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• The Elusive Search For The Perfect Recording

  30-09-2022 23:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Tom Port believes that records are like snowflakes — no two are the same. So many things can impact the pressing, including room temperature, the split second the stampers are pressed onto the hot, vinyl biscuit, and unknown factors no human can understand. – Washington Post
  
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• Is Apple Music About Launch A Classical Service?

  30-09-2022 22:32 via ludwig-van.com
  References to Apple Classical in code were previously found in a beta version of iOS 15.5, and an Android version of Apple Music. The evidence isn’t conclusive, of course, and may be laying the groundwork for another future version of iOS. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Realigning: Ballet For The Rest Of Us

  30-09-2022 22:01 via latimes.com
  Founded in Los Angeles in 2011 by Michael Cornell, the Align Ballet Method was born out of a desire to make ballet approachable for adults, despite whether they know a “tendu” from a “dégagé.” While adult ballet has long existed, it is niche and has little marketing presence. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Modern lens: the best of Australian contemporary photography – in pictures

  30-09-2022 22:00
  Now in its 20th year, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert photography award showcases the best contemporary photography in Australia. The work of the 40 finalists are on display at Queensland’s HOTA gallery on the Gold Coast, with the winner announced on 11 October. This year the exhibition includes a retrospective with a selection of past winners and finalists, reflecting the shifts in the cultural landscape since 2002 Continue reading...
  
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• Bruce Willis Becomes First Celeb To License His “Digital Twin” For Acting Work

  30-09-2022 21:31 via telegraph.co.uk
  Using deepfake technology, the actor appeared in a phone advert without ever being on set, after his face was digitally transplanted onto another performer. Willis allowed US firm Deepcake, which makes “digital twins”, to use his face. – The Telegraph
  
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• Asa Benveniste: Sylvia Plath’s ‘Afterlife’ Neighbor

  30-09-2022 21:11 via artsjournal.com
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• Sue Dunkley obituary

  30-09-2022 21:08
  Artist who painted cultural icons of the 1960s and was fascinated by the portrayal of the female bodyIn a 1966 interview with Nova magazine the artist Sue Dunkley declared it “no more difficult painting if you’re a woman than if you’re a man. The only difficulty is to paint well.” By 1982, her opinion had changed somewhat. “Woman, artist, mother … the roles I enact cause confusion … I need to wrestle with the devil sometimes, and am aware that often th
  
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• Here’s Meta For You: A Play About Whether And How Working-Class People Can Do Professional Theatre

  30-09-2022 21:04 via artshub.com.au
  Class Act, based loosely on Shaw’s Pygmalion and Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, is inspired by lead actor Mish Gregor’s “bogan” (that’s Australian for “white trash”) background and how she changed as a person as she crossed class boundaries as a theatre professional. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• How Your Brain Rewires Itself In Your 40s

  30-09-2022 20:27 via bigthink.com
  The brain begins becoming less connected within those separate networks and more connected globally across networks. By the time we reach our 80s, the brain tends to be less regionally specialized and instead broadly connected and integrated. – Big Think
  
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• Bayard Rustin Wasn’t Just A Civil Rights Hero, He Was An Early Music Geek

  30-09-2022 20:03 via earlymusicamerica.org
  He taught himself to play the lute while imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, collected antique instruments, and recorded, as a singer, an LP that featured English lute songs alongside African-American spirituals.  He even composed a lute song that he passed off as “Elizabethan.” – Early Music America
  
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• Simple Question: How Many Black Musicians Play In America’s Orchestras?

  30-09-2022 19:32 via npr.org
  “We do not know how many Black people are in orchestras. And I say that as a representative of Black Orchestral Network. One of our calls is, let’s start collecting data. Let’s find out, have we done better than the 1.4% number that is going out there?” – NPR
  
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• Ken Tucker obituary

  30-09-2022 19:30
  My father, Ken Tucker, who has died aged 91, was an architect who specialised in retail design. He learned his trade during a postwar period when individuals from less advantageous backgrounds were encouraged to achieve their full potential.Born in Eastham, Cheshire, Ken was the son of Eva (nee Webb) and GwynTucker, a Manchester ship canal pilot. When the second world war broke out, the family moved to Newport, Pembrokeshire, where his father had grown up, re-establishing a link with that corner
  
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• A Dance Version Of “The Matrix”, Staged By The Director Of “Slumdog Millionaire”

  30-09-2022 19:01 via bbc.com
  Danny Boyle is creating a “large-scale immersive performance” of the landmark science-fiction movie for the new performance venue The Factory International in Manchester next year.  The choreographer will be Kenrick “H2O” Sandy, with designs by Es Devlin, music by composer Michael “Mikey J” Asante, and book by Sabrina Mahfouz. – BBC
  
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• Tanglewood Breaks The New Norm In Rebounding After COVID

  30-09-2022 18:29 via berkshireeagle.com
  The season total represented a decline of 7 percent compared to 2019, when 311,596 patrons attended 248 performances. Because there were 44 fewer events this past summer than three years ago, individual concert attendance increased 12 percent from the summer of 2019. – Berkshire Eagle
  
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• Dimitrios Pandermalis, Acropolis Museum’s Devoted Champion, Dies (but Campaign to Reunite Marbles lives)

  30-09-2022 18:27 via artsjournal.com
  I was saddened by the recent news that Dimitrios Pandermalis, 82, the guiding spirit behind the New Acropolis Museum
  
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• Was King Charles Actually Right About Modern Architecture?

