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• How ArtForum Thinks About Criticism

  02-09-2022 23:28 via artforum.com
  Criticism in the broadest sense is a key tactic for maintaining a nonrigid, noncomplacent orientation toward the world. You’re always stepping back and looking at everything afresh, never taking anything for granted, never turning a blind eye to your own complicities and flaws—ideally, anyway. – ArtForum
  
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• Is History Really Just About Quantifying Numbers?

  02-09-2022 23:01 via aeon.co
  That there is more than one way to interpret numbers might seem obvious, but is worth repeating at a time when, once again, historians claiming that they will emulate the supposedly ‘hard’ sciences are in a position to get huge grants and hire armies of assistants. – Aeon
  
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• UK Arts Funding Is A Zero-Sum Game (And Getting Worse)

  02-09-2022 22:31 via theguardian.com
  Arts funding, under the current government, is a zero-sum game. There’s no new money, beyond a tiny, 2% rise in the ACE budget.If the Tories really wanted to “level up” funding for the arts they would increase provision in Bolsover without knocking someone else back. – The Guardian
  
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• Australian Artists Rethinking Tours Over Climate Concerns

  02-09-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  During an 11-week national tour, each member of the company was responsible for approximately seven tonnes of carbon emitted. The average per-capita emission in Australia over a year is about 21 tonnes (far above the global average of 4.5 tonnes). – The Guardian
  
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• Are Public Radio Listeners Cooling On Podcasts?

  02-09-2022 21:28 via insideradio.com
  While podcast consumption is holding steady overall among public radio fans, Jacobs Media’s just-released Public Radio Techsurvey 2022 shows some warning signs for public media that their audience may be “cooling” on podcasts. – Inside Radio
  
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• Now AI Is Learning To Reconstruct Lost Paintings

  02-09-2022 21:04 via news.artnet.com
  A London-based project called Oxia Palus has already produced speculative versions of works by van Gogh, Modigliani, and Picasso which the artists later painted over; now it’s using DALL-E 2, the text-to-image AI software, to reconstruct Old Master paintings we know of only by description. – Artnet
  
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• How A Musicology Debate About Heinrich Schenker Became A Battle Royale

  02-09-2022 20:31 via van-magazine.com
  For those blessedly anchored in the real world, here is a brief summary of a case that began as a passionate-yet-niche dispute between scholars and has reverberated—or been manufactured—into a broader referendum on academic and free speech in the United States. – Van
  
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• How Libraries Became Front And Center In The Culture Wars

  02-09-2022 19:32 via npr.org
  Traditional-values groups are demanding the removal or restriction of books with explicit sex education, and books that unflinchingly document LGBTQ realities and the Black American experience. Challenges of library books have jumped fourfold, from 416 books in 2017 to 1,597 book challenges in 2021. – NPR
  
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• Paul Allen’s Dicey “Legacy”: From Museum Exposure to Private Ownership? (CORRECTED)

  02-09-2022 19:22 via artsjournal.com
  A Cultural Legacy—the title of Seattle Art Museum’s (SAM’s) 2019-2020 one-at-a-time display of three works (a Lucian Freud, a
  
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• William Christie Looks At America’s Baroque Music Scene — And Likes What He Sees

  02-09-2022 19:01 via earlymusicamerica.org
  “Indiana University for the last 40 years has been trumpeting early performance practice. Now there are maybe 20 or so extraordinary pockets of incredible culture, from Texas up to Seattle and from Maine down to Miami. I think Juilliard is now the cutting edge, standing like a beacon.” – Early Music America
  
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• Of Plumbers and Philosophers

  02-09-2022 18:38 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2022/09/of-plumbers-and-philosophers.html" title="Of Plumbers and Philosophers” rel=”nofollow”>Cave drawing © 2022 by Francis PooleA POEM FOR PHILSOPHERS
  by Mark TerrillSome old proto-Freudian
  out of the German Yellow Pages
  is looking up at me
  from the kitchen floor
  where he's installing a new P-trap
  under my kitchen sink,
  telling me about how things are
  and how they used to be
  and the glaring differences
  between these two.
  
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• AI-Powered Black Rappers? Created By White Designers? See The Problem?

  02-09-2022 18:29 via theguardian.com
  This isn’t to say that white creators ought not create Black characters at all, but that there is something particularly gut-wrenching about the artificial fabrication of Black entertainers. – The Guardian
  
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• Visions of Egypt review – how can this show be so devoid of ancient wonder?

  02-09-2022 18:08
  Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
  Ancient Egypt has inspired passion and awe in the western world for centuries – yet this confused show wants to chide us for itVisions of Egypt is a blockbuster having a breakdown. It argues that modern racism towards Egypt began with the Battle of Actium in 31BC when Octavian defeated Mark Antony and his lover Cleopatra, the ruler of Egypt, and annexed it. The Romans looted Egypt’s art, “demonised” its queen, and “laid the
  
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• Still Fabulous Into Their 70s And 80s: Meet The Drag Queens Who Haven’t Retired And Don’t Need To

  02-09-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  “The art of drag has firmly entered the mainstream, turning some performers into global celebrities. But go back half a century and the picture was different. On the fringes, performers’ lives were often strewn with difficulties. … Five veteran drag queens share their experiences from decades on the scene.” – The Guardian
  
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• Awesome! The Debasement Of Our Linguistic Filler-Inners

  02-09-2022 17:32 via theguardian.com
  We go straight to “amazing”. Or “awesome”. In both cases, as usual, I think we’re on safe ground blaming the Americans. They too, surely, are behind “thank you so much”. It’s now used so often that the “so much” adds nothing; it’s just a standard thank you. – The Guardian
  
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• Fears That Climate Change Could Wipe Out French-Speaking Louisiana

