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• Judgment Of Judgment: Serious Criticism In Crisis

  04-08-2023 23:32 via thepointmag.com
  
  “No clear economic reason for art criticism that is not glorified public relations to exist, so it barely does. While art is an extreme case in this regard, it’s also a leading indicator: as defender and judge of quality, the critic is an endangered species in many industries these days.” – The Point
  
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• Is Hip Hop Really 50 Years Old? The Debate Intensifies

  04-08-2023 23:01 via wsj.com
  
  In a genre that has always valued volume as much as it loves liberation, the elders still compete over the story’s beats, much as they once battled over musical ones. It is a very hip-hop thing: a history written by the loudest. And loudness is one Herc contribution that no one disputes. – The Wall […]
  
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• New Diagnosis: Scientists Studying Beethoven’s Hair Discover Something New

  04-08-2023 22:02 via sciencealert.com
  
  Several locks confirmed as far more likely to be from the composer’s head demonstrate his death was probably the result of a hepatitis B infection, exacerbated by his drinking and numerous risk factors for liver disease. – Science Alert
  
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• Netflix Changed The Way TV Is Produced. Writers Want it back The Way It Was

  04-08-2023 22:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  Netflix habitually pays more for its productions up front, but because it did away with the syndication model and keeps its viewership data to itself, it has also limited the upside for writers. – The Atlantic
  
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• Australia Is Festival-Happy – But Does Melbourne Need Another?

  04-08-2023 21:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  With a $2.7 million major investment from the City of Melbourne and a further $1.25 million from the Victorian Government, Now or Never is expected to attract over 200,000 people. Its ambitions are to not only cement itself in Melbourne’s highly saturated festival calendar, but to also become an international festival destination. – ArtsHub
  
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• Who Invented Public Libraries? Roman Emperors

  04-08-2023 20:58 via aeon.co
  
  “If Asinius Pollio was the one who ‘first by founding a library made works of genius the property of the public’, it was Augustus and his successors who instilled an ideology of the public ownership of knowledge. And it didn’t matter if the masses couldn’t read any of it.” – Aeon
  
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• Conductor John Wilson On Reinventing The London Sinfonia

  04-08-2023 20:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “Most of us enjoy that; that’s why we come back. We want to be in that very demanding, high-achieving environment, where most of us, 90 percent of the time, feel like we’re impostors. You’re surrounded by brilliant players, and then you talk to the other players, and they feel exactly the same.” – The New […]
  
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• Meet New York Magazine’s New Theatre-Critic Tag Team

  04-08-2023 20:06 via americantheatre.org
  
  “Alongside longtime entertainment reporter Jackson McHenry … will be Sara Holdren, a theatre director who stepped into the job for a brief, blazing tenure from 2017 to 2019. … I spoke to McHenry and Holdren about their shared role, the responsibility of critics, and the challenges the field is facing.” – American Theatre
  
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• Subscription-Happy: Apple Reports It Has 1 Billion Subscribers

  04-08-2023 19:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Its services business continues to grow at a rapid pace, hitting $21.2 billion in the quarter, up from $19.6 billion last year. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Staffers At Picasso Museum In Málaga Will Strike Next Month

  04-08-2023 19:04 via artnews.com
  
  “Citing wages and working conditions that they claim are unequal to those of other Spanish art institutions, workers at the museum announced plans to strike for five days in September, during which time the institution will be installing ‘The Echo of Picasso,’ a survey of the artist’s influence on others.” – ARTnews
  
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• The Art Of Conversation – And Why It’s More Difficult Today

  04-08-2023 18:31 via wsj.com
  
  “To speak to the converted or the entirely familiar is not to truly converse,. It is to have one’s beliefs reinforced; it is self-soothing but not self-developing.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• “He Wasn’t The 21st-Century Robert Moses; He Was Moses In A Hurry”: Justin Davidson On Dan Doctoroff

  04-08-2023 18:02 via msn.com
  “Every time someone sees a show at the Whitney, buys a saw at Bronx Terminal Market, commutes by subway to Hudson Yards, or watches the sunset from Brooklyn Bridge Park, that person is animating parts of the city that were once only documents on Doctoroff’s desk.” – MSN (New York Magazine)
  
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• Ticket Prices Have Gotten Crazy. Here’s Why.

  04-08-2023 17:32 via pitchfork.com
  
  A 2018 Government Accountability Office study shared by the White House earlier this year found service fees to hover around 27 percent of the face value of a ticket, on average. But the soaring price of concert tickets isn’t just going away with a corporate vow of transparency and some senators sniffing around. – Pitchfork
  
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• The Broadway Musical With Choreography For The Audience: “Here Lies Love,” With Its In-Theater Disco

  04-08-2023 17:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “As at a disco, those standing can dance as they like. But they are also herded by wranglers in magenta jumpsuits with light-up wands like the ones used to direct taxiing airplanes. Wheeled platforms and runways are regularly rearranged around the floor area.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘There was a buzz’: the Birthday Party’s final show flyer becomes a treasured memento

