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• How Speaking Other Languages Works In Your Brain

  02-08-2022 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  It turns out that when a multilingual person wants to speak, the languages they know can be active at the same time, even if only one gets used. These languages can interfere with each other, for example intruding into speech just when you don’t expect them. – BBC
  
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• John Leguiziamo’s Plan For More Latinx Presence In Hollywood

  02-08-2022 21:31 via artsjournal.com
  Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino people apparently don’t want to see “feel-good movies,” he said. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Has New York City Ballet’s Summer Season In Saratoga Shrunk Permanently?

  02-08-2022 20:59 via timesunion.com
  
  The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a four-week season there every year. But in 2022, SPAC’s first full season since the pandemic began, City Ballet has only five nights. – Times Union (Albany, NY)
  
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• Why MBS’s Franken-City Will Never Be Built In The Saudi Desert

  02-08-2022 20:31 via slate.com
  
  Bin Salman finds himself confronting a classic strongman’s dilemma: He has gotten the team he deserves, a staff that’s too well-paid to give it to him straight. Here’s a free tip: If you want people to be able to walk places, the third dimension is your friend. – Slate
  
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• South Korea’s New President Orders Billions To Be Spent On Arts And Culture

  02-08-2022 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country’s culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film, TV, art, and other cultural projects, as well as plans to transform a historic presidential home into Korea’s answer to France’s Palace of Versailles.” – Artnet
  
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• Shortlist For The First-Ever Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize

  02-08-2022 19:31 via electricliterature.com
  
  The prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction with $25,000. The nine shortlisted books will be considered by a panel of five jurors. The winner will be announced later this year on October 21st, 2022, Ursula K. Le Guin’s birthday. – Electric Literature
  
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• The British Museum’s Deputy Director Suggests A “Partnership” With Greece Over The Parthenon Marbles

  02-08-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “(We) want to change the temperature of the debate … (and) find a way forward around cultural exchange of a level, intensity and dynamism which has not been conceived hitherto. There are many wonderful things we’d be delighted to borrow and lend. It is what we do.” – The Guardian (PA Media)
  
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• How Laura Jackson Is Blazing A New Path At The Reno Philharmonic

  02-08-2022 18:29 via forbes.com
  
  “I’ve learned over time to always come back and attach to the mission and to the power of music. That has allowed me to be in a way that is less self-conscious.” – Forbes
  
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• Researcher Says He’s Begun To Decipher One of The World’s Most Mysterious Ancient Scripts

  02-08-2022 18:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Linear Elamite is a set of characters that was used in and around the ancient city of Susa (in modern-day Iran) around 4,000 years ago, and it’s one of only a few surviving ancient writing systems that scholars still can’t decipher at all — until now.  (Maybe.) – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• MTT — So Much For That Retirement

  02-08-2022 17:29 via sfcv.org
  
  Mostly with his old orchestras in San Francisco and Miami, but elsewhere as well, Michael Tilson Thomas is vigorously raising the baton, receiving the kind of rave reviews he has been well used to in a half-century-long career. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Gay Soap Operas Are Helping Revive Thailand’s Pandemic-Battered Tourism Industry

  02-08-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “A recent wave of Thai dramas known as ‘boys’ love’ (BL) … has attracted a large following across Asia,” especially among women around age 30. “As Thailand tries to rebuild its travel industry, the country’s tourism authority has sought to capitalise on their popularity.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Is Preparing To Hide Its Collection In Case Xi Jinping Orders An Invasion

  02-08-2022 16:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  “With China stepping up military pressure on the self-ruled island, the institution … which boasts one of the world’s finest collections of Chinese imperial relics … last week conducted its first ever ‘wartime response exercise’ centered on evacuating its artifacts.” – CNN
  
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• ‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s?

  02-08-2022 16:32
  
  For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a women gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findingsAre men 10 times better at painting than women? You might think so if you listened to the German artist Georg Baselitz, who famously told the Guardian in 2015 that “women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact. The market doesn’t lie.”The
  
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• ‘Mind-blowing’: is painting’s 10:1 gender pay gap the worst in the world?

  02-08-2022 16:32
  
  For every £1 a male artist earns, a woman earns a mere 10p – and her work’s value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findingsAre men 10 times better at painting than women? You might think so if you listened to the German artist Georg Baselitz, who famously told the Guardian in 2015 that “women don’t paint very well. It’s a fact. The market doesn’t lie.”The market may
  
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• Teodor Currentzis Is Forming A New Orchestra, This One Not Funded By Russia

  02-08-2022 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “The ensemble, to be called Utopia, will bring together 112 musicians from 28 countries, many of them soloists and principal players in renowned orchestras, for a European tour that is to begin this fall and go through 2023.” – The New York Times
  
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• More “Paradise Square” Drama As Director And Choreographers Sue For Unpaid Compensation

  02-08-2022 15:34 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is seeking to enforce payment of (more than $140,000 in) owed royalties, fees and pension and health contributions to the musical’s director, Moisés Kaufman, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and three specialty choreographers who worked on the production.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• French Government Declares That Notre-Dame Will Reopen For The 2024 Paris Olympics

  02-08-2022 15:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  Culture minister Rima Abdul-Malak: “We’re all quite confident that 2024 will be the year of completing a large part of this reconstruction site and the reopening of the cathedral to worshippers and the public, although there’ll be more work to do after 2024, of course.” – Artnet
  
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• Actress Pat Carroll Dead At 95

  02-08-2022 14:33 via nytimes.com
  
  From the 1950s through the ’70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage actress, winning awards for playing Falstaff, Juliet’s Nurse, Mother Courage, and Gertrude Stein.  (Oh, and she voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid.) – The New York Times
  
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• Chicago’s Victory Gardens In Turmoil As Artistic Director Out

  02-08-2022 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Three resident theater companies that present work at Victory Gardens have pledged not to work there until the artists’ complaints are addressed. – The New York Times
  
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• Kahlo’s corset, dippy the dinosaur and the blasted garments of Hiroshima – Edinburgh Art festival

  02-08-2022 12:55
  
  Various venues, Edinburgh
  From riveting masterpieces to energetic works by emerging artists, there’s real depth to this showcase, all tempting visitors to explore one of Europe’s most remarkable citiesEdinburgh’s Collective is the most beautifully situated gallery in Britain, perched on top of Calton Hill with glorious views of Arthur’s Seat and the sea beyond Leith. Unfortunately every time I go there, the art is rubbish. Ruth Ewan’s Marxist cartoon The Beast lives
  
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• Ghanaian genius: James Barnor’s photographic magic – in pictures

  02-08-2022 08:00
  
  From crawling babies to ‘cool Constance’, Barnor spent decades capturing his country’s independence and the diaspora experience during the swinging 60s Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director & CEO, Columbus Museum of Art

  02-08-2022 05:18 via artsjournal.com
  Executive Director & CEOAbout the Columbus Museum of ArtIncorporated in 1878, Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) was built for the community by the community. Generations of families have invested in the Museum through gifts of time, talent, and treasure. From the quality of its collections and exhibitions to the quality of life in the community, the CMA strives for the ideal – celebrating the diversity of its people and its city. In 2013, the Museum was named a National Medal winner by the
  
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• Executive Director- Street Poets

  02-08-2022 05:16 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryReporting to the board of directors, the Executive Director will provide strategic leadership, support Street Poets’ exemplary programs, and oversee all administrative and business functions, including financial management, external relations, and board communications and relations. They will grow Street Poets’ existing programs while developing new initiatives to further its mission.
  With a commitment to social justice and youth empowerment, the Executive Director wi
  
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