  30-09-2022 18:03 via theguardian.com
  “If you read his 1984 ‘carbuncle’ speech in full, what follows might come as a surprise. Far from issuing a decree for more Corinthian columns and pumped-up pediments, he outlines principles that are now found in practically every best-practice design guide.” – The Guardian
  
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• Suzi Gablik obituary

  30-09-2022 17:37
  My friend Suzi Gablik, who has died aged 87, was an artist and pioneering writer on art who argued from the mid-1980s that the arts needed to turn away from modernism and recognise again the ecological and social function of art. Her writing had a profound impact on the evolution of a vast array of artists, arts collectives, thinkers and ecological activists.Born in New York, Suzi was the only child of Anthony Gablik, a commercial artist, and Geraldine (nee Schwartz). She attended PS9 school in
  
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• Inside One Of America’s Last Two Piano Factories

  30-09-2022 17:32 via thehustle.co
  Not long ago, piano factories like this were one of America’s largest and most formidable industries, employing tens of thousands of workers. Today, only two remain: Steinway & Sons in New York, and this place — Mason & Hamlin. – The Hustle
  
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• Toilets, towers and Tony Blair: the crazy world of cult film-maker John Smith

  30-09-2022 17:16
  The director talks about his intellectual, political and hilarious body of work, as the ICA puts on a retrospective with contributions from his former students Carol Morley and Jarvis CockerIn 1969, John Smith, now one of Britain’s most revered artist film-makers, but then a foundation student at North East London Polytechnic, was sitting in a pub transfixed by a Perspex sign. “Suddenly I realised – ah! – ‘toilets’ was an anagram of TS Eliot. I thought: I must
  
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• How The Inventor Of Television Got Screwed Over By Corporate America

  30-09-2022 17:04 via salon.com
  More specifically, the Radio Corporation of America (you know it as RCA), whose boss, David Sarnoff, stole some of Philo T. Farnsworth’s technology, and then, when Farnsworth declined to sell his business to RCA, harassed the poor guy with lawsuits until he was a broken man. – Salon
  
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• The genius of Cézanne, Black beauty and a sci-fi voyage – the week in art

  30-09-2022 16:40
  A major exhibition of the post-impressionist artist, pastoral photography from Tyler Mitchell and a science spectacular to get you thinking – all in your weekly dispatchCézanne
  The mountain, the apples and so much more – a chance to encounter true genius.
  • Tate Modern, London, from 5 October-12 March. Continue reading...
  
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• When Right-Wingers Targeted Drag Queen Story Hour At A Montana Bookstore, The Community Rallied

  30-09-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  “Local bartenders, retirees, restaurant workers and marketing professionals joined other Pride-goers to create a buffer around the store’s entrance. Someone started playing music from a mobile speaker, kicking off sporadic dancing under the early afternoon sun.” The right-wingers ended up outnumbered 10-to-1. – The Guardian (Montana Free Press)
  
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• A Museum Hosted A Family-Friendly Drag Show At An LGBTQ+ Exhibit. Then The Proud Boys Showed Up — With Guns

  30-09-2022 16:01 via hyperallergic.com
  Said one employee at Memphis’s Museum of Science and History, “Whether the police couldn’t or just wouldn’t do anything about them, I don’t know. All I know is we had 30 armed bigots trying to break in, and that was when our director made the decision to evacuate.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Crash Is Here: NFT Sales Have Fallen By 97% In Nine Months

  30-09-2022 15:33 via artnews.com
  “In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high that eclipsed 2021’s NFT mania. … But since the start of this year, the market has slowed down significantly. … As a result, once-thriving NFT businesses have been dissolving or downsizing.” – ARTnews
  
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• Two Years After Being Sued, Brown Paper Tickets Still Owes A Lot Of Arts Organizations Money

  30-09-2022 15:02 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  In 2020, the attorney general of Washington state ordered the Seattle-based ticketing service to pay what grew, six months later, to a total of $9 million owed to 45,000 event producers and ticket buyers.  But Washington-based entities were first in line, and many out-of-staters are still out-of-pocket. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• “It Was Unfinished Business”: The Revamped David Geffen Hall Is What Deborah Borda Came Back To The New York Philharmonic For

  30-09-2022 14:34 via nytimes.com
  She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil’s long-problematic venue.  After 17 triumphant years running the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she returned when the will and the money to rebuild the auditorium were finally there. – The New York Times
  
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• World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Says Attendance Won’t Be Back To Normal For At Least Two More Years

  30-09-2022 14:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Exhibition giant and Regal owner Cineworld Group, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., predicted on Friday that cinema admissions in 2023 and 2024 would remain below levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Six reasons why artist’s artist Paul Cézanne is hailed as ‘greatest of us all’

  30-09-2022 13:58
  As Tate Modern opens major Cézanne exhibition, here’s why Picasso admired artist so much he bought his mountainPaul Cézanne, born in 1839, who painted quietly up to his death in 1906, is the unrivalled modern artist’s modern artist, called the “greatest of us all” by Claude Monet. The most intimate proof of this is how many of his successors have felt the need to move in on his patch – literally. When Picasso told his dealer Ambroise Vollard he had jus
  
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• Canadian Museums Issue Guidelines To Decolonize Museums

  30-09-2022 00:01 via thestar.com
  The Association urges legislation to support the repatriation of Indigenous belongings and remains of ancestors, and dedicated funding for the repatriation process. It was funded by the Heritage Department and responds to a call by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to review museum policies. – Toronto Star
  
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