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• Editing: The Art Of Deleting (And Adding)

  19-10-2022 23:32 via washingtonpost.com
  It’s a common misapprehension that “editing” is a synonym for “deleting.” Yes, by all means trim away what I call the Throat-Clearers and Wan Intensifiers. But I have learned that prose often benefits from the cushioning of a few extra words — for rhythm, for sense. – Washington Post
  
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• Billionaire Russian’s International Art Hub Crashes As International Artists Pull Out

  19-10-2022 23:04 via theartnewspaper.com
  Less than a year later, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, it has become a symbol of the cultural death knell of the country. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Winners Of This Year’s ArtPrize

  19-10-2022 22:28 via news.artnet.com
  “What makes ArtPrize unique is that awards and prizes are selected by both public visitors casting votes and also by jurors,” revealing “the intersections and incongruities between professional and populist opinions.” – Artnet
  
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• The World Within English Songs

  19-10-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  There are more English songs to be discovered, past, present and future. Seams of gold run through those blue remembered hills and our modest three-day festival will carry on mining them. – The Guardian
  
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• Twyla Tharp Changes Her Mind – Consider The Context

  19-10-2022 21:28 via nytimes.com
  Tharp, watching the world experience the pandemic, has changed her mind about “In the Upper Room” — not about what it represents, but where it belongs. If any dance comes close to reflecting the struggle of the last years, it’s “In the Upper Room.” – The New York Times
  
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• Salford museum pays £7.8m for LS Lowry’s Going to the Match

  19-10-2022 21:05
  Purchase of 1953 painting beloved by football fans made possible by gift from charitable foundationA painting by LS Lowry beloved by football fans and art enthusiasts has been bought by the Lowry museum and gallery in Salford, saving it from disappearing into a private collection.The museum paid £7.8m including fees for Going to the Match, painted in 1953, at an auction on Wednesday evening. The purchase was made possible by a gift from the Law Family charitable foundation, which was set u
  
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• The Monuments Of Kyiv, Sandbagged For Protection Against Russian Drones And Missiles

  19-10-2022 21:02 via theguardian.com
  “(They’re) one of few reminders, along with an 11pm curfew and the regular wailing of air raid sirens, that this bustling city is at war. Boxed up, muffled, veiled and hidden, they also give Kyiv a strange new look — as if the sculptures have been replaced by contemporary artworks.” – The Guardian
  
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• How Listening Habits Have Changed

  19-10-2022 20:31 via insideradio.com
  “Ipsos’ survey finds that affluents are spending significant time with audio, especially AM/FM radio. They report listening to the radio for 4 hours a week, an increase of around an hour from the pandemic-impacted years 2020 and 2021. – Inside Radio
  
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• Robert Wilson On The Importance Of Humor In Theater (Wait, What?)

  19-10-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  “(Humor) can make a situation much more terrifying. And we shouldn’t make theatre actually if we can’t laugh or if we don’t have that distance from the material.” And Wilson is acting on this idea with a play you’d never expect him to direct: Ubu Rex. – The Guardian
  
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• Want To Read This Book? In This Michigan School District, You’ll Be Sent To A Counselor

  19-10-2022 19:27 via thedailybeast.com
  Students will now be put in touch with a school counselor if they want to check out the book. The counselor will then contact students’ parents or guardians for permission to let them check out the book. – The Daily Beast
  
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• A Glimpse Of The Oldest Surviving Book In The Americas

  19-10-2022 19:01 via nytimes.com
  “Dating from 1100, this codex — the work of a single artist, (written in hieroglyphics) on long sheets of amate, paper made from fig tree bark — reveals the Mayan preoccupations with time and the cosmos, as well as the ‘otherworldly’ role of the scribe.” – The New York Times
  
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• Netflix Rebound: Adds Subscribers After Losing Many

  19-10-2022 18:28 via wsj.com
  The company added 2.4 million new subscribers in the September quarter, after having forecast a net gain of 1 million customers. The subscriber growth followed back-to-back quarters of customer defections that raised questions about Netflix’s ability to expand its user base amid increased competition. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Williamsburg And Bushwick Are Expensive Now. Where Are Brooklyn’s Young Artsy Types Moving To Now?

  19-10-2022 18:04 via hyperallergic.com
  Sunset Park, a working-class Chinese immigrant neighborhood close to New York Harbor that has plenty of space in what used to be the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Industry City. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Netflix’s Big Internal Debate: Do Its Movies Belong In Movie Theatres?