  02-09-2022 17:02 via theworld.org
  “People in bayou country have long learned to live under adverse weather conditions. But things have gotten much worse in recent years. Rising sea levels, erosion and storm after storm have flooded entire communities. For some French speakers, Hurricane Ida was the last straw, and now many are moving away.” – PRX’s The World
  
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• Qatar’s Museum Of Islamic Art Reopens Next Month, With A Redesign And Over 1,000 New Items On View

  02-09-2022 16:35 via theartnewspaper.com
  Known at its 2008 opening mainly for its building, one of the last major designs by I.M. Pei, the MIA has completed an 18-month “reimagination and reinstallation of its permanent collection galleries,” with which it means to re-establish itself as one of the Mideast’s most important museums. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Leader Of Hollywood’s New Choreographers Guild Explains Why The Union Is Necessary

  02-09-2022 16:03 via dancemagazine.com
  “Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital choreographers are, because … they have no idea of all the things we do behind the scenes just to make a shootable dance scene.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Is “Devolution” The Right Word? How Unboxed (aka The Festival Of Brexit) Came, Er, Unboxed

  02-09-2022 15:31 via festival-of-brexit.politicshome.com
  Theresa May first proposed the festival in 2018 to showcase the liberated UK as a creative powerhouse. Yet, by 2022, nobody was in a festive mood, many of the artists (mostly Remainers and fiercely anti-Tory) considered themselves Robin Hoods, and most people don’t even know Unboxed exists. – The House (UK)
  
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• Meet The Longest-Working Black Director In History

  02-09-2022 15:04 via nytimes.com
  After starting out in New York theater, Michael Schultz directed the classic PBS documentary To Be Young, Gifted and Black and made over a dozen films in the ’70s and ’80s, including Cooley High and Krush Groove. Now 83, he’s worked steadily in television ever since. – The New York Times
  
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• Orgiastic body art, a Midlands meme and Hockney meets the Pharaohs – the week in art

  02-09-2022 14:51
  A fresh look at Carolee Schneemann’s pioneering performance art, ‘four lads in jeans’ immortalised in bronze, and new visions of ancient Egypt – all in your weekly dispatchCarolee Schneemann
  Orgiastic meditations on enfleshment by this outrageous pioneer of performance and body art.
  • Barbican, London, from 8 September until 8 January Continue reading...
  
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• Actors’ Equity Is Taking A Hard Look At Non-Disclosure Agreements (Thanks, Scott Rudin)

  02-09-2022 14:32 via dancemagazine.com
  One of the reasons that Rudin’s extreme mistreatment of his employees went unreported for so long was his insistence on having everyone he worked with, including Equity members in his productions, sign NDAs. So the actors’ union is now reviewing how and when they’re used more generally. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Europe’s Film Industry Steps up To Support Its Ukrainian Colleagues

  02-09-2022 14:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Since the domestic Ukrainian market is in, er, a difficult spot just now, there’s a raft of initiatives to aid Ukrainian creators with grants for script development, education on post-production techniques and marketing, and buying or co-producing Ukrainian content for the likes of the BBC and Netflix. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Canadian city pulls bison sculpture in row over representation of colonialism

  02-09-2022 12:00
  Edmonton decided Ken Lum’s paired figures of a bison and fur trader could ‘cause harm and induce painful memories’A Canadian city has pulled a public art project over fears that a pair of towering bronze statues could be seen as an endorsement of colonialism – the exact opposite of the work’s intended meaning, according to the artist.The work, which cost C$375,000 (US$285,000), comprises two large bronze figures which were intended to stand on either end of a pedest
  
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• Executive Director – SpeakEasy Stage

  02-09-2022 07:55 via artsjournal.com
  SpeakEasy Stage seeks an enterprising chief executive to take on the newly created role of Executive Director. This individual will work with Artistic Director and Board of Directors to set and implement the strategic direction for the company – aligning mission, strategy, and outcomes in pursuit of artistic excellence; deepened community engagement; anti-racism, equity, and inclusion; and financial and operational strength.The Executive Director is the senior responsible officer for achie
  
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• Executive Director- Diamond Head Theatre

  02-09-2022 07:53 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director (ED) at DHT will work to direct and advance all elements of the organization’s mission, strategy, programming, and operations, while honoring the history and work of the organization. Reporting to the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, the ED will serve as the public face of the organization, and guide both internal and external stakeholders towards a shared vision for DHT. The ED will lead an updated capital campaign under a revised time
  
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• Vice President, Development: The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Cultural Campus

  02-09-2022 07:50 via artsjournal.com
  Position Title: Vice President, DevelopmentDepartment: DevelopmentReports to: Chief Philanthropy OfficerSupervises: Managing Director, Institutional Giving; Senior Director, Development Services; Senior Director, Stewardship Programs; Senior Director, Annual FundSummary:The Vice President, Development is a senior leader on The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.’s (POKC) Philanthropy and Development Team, reporting to the Chief Philanthropy Officer (CPO) and leading key revenue-g
  
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• The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti prophet of Hong Kong – podcast

  02-09-2022 06:00
  For years Tsang Tsou-choi daubed his eccentric demands around Hong Kong, and the authorities raced to cover them up. But as the city’s protest movements bloomed, his words mysteriously reappearedArchive: CNN, South China Morning Post, The Straights Times, Voice of America Continue reading...
  
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• Humans Are Wired To Be Good At Math (Oh, You’re Not?)

  02-09-2022 00:01 via nautil.us
   Research shows that humans are born with an inherent sense of numbers, known as numerosity.5 The concept of numerosity is one of the only high-level cognitive functions that is mapped to a specific region of the brain. In other words, we are primed to do basic math, but culture gets in the way. – Nautilus
  
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