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• Our Best Writers Challenge And Discomfit Us

  29-07-2022 23:56 via tabletmag.com
  
  Our best writers can unfreeze us. They override the notion that we’re helpless, and sometimes they do it paradoxically, by depicting people who are paralyzed and stuck. – Tablet
  
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• The Co-opting Of Art In A Changing World

  29-07-2022 23:31 via libertiesjournal.com
  
  “Our art has become exhaustively political, but it is no longer discernibly subversive,” observed the writer Greg Jackson about the literature of the Trump years, “It is what major cultural institutions, foundations, and media organizations find congenial.” – Liberties Journal
  
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• This Year Even Music By The Biggest Stars Isn’t Selling

  29-07-2022 23:01 via tinyurl.com
  
  Beyoncé isn’t the only superstar who’s struggling to make a hit with staying power. The past year has seen superstars release new music to weaker-than-expected sales or reviews. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Meaning Of Purgatory

  29-07-2022 22:32 via aeon.co
  
  While the idea of an intermediate state after death is present in many religions – Buddhism has its bardo, Judaism its Sheol, Islam its A’raf – Purgatory stands out precisely for its ambiguity, an ambiguity rooted in the fact that there is scant scriptural evidence for its existence. – Aeon
  
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• Facebook Stops Paying Publishers For News

  29-07-2022 22:03 via tinyurl.com
  
  Facebook has paid publishers who participate in the News program. The company signed deals worth tens of millions of dollars with news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the Journal reported. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Trial Over Mega-Book Publisher Merger Set To Begin

  29-07-2022 21:23 via publishersweekly.com
  
  The closely watched case holds major implications for a publishing industry that has been grappling with consolidation for years. It also looms as a key test for the government amid growing calls for more vigilant antitrust enforcement. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Qin Yi, Last Of China’s “Four Great Actresses” And Whose Career Spanned Chinese Cinema History, Dead At 100

  29-07-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. … Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese Republican regime (and Mao’s revolutions) right through to the modern commercial blockbuster period.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Our Music Habits Change As We Age

  29-07-2022 20:34 via ludwig-van.com
  
  “We find clear differences between users at different points of their off-platform lifecycles, with younger listeners consistently exploring less and exploiting known content more.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• Melbourne Will Go Three Years With Little Or No Large-Scale Ballet Or Opera

  29-07-2022 20:02 via theage.com.au
  
  The State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne, the city’s venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, is closing in March 2024 for three years of renovations — and the designated replacement theatre has too small a stage and too few open dates for those companies’ productions. – The Age (Melbourne)
  
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• New Canadian Radio Format Focuses On Audience And Wins Listeners

  29-07-2022 19:26 via insideradio.com
  Key to Conversation Radio’s success is the higher level of interaction between hosts and the audience. “The hosts [are] skilled in storytelling, the life of a party but not the center of attention – the audience is always the center of attention.” – Inside Radio
  
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• On Stand-Up Comedians And Their Water Bottles

  29-07-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Their purpose seems obvious — to quench thirst, duh — but stage actors get dry mouths, and no Hamlet puts down his sword to pick up an Evian. The water bottle is the prop that clues us in that a comic — not a character — is at work.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mexican Town Sets Off Debate About Authentic Culture And Branding

  29-07-2022 18:32 via csmonitor.com
  
  The decree has generated conversations in the tourist-heavy, gentrifying borough about history, art, and the effects of globalization: How should a city balance the need for a general sense of cleanliness and order with calls to preserve tradition and culture? – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Restoring The Cree Language To Everyday Use

  29-07-2022 18:01 via msn.com
  
  “In Maskwacîs — an area with four First Nations reserves on the Alberta prairie between Edmonton and Calgary — Cree, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Canada, can be found written on stop signs, municipal buildings and emergency vehicles. A local radio station has Cree-speaking DJs.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Wisconsin Nutcracker Stars In Challenge To Public Health Rules

  29-07-2022 17:31 via pacificlegal.org
  
  The public health officer categorized the socially distanced ballet as a “high-risk sport” and counted each of the ballet’s eight segments as a separate event, and each student participating in the various segments as a separate violation—maximizing the amount of the fine. – Pacific Legal Foundation
  
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• Plans For A New Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia Have Been Put On Ice

  29-07-2022 17:04 via cbc.ca
  
  “The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia planned for the Halifax waterfront is on hold. Premier Tim Houston said his government had decided the project should be ‘paused indefinitely’ due to rising costs. Construction was slated to begin later this year.” – CBC
  
