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• It’s Difficult To Overstate The Importance Of Martha Graham To American Dance

  15-09-2022 23:32 via bookforum.com
  Modern dance in the United States did not emerge from a legible high-art context—a handful of individuals, mostly women, had to make their own, insisting on dance not as entertainment but as art, at a time when they had neither support nor recognition. – BookForum
  
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• Why It’s So Difficult To Write About Images

  15-09-2022 23:02 via lithub.com
  The English vocabulary is especially limited, with only 170,000 or so words in an English dictionary. What does this mean to the art writer trying to capture a brushstroke? You fall back on tried and true descriptors like lush, bold, tentative, delicate. – LitHub
  
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• Australian Writers Decry Their Place In The Country’s Cultural Support Structures

  15-09-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  “Funding and the politics of funding within the Australia Council is dominated by performing arts, the lion’s share of funds goes to performing arts bodies, and it is essentially a performing-arts grants body. It’s time it was recognised as such, and literature split from it.” – The Guardian
  
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• How An Orchestra’s Home Imprints An Orchestra’s Sound

  15-09-2022 22:01 via thestrad.com
  It seems logical that an orchestra’s basic tools of sound production – tone colour, dynamics, rhythmic precision and articulation – are strongly influenced by their home concert hall, so much so that they continue to manifest those integrated sonic fingerprints in unfamiliar acoustical environments. – The Strad
  
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• David Frum: Is Returning African Art The Right Thing To Do?

  15-09-2022 21:32 via theatlantic.com
  Each museum that pledges to surrender some or all of its African collection intensifies the pressure on the holdout institutions to follow. But each of these pledges also intensifies the uncertainty about what exactly is being pledged. What does it mean to return an object “to Nigeria”? – The Atlantic
  
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• “Better Call Saul” As The Portrait Of An Artist

  15-09-2022 21:01 via thepointmag.com
  “Rather than a crime drama in the vein of the Scamming Show canon, Better Call Saul is perhaps best understood as an unlikely Künstlerroman — the story of an artist coming into his own … an artist whose medium just happens to be scamming.” – The Point
  
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• How The Broadway Revival Of “Funny Girl” Became Real-Life Drama

  15-09-2022 20:31 via theringer.com
  This revival’s story is the real-life version of Smash, NBC’s own campy drama about casting the perfect lead; from previews to present day, Funny Girl has been Broadway drama made for TV, played out by TV actors with Broadway voices. – The Ringer
  
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• Salman Rushdie And The Marketization Of Hurt Sentiments

  15-09-2022 20:03 via bostonreview.net
  “If it shocks us that the novelist was attacked after so long, it should also shock us that commentary looks much as it did thirty years ago. … The effect is to obscure the central historical question: how, exactly, the publication of Rushdie’s novel became a global geopolitical phenomenon.” – Boston Review
  
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• Artificial Intelligence Is Sneaking Into Everything Around Us – Subtle, Unobtrusive…

  15-09-2022 19:29 via theatlantic.com
  Unlike search or social media, whose arrivals the general public encountered and discussed and had opinions about, artificial intelligence remains esoteric—every bit as important and transformative as the other great tech disruptions, but more obscure, tucked largely out of view. – The Atlantic
  
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• Where Jodie Gates Plans To Take Cincinnati Ballet

  15-09-2022 19:02 via pointemagazine.com
  “What I’m really hoping for is we develop our own style. A hyper-musical, full-port-de-bras style layered with joy, with beautifully coordinated dancers … who can do classical and contemporary work. A style that, when our dancers are seen elsewhere, people say ‘Oh, you must be from Cincinnati Ballet.'” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• New York Theatre Right Now? The Avant-Cozy

  15-09-2022 18:32 via newyorker.com
  Anything, including revolution, can be repurposed as comfort right now. Nostalgia isn’t just for conservatives—we are in the time of the derriere-garde, experimental hygge, the avant-cozy. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Adventurous History of The “Choose Your Own Adventure” Books

  15-09-2022 18:04 via newyorker.com
  In a longread laid out like a choose-your-own-adventure tale, Leslie Jamison looks at why kids adore the books (agency!), their own origin story, how authors approach them, and the series’s progeny (e.g., Neil Patrick Harris’s Choose Your Own Autobiography or the choose-your-own-Macbeth-play Sleep No More). – The New Yorker
  
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• Quick Study: K-12 Access to Arts Education

  15-09-2022 18:00 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  In this episode, we consider a recent analysis about the availability of arts education in public K-12 schools. A transcript is available here.
  Click here to listen to the most recent episode of Quick Study.
  
