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• The GoodReads Review Revenge

  27-07-2023 23:33 via theatlantic.com
  
  A Goodreads blitzkrieg can derail an entire publication schedule, freak out commercial book clubs that planned to discuss the release, or even prompt nervous publishers to cut the marketing budget for controversial titles. – The Atlantic
  
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• Musicians Have The Same Issues As Actors, Writers. So Why Aren’t They Also On Strike?

  27-07-2023 23:01 via artsjournal.com
  All the fears and complaints that Hollywood actors and writers have are a reality for musicians and songwriters, too. Yet the rockers, pop singers and hip-hop artists are not on strike to protest their paltry royalties or AI inroads. One big reason? They’re not unionized. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• At This Point In Our Culture, What Is History For?

  27-07-2023 22:02 via bostonreview.net
  Ironically, the education of more and more people in the United States has led to an expansion of potential audiences for quality, and progressive, history. It has also generated a series of unresolved questions about overt and implicit politics, style, and the identity of the historian as a writer and a public person. – Boston […]
  
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• Two Art Vandals Who Glued Themselves To A Raphael Painting Fined $1,600 Each

  27-07-2023 21:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Dresden prosecutor’s office announced on July 21 that the two activists, Jakob Beyer and Maike Grunst, would be fined €1,500 ($1,600) each for the act. – Artnet
  
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• One Of South Asia’s Great Architects Helps Victims Of Pakistan’s Floods Rebuild With Their Own Hands

  27-07-2023 21:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Yasmeen Lari, who’s spent nearly two decades creating and promoting architecture for the poor using inexpensive traditional materials and techniques, has designed improved, flood-resistant huts made of mud, rice husks, lime, and bamboo for thousands of villagers. Each costs less than $90. – The Guardian
  
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• New Ways To Use Old Instruments

  27-07-2023 20:29 via earlymusicamerica.org
  
   New music for old instruments is, of course, nothing new. Nor is the engagement by composers with varying degrees of historically informed performance. But in scouring the internet, there appear to be new directions revealing unknown aspects of old instruments. – Early Music America
  
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• “Here Lies Love”: Inside The 20-Year Journey Of David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos Disco Musical To Broadway

  27-07-2023 20:02 via variety.com
  
  “Democracy, it’s been said, isn’t easy. Neither is examining its terrible fragility through the form of a deeply fun, fairly avant-garde song-and-dance show. … Does real democracy stand a chance, if old-school authoritarianism has a good beat and you can dance to it?” – Variety
  
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• A short-lived guide to saving the Earth | Brief letters

  27-07-2023 19:34
  
  Longevity v the planet | Environmental hassle | Iron-age reflections | Yorkshire puddings | Dyck not Dyke | More mishearingsOne day (24 July) you give us an article on eight ways to live longer and the next a report encourages us to do planks and squats to lower blood pressure to stay alive. There are also articles about wildfires caused by global warming and another about the Gulf Stream potentially switching off as early as 2025. Surely the best thing for us as individuals and the planet is th
  
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• A short-lived guide to saving the Earth

  27-07-2023 19:34
  
  Longevity v the planet | Environmental hassle | Iron-age reflections | Yorkshire puddings | Dyck not Dyke | More mishearingsOne day (24 July) you give us an article on eight ways to live longer and the next a report encourages us to do planks and squats to lower blood pressure to stay alive. There are also articles about wildfires caused by global warming and another about the Gulf Stream potentially switching off as early as 2025. Surely the best thing for us as individuals and the planet is th
  
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• Bay Area Musicians Fight Back Against The Gig Economy For A Living Wage

  27-07-2023 19:32 via sfcv.org
  With each musician guaranteed $200 for an hour-long set, “we’ve presented about 400 concerts featuring 500 musicians, reaching about 18,000 listeners.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• “Barbie”, Greta Gerwig’s Hot Pink Philosophical Experiment

  27-07-2023 19:04 via lithub.com
  
  “Barbie combines the rules of the movie musical … with the investments of a Beckett or a Ionesco play. … (It’s) a highly symbolic exercise where theoretical entities get to speak for themselves, and where real people get to tell anthropomorphized theoretical entities what effects they have on the human experience.” – Literary Hub
  
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• What Was Remarkable About Conductor Carlos Kleiber

  27-07-2023 18:31 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  Like Kleiber, Klaus Tennstedt and Leonard Bernstein seemed to harness everything they knew in the heat of the moment. But Kleiber also had structural rigour and brisk tempos that gave his performances an infectious buoyancy. – Gramophone
  
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• Spotify’s Stock Is Tanking This Week. Why?

