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• Taylor Swift Announces Tour. TicketMaster Crashes. Fans Are… Upset

  02-11-2022 23:01 via latimes.com
  “I have now been ‘in line’ on @Ticketmaster for over 4 hours just for the privilege of registering to buy @taylorswift13 tickets. Not even but the tickets, mind you, just register to buy them. How can this company be so consistently awful, yet still exist?.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Adam Gopnik: Learning To Embrace An Upside Down Mondrian

  02-11-2022 22:29 via newyorker.com
  Uncertainty about an artist’s intentions—including, but not limited to, which way she intended the picture to be top and which bottom—is not a sign of what a certain man would call a “hoax”; it is a sign of originality of purpose and a tolerance for open-ended inquiry. – The New Yorker
  
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• No Regrets – Putting Off That Creative Career

  02-11-2022 22:02 via theconversation.com
  We spoke to a total of 33 people in the UK, all of whom had felt “called” to music in early life but then abandoned it in favour of other work, only to return to their music later. Rather than being singers, violinists or ukulele players they became IT managers, civil servants and pharmacists. – The Conversation
  
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• Cannon Fodder: Transcript of My Killed Comments for NPR on “Souped-Up” Art & Climate-Change Protesters

  02-11-2022 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  In my previous post, I promised to transcribe the audio for my un-aired radio interview with NPR‘s Chloe Veltman
  
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• A Sudden Shift In Culture Of Twitter Users

  02-11-2022 21:31 via theatlantic.com
  As a lot of the current people leave and a lot of new people who are there because of what they think Elon is going to do join, that’s going to significantly change the culture of the platform.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Messy As It Is, A Case For Translation

  02-11-2022 21:01 via hudsonreview.com
  One ongoing effort to pin down the instable entity that is translation involves finding metaphors or analogies for it. This epistemological parlor game has resulted in a list that is long and still growing. The examples are instructive even if limited. – Hudson Review
  
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• Hotly Contested: The Purpose Of Studying History?

  02-11-2022 20:29 via theatlantic.com
  Should we study the distant past to explore its strangeness—and jolt ourselves out of easy assumptions that the world we know is the only possible one? Or should we study the more recent past to understand how our world came into being—and thereby learn lessons for the future? – The Atlantic
  
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• Protesters who targeted Girl with a Pearl Earring jailed by Dutch court

  02-11-2022 20:19
  Two activists from Just Stop Oil Belgium each sentenced to two months in prison with one month suspended Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl with a Pearl Earring have been sentenced to two months in prison by a Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.One activist glued his head to glass covering the painting at a museum in The Hague. The artwork was not damaged, gallery staff said. Continue reading...
  
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• The 21st-Century Hula Renaissance

  02-11-2022 20:02 via dancemagazine.com
  “Forget Hollywood images of lithe women in coconut bras and grass skirts. … Real hula is primal, archetypal, esoteric and ever- evolving. And it’s now shared digitally all over the world.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• HBO Grew Out Of Journalistic Impulse (Then Turned On It)

  02-11-2022 19:28 via washingtonpost.com
  To pull in viewers, HBO’s early executives dreamed up a network that ended up reflecting contemporary culture — its policing and crime, politics and industry news — better than many newspaper sections devoted to those topics. – Washington Post
  
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• “The Woman King” Is A Massive Hit At Benin’s Only Movie Theater

  02-11-2022 19:03 via theguardian.com
  The film, headlined by Viola Davis, about the female warriors of the old kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin), has been running at the Canal Olympia in Cotonou (the nation’s largest city) for a month — and it’s still sold out. – The Guardian
  
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• How Gael Greene Invented The Modern Restaurant Critic

  02-11-2022 18:31 via grubstreet.com
  She was famous for a kind of glamorous hauteur, which the bedraggled dining critics of today, with their furtive TikTok feeds and constantly buzzing phones, can only imagine. She was famous for her taste, which was considerable, and her work in the restaurant community. – New York Magazine
  
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• Arguments About Backstage Racism Are Getting Out-Of-Hand: John McWhorter

  02-11-2022 18:01 via nytimes.com
  “But here and now: non-Black people of color mad that they weren’t consulted about Black American slavery? … Calling it an affront to mental health to have white bigots use the N-word in a play about the Freedom Riders? Folks, this is less antiracism than performance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Aesthetics Trump Moral Value

  02-11-2022 17:31 via aeon.co
  It is a well-worn cliché that the practical person scorns aesthetic value. But there’s reason to think that it is the only way in which we can draw final positive value from the entire world. Thus, to the extent that we care whether or not we live in a good world, we must be aesthetically sensitive. – Aeon
  
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• It’s Word-Of-The-Year Season Again, And The First Winner Is Perfect For 2022

  02-11-2022 17:04 via cbsnews.com
  That word, chosen by Collins English Dictionary in the UK is “permacrisis.”  Among the other top choices are “vibe shift,” “Partygate,” “quiet quitting,” and “splooting.” – CBS News
  
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• Do You Remember ‘do you remember’ by Emmett Williams?

