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• Still Amusing Ourselves to Death: Information as Cautionary Tale

  25-11-2022 23:43 via artsjournal.com
  It might seem like our current information glut is without parallel, but throughout history observers have worried about the impact of too much information on our ability to rationally process and make sense of it. When we moved from an oral storytelling culture to print with the invention of the printing press. Or with the […]
  
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• After 70 Years, London’s “Mousetrap Is Coming To Broadway

  25-11-2022 23:28 via nytimes.com
  On Friday, keen-eyed theatergoers discovered a website for the Broadway iteration, which announced that the murder mystery, whose London production holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest-running play, would make its Broadway debut some time in 2023. – The New York Times
  
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• This Year’s Oxford “Word Of The Year” To Be Chosen By Public Vote

  25-11-2022 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Voting is now open online, and over the next two weeks English speakers can cast their vote, choosing from three words selected by Oxford University Press (OUP)’s lexicographers, each of which is believed to capture “the mood and ethos of the last year in its own way”. – The Guardian
  
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• Bondi becomes nude beach as thousands take part in Spencer Tunick’s Sydney installation

  25-11-2022 22:57
  Legislation had to be changed to permit public nudity on the beachFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFor the first time in its history, Bondi has been declared a nude beach.On Saturday, thousands of bodies huddled together in the early morning light to model in artist Spencer Tunick’s latest Australian installation – and his first in the name of skin cancer. Continue reading...
  
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• UK Orchestra Works With Dementia Patients To Recover Memories

  25-11-2022 22:32 via bbc.com
  While some with dementia can often feel trapped in the past, some researchers believe the act of creating music – as well as listening to it – can help to reconnect them to the here and now. A new BBC documentary follows the work of Manchester Camerata. – BBC
  
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• Disneyland Has Become A Lesser Experience. Iger Should Fix It

  25-11-2022 22:01 via latimes.com
  In recent years, especially in the months since it reopened after an extended, pandemic-forced closure, the tone of a visit to the Disneyland Resort had changed. One hopes that Iger and his new reorganized regime will take a close look at the current state of the parks and begin a reevaluation process. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• End Of An Era: World’s Longest-Running Annual Musical Theatre Production To End

  25-11-2022 21:32 via thestar.com
  The musical was staged every year from 1965 to 2019, earning it recognition from Guinness World Records. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a two-year pause, but the musical returned this year. – Toronto Star
  
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• Today Marks The 75th Anniversary Of Hollywood’s Blacklist

  25-11-2022 21:02 via deadline.com
  On that day, the heads of the major studios, with a few notable exceptions, agreed after a contentious two-day conference at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City to ban the Hollywood Ten and to not “knowingly” employ Communists. – Deadline
  
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• What “Tar” Demonstrates About The Mythology Of Great Artists

  25-11-2022 20:32 via newyorker.com
  By creating a character who can’t be written off as another predictably problematic man, “Tár” draws our attention to how Lydia learned to become one.  – The New Yorker
  
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• The Audiophile’s Agony: Just What Is “Perfect” Sound?

  25-11-2022 20:02 via harpers.org
  I do know that the word “accuracy” in the context of audio means reproducing the master recording faithfully, but this always seemed like an imaginary pursuit. Who, other than the artist, would know how a master recording was supposed to sound? – Harper’s
  
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• What, Exactly, Were Music Critics?

  25-11-2022 19:31 via newrepublic.com
  The rapport between artist and critic has historically ranged from affable to antagonistic to utterly bizarre. – The New Republic
  
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• Just What Are Literary Studies Trying To Accomplish?

  25-11-2022 19:01 via lrb.co.uk
  One of the main determinants of the vulnerability of literary studies, and hence of the compensating over-ambitiousness of the justification offered for it, is the mismatch between literature’s suitability as a subject for teaching and as a subject for research. – London Review of Books
  
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• Museums’ Big New Security Concern: Which Visitors Might Attack Art?

