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• Radical Rethink Needed For Australian Cultural Policy

  19-08-2022 23:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  The right of citizens to participate in, and contribute to, the cultural activities of the community is accepted in a number of the international agreements to which Australia is signatory. In an age of streaming platforms, public funding cuts and rising inequality, these cultural rights must be revisited and reasserted. – ArtsHub
  
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• What We’ve Learned From The Octopus About Kinds Of Intelligence

  19-08-2022 23:01 via nautil.us
  
  All these behaviors—as well as many more observed in the wild—suggest that octopuses learn, remember, know, think, consider, and act based on their intelligence. This changes everything we think we know about “higher order” animals, because cephalopods, unlike apes, are very, very different to us. – Nautilus
  
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• Was Longtime Star Canadian TV News Anchor Fired Because Her Hair Went Gray?

  19-08-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Lisa LaFlamme, who started hosting the flagship show in 2011, was one of many women who stopped dyeing her hair during the pandemic, and allowed her natural hair colour to show. LaFlamme called the decision “liberating” and told viewers she wished she had made the move sooner. – The Guardian
  
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• A First: Streaming Tops Cable TV For The First Time

  19-08-2022 22:01 via variety.com
  
  It was only a matter of time before the milestone was reached, as streaming usage has continued to climb while traditional TV declines amid the steady drip-drip-drip of cord-cutting losses. – Variety
  
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• Del Kathryn Barton: ‘I was totally unprepared for how much the story would re-trigger me’

  19-08-2022 22:00
  
  The Archibald-winning artist’s debut feature film Blaze is informed by a trauma she experienced as a child. Directing and cowriting it hasn’t come easyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDel Kathryn Barton thought she was psychologically resilient enough to make a film that was informed by a traumatic experience from her own life.She was mistaken. Continue reading...
  
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• Should Disney Sell ESPN )And What Would It Say About American Sports-Watching?)

  19-08-2022 21:32 via tinyurl.com
  
  Fewer Americans are getting cable TV—and, by extension, ESPN—every year, but the network remains home to some of the most popular content on TV, particularly as many people no longer watch live programming that isn’t news or sports. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• “A Special Magic Of Its Own”: Wallace Shawn On The Pleasures Of Reading Plays

  19-08-2022 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “The written play has its own music, its own pristine existence — words, thoughts, and spirit … abstracted from the bodies of actors (moving) through space. There are wonderful things that can happen in the mind of a reader that cannot happen to anyone watching actors in a play.” – The Guardian
  
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• How HGTV Changed The Look Of American Houses

  19-08-2022 20:28 via theatlantic.com
  
  Flipping and landlording are both seductive economic propositions—so much so that shows about successful, self-made flippers and investment-property renovators have become their own genre on HGTV, which is consistently ranked the most popular non-news cable channel. – The Atlantic
  
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• NY Times Ignores Facts about Metropolitan Museum’s Proactive, Principled Return of Cambodian “Attendants”

  19-08-2022 20:23 via artsjournal.com
  As my readers know, I’m all in favor of hard-hitting investigative reporting. But I was astonished by the NY
  
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• Alexander Payne And Laura Dern Figured “Citizen Ruth” Would Eventually Be A Period Piece.  No Such Luck.

  19-08-2022 20:03 via msn.com
  
  Payne’s 1996 dark comedy starred Dern as a trainwreck who finds herself co-opted into America’s abortion battles.  Says Dern now, “we thought we were making something that in three years might be passé. And now it’s worse for my daughter’s generation.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Why Pop Music Stars Are Signing Up For Extended Residencies Rather Than Touring

  19-08-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  In a rebounding touring market, with concert-starved audiences buying tickets in record numbers — and at higher prices than ever — these bookings are deliberate choices by prominent artists to reduce their time on the road and set up shop in far fewer places than they could on a traditional tour. – The New York Times
  
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• The Issues Around Copyright For Choreography On TikTok Are Even Messier Than You Think

  19-08-2022 19:01 via news.bloomberglaw.com
  
  Intellectual property law concerning choreography in general hasn’t yet been thoroughly worked out by the courts — and when it comes to choreography created specifically for social media (where users copy each other all the time), answers are even less clear.  Here’s a deep dive into the legal murk. – Bloomberg Law
  
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• Why Teachers Are Stopping Teaching

  19-08-2022 18:31 via jessicalexicus.medium.com
  
  The solutions to every year’s teacher shortage makes the problem even worse. The teachers who stay wind up doing more work for less pay. We grind up our souls, and we’re rewarded with post-it notes and chocolate bars. – Jessica Wildfire
  
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• What Has Davóne Tines Done With “The Star-Spangled Banner”?

