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• Inside The Long-running HarperCollins Publishing Strike

  30-12-2022 23:31 via nplusonemag.com
  “For almost a year now, it’s been clear that the HarperCollins People Team and the lawyers from our parent company, News Corp, hope that our bargaining committee can be scolded into thinking we are asking for too much—that we can be discouraged into bargaining against ourselves.” – N+1
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors Score Big TV Ratings

  30-12-2022 23:01 via deadline.com
  The two-hour special averaged about 5.1 million total viewers, which was up 18% compared to last year’s audience of about 4.3M. It was the No. 1 show of the night in terms of total viewership. – Deadline
  
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• The Hundreds Of Museums Showcasing LA’s Diversity

  30-12-2022 22:25 via artsjournal.com
  These museums, hundreds of them, reflect the idiosyncrasies and specialized interests of their founders while offering a window into the ethnic, cultural and historical diversity that has come to define Southern California. – The New York Times
  
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• The Seventies: The Decade Taste Deserted

  30-12-2022 22:01 via theconversation.com
  Nostalgic TV programmes often want us to remember the ’70s as the decade that “taste forgot”. They offer up montages of space hoppers, avocado-coloured bathroom suites, lava lamps, garish wallpaper and flared corduroy trousers. – The Conversation
  
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• New York Public Library Appoints New Research Library Chief

  30-12-2022 21:31 via nytimes.com
  Brent Reidy will be responsible for four public research centers — the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Yoseloff Business Center — which collectively have 47 million items. – The New York Times
  
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• Phnom Penh’s Gender-Bending All-Gay-Male Classical Dance Troupe

  30-12-2022 21:03 via vodenglish.news
  “Merging two cultural streams — the progressive and the conservative — that many see as mutually exclusive, Prumsodun Ok presents a new outlook on Khmer culture” with his company, Natyarasa, which now consists of ten professional dancers. – VOD (Cambodia)
  
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• Classical Music And The Terminology Trap

  30-12-2022 20:29 via theconversation.com
  The more you get to know classical music, the more you’ll understand and appreciate the terminology. – The Conversation
  
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• The Quintessential Film Genre Of the 21st Century? Considering The Technical Disaster Movie

  30-12-2022 20:02 via thepointmag.com
  “Unlike the schlockier disaster porn that precedes it, the technical disaster movie depicts a real or realistic catastrophe that is in principle avoidable. Their carnage and destruction are never existential horrors or acts of God; they are the consequences of human complacency, stupidity or resignation.” – The Point
  
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• The Thursday Store, and a Dream

  30-12-2022 19:39 via artsjournal.com
  The Thursday Store, as everyone called it, and kosher chickens, on the south side of East 7th Street, where I’ve lived since 1977. Photo by same-block neighbor Ann Sanfedele, whom I must have seen but may not have met. My decades-long food colleague and friend Daniel Young, who lives in London and does many things, […]
  
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• When Mail Mattered

  30-12-2022 19:29 via newcriterion.com
  Mail mattered then, as it had from the beginnings of the republic through the 1970s, more or less, when the falling price of long-distance phone calls and the fax machine devastated written correspondence. – New Criterion
  
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• Should “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” Have Been Aired At All?

  30-12-2022 19:04 via bbc.com
  Critics hated it, audiences flocked to it, and some social media commenters and media columnists argues that it was immoral even to have written and made the show. Did they have a point, or did they miss the point? – BBC
  
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• “My” Dancers?