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• Google AI Researcher Concludes: Artificial Intelligence Could Destroy Humanity

  15-09-2022 17:32 via vice.com
  The paper, published last month in the peer-reviewed AI Magazine, is a fascinating one that tries to think through how artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity by looking at how reward systems might be artificially constructed. – Vice
  
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• When They’re Putting On A New Opera, Who’s The Person Everybody’s Grateful For? The Prompter

  15-09-2022 17:01 via npr.org
  “The prompter is invisible to the audience, and he may be only one person among the roughly 250-strong cast and crew, but he plays a major role in keeping everything from flying off the rails.”  Meet Matthew Piatt, San Francisco Opera’s prompter for John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra. – NPR
  
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• Translating “Hamilton” Into German Is Even More Challenging Than You Think

  15-09-2022 16:35 via nytimes.com
  “Preserving the rhythm, the sound, and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound nouns and sentences that often end with verbs, and all in a society that has minimal familiarity with the show’s subject matter.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Does “Hamilton” Go In German? Here Are Half A Dozen Examples

  15-09-2022 16:34 via nytimes.com
  For instance, Alexander Hamilton in “The World Was Wide Enough” —English: “America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me.”German: “America, durch deine Brust pumpt Sklavenblut, Moral und Wut.”(“America, through your breast is pounding the blood of slaves, morality and rage.”)– The New York Times
  
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• Erotic, illegal and enough to make Caravaggio swoon: Very Private? and Linder review

  15-09-2022 16:30
  Charleston, East Sussex
  Duncan Grant’s intensely sexual drawings, created when homosexuality was against the law, appear with more candid responses from contemporary artists and some fierce work from LinderSome exhibitions grab you with both hands. Very Private? is one of them, which is fitting, given all the grappling, clutching and caressing taking place on the walls. There are fistfuls of flesh, as well as other, harder things, plus a set of fingers curling around a whip, while another
  
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• “The World Has Changed a Lot Less Than We Think”: an Interview with Jonathan Bank, NYC’s Resident Resurrector of the “Lost” Play

  15-09-2022 16:25 via artsjournal.com
  I couldn’t be more thrilled that for my first podcast episode under the guise of Arts Journal I interviewed Artistic Director and Producer of the Mint Theater Company, Jonathan Bank.For those who are unfamiliar, the Mint has a long history in New York City’s Off-Broadway scene mounting what’s called “lost,” or forgotten, plays.Former NY Times chief theatre critic Ben Brantley, a previous guest on the show, called the theater the “resurrectionist extraordinair
  
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• Pulled Between Hollywood And The Stage: The Case Of Matt Shakman And The Geffen Playhouse

  15-09-2022 16:03 via yahoo.com
  “If anyone could figure out how to synergize the creativity of a city dominated by film and television yet overflowing with theatrical ingenuity, … it would be Shakman. But the demands of theater aren’t easily contained, and an artistic director needs to be on hand.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Meet The Strippers Working To Make Their L.A. Dive Bar An Actors’ Equity Venue

  15-09-2022 15:32 via npr.org
  As “Reagan”, one of the group’s leaders, tells a carful of potential patrons, “We do want to dance. We love it in there. We’re fighting for safer working conditions,” pushing to unionize with Equity.  Then she invited the guys to come dance with them on the picket line. – NPR
  
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• A New Chapter Of The “Serial” Podcast? Prosecutors Ask To Vacate Adnan Syed’s Conviction

  15-09-2022 15:04 via apnews.com
  Said State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby of Baltimore, “We believe that keeping Mr. Syed detained as we continue to investigate the case with everything that we know now, when we do not have confidence in results of the first trial, would be unjust.” – AP
  
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• The New Harriet Tubman Statue In Philadelphia Might Not Be Of Harriet Tubman

  15-09-2022 14:31 via inquirer.com
  When the city commissioned a permanent version of Wesley Wofford’s traveling Tubman statue, objectors demanded the commission go to a Philadelphia artist of color instead.  But the city’s new RFP calls for a statue of Tubman “or another African American’s contribution to our nation’s history.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• William Klein obituary

  15-09-2022 14:28
  Photographer and film-maker whose street-savvy, brash approach broke with convention“I photograph what I see in front of me,” declared William Klein, who has died aged 96. “I move in close to see better and use a wide-angle lens to get as much as possible in the frame.” Uncompromising, ambitious and to the point, the words are characteristic of this American photographer and film-maker, who pulled no punches in his first publication, Life Is Good and Good for You in New Y
  
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• Irene Papas, Great Tragedienne Of Stage And Screen, Is Dead At 96

  15-09-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  “Notwithstanding her many roles in a wide range of Hollywood, international and Greek films, including The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969), Papas always gave the impression that there was an Electra, Antigone or Clytemnestra bubbling beneath the surface.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Forgotten master’: English artist whose work was lost for 120 years celebrated

  15-09-2022 12:22
  John Louis Petit, who captured England’s changes during 19th century, ‘worthy of comparison with Turner’A forgotten 19th-century artist whose entire oeuvre disappeared for 120 years has been compared to JMW Turner by a leading art historian.John Louis Petit, an English clergyman who gave up his calling to focus on art and architecture, produced thousands of paintings that were widely exhibited but never sold. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A forgotten master’: artist whose work was lost for 120 years celebrated in book

  15-09-2022 12:22
  John Louis Petit, who captured England’s changes during 19th century, ‘worthy of comparison with Turner’A forgotten 19th-century artist whose entire oeuvre disappeared for 120 years has been compared to JMW Turner by a leading art historian.John Louis Petit, an English clergyman who gave up his calling to focus on art and architecture, produced thousands of paintings which were widely exhibited but never sold. Continue reading...
  
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• The Structural Blocks To Reimagining Museums

  15-09-2022 00:01 via theconversation.com
  Museums must be disentangled from national and corporate interests that guide narratives and reproduce dominant social norms. Structural transformation is needed which involves more diverse staff, especially in senior and executive positions. – The Conversation
  
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