  19-08-2022 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first verse of the US national anthem feels too militaristic for some Americans’ comfort, and the second and third are worse. So bass-baritone Tines worked with three leading composers to gradually morph the “Banner” into the celebratory song known as “the Black national anthem.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Jennifer Bartlett obituary

  19-08-2022 17:53
  
  American painter whose systemic yet figurative artworks defied categorisationIn 1987, the BBC aired a documentary called Painting With Light in which six artists were filmed making work with a computer graphics system called Quantel Paintbox. One of the six was Jennifer Bartlett, who has died of leukaemia aged 81.Bartlett was variously the odd one out in the series. All the other artists – Larry Rivers, David Hockney, Sidney Nolan, Richard Hamilton and Howard Hodgkin – were men. Not
  
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• Charlotte Symphony Expands Pay, Season, Diversity

  19-08-2022 17:32 via charlotteobserver.com
  
  “There is more demand in Charlotte for our services than we can usually meet, so I’m very pleased we were able to raise the overall compensation.” Along with pay increase for all 62 full-time musicians over the two-year term, the new contract seeks to broaden the applicant base for auditions. – Charlotte Observer
  
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• “El Lbirotraficante” Isn’t Just A Banned-Book Smuggler, He’s A Hero Of Texas Hispanic Literature

  19-08-2022 17:02 via csmonitor.com
  
  “One of his defining acts (was) helping organize a 2012 caravan to Arizona with books outlawed as part of a state ban on Mexican American studies. … (But he’s also) one of the most active and exuberant advocates of Latino writing and writers in Texas.” – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• The Brain Trust: Meet The Staffers Who Kept All The Details On “Better Call Saul” Consistent

  19-08-2022 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Working closely with a team of writers, assistants and producers — led by the showrunner and co-creator Peter Gould — Ariel Levine and Kathleen Williams-Foshee maintained detailed notes on virtually every person, place, thing or event ever mentioned or implied on either the show or its predecessor.” – The New York Times
  
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• People May Keep Working From Home, But Downtowns Will Not Die, Writes Richard Florida

  19-08-2022 16:03 via bloomberg.com
  “Downtowns and the cities they anchor are the most adaptive and resilient of human creations; they have survived far worse. Continual works in progress, they have been rebuilt and remade in the aftermaths of all manner of crises and catastrophes.” – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• ‘It was sacrilegious’: why the destruction of Manchester’s Ian Curtis mural struck a nerve

  19-08-2022 15:33
  
  The public outcry – and outpouring of affection – after the mural was defaced shows just how deeply rooted a piece of public art can become in a communityThis week, the wall of Manchester’s 75 Port Street, a canvas for street artists, cycled through three different designs in the space of one day – the last a plain black background, with no trace of what had been there before.On Tuesday afternoon, the wall was still exhibiting a fixture of the city: a mural of Joy Divisio
  
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• Which Style of Arts Manager Are You?

  19-08-2022 15:31 via artsjournal.com
  The new episode in the ArtsManaged video series explores the PAEI Framework by Ichak Adizes, which defines four styles of management, or “concern structures,” that might be dominant in you or in members of your team.The styles – Producing, Administrating, Entrepreneuring, and Integrating – each contribute essential impulses and actions to a thriving enterprise. But, Adizes suggests, each of us will generally have only one dominant style, with perhaps a secondary style we&
  
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• It’s Time To Stop Hiring Plácido Domingo, Says The Washington Post

  19-08-2022 15:31 via msn.com
  
  “On the international stage, Domingo has largely remained an in-demand star. But why? I can tell you right now it’s not his voice. … How desperate and sad to see institutions pretend that Domingo’s artistic legacy must be preserved at the expense of their own integrity.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Salman Rushdie Attack: Suspect Says He “Read Like Two Pages” Of “The Satanic Verses”

  19-08-2022 15:04 via nypost.com
  
  Hadi Matar, speaking from his cell at the Chautauqua County Jail: “I read a couple pages. I didn’t read the whole thing cover to cover. … I don’t like him very much. He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.” – New York Post
  
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• Gallery 249 At The Met Is Full Of Stolen Art, Says Cambodian Government

  19-08-2022 14:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “The Cambodians have enlisted the help of the U.S. Justice Department to press for the return of dozens of artworks, basing their claim in part on the account of a reformed looter. … But the dispute (with the museum) has evolved into something of an odd standoff.” – The New York Times
  
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• Who Were The Dudes Jet-Skiing On Venice’s Grand Canal?

  19-08-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “The mayor of Venice has said he is on the hunt for the ‘two overbearing idiots’ who were filmed gliding along the Grand Canal on motorised foil surfboards. The young men were spotted dodging gondolas and waterbuses as they navigated Venice’s main thoroughfare on Thursday morning.” – The Guardian
  
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• Flashing lights, iPhone cameras and racing action – the week in art

  19-08-2022 13:01
  
  There’s a hallucinatory light show and some ‘Bosno-futurism’ in Edinburgh, Leeds honours its West Indian heritage and Robert Wilson shows ‘filmed portraits’ of movie stars and porcupines – all in your weekly dispatchDreamachine
  Your own brain creates the colours and shapes you see in this hallucinatory art experience that everyone experiences differently. Relax and accept the sublime.
  • Murrayfield Ice Rink, Edinburgh international festival, until 25 Sept
  
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• Little Island — Director of Marketing & Communications

  19-08-2022 09:38 via artsjournal.com
  Little Island in New York City seeks a Director of Marketing & Communications to join its senior leadership team and oversee all the park’s marketing, brand development and PR strategies, ticketing and sales operations, and merchandise. Candidates who have a successful track record of building and implementing strategic marketing, communication, and social media plans for public/non-profit destinations, parks, theaters, arts organizations, or similar institutions are especially encoura
  
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