  30-12-2022 18:31 via dancemagazine.com
  I started bristling at the commonplace phrase: “my dancers.” And I find it increasingly problematic, especially in light of our woefully overdue national reckoning with systemic racism and the most recent stripping of women’s agency over their own bodies. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Yiddish Theatre In New York Is Alive And Well

  30-12-2022 18:01 via americantheatre.org
  “At one point in time, New York was home to more than 50 Yiddish theatres. … Today, reflecting both the relative decline and the cultural persistence of this unique heritage, there are two remaining Yiddish theatres in the city, New Yiddish Rep and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.” – American Theatre
  
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• Arts Patronage Has Always Been Messy

  30-12-2022 17:30 via thecritic.co.uk
  What then makes a great patron? Bags of cash, obviously, but what else? The best patrons — the ones you can count on to cough up the green year after year — have guilty consciences. Or, at least, an image they need to burnish with good works. – The Critic
  
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• A Recap Of The Prize-Winning Novels Of 2022

  30-12-2022 17:03 via lithub.com
  “Awards ceremonies are back, baby. For the first time since 2019, your favorite writers got to dress up and attend a fancy party or two this year. From the Pulitzer to the Booker, the Nebula to the Edgar, here are the winners of the biggest book prizes of 2022.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Armstrong in Chicago 100 years ago sparked jazz

  30-12-2022 16:59 via artsjournal.com
  Lest we forget: In 1922 Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago from New Orleans, with his wife Lil Hardin, Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin Armstrong/Frank Driggs Collection mentor King Joe Oliver and colleagues such as the Brothers Dodd (clarinetist Jimmy, drummer Baby) kick-starting jazz into the most spontaneous, joyful, virtuosic, collaborative art form the U.S. has yet […]
  
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• Odesans Have Pulled Down The Statue Of Catherine The Great

  30-12-2022 16:35 via artnews.com
  No matter that she founded the city of Odesa. She was a Russian empress, one who conquered large parts of modern Ukraine — and this year Ukrainians have had enough of the Russian Empire. – ARTnews
  
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• Here Are Some Of The Goodies Going Into The Public Domain In 2023

  30-12-2022 16:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  Among the intellectual property copyrighted in 1927 and available for you to have your way with as of Sunday are the last Sherlock Holmes stories, the films The Jazz Singer and Metropolis, the final volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Why Do The Principal Players In An Orchestra Get Paid So Much More When Their Colleagues Are Equally Skilled?

  30-12-2022 15:29 via post-gazette.com
  “At the top levels, where base salary is over $100,000, it takes years of training and experience and an intense audition process to get a job. Here, the difference in the two positions is more about function than skill.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Statues Of Greek Gods From 2,000 Years Ago Unearthed In Central Turkey

  30-12-2022 15:01 via artnews.com
  “Stone heads of Eros, Dionysus, Herakles, and others were uncovered, as well as a full statue of an unidentified hero of Azanoi, of which there are many. The statue measures at over two meters, or just over six-and-a-half feet, and is missing a few chunks from its pedestal and foot.” – ARTnews
  
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• The Ten Highest-Priced Artworks Of 2022

  30-12-2022 14:33 via news.artnet.com
  Collectively, two Warhols cost more than a van Gogh and a Cézanne, and the total price of the entire list is over $1 billion. – Artnet
  
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• Arata Isozaki, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect, Is Dead At 91

  30-12-2022 14:05 via cnn.com
  “His prolific career spanned more than six decades, with over 100 completed buildings erected. … The bold, helical Art Tower Mito in Japan, the Sidra tree-inspired Qatar National Convention Center in Doha and the Palau Saint Jordi, created for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, are among his best-known works.” – CNN
  
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• How Yulia Mahr met Max Richter: ‘My first impression was, who is this sweaty man?’

  30-12-2022 07:00
  Composer Richter and artist Mahr met when they collaborated on a project more than 30 years ago. They now have three children and live in OxfordFor the composer Max Richter it was love at first sight when he spotted the visual artist Yulia Mahr at Edinburgh festival in 1988. She was performing in a play of the Mahabharata, and he was impressed by her talent and beauty. “There were only a few people there. I saw this woman acting and fell in love instantly,” he remembers. “Of co
  
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• Creative AI May Just Be The Next In A Long Line Of Tools

  30-12-2022 00:01 via commonwealmagazine.org
  GPT may be not so much a revolutionary leap forward as another step down a long, well-trodden path. Insofar as it is used for cultural production and commentary, it will streamline already well-established tendencies toward imitation, repetition, and pastiche. – Commonweal
  
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