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• “Santa” Copyright Case Dropped Against Mariah Carey

  03-11-2022 22:59 via bbc.com
  Songwriter Andy Stone sued the popstar in June, claiming he co-wrote a song with the same name five years earlier. He told the court he would dismiss the case – but legally he could refile it. – BBC
  
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• The End Of Facebook?

  03-11-2022 22:35 via vice.com
  Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with a virtual world no one wants, the company’s stock is down 70 percent from its peak, and it has lost $800 billion of its market capitalization. – Vice
  
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• Taiwan National Museum Admits To Breakage Of Artifacts Worth $77 Million

  03-11-2022 22:01 via theguardian.com
  The items – a bowl, a teacup and a plate – were broken in three separate incidents during the past 18 months but the damage came to light only last week under questioning from a Taiwan legislator. The artefacts date back to the 15th and 17th centuries. – The Guardian
  
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• What, Me Worry? Report Suggests Record Import/Exports In Art In 2022

  03-11-2022 21:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  In the coming year, 77% of collectors say they plan to attend more overseas fairs, exhibitions and events—good for trade but not the environment. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Alarming! Holiday Movie Plots As Analyzed And Pitched By AI

  03-11-2022 21:01 via latimes.com
  An Artificial Intelligence (DALL-E) was tasked with imagining from their official synopses and titles what these movies, with their mix-and-match tropes and grab bag of Yuletide signifiers — movies that will one day be pitched, greenlighted and written by AI, if they aren’t already — might look like. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• John Garfield’s Seminal Role In Figuring Out Acting In The Movies

  03-11-2022 20:24 via newyorker.com
   It’s tempting to see Garfield as a footnote. But he was far better than his contemporaries at solving the puzzle of how to take the new acting techniques coming out of the New York theatre during the thirties and forties and adapt them for the screen. – The New Yorker
  
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• A Few Dedicated Artisans Preserve The Intricate Traditional Crafts Of Tajikistan

  03-11-2022 20:02 via nytimes.com
  “What makes the usto ply their craft when their own culture moves beyond them? Some find work by updating old techniques for new patrons. Others create because that alone is what gives their life purpose.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• The Multiverse: Where New Ideas And Originality Go To Die

  03-11-2022 19:29 via newyorker.com
  All these multiverses might add up to nothing good. If all potential endings come to pass, what are the consequences of anything? What matters? Joe Russo, the co-director of “Endgame,” has warned that multiverse movies amount to “a money printer” that studios will never turn off. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Irish Language Is Seeing The Start Of A Renaissance In Northern Ireland

  03-11-2022 19:01 via theneweuropean.co.uk
  “Young people with no personal memories of a time when the Irish language was championed as a form of resistance by republican IRA inmates on hunger strike … are the driving force behind a cultural revival that has breathed new life into a language long in decline.” – The New European
  
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• No Wall Between Fiction And Reality. Our Brains Exchange Notions Between The Two

  03-11-2022 18:28 via psyche.co
  We suggest that fiction and reality interact through some sort of trade exchange with all its dark sides and complexities. Some transactions occur in the light of day, while others happen under the table – we unconsciously import beliefs, desires and biases into fiction. – Psyche
  
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• Making Space for Indigenous Arts Practices in Government Data about the Arts

  03-11-2022 18:16 via artsjournal.com
  One of my former colleagues used to complain that arts funders and administrators are “data paupers.” This must have been more than a decade ago. Even at the time, I questioned the assertion, but nowadays it may provoke stares. I mean, far from experiencing an arts data shortage, it often feels as though we’re swimming in the stuff.
  Quite apart from the increasingly sophisticated data tools that arts grantmakers can use to manage their portfolios—and setting aside arts o
  
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• New Yorker Cartoonist George Booth Is Dead At 96

  03-11-2022 18:03 via nytimes.com
  “(He) created a world of oddballs sharing life’s chaos with a pointy-eared bull terrier that once barked a flower to death, and sometimes with a herd of cats that shredded couches and window shades between sweet naps.” – The New York Times
  
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• Five Things Science Has Discovered About King Tut

  03-11-2022 17:32 via theconversation.com
  Recently, studies using x-rays, CT scans and DNA testing showed Tutankhamun had malaria, along with some other medical conditions such as a cleft palate. He also broke his leg just before he died. – The Conversation
  
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• John Leguizamo’s Plea: “Cast More Latinos!”

  03-11-2022 17:04 via latimes.com
  “We need a better pipeline for Latinos in movies, TV shows and plays. We need a system for our stories and our projects. … In a perfect world, everyone should be able to play any role. But Latinos rarely get cast, even in our own stories.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Fertile Creative Mind Of Freeman Dyson

  03-11-2022 16:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  From spaceships powered by exploding nuclear bombs to the eponymous “Dyson spheres” that could be used by advanced alien civilizations to capture energy from their suns, Dyson’s roving mind roamed across the physical and human universe. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Sydney Dance Company And Rafael Bonachela Will Have Five More Years Together

  03-11-2022 16:01 via afr.com
  “Sydney Dance Company artistic director Rafael Bonachela has had his contract renewed for another five years, which will take his tenure to 19 years and one of the longest in recent memory at a major (Australian) performing arts organisation.” – Australian Financial Review
  
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• “You Have to Just Run”: Peterson Townsend on Pressure, Variety, and Achievement in the Theatre

  03-11-2022 15:39 via artsjournal.com
  I was so happy to be able to interview actor Peterson Townsend, featured in TV shows like Law and Order: SVU, Gossip Girl, and Elementary, and on the stages of theaters like Arden Theatre Company, Barrington Stage, the Metropolitan Opera, St. Louis Rep, and the Mint Theatre Company, on my episode this week.You may be wondering: Katie, will you ever stop interviewing people associated with the Mint’s production of Chains?And my answer would be “maybe someday, but probably not.”
  
