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• Microsoft Co-Founder’s Billion-Dollar Art Collection To Go To Auction

  26-08-2022 23:28 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The trove of blue-chip works spanning 500 years collected by Paul Allen by artists such as Jasper Johns and Paul Cézanne, will go under the hammer in New York later this year; all of the sale proceeds will go towards philanthropic causes in line with Allen’s wishes who died in 2018. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• UNESCO Warns That Hagia Sofia Is Endangered

  26-08-2022 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  Originally constructed as a church, the Turkish government converted the structure to a mosque in 2020 in a highly controversial decision. In the years since, the Byzantine-era cathedral has seen increased damage and vandalism. – ARTnews
  
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• Data: When People Pay Attention To Ads

  26-08-2022 22:32 via mediapost.com
  
  Findings from the research conducted across Yahoo’s digital properties showed that 53% of all ad formats studied met viewability standards, but achieved less than 1 second of active attention. The study shows that viewability and attention are not the same. – MediaPost
  
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• Canadian Film Awards Makes Acting Categories Gender-Neutral

  26-08-2022 22:02 via msn.com
  
  Instead of four film categories that each feature five nominees for best lead actor or actress and best supporting actor or actress, two film acting categories with eight nominees each will celebrate best “performance in a leading role” or “performance in a supporting role.” – MSN
  
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• Arts Funding That’s Self-Sustainable?

  26-08-2022 21:29 via artshub.com.au
  
  In essence, ArtsPay’s goal is to create a sustainable funding source for the arts, through the arts. – ArtsHub
  
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• Reviving The Only Known Opera In Yiddish

  26-08-2022 21:02 via forward.com
  
  Composer Henech Kon, who went on to success writing scores to Yiddish films such as The Dybbuk, premiered his Bas Sheve (Bathsheba) in Warsaw in 1924. It was thought lost until a score turned up at Yale in 2017 — with 16 pages at the opera’s climax missing. – Forward
  
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• The Decisions We Make Now Have Never Had Such Consequence

  26-08-2022 20:29 via nautil.us
  
  From now on, what we think as a planet is what our children get as a planet. However crucial policy and diplomacy may be, global agency ultimately requires that billions of micro-choices made every day by billions of human beings be (at least slightly) biased in favor of altruistic action. – Nautilus
  
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• Pushing Back Against Anti-Woke “Comedy” At The Edinburgh Fringe

  26-08-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Says one, “You can get away with most things if you’re smart and funny. If you (aren’t), then you’re just an asshole on stage. That’s when you get these lazy comics who are, like: ‘Oh, too far for you?’ If you had sharper writing, you could make it work.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Librarian Speaks Out About “Scary” Challenges To Books

  26-08-2022 19:28 via csmonitor.com
  
  Many librarians, rightly so, are incredibly fearful for their personal safety, for their family’s safety, for their job security. They don’t feel at liberty to speak out. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• The Black Dancer In The Imperial Russian Ballet

  26-08-2022 19:01 via pointemagazine.com
  
  Born in 1872 in St. Petersburg and possibly descended from African servants at the Tsar’s court, Maria Skorsiuk was directly recommended by her teacher to Marius Petipa. She danced in the corps and took bit parts for ten years before her career was cut short by tuberculosis. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Portrait of Wyndham Lewis needs revision | Letter

  26-08-2022 18:44
  
  The idea that he painted over Helen Saunders’ work in ‘a fit of pique’ is unlikely, says Alan MuntonHelen Saunders was a significant artist whom Wyndham Lewis promoted in his Blast magazine in 1914 and 1915. But the remarkable discovery that her work Atlantic City is below Lewis’s Praxitella of 1921 does not mean that he painted over it because he was annoyed (‘Fit of pique’: lost vorticist masterpiece found under portrait by contemporary, 21 August).Saunders&
  
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• A History Of Consequential Editing Errors

  26-08-2022 18:32 via themillions.com
  
  Literature’s history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. It’s the shadow narrative of expression—how we fail because of sloppiness, or ignorance, or simple tiredness. Blessed are the copyeditors, for theirs is a war of eternal attrition. – The Millions
  
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• A24 May Be The Only Movie Studio That Has Fans In Its Own Right

  26-08-2022 18:04 via vulture.com
  
  “The magic of the brand (is) that over time it has been able to sell the idea of A24 as synonymous with originality, idiosyncrasy, and prestige. … People may love Atonement and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but … no one’s rocking a Focus Features hoodie.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Study: Yes, You Can “Inoculate” People From Falling For Misinformation

  26-08-2022 17:28 via niemanlab.org
  
  In our new study we designed and tested five short videos that “prebunk” viewers, in order to inoculate them from the deceptive and manipulative techniques often used online to mislead people. We found that not only do these videos help people spot misinformation in controlled experiments, but also in the real world.  – NiemanLab
  
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• The Young Creatives Who’ve Stayed Behind In Kyiv

