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• Is Australian Opera Losing Its “Vibrancy”?

  04-10-2022 23:31 via artshub.com.au
  While COVID-19 was a box office disaster for every opera company, large or small, it did have an upside, said Mould. ‘COVID exposed and amplified what the hidden issues are in the system. – ArtsHub
  
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• Opportunity Isn’t The Same as Equality

  04-10-2022 23:01 via 3quarksdaily.com
  What we should want is to make outcomes more equal – not opportunity. Antiegalitarians resist calls for equality via the ideology that if people have equal opportunity, then the outcome, whatever it is, is justified. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Cop Shows After George Floyd

  04-10-2022 22:32 via nytimes.com
  Two years later, it is clear that rumors of the cop show’s demise were greatly exaggerated. “Cops” is back, now on the Fox Nation streaming service. Eighteen crime-related programs are slated for prime-time slots on the major broadcast networks. – The New York Times
  
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• The Role Of Body Percussion

  04-10-2022 22:01 via dancemagazine.com
  Clapping, stomping and striking body parts from head to feet in rhythmic or repetitive ways is a timeless means of human interchange, whether for pleasure, protest, entertainment, ritual, healing or survival. –Dance Magazine
  
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• “Seeing” Without Seeing: Perception and Consciousness

  04-10-2022 21:31 via aeon.co
  Blindsight is now a well-established clinical phenomenon. When first discovered, it seemed theoretically shocking. No one had expected there could possibly be any such dissociation between perception and sensation. – Aeon
  
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• Do We Need All These Books With Bombshell Revelations About Trump?  What Difference Do They Make?

  04-10-2022 21:04 via cnn.com
  “The other defining aspect of the collected works on Trump is that virtually nothing in any of them – none of the ‘bombshells’ or details about his character – seems to have substantially changed people’s minds about him.” – CNN
  
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• The Curator Forced Out At The Guggenheim: A Scapegoat?

  04-10-2022 20:33 via theatlantic.com
  How did a simple offer, over a single painting, lead to such a spectacular destruction of someone’s life and career? The answer involves the shifting sands of American corporate life, as newly activist staff demand that institutions take political positions. But there is also a much older ritual at work. – The Atlantic
  
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• How John Luther Adams Feels About All The Mathematics In His Compositions

  04-10-2022 20:02 via van-magazine.com
  “I always used to say that I observed this formalism to protect the music against the bad taste of the composer. And I still stand by that, but maybe the composer’s taste isn’t quite as bad as it used to be, because he’s lived in this musical world for so long.” – Van
  
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• We Each Perceive The World In A Different Way

  04-10-2022 19:31 via theguardian.com
  We are strongly influenced by context. From the effect of shadows on how we perceive the brightness of a surface, to our tendency to interpret facial expressions depending on what we think is happening, context permeates all our conscious experiences. – The Guardian
  
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• Bollywood Has Become A Major Target In India’s Culture Wars

  04-10-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  Hindu nationalists, frequently using the hashtag #Urduwood (Urdu being, in effect, the Muslim version of Hindi), are calling for boycotts and harassing Muslim filmmakers (and their Hindu colleagues and defenders) with death threats. – The Guardian
  
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• Hollywood’s Big Art Collectors

  04-10-2022 18:32 via thedailybeast.com
  As more and more celebrities are getting interested in collecting, LA galleries, like Various Small Fires, Sprüth Magers and M+B can barely meet the demand: “Some of the young, hot galleries right now in LA, they’re selling out shows two weeks before they open.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• Loretta Lynn, Country Music Legend, Is Dead At 90

  04-10-2022 18:01 via msn.com
  “(Her) career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. She was a teenage bride and mother, a country star and a grandmother by her early 30s. A trailblazer for other female country performers, she … helped redefine and broaden the appeal of country music.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Regal Cinemas Starts Closing Theatres

  04-10-2022 17:32 via giantfreakinrobot.com
  Many of the Regal Cinemas locations were run down, such as the Anaheim 14 in Anaheim, California. Others simply grew too expensive as leases rose as a result of deferred rent payments during the pandemic closures. – Giant Freakin’ Robot
  
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• Like stepping inside a migraine – the house that is covered in doodles

  04-10-2022 17:31
  Artist Sam Cox has just finished drawing on every inch of his six-bedroom house in Kent, inside and out. But what does his partner think of it?Name: Doodles.Age: The first bored woman probably traced a sooty finger along a cave wall about 73,000 years ago. Continue reading...
  
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• The Arts In Britain Are Being “Privatised By Stealth”

  04-10-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  “For many cultural organisations, the Arts Council or their local authority is often no longer the major funder – and as a result, the taxpayer is no longer the ultimate stakeholder. The balance has shifted fundamentally.'” – The Guardian
  
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• Time’s Up: How, And Why, The Entertainment Industry’s Response To #MeToo Fell Apart

  04-10-2022 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Time’s Up was supposed to put Hollywood’s considerable power and money — and its sudden outrage — to work fighting sexual harassment. Instead, today Time’s Up is a ghost organization, technically still operating, but with no CEO or programming offered in nearly a year, and with a skeletal board.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings

  04-10-2022 13:37
  In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed‘Eileen Cowin has the visual sense of a lug wrench,” wrote the critic Richard Maschal in his 1984 assessment of the American mixed-media artist. “Her sense of space and composition is nil.” It’s one of 150 verdicts in a book called Bad Reviews, edited by the art
  
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• ‘Stories told in the dark’ – haunting visions from the painter who operated on his own genitals

  04-10-2022 12:42
  Camden Art Centre, LondonForrest Bess was attached to a camouflage unit during the first world war before suffering a breakdown. He then began to transcribe his nocturnal visions, with alarming yet strangely ungraspable results
  How varied and strange the paintings of Forrest Bess are. Wonky black tables stumbling in a room. Rows of identical mustachioed faces and rows of dicks and something like a snowflake made of string. A face in a golden flower, if it is a flower, in front of a mesa under a
  
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• ‘He captured the flux of sensation itself’: Bridget Riley, Luc Tuymans and other painters on Cézanne’s genius

  04-10-2022 11:45
  As Tate Modern opens its first major Cézanne show in 25 years, Bridget Riley, Luc Tuymans and other artists discuss how he has influenced their own work In 1968, the artist Carolee Schneemann delivered a lecture at the ICA in London, during which she repeatedly undressed and re-dressed herself while discussing one of her great influences as an artist. “Does a woman have intellectual authority?” she asked at the time. “Can she have public authority while naked and speakin
  
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