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• In US Ballet Companies, Far More Men Than Women Are Artistic Directors, but More Women Are Executive Directors

  29-07-2022 16:30 via dancedataproject.com
  In both positions, though, men are paid more than women in the same job — and for artistic directors at the 50 largest ballet companies, that pay gap has grown since 2019. – Dance Data Project
  
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• How Technology And Social Media Have Changed American Sign Language

  29-07-2022 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s not only a matter of adjusting signs so that they can be seen on a video chat screen. Think of telephones 100 years ago, 50 years go, and now: the sign for the word “telephone” has changed right along with the object. – The New York Times
  
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• The Smithsonian Has A Cultural “Rapid-Response Task Force”

  29-07-2022 15:33 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative began in 2010, initially to help mitigate the damages to museums, churches, and archives in Haiti due to that January’s earthquake.  And there’s been need for SCRI’s services ever since, especially this year in Ukraine. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• The New Yorker And The Archivist It Just Fired Are Trading Insults On Twitter

  29-07-2022 15:01 via thedailybeast.com
  
  The magazine’s archive editor, Erin Overbey, was fired last Friday for (per the termination letter) “a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the operation of the company and undermines the journalistic ethics of our magazine.”  Here’s how things got to this point. – The Daily Beast
  
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• The Golden Globes And Its Sponsor Sell Themselves To A Private Investment Company

  29-07-2022 14:34 via variety.com
  
  “Eldridge Industries is taking over the Golden Globe Awards, which will be turned into a private entity separate from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s charitable and philanthropic programs, which will be managed as a non-profit entity.” – Variety
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra Goes Nordic (Again) For Its Next Music Director

  29-07-2022 14:00 via startribune.com
  
  “The 52-year-old Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård succeeds — and bears some resemblance to — Osmo Vänskä, a Finnish conductor who, at age 48, arrived in Minnesota by way of Scotland with a history of Sibelius recordings, a lively podium presence and unruly hair.” – The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  
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• German punks, Scotland’s impressionist love affair and a pickle on the ceiling – the week in art

  29-07-2022 13:09
  
  There’s a new Van Gogh in Edinburgh, King Kong returns to Birmingham and Damien Hirst is building a bonfire – all in your weekly dispatchA Taste for Impressionism: Modern French Art from Millet to Matisse
  A newly discovered Van Gogh is among the highlights of this survey of Scotland’s love affair with impressionism and its legacy, along with Monets and Matisses galore.
  • Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, from 30 July until 13 November Continue reading...
  
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• ‘More than UB40 and heavy metal’: Birmingham’s alternative arts and entertainment

  29-07-2022 12:00
  
  The Commonwealth Games has kickstarted an explosion of culture in England’s second city, with loads to look at and listen to, as well as eat and drinkThe last time Birmingham hosted a major international event – Eurovision and Bill Clinton’s visit for the G8 summit, both in May 1998 – the powers that be prepared by painting the scabby grass verge lining roads from the airport a vivid green. For the 2022 Commonwealth Games, there has been a similar sweeping under the munic
  
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• Financial Associate at world-class modern dance company

  29-07-2022 08:38 via artsjournal.com
  The Paul Taylor Dance Foundation is seeking a Financial Associate for full-time engagement in the Financial Operations of the Company. Paul Taylor Dance Foundation runs the 68-year-old professional Dance Company that tours worldwide and produces an annual season at Lincoln Center in New York City. The current annual budget is approximately $9 million. The Foundation also runs a school and manages the licensing of works by Paul Taylor.Under the supervision of the CFO, the Financial Associate will
  
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• Executive Director- National Independent Venue Association

  29-07-2022 08:29 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the board, the Executive Director (ED) will be a deeply passionate, engaged, and proactive executive leader who will guide NIVA at this critical inflection point into sustained growth and relevancy. The ED will be committed to supporting independent and community-focused businesses, ethical values, transparency, and equitable practices.
  With a deep knowledge of the independent music ecosystem and its challenges, the ED will have a keen awareness of emerging trends an
  
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• As AI Gets Baked In To Artist Creation Tools, Who Will Own The Work?

  29-07-2022 00:01 via wired.com
  
  There are reasons to be troubled by the prospect of tech companies like OpenAI controlling the major means of artistic production in the future. – Wired
  
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