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• Shakespeare portrait said to be only one made in his lifetime on sale for £10m

  16-11-2022 23:46
  The artwork by Robert Peake went on display on Wednesday at Grosvenor House hotel in west LondonA portrait said to be the only signed and dated image of William Shakespeare created during his lifetime has gone on sale for more than £10m and is being displayed in London.The owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, is offering the piece for sale by private treaty without an auction. Continue reading...
  
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• How AI Is Being Used In Creative Work

  16-11-2022 23:32 via hbr.org
  AI-generated content can be of higher quality than content created by humans, due to the fact that AI models are able to learn from a large amount of data and identify patterns that humans may not be able to see. This can result in more accurate and informative content. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Being A Writer Of Books In A Shrinking Market

  16-11-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  Most books don’t succeed either in terms of sales or critical unanimity. Most writers don’t earn a living wage from their writing. Tenure-track appointments (I teach college writing) are rare as unicorns. But being a writer is not a sentence handed down, it’s a choice I’ve made. – The New York Times
  
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• Can We Be Done With The Idea Of Longtermism?

  16-11-2022 22:32 via newstatesman.com
  Longtermism is a technocratic dream that purports to give some of the wealthiest people in the world the ability to plan the far future of humanity according to their personal whims. It is hubris. – New Statesman
  
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• Historian Picked To Lead Courtauld Institute

  16-11-2022 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  Curator and art historian Mark Hallett has been named as the next director of London’s Courtauld of Institute Art. He will succeed Deborah Swallow, who announced in April that she would be departing at the end of the 2022–23 academic year after nearly twenty years in the role. – ArtForum
  
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• The New Public Art Of Newark Airport

  16-11-2022 21:32 via nytimes.com
  “The airport is a theater,” the artist said. “It’s like a soapbox, a place where you can reach the whole world.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Newly-Discovered Artifact Could Rewrite The History Of The Mysterious Basque Language

  16-11-2022 20:59 via apnews.com
  “Investigators in northern Spain said this week they discovered what they believe to be the oldest written record” — inscribed on a bronze hand — “of a precursor to modern Basque, pushing back its earliest evidence to the first century B.C.” – AP
  
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• Russian Troops Looted Kherson Museum Before Fleeing

  16-11-2022 20:30 via artsjournal.com
  Russian soldiers looted nearly 15,000 objects from the Oleksiy Shovkunenko Kherson Art Museum and other cultural venues in the region two weeks ago. – Artnet
  
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• The Author Of “Gomorrah” Is On Trial For Criminal Defamation Of Italy’s New Rightist Prime Minister

  16-11-2022 20:02 via reuters.com
  “Roberto Saviano, Italy’s best-known anti-Mafia author, went on trial for libel on Tuesday for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a ‘bastard’.  If convicted, he could face up to three years’ imprisonment, but under Italy’s legal system a fine of around €500 euros or a suspended sentence are more likely.” – Reuters
  
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• UK Arts Funding Cuts Will Hurt Most Those They’re Supposed To Help

  16-11-2022 19:32 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  It’s pure vandalism to withdraw funding from institutions that are nurturing new talent. People who think that the arts are for the elite alone and aren’t worth supporting might want to reconsider their views when they next watch The Talented Mr Ripley or The English Patient. – Prospect
  
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• Are You Happy? Pharrell Williams Makes NFTs Of Hilma af Klint

  16-11-2022 19:04 via artnews.com
  “The NFTs come from af Klint’s series Paintings for the Temple, created between 1906 and 1915. The series contains 193 paintings, none of which can be sold, as they are in the hands of the Hilma af Klint Foundation, (which gave) permission to create and sell NFTs of the works.” – ARTnews
  
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• How Teaching Math Got Caught In The Culture Wars

  16-11-2022 18:29 via newyorker.com
  “I’d argue that the spectre haunting today’s discord over math education is a growing suspicion of the equity-based movement of educators who, as in the early twentieth century, largely come from graduate education programs like the ones at Stanford and Columbia’s Teachers College.” – The New Yorker
  