  04-08-2023 17:00
  
  In our series of artworks in Australian homes, Michael Mance shows us his framed souvenir from a seminal moment in Australian music historyRead more Wall storiesGet Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn the early 1980s Michael Mance was an indie music-loving uni student and a regular at the iconic Melbourne live music venue known as the Ballroom. One winter’s night in ’83 Mance was in the crowd as Australian post-punk act the Birthday Party, fronted by Nick
  
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• SAG-AFTRA Strike Waivers: An Explainer

  04-08-2023 16:31 via apnews.com
  
  “Some independent films and television productions are being granted waivers by the union that will allow them to continue … amid the strike. … Here’s what to know about the ‘interim agreements’ that are keeping some Hollywood productions filming.” – AP
  
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• Public Radio Has Been Losing Listeners, But Revenue Is Steady

  04-08-2023 16:05 via insideradio.com
  
  “Pew Research Center’s just-published findings … as part of its bi-annual ‘State of the News Media’ show that public radio’s audience trended down in 2022, part of a steady decline since 2017, although local station and NPR revenue continued to grow.” – Inside Radio
  
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• For Its Upcoming Expansion, Dallas Museum Of Art Selects Spanish Architects Little-Known In U.S.

  04-08-2023 15:33 via msn.com
  “Widely respected in European architecture circles but virtually unknown in the United States, Nieto Sobejano was chosen from a field of six finalists, among them Pritzker Prize laureate David Chipperfield and High Line architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro.” – MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
  
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• The Rape Trial of Opera Star David Daniels Begins

  04-08-2023 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniels, one of the first countertenors to find wide success in mainstream opera houses, and his husband, Scott Walters, were charged in 2019 with aggravated sexual assault for a 2010 incident in which the two men allegedly drugged and raped a young singer they had met. – The New York Times
  
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• Greece Sets Limits On How Many People May Visit Acropolis Each Hour

  04-08-2023 14:32 via apnews.com
  
  “Visits to the Acropolis of Athens, Greece’s most popular archaeological site, will be capped starting next month at a maximum 20,000 daily and subject to varying hourly entry limits. … As many as 23,000 people a day have been squeezing into the monument complex, mostly large groups visiting before noon.” – AP
  
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• Boston Symphony And Its Musicians Quietly Ratify New Three-Year Contract

  04-08-2023 14:06 via berkshireeagle.com
  
  “Specific contract details were not made available. But the announcement stated, ‘The new contract restores traditional annual wage growth going forward and includes a ‘catch-up’ increase for the musicians following a three-year pandemic pause in their wages under the existing contract approved in 2020.” – The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA)
  
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• Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacy?

  04-08-2023 13:00
  
  Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabblesAnyone unfamiliar with the machinations of the art world could be forgiven for thinking that great art simply finds its way to the light of day. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth – particularly when it comes to the art of the dead. How we experience an artist’s work in the present is i
  
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• Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?

  04-08-2023 13:00
  
  Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabblesAnyone unfamiliar with the machinations of the art world could be forgiven for thinking that great art simply finds its way to the light of day. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth – particularly when it comes to the art of the dead. How we experience an artist’s work in the present is i
  
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• Fabulous frauds, handsy surrealists and scary seaside spiders – the week in art

  04-08-2023 13:00
  
  A revealing look at centuries of art fakes, an art movement’s obsession with hands and Louise Bourgeois in Blackpool – all in your weekly dispatchArt and Artifice: Fakes from the CollectionThe strange and disconcerting history of art forgery is laid bare by the Courtauld’s detectives.
  • Courtauld Gallery, London, until 8 October Continue reading...
  
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• Babies are natural art critics: no wonder they love Van Gogh | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  04-08-2023 13:00
  
  When it comes to creative expression, adults could learn from the playfulness, humour and imagination of childrenI’ll admit I felt quite vindicated when I read of a new study this week that found that babies like Van Gogh. It seems he’s as popular with the under-ones as he is with adults, or, more accurately: the adult preference for his work is mirrored in babies, suggesting certain biases in what we choose to look at are already present in infancy and carry over into adulthood. Whe
  
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• Moon Palace: the observatory bus bringing ‘awe and wonder’ to Leeds

  04-08-2023 07:00
  
  Project inspired by John Smeaton, a keen astronomer who is seen as the father of civil engineering, is touring Leeds for four monthsJohn Smeaton is far from a household name, but Abby Dix-Mason believes he should be. “His achievements were amazing,” she said.“He was very modest, he wasn’t one to brag or boast but the truth is that so much of what he did has changed the world.” Continue reading...
  
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• Producing Artistic Director – Playwrights’ Center

  04-08-2023 01:51 via artsjournal.com
  About the Opportunity The Playwrights’ Center (PWC), the nation’s premiere organization in supporting playwrights in ways that enable them to thrive as artists and as humans, seeks its next Producing Artistic Director (PAD). The Producing Artistic Director will form a dynamic partnership with the Managing Director (MD), Robert Chelimsky, an engaged board, and a talented […]
  
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• Friends, Romans, Gives Us Your Numbers! (Why Roman Numerals Are Better Than Arabic)

  04-08-2023 00:01 via newyorker.com
  
  I could probably come up with another DCCCLXXXIX reasons why Arabic numerals eat Neptune’s you-know-what’s for breakfast, but you get the idea. – The New Yorker
  
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