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• Czech Conductor Libor Pesek, 89

  24-10-2022 23:14 via telegraph.co.uk
  Pesek was a Czech conductor with a solid if unspectacular career when in 1987 he was appointed chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; the next 11 years brought about not only a transformation in the orchestra’s fortunes, but also in his own standing. – The Telegraph (UK)
  
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• David Remnick: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl

  24-10-2022 22:35 via newyorker.com
  Peter was a man of well-developed opinions, on art and much else. He was someone who, after being lost for a time, knew some things about survival. We met more than twenty years ago. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Alluring Aroma Of Old Books

  24-10-2022 21:44 via 3quarksdaily.com
  There are old books and there are old books. Sometimes opening one that I have innocently purchased for 3.99 plus postage can feel like I’ve inhaled enough mold spores to start growing a very large inner book colony. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Calculating The Moral Value Of The Distant Future

  24-10-2022 21:01 via city-journal.org
  Unless you think—and some philosophers do think this—that the large-scale future consequences of our practices don’t matter at all, it’s hard to see how the technical tools used to predict and quantify those consequences could be a poor fit for a book of applied ethics. – City Journal
  
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• Reconsidering The Music Groupie

  24-10-2022 20:15 via thewalrus.ca
  The argument for me as groupie is more complex than the definition of the term. Groupies were women who hung around bands. They were crucial to any music scene, alongside musicians and bands, other fans, and the inevitable young music writer trying to make a name for themselves. – The Walrus
  
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• Audiences For TV Soap Operas Are Falling Off

  24-10-2022 19:32 via bbc.com
  One of soap operas’ major problems in recent times has been a failure to bring in new fans on top of their existing ones. Much of culture right now is preoccupied with nostalgia, from the endless stream of reboots and remakes, to “all stars” reality shows. – BBC
  
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• Fear Of Cancel Culture Makes Me Wonder…

  24-10-2022 18:44 via theatlantic.com
  The experience made me wonder: Why do we assume that cancel culture is a pervasive reality, and what’s the impact of that assumption? – The Atlantic
  
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• Why Aren’t Dallas Audiences Returning After COVID?

  24-10-2022 18:01 via keranews.org
  Audiences are being more selective, according to researchers and arts leaders across the region. Some are scared to gather in crowded indoor venues. Others have lost the habit of attending. Still others are avoiding the hassle of driving and parking, instead staying at home. – KERA
  
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• Why Peter Schjeldahl Mattered As A Critic

  24-10-2022 17:28 via latimes.com
  Schjeldahl was a belletrist as a writer — a once fashionable, now vaguely disreputable genre of fiction, poetry and essay writing with an acute concern for “fine language,” which he, virtually alone, managed to make worthwhile for art criticism during a dense era of academically minded theory. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Bookstore With Blood On Its Walls Opens In Time For Halloween

  24-10-2022 17:00 via npr.org
  Or, if you like horror books, then it’s also Hanukkah and Christmas and Solstice and Valentine’s Day rolled up into one in Louisville, where Butcher Cabin Books sports (fake) blood over its entire façade as well. – NPR
  
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• Geoff Nuttall Of The St. Lawrence Quartet Has Died At 56

  24-10-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Nuttall, who also ran the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, was a violinist, “a charismatic musician who played boldly,” with an “electrifying ability to engage [that] flowed from his deep desire to communicate.” – The New York Times
  
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• Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At A Monet

  24-10-2022 16:00 via nbcnews.com
  “People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup,” one said, referencing last week’s climate action of tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting. – NBC News
  
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• Choreography As Group Protest

  24-10-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  Emily Johnson’s “expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what has been here before and what could be in the future.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Secrets Of A Great Writers’ Room

  24-10-2022 15:15 via slate.com
  According to Abbott Elementary‘s Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers’ room bonded, on track, and earning real credit for their work. – Slate
  
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• Carmen Callil, 84, Who Founded Virago Press And Introduced Atwood To The UK

  24-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Callil “championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature,” including by bringing many women authors back into print. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Playwright Martyna Majok Wants To Believe In Theatre’s Magic

  24-10-2022 14:45 via nytimes.com
  And her play, new to Broadway, is “about ‘the precarity of life’ — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional, can tumble a person into desperation — and the need we all have to be taken care of.” – The New York Times
  
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• Moshe Safdie Said He Paid A Price For Not Being A Postmodernist

  24-10-2022 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Rowan Moore: “Once, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn’t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Remote Work Is Here To Stay

  24-10-2022 14:15 via nytimes.com
  “The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home.” Now, what does this mean for the arts? – The New York Times
  
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• Author Alice Taylor Says Ireland Has Changed Massively, And For The Better

  24-10-2022 14:15 via irishtimes.com
  Even though she’s famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, “I do not miss the deference which was shown to people in authority. That, I feel, led to the creation of megalomaniacs.”– Irish Times
  
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• Seattle’s Alt-Weekly Says People Should ‘Power Through’ Tristan And Isolde

  24-10-2022 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Why? At the Seattle Opera, “they fucking love Wagner.” – The Stranger
  
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• Facebook Threatens To Block News In Canada

  24-10-2022 13:45 via theverge.com
  Proposed legislation in Canada, “the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from.” Meta will not have it.– The Verge
  
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• Is Cate Blanchett’s Predatory Conductor The Villain Or The Hero?

  24-10-2022 13:30 via variety.com
  “Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature of that to feel pity and terror.” But should we? – Variety
  
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• The Art Of Cannabis Cultivation

  24-10-2022 13:15 via nytimes.com
  Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels “between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the current Hmong cultivation of cannabis in the United States, particularly in California.” – The New York Times
  
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• TikTok’s Many Singing And Dancing Users Are Addicted

  24-10-2022 13:00 via english.elpais.com
  But that usually doesn’t translate to dollars for creators – even ones with millions of views and followers. – El País
  
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• Sound for the Future review – memoir of kids’ post-punk band is film-making therapy

  24-10-2022 12:00
  No clear target audience for this mishmash docudrama about three siblings’ short-lived musical odysseyWho is this film for? That’s a question I found myself asking during artist and film-maker Matt Hulse’s ramshackle documentary. Aged 11, in the late 70s, Hulse formed a band called the Hippies with his older brother Toby, then 12, and sister Polly, then 8. He played drums – or rather chopsticks on cardboard boxes. In the promotional material for the film, the Hippies are
  
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• Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

  24-10-2022 07:00
  ‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus“You can get another picture, but you cannot get a life, as they are killing Mrs Pankhurst.” These were the words of Mary Richardson who, on 10 March 1914, walked into London’s National Gallery and slashed, with a meat chopper, Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus (1647–51). Smashing thro
  
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• ‘A way through the darkness’: the art show sublimating the horrors of past half-century

  24-10-2022 01:01
  In The Horror Show!, artists and film-makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Polland curate a terrifying tour through the times of their lives, from cold war angst to Gen Z activismThe Horror Show!, Somerset House’s new exhibition telling the story of the past 50 years through a ghoulish and disturbing art genre, was originally conceived in 2019. Unfortunately, as its curators note, a real-life horror show then got in the way.Back after Covid, and conveniently timed for Halloween, it opens this week
  
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