  26-08-2022 17:05 via mic.com
  
  “These are some of the brave young Ukrainians” — a cinematographer, a choreographer, an artist, an actor, a line producer — “who have remained in the nation’s capital despite the continued stark realities of war.” – Mic
  
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• The Trickiest Thing About Marketing Foreign Film In The US? Translating The Title

  26-08-2022 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Sometimes direct translation works well (Parasite).  Sometimes clarity requires adding or cutting words (Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain became Amélie).  Sometimes the foreign title works fine (Les Misérables).  Sometimes the title changes completely (El Hoyo, “the hole,” became The Platform).  And the choice matters a lot. – The New York Times
  
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• This Young Dancer Wants To Make Ballet As Exciting And Popular As Sports

  26-08-2022 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Joel Burke, founder of BIG (Ballet International Gala) in Brisbane: “I grew up playing footy and cricket. There’s no reason why ballet can’t be like that; I don’t like the whole idea of going to the ballet and having to be quiet and not cheer.” – The Guardian
  
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• It’s Not 1975 Anymore: Let’s Stop Printing Sunday Newspaper Magazines

  26-08-2022 15:31 via dicktofel.substack.com
  
  Dick Tofel: “First, let me be clear: I am not advocating eliminating the best longform stories that continue to distinguish many of these magazines.  …  I am proposing saving on the very considerable expense of separately printing (often on higher quality paper), binding and inserting Sunday magazines.” – Second Rough Draft
  
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• Keith Haring painting cut from artist’s bedroom wall to be sold at auction

  26-08-2022 15:12
  
  Pop artist and activist’s ‘signature’ Radiant Baby image first drawn on wall of family home in PennsylvaniaBrutal sale of Keith Haring’s Radiant Baby reflects a genius cut shortIn 2004, on a bike ride through Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Scott and Angela Garner came across their dream home: a brick-built Victorian house with shutters on the windows and a wide porch at the front.Inside was something completely unexpected. On the wall of a small downstairs room was a five-inch d
  
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• Brutal sale of Keith Haring’s Radiant Baby reflects a genius cut short

  26-08-2022 15:12
  
  Artist’s childhood bedroom painting destined to become ‘art world commodity’ with auction next monthKeith Haring painting cut from artist’s bedroom wall to be sold at auction
  The Radiant Baby, painted by Keith Haring on his childhood bedroom wall, has been ripped from its tender, intimate and original context to become an art world commodity. Dead and gone, he doesn’t even have a say in what becomes of such a personal creation. This brutal intrusion captures the sad
  
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• This Startup Wants To “Decentralize The Museum” By Becoming An Art-Lending Library For Far-Flung Institutions

  26-08-2022 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  “(At) the Web3 start-up Arkive, … members don’t put down any funds to participate (at least for now); the works it collects are meant to be loaned out to cultural institutions, and the objects that Arkive acquires are not only digital ones.” – ARTnews
  
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• Trees rise in Bristol, Africa props up Europe and London scores gold – the week in art

  26-08-2022 15:00
  
  The Arnolfini strolls into forests, the V&A shows Sokari Douglas Camp and the British Library explores a precious metal – all in your weekly dispatchForest: Wake This Ground
  Artists including Eva Jospin, David Nash and Ai Weiwei try to reconnect with Earth’s forests.
  • Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, until 2 October Continue reading...
  
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• A Return Visit To The Theater At The Heart Of A Tiny Rocky Mountain Village

  26-08-2022 14:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Last summer, Elisabeth Vincentelli traveled to Creede, Colorado to see how Creede Repertory Theater was holding up through the ups and downs of the pandemic.  Last month, she went back to see the company’s return to full operation. – The New York Times
  
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• With Lodging For Traveling Artists So Expensive, One Bay Area Arts Center Is Building Its Own Apartment Building

  26-08-2022 14:05 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  Berkeley Rep used to spend $300,000 to $400,000 per year on lodging for out-of-town artists; these days, it’s more like $2 million.  So it has constructed the Medak Center, with 45 units housing up to 128 occupants.  And other arts organizations can rent any rooms Berkeley Rep isn’t using. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• How We Move and Act in Time

  26-08-2022 03:34 via artsjournal.com
  This will be far off in the strange-o-sphere for many, but I’ve been working to describe lived human experience in a way that’s useful to practicing, learning, and teaching Arts Management. I’ll explore why this might be useful in a future post. But for now, here are the building blocks. I’d be grateful for specific or general comment or critique.Humans move across physical space, but do not move across time. There is no future to “move toward “ or “move
  
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• The Moral Question Of Our Time: What Do We Owe The Future?

  26-08-2022 00:01 via bostonreview.net
  
  When we ask what we should do to benefit others, we can’t ignore the disquieting fact that the others who occupy the future may vastly outnumber those who occupy the present, and that their very existence depends on us. From this point of view, it’s an urgent question how what we do today will affect the further future. – Boston Review
  
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