  02-11-2022 16:41 via artsjournal.com
  And is it the most rigorous piece of lyrical
  
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• The Latino Vanguard Transforming Los Angeles Culture

  02-11-2022 16:29 via latimes.com
  This is a survey of the rising writers, actors, directors, architects, thinkers, musicians and other artists who are shaping the culture you are living in now and certainly the culture you’ll be living in tomorrow. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Ian Jack, Journalist, Essayist, And Ex-Editor Of Granta, Dead At 77

  02-11-2022 16:02 via theguardian.com
  He wrote for the Glasgow Herald, the Sunday Times of London, “the Observer and Vanity Fair before joining the team that created the Independent on Sunday, which he edited from 1991 to 1995. From there he moved to the editor’s chair at literary magazine Granta, where he remained until 2007.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Nico Muhly’s New, Most Unusual Setting Of Christ’s Passion

  02-11-2022 15:35 via sfcv.org
  “In The Street, a new evening-length cycle for harp, narrator, and singer(s), composer Nico Muhly and librettist Alice Goodman treat the 14 stations with the immediacy of a witness — at one moment a passive, descriptive onlooker, at the next a malicious actor who intentionally trips Jesus.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• The Resurrection Of Cinecittà, Rome’s Legendary Film Studio

  02-11-2022 15:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “Over the past few years, Cinecittà has grown enormously. The increase in demand for new series and movies — driven by global streamers — has put a premium on studio space.  ‘We’ve gone from a precarious situation, with 40-50 percent occupancy, to about 15 productions per day,’ says Cinecittà’s CEO.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A John Steinbeck Essay About American Democracy Is Published In English For The First Time

  02-11-2022 14:31 via theguardian.com
  “The piece, titled ‘How About McCarthyism?’ was originally published in 1954 in French in Le Figaro littéraire, although Steinbeck wrote it in English. The piece is being published in English in The Strand magazine.” – The Guardian
  
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• What Exactly Is In Prop 28, California’s Arts Education Ballot Measure?

  02-11-2022 14:04 via kcbx.org
  “Right now, about 40% of the state’s general fund goes towards education. This measure will allocate an extra 1% from the general fund toward arts education, but will not raise taxes.” – KCBX (San Luis Obispo, Cal.)
  
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• Legendary Restaurant Critic Gael Greene, 88

  02-11-2022 13:32 via msn.com
  “(She was) an influential New York magazine food writer who shook up restaurant reviews with a cutting wit, vibrant passions and descriptions of dining as a feast of the senses.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Two Of The World’s Great Museums Are Fighting Over Whether “Girl With A Flute” Is A Real Vermeer

  02-11-2022 13:05 via theguardian.com
  The National Gallery of Art in DC, which owns the painting and is lending it out for this year’s Vermeer blockbuster, says that its high-tech examinations show that the painting is not authentic.  The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which is presenting the big exhibition, insists otherwise. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘I’ve had a gun put to my head many times’: Ed Worley, elite schoolboy, crack addict and now successful artist

  02-11-2022 07:00
  He had his whole life ahead of him. But he ended up on the streets, brawling, dealing and sleeping in wheelie bins. How did he turn his life around? And why does he paint cartoon characters?Ed Worley stares at the cartoon characters mounted on gallery walls. Here’s Mickey Mouse, there’s Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny, to the left Charlie Brown, to the right a Smurf. They are beautifully painted – clean, sharp, luminous. But there’s something going on here. Take Bugs Bunny. Th
  
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• Senior Programs Manager

  02-11-2022 05:06 via artsjournal.com
  Position Title: Senior Programs Manager
  Reports To: Director of Programs
  Location: Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA; hybrid: remote (2 days/week), office (3 days/week)
  Time Commitment: Full-time
  Announcement Date: Friday, October 7, 2022
  Applications Due: open until filled
  Compensation: $6,250-$6,750/month; commensurate with experienceAbout the Levitt FoundationThe Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation is a national social impact funder that partners with nonprofits to build thriving, more connected c
  
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• Programs Associate

  02-11-2022 05:01 via artsjournal.com
  Position Title: Programs Associate
  Reports To: Director of Programs
  Location: Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA; hybrid: remote (2 days/week), office (3 days/week)
  Time Commitment: Full-time
  Announcement Date: Friday, October 7, 2022
  Applications Due: open until filled
  Compensation: $26.00 – $28.85/hour; commensurate with experienceAbout the Levitt FoundationThe Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation is a national social impact funder that partners with nonprofits to build thriving, more connected
  
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• ‘Bad things happened there’: how a notorious Pilbara pub became a symbol of hope

  02-11-2022 02:00
  When the old Victoria Hotel in Roebourne was transformed into the Ganalili Centre celebrating Yindjibarndi culture, a new dawn was brought to a dark historyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFor a two-storey, dust-covered building in the centre of a remote town, the old Victoria Hotel in Roebourne (Ieramagadu) has played an outsized role in Australian history.It was here, in 1983, that a group of drunk, off-duty police officers accosted an Aboriginal man at the bottle shop (“We&rsq
  
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