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• Edmonton Nixes Buffalo Sculpture After 12 Years Debate Over History

  29-08-2022 23:14 via thestar.com
  “Perhaps the city is not ready for a real dialogue about its colonial past and the condition of coloniality that continues to mark the present. That was my intention with the work, not to celebrate colonialism, as the city suggests.” – Toronto Star
  
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• Eco-Writing Gets Real

  29-08-2022 22:32 via thenation.com
  “We” didn’t cause climate disruption; ExxonMobil did. In these types of, albeit nonfictional, narratives, the push is precisely to rescue the “figure-ground” narrative form from the historically false way of telling the story as if vast numbers of undifferentiated humans played equal roles in the drama. – The Nation
  
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• The Latest Version Of Artworld Fame In NY’s Downtown

  29-08-2022 21:02 via nytimes.com
  These niche-famous people are the types who are living out the latest chapter in what it means to be in this particular corner of Manhattan at this particular moment and feeling certain, as most people want to feel when they are young and ambitious and freshly arrived, that it is the absolute center of the world. – The New York Times
  
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• Documenting Great Music Careers — The Age Of Legacy Recordings

  29-08-2022 20:16 via newcriterion.com
  That word “historic” is interesting. You may find that you heard these performances, as they happened. Or reviewed them. Or played them. Which may make you gulp a little. – New Criterion
  
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• Alan Ayckbourn And His 87 Plays

  29-08-2022 19:32 via theguardian.com
  As one of the UK’s most commercially successful theatre-makers, Ayckbourn might seem an odd figure to focus on. He is not cutting-edge; he is never going to convert an alienated inner-city youth to the joys of theatregoing. But he is also a local hero, who has earned the loyalty of his public by staying loyal to them. – The Guardian
  
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• The bigger picture on the erasure of Helen Saunders’ Atlantic City | Letter

  29-08-2022 18:54
  
  Brigid Peppin fill in some of the blanks surrounding the relationship between the vorticist artist and his muse Helen SaundersRegarding the circumstances in which Wyndham Lewis painted his work Praxitella over Helen Saunders’ Atlantic City, Alan Munton tells only part of the story (Letters, 26 August).Saunders had been Lewis’s colleague and muse for more than six years when he left her for Iris Barry, the subject of Praxitella, triggering an emotional crisis on Saunders’ part.
  
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• China’s censorship reaches far beyond its own borders | Letter

  29-08-2022 18:54
  We should never take free speech for granted, especially if it concerns art, writes John FinlayI read with interest your editorial (The Guardian view on China’s censors: the sense of an (acceptable) ending, 24 August). In 2016, I was about to publish a book on pop art, which had a short section on artists responding to political and social turmoil in the 1960s, and which included an illustration of Jim Dine’s Drag – Johnson and Mao (1967). The etching depicts Mao Zedong of the
  
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• The Dismantling Of HBO: Make As Much Money As Possible

  29-08-2022 18:44 via theverge.com
  David Zaslav’s plan is to focus on making as much money as cheaply as possible. When he joined Discovery in 2006, it was a small collection of education-oriented cable channels. Zaslav turned it into the reality TV monster we know today.– The Verge
  
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• What Is The Internet Hiding From Us?

  29-08-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  Does its very immensity undermine its utility as a source of information? How often is it burying valuable data under lots of junk? Say you search for some famous or semifamous person. Are you getting an accurate picture of that person’s life or a false, manipulated one? – The New York Times
  
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• What Magic Is This? Disney Making More Money Off Fewer Theme Park Visitors

  29-08-2022 17:31 via tinyurl.com
  Even as the company limits the number of visitors and keeps attendance at its U.S. theme parks below prepandemic levels, they are generating record sales and profits. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Readers Driving Romance To The Top Of The Bestseller Lists

  29-08-2022 17:00 via npr.org
  BookTok is real. A co-owner of The Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles says, “‘We’ll get a rush of customers asking for something random and we’re like, ‘Why does everyone want this specific book?” … The answer is always TikTok.” – NPR
  
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• The Streamer Bloodbath Is Just A Course Correction

  29-08-2022 16:00 via slate.com
  A course correction, or even a tax write-off, but “the streaming industry and the entertainment industry in general trained consumers to think they could watch what they wanted when they wanted, and it would never go away, even if it went to another streaming service.” – Slate
  
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• Doing Edward Albee In A Small Town On The Oregon Coast

  29-08-2022 15:45 via orartswatch.org
  Rising Tide Theatre co-founder George Dzundza (The Deer Hunter, Law & Order, Grey’s Anatomy) says “Theater is a blood event.” While movies are set in stone, he says, “If you go to a play, you are a director of sorts. You have a direct, visceral response.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Best Actor You Probably Don’t Know At All Disappears Into Her Roles

  29-08-2022 15:30 via theguardian.com
  Scottish actor Kate Dickie says, “I’ve had people tell me, ‘Oh, I saw a film you were in and I didn’t even realise it was you.’ That’s great because it means that you’re doing your job properly – although it’s maybe not so great for networking.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Leaving LA, The Modern Version

  29-08-2022 15:15 via nytimes.com
  “I went to an Erewhon supermarket in a hazmat suit. I chopped vegetables and did nothing with them. I put on makeup and rolled FaceTime calls. A director told me there was no longer a place for people like me in the movies.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Stonemason Working On Britain’s Stately Homes Says More Women Should Get Into Masonry

  29-08-2022 15:00 via bbc.com
  Alice Eaton, who’s 30, has helped restore Haddon Hall – set of parts of Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley version), and three versions of Jane Eyre. “Each stone is its own size,” she says, “and has to go back exactly in its own place.” – BBC
  
