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• Tip Of The Iceberg: Spotify’s Latest Tool For Defining Your Music Taste

  27-10-2022 18:26 via mashable.com
  Icebergify collects data from your top 50 artists in your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends, according to Icebergify. So the artists on your chart might be musicians you haven’t listened to in a few months, or maybe are bands you’ve only just started listening to now. – Mashable
  
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• A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover

  27-10-2022 18:03 via theartnewspaper.com
  “The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the small ethnic minority. Crucially, they address the mental-health crisis now gripping the Yazidi community.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Bored By Music? TV? Movies? It’s Not Because There’s Nothing Good. You Need A Strategy

  27-10-2022 17:32 via newyorker.com
  Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on your attention and time.” – The New Yorker
  
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• This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet Days

  27-10-2022 17:04 via msn.com
  Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn’t stay in a Russia that was deliberately destroying Ukraine — and how he overcame sanctions to get himself, his wife and toddler son from Moscow to the Bronx. – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Just Stop Oil activist tries to glue own head to Girl with a Pearl Earring

  27-10-2022 16:40
  Protester at The Hague’s Mauritshuis says Vermeer painting protected and fine unlike ‘future of our children’ Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague after Johannes Vermeer’s golden age masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring became the latest target of climate protesters.Video published on social media showed two men wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts in front of the painting, one of whom tried to superglue his shaven head to the artwork
  
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• George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack

  27-10-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  “The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily … with the writer’s memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. … Subscribers to the newsletter will receive around 1,000 to 1,500 words of the book each day. The extracts are led by the original chapters.” – The Guardian
  
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• “There Was No One Who Looked Like Me”: Lisa Gold, A4, and the Link Between Art and Politics

  27-10-2022 16:23 via artsjournal.com
  Lisa Gold, in a headshot taken by Lisa Quinones.After a brief hiatus, I was so happy to get back to the interview format with my guest this week on the podcast, Lisa Gold, Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, otherwise known as “A4.”I became eager to interview Lisa when she spoke in my “Audience Development and Community Engagement” class at NYU, taught by the legendary Donna Walker-Kuhne (and a previous guest of the pod!).Lisa spoke about the challeng
  
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• Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents

  27-10-2022 16:01 via reuters.com
  “These ‘heavy tweeters’ account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in ‘absolute decline’ since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote.” – Reuters
  
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• Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?

  27-10-2022 15:32 via current.org
  “We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the federated structure of public media, and the resulting financial strength of the system as a whole.” – Current
  
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• Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102

  27-10-2022 15:03 via artnews.com
  “In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black strokes. He … was once described by François Hollande, the former Prime Minister of France, as the ‘greatest living painter.'” – ARTnews
  
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• After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business

  27-10-2022 14:34 via msn.com
  “iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media. Halpern put the building up for sale and (said) the biggest factor was upcoming property taxes bills she would have struggled to pay.” – MSN (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• John Neumeier Marks 50 Years At The Helm Of Hamburg Ballet

  27-10-2022 14:05 via pointemagazine.com
  The American-born and -trained choreographer, now 83, became artistic director of the then-under-resourced company in 1973 and led it to world-class status, creating over 160 works as well.  He retires at the end of next season, in August of 2024. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• And Who Is John Neumeier’s Successor At Hamburg Ballet?

  27-10-2022 14:04 via danceforyou-magazine.com
  Demis Volpi, a 35-year-old Argentine-German choreographer who trained in Buenos Aires, Toronto, and Stuttgart, has been artistic director of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg since 2020. – Dance for You Magazine (Germany)
  
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• ‘wintry winds / inter these refugees’

  27-10-2022 13:26 via artsjournal.com
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• Art at the intersection: Saving a Community Legacy

  27-10-2022 10:57 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Early last year for our magazine American Artscape , Paulette Beete wrote an article “Let Black Voices Ring Again” about the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society’s participation in the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) to rehabilitate a vacant but historically-significant Black church. In this podcast, we’re following up to trace the continuing impact of CIRD’s work with the Athens, Ohio project and how these efforts have continued to progr
  
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• Fantastic plastic: is there a future for the wonder material?

  27-10-2022 09:00
  A Dundee exhibition traces the strange history of plastic from imitation ivory billiard balls to polluting particles – and asks if it can be rehabilitated
  In one sense the story of plastic is a straightforward cautionary tale. What was initially hailed as a wonder material that would solve so many of the world’s problems turned out to be a potentially existential threat to planetary health. But how did one thing lead to the other? And is that narrative arc quite as smooth and quite a
  
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• ‘It is the memory of the people’: unpacking Iraq’s artistic heritage

  27-10-2022 07:00
  Culture ministry puts artworks on display once again after destruction and theft wrought by successive conflictsUpon entering the drab building housing Iraq’s culture ministry, visitors unexpectedly stumble upon some of the country’s greatest treasures. In a newly refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria, 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq’s foremost artists are on display for the first time since the National Museum of Modern Art was pillaged in the aftermath
  
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• Dorrance Dance – Director of Development

  27-10-2022 05:18 via artsjournal.com
  Position Title: Director of Development
  Location: New York, NY
  Status: Full-time, Exempt
  Salary: $75,000 plus medical insurance and vacation benefits
  Reports To: Executive Director
  Application Deadline: Open until FilledPosition SummaryDorrance Dance seeks a strategic, proactive, and resourceful Director of Development (DOD) to join its staff. As an experienced fundraising professional, the DOD is responsible for all areas of fundraising for the organization encompassing institutional and indivi
  
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• Rone takes over Flinders Street Station’s hidden ballroom: ‘It’s my biggest project yet’

  27-10-2022 05:09
  The artist brings one of Melbourne’s legendary spaces to life with an immersive installation that places visitors inside a meticulously crafted storyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt was once one of Melbourne’s best urban legends, like the tunnels under La Trobe University or the Crown casino having a secret morgue: was there really a preserved ballroom above Flinders Street Station, that barely anyone had seen for decades? Until members of the public were allowed in two
  
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• Is “Quiet Quitting” A Problem In The Arts?

  27-10-2022 00:01 via artshub.com.au
  The global report determined that ‘only 21% of employees were engaged at work, and most didn’t find their work meaningful following the pandemic’. In other words, Gallup says that low engagement alone has cost the global economy US$7.8 trillion. – ArtsHub
  
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