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• What These Two Michael Jackson Impersonators Say About A Divide In Argentine Culture

  23-09-2022 23:28 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Garcia, 33, and Mr. Blanco, 26, have both dedicated their lives to transforming themselves into the same pop star. But for all the surface similarities, the two men’s lives are otherwise a study in sharp contrasts. – The New York Times
  
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• Many Are Looking To Cash In On Making NFTs Of Traditional Art

  23-09-2022 23:01 via artnews.com
  Museums, collectors, artist estates and others are “exploring NFTs of traditional art to build support, protect and conserve work, and bring in a new generation of art appreciators.” – ARTnews
  
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• Mirroring Altamira: Plan for High-Res Digital Documentation of Prehistoric Cave (plus: my own visits)

  23-09-2022 23:00 via artsjournal.com
  Reading Wednesday’s announcement from the World Monuments Fund (WMF) of a plan “for the creation of new high-resolution digital
  
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• We’ve Made Idols Of Tech Innovators. We Were Wrong

  23-09-2022 22:32 via theatlantic.com
  Our nation once idolized astronauts and civil-rights leaders who inspired hope and empathy. Now it worships tech innovators who generate billions and move financial markets. We acclaimed the power of technology, and so technology has gained the most power.  – The Atlantic
  
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• The New Arts Censorship

  23-09-2022 22:01 via artshub.com.au
  ‘Art is about allowing people not to have limits on their imaginations. So if audiences are starting to look for something political in the work that may or may not be there, and then they are interpreting it in those narrow terms, that’s a dangerous direction for art to be heading. It’s reducing art to propaganda.’ – ArtsHub
  
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• Penis straws and obscene quilts: the artist turning junk into a queer church

  23-09-2022 22:00
  Paul Yore’s spectacular installations are arresting, playful and nostalgic – but look a little deeper to find a darker messageGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailPaul Yore is showing me his hearse. He’s always wanted to create a sculpture using a car (“they’re quite phallic, aren’t they?”) and throughout the pandemic, like many of us, he has been thinking about death. So when he found a hearse, he stripped all the paint off and turned it into a mo
  
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• That Old Chestnut: The Meaning Of Life

  23-09-2022 21:32 via thepointmag.com
  Analytic philosophers avoided the subject of meaning in life till relatively recently. The standard explanation is that they associated it with the meaning of life question they considered bankrupt. But it’s surely also because the subject conflicts with some of the core tendencies of the analytic tradition. – The Point
  
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• Choreographer Ralph Lemon Wins The Whitney Biennial’s Top Prize

  23-09-2022 21:03 via artnews.com
  “An influential choreographer and conceptual artist, (Lemon) won the Whitney Museum’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, which goes to one artist in the Whitney Biennial every time the show is held.” – ARTnews
  
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• OpenAI Releases Universal Translator That Translates Any Language To English

  23-09-2022 20:31 via arstechnica.com
  With the proper setup, Whisper could easily be used to transcribe interviews, podcasts, and potentially translate podcasts produced in non-English languages to English on your machine—for free.  – Ars Technica
  
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• Melissa Barak, Los Angeles Ballet’s New Artistic Director, Talks About Her Plans

  23-09-2022 20:02 via pointemagazine.com
  “I want us to do everything from experimental work to some story ballets or reimagined classics. There are certain neoclassical choreographers I would like to bring in. As far as Balanchine, I am certainly a fan; I don’t see the repertoire being as heavily Balanchine as it has been.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• First Look Inside Paul Allen’s Billion-Dollar Art Collection

  23-09-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  While the sale was announced in August, now, for the first time, the auction house has begun to divulge what those treasures are. – The New York Times
  
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• Is Unboxed (The “Festival Of Brexit”) A £120 Million Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money?  Or Does It Deserve More Credit Than It’s Getting?

  23-09-2022 19:04 via bbc.com
  On the waste-of-money side are several MPs, including one who’s asked the National Audit Office to investigate the festival.  Unboxed’s chief creative officer insists that the project is “absolutely value for money” and that millions have people have engaged with hundreds of events, many on local, under-the-radar levels. – BBC
  
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• Disney Heiress’ New Documentary Exposes Deplorable Theme Park Working Conditions

  23-09-2022 18:32 via thedailybeast.com
  One out of every 10 full-time workers was homeless at some point in the previous two years, and two-thirds didn’t have enough money to pay for food. At the same time, in 2018, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger collected $65 million—or 1,424 times the median salary of a Disney employee. – Daily Beast
  
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• “If We Want To Preserve It, We Need An Intervention”: Five Suggestions For Repairing The Broken Edinburgh Fringe

  23-09-2022 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Is it too expensive?  Too inaccessible for performers without money?  Too crowded?  Too concentrated?  Just too damned big?  With so many people saying the Fringe is spinning out of control, a panel of five regulars offer suggestions for fixing the Scottish capital’s massive event. – The Guardian
  
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• Are There Now So Many Podcasts That The Format Has Simply Turned Into On-Demand Radio?