  25-11-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  With the attacks showing no sign of abating, museum directors across Europe are settling into a nervous new equilibrium, fearful for the works in their care but unwilling to compromise on making visitors feel welcome. – The New York Times
  
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• Iger’s Return Is A Chance For Disney To Pivot Strategies

  25-11-2022 18:01 via theatlantic.com
  The change in leadership gives Iger the opportunity to swerve away from Chapek’s fixation on Disney+. A similar redirection occurred this year at Warner Bros., where the CEO, Jason Kilar, who pushed the studio’s 2021 films to streaming, was replaced by David Zaslav. – The Atlantic
  
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• Parent Gets School Library To Remove All Its Graphic Novels

  25-11-2022 17:32 via vice.com
  All graphic novels in the school library’s collection were recalled after parent Tim Reiland took issue with the school letting his teenage daughter borrow Blankets, an autobiographical coming-of-age story by Craig Thompson about questioning blind faith in a fundamentalist Christian household. – Vice
  
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• “Gangnam Style” Blew Up The Internet. Its Creator Had A Tough Time After That

  25-11-2022 17:01 via nytimes.com
  The video, which now has some 4.6 billion views, was so culturally pervasive in 2012 that Barack Obama was asked about it on Election Day. NASA astronauts recorded a parody, and a North Korean state propaganda site evoked the dance move to mock a South Korean politician. – The New York Times
  
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• Mark Williams On Being The First Black Man To Lead A Major North American Orchestra

  25-11-2022 16:32 via theglobeandmail.com
  “I’m not saying we shouldn’t address it; we are where we are, and we have to talk about it. But it’s difficult being the person in that role, because you’re constantly balancing being a symbol and just being the person you are, with all your abilities and foibles.” – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• ‘A perverse part of me likes to delve into what’s off-limits’: Somaya Critchlow on her taboo-breaking art

  25-11-2022 16:17
  She blends techniques from the Old Masters with imagery from 60s porn magazines – and it’s made her one of 2022’s most celebrated young paintersSomaya Critchlow knows that we’re supposed to be moving away from making images of naked female bodies. Bodies that are socially and sexually available. But her paintings express the appeal of stripping a figure bare. “People try to position my work as being sex-positive or political or whatever – and it’s not, i
  
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• John von Rhein Remembers Ned Rorem

  25-11-2022 16:02 via chicagoclassicalreview.com
  Rorem came across as an artist of disarming candor, fierce intelligence, urbane wit and, above all, enormous personal charm. We hit it off immediately and, despite the professional boundaries that separate creative artists and critics, became friends. – Chicago Classical Review
  
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• Forecast: Theatre Fortunes Will Be Rough This Coming Year

  25-11-2022 15:32 via chicagoreader.com
  By 2022, according to the same survey, 30 percent of responding theaters were projecting deficit operating budgets, and there’s a huge increase in that cohort on the horizon: 62 percent are projecting budget deficits in 2023.  – Chicago Reader
  
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• Of stone and wood: sculptor Barbara Hepworth steps out of Henry Moore’s shadow

  25-11-2022 15:00
  Almost half a century after her death, the prolific British artist, whose ‘holes’ in sculptures changed abstract art, has her first major exhibition in AustraliaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere’s a reverent kind of hush at Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art. Between the grey walls, Barbara Hepworth’s modernist sculptures are artfully arranged. Attenders wind their way through the maze, backdropped by black and white photographs of Hepworth at wor
  
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• Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic figures, sensational seeds and a heavyweight four-way face off – the week in art

  25-11-2022 14:24
  Mysterious portraits of fictitious people, the roots of colonialism and the works of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and friends – all in your weekly dispatchLynette Yiadom-BoakyeImpeccable and fascinating paintings that create mystery and leave you haunted, like the covers of novels that are yet to be written.
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• Max Beckmann self-portrait poised to fetch record price at German auction

  25-11-2022 14:14
  Rarely seen work painted during artist’s Dutch exile from Nazi Germany has an estimate of €20m-€30mA moody self-portrait of the 20th-century expressionist Max Beckmann painted during his Dutch exile from the Nazis is predicted to break the record for a price secured at auction in Germany when it goes under the hammer in Berlin next week.Art lovers have been flocking first to New York and then to Berlin to see the painting in preview showings, which have offered a rare opportunity
  
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• And Van Gogh scores! What happens when art, football and fashion collide

  25-11-2022 12:22
  Vincent in a trackie top, Lowry’s £8m fans and Matt Hancock-mocking scarves … as the World Cup heats up, we look at how culture has tackled the beautiful gameIt’s not what you’d expect to see housed within the neoclassical architecture of Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. Ascend its curving staircase, the walls of which are adorned with gold-framed works of art from across the centuries, and at the summit you will see … erm, a zip-up Fila tracksuit top p
  
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