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• Public Radio Expands To Urban Alternative Format

  01-09-2022 23:31 via insideradio.com
  Aiming to bring younger and more ethnically diverse listeners to public radio, the urban alternative format has spread to cities from Denver to Milwaukee, thanks to financial support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. – Inside Radio
  
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• German Museums Being Criminally-Investigated For Antiquities Trafficking

  01-09-2022 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  Several public museums and universities in Germany have become embroiled in criminal investigations into the widespread trafficking of Middle Eastern antiquities. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Dubai’s Proposed City In The Sky (Literally)

  01-09-2022 22:32 via dezeen.com
  Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000 metres in circumference, the skyscraper would be composed of two interconnected main rings that will house residential, public, commercial and cultural spaces. – Dezeen
  
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• Music Of Hate

  01-09-2022 22:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  Historically, songs were employed by labor unions to create a sense of solidarity and move labor rights forward against overwhelming odds. If music can be a salve and a rallying cry, is the opposite true? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Man Using AI Wins First Prize In State Fair Art Competition. Other Artists Cry Foul

  01-09-2022 21:32 via vice.com
  Jason Allen did not paint “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” AI software called Midjourney did. It used his prompts, but Allen did not wield a digital brush. This distinction has caused controversy on Twitter where working artists and enthusiasts accused Allen of hastening the death of creative jobs. – Vice
  
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• Considering Furniture As Art

  01-09-2022 20:59 via broadstreetreview.com
  “Chairs have done the same job for centuries, whenever we wanted to sit. Presented like art, however, their variety is striking, from the delicate sensuality of the lyre-back to the plush comfort of a wing-back. Like most art, there’s a social story of status and prestige attached.” – Broad Street Review (Philadelphia)
  
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• What Do We Owe The Future? Not Much

  01-09-2022 20:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  The universe is stranger than we can imagine, Albert Einstein is said to have said. Indeed, we should not even be sure there is a universe: we can see stars and nebulae and planets and whatever, but no one has ever seen a universe. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Will This Year’s Venice Film Festival Signal A Revival Of Business At Art-House Cinemas?

  01-09-2022 20:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “‘It’s hard to tell how healthy the art house market is right now because, since theaters reopened, we haven’t had many of those real prestige, art house titles available,’ (says one executive). Which makes Venice all the more important as a bellwether for the indie business.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Music Publishers Reach Agreement Over New Rates For Streaming Music

  01-09-2022 19:28 via variety.com
  Sources also say that both sides were eager to avoid another protracted, distracting and brutally expensive legal battle, to put it mildly: The fight over the previous, 2018-22 rate period went on for more than three years and cost many millions of dollars in legal and other fees. – Variety
  
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• John Adams At 75: The Greatest Living American Composer?

  01-09-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  “He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with nostalgia, but with awareness and affection.”  Joshua Barone profiles Adams ahead of the world premiere of his Antony and Cleopatra in San Francisco. – The New York Times
  
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• New Computer Analysis Gives Insight Into Shakespeare’s Language

  01-09-2022 18:30 via theconversation.com
  The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare’s language. – The Conversation
  
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• The Washington Post Is Reviving Its Stand-Alone Sunday Book Review — In Print, No Less

  01-09-2022 18:02 via lithub.com
  The paper’s Book World was closed in 2009 and reviews in the hard-copy edition were moved to the Style and Outlook sections.  (Online, there was little visible difference.)  Book World will return to print — for DC-area readers, at least — on September 25. – Literary Hub
  
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• Disney Ponders An “Amazon Prime-Like” Membership Program

  01-09-2022 17:26 via tinyurl.com
  The program would be somewhat akin to Amazon Prime, which offers advantages such as free shipping, discounts at Whole Foods and a complementary streaming video service for a monthly or annual fee, the people said. Internally, some executives have referred to Disney’s initiative as “Disney Prime.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Copyright Suit Over Dance In Video Game “Fortnite” Is Tossed Out

  01-09-2022 17:04 via pcgamer.com
  “A judge for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit by choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Hanagami filed the suit in April, alleging that Epic had used his choreography for the 2017 music video “How Long” by Charlie Puth without permission or attribution.” – PC Gamer
  
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• Why Does Shakespeare’s Globe Keep Finding Itself A Battleground In The Culture Wars?

  01-09-2022 16:31 via thestage.co.uk
  “Shakespeare and Shakespeare’s Globe will always be viewed by some as fundamentally conservative because, on one level, they exist as symbols of England’s past glory. The fact (that) it is a forward-looking modern theatre therefore inevitably comes into conflict with its existence as a patriotic symbol.” – The Stage
  
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• Ashley Judd, In A New York Times Op-Ed, Argues For The Right To Keep The Police Report On Her Mother’s Suicide Private

  01-09-2022 16:03 via nytimes.com
  “The rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about (Naomi’s) death, and about our relationships with her, … will only worsen if the details are disclosed by the Tennessee law that allows police reports, including family interviews, from closed investigations to be made public.” – The New York Times
  
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• Virginia Court Throws Out Lawsuit To Block Sale Of Two Books To Minors And Rules Obscenity Law Unconstitutional

  01-09-2022 15:35 via slate.com
  “‘I agree with the defense that the statute is facially invalid,’ said retired judge Pamela S. Baskervill (about the) Virginia law that a Republican legislator used in his attempt to declare Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer and Sarah Maas’s fantasy romance A Court of Mist and Fury ‘obscene for minors.'” – Slate
  
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• Staffers At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Authorize A Strike

  01-09-2022 15:02 via msn.com
  “Unionized workers …, in talks since October of 2020 on their first labor contract with museum management, voted Tuesday night to authorize a strike should leaders deem it necessary.”  The vote count was 164 to 0 with one abstention. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse Announces Artistic Director’s Departure

  01-09-2022 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  “On Wednesday … Matt Shakman announced he will step down from his role in February (and) will program the company’s 2023-24 season before he departs. He … said it was getting trickier to balance his work in theater with his film and TV endeavors.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Unboxed, The £120 Million “Festival Of Brexit”, Is Flopping At The Box Office

  01-09-2022 14:06 via theguardian.com
  “Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events have so far only drawn 238,000 visitors, according to official figures.” The problem: people perceive it as a Festival of Brexit. – The Guardian
  
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• NYC Is Asking Artists For Proposals To Decorate Garbage Trucks (But Not Paying Them?)

  01-09-2022 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  Its inaugural edition happened in 2019, when four artists and students in a visual arts class were selected to cover the 400-square-foot blank “canvases” with images of sanitation workers, recycling, and flowers. Almost 100 artists applied, and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia at the time called the designs “truly … works of art.” – Hyperallergic
  
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