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• Study: Intelligent People Take Longer To Solve Tough Problems

  29-06-2023 23:31 via bigthink.com
  
  The study showed that “while people with higher intelligence scores solved the easy problems quicker, they took longer to solve the difficult ones, apparently because they spent more time inferring hidden rules before reaching the correct solution.” – Big Think
  
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• History Told Through Families Rather Than -isms

  29-06-2023 23:01 via wsj.com
  
  Readers interested in isms—feudalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.—won’t find these subjects explicitly discussed. Rather, the author addresses the faceless structures of human existence by writing about who advocated for and implemented them, and who benefited from or suffered under them. – Wall Street Journal
  
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• Life Lessons From A Musician Turned Cognitive Scientist

  29-06-2023 22:30 via washingtonpost.com
  We can learn to anchor our identities not to what we do – but to why we do it. Thinking of our identities in this way can make us more resilient in the face of change. – Washington Post
  
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• Studies Point To Health Benefits Of Singing With Others

  29-06-2023 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  The study, which enrolled 192, is part of a growing body of research that points to the physical and mental health benefits of singing with others. Sing With Us linked singing in the choir to reduced stress hormones and increased cytokines, proteins that can boost the body’s ability to fight serious illness. – Washington Post
  
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• The Last Remaining Original Owner Of A Frank Lloyd Wright House

  29-06-2023 21:32 via wsj.com
  
  The 71 years he has spent in the house—so far—may have contributed to his longevity. “Neurologists say that awareness of beautiful surroundings reduces stress, and I see something beautiful in this house every day,” he says. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Going Virtual During COVID Turned Into A Major Success For Dallas Black Dance Theatre

  29-06-2023 21:06 via keranews.org
  
  “(Executive director Zenetta) Drew said the theatre’s (online) programming has continued to net six figures each year and has also brought in new audiences from across the world. Since 2020, DBDT has reached 38 states and 35 countries outside the U.S. with paid virtual content.” – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Istanbul Gets A New Cultural Hub

  29-06-2023 20:29 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  ArtIstanbul Feshane, spread across 8,000 sq. m, includes galleries, a library, concert space and conference hall in the 190-year-old building, named after the fez cap produced here for Ottoman soldiers. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why Wisconsin’s Arts Funding Is So Low

  29-06-2023 20:03 via wpr.org
  
  “Arts groups say Wisconsin ranks last in the nation in per-capita funding for the arts and want to see some of the state budget surplus used to help them grow. An arts community cultural development leader joins us to look at how the industry gets by in Wisconsin.” – Wisconsin Public Radio
  
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• Accounting Manager, Mark Morris Dance

  29-06-2023 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  The Mark Morris Dance Group seeks a full time Accounting Manager to play a vital role providing leadership for a newly expanded 4-person Finance Department. With a current annual operating budget of $8.5 million the organization operates the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY, home to the internationally renowned Mark Morris Dance Group and […]
  
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• Prague Summit Debates The Future Of Theatre

  29-06-2023 19:31 via thestage.co.uk
  59 countries and regions were represented. It is unsurprising that at a festival that asks how design can respond to the most pressing issues of our world, the climate emergency dominated. Almost as persistent were ideas of cultural heritage and of social inequality. – The Stage
  
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• Google Says It Will Block Canadian News From Its Products In Canada

  29-06-2023 19:15 via ctvnews.ca
  
  The company says its search engine will no longer carry news links when the Online News Act. It will also remove news links from Google News, a personalized aggregator, and Google Discover, a mobile-phone feature that helps people find content online. – CTV
  
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• Jeremy O. Harris Gets 36 Minutes On “Fresh Air”

  29-06-2023 19:04 via npr.org
  
  The playwright talks about producing Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, the awkward conversation with a straight guy that inspired Slave Play, the easy way to become an in-demand actor (write a hit play), and why he turned down the chance to be a rich man’s boytoy. – NPR
  
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• AI-Generated Books Flood Amazon This Week

  29-06-2023 18:31 via vice.com
  
  Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited young adult romance bestseller list was filled with dozens of AI-generated books of nonsense on Monday and Tuesday. – Vice
  
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• ‘What are we passing on?’: artists examine importance of inheritance

  29-06-2023 18:20
  
  In a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum, the concept of inheritance and its many meanings is explored“Some of what I’ve been thinking in my personal and professional life is, what are we passing on? Like, what are we giving to the next generation? What are we bringing to them, consciously or unconsciously? The future is unknown.”Whitney curator Rujeko Hockley shared these thoughts while telling me about her new group show at the Whitney, titled Inheritance. Running through Fe
  
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• Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic Appoints Its First Executive Director

  29-06-2023 18:02 via sanantonioreport.org
  
  The new chief of the orchestra — formed last year by the musicians of the defunct San Antonio Symphony — is Roberto Treviño, a former city councilman who was on the SA Phil’s first board of directors and had served on a city-county task force trying to save the Symphony. – San Antonio Report
  
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• Why Streaming Platforms Are Removing Tons Of Shows From Their Platforms

  29-06-2023 17:32 via vox.com
  
  In recent months, big studios have started pulling content off their platforms, sometimes at baffling speed. – Vox
  
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• Tugboat Tillie

  29-06-2023 17:30 via artsjournal.com
  Straight Up has moved house and is taking a vacation break.
  