  23-09-2022 17:03 via vulture.com
  “It’s difficult to cement a medium’s sense of identity, culture, and meaning if hardly anybody is talking about the same thing — and that may well have material ramifications for the business in the long run.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas?

  23-09-2022 17:00
  Modern Art OxfordThe artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shunted from room to room according to her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritualMarina Abramović’s 2010 New York show The Artist Is Present made her a global icon, but she is not personally present in the mystical extravaganza of her new show Gates and Portals. She did turn up at the press launch, however, to explain that since becoming a celebrity she wants to remove herself from her work, to all
  
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• TikTok Is Cracking Down On Political Videos

  23-09-2022 16:35 via cbsnews.com
  “Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, TikTok announced Wednesday it is banning of campaign fundraising on its platform. It also announced new policies for political accounts, including ‘mandatory verification.'” – CBS News
  
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• Can Pay-What-You-Wish Concerts Bring New Audiences To Classical Music? Yes.

  23-09-2022 16:02 via nytimes.com
  Price isn’t the only barrier for a classical newcomer, but it’s a big one, and the few American organizations that have tried pay-what-you-wish — most notably, the Chicago Sinfonietta and, this past summer, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra — say it works.  But what about lost ticket revenue? – The New York Times
  
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• Does Getting Banned Really Help A Book Sell Better?  Very Rarely, And Here’s Why.

  23-09-2022 15:34 via msn.com
  “A staggering 82 to 97 percent of book challenges go unreported on. That means these books, the overwhelming majority, don’t even make it beyond the school-board minutes and into the local paper. And this question of how much attention a book gets … is a crucial factor.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• A wave of Korean art, the sound of Turner and Freud goes to the races – the week in art

  23-09-2022 15:23
  The V&A’s new show is a dazzling historical remix, Tate Liverpool sets an English master to music, while Lucian Freud’s love for the turf is revealed – all in your weekly dispatchHallyu! The Korean Wave
  Infectiously bold survey of South Korea’s pop culture that also manages to squeeze in some solid history. Read our five-star review.
  • V&A, London, from 24 September Continue reading...
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra’s Musicians Have A New Four-Year Contract

  23-09-2022 15:01 via startribune.com
  “Effective immediately, the new contract replaces a two-year deal signed during the pandemic in September 2020, which required a 25% pay cut for the musicians until audiences returned in full. With attendance relatively strong again, … musicians were able to make some modest gains in the new contract.” – The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  
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• Author Hilary Mantel Has Died Suddenly At Age 70

  23-09-2022 14:33 via theguardian.com
  The tremendous success of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light) led to a reassessment of her other work (17 books in total, plus numerous stories and essays) that established her reputation of one of this century’s greatest English-language novelists. – The Guardian
  
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• $100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture 2023 Goes To Senga Nengudi

  23-09-2022 14:05 via artnews.com
  “Working across sculpture, installation, performance, dance, film, and photography, Nengudi is best-known for her R.S.V.P. series. … These pantyhose sculptures are often filled with sand, then stretched and pinned to various points of a wall (often in a corner). They sag and droop in ways best described as poetic.” – ARTnews
  
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• ‘It’s going to split opinion’: huge Weston-super-Mare installation opens

  23-09-2022 07:00
  See Monster, on a decommissioned North Sea gas platform, is one of the UK’s biggest ever public art worksIt looms high above the Grand Pier and makes the big wheel on the seafront look tiny. As it has taken shape on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, See Monster – a decommissioned North Sea gas platform converted into one of the UK’s biggest public art installations – has provoked a heady mix of head-scratching, interest and ire.Finally, after delays caused by the vagaries o
  
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• Executive Director- Brooklyn Arts Council

  23-09-2022 06:16 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director (ED) will serve as a dynamic and visionary leader for Brooklyn Arts Council and key advocate for the borough’s arts and cultural sector. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ED will serve as the public face of the organization and a convenor within the Arts and Culture community. They will advance the institution as leading voice, ensuring the achievement of the organization’s philosophy, mission, and core values. This individual will levera
  
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