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• How Hollywood Lost The Point Of What They’re Doing

  18-07-2023 23:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Under pressure to deliver to Wall Street, too many CEOs have lost the plot of their own movie. They are not running companies to profitably deliver a good product, such as a book or a cup of coffee or, in this case, a movie or TV show. They are running companies to deliver good profit. […]
  
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• 300-Year-Old Minaret Destroyed In Basra To Make Way For Road

  18-07-2023 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The demolition of the 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in southern Iraq last week to make way for a road extension has drawn outrage from locals and heritage authorities. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Piano Problem: Owners Fret About How To Get Rid Of Them

  18-07-2023 22:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Go to any online sales site and you’ll find dozens of ads for free pianos — mostly large wooden upright instruments that are around a hundred years old. Some people will even pay you to take their piano. – CBC
  
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• ‘It’s inherently political’: looking back upon a history of women at work

  18-07-2023 22:20
  
  At a new exhibition, around 50 objects are pulled together to tell a story of women working from various backgrounds carrying out a spectrum of jobsThink about the term “women’s work” and images will inevitably come to mind – possibly a grade-school teacher, or a sex worker, or a second world war-era Rosie the Riveter. We all have ideas about just what so-called women’s work is, as it’s a very well-worn concept that comes with its own set of assumptions, stere
  
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• The Battle For Nashville’s Creative Soul

  18-07-2023 22:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Every city changes. But the transformation of Nashville—which began a decade ago, and accelerated exponentially during the pandemic—has stunned the people who love the city most. – The New Yorker
  
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• Has Hollywood Abandoned DEI?

  18-07-2023 21:28 via thewrap.com
  
  After the sudden exits of top diversity and inclusion executives at Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Netflix and the Motion Picture Academy in the past month — all of them Black women — alarm bells have been raised for many who care about Hollywood’s commitment to gender and racial equity. – The Wrap
  
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• Hollywood Made A Film About The Movie Industry’s AI Crisis Ten Years Ago, Before The Current Technology Existed

  18-07-2023 21:03 via bbc.com
  
  Director Aril Folman’s 2013 film The Congress, starring Robin Wright, “foresaw problems including actors’ loss of control over their images, the specific difficulties of contract negotiations over AI use, and the ripple effect of AI duplicating real people, … with astonishing clarity and detail.” – BBC
  
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• The TV-ization Of Social Media (Why TikTok Works)

  18-07-2023 20:29 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  By design, TikTok encourages different behaviors from those prompted by other social networks. “They say they check Facebook, and they check Instagram and they check Twitter. But they don’t check TikTok. They tell us they watch TikTok.” Like television, TikTok is something you watch. Its primary purpose is entertainment. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• The Unlikely Composer Of The Music Most Played Over The Phone For Customers On Hold

  18-07-2023 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “(She’s) never played a live gig and is unknown to the music industry. But every day since 2017, Harriet Goldberg’s jazzy instrumental, ‘My Time to Fly,’ has been served up to countless callers put on hold by the customer service lines of businesses large and small.” – The New York Times
  
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• Susan Jaffe On Reinventing ABT

  18-07-2023 19:24 via playbill.com
  
  When it comes to the classics, one of the biggest hurdles to bringing new audience members to the ballet is that people are initially intimidated by the art form. They think they’re supposed to know what’s happening, but they come and witness an entirely foreign vocabulary where dancers use their bodies to express a story. – Playbill
  
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• Soaring Ticket Prices Due To Soaring Costs Are Threatening Australia’s Entire Arts Ecosystem

  18-07-2023 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “The poet Mary Oliver once described art as being like ‘bread in the pockets of the hungry’. … (But) what does it mean when our pockets are empty of art? The result is a cultural climate in crisis, … (and) the squeezing out of affordable culture has profound knock-on effects.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Poetry?

  18-07-2023 18:28 via nytimes.com
  
  The best thing to do is just start with any poem, because what matters about poetry is not what other people think of it or think of you reading these particular poems. What matters about poetry is which poems work for you. – The New York Times
  
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• Is This The Voice Of The Elusive Banksy?

  18-07-2023 18:02 via cnn.com
  
  Someone has dug out a 2005 interview on NPR’s All Things Considered. Host: “We assume that you are who you say you are, but how can we be sure?” Banksy(?): “Oh, you have no guarantee of that at all — this could be a better prankster than I was.” – CNN
  
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• Black Venus review – female bodies reclaimed in spectacular style

  18-07-2023 17:49
  
  Somerset House, London
  Reflecting on the shocking representation of the ‘Hottentot Venus’ in the 19th century, 18 artists refocus the othering of Black womenSarah Baartman was a South African woman who was enslaved and brought to London in 1810, where she was exhibited as a freakshow called the “Hottentot Venus” – Hottentot was the colonial term for Khoekhoe people, while Venus implied her exemplary exotic femininity. Put on stage as an object of scientific and sexu
  
