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• Your Fitbit Is Only A Materialistic Delusion Of Who You Are

  01-07-2022 23:31 via unherd.com
  
  In a world flooded with such new devices, it is not at all surprising to find that many people now are not even aware of any aspiration to self-knowledge beyond what may be revealed by the AppleWatch or the Fitbit. – Unherd
  
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• Musicologist Richard Taruskin, 77

  01-07-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  An emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a specialist in Russian music, Mr. Taruskin was the author of a number of groundbreaking musicological studies, including the sweeping six-volume Oxford History of Western Music. – The New York Times
  
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• Australian Museums Struggle With Framing Truths About First Nations History

  01-07-2022 23:01 via artshub.com.au
  
  ‘Ultimately, it’s about laying the foundations [of knowledge] to encourage students’ awareness that multiple perspectives of history exist, and trying to do that in the most sensitive way we can.’ – ArtsHub
  
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• Canadian Entertainment Industry Census: A Diversity Problem

  01-07-2022 22:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  A voluntary self-identification census carried out among Directors Guild Canada members found 82.8 percent of the guild’s membership identified as white. Another 18.3 percent identified as Black, indigenous or people of color. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Shocked And Confused: Why Is Montreal’s McGill Conservatory Of Music Suddenly Shutting Down?

  01-07-2022 22:01 via myscena.org
  
  Administrators said the Conservatory had gone from 550 students in pre-pandemic years to 300 last year, to a projection of less than 100 students next year. This drop in enrollment was one of several factors that made the institution “no longer financially viable nor sustainable.” – La Scena Musicale
  
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• Australia’s national photographic portrait prize 2022 – in pictures

  01-07-2022 22:00
  
  Wayne Quilliam’s Silent Strength, a photograph of Aurukun man Eric Yunkaporta, has won the 2022 national photographic portrait prize. Quilliam says the capture of Yunkaporta in ceremonial headwear is akin to a trickle of water merging into a small stream, then into the ocean Continue reading...
  
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• Where Do Our Minds Go When We’re Under Anesthesia?

  01-07-2022 21:31 via nautil.us
  
  So far, scientists have learned that, generally speaking, anesthetic drugs render people unconscious by altering how parts of the brain communicate. But they still don’t fully understand why. – Nautilus
  
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• “Disneyfication”: What Has Xi Jinping’s Government Done To The Ancient Silk Road City Of Kashgar?

  01-07-2022 21:02 via buzzfeednews.com
  
  BuzzFeed’s reporters have compared video and photos from 2017 (not long after the current repression campaign against Uyghurs began) and earlier to more recent images taken by tourists to determine what changes have happened in Kashgar. The city has evidently been turned into a heavily surveilled theme park. – BuzzFeed
  
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• Some Of The World’s Best Authors Have Written Books Which Won’t Be Published For 100 Years. Why?

  01-07-2022 20:31 via artsjournal.com
  Every year since 2014 a prominent writer to submit a manuscript, and the commissioning will continue until 2113. Then, a century after the project began, they will all finally be published. – BBC
  
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• Weiss Flight: The Challenges Confronting the Metropolitan Museum’s Next President

  01-07-2022 20:17 via artsjournal.com
  This hit me hard. On Tuesday, an announcement from the Metropolitan Museum landed in my inbox with a thud:
  
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• How Did The Romans Keep Wine From Going Bad In Their Amphorae?  Like This.

  01-07-2022 20:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  “By looking at the chemical deposits found within the amphorae, plant tissue residue, and pollen, researchers were able to determine which grape derivatives were used, but also, crucially, how ancient peoples were able to insulate their jugs and waterproof them.” – Artnet
  
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• Major Collector Comes Under Scrutiny For Family’s Nazi Past

  01-07-2022 19:25 via nytimes.com
  
  As arts funders have come under scrutiny in recent years observers in Germany have raised questions about Julia Stoschek. Some have argued that there is a contrast between the politics of her collection and the origins of the money that sustains it. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Pittsburgh Festival Opera Is Not Putting On Any Operas This Year

  01-07-2022 19:03 via post-gazette.com
  
  Faced with the challenges of simply surviving as a small independent company post-pandemic, PFO — noting that there’s more grant money available for educational endeavors than for basic production and performance — will focus on its Young Artist Program. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Behind The Ailey Company’s Contract Dispute With Its Dancers

  01-07-2022 18:32 via artsfuse.org
  
  Most audience members – and most aspiring and local dancers – would be shocked to realize how little some of the best and most successful concert dancers in the United States earn. – ArtsFuse
  