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• With San Francisco Art Institute Bankrupt And Closed, Its Diego Rivera Meta-Mural Is For Sale Again

  29-06-2023 17:05 via artnews.com
  
  SFAI attempted to sell the work, titled The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, in 2021, hoping to save the school, but the city then landmarked it. Now the bankruptcy estate is selling the mural after all, either as part of the building or separately. – ARTnews
  
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• A Tribute to Sheldon Harnick

  29-06-2023 16:50 via artsjournal.com
  In this week’s podcast episode, I experimented with returning to a format I’ve used on previous iterations of the show in order to honor the late, great Sheldon Harnick. Mr. Harnick passed away on Friday, June 23 at his home on the Upper West Side. He was 99 years old, and over the course of […]
  
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• Tate loans painting of Covid frontline staff to Alder Hey hospital

  29-06-2023 16:45
  
  Aliza Nisenbaum’s work depicts staff in range of roles at Liverpool children’s hospitalThe Tate has loaned a painting to Alder Hey children’s NHS foundation trust in Liverpool depicting its staff who continued working on the frontlines during the Covid-19 pandemic.The group portrait, titled Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic, was created by the New York-based artist Aliza Nisenbaum and was one of 20 portraits commiss
  
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• David Richards, Former Theater Critic For The Washington Post And New York Times, Is Dead At 82

  29-06-2023 16:33 via msn.com
  “He covered cultural news stories and profiled stage luminaries such as director Jose Quintero, playwright Edward Albee and actors Julie Harris and Carol Channing. Some of them may not have relished his revealing dive into their off-the-clock personalities.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Theater Development Fund Executive Director Victoria Bailey: The Exit Interview

  29-06-2023 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “A few months after she took the job, the booth was shut down because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and in the time since it has been closed by a blackout, a hurricane, a strike and a pandemic. It’s been an eventful 22 years for Bailey.” – The New York Times
  
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• New York Public Radio Has An $8 Million Deficit

  29-06-2023 15:31 via insideradio.com
  
  “As its fiscal year comes to an end on June 30, New York Public Radio is facing an $8 million deficit, which is causing the parent company of news/talk combo WNYC-AM/FM (and classical station WQXR) to institute a hiring freeze and eliminate bonuses for the senior leadership team.” – Inside Radio
  
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• ‘Him coming home with a Renoir was our normal’: Peter Ustinov art goes on sale

  29-06-2023 15:22
  
  Nineteen years after actor, writer and raconteur’s death, Sotheby’s is auctioning art collection, scripts and awards The Oscar-winning actor, writer and director Peter Ustinov was the renaissance man of his time; a renowned wit and raconteur in the six languages he spoke fluently plus the two he could get by in.Now, a sale of his art and personal effects – including annotated scripts and awards – speaks volumes of the “cosmopolitan and cultivated” tastes of th
  
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• National Geographic Has Laid Off The Remainder Of Its Writing Staff

  29-06-2023 15:04 via msn.com
  “The cutback — the latest in a series under owner Walt Disney Co. — involves some 19 editorial staffers. … Article assignments will henceforth be contracted out to freelancers or pieced together by editors. The cuts also eliminated the magazine’s small audio department.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Painter At Center Of Old Master Forgery Ring Is Arrested — Again

  29-06-2023 14:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Once again, Italian authorities have arrested Pasquale ‘Lino’ Frongia, the artist suspected of forging a string of Old Master paintings that have appeared at high-profile museums and made millions at auctions by passing as the work of Frans Hals, Orazio Gentileschi, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, and Parmigianino, among others.” – Artnet
  
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• Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore Will Depart Next Year

  29-06-2023 14:05 via msn.com
  “The announcement comes during a period of dramatic change for the research center, which houses the largest Shakespeare collection in the world and is a cultural hub in the D.C. region. In November, it opens its doors to the public for the first time since March 2020.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Meet Saxophonist, Composer, Bandleader, and 2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett

  29-06-2023 11:13 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  2023 NEA Jazz Master Kenny Garrett is a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He sees himself as a “preacher” on his saxophone—searching for that “one note that would touch people.” In this music-filled podcast, Garrett talks about his musical beginnings in Detroit, move to NYC, and time with the Duke Ellington Band, Art Blakey and the […]
  
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• ‘Humour is a side-effect of my methods’: the absurd sculptures of Erwin Wurm

  29-06-2023 09:00
  
  The Austrian artist’s socially conscious creations twist the everyday into the hilariously abstract. His new exhibition comprises works that question the nature of reality itselfExhibitions by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm not only have a distinctive look, they often also have a distinctive sound: embarrassed laughter. Visitors can be seen marvelling at, standing on, or leaning against a variety of objects as incongruously varied as a 1960s caravan, a hot-water bottle with legs, or giant-
  
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• Broward Center for the Performing Arts – President & CEO

  29-06-2023 06:37 via artsjournal.com
  The Broward Center, one of the leading performing arts centers in the country, seeks its next leader to build on 30+ years of success bringing the arts and entertainment to South Florida, providing award-winning arts education programs, and serving as the cultural anchor of a vibrant downtown arts district. MORE EMAIL TO
  
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• Why TCM Movie Channel Is An Important American Cultural Resource

  29-06-2023 00:01 via artsjournal.com
  The channel that Turner put together holds an astounding degree of control over a crucial part of the American artistic and cultural heritage. What makes TCM indispensable is its library, and what brings the library to life—what makes it an ongoing vital experience rather than just a vault—is its programming. – The New Yorker
  
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