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• Why It’s been So Tough To Diversify The Book Business

  22-06-2022 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Publishing houses have doubled down on their efforts to recruit and support nonwhite employees and to examine their procedures through diversity, equity and inclusion councils. – The New York Times
  
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• Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Algorithm?

  22-06-2022 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  We Googled the first line, expecting it to be an existing Philip Larkin poem, but we couldn’t find it on the Internet. It was an original work, composed by the A.I. in less time than it takes a man to sneeze. – The New Yorker
  
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• What The Toppling Of Public Monuments Says About Our Time

  22-06-2022 22:32 via americanaffairsjournal.org
  
  While the recent destruction of statues in the contemporary West ostensibly relates to a racial reckoning, it nonetheless stands in a long lineage of iconoclasm, and one can understand its meaning only when viewed alongside its predecessors. – American Affairs Journal
  
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• Cornell West: America’s Essential Philosophy Is Pragmatism

  22-06-2022 22:01 via vox.com
  
  Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the Enlightenment push for absolute truth. Pragmatists — like William James and John Dewey — were less interested in certainty and more concerned with immediate experience. They wanted to know what worked for ordinary human beings. – Vox
  
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• The Purpose Of Comedy?

  22-06-2022 21:26 via theconversation.com
  
  Comedy is a social corrective exposing the gap between what is (injustice, poverty, environmental disaster) and what some think it ought to be (fairness, equal opportunity, gentle breezes). This gap, which may be history’s largest mass case of cognitive dissonance, remains our omnipresent duality. – The Conversation
  
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• The Obamas Move Their Media Company From Spotify To Audible

  22-06-2022 20:59 via variety.com
  
  The agreement between the company, called Higher Ground, and Spotify was not renewed because of disagreements over both content and distribution. The new deal with Audible (owned by Amazon) will make Higher Ground available on numerous platforms, not only on Audible, thus addressing one major sticking point with Spotify. – Variety
  
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• How Hollywood Turned Graham Greene’s Novel “The Quiet American” Upside-Down

  22-06-2022 20:03 via thebaffler.com
  
  “Greene usually liked to see his novels adapted, but not this time. What Greene was trying to say about American ignorance and arrogance in foreign affairs was distorted … by a Cold War, McCarthy-era fear of bringing a movie to the public that might be seen as ‘anti-American.'” – The Baffler
  
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• The Meteoric Rise Of Art Star Anna Weyant

  22-06-2022 19:31 via wsj.com
  It has been a rocket-fueled rise to the top of the contemporary art world for Ms. Weyant—and far from her unassuming start in Calgary, Canada. Spotted on Instagram three years ago and quickly vouched for by a savvy handful of artists, dealers and advisers, Ms. Weyant is now internationally coveted. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Long Effort To Decipher Linear A And Linear B, Two Of The World’s Oldest Alphabets

  22-06-2022 19:02 via aeon.co
  
  The scripts come from the Bronze Age civilization on Crete during the 2nd millennium BCE. It was a long and somewhat tricky process to establish that Linear B was used for a very ancient form of Greek; Linear A still hasn’t been deciphered, but they’re getting ever closer. – Aeon
  
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• Apocalypse Not: The American Mall Cannot Be Killed

  22-06-2022 18:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Since the 1978 movie Dawn of the Dead, we have been using “the apocalyptic scale, the language and imagery of civilizational collapse” to describe malls. And yet: a 2021 study found that last year, the number of mall visitors was actually 5 percent higher than before the pandemic. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Enlightenment Libertine: Making Sense Of Casanova

  22-06-2022 18:04 via newyorker.com
  
  “Giacomo Casanova practiced many trades — violinist, gambler, spy, Kabbalist, soldier, man of letters — but his main line of work was deceiving fools. … His conquests in the boudoir, not to mention those in carriages, in bathhouses, or behind park shrubbery, have eclipsed his accomplishments while fully dressed.” – The New Yorker
  
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• The Cheech Is A Big Step Forward

  22-06-2022 17:35 via latimes.com
  
  The Chicano generation of artists and activists that emerged in the late 1960s knew that self-empowerment requires historical knowledge. The same goes for art, which propagates and adapts from other art. Systematic study of usable, relevant Chicano art history is now underway in Riverside. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• ‘It’s not a monument, it’s a celebration’: Windrush sculpture unveiled in Hackney

  22-06-2022 17:13
  
  Thomas J Price’s Warm Shores was created from composites of 30 residents connected to the Windrush generation, and shows how monuments can represent the communities they stand inA new public sculpture commemorating the Windrush generation was unveiled in east London on Wednesday morning to smiles and curiosity. Warm Shores by Thomas J Price, a 9ft (2.75 metres) bronze of a man and a woman standing outside Hackney town tall, marks the full installation of the Hackney Windrush Art Commission
  
