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• Record Music Streams In First Half Of This Year

  13-07-2023 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate’s 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was reached in three months, a full month faster than 2022. – Yahoo!
  
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• Here’s How Streaming Broke The Way Artists/Actors Get Paid

  13-07-2023 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  “So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn told me. That struggle has brought sag to the precipice of a potential strike. – The New Yorker
  
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• Google’s New AI Search Tool Could Break The Internet In Significant Ways

  13-07-2023 22:32 via msn.com
  Sort of like ChatGPT, it pulls information from various websites, rewords it, and puts that text on top of your search results—pushing down any links you see. In the process, it stifles traffic to the rest of the internet, lessening the very incentive to post online. – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Misbehavior: Is Classical Music Teaching Broken?

  13-07-2023 22:01 via standard.co.uk
  
  While classical music has long been mired in cases of sexual abuse, the psychological and emotional abuse experienced by many young musicians is harder to pin down and often goes under the radar. – Evening Standard
  
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• SAG-AFTRA Actors Vote To Strike

  13-07-2023 21:28 via deadline.com
  
  With the Writers Guild strike now in its 73rd day, this will be the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. – Deadline
  
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• Boring No More: Belgium’s Architecture Boom

  13-07-2023 21:28 via metropolismag.com
  
  The contemporary Flemish architecture is an enjoyably polyphonic architecture, that enjoys all kinds of complexities and contradictions. It’s boom is even more surprising as it apparently came out of nowhere. – Metropolis
  
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• The Whitney Museum Is Having A Lot Of Fun On Its New Threads Account

  13-07-2023 21:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Quite a few museums have started communicating with the public on Meta’s new Twitter alternative, but none (so far) with quite the enthusiasm or cheek of the Whitney. An example: “Twitter as deserted as an Edward Hopper painting rn.” – Artnet
  
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• Misbehaving Audiences, A History

  13-07-2023 20:25 via bbc.com
  
  “As far back as the ancient Greeks people like Plato were complaining about what he called a vicious theatrocracy, where audiences who were previously happy to sit quietly suddenly wanted to use their tongues and start cheering and screaming. – BBC
  
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• You Can’t Tell Much From A Person’s Handwriting, But You Can Tell This

  13-07-2023 20:04 via msn.com
  It’s how people have been socialized to present themselves. “Doctors have a culture of sloppy writing; teen girls have a culture of dotting their i’s with tiny hearts. Girls don’t write that way because they’re feminine; (it’s) because they’ve learned that tiny hearts are associated with femininity.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• First Pictures: Giant Oak Trusses For Notre Dame Hoisted Into Place

  13-07-2023 19:27 via seattletimes.com
  
  With trusses weighing 7 to 7.5 tons, the delicate operation drew crowds along a bridge over the Seine River and on its banks. – Seattle Times (Reuters)
  
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• Mary Ann Hoberman, One Of America’s Great Poets For Children, Is Dead At 92

  13-07-2023 19:06 via msn.com
  Described by the Poetry Foundation as “a consummate channeler of children’s sensibilities,” she wrote more than 50 books for young readers, starting in 1957 and continuing to this year, and she won a National Book Award in 1983 for A House Is a House for Me. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Spotlight on Reynolds review – superficial portraits by a well-connected hack

  13-07-2023 18:56
  
  Kenwood House, London
  One of his paintings recently sold for £50m – but William Blake was right when he said Reynolds ‘depressed art’, as this show demonstrates all too wellThe countess stands above you, caressed by rose-tinted lace, putting her foot forward under her pink skirts as if dancing, but her face administers a sharp sting of authority. This painting, which hangs in a stately home on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London, proves that 18th-century British portrai
  
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• Chicago Versus Pittsburgh: Jeremy Reynolds Compares Orchestras

  13-07-2023 18:31 via post-gazette.com
  If anything, Chicago’s precision and balance may give it an edge. However, there’s a raw enthusiasm and vim to Pittsburgh’s performances that I rarely hear at other institutions. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Why Has The Hong Kong Arts Centre Been Hemorrhaging Staff?

  13-07-2023 18:03 via scmp.com
  
  “Management’s attempt to overhaul the Hong Kong Arts Centre has triggered a mass walkout at the 46-year-old non-profit institution, with former employees reporting that at least half of its staff have left since the previous executive director stepped down in August 2022.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• The Five Most Common Delusions Worldwide

  13-07-2023 17:32 via nautil.us
  
  One possibility is that “they reflect the common existential issues or dilemmas of living which preoccupy all human beings,” they write. “Another is that they reflect abnormalities of social-cognitive processes that, because they are important in everyday life, are universal.” – Nautilus
  
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• 70 Years Ago Today: Canada’s Stratford Festival Began

  13-07-2023 17:31 via aislesaytoronto.ca
  The Stratford Festival has come a long way in 70 years but the story of how racialized artists began to get a foothold and carve out creative space for themselves both onstage and backstage is a theme that has been omitted from the various historical narratives written about the festival over the years. – Aisle Say
  
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• When COVID Shut Down Performance Venues, One L.A. Dance Artist Had A Clever Idea For The Empty Stages

  13-07-2023 17:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Named after the one lightbulb that stays on in unoccupied theaters, the Ghost Light Residency gave a single dance artist (to maintain social distancing) 20 hours over five days to work on any project, using the stage, lights, sound or anything in a shuttered performance space. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• See the Difference Shakespeare Rewrote This Sonnet

  13-07-2023 17:04 via artsjournal.com
  Which do you prefer? The earlier or the later version?
  
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• Considering All The Conflicted Feelings About The Surprise Success Of “Fast Car”

  13-07-2023 16:31 via msn.com
  Now that Tracy Chapman’s 1988 classic is becoming one of the biggest hits of Luke Combs’s career, there are uneasy, complex emotional responses, especially for Black musicians, “knowing Chapman wouldn’t be celebrated in the industry without that kind of middleman being a White man.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Thirty Years Ago, Des McAnuff Staged “The Who’s Tommy” For Broadway. Now He’s Giving It An Entirely New Production.

  13-07-2023 16:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “In 2023, McAnuff argues, Tommy’s transformation from catatonic schoolboy to a charismatic cult leader resonates more strongly when considering modern-day celebrity worship. And the show’s exploration of trauma — including post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual abuse and bullying — is something that audiences now have a deeper understanding of.” – The New York Times
  
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• Things Are A Mess At The Israel Museum

  13-07-2023 15:38 via msn.com
  The institution itself is strange, neither public nor private: still, after nearly 60 years, funded largely by contributions from abroad, yet located in a government complex. The museum is seeking its fifth director-general in seven years, though the old one is staying on as the new one’s boss. – MSN (Haaretz)
  
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