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• Dancing Times To Sell Its Historic Trove Of Pictures

  26-10-2022 23:28 via dancing-times.co.uk
  The collection consists of approximately 35,000 images, the majority dating from the early years of the 20th century through to the early years of the 21st century, when digital photography overtook film and print photography. – Dancing Times
  
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• Why Critics And Audiences Often Disagree

  26-10-2022 23:01 via screentime.thebulwark.com
  So what’s the actual reason for the gap between audiences and critics? Simply put, it’s that audiences tend to be easier to please because they’re merely looking for movies to be entertainment while critics are trying to judge them artistically. – The Bulwark
  
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• Bard Announces New Maya Lin Performing Arts Building

  26-10-2022 22:28 via nytimes.com
  The swirling effect is meant to gently integrate the building into the surrounding meadow while creating a structure that complements — but never competes for attention with — Gehry’s adjoining signature handiwork. – The New York Times
  
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• Parent Complaints About “Pornographic Books” In Utah School Libraries Pour In After New Law

  26-10-2022 22:01 via sltrib.com
  Utah parents have filed hundreds of requests to remove specific titles from K-12 libraries since a new law took effect in May banning “pornographic or indecent” books in schools. – Salt Lake Tribune
  
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• Spotify Reports Big Subscriber Gains, Profits; Stock Price Falls

  26-10-2022 21:32 via wsj.com
  Spotify reported 456 million monthly active users, up 20% from a year earlier and above the company’s guidance. Paying subscribers, Spotify’s most lucrative type of customer, climbed 13% to 195 million, also exceeding the company’s expectations. Spotify shares fell nearly 6% aftermarket. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Alicia Alonso’s Successor At Cuba’s National Ballet Has A Very, Very Difficult Job

  26-10-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  “Viengsay Valdés … has the task of renewing the ballet’s reputation when Cuba finds itself in a deep economic crisis.  It will not only be the country’s famously enthusiastic audience she faces in this role, but power cuts, food shortages, collapsing theatres and Cuba’s youth fleeing the island.” – The Guardian
  
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• Osvaldo Golijov: After A Decade Fallow, He Returns With New Music

  26-10-2022 20:32 via sfcv.org
  “It’s not like I didn’t attempt; I couldn’t finish a thought. I would begin something and then stop halfway because I’d think it was meaningless. Gradually, I started to enjoy the process and started to work on these half-baked ideas until I finished baking them.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• How Has TikTok Outrun YouTube And Facebook In Just A Few Short Years?  It Knows What You Want

  26-10-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  Or, to be more precise, it’s very good at guessing what will interest you: “the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and keep them hooked is the company’s feted ‘For You Page’, the FYP, and the algorithm that populates it.” – The Guardian
  
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• Artists flock to Brixton to mark 40th anniversary of UK black arts movement

  26-10-2022 19:36
  More than 50 artists gather at Black Cultural Archives in London to have photograph takenIt had the makings of a great day in Brixton. Before noon more than 50 artists from across generations had flocked to the Black Cultural Archives to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British black arts movement.It is not often you’ll find Britain’s foremost artists of African and Caribbean ancestry including Charlie Phillips, Keith Piper, Marlene Smith and Claudette Johnson, among others, g
  
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• Lessons From The James Corden Affair: Likeability Is Oh So Fragile

  26-10-2022 19:32 via nytimes.com
  Likability has always been important in talk-show hosts, but balanced by other virtues like creativity, funniness, political or even journalistic insight, the ability to connect emotionally. – The New York Times
  
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• Pierre Soulages obituary

  26-10-2022 19:02
  French abstract painter who expressed a fascination with black in works popular with collectors and public alikeThe French abstract painter Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, turned black into an obsession, transforming it from the absence of light into a colour in its own right. On the floor of his Left Bank studio in Paris, he produced large, shiny canvases flooded with black – or what he described as outrenoir or “beyond black”. With specially prepared brushes, palette
  
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• Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Kirill Petrenko Worried That The Pandemic Demonstrated That Orchestras Were Expendable

  26-10-2022 19:01 via apnews.com
  “We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore.  Their life goes on.  The concert halls are closed.  The theaters are closed.  Some people are making their jobs, but we are sitting at home.” – AP
  
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• The Body is a Place review – a furiously energetic cultural vomiting

  26-10-2022 16:04
  Arnolfini, Bristol
  This understated show roars with justified anger – whether using thousands of bindis in ecstatic clashes of colour or letting rip on British nostalgia and racismIn September, Bharti Kher installed Ancestor, a monumental statue of a hybrid female deity, in New York’s Central Park. Five and a half metres tall, cast in bronze, it is the London-born, New Delhi-based artist’s largest and most publicly visible work. As this exhibition demonstrates, however, sometim
  
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• The Horror Show! review – the bands, TV shows and artists who revealed Britain’s sinister psyche

  26-10-2022 15:43
  Somerset House, LondonSlicing into the nation’s dark side, this excellent show is full of phantoms ranging from Rachel Whiteread’s spectral House to the gothic terror of Inside No 9Reece Shearsmith’s severed head lies on a purple cushion, eyes open, mouth gaping. The actor and writer’s bonce is a prop from the 2018 Inside No 9 Halloween special in which he and Steve Pemberton play themselves in a live broadcast that goes eerily wrong, as malevolent ghosts invade a TV stud
  
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• Claye Bowler: ‘I want to put trans people on the map in sculpture’

  26-10-2022 13:41
  The first out trans artist to have a solo show at Leeds’s Henry Moore Institute talks about the way his casts represent his own experience of gender-confirmation surgeryClaye Bowler is wearing a version of what he wanted his body to look like. The latex cast is called Fine I’ll do it myself ii and has undergone something akin to top surgery – a procedure for transgender men and non-binary people in which breast tissue is removed. It is one of the most startling works to feature
  
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• ‘Over time you become family’: the intimacy of lifecasting

  26-10-2022 08:15
  Two Bronx artists have paid tribute to their community by creating sculptures of their neighbours since the late 70sIn 1979, sculptor John Ahearn began making lifecasts in the display window of Fashion Moda, a celebrated interdisciplinary arts space in the Bronx that operated from 1978 to 1993. Lifecasting is a strange and fascinating artistic process that generates sculptures by putting molds onto live subjects, and Ahearn’s public displays of it quickly caused a stir. “It was a won
  
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• Striking moments: Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize winners – in pictures

  26-10-2022 08:00
  From lonely lockdown chores to a day out with Marcus Rashford, these images all show off the power of modern portrait photography Continue reading...
  
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