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• How “Effective Altruism” Grew From A Movement Into A Lucrative Business

  10-08-2022 23:31 via vox.com
  
  It’s safe to say that effective altruism is no longer the small, eclectic club of philosophers, charity researchers, and do-gooders it was just a decade ago. It’s an idea, and group of people, with roughly $26.6 billion in resources behind them, real and growing political power, and an increasing ability to noticeably change the world. – Vox
  
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• Just In: A New Theatre Season That Exhibits All The Current Trends

  10-08-2022 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  “This playwright read a Wikipedia page that mentioned a fascinating historical incident wherein Benedict Arnold and Frank Sinatra spent a night at the same tavern. What conversations they must have had! By the time the article was corrected, the writer was already halfway through.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Cox Media Buys News Startup Axios For $525 Million

  10-08-2022 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The deal offers a rare flicker of hope for the digital publishing sector, which has been fraught with difficulty for investors and operators over the last decade. Some of Axios’s peers have struggled to go public, sell or raise funding at favorable valuations as investors have cooled on digital advertising. – The New York Times
  
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• Canada’s New Online News Act Builds On Australia’s And Could Be A Model For More Countries

  10-08-2022 22:01 via niemanlab.org
  
  The Canadian code probably won’t have a material financial impact on these platforms, but countries learning from each other, improving on the model, and it spreading globally very could. – NiemanLab
  
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• Artists Will Get Resale Fees Under New Canadian Copyright Law

  10-08-2022 21:32 via ca.finance.yahoo.com
  
  Painters, sculptors and other visual artists stand to get a payout when their work is resold at auction and by galleries, in a government move designed to help sustain thousands of artists currently working below the poverty line. – Yahoo
  
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• How To Fight Back Against Library And School Book Bans

  10-08-2022 20:58 via msn.com
  
  Margaret Sullivan: “Local residents should show up at school board meetings to express dissent publicly, get in touch directly with school administrators to insist that established procedures be followed before summarily removing books from shelves, and let state and local legislators know of their opposition.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• John Harbison: My Life In Music

  10-08-2022 20:33 via sfcv.org
  
  “I identify much more as a composer. A couple of times, I backed away from conducting for a while. I felt it’s not a professional advantage to be a double threat. It takes a lot of time to be as well prepared as a conductor.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Is There An Objective Way To Rank The Most Beautiful Cities? No, But This Is As Close As We’re Likely To Get

  10-08-2022 20:02 via mentalfloss.com
  
  “Analysts … first mined Google Street View footage in cities around the world for images of hundreds of residential streets and some 2400 iconic buildings. Then, they calculated the proportions of all those edifices to find out how closely each adhered to the Golden Ratio.” – Mental Floss
  
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• The Line Between Art And Propaganda Sometimes Isn’t Easy To See

  10-08-2022 19:33 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Values are promoted through cultural strategies where buzzwords chime loudly. Terms like networking, collaboration, common good, connection and cooperation promote an ever-closer union with culture, while the arts are deployed for soft power and propagandist tactics. – The Critic
  
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• The Secrets Of Stage Blood

  10-08-2022 19:04 via americantheatre.org
  
  “Are there more types of fake blood than there are of real blood? Oh, positively.  … As a prop master for the last 30-odd years, I’ve had to navigate my way through some truly inspirational and some pretty disastrous blood special effects ideas posed by directors and actors.” – American Theatre
  
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• Brazilian police find stolen painting worth almost £50m under bed

  10-08-2022 18:56
  
  Artwork found in police raid on home of alleged con artist involved in heist built around bogus predictions of phoney clairvoyantA painting by one of Brazil’s most celebrated artists – the pioneering modernist Tarsila do Amaral – has been found stashed under the bed of an alleged trickster who was part of a multimillion pound art heist built around the bogus predictions of a phoney clairvoyant.The artwork, worth an estimated 300m reais (£48m), was reportedly found in Rio
  
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• Why People Are Attracted To The Density Of Urban Living

  10-08-2022 18:29 via aeon.co
  
  Rubbing shoulders with strangers is considered both a pleasure and a pain of urban life. Density can be an endless source of social possibility, of chance encounters in city streets. – Aeon
  
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• Why Do The Ranks Of Crossword Puzzle Constructors Remain So Un-Diverse? Simple: The Pay’s Just Too Low

  10-08-2022 18:01 via newrepublic.com
  
  “It turns out the crossword industry really does consist of earnest wordplay lovers donating their time to unpaid mentorships, generally as part of an industry-wide effort to bring new and underrepresented people into crosswords.  Unfortunately, the end result might be even more exclusive than a pay-to-play scheme.” – The New Republic
  
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• Not a Zero-Sum Game: Protecting Ukrainians While Taking Steps to Preserve Cultural Sites & Property

  10-08-2022 17:35 via artsjournal.com
  In his intrepid—even heroic—on-the-ground exploration (here, here, here and here) of the deplorable endangerment of embattled Ukraine’s cultural heritage,
  
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• Does Social Media Negate The Wisdom Of Crowds?