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• The Two Meanings Of “Irony”

  16-11-2022 18:01 via lithub.com
  The first meaning of the word goes back more than two millennia; the second dates back less than two centuries.  Ben Yagoda explains. – Literary Hub
  
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• US Patent Office: No, Mariah Carey Can’t Trademark “Queen Of Christmas”

  16-11-2022 17:30 via artsjournal.com
  While Carey might’ve filed a petition to be the one and only “Queen of Christmas,” that royal title will remain free for anyone to claim this winter. – Washington Post
  
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• Does Australia Have Any Classic Plays Of Its Own? Yes, Though You Wouldn’t Know It

  16-11-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  The working definition of a “classic play” here is one that’s revived repeatedly through the years and reinterpreted over time.  What happens in Australia, argues Anthony Nocera, is that the plays which get that treatment are famous British and American titles, though there are plenty of deserving Australian scripts. – The Guardian
  
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• “Cine-Theatre”: Australia’s Hottest Young Director On How He Integrates Live Video Into Stage Performance

  16-11-2022 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Says Kip Williams, who won’t pre-record video and insists that his actors perform before the cameras live, “It takes the best of cinema and the essence of theatre and combines them into a new space. … I want audiences to get lost in that blurred area between film and stage.'” – The Guardian
  
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• The Dance Data Project Looks At How Much Money Artistic And Executive Directors Make

  16-11-2022 16:02 via dancedataproject.com
  “This Data Byte examines artistic & executive director reportable compensation increases (or decreases) in relation to the overall budget of the largest 50 U.S. ballet and classically inspired companies … from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2020.” – Dance Data Project
  
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• “The New Yorker Radio Hour” Gets Its First Spinoff Podcast

  16-11-2022 15:34 via insideradio.com
  “The New Yorker Radio Hour, the podcast and syndicated public radio series, is spinning out its ‘Political Scene’ feature into a full-fledged podcast. … It will be released three times a week and will have its first dedicated host with Senior Editor Tyler Foggatt taking on the role.” – Inside Radio
  
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• What next, petrol on a Picasso? Threatening art is no answer to the climate crisis | Jonathan Jones

  16-11-2022 15:24
  It’s arrogant of the activists who attacked a Klimt to assume anyone who cares about art doesn’t also care about the planetAnother day, another gallery: the attacks on art in the name of climate action have become a headline-hogging obsession with a hideous escalating logic. The nastier the treatment a famous masterpiece gets, the bigger the media coverage.Now, members of Letzte Generation Österreich (Last Generation Austria) have smeared “non-toxic fake oil” all ove
  
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• David Hockney joins immersive art trend with new London show

  16-11-2022 15:20
  Four-storey-high space in King’s Cross to merge physical and digital worlds to let visitors ‘see the world through his eyes’A David Hockney immersive experience is to open in London with the launch of a new, four-storey-high space that aspires to be “visually astonishing, alive with sound and rich in new perspectives”.Hockney, one of the world’s most acclaimed and popular living artists, has collaborated for three years with the team behind the new venue, Ligh
  
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• This Year’s Classical And Jazz Grammy Nominees

  16-11-2022 15:01 via wrti.org
  This year’s ubiquitous musician in these categories is Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performing as conductor or pianist on five separate nominated recordings. – WRTI (Philadelphia)
  
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• David Hockney joins immersive art trend with new London exhibition

  16-11-2022 14:53
  Four-storey-high space in King’s Cross to merge physical and digital worlds and allow visitors ‘to see the world through his eyes’A new David Hockney immersive experience is to open in London with the launch of a new, four-storey-high space that aspires to be “visually astonishing, alive with sound and rich in new perspectives”.Hockney, one of the world’s most acclaimed and popular living artists, has collaborated for three years with the team behind the new v
  
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• Today In Climate-Protesting Art Vandalism: Actual Oil On A Klimt In Vienna

