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• Tribute Bands, Personalities Protest As Facebook, Instagram Ban Impersonators

  28-06-2023 23:28 via artsjournal.com
  Dolly Parton, Freddie Mercury and Adele impersonators were among those fighting the “unfair” moves, which they said were putting their livelihoods at risk. “They are banning us.” – BBC
  
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• Bell Canada Petitions Government To Let It Drop Local TV News

  28-06-2023 23:01 via cbc.ca
  
  “In the four-year period between 2016 and 2019, [Bell Media’s] average annual news operating loss was $28.4 million.” It said that number increased to $40 million last year because of internet advertising that has captured a “massive share” of revenue from Canadian businesses. – CBC
  
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• USA Today Resumes Publishing Book Bestseller List

  28-06-2023 22:31 via thestar.com
  Gannett had not run the list since Mary Cadden, the longtime compiler, was among hundreds laid off late last year. According to Erik Bursch, senior vice president for product and engineering, the logging of sales figures — entered manually by Cadden — has been automated. – Toronto Star (AP)
  
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• New Tech Is Exposing The Unheard Sounds Around Us

  28-06-2023 22:01 via noemamag.com
  
  The science of bioacoustics opens up a novel window into worlds of sound unheard by human ears. Across our planet, sound is a primordial form of conveying complex ecological information; a vast range of species — even those without ears — are remarkably sensitive to sound. – Noema
  
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• Republicans In Congress Revive Trump’s Plan To Make New Federal Buildings In Classical Style

  28-06-2023 21:23 via bloomberg.com
  This month, Republicans in both the House and Senate introduced legislation to once again make classical architecture the preferred house style for federal buildings. The Beautifying Federal Civil Architecture Act would restore Trump’s lame-duck vision for a “Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture.” – Bloomberg
  
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• College Librarians Under Siege In Ron DeSantis’s Florida

  28-06-2023 21:06 via slate.com
  
  “Lots of librarians have wasted a ton of time cleaning up files in their OneDrives; removing their names from projects, committees; taking down … anything that is related to diversity and inclusion on any level, … (and) removing metadata like ‘diversity’ and ‘decolonization’ from publications they’d uploaded to their institution’s repository.” – Slate
  
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• Why Your Brain Is Tricking You Into Thinking Things Are Worse

  28-06-2023 20:28 via nytimes.com
  
  People have believed in this moral decline at least since pollsters started asking about it in 1949, they believe it in every single country that has ever been surveyed (59 and counting), they believe that it’s been happening their whole lives and they believe it’s still happening today. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Ayodele Casel Did An Autobiographical Tap-Dance Show With Voiceover

  28-06-2023 20:05 via slate.com
  
  “When I got to do While I Have the Floor, that was me really saying, okay, I can be in control of the narrative. If there’s not work out there that can honor the depth of my expression … in both acting and dancing, then I can write it myself.” – Slate
  
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• Seattle Opera Produced A “Relaxed” Performance Of “Traviata. Here’s What They Learned

  28-06-2023 19:28 via seattletimes.com
  
  The response was overwhelmingly positive, with a common refrain of, “It’s about time!” One patron was grateful to move around and said that sitting for long periods “gives his back fits.” Another patron brought her adult autistic son to McCaw Hall for the first time, having waited decades to do so. – Seattle Times
  
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• TKTS, Times Square’s Famous Half-Price Ticket Booth, Marks 50 Years

  28-06-2023 19:04 via apnews.com
  
  “Some 68.6 million tickets have been sold from the booth during its 50 years, with more than $2.6 billion going back to the shows. Despite the rise of … apps hawking discounted theater tickets, lining up at the booth is as fundamental as cooing over the Statue of Liberty.” – AP
  
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• Paris V&A show gets to the art of Anglo-French ties | Letters

  28-06-2023 18:45
  
  An exhibition of medieval English art can teach us about today – and Brexit, write Andrew Hillier and David RedshawIntended or not, there is a timely message in the Paris exhibition of medieval treasures from the V&A (Paris exhibition aims to dispel myth of ‘primitive’ England in middle ages, 25 June). It is partly shameful, in that it reminds us of a time when, because of an uncompromising ideology, England’s artistic heritage was, according to the exhibition curator
  
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• The delight of seeing a Vermeer at no cost | Brief letters