  10-08-2022 17:32 via mediapost.com
  
  Here’s the thing about the wisdom of crowds – it only applies when those individual decisions are reached independently. Once we start influencing each other’s decision, that wisdom disappears. – MediaPost
  
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• Qatar Is Basically Setting Up A Giant Open-Air Museum In Doha.  Have A Look.

  10-08-2022 17:03 via artnews.com
  
  “A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, Rashid Johnson mosaic, and a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture — in the likeness of an endangered marine mammal — are among the 40 new and commissioned public artworks to be installed throughout (the capital).” – ARTnews
  
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• Orchestras Are Chafing, And Sometimes Buckling, Under Their Post-Shutdown Workloads

  10-08-2022 16:35 via sfcv.org
  
  New programming initiatives mean musicians are rehearsing more unfamiliar works, and, come curtain time, standard repertoire sometimes ends up underrehearsed.  Shutdown-induced layoffs mean remaining administrative staffers do the work of two or more people.  They’re burning out, and management’s biggest concerns seem to be elsewhere. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• A New Factor In Writing TV Scripts: The Online Superfans Scrutinizing Every Line Of Dialogue For Clues

  10-08-2022 16:02 via msn.com
  
  “Storytellers have to do more than spin a satisfying yarn; they must contend with fans who are so involved, they’re practically racing them to the finish line. … Knowing that their audience is watching so intently has become an occupational hazard when plotting mysteries and lore-driven tales.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Ravers having it large at Castlemorton, 1992: Alan Lodge’s best photograph

  10-08-2022 15:41
  
  ‘In 1992, 20,000 people gathered for an illegal rave at Castlemorton Common. It was the thing to dance on speaker stacks or on the top of buses or trucks’In the 1970s I went to free festivals like the Stonehenge free festival and the Windsor People’s free festival. In 1974 there wasn’t a law to prevent these activities but, given we were in the Queen’s back garden in Windsor, the police came, one of whom whacked me around the side of the head. I fell off my log, spi
  
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• A Conservative Version Of Prestige TV?  Considering “Yellowstone”

  10-08-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “It is too easy to call it a conservative show. Like its audience counterpart, Yellowstone thinks it is at war with progress when it is really at war with itself.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease

  10-08-2022 15:01 via artsjournal.com
  “His production company, Zentropa, … said it released the information in order to avoid speculation about his health leading up to the premiere of his series The Kingdom Exodus at the Venice Film Festival next month.” – AP
  
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• After More Than A Century, Britain’s Dancing Times Magazine Is Shutting Down

  10-08-2022 14:33 via gramilano.com
  
  “Dancing Times was established in October 1910 … and has been published continuously every month for 112 years. … The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the rapid increase in costs over the past year, means the magazine is no longer financially viable in its current form.” – Gramilano
  
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• Meanwhile, Anthony Gormley’s Memorial To Alan Turing In Cambridge Has Been Approved With Little Incident

  10-08-2022 14:05 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The as-yet-untitled sculpture, to be placed near the library at King’s College, is, like the one planned for Imperial College, London, made of stacked steel rectangles. But while the London statue looks like a LEGO man with an enormous erection, the Cambridge one appears entirely G-rated. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• London church to remove mural with ‘unfortunate’ Grenfell connotations

  10-08-2022 12:10
  
  Church of England court ruling grants permission for removal of artwork at St Peter’s in MordenA London church is to remove a large mural depicting a city ablaze over its entrance that has “acquired unfortunate connotations” since the Grenfell Tower fire.The once-garish mural of the Last Judgment, commissioned in 1977 for St Peter’s, St Helier, in Morden, south London, was “never universally popular”, according to a Church of England court ruling that granted
  
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• From China To Amsterdam, Why Do So Many Bikes End Up In Urban Waterways?

  10-08-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Some of the bikes may have ended up in the canal by accident. Cyclists lost in the dark or disoriented by fog steer bikes off towpaths into canals. Drunk cyclists fall from bridges. Thieves fleeing police by bicycle swerve into the river. – The Guardian
  
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