  16-11-2022 14:32 via artnews.com
  “Letzte Generation activists targeted Death and Life (1910/11), one of a number of Klimt masterpieces that regularly draw tourists to the Leopold Museum. In video documenting the event, one activist appears to spill the black oil out from a sac while another glues himself to the piece.” – ARTnews
  
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• Germany Is The Next Nation To Offer 18-Year-Olds A Free “Culture Pass”

  16-11-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  “The €200 Kulturpass, which will be made available to all 18-year-olds, has twin aims: to encourage young adults to experience live culture … and give a financial boost to the arts scene. … It will bring (Germany) in line with France, Italy and Spain, which have introduced similar schemes.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘There were people trying to thrive’: how Puerto Rican artists dealt with Hurricane Maria

  16-11-2022 08:02
  In a new exhibition, artists process difficult feelings of grief and trauma after the devastation of the 2017 stormWhen Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean in September 2017, it became one of the worst disasters ever recorded to befall the region. Puerto Rico was hit particularly hard, losing thousands of lives and sustaining the bulk of the $92bn in damages caused.In the five years since then, the wreckage wrought by Maria has exposed long-term challenges that Puerto Rico has struggled with, incl
  
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• Master of Light: how one man went from poverty to prison to painting

  16-11-2022 07:41
  In the inspiring HBO documentary, the gifted classical painter George Anthony Morton looks back at his past of hardship and incarcerationThe first images in the HBO documentary Master of Light show George Anthony Morton chopping up white powder. That crafty opening knowingly plays on our assumptions that Morton is cooking dope. A few beats later and it’s revealed that he’s actually just making paint.Morton acknowledges the fake-out on a Zoom call. “I was preparing drugs in a si
  
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• A Statue of One’s Own: the new Virginia Woolf sculpture that’s challenging stereotypes

  16-11-2022 07:00
  Passersby are encouraged to take a selfie with the monument that artist Laury Dizengremel hopes will inspire women and girlsThe first full-size bronze statue of Virginia Woolf was unveiled on Wednesday, overlooking the riverside at Richmond-upon-Thames, where the author set up Hogarth Press and lived for 10 years.The result of a five-year funding campaign, the sculpture will sit on a bench, book in hand, smiling. Passersby are encouraged to stop for a selfie. Continue reading...
  
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• Executive Director -Kansas City Ballet

  16-11-2022 03:03 via artsjournal.com
  Kansas City Ballet invites applications from strong leaders to serve as their next Executive Director. The Executive Director will work in a collaborative relationship with the Artistic Director with both positions reporting to and working with the Board of Directors. It is, of course, critically important that the individuals in these two positions continue to work in a cohesive and productive manner.
  The central roles of the Executive Director are as follows:
  Forge and maintain important exter
  
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• Artistic Director – Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré

  16-11-2022 02:58 via artsjournal.com
  Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré (LPT) invites applications from creative, curious, and collaborative theater professionals to serve as the next Artistic Director for New Orleans’ oldest small professional theater. The role will be a visible leadership position not only within the theater, but also with the broad and diverse New Orleans creative community; the right candidate will embrace the opportunity to build community connections, foster education opportunities, and
  
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• Exceptional Leadership Opportunity – Executive Director, Living Jazz

  16-11-2022 02:55 via artsjournal.com
  Since its founding in 1984, Living Jazz has been dedicated to building community in Oakland, California and the surrounding East Bay Area through unique musical experiences. Founder Stacey Hoffman believes that music transforms lives and the organization has been committed to this belief since its inception. Throughout it’s, rich 38-year history the service organization’s mission has been to transform lives through music. The programs of Living Jazz are known not only for their artis
  
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• The “Velveteen Rabbit” As A Philosophy

  16-11-2022 00:01 via artsjournal.com
  First published in book form in 1922 by a little-known novelist named Margery Williams Bianco, it has now been in print for a century, selling over a million copies in the U.S. alone. – New York Magazine
  
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