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• The World’s First Poet (From 4,200 Years Ago) Still Resonates on Today’s Issues

  28-07-2023 23:26 via artsjournal.com
  Besides being a poetic masterpiece in its own right, ‘The Exaltation’ bears the distinction of being the first known work of literature that was attributed to an author whom we can identify in the historical record, rather than to an anonymous tradition or a fictional narrator. – Aeon
  
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• Climate Vandals Deface Portrait Of King Charles In Scotland’s National Gallery

  28-07-2023 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  Following the protest, a gallery for modern portraits was closed for the remainder of the day. The rest of the institution, however, stayed open. – ARTnews
  
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• NYT’s Michael Paulson Talks About What He Found About The State Of Theatre In Talking To 72 Theatre Leaders

  28-07-2023 22:29 via nytimes.com
  
  Theater has some particular vulnerabilities — it’s a niche art form, and a lot of nonprofits pride themselves on developing new work, which means a show sometimes has a title or is by an artist that audiences don’t yet know. – The New York Times
  
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• What’s So Seductive About That Urge To Censor?

  28-07-2023 21:56 via csmonitor.com
  
  The reasons can vary, but from fig leaves on sculptures to TV versions of classic films, when a work of art has a wider and more varied audience, censors work to cover, replace, or reshape the originals to make it more publicly palatable. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• The Wrong Questions About AI And Art

  28-07-2023 21:28 via artshub.com.au
  
  When it comes to AI-generated images, the question “but is it art?” has always escaped me – didn’t we sort that out at least 50, if not 100, years ago, from Dada to Conceptual, Arte Povera to art as social practice and back? – ArtsHub
  
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• The National Braille Press And How It Works

  28-07-2023 21:03 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “NBP has been at the forefront of braille publishing since 1927. … Today, NBP produces and distributes braille books, reading materials, and technologies for the nation, with clients ranging from individual blind readers to the Library of Congress.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Those Studies On What Makes You Happy? Not Really…

  28-07-2023 20:31 via nautil.us
  
  Almost 95 percent of the experiments testing the happiness benefits of mindfulness, exercise, and engagement with nature, in particular, lacked big enough sample sizes to yield rigorous results. – Nautilus
  
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• One Of Japan’s Leading Kabuki Actors Will Face Trial For Assisting His Parents’ Suicide

  28-07-2023 20:04 via variety.com
  
  “The indictment … alleges that Ichikawa gave an excessive amount of sleeping drugs to his father, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro IV, and his mother Nobuko. The pair were discovered at the family home by Ichikawa’s manager in mid-May. Ichikawa was also present, in a separate room, and in a semi-comatose state.” – Variety
  
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• The Analog Dancer: Mark Morris As Teacher

  28-07-2023 19:35 via nytimes.com
  
  His teaching is the least known aspect of his work — yet it may be the most important. While there have been seasons when his choreographic inspiration has dipped, his performers have almost invariably looked wonderful. This is a tribute to how he and his teaching colleagues prepare them each day. – The New York […]
  
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• Striking Actors And Writers Tell Us Just What They’re Going Through

  28-07-2023 19:01 via vulture.com
  
  “We spoke to 19 workers from every corner of the industry — from actors to writers to camera operators. They shared their salaries, their meager residuals, and what they’ve been doing to survive. Even those who’ve ostensibly ‘made it’ are stretching their paychecks as far as they’ll go.” – New York Magazine
  
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• Cast your gaze up and down to see more examples of unexpected art | Letter

  28-07-2023 19:01
  
  Ian Skidmore responds to Katy Hessel’s article mentioning Boris Anrep’s mosaics at the National Gallery. Plus letters from Philip Rutnam and John BaileyWhile rightly reminding us of the underrepresentation of female artists, Katy Hessel also reminds us to look for art where we might not expect to see it (Great art surrounds Londoners – if they bother to notice it, 24 July). She uses as examples the Boris Anrep mosaics at the National Gallery, where you will see Bertrand Russell
  
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• Bolshoi Ballet Will Return To The West On Tour “One Day,” Says Director

  28-07-2023 18:03 via reuters.com
  
  “Speaking in Beijing on the eve of the performance, artistic director Makhar Vaziev insisted the troupe was ‘not suffering’ from being unable to perform in the West. ‘I have no doubt that one day everything will go back to how it should be because culture is a wave that is very hard to suppress.'” – […]
  
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• Polish Radio Station Replaces Midday Host With AI Host

