers as much territory with as much lighthearted intelligence as A. Robert Lee. Here he is on the subject of ambition in his latest book, OUTSIDE IN: Hinges and Swivels, just out from Time is an Ocean Publications. — jh
  Ambition
  I could have been a good Pope.
  Richard NixonPope Richard. Vatican-gate. You can't but speculate such would have had the cardinals reeling. A break-in at the Sistine Chapel. A Da Vinci Code cover-up in St. Peter
  
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• Keeping Jazz Alive In Detroit

  16-06-2022 17:29 via jazztimes.com
  
  You cannot tell the history of jazz in America without also telling the history of jazz from Detroit. From the mid-20th century until the present day, Detroit has been one of the primary feeders of talent to the national scene. – Jazz Times
  
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• Piano Training for Older Adults: The Benefits of Bimanual Coordination

  16-06-2022 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we examine a NEA-funded study by Jennifer Bugos and Yan Wang about positive cognitive outcomes associated with piano training in older adults. A transcript is available here.
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• Bernard Samuels obituary

  16-06-2022 17:11
  
  My friend Bernard Samuels, who has died aged 89, left his job as a teacher in Devon in 1971 to become the director of Plymouth Arts Centre, and fulfilled this role with intelligence, energy and creativity for the next 25 years. He developed lasting friendships and cultural contacts throughout the UK, and created a space described by the painter Patrick Heron as the “perfect arts centre”. Bernard’s programmes ranged from contemporary art to multi-media events, incorporating exhi
  
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• “Fundamentally, It’s Just Really Beautiful”: Reviving The Music Of The First Published Black Composer

  16-06-2022 17:01 via bbc.com
  
  Born in 1520 to (most likely) a Portuguese father and African-descended mother, Vicente Lusitano published three volumes of highly accomplished sacred works and music theory. (Performers call his motets “top level polyphony,” “opulent,” and “really gorgeous.”) Why was Lusitano forgotten? It wasn’t only racism … – BBC
  
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• Nashville (!) Has Developed A Thriving Early Music Scene

  16-06-2022 16:35 via earlymusicamerica.org
  
  “(Historical performance has) been ebbing, flowing, and growing in Nashville for nearly 20 years. The city is home to two HP ensembles … (and) there are (two) churches … that serve as regular venues for early-music performances, along with choral groups that routinely perform Renaissance and Baroque music.” – Early Music America
  
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• Okay, Who At Netflix Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn “Squid Game” Into Reality TV?

  16-06-2022 16:03 via newsweek.com
  
  Granted, the losers in the reality-show version won’t be killed, but still.  In his announcement, the suit who greenlit this thanked the original series’s director for “his support as we turn the fictional world into reality in this massive competition and social experiment.”  (Maybe he should be a contestant.) – Newsweek
  
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• The Washington Post Now Has A Hollywood Deal

  16-06-2022 15:32 via deadline.com
  
  “The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties culled from The Post‘s vast archives, current reporting, and ongoing investigations.” – Deadline
  
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• Kevin Spacey Arraigned In UK On Four Charges Of Sexual Assault

  16-06-2022 15:04 via bbc.com
  
  “The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked to enter pleas for the alleged offences from 2005 to 2013 … (and was) given unconditional bail.”  (Pleas will be entered on July 14.) – BBC
  
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• Director Of Paris Opera Ballet Resigns Following Years Of Criticism

  16-06-2022 14:31 via lemonde.fr
  
  Aurélie Dupont, who is 49 and has been at the company since the age of 10, was appointed hastily following the resignation of Benjamin Millepied in 2016; two years later, an internal survey revealed extensive discontent and dysfunction.  She departs on July 31. – Le Monde (in English)
  
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• A Zen Priest Wins The 2022 Women’s Prize For Fiction

  16-06-2022 14:05 via bbc.com
  
  The novel has the rather Zen title The Book of Form and Emptiness, and its author is American-Canadian novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who, yes, is a Zen Buddhist priest). Among the other finalists for the £30,000 award were Elif Shafak and Louise Erdrich. – BBC
  
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• Executive Director- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

  16-06-2022 07:34 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting directly to the HSB, LLC, Managing Board, the Executive Director will be responsible for executing HSB’s mission while establishing and implementing the organization’s strategic vision. The Executive Director will serve as the most senior administrative officer for the organization, working in partnership with the Executive Producer, Board, and senior leadership team.
  The Executive Director will lead the strategic planning, goal setting and governance for th
  
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• ‘I’m not panicking!’ – artist Hew Locke on setting sail with six Queen Victorias

  16-06-2022 07:00
  
  He has been exploring ships, slavery and statues for decades – and now the world has finally caught up. As Locke unveils the boat he has built in Birmingham, he talks us through his ‘bloody exhausting’ workloadHew Locke’s mind is constantly whirring. Sometimes, says the artist, he’ll wake at 3am, turn to his sleeping wife and ask what she thinks about a project he is working on. “Don’t panic,” she’ll say. “I’m not panicking,&rdquo
  
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• Why Do Dictators Have Such Bad Taste?

  16-06-2022 00:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Their palaces and possessions are their trophies and their way of bragging to the world that they have succeeded. And they become the physical manifestation of their immunity from prosecution or public opinion. – The Art Newspaper
  
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