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• Jean-Luc Godard’s Singular Place In The Movies

  21-09-2022 23:56 via thenation.com
  Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the medium’s evolution, he was the first filmmaker to recognize that cinema’s classic period was over and a new era of a new kind of movie and a new type of filmmaker had begun. – The Nation
  
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• Why Do Some Art Heists Capture Our Imagination?

  21-09-2022 23:31 via thewalrus.ca
  Art either captivates the public or it doesn’t, and the same, it would seem, is true of art heists. Some enthrall us with their brazenness. Others charm with their cheekiness. – The Walrus
  
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• Reinventing Long Wharf Theatre: Brave New World?

  21-09-2022 23:01 via americantheatre.org
  The theatre’s leadership insists that they’re not setting out to create a new theatre from scratch, but rather to build on Long Wharf’s legacy. – American Theatre
  
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• The Future Of American Regional Theatre: Out Of Buildings?

  21-09-2022 22:34 via americantheatre.org
  Earlier this year, we came to a decision that was years in the making: to leave our current home of 57 years and venture out across our city and region as an itinerant theatre company that will partner with local organizations and venues to bring productions closer to all people. – American Theatre
  
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• AI Can Impersonate Voices And The Deepfakes Are Hard To Spot

  21-09-2022 22:01 via theconversation.com
  Deepfakes have brought with them a new level of uncertainty around digital media. To detect deepfakes, many researchers have turned to analyzing visual artifacts – minute glitches and inconsistencies – found in video deepfakes. – The Conversation
  
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• Why Business As Usual May Kill Your Non-Profit

  21-09-2022 21:32 via medium.com
  Did it become “comfortable” when leaders believed that the path of least resistance in business settings — kowtow to those to whom you report and abuse those who report to you — would always serve them? Did you, for example, take advantage of those who serve the organization by underpaying them? – Medium
  
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• Uncle Jack Charles, Actor, Activist, And Hero Of Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, Is Dead At 79

  21-09-2022 21:01 via nytimes.com
  A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia’s first Aboriginal theatre company and appeared in numerous plays and films, including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Blackfellas. – The New York Times
  
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• After 33 Years, Carl St. Clair To Step Down From Pacific Symphony

  21-09-2022 20:29 via voiceofoc.org
  St.Clair, who turned 70 in June, requested that the symphony’s board begin plans for succession that assured continuity of leadership. – Voice of Orange County
  
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• How To Teach Controversial Literature Without Causing Students Harm

  21-09-2022 20:02 via lithub.com
  Remember, it’s not only the right that sometimes wants to eliminate certain books from the curriculum.  (Think of Huckleberry Finn, frequently condemned for its copious, period-accurate use of the n-word.)  Deborah Appleman suggests approaches to keeping a text in the classroom while mitigating potential damage or controversy. – Literary Hub
  
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• World’s Longest Book (21,000 Pages) Is For Sale (But You Can’t Read It)

  21-09-2022 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural material”, according to the book/ artwork’s French publisher JBE. – The Guardian
  
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• Sydney Now Has An Answer To Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall In London — An Enormous Oil Tank

  21-09-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  The Sydney Modern Project, the new contemporary art wing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, has two big old oil storage tanks from World War II under the building.  One of them has been made into a Turbine Hall-style space for large-scale installations. – The New York Times
  
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• Surprise! Brad Pitt Is A Terrific Visual Artist

  21-09-2022 18:31 via theguardian.com
  Pinch me – I must be dreaming. Brad Pitt is an extremely impressive artist. I certainly didn’t expect to be saying that when I got up this morning. – The Guardian
  
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• Ken Howard obituary

  21-09-2022 18:20
  Popular and prolific painter who described himself as ‘the last impressionist’In 1973, Ken Howard was sent by the Imperial War Museum to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a war artist in all but name. (In the political rhetoric of the day, the province’s violence did not constitute warfare.) To Howard’s surprise, he found that his habit of painting en plein air made him friends on both sides of the sectarian divide. “If you used a camera, you were in trouble
  
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• ‘A class of his own’: Sale of rare Bacon works marks 30th anniversary of artist’s death

  21-09-2022 18:08
  The auction will include rarely seen paintings, rugs, photographs and lettersAs a teenager, the artist, Francis Bacon, famously ran away to Paris to escape school and an authoritarian, homophobic father who had thrown him out of the family home.Although his visit was brief, Bacon returned to the city two years later and became fascinated with the works of Picasso, Rodin, Degas and Monet. Continue reading...
  
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• Psychiatrists In Brussels Are Legally Prescribing Museum Visits

  21-09-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  “From this month, psychiatrists in one of the city’s largest hospitals have been able to offer patients ‘museum prescriptions’, a free visit with a few friends or family members to discover one or more of Brussels’s cultural institutions” as treatment for depression, anxiety, or stress. – The Guardian
  
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• The Hollywood Sign Is Being Repaired (You Can Watch Online)

  21-09-2022 17:32 via theguardian.com
  Freshening up the 45ft-tall letters will require about 250 gallons of paints and primer, and anyone who wants to watch the paint dry can follow along on the sign’s 24/7 webcam. – The Guardian
  
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• What Do We Do With All The Broken-Down, Unrepairable Musical Instruments If We Don’t Want To Add Them To A Landfill?