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• Kansas City Symphony’s First Black Tenure-Track Musician Talks About What Happened

  18-07-2023 17:32 via thepitchkc.com
  
  “To deny tenure to such a gifted musician on the basis of some unsubstantial and, frankly, unconvincing reasons seems highly suspect. Any shortcomings in the ‘management and organization’ area would need to be really egregious to justify such a decision.” – The Pitch KC
  
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• ‘I was born with death as my sidekick’: the ‘zombie’ with cystic fibrosis who turns pain into art

  18-07-2023 17:24
  
  At 35, Martin O’Brien has already outlived his life expectancy. And in performances in which he attaches pegs to his testicles or smears himself with mucus, he brutally confronts his mortalityIt’s not often you meet someone who self-identifies as a zombie. Are your pronouns he, she, they – or it, I ask. “Let’s go with ‘it’!” laughs Martin O’Brien, the most jovial zombie you could hope to meet. He (the pronoun he actually uses) is serving tea
  
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• “Dr. Strangelove” Is Coming To The Stage

  18-07-2023 17:05 via bbc.com
  
  The nuclear apocalypse comedy will be adapted by Armando Iannucci (Veep, The Death of Stalin) and will star, and be directed by, Sean Foley. Said Iannucci, “In these sad times, what better way to cheer the nation up than a stage show about the end of the world.” – BBC
  
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• Another Ethnic Casting Controversy As Hispanic Actress Signed To Play Fanny Brice In “Funny Girl”

  18-07-2023 16:33 via themessenger.com
  
  “As the North American tour of Funny Girl gets ready to hit the road beginning Sept. 9 following the Lea Michele-led musical’s closing on Broadway, the tour has received backlash after casting newcomer Katerina McCrimmon in the lead role of real-life Jewish vaudeville star Fanny Brice.” – The Messenger
  
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• This Artist Has Created A Robot Dog That Poops AI-Generated Art Criticism

  18-07-2023 16:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The furry pooch, named A.I.C.C.A. (or Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine) has been trained on a corpus of visual art and art writing. … Using its black-lens eye, it assesses physical artworks, before working with OpenAI’s GPT model to generate a concise piece of art criticism” which is ejected you-know-where. – Artnet
  
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• Derek Malcolm, Longtime Film Critic For The Guardian, Is Dead At 91

  18-07-2023 15:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “Derek defined himself as a reviewer rather than a critic, having started when more judgmental figures were leaving the arena. Among many choice anecdotes, he recalled that one of his predecessors on The Guardian … was fired for dismissing The Sound of Music in a one-word review: ‘No’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Producing and exhibiting arts as a nonprofit entity is a qualified tax exempt activity

  18-07-2023 15:04 via artsjournal.com
  Here’s what the Internal Revenue Service says: Organizations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational, or other specified purposes and that meet certain other requirements are tax exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). Organizations whose primary focus is literary or educational are exempt from the corporate income […]
  
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• A Major Art Gallery Is Now Representing A Choreographer

  18-07-2023 15:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Dancer Sarah Michelson has inked representation with David Zwirner, which has plans to show new work by her at its new Los Angeles location in 2024. … Yet much of Michelson’s work for David Zwirner will take the less conventional form of a residency program for the gallery.” – ARTnews
  
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• Major Buyouts And Layoffs At Penguin Random House

  18-07-2023 14:32 via apnews.com
  
  “Some of publishing’s most celebrated and enduring editors are leaving Penguin Random House after accepting buyout packages. Meanwhile, an undetermined number of company-wide layoffs has begun, … amid a broader reorganization at (the publisher). – AP
  
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• “But what if IRS code 501(C)(3) included producing and exhibiting arts as a qualified tax-exempt activity?”

  18-07-2023 14:01 via artsjournal.com
  A good question. The answer has nothing to do with the obstacle to success. It’s only a symptom. ...
  
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• Highway Tunnel Past Stonehenge Gets UK Government Approval

  18-07-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “The transport secretary has granted a development consent order for a scheme to widen roads and dig a two-mile tunnel near the ancient site. The project, which was initially costed at £1.7bn, is designed to speed up journey times on the A303, a major link to south-west England.” – The Guardian
  
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• Usos y Costumbres - Gabriel Chaile in collaboration with Laura Ojeda Bär

  18-07-2023 10:59
  
  Studio Voltaire, London
  Laura Ojeda Bär’s depictions of famous artworks jostle into position inside Gabriel Chaile’s unruly, adobe-plastered installation‘I am the curator of my own misery,” reads a 2010 text by Douglas Gordon. Originally drawn in ballpoint pen direct on a gallery wall, it has now been carefully rendered in a small oil painting by Buenos Aires painter Laura Ojeda Bär. She hasn’t only painted the text, but also the wall it has been written o
  
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