  19-10-2022 17:37 via wsj.com
  Some argued that Netflix is leaving hundreds of millions in box-office receipts on the table with its current strategy of showing only select movies in a few hundred theaters for at most a few weeks before streaming them, according to people familiar with the matter. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Using A State Of Indifference

  19-10-2022 17:33 via 3quarksdaily.com
  There are two kinds of things in the world: the good and the indifferents. Note that the first is singular, the second, plural. For there is only one good. ‘What is it?’ you may well ask. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Ken Campbell obituary

  19-10-2022 17:10
  My friend the artist Ken Campbell, who has died aged 82, created book art that was unique, unclassifiable, compelling both visually and to the touch, and challenging.Ken’s art was informed by his considerable trade skills and executed on traditional printing presses with secret techniques and inks – all of which he later happily abandoned with the coming of the digital revolution. His subject matter ranged from the personal, Father’s Hook (1978), a book of poetry dedicated to h
  
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• Netflix Has Stopped Hemorrhaging Subscribers And Started Pulling Them In Again.  How Did They Pull Off The Turnaround?

  19-10-2022 17:02 via bbc.com
  “(The company has) added 2.4 million households to its subscriber base after two consecutive quarters of losses. Its reversal of fortunes is especially surprising given the cost of living crisis. … But Netflix has been attempting to make the platform more enticing — starting with the way it packages its shows.” – BBC
  
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• Stolen Tasmanian Aboriginal artefacts are finally home. But there’s a catch: they’re only on loan

  19-10-2022 17:00
  Cultural objects kept in museums around the world are in nipaluna/Hobart for an exhibition. But Aboriginal communities are calling for them to stay permanentlyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn 2014, pakana woman Zoe Rimmer left the British Museum in tears after viewing a 170-year-old kelp water carrier taken from lutruwita/Tasmania in their collection. As she cried, the seed of a big idea was planted: how could she get the rikawa, and other Tasmanian Aboriginal cultural artefacts sit
  
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• The Voice Actors For Video Games Have Had Enough Of Low Pay And Ridiculous Conditions

  19-10-2022 16:31 via theguardian.com
  They say they’re expected to show up for days on end, giving movie-quality line readings from a script on a spreadsheet they’ve only seen the night before.  Lead actors get about $4,000, even for a game that ends up earning $400 million or more. – The Guardian
  
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• Black Conductors Are Finally Making Some Headway In The US Orchestra Scene (Aren’t They?)

  19-10-2022 16:03 via inquirer.com
  For instance, this season the Philadelphia Orchestra has four Black guest conductors in its main subscription series — and, in Philly and elsewhere, they’re finally getting to do programs that aren’t for MLK Day or Black History Month.  But few people yet trust that the change is permanent. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Broadway’s Racially Diverse “1776” Gets Some Offstage Racial Troubles Of Its Own

  19-10-2022 15:34 via nytimes.com
  It was sure to be a fraught enterprise, reviving this somewhat dated musical in the post-BLM era — even with an all-nonwhite, all-nonmale cast playing the Founding Fathers.  But Philippine-American actor Sara Porkalob made some comments about working on the show that went down very poorly indeed. – The New York Times
  
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• Ever More Stories Of Bill Murray’s Bad Behavior Are Popping Up

  19-10-2022 15:05 via washingtonpost.com
  Tales of inappropriately sexual behavior (described by the actor as joking), screaming at colleagues, and even dropping a nine-year-old Seth Green into a trash can head-first have been cascading around lately, and it appears that if his latest project continues at all, it will be without him. – The Washington Post
  
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• Saudi Arabia Is Evidently Building A New Museum Just For Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi”

  19-10-2022 14:37 via news.artnet.com
  The world’s most expensive artwork has not been seen in public since it was sold at auction for $450 million in 2017.  The anonymous purchaser is said to have been Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.  Now one scholar says that MBS is building a bespoke museum for the painting. – Artnet
  
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• Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith Are Making Big New Pieces Of Public Art For Grand Central Station

  19-10-2022 14:06 via nytimes.com
  New York’s MTA has commissioned the two superstars to create huge floor-to-ceiling mosaic murals for the new Long Island Rail Road terminal deep under Grand Central. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Climate justice is bigger than public opinion’: are Just Stop Oil’s tactics right?

  19-10-2022 13:33
  Readers debate whether climate activists’ divisive methods are justified – or alienating and ineffectiveFrom blocking traffic to throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which is protected by glass, Just Stop Oil activists have turned to divisive methods to draw attention to the climate crisis.
  Here, six people in the UK say what they think about the environmental group’s tactics. Continue reading...
  
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• Dean, School of Film

  19-10-2022 05:10 via artsjournal.com
  The University of the Arts (UArts) welcomes nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Film.  This is a renewed search to be completed this academic year. University of the Arts’ mission is simple: to advance human creativity. Established in 1876, UArts believes creativity is the most essential skill for success in today’s society and has educated generations of groundbreaking artists, performers, designers and creative leaders for more than 141
  
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• Ballet Hispánico seeks Director of Marketing

  19-10-2022 05:07 via artsjournal.com
  Organization Profile:Ballet Hispánico brings communities together to celebrate and explore Latinx/Hispanic cultures through innovative dance productions, transformative dance training, and community engagement. For over fifty years, Ballet Hispánico has been the leading voice intersecting artistic excellence and advocacy and is now the largest Latinx/Hispanic cultural organization in the United States and one of America’s Cultural Treasures. Ballet Hispánico continues
  
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