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• This Pulitzer- And Tony-Winning Playwright Decided She Had To Take Four Years Away From Theater.  Now She’s Back.

  03-11-2022 15:35 via nytimes.com
  By 2018, Quiara Alegría Hudes found that the field she loved was causing more stress and heartbreak than joy and satisfaction. Last year, she published a memoir, My Broken Language; recording the audiobook, she realized that it sounded like monologue.  So she’s turned it into a play. – The New York Times
  
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• The Best International Film Oscar Needs To Be Completely Reworked

  03-11-2022 15:03 via variety.com
  “Nothing short of a total overhaul of the category is in order. Every year, the Academy tweaks the rules, trying to improve the controversial and oft-criticized process by which the nominees are selected. … But they won’t get it right until the Academy rethinks the flawed logic behind the category.” – Variety
  
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• The Power Of Profanity: Using Bad Words Really Is Good For You, Finds Study

  03-11-2022 14:32 via nypost.com
  “‘Swearing produces effects that are not observed with other forms of language use. Thus, swearing is powerful,’ a group of scientists from universities in the UK determined. ‘It generates a range of distinctive outcomes: physiological, cognitive, emotional, pain-relieving, interactional and rhetorical.'” – New York Post
  
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• Fine-Tuning The Acoustics Of The New David Geffen Hall

  03-11-2022 14:04 via nytimes.com
  How do you adjust the acoustics of an already-completed auditorium?  Turns out the architects and acousticians built in some adjustable features. – The New York Times
  
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• NPR Launches A Paid-Subscription Podcast Bundle

  03-11-2022 13:31 via niemanlab.org
  “(The package gives) subscribers access to bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks from nearly a dozen NPR podcasts including Planet Money, Fresh Air, and Code Switch. To join NPR+, listeners must make a new recurring contribution to their local member station starting at $8/month or $96/year.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• The Lena Horne Theater: Finally, There’s A Broadway House Named After A Black Woman

  03-11-2022 13:05 via cbsnews.com
  “Horne, called a ‘fearless agent for change’ by New York’s governor, was a Brooklyn-born singer and actress whose career spanned decades and broke barriers. The (theater) was built in 1926 as the Mansfield Theatre and got its first renaming in 1960 to pay tribute to New York Times drama critic Brooks Atkinson.” – CBS News
  
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• ‘I try to depict the sense of liberation’: what carnival means to British-Caribbean artists

  03-11-2022 13:00
  Paul Dash, Errol Lloyd and John Lyons discuss their new exhibition exploring the celebration: its electric atmosphere, cultural significance and complex traditionsClaudia Jones, the founder of London’s Notting Hill carnival, once said: “A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.” With Jones’s words in mind, it is fitting that three of the most significant British-Caribbean artists – Paul Dash, Errol Lloyd and John Lyons – have each found it necessar
  
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• ‘He found beauty and colour everywhere’: celebrating the life of Nicholas Harding | David Marr

  03-11-2022 05:57
  We will miss the award-winning painter who died this week aged 66Nicholas Harding has died.The cancer they thought they’d beaten returned to take him the other day at the age of 66. We lost a good man and beautiful painter whose work is loved. Continue reading...
  
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• Director of Curatorial Programming- Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

  03-11-2022 03:00 via artsjournal.com
  The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT) invites applications from enthusiastic, strategic-thinking visual arts leaders for the new position of Director of Curatorial Programming. This role will be responsible for leading the Trust’s visual arts programming through the curation of five public galleries, implementation of public art projects, and leveraging of pop-up opportunities within the Trust’s 14-block radius in downtown Pittsburgh.
  The Director of Curatorial Programming will enjoy
  
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• Director of Arts Engagement – The Old Globe

  03-11-2022 02:55 via artsjournal.com
  The Old Globe invites applications from dynamic and creative individuals deeply committed to a highly progressive and engaged approach to building community through the arts to serve as their Director of Arts Engagement. The Director of Arts Engagement will lead already thriving and robust community-based and educational programming and continue to foster the expansive relationship that The Old Globe has forged with the San Diego community it serves.Well aligned candidates will bring a rich and
  
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• Associate Artistic Director – The Old Globe

  03-11-2022 02:50 via artsjournal.com
  Jōvan Dansberry with the cast of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
  The Old Globe seeks experienced and highly effective theatre professionals interested in facilitating the skillful execution of the company’s broad range of programming to serve as Associate Artistic Director. As the most senior position supporting The Old Globe’s Erna Vinci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, the Associate Artistic Director will serve in a critical role support
  
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• Artistic Director – Arena Stage

  03-11-2022 02:40 via artsjournal.com
  Arena Stage (Arena) is looking for its next Artistic Director, a passionate leader with bold ideas on the future of theater and innovative storytelling, an inspirational community-builder who believes that great art makes for a greater society. Working in co-leadership with Arena’s long-serving Executive Producer, the Artistic Director will navigate the complexities of producing theater in a changing landscape with optimism, hope, and a love of the whole experience over individual glory.
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