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• TikTok Is Now An Integral Part Of The Book Market

  01-07-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Early last year, the publishing industry noticed that books readers gushed about on TikTok were showing up on bestseller lists. … A year later, #BookTok has become a powerful force in the world of books, helping to create some of the biggest sellers on the market.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Vijay Iyer’s Musical Taste Was Built

  01-07-2022 17:32 via pitchfork.com
  
  When you’re writing orchestral music, you’re often asked: “What kind of forces will you need?” It’s both militaristic and kind of Jedi. I think about the idea of the orchestra as this high-tech contraption, with all these moving parts that fit together like a spaceship. – Pitchfork
  
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• An Ancient Roman Home, Complete With Frescoes, Has Been Excavated From Under The Baths Of Caracalla

  01-07-2022 17:01 via edition.cnn.com
  
  “The frescoes pre-date the baths themselves, and adorned a house that was part of a neighborhood destroyed to accommodate the baths, which were inaugurated in 216 AD and named after Marco Aurelio Antonio Bassiano, known as Caracalla — the son of the emperor Septimus Severus.” – CNN
  
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• Howardena Pindell review – from sheer painterly bliss to depictions of appalling racial terror

  01-07-2022 16:57
  
  Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
  In a jaw-dropping show that includes ghostly abstract canvases and horrifying historical videos, Pindell’s majestic works come together to tell the story of America’s blood-soaked pastEverything that’s beautiful about American art is in Howardena Pindell’s abstract canvases from the 1970s. And all that is ugly in America is laid bare by her 2020 video Rope/Fire/Water.Kettle’s Yard made me read the warning text before seeing Rope/Fire/W
  
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• Meet Some Of The Workers Making Theatre Accessible To Disabled People

  01-07-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the visually impaired and even leads advance touch tours of the set and costumes. Shona Louise consults on everything from wheelchair access to website design. – The Guardian
  
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• SXSW Expands Beyond Austin For The First Time —And It’s Going A Very Long Way South By Southwest

  01-07-2022 16:03 via adweek.com
  
  The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in the Asia-Pacific region but including participants from the US (Silicon Valley and Hollywood in particular) and elsewhere as well. – Adweek
  
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• The horrors of dissection, Freud’s family and Deller’s map of the self – the week in art

  01-07-2022 15:45
  
  The dark art of anatomy, Freud family secrets, Bridget Riley’s brilliant watercolours and the atlas of our everyday lives – all in your weekly dispatchAnatomy: A Matter of Death and LifeThis thought-provoking exhibition starts with an exquisite sample of Leonardo da Vinci’s dissection drawings and works up to the gothic horrors of Edinburgh’s Burke and Hare.• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2 July to 30 October. Continue reading...
  
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• “Copying Is Not Satire, It Is Theft. And Lying To Consumers Is Not Conceptual Art, It Is Deception,” Says Creator Of Bored Ape NFTs

  01-07-2022 15:32 via reuters.com
  
  That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged “trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and cybersquatting.” Ripps says his project “uses satire and appropriation to protest and educate people.” – Reuters
  
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• Anti-Oil Protestors Are Gluing Themselves To Paintings In British Museums

  01-07-2022 15:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  Asking “What’s more important? This painting? Or a future?” (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their hands to the frame of a landscape in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery on Wednesday and a van Gogh at London’s Courtauld Gallery on Thursday. – Artnet
  
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• San Diego’s Theaters Are Back. Half Of Their Audience Is Not.

  01-07-2022 14:31 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  
  “For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say they’re not certain why sales have fallen,” citing several possible factors. – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Amazon Is Spending Big Money To Become A Player In Live Sports Media

  01-07-2022 14:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK’s Premiere League soccer.  Now Amazon has acquired British as well as German and Italian rights for UEFA Champions League matches, which feature Europe’s top soccer teams. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Managing Director, Woolly Mammoth

  01-07-2022 07:55 via artsjournal.com
  The Managing Director’s primary responsibilities will be in the following areas:Organizational Leadership & Strategic VisionIn partnership with the Artistic Director serve as the executive leadership of Woolly Mammoth, collaborating on a stewardship model for the company that centers the art and programs of the theatre, while building organizational sustainability through a commitment to quality, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, financial health and acumen, and attention to community.In
  
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• TV Takes TikTok To Create A Dance Show

  01-07-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  … a TikTok-style dance challenge. The kind that creators on the app are known for filming in their bedrooms, pajamas optional. – The New York Times
  
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