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• The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How To Watch TV Anymore

  19-07-2022 19:31 via wired.com
  
  “Folks just watch things in weird chunks now, sneaking in bits and pieces of viewing where they can.” – Wired
  
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• In Medieval Europe, Cities Used Musicians As First Responders

  19-07-2022 19:03 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  Indeed, they were often required to keep watch at city gates and were sometimes required to show skill at swordsmanship.  This isn’t just because musicians could raise a loud alarm when necessary.  In fact, European cities often made their paid musicians a point of civic pride and ceremony. – Ted Gioia
  
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• How Conspiracy Theories Take Hold

  19-07-2022 18:35 via theconversation.com
  
  Many people draw lines in the sand when it comes to what they believe. If a narrative doesn’t fit their worldview, it’s deemed untrue, worth ignoring and sometimes re-framed entirely. – The Conversation
  
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• “He Is France Incarnate, In All Its Glory And Awfulness” — On Gérard Depardieu (And Why The French Put Up With Him)

  19-07-2022 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “(He) is firmly woven into the fabric of French cultural identity. As such, to condemn Depardieu amounts to a kind of self-harm. … ‘He is like a symbol of France, even the way Depardieu disregards and criticises his own country is so French.'” – The Guardian
  
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• Disney-As-Religion

  19-07-2022 17:32 via theconversation.com
  
  More than ever before, people are identifying less and less with a religious tradition. This leads some people to look for meaning and identity in the things they love most. My goal here isn’t to argue against those who consider Disney their religion. – The Conversation
  
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• A Symphony Of Ships’ Horns In A Newfoundland Harbour

  19-07-2022 17:04 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  
  Every other summer since 2004, composer Delf Maria Hohmann has been visiting the vessels docked in the harbor at St. John’s to learn about their horns’ sounds — which he then mixes-and-matches into a composition called a “Harbour Symphony.” – Yahoo! (Canadian Press)
  
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• If Theatres Phase Out Unpaid Internships, There Will Be A Tradeoff

  19-07-2022 16:32 via americantheatre.org
  
  “In conversation with (several) artistic directors, one trend seems abundantly clear: more equitable access to better opportunities for fewer people. … Is that a bad thing?  Not necessarily.” – American Theatre
  
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• Italian police thwart illegal sale of Artemisia Gentileschi painting

  19-07-2022 16:15
  
  Carabinieri allege dealers fraudulently exported €2m work by 17th-century baroque artist for auction in ViennaItalian police have prevented the potential illegal sale by a Viennese auction house of a 17th-century painting by the baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.The carabinieri art squad said dealers had allegedly described the work as being painted by a follower of Gentileschi, and not the artist herself, in order to fraudulently obtain export permission from Italian authorities. Contin
  
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• The Heatwave In China Has Melted The Roof Right Off Of A Museum

  19-07-2022 16:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of roof tiles slide off, leading to the collapse of one of the museum’s several buildings. – Artnet
  
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• Unpublished Poems By Ted Hughes About His Lover’s Suicide Have Been Discovered

  19-07-2022 15:33 via theguardian.com
  
  No, these aren’t about Sylvia Plath (who was Hughes’s first wife): they’re about Assia Wevill, who took up with Hughes (her landlord at the time) the year before Plath gassed herself — as Wevill did, along with her daughter by Hughes, six years later. – The Guardian
  
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• Award-Winning Documentary About Yazidi Women Enslaved By ISIS Is In Big Trouble

  19-07-2022 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn’t show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately consented to appear, and an issue the film avoids entirely: rescued women being separated from the children sired by their ISIS enslavers. – The New York Times
  
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• Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founder of Dance Troupe Urban Bush Women, Wins $250,000 Gish Prize

  19-07-2022 14:31 via npr.org
  “Revolutionary at the time – and still cutting edge — Zollar’s choreography synthesizes movement from modern dance and traditional folk African dance styles with the kind of text and shouted language the company describes as ‘the urgent dialogue of the 21st century.'” – NPR
  
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• Rescue Deal Falls Apart And San Francisco Art Institute Closes For Good

  19-07-2022 14:07 via sfist.com
  
  Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to concerns about falling enrollment and continued viability. Still uncertain is the fate of SFAI’s Diego Rivera mural. – SFist
  
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• Claes Oldenburg, 93

  19-07-2022 02:09 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Oldenburg entered the New York art scene in earnest in the late 1950s, embracing the audience-participation “Happenings” then in vogue and expanding the boundaries of art with shows that incorporated things like street signs, wire-and-plaster clothing and even pieces of pie. – The New York Times
  
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• Artistic Director – Theater J

  19-07-2022 00:34 via artsjournal.com
  THEATER J welcomes applications from qualified candidates for the role of Artistic Director. The Artistic Director is responsible for conceiving, developing, and implementing the artistic vision and focus of Theater J, which is hosed within the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center (EDCJCC) located near Dupont Circle.
  Working in partnership with the Managing Director and reporting to CEO of EDCJCC, the Artistic Director will execute the Theater’s productions, programs, and activities. The p
  
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• Wheeling Symphony Orchestra seeks Executive Director

  19-07-2022 00:31 via artsjournal.com
  The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra welcomes applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the Fall of 2022.The Wheeling Symphony Orchestrahttps://wheelingsymphony.com/Since its founding in 1929, the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra (WSO) has enriched the cultural life of Wheeling and the Ohio Valley with outstanding orchestra performances, exceptionally gifted musicians, internationally acclaimed guest artists, and excellent educational programs. The Orchestra perform
  
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• We Miscalculated. The World Is Not A Game

  19-07-2022 00:01 via libertiesjournal.com
  
  As the scope of algorithm-based applications in social reality has expanded over the past decades, we have by the same measure been conditioned to approach ever more fields of human life as if they were strategy games. – Liberties Journal
  
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