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• The Best New Theatre Building In Years

  25-07-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  What makes the Patterson the best new theater I’ve seen in years is the clear prioritization of the theater itself, which sits like a treasured heirloom in a custom case. The silence and the dark are part of that, creating a plush space that is paradoxically full of emptiness. – The New York Times
  
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• Film Music Concerts Have Become Big Business For Symphony Orchestras

  25-07-2022 22:32 via post-gazette.com
  
  They provide an entry point for film enthusiasts to appreciate the power of a live orchestra, which can enhance the emotion and excitement of the moviegoing experience tremendously. And they’re significant revenue generators. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• How Did Wellness Become A Commodity For The Wealthy?

  25-07-2022 21:43 via washingtonpost.com
  For less-privileged others, wellness is an unattainable luxury, gatekept by racism, ableism and fatphobia, and thus cordoned off from those who need it most, e.g. the poor, workers, queer and trans folks, and people of color. – Washington Post
  
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• How The TikTok Remix Brands As Genuine For Gen Zers

  25-07-2022 21:02 via theconversation.com
  
  Olivia Rodrigo’s brilliance lies in her use of TikTok as a tool to present her celebrity image as authentic to a young, global audience. Her use of social media self-branding to remix already existing ideas, sounds and texts in fresh, new ways is what makes her and other young artists and creators shine. – The Conversation
  
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• The End Of Individual Authorship?

  25-07-2022 20:14 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Authorship as we know it — that is, singular, capital-A Authority — will become narratively obsolete. It won’t die, or disappear, but merely get integrated into a massive hive mind, a great narrative-making machine (“The newspaper is the sea; literature flows into it at will”). – LA Review of Books
  
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• Being Cheerful Went Out Of Fashion In The Late 20th Century. How To Get It Back?

  25-07-2022 19:32 via spectator.co.uk
  In Adorno’s stricken 20th century, ‘any gaiety in art’ implied ‘an avoidance of the pain of history’. Good cheer had withered into a fake fix peddled by self-improvement merchants, ‘an affective tool that can reconcile you to drudgery.’ – The Spectator
  
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• Digital Concert Programs Are Replacing The Program Book

  25-07-2022 18:44 via washingtonpost.com
  As anyone who has attended concerts or stage performances over the past year can tell you, digital programs are increasingly sprouting up as the heir apparent to the printed programs we’ve come to know and love. – Washington Post
  
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• What Makes A Great Bookstore (And No, Don’t Smell The Books!)

  25-07-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  There is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, “Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.” They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. – The New York Times
  
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• Banning Books Is Becoming Subtler (But Still Banning)

  25-07-2022 17:34 via nytimes.com
  
  Though the publishing industry would never condone book banning, a subtler form of repression is taking place in the literary world, restricting intellectual and artistic expression from behind closed doors, and often defending these restrictions with thoughtful-sounding rationales. – The New York Times
  
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• Carlos Acosta Says The Pandemic Caused A ‘Dip’ In Ballet Talent

  25-07-2022 17:00 via thestage.co.uk
  The director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet says it’s because dancers leaving the academy haven’t spent as much time training with each other as they did before COVID – and he claims they’re just not ready for complex ballets. – The Stage (UK)
  
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• The Ukraine Artist Collective That Met In Secret And Hid Their Work From Putin’s Goons

  25-07-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The six artists in Kherson wanted to tell the truth about life under Russian occupation – and to continue making art. “The results, which they have named Residency in Occupation, offer a harrowing insight into the horrors endured by millions of Ukrainians living under the Russian invasion.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Artists, Access, And Authority

  25-07-2022 16:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Who gets to tell a region’s story? – Hyperallergic
  
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• It Took Jordan Peele Five Years To Completely Change What Horror Looks Like

  25-07-2022 15:45 via cbc.ca
  
  “Peele, who won an Academy Award in 2018 for Get Out‘s original screenplay, has brought industry prestige to a historically overlooked genre.” And his influence is strong: “Among Peele’s audience is a generation of BIPOC filmmakers inspired by his storytelling.” – CBC
  
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• London Might Actually Have Gotten Its Olympics Architecture Right

  25-07-2022 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Olympics are hard on cities. But 10 years on, says Rowan Moore, London’s site “has achieved at least two things usually thought difficult: the creation of a thriving new urban district, and the making of a large new park to which people actually come.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Ticketmaster Tries To Defend Its Awful ‘Dynamic Pricing’ For Final Springsteen Tour

  25-07-2022 15:15 via variety.com
  
  “Only 11 percent of tickets are involved” and “most tickets are under $200” might not be the ironclad defense the company widely known as “Ticketbastard” thinks it is. – Variety
  
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• Please Don’t Banish Russian Culture Along With Putin

  25-07-2022 15:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “The Putin regime has dealt Russian culture a crushing blow, just as the Russian state has done to its artists, musicians, and writers so many times before. People in the arts are forced to sing patriotic songs or emigrate. The regime has in effect ‘canceled’ culture.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Man Who Gave Federal Buildings To Modern Architects Has Died At 75

  25-07-2022 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Edward Feiner, as “the chief architect of the U.S. government, revolutionized the public image of countless federal agencies by hiring renowned architects to design hundreds of courthouses, government laboratories, border stations and office buildings.” – The New York Times
  
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• Say You’re Planning To Glue Your Hands To An Artwork In A Climate Protest

  25-07-2022 14:30 via bbc.com
  
  You might want to know whether or not it has a protective layer of glass. – BBC
  
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• What Exactly Is A ‘Crime’ Novel In A Time Of War, AR-15s And Police Corruption?

  25-07-2022 14:15 via lithub.com
  
  “You’re seeing a lot less cop novels, a lot less cop procedurals, because I think there’s an inherent disbelief in the goodness of the police right now.” – LitHub
  
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• Diana Kennedy, Who Popularized Mexican Cooking In The US With Her Cookbooks, Has Died At 99

  25-07-2022 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Kennedy was a “British-born cookbook author and expatriate who became one of the world’s leading experts on authentic Mexican cuisine, influencing generations of chefs and deploring Americans’ fast-food experience of wan tacos and overseasoned enchiladas.” – Washington Post
  
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• Arthur Lanyon: ‘I want to paint everything’

  25-07-2022 10:00
  
  Brought up in an artistic family, the Penzance painter has incorporated his father’s death and son’s birth, plus his own childhood drawings, into his latest workThe British painter Arthur Lanyon was born into a family of artists. His father was the painter Matthew Lanyon, while his grandfather was the renowned modernist artist Peter Lanyon. “There was a lot of art everywhere, so it came naturally, I didn’t really think about it,” he says. He recalls one specific mem
  
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• Dine like Da Vinci, unleash your inner diva – 101 ways the arts can slightly improve your life

  25-07-2022 07:00
  
  Follow the gospel of Larry David, go gaming on horseback, always carry a cushion, bin your cinema mates and learn Korean off the telly … Guardian writers present their best cultural life hacksIf you’re seeing something long and challenging, remember that having an alcoholic drink beforehand is asking for trouble. So be sure to do it. Continue reading...
  
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