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• How A Major Orchestra Goes About Choosing A New Concert Piano

  22-06-2022 17:01 via post-gazette.com
  
  The Pittsburgh Symphony was looking to buy a new Steinway concert grand for its concerto soloists. The price: $198,000. Fortunately, Emanuel Ax was there to play a concerto that week, so he was able to help music director Manfred Honeck and others make the decision. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Turns Out The Inability To Dance To A Steady Beat Is Genetic, Say Researchers

  22-06-2022 16:35 via melmagazine.com
  
  “A new study by Vanderbilt Genetics Institute researchers … found a genetic link to our ability — and inability — to move to musical rhythm in time. Using data from more than 600,000 participants, the study identified 69 genetic variants related to the ability to move in synchrony with music.” – Mel Magazine
  
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• Guaranteed Public School Arts Funding Could Become Law In California

  22-06-2022 16:03 via sfcv.org
  
  The initiative on this year’s general election ballot “would require the state to find a source of revenue to fund K-12 arts education equal, at a minimum, to one percent of the total state and local revenues that local education agencies receive from Proposition 98 funding.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• The girl power trio of Von King Park: Amy Touchette’s best photograph

  22-06-2022 15:56
  
  ‘I love the way these three Brooklyn girls are staring down the camera. They look like they’re going to turn into really strong women’Herbert Von King Park is a popular park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where I live. It’s a place where everyone in the neighbourhood can convene. Some work out, others walk their dogs or play basketball. Lots of people go there for a barbecue or have birthday parties for their kids. I’ve lived in Bed-Stuy since 2015 and photograph
  
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• US Orchestras Really Are Playing More Music By Women And Minority Composers, Finds Report

  22-06-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Compositions by women and people of color now make up about 23 percent of the pieces performed by orchestras, up from only about 5 percent in 2015, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Institute for Composer Diversity at SUNY-Fredonia.” – The New York Times
  
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• As Of July, At Broadway Theatres, Masks Will Be Optional

  22-06-2022 15:04 via gothamist.com
  
  “In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, said audience members were still encouraged to wear masks, but would not be required to beginning July 1. The policy will be re-evaluated on a monthly basis going forward.” – Gothamist
  
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• Cut Our Funding In Favor Of The Regions, Says UK’s National Theatre, And We Won’t Be Able To Tour The Regions Anymore

  22-06-2022 14:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “Cutting us back because of where our postcode is will have a direct and negative effect on the nationwide work that this move is designed to address,” said NT director Rufus Norris. “It will have the exact opposite effect of their stated intention.” – The Guardian
  
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• Another Call, This Time From Sudan, For Britain To Return Looted Art Objects

  22-06-2022 14:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Museum officials from Sudan are calling for the repatriation of cultural artifacts and human remains that were stolen by British soldiers and other colonizers in the late 19th century.  Many of the items in question were taken as trophies after the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.” – Artnet
  
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• Windrush generation ‘moved to tears’ as monument unveiled in London

  22-06-2022 13:00
  
  Basil Watson’s sculpture at Waterloo station celebrates pioneers who arrived in Britain after second world warMembers of the Windrush generation have been “moved to tears” by a new national monument that pays tribute to their ambition, courage and contribution to Britain, the artist behind the sculpture has said.Basil Watson’s permanent monument to the Windrush pioneers who arrived in Britain after the second world war was unveiled at Waterloo station in London on Wednesd
  
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• A liberating high comes with group nudity at Dark Mofo – it can turn anyone into a giggling fool | Sian Cain

  22-06-2022 06:40
  
  As the nude swim approaches, nerves won’t let up. Maybe my leg hairs will stop me having a heart attack from the cold?Gym showers, sex parties, European beach holidays, walking into the wrong changing room, a knife fight in a bathhouse: there are so many ways to be naked in front of strangers. Some of them are even legal. Shivering naked with 2,000 people on a Tasmanian beach on a winter morning is legal, if not usually my idea of a great day out. But when given a waiver form asking you to
  
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• Director of Institutional Giving & Government Relations – LA Opera

  22-06-2022 06:19 via artsjournal.com
  The Director of Institutional Giving & Government Relations is a key member of our Development team who advocates for LA Opera in the community and oversees corporate, foundation and government fundraising. The Director of Institutional Giving & Government Relations develops and implements short and long-range strategies for securing and stewarding revenue that aligns with LA Opera’s programmatic priorities and fundraising initiatives and manages the Institutional Giving & Gove
  
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