  21-09-2022 17:02 via artshub.com.au
  “What should we be doing with those pummelled remnants of a drum kit? The electric guitar with a broken neck? The leaky Chinese saxophone at the back of the cupboard? The DJ set-up gathering dust in the garage?” Not to mention decrepit pianos. Here’s some practical advice. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Some Arts Organizations Are Turning To Real Estate Development, Building Mixed-Use Complexes

  21-09-2022 16:35 via nytimes.com
  The Newark Museum of Art, National Black Theater in Harlem, Universal Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx, EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland, and Arte Amėricas in Fresno are among the organizations building, alongside expansion space for themselves, entire complexes with retail, restaurants, and housing. – The New York Times
  
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• Hallyu! The Korean Wave review – a dazzling historical remix

  21-09-2022 16:19
  V&A, London
  This gleeful, giddy celebration of the culture of South Korea ranges from fashion to fine art and grand guignol to Gangnam styleIf you don’t recognise the guards’ costumes from Squid Game that loom at the V&A with their cerise suits and geometrical masks– where have you been? This dystopian TV series was watched by well over 100 million viewers in more than 80 countries on its release last year. It’s part of the surge of global pop culture from South K
  
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• The Dance Data Project On Its Upcoming Gender Equity Index

  21-09-2022 16:03 via dancedataproject.com
  This introduction to the project and invitation for dance companies to participate explains the questions to be asked on the survey, how the rankings will be determined, and why developing a Gender Equity Index for the North American dance world makes a difference. – Dance Data Project
  
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• The Streaming Companies Are Turning Documentaries Into Big Business

  21-09-2022 15:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “While the streamers’ appetite for documentary content has created a new golden age for nonfiction filmmaking, it’s come with transformations that many find worrying: Doc subjects are being paid, timelines are getting scrunched, and the line between premium nonfiction and reality television is blurring.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Most Interesting Opera In America Right Now, Says The New York Times, Is In The Midwest

  21-09-2022 15:04 via nytimes.com
  Joshua Barone pays a visit to, and is thrilled by, Barrie Kosky’s production of Fiddler on the Roof at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Yuval Sharon’s staging of Act III of Die Walküre, under the title “The Valkyries,” at Detroit Opera. – The New York Times
  
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• The Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Artistic Co-Directors

  21-09-2022 14:32 via theguardian.com
  Daniel Evans, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Tamara Harvey, artistic director of Theatr Clwyd in North Wales, submitted a joint application for the RSC job, start work in Stratford-upon-Avon in June of next year. – The Guardian
  
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• Dance Magazine Awards For 2022: Here Are The Winners

  21-09-2022 14:05 via dancemagazine.com
  This year’s honorees are choreographers Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and Dianne McIntyre; dancer Herman Cornejo, a principal at ABT; and historian of African-American dance Brenda Dixon Gottschild. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Anarchy in the auction house: the Sex Pistols ephemera that’s pogoing, going, gone

  21-09-2022 09:00
  Fancy a Never Mind the Bollocks poster stained with blood from Sid Vicious’s syringe? Two canny collectors are unloading artefacts that reveal the Pistols to be an art project as much as a punk bandOn the morning of the day the Queen dies, the art collectors Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson happen to be staring at a picture of her face. It’s a piece of card, smaller than a vinyl LP, which artist Jamie Reid produced for a concert by the Sex Pistols. He took the classic Cecil Beaton port
  
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• Anarchy in the auction house: the Sex Pistols ephemera that’s going, going, gone

  21-09-2022 09:00
  Fancy a Never Mind the Bollocks poster stained with blood from Sid Vicious’s syringe? Two canny collectors are unloading artefacts that reveal the Pistols to be an art project as much as a punk bandOn the morning of the day the Queen dies, the art collectors Paul Stolper and Andrew Wilson happen to be staring at a picture of her face. It’s a piece of card, smaller than a vinyl LP, which artist Jamie Reid produced for a concert by the Sex Pistols. He took the classic Cecil Beaton port
  
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• Art Gallery of NSW: Adrián Villar Rojas to take over WWII bunker as Sydney Modern unveiled

  21-09-2022 03:02
  The acclaimed Argentinian sculptor’s immersive installation will headline the gallery’s $344m expansion, which opens in DecemberGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFour stories underground, a 2,200 sq metre second world war fuel bunker has been transformed into a showpiece gallery for the Art Gallery of New South Wales after lying unused for decades.Art by acclaimed Argentinian sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas will be the first installed in the AGNSW’s new Tank Galler
  
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• Senior Press Representative, Institutional Projects

  21-09-2022 03:01 via artsjournal.com
  **Please submit a cover letter for consideration**The Senior Press Representative for Institutional Projects is responsible for maintaining and positioning the public image of the Kennedy Center through local, national, and international media placements, new media, self-generated content and storytelling, and by influencing a range of internal platforms including the Center’s social media and website. The Senior Press Representative will manage the publicity and logistics for two of the C
  
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• My Take on the Met’s Appointment of David Breslin as New Head of Modern & Contemporary Art

  21-09-2022 00:39 via artsjournal.com
  I’ve known and liked the knowledgeable, affable David Breslin when he served at the Clark Art Institute (where I
  
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• Dying? Bay Area Artists Reject Idea Their Gallery Scene Is Ailing

  21-09-2022 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  “I’ve been [living] here almost 32 years. Literally, the story never changes. We have an incredibly rich and vibrant arts scene here, and I resent being told we’re dying.” – Hyperallergic
  
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