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• Polish Museum Implores Visitors To Please Not Have Sex In The Museum

  05-08-2022 23:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Guests in love, please understand — most of the exhibits in our museum are objects ‘born’ many years ago and subject to completely different moral standards … We do not expose them to discomfort!” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Pittsburgh Arts Advocates Want To Revamp City’s Percent-For-Art Program

  05-08-2022 23:01 via wesa.fm
  
  “Right now, Percent for Art is reactive based on location, as opposed to opportunistic and strategic as to where’s the greatest need.” – WESA
  
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• Hollywood’s Critiques Of Online Culture Are Getting Pretty Good

  05-08-2022 22:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  The internet by design has sanded complex ideas down to trending hashtags, stripping subtlety from language and producing younger generations who confuse attention for personal growth. – The Atlantic
  
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• It’s Been Two Years Since A Massive Explosion Destroyed Beirut. Architects Are Picking Up The Pieces

  05-08-2022 22:01 via dezeen.com
  Since the explosion, architects and designers have dealt with the after-effects in different ways, with some choosing to leave Beirut and others moving within the city to areas that were less affected by the blast. – Dezeen
  
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• The Ukrainian Guy Selling Music Discs That Have Survived Russian Bombing

  05-08-2022 21:29 via newyorker.com
  
  I noticed a listing for an LP that read “Nirvana ‘The Best’ LP survived after AIRSTRIKE from Kharkiv, UKRAINE. For help. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Do People Wo Should Know Better Keep Thinking That AI Robots Are Sentient?

  05-08-2022 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  And by “people who should know better,” we mean certain AI researchers themselves.  “The problem is that people closest to the technology live with one foot in the future. They sometimes see what they believe will happen as much as they see what is happening now.” – The New York Times
  
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• Libraries Are Starting To Change How They Reference Indigenous Peoples

  05-08-2022 20:32 via theconversation.com
  
  Outdated terminology such as “Indians of North America” has remained in these term lists despite changing use in society and no longer matches the language used in the books themselves. – The Conversation
  
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• HBO Max And Discovery+ To Merge By Next Summer

  05-08-2022 20:02 via variety.com
  
  Said the CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery, “At the end of the day, putting all the content together was the only way we saw to make this a viable business.” – Variety
  
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• How Do You Measure Academic Work?

  05-08-2022 19:31 via sydneyreviewofbooks.com
  
  How long does academic work take? How long should it take? Even more troubling, who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for an academic today? – Sydney Review of Books
  
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• Wholly Hollein’s: The Metropolitan Museum’s Director to Add CEO to His Title

  05-08-2022 19:23 via artsjournal.com
  Daniel Weiss has just resigned himself to lame-ducksmanship, almost a year before he will officially step down from his
  
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• This Program Could Transform The Model For Small And Midsize Dance Companies’ Touring

  05-08-2022 19:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  It’s all in the program’s name: PORT, or Peer Organized Reciprocal Touring. Says one of the founders, “It’s pretty simple. … Org A hosts org B in their hometown, and after a period of time the roles are reversed.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• ClassicFM Listenership Dips To All-Time Low

  05-08-2022 18:32 via david-taylor.org
  Classic FM’s audience has hit a record low, falling under 5 million listeners for the first time with over half a million people switching off since the start of the pandemic. – David Taylor
  
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• “Jerusalem” — A Century Of Struggle Over The Meaning Of England’s Great Patriotic Hymn

  05-08-2022 18:01 via historytoday.com
  Among the causes for which Hubert Parry’s stirring setting of William Blake’s poem has been enlisted (or co-opted): wartime patriotism, women’s suffrage, English nationalism, the post-World War II welfare state, imperial nostalgia, mocking satire, marketing the film Chariots of Fire, the Falklands War, anti-Thatcher leftism, and 21st-century Kulturkampf. – History Today
  
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• Geffen Hall Theatre To Be Named After Key Donor

  05-08-2022 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The $50 Million gift represents one of the Tsai family’s biggest ventures so far into the performing arts. Joseph Tsai, who trained as a lawyer and serves as vice chairman of Alibaba, is more frequently associated with athletics. He is the primary owner of the Brooklyn Nets. – The New York Times
  
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• Erin Overbey’s Ex-Colleagues At The New Yorker Say She Was Fired For Poor Work And Misconduct, Not For Whistleblowing

  05-08-2022 17:03 via gawker.com
  
  Said one of them, “This is about a legacy white employee who was in danger of losing her job for performance reasons, so she cynically appropriated the language of diversity and inclusion to try and hold onto that job — which if she lost it might have actually gone to a person of color.” – Gawker
  
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• What Does It Mean To Be An LGBTQ+ Museum In The 21st Century?

  05-08-2022 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how to frame queer history, and they have come to different conclusions about how these radical movements of marginalized people should be institutionalized.” – The New York Times
  
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• Chicago Theater “Has To Stop Eating Its Own”: Chris Jones

  05-08-2022 16:02 via msn.com
  
  “What matters now is whether this community can rebuild itself with fewer takedowns and more inclusion, less intramural finger-pointing and more outward-facing togetherness. Above all, end the canard that you can only reform an organization by ripping it apart, at least until it offers you a paycheck.” – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Court Orders Kevin Spacey To Pay The Makers Of “House Of Cards” $31 Million

  05-08-2022 15:34 via variety.com
  
  A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator’s award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on set, the entire sixth season had to be rewritten and reshot, with the number of episodes reduced from 13 to eight in order to meet deadlines. – Variety
  
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• Netflix Ordered To Pay Writers Guild $42 Million In Back Residuals

  05-08-2022 15:01 via thewrap.com
  
  “The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for third-party titles, … meaning that 216 writers for (140) films will receive $42 million in unpaid residuals.” – The Wrap
  
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• Uffizi Gallery In Florence Will Spend €50 Million To Renovate The Medici’s Grand Gardens

  05-08-2022 14:33 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The “Boboli 2030” project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original structures and sculptures. Director Eike Schmidt said the goal is to make the Boboli Gardens “the finest outdoor museum in the world.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Edinburgh Fringe Performers Are Staying In Tents And Trailers Because Lodging There Has Become So Expensive

  05-08-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city’s permanent residents, but prices for temporary accommodations in August have soared as a result — high enough that the Fringe festival could become unviable. – The Guardian
  
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• A takeover in Swansea and a phallic Antony Gormley – the week in art

  05-08-2022 13:29
  
  There’s surrealism at the V&A and the queering of a Swansea gallery’s ‘heternormative’ collection, while Gormley’s latest proposed public sculpture has caused a furore – all in your weekly dispatchOn Your Face: Queer Reflections
  A queer takeover that deconstructs this gallery’s “largely heteronormative” collection and opens new ways of seeing art.
  • Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, until 18 September Continue reading...
  
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• Life in litter: Mariana Castillo Deball’s remarkable Roman Rubbish

  05-08-2022 12:00
  
  The Mexican artist’s new exhibition uses Roman detritus to suggest that we can tell more about a society by what it throws out than the culture it preservesWhen Mariana Castillo Deball was invited to create an exhibition responding to the Roman relics in London’s Mithraeum collection, it was its local quality and patchy treatment that first struck her. “It’s the opposite of the British Museum, where artefacts have been taken in suspicious circumstances from all over the w
  
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• This Is What The World Has Become: Beyonce Re-Recording Two Tracks From Her Newly-Released Album

  05-08-2022 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The song Heated will have ableist language removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is built. – The Conversation
  
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