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• Composer William Bolcom Went Forty Years Between Piano Concertos

  29-08-2022 14:45 via nytimes.com
  Pianist Igor Levit “described Bolcom as one of ‘the very essential composers of our time,’ and also recounted with delight the way in which this composer, now 84, participated in the rehearsal process: by video conference, from his home in Ann Arbor, Mich.”  – The New York Times
  
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• How Marvel’s Superhero Bodies Have Changed Everyone’s Body Issues

  29-08-2022 14:30 via theguardian.com
  It’s especially, but not only, an issue for men. “People want to look like an action star, but may not be aware that every frame of those films has some sort of special effect involved, which might include changing the way they look on screen, too.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• London’s History Isn’t Even History

  29-08-2022 14:15 via hyperallergic.com
  Just ask the mudlarkers in the Thames. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Two Young Innovative Filmmakers Killed In Car Accident

  29-08-2022 14:00 via baltimoresun.com
  Nate Brubaker, 27,was putting Baltimore and D.C. “on the industry map for its ability to make high-quality films” when he and fellow filmmaker Martin Whittier, 37, were killed driving back from a networking event in Philadelphia. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Synaesthetic artist puts Greta Thunberg’s Davos speech on canvas

  29-08-2022 13:48
  
  Northern Irish painter Jack Coulter used the climate activist’s words and music by the 1975 to create the pieceWhen Greta Thunberg delivered her “Our house is on fire” speech at Davos in 2019, she galvanised hundreds of thousands of school students to strike for the climate. The address was unique and potent in its urgency, but what did it look like in colour? What hues, textures and shapes could be ascribed to her words?One artist has sought to answer that very question, by tr
  
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• Artist with synaesthesia puts Greta Thunberg’s Davos speech on canvas

  29-08-2022 13:48
  
  Northern Irish painter Jack Coulter used the climate activist’s words and music by the 1975 to create the pieceWhen Greta Thunberg delivered her “Our house is on fire” speech at Davos in 2019, she galvanised hundreds of thousands of school students to strike for the climate. The address was unique and potent in its urgency, but what did it look like in colour? What hues, textures and shapes could be ascribed to her words?One artist has sought to answer that very question, by tr
  
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• The Multiple Ways To Experience Dance

  29-08-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  A dance show by a disability arts ensemble makes a critic muse about what information the audience needs, and learn new ways to connect. – The New York Times
  
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• Plan for Newquay surf sculpture criticised over upkeep costs

  29-08-2022 13:33
  
  Critics say it would be wrong for town council to pay for installing and maintaining statue amid cost of living crisisA proposal for a bronze sculpture of a surfer overlooking the Atlantic breakers in Cornwall has been criticised because a cash-strapped local authority is being asked to pay for setting up and maintaining the artwork.Critics say it is wrong for Newquay town council to be landed with the bill when so many taxpayers are struggling with the cost of living crisis. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump Silenced Guantanamo’s Artists

  29-08-2022 13:30 via bbc.com
  “Until the end of 2017, Guantanamo detainees were allowed to take their art with them when they were released, or give it to their lawyers to take out.” Then, that – randomly, it seems – ended. Why hasn’t the Biden administration fixed this yet?– BBC
  
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• Maybe American Theatre Can Stop Worrying About Shakespeare

  29-08-2022 13:15 via americantheatre.org
  Or not. Many new productions “essentially take his work for granted —both in the sense that, sure, Shakespeare is foundational, indispensable even, and in the sense that yeah, he’s just there, like, whatever.” – American Theatre
  
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• Canada TV Finally Gets Its Controversial Exec On Leave

  29-08-2022 13:00 via cbc.ca
  It’s been a long few weeks of controversy for Michael Melling, the head of CTV News, who recently ousted host Lisa LaFlamme, after reports surfaced that firing was because she had stopped dyeing her hair. – CBC
  
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• ‘Were their owners’ lives turned upside down too?’ What this tower of chairs says about Putin’s war

  29-08-2022 10:00
  
  Continuing our fortnightly series, we look at the enduring power of Doris Salcedo’s pile of 1,500 chairs, which seems only to gain in relevance with each new era and fresh conflictIn 2003, between the months of September and November, 1,500 chairs were slotted and shoved into a giant stack that filled the gap between two buildings in Istanbul. This installation, which seemed both full of violence yet disquietingly empty, spoke of loss, mourning, absence and destruction. Although only now e
  
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• Redrawing the lines: Temporary Atlas on the myths around maps

  29-08-2022 09:00
  
  With its collection of sculptural and personal works from around the world, a new exhibition is spotlighting the way in which maps reflect the people or corporations who create them Despite the exhibition title, you won’t find any maps in Mostyn Gallery’s Temporary Atlas – not in their traditional form, anyway. Instead of plotting territories with coordinates and GPS, 17 international artists have documented place by tracing the things people leave behind, from archival photogr
  
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• A new start after 60: ‘I’ve finally become the artist I always felt I was inside’

  29-08-2022 08:00
  
  Anne Henriksen, 67, ran a crafts shop, worked in the theatre and spent 20 years driving taxis. But she only found her role in life after seeing some stone carvings in an Indonesian templeAnne Henriksen dreamed of becoming an artist throughout her life. Now, at 67, she says she has finally become “the artist I always felt I was inside”.Henriksen grew up in Sweden, but the family moved around a lot. “Every year and a half, Dad would apply for higher and higher jobs.” Her fa
  
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