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• Moderation And Censorship Are Not The Same

  09-11-2022 23:29 via astralcodexten.substack.com
  A minimum viable product for moderation without censorship is for a platform to do exactly the same thing they’re doing now – remove all the same posts, ban all the same accounts – but have an opt-in setting, “see banned posts”. – Astral Codex Ten
  
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• English National Opera Chief “Shocked” By 100 Percent Funding Cut And Suggestion To Leave London

  09-11-2022 23:01 via thestage.co.uk
  The chief executive said the organisation was “completely shocked” by its 100% cut, announced last week as part of the latest round of ACE funding and said he had not seen “any audience need” for opera in Manchester, which was already being served by companies such as Opera North. – The Stage
  
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• Five Years After #MeToo, What’s Changed (And Hasn’t) For Female Artists

  09-11-2022 22:29 via theartnewspaper.com
  A recent survey by the British artist and curator Helen Gorrill, of the prices of 5,000 paintings sold at auction globally, found that for every £1 a male artist earns for his work, a woman earns just 10p. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Judge Puts The Kibosh On Random House Acquisition Of Simon and Schuster (Not Even Close)

  09-11-2022 21:58 via publishersweekly.com
  “The government has presented a compelling case that predicts substantial harm to competition as a result of the proposed merger of PRH and S&S,” Judge Florence Pan concluded. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Growing Concerns About The Environmental Impact Of New Zealand’s Movie Business

  09-11-2022 21:32 via theguardian.com
  “If people knew how destructive the whole business is, they would think twice.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Look Inside The CIA Museum (Yes, There Is One)

  09-11-2022 21:01 via atlasobscura.com
  The museum, whose collection documents CIA history from circa World War II to the present, is at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia and only open to officers and selected officials from elsewhere in government. But the collection is being digitized and much of it gradually posted online. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• A Hula Dance Renaissance

  09-11-2022 20:23 via dancemagazine.com
  Some hula masters are experimenting with the form itself, choreographing dances to nontraditional music, say, or creating longer dramas that address contemporary issues, like AIDS and immigration. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Dance And Incarceration — Both Inside And Outside The Prison

  09-11-2022 20:03 via dancemagazine.com
  “(There’s) a growing array of artists using dance to shed light on issues surrounding incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline and the justice system as a whole. Some are teaching dance and choreography directly to inmates. Others are using their personal experience as the foundation for concert works addressing these complex, and sometimes controversial, themes.” – The Guardian
  
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• Remembering The Groundbreaking Lincoln Center Directors Lab

  09-11-2022 19:27 via americantheatre.org
   In its 25 years, the Lab welcomed more than 1,600 directors through its doors. It was an enormously popular, productive, and competitive program, and one that will be sorely missed by its alumni, and, if it is not revived, missed-out-upon by thousands of artists worldwide in years to come. – American Theatre
  
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• Unknown Translation Of Molière By “Clockwork Orange” Author Anthony Burgess Is Discovered

  09-11-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  “Miser! Miser! is a complete translation of L’Avare (The Miser) of 1668 … that Burgess wrote in the early 1990s, yet it has never been performed or published. But now it could finally be staged as it will published for the first time in a forthcoming book.” – The Guardian
  
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• Surge In Humanities Enrollment? Berkeley Reports 121 Percent Increase In New Humanities Students

  09-11-2022 18:29 via hyperallergic.com
  It’s unclear whether this upward shift is unique to UC Berkeley or an indication of a national trend. Arizona State University (ASU) reported a 17% increase in arts and humanities majors between 2017 and 2019, and over 4,000 undergraduate students majored in spring semester 2021. – Hyperallergic
  
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• This Standup Comic Specializes In A Very Niche Audience: Nurses. And He’s A Huge Hit

  09-11-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  Nurse Blake, “(a) 31-year-old standup whose real name is Blake Lynch, is a genuine phenomenon, a social media star with millions of followers, which he leveraged to become a popular touring comic selling out theaters across the country.” – The New York Times
  
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• End Of An Era: Ninth Moscow Biennale Canceled

  09-11-2022 17:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  This decision does not come as a surprise—ministry officials have prohibited dozens of exhibitions of contemporary art since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. They have also introduced a new system of censorship. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How Do You Get A Rock Music Scene Started In An Isolated Town In The Frozen North?

  09-11-2022 17:02 via bloomberg.com
  “(A new) report looks into the hurdles faced by the buzzing-but-fragile music scenes of Nuuk, Greenland and two other far-northern cities: Torshavn in the Faroe Islands and Juneau, Alaska.” – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• Making Modernism review – the genius of Käthe Kollwitz stands out like a raw wound

  09-11-2022 16:59
  Royal Academy of Arts, LondonThis badly mistitled survey mistakenly pitches a selection of German expressionist women as revolutionaries – with one timeless exceptionThe eyes of Käthe Kollwitz, black and hopeless, look at you like messengers of death from a lithograph the German artist made of herself in 1934. You don’t need much knowledge of modern history to guess why the socialist Kollwitz was in despair, a year after Hitler became chancellor of Germany. But is she really &ld
  
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• Are NFTs The Way To Help Choreographers Keep Control Of Their Own Intellectual Property?

  09-11-2022 16:35 via coindesk.com
  “Even if centralized platforms like TikTok and YouTube have issues, they also help people build brands, increase their audiences and distribute their content. Likewise, blockchain-based tools are not perfect solutions but do help people reclaim ownership of their work on the internet.” – CoinDesk
  
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• Is “The Music Man”, And Is Broadway, Really #SoWhite?  Not These Days, Writes John McWhorter

  09-11-2022 16:03 via nytimes.com
  “(The current Broadway revival has) many Black cast members, such that Blackness becomes more than any cartoonish notion of African-esque masculinity. We have moved on. In this production of The Music Man, Black people just are.”  And there’s an unusually large Black presence on Broadway this season. – The New York Times
  
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• Two Dozen Ancient Roman Bronzes Discovered In Tuscany

  09-11-2022 15:31 via bbc.com
  “Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times. The statues were discovered under the muddy ruins of an ancient bathhouse in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town in the Siena province.” – BBC
  
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• At Disney+, Subscribers Pour In And Cash Pours Out

  09-11-2022 15:04 via news.yahoo.com
  “Disney’s direct-to-consumer division, which also includes Hulu and ESPN+, on Tuesday reported an operating loss of nearly $1.5 billion, more than doubling its loss of $630 million during the same quarter a year earlier” — even as it added 12.1 million subscribers for a total of 164.2 million. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Architect Jack Diamond, Who Designed Innovative Yet Understated Arts Venues, Is Dead At 89

  09-11-2022 14:32 via theglobeandmail.com
  Co-founder of Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, he was lead designer for that city’s Four Seasons Centre, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Jerusalem’s City Hall, and the gut renovation of David Geffen Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center. – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Strike Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans

  09-11-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  At the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, two activists scrawled across several of the Warhol prints (which were protected by glass) with blue spray paint and glued themselves to the works, although they were removed before the glue dried. – The Guardian
  
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• Climate activists target Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans at National Gallery of Australia

  09-11-2022 03:05
  The artworks, which sit under glass, were not damaged by the Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies protestersFollow our Australia liveblog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastClimate protesters have scrawled over one of the National Gallery of Australia’s prized modern art pieces, Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans.Images released by the activists showed several blue scrawls across the work, called Campbell’s Soup I, but it
  
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