  27-07-2023 17:29 via cnbc.com
  
  Spotify said recent price increases are expected to have “minimal impact” on the company’s total revenue in the third quarter. – CNBC
  
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• The First Lady Of Brazilian Jazz, Leny Andrade, Is Dead At 80

  27-07-2023 17:05 via npr.org
  
  “(She) was a percussive, samba-driven improviser, an interpreter as worldly-wise as Edith Piaf and a consummate nightclub artist. With a thick, husky voice seasoned by cigarette smoke and late hours, Andrade sang torridly of love; she could also swing as hard as any American jazz singer.” – NPR
  
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• Meet Blues Harmonica Player and 2017 National Heritage Fellow Phil Wiggins

  27-07-2023 17:04 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  This week, we’re revisiting 2017 National Heritage Fellow Phil Wiggins, a true master of the blues harmonica. In this music-filled podcast, Phil discusses the significance of Piedmont blues, the art of blues harmonica, and his own commitment to preserving and passing down the blues heritage to future generations.  He recounts how his passion for the […]
  
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• Construction Of Philadelphia’s Long-Awaited Calder Museum Has Finally Begun

  27-07-2023 16:33 via msn.com
  “Calder Gardens, the long-awaited showcase for the art of native son Alexander Calder, is finally moving toward reality. The new museum will be located on Center City’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, between 21st and 22nd Streets across from the Barnes Foundation and near several major cultural institutions.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Ezra Klein’s New York Times Podcast Is Coming To Public Radio

  27-07-2023 16:02 via insideradio.com
  
  “The New York Times … has signed a deal with the public media organization PRX to repurpose (The Ezra Klein Show) into a weekly one-hour radio show. … Klein joined The New York Times two years ago and launched the podcast in January 2021.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Booksellers And Authors Sue To Block Texas Law Requiring Sexual-Content Ratings For Books

  27-07-2023 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “A group of booksellers, publishers and authors filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law in Texas that would require stores to rate books based on sexual content, arguing the measure would violate their First Amendment rights and be all but impossible to implement.” – The New York Times
  
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• A New(ish) Artistic Director At Smuin Contemporary Ballet

  27-07-2023 15:01 via datebook.sfchronicle.com
  “Celia Fushille … is stepping down next year at the conclusion of the company’s 30th season to hand her job to nationally acclaimed choreographer Amy Seiwert. … The news comes more than three months after Smuin Ballet hired Seiwert, a former company member and choreographer-in-residence, as associate artistic director.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• World’s Largest Audiobook Publisher Is Being Sold For $1 Billion

  27-07-2023 14:35 via publishersweekly.com
  Private equity firm KKR is selling RBaudio, which it bought for a reported $500 million in 2018, to Miami investment firm H.I.G. Capital at an apparent 100% profit. Industry watchers consider KKR to be a leading candidate to buy Simon & Schuster. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Blogs Are Personal A Mary Beach Letter Turns Up from Long Ago

  27-07-2023 14:15 via artsjournal.com
  This letter to Laura Huxley appeared on eBay. Where did it come from? Possibly from a dealer via the Huxley Estate.
  
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• English National Opera Gets An Extra £24 Million And More Time To Leave London

  27-07-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “The ENO will move to a base outside the capital by March 2029 – three years after originally envisaged. Before then, it will develop an artistic programme in its new city, while transitioning to a new business model that allows it to deliver a substantial season every year in (London).” – The Guardian
  
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• Colin Spencer obituary

  27-07-2023 13:27
  
  Writer and artist whose cookery column for the Guardian also dealt with the ethics of agriculture and food productionIn spite of his extraordinary range of achievements as a writer, painter, TV and radio presenter, and autobiographer, Colin Spencer, who has died aged 89, is best remembered as a food writer. He won multiple awards over the years and served, at different times, as chairman and president of the Guild of Food Writers. In 2002, Germaine Greer described him as “the greatest livi
  
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• The Mindfulness Industrial Complex Can’t Do For You What Art Does

  27-07-2023 00:01 via aeon.co
  
  Modern mental wellness tools, like mindfulness apps and cognitive behavioral therapy, vary in approach but share a self-help strategy centered on self-surveillance. But encouraging inward focus for calm and understanding can lead to hypervigilance or excessive self-analysis. Art, on the other hand… – Aeon
  
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