  28-06-2023 18:43
  
  Kenwood House | 30-year mortgages | The Rejoin EU party | Tactical voting | Funeral songsMy husband and I had reason to be grateful for English Heritage’s refusal to lend Vermeer’s The Guitar Player to the blockbuster exhibition in Amsterdam (Report, 25 June). Tickets for the Rijksmuseum had proved impossible to obtain, but on visiting Kenwood House in London, we were able to see this stunning painting at no cost.Joyce M Boyd Edinburgh• Tom Carr suggests a 30-year mortgage (Lett
  
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• The Similarities Between AI And TV Commercials

  28-06-2023 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  However much they may doodle in the margins, they stick to tried-and-tested principles: sparkling suburban kitchens; slow-motion ice-and-soda splashes; pleasant, wordless canoe trips that indicate relief from irritable bowel syndrome or moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. – The New York Times
  
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• Fox News’s Late-Night Insult Comic Is Actually Outdrawing “The Tonight Show”

  28-06-2023 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “After decades of cultural dominance by left-leaning late night, … (Greg) Gutfeld’s striking inversion is a hard-won victory for the right. Like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at its Bush-era peak, Mr. Gutfeld has created a waggish refuge for viewers aghast at the country’s political direction.” – The New York Times
  
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• Seattle’s Book-It Theatre To Close After 33 Years

  28-06-2023 17:32 via seattletimes.com
  
  A majority of the staff of 18 was told they’d be laid off Tuesday; six people will stay on for three to six more months to wrap up operations. Also affected are the roughly 300 people who work on Book-It’s productions throughout a given year. – Seattle Times
  
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• Britain’s State Schools Are Robbing Kids Who Aren’t Rich Of Arts Education

  28-06-2023 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  V&A director Tristram Hunt: “This is a real problem, and there’s a social inequity here because the private sector is not closing its theatres and art studios. … So we’re seeing a horrible disparity emerging between the state and the private sector in terms of provision for cultural education.” – The Guardian
  
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• Argentine Court Assigns The Rights To Jorge Luís Borges’s Works

  28-06-2023 16:35 via apnews.com
  
  “Borges’s wife, Maria Kodama, had devoted much of her life to fiercely protecting his legacy and it surprised many in Argentina’s literary circles that she did not leave a will. … A court in Buenos Aires ruled that (her) five nephews would receive the rights ‘in their capacity as universal heirs.'” – AP
  
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• What Happens When Opera Singers Get Pregnant? Sometimes They Lose Roles, Sometimes They Gain Voice, Sometimes Both

  28-06-2023 16:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “The science behind the phenomenon is still poorly understood, but it is such a noticeable and common occurrence that it has become something of a truism in opera: After childbirth, the voice seems enriched with warmth, creaminess and depth of color.” If only that were all … – The New York Times
  
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• In Song Recitals, The Way The Performers Move Their Heads Matters: Study

  28-06-2023 15:34 via ludwig-van.com
  
  “The new study used 24 subjects who were advanced piano and vocal students (in) Vienna. The researchers specifically wanted to look at how musicians’ head movements related to the phrasing of the piece, and how those movements related to the musician’s empathy profile.” – Ludwig Van
  
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• $2 Billion Of Art In The Attic: The Story Of The Greatest Art Thief Ever

  28-06-2023 15:02 via artsjournal.com
  He piled all $2 billion worth of artifacts he amassed over eight years into that same attic in his mother Mireille Stengel’s “nondescript” stucco house. – The New York Times
  
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• The Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold In Europe: Gustav Klimt’s Last Portrait

  28-06-2023 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) — said to have still been on the easel when Klimt died — was sold at Sotheby’s in London for £85.3 million ($108 million). The previous European record, $104.3 million, was set by Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture Walking Man I in 2010. – Artnet
  
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• Actor Julian Sands Confirmed Dead At 65

  28-06-2023 14:00 via msn.com
  Best known for roles in The Killing Fields, A Room with a View and Leaving Las Vegas, he worked steadily in films and television for four decades. His remains were found in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, where he disappeared while hiking in January. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Chief Programs Officer – OPERA America

  28-06-2023 05:11 via artsjournal.com
  OPERA America, the national nonprofit service organization for opera, seeks a knowledgeable opera devotee to lead and shape the organization’s services that support artists and the artistic work of member organizations. MORE
  
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• How Streaming Platforms Guide Your Choices

  28-06-2023 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Being able to control how long programmes are available to stream appears to give video-on-demand platforms significant power over what audiences watch. The longer fruit is dangled in front of a viewer, the likelier they are to grab it. – The Conversation
  
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