  28-07-2023 17:31 via insideradio.com
  
  Basia, the country’s first AI-generated radio host, has taken over an hour of middays every Saturday through Sept. 2 on the station, which published an image of how she supposedly looks and a promo including her voice. – InsideRadio
  
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• AI Says Its By Raphael. Art Historians? Not So Much

  28-07-2023 17:26 via washingtonpost.com
  Researchers hope their experimental use of AI will put to rest a decades-long debate about the origins of the painting, known as the de Brécy Tondo, allowing it acceptance alongside Raphael works hanging in cities better known for their art halls. – Washington Post
  
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• Here’s One Market Where Theaters Aren’t Giving Up On The Subscription Model

  28-07-2023 17:06 via msn.com
  “Yet despite these (shrinking) numbers, subscriptions are here to stay, say Bay Area theater leaders, partly because the basic numbers don’t tell the whole story.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• Eileen Kramer on 108 years of extraordinary life: ‘I can dance in the mirror for hours’

  28-07-2023 17:00
  
  The writer, painter and dancer has lived for more than a century. ‘Most importantly,’ she writes, ‘I have been having a marvellous time’This is an edited extract from Life Keeps Me Dancing by Eileen Kramer, which is out 1 August through Pan MacmillanGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe body has its memories. Those memories hold strong, even when the body changes.I have a lovely mirror, now; I often sit before it and dance as I sift through the memories this body
  
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• Scott Joplin Never Got His Opera “Treemonisha” Produced. Perhaps Now Its Time Has Come.

  28-07-2023 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Treemonisha experiments seem to be everywhere these days: Three very different versions have recently been presented, in the United States, Canada and France. Their timing is a coincidence, and all were envisioned before the widespread calls for diversifying the canon over the past few years.” – The New York Times
  
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• In Post-Pandemic Philadelphia, The Recovery Of The Arts Is A Mixed Bag (Which Is Better Than Many Places)

  28-07-2023 16:04 via msn.com
  “In the post-pandemic era, Philadelphia’s cultural districts often look like the good old days: streets and sidewalks crosshatched with arts patrons animating the city’s parking garages, restaurants, theaters, and bars. On other nights: crickets.” – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Emperor Nero’s Theater Has Been Discovered In Rome

  28-07-2023 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  “Archaeologists said Wednesday that the ruins of Nero’s Theater, an imperial theater referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel steps from the Vatican.” – AP
  
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• Emmy Awards Postponed Amid Hollywood Strikes

  28-07-2023 15:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The 2023 Emmy Awards are officially moving off their usual September airdate as actors and writers continue their strikes against media conglomerates. … The postponement is the first for the Emmy Awards in more than two decades.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• A Major Gift Of 19th- And 20th-Century American Works To The Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco

  28-07-2023 14:35 via artnews.com
  
  “Consisting of 50 paintings, nine works on paper, and two sculptures, the donation represents the art of 39 artists. Among those included are well-known American artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Charles Sheeler, and Alexander Calder.” – ARTnews
  
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• Carlos Acosta Is Building A Dance Center In A Multiethnic London Neighborhood

  28-07-2023 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  “His arts education charity, the Acosta Dance Foundation, has set up its global headquarters in Woolwich. Housing five dance studios, it aims to teach styles from across the world. … He said he located the centre in this part of south-east London because of the many locals with African heritage.” – BBC
  
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• Ukrainian folk art, mysterious totems and AI plays spot the Raphael– the week in art

  28-07-2023 12:00
  
  Maria Prymachenko stared down Stalin and is inspiring resistance again, while new sculptures appear in Llandudno and Wakefield – all in your weekly dispatchMaria Prymachenko
  This beloved folk artist has become a symbol of Ukraine’s struggle for freedom and survival. Her intensely coloured, mythic images miraculously defied Stalinist censorship and now inspire her country to resist Putin.
  • Saatchi Gallery, London, until 31 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Curator – AltaMed Art Collection

  28-07-2023 06:00 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary Reporting to the AVP and Chief Curator, the AltaMed Art Collection (Collection) Curator is responsible for researching, interpreting, exhibiting, and promoting the Collection, which includes approximately 4,000 works of art in various media. The Curator will steward the Collection, with a focus on ongoing programming, tours, cultural exchange, and all internal and external […]
  
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• How GoodReads Messes With Authors’ Psyches

  28-07-2023 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The world-ending devastation of the first scathing review. The righteous indignation at the first three-star review. No one understands me. Are these people even literate? Am I even literate? It’s all too much; it doesn’t make you a better writer. Block the site and focus on your work. – The Guardian
  
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