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• Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghost-Writer!

  06-01-2023 23:32 via nytimes.com
  Ghostwriters channel someone else’s voice and construct with it a book that has shape and texture, narrative arc and memorable characters, all without leaving fingerprints. Doing it well requires a tremendous amount of technical skill and an ego that is, at a minimum, flexible. – The New York Times
  
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• The Hot Topic At This Year’s Avant-Garde Theatre Festival? The Classics

  06-01-2023 23:01 via nytimes.com
  Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical monologues, James Joyce’s erotic letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh and “Antigone.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Mind-Blowing Incomprehension Of Nothingness

  06-01-2023 22:32 via nautil.us
  Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Continued experiments and observations only served to confirm that at scales both large and small, we appeared to live in an empty world. – Nautilus
  
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• Why Is The Eiffel Tower Wearing A Cowboy Hat?

  06-01-2023 22:01 via keranews.org
  Paris, Texas was founded in the 1840s, and quickly became a hub for business and culture in Northeast Texas. Unfortunately, in 1916, a massive fire destroyed much of the downtown, forcing the town’s residents to rebuild. – KERA
  
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• How Juilliard’s Director Of The Dance Division Is Remaking The Program

  06-01-2023 21:28 via jezebel.com
  In 2018, the school hired Alicia Graf Mack to head up its dance division, making her the youngest person, and the first woman of color, to lead the dance department in the institution’s 70-year history. Now in her fifth year, Mack’s tweaks, additions, and overhauls are beginning to spring to life. – Jezebel
  
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• The High-Tech Wizard Of Biblical-Era Manuscripts

  06-01-2023 21:03 via smithsonianmag.com
  “(Michael Langlois’s) approach, which combines the close linguistic and paleographical analysis of ancient writings with advanced scientific tools … can sometimes make long-gone inscriptions come back to life. Or it can bury them for good — as in his exposé involving (forged Dead Sea Scroll fragments).” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Robert Gottlieb On The Relationship Between Editor And Writer

  06-01-2023 20:31 via npr.org
  The editor represents many things, and different things to every writer. It’s a financial relationship. It’s an approval relationship. It’s a technical relationship. It can be a close one or it can not. Some writers don’t want to be social with their editors. Others need to talk to them constantly. – NPR
  
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• A Revival Of Morse Code Is Putting The Digit Back In Digital Communication

  06-01-2023 20:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  “Strangely enough, while the number of ham operators is declining globally, it’s growing in the United States, as is Morse code, by all accounts. … Equipment sellers have noticed this trend, too.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• The Extraordinary Literary Partnership Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb

  06-01-2023 19:28 via theatlantic.com
  They bicker all the time, about every comma, period, and semicolon. Actually, don’t even get them started on semicolons. Gottlieb refers to a “civil war” that took place over the punctuation mark’s usage. The flintiness about every little thing is part of their shtick. – The Atlantic
  
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• Bachtrack’s Annual Classical Muic Statistics Show Most-Performed Works, Composers, Busiest Artists, Etc. For 2022

  06-01-2023 19:04 via tinyurl.com
  Among the surprises: nearly a fifth of the 100 most-performed works were written after 1918, and topping the entire list is Ravel’s La Valse. Not so surprising: Mozart is the most-performed composer of concert works and operas, and Arvo Pärt is still the most popular living composer. – Bachtrack
  
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• How restorations ruined Girl With a Flute | Letter

  06-01-2023 16:47
  If the painting ever was a Vermeer, restorers have made sure that it no longer is so, says Michael Daley of ArtWatch UKIf Girl With a Flute at Washington’s National Gallery of Art ever was a Vermeer, successive picture restorers have made sure that it no longer is so (When is a Vermeer not a Vermeer? Reputations on the line over authenticity of artwork, 2 January). In 1940, it was judged a Vermeer on its “utmost delicacy of glaze and stipple”.You report that the paint has now b
  
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• From a skip to the Saatchi: the dazzling outsider artist we almost lost

  06-01-2023 15:39
  A neighbour’s vigilance saved George Westren’s stunning works being binned by removal men. Now the remarkable story ends with a showpiece exhibitThe drawings about to go on display at London’s Saatchi gallery this weekend are remarkable for many reasons. There’s the keen eye for precision of their artist, George Westren; the cryptic titles such as Zeb and Krypton; and the abundant use of something you don’t often see in prestigious art galleries: felt-tip pen. But p
  
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• Three things with The Huxleys: ‘That’s why I’m extra camp now – I’m making up for lost time’

  06-01-2023 15:00
  In our first joint Three Things, the colourful artistic duo tell us about their prized piece of queer history – and their 9,000-strong record collectionRead more Three things interviews hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe Huxleys might be Australia’s most eye-catching artists. Since 2014, they’ve been working across performance, visual art and entertainment to create, as they put it, “visual [assaults] of sparkle, surrealism and the absurd”. But befor
  
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• Giorgio Morandi review – sublime still lives shimmer with mystery and joy

  06-01-2023 14:16
  Estorick Collection, London
  Humble, haunting and deeply enigmatic, these masterful works resist obvious symbolism to show us the poetry of the everydayHe could be a peasant or a manual worker, in his collarless shirt and brown waistcoat, looking at you frankly. But the brush and palette in his hands confirm Giorgio Morandi’s true profession in the deeply likable Self-Portrait he painted in 1925 when he was in his mid-30s.It’s so approachable, yet Morandi is one of the most mysterious
  
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• Italian eeriness, British villainy and Cornish splendour – the week in art

  06-01-2023 13:35
  Giorgio Morandi gets a startling new show, Marcus Harvey takes on antiheroes and Barbara Hepworth in St Ives– all in your weekly dispatchGiorgio Morandi
  One of the greatest artists of modern Italy gets a lovely and eye-opening show of his eerie still lifes.
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• British collector of Russian art saves Málaga museum from possible closure

  06-01-2023 07:00
  Jenny Green offers to exhibit her private collection at Museo Ruso, a Russian art museumA Russian art museum in Málaga has been saved from possible closure by a British enthusiast after she offered to exhibit her private collection of 76 works by Russian artists.The works, dating from 1876 to 1980, belong to Jenny Green, who began collecting Russian art 20 years ago. In the 1960s Green was one of a group of people behind Granny Takes a Trip, the trend-setting Kings Road boutique in London
  
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• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – General Manager

  06-01-2023 04:54 via artsjournal.com
  The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra seeks a General Manager to oversee the management of the orchestra, the operations department, and the professional execution of the department’s concert production, media, and touring responsibilities. The position role facilitates the Orchestra’s involvement in and smooth operation of education, Symphony Hall Live, development, and artistic activities, and for the planning, […]
  
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