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• Is There A Literary Canon Today?

  08-08-2023 23:58 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Despite all the claims made for it, the literary canon does not make you morally better, nor does it provide any special insight into non-literary academic fields, nor is it of any help in most practical matters. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Istanbul’s Flashy New International Museum Masks Erdogan’s Contempt For Artists

  08-08-2023 23:31 via theneweuropean.co.uk
  In a cruel twist, Istanbul Modern and Turkish art is all too easily recruited as an aid to Erdoğan’s ambitions on the world stage. The building itself, with its Italian “starchitect” pedigree, effortlessly puts it at the service of a homogeneously Eurocentric narrative. – The New European
  
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• Even Really Successful Writers, Actors, Designers, Can’t Make A Living In The Theatre

  08-08-2023 23:01 via thestar.com
  Actors who book multiple plays a year. Writers with rave reviews. Award-winning designers. These people are performing at a professional level while living like hobbyists, putting together a mishmash of odd jobs outside their art to provide for themselves while anxiously waiting for a next gig that may or may not come. – Toronto Star
  
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• Movie Theatre Etiquette Has Deteriorated. Why?

  08-08-2023 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The fact that Barbie is so successful means that, for a huge percentage of its audience, this will be their first cinema visit since 2019. And four years is easily long enough to forget some of the rules. – The Guardian
  
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• The Gilmore Girls Case: Netflix Residuals Make No Sense In Compensating Actors

  08-08-2023 22:01 via rollingstone.com
  
  “They pay this small fee to lots of shows and throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Gilmore became this runaway hit for them and we don’t share in any of that success.” – Rolling Stone
  
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• Watch Where You’re Tapping In That Password – AI Might Be Listening

  08-08-2023 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers say they have created a system that can work out which keys are being pressed on a laptop keyboard with more than 90% accuracy, just based on sound recordings. – The Guardian
  
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• Only One Person Came To See Her Edinburgh Fringe Show. She Tweeted Sadly About It. And Then …

  08-08-2023 21:05 via cnn.com
  
  “There was one person in my audience today when I performed my one-woman play, ‘Sunsets’ at #edfringe. It’s fine, isn’t it? It’s fine …?” tweeted Georgie Grier with a tearful selfie. Then social media worked the magic it sometimes does. – CNN
  
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• Movie Theatre Turnaround? AMC Reports Positive News

  08-08-2023 20:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Earnings for the second quarter hit $8.6 million, compared to a loss of $121.6 million in the comparable period of 2022, the company reported on Tuesday. It also saw a 12.2 percent gain in attendance year-over-year. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Inside The Making Of A Medieval Illuminated Manuscript

  08-08-2023 20:03 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Morgan Library curator Roger Wieck explains just how an elaborate 15th-century Book of Hours was copied out and embellished — and paid for. – Hyperallergic
  
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• How To Determine Which/Whether Words Are Harmful?

  08-08-2023 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  When confronted with claims that term X causes harm to people with a given characteristic, or that term Y is the only way to describe them respectfully, a fair-minded person can reasonably respond, “What evidence suggests that this is true?” – The Atlantic
  
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• “I’m Not A Philanthropist. I’m A Dance Educator.” Really, She’s The Godmother Of Dance Education.

  08-08-2023 19:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Jody Gottfried Arnhold taught children in New York City schools before and after she married an extremely wealthy banker; she even created a dance curriculum for the system. She’s now been training dance teachers for 25 years and has created and funded advanced-degree programs in dance education. – The New York Times
  
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• The Sad State Of Arts Coverage Today

  08-08-2023 18:31 via quillmag.com
  
  While readers see less coverage from traditional outlets, arts critics also find it harder to earn a living in the field. Many have moved from print to the internet, in hopes of finding greener pastures – or at least a more appreciative audience. – Quill
  
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• In Boston, Artists Pushed Out By Gentrification Are Fighting Back

  08-08-2023 18:04 via msn.com
  “An unlikely group of artists and activists known as the Art Stays Here Coalition has emerged to combat displacement. The small, all-volunteer group is part of a broader effort including policy makers, developers, advocacy groups, and others to confront … 2 million square feet of (lost) cultural space.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Book Statistics Site Shuts Down After Revelations It Used AI Trained On Copyrighted Work

  08-08-2023 17:32 via gizmodo.com
  
  The site, which analyzed word usage and provided statistics, did not have consent to use copyrighted works within its program. – Gizmodo
  
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• “Barbie” Has Become A Surprise Hit In China: Middle-Class Women Can Really Relate

  08-08-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Despite limited availability, Barbie has quickly become widely discussed on Chinese social media, at one point even topping searches on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. It has an 8.3 rating on the movie rating site Douban, higher than any other currently showing live-action feature.” – The New York Times
  
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• With The Philly Pops In Limbo, The Kimmel Center And The No Name Pops Will Be Doing A Christmas Show Of Their Own

  08-08-2023 16:35 via msn.com
  As the Philly Pops’ legal and financial difficulties drag on, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. will produce a holiday pops concert with the group of now-unemployed Philly Pops musicians who call themselves the No Name Pops. (“No excuses. No nonsense. No Name Pops.”) – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Cecilia Bartoli Moves Into Opera Management

  08-08-2023 16:03 via apnews.com
  
  At 57, though her singing career is not yet over, she’s becoming a top administrator: having been artistic director of Salzburg’s Whitsun Festival for more than a decade, she took over this year as head of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. – AP
  
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• Rage, ecstasy and painting turned up to 11 – Edinburgh art festival review

  08-08-2023 15:54
  
  Various venues, Edinburgh
  This year’s complement to the fringe is not short of drama in Alberta Whittle and Peter Howson’s impassioned work – and there is balmy colour from Elizabeth BlackadderYou’ve binged on standup, seen enough Belgian drama and it feels half an hour too early to go to the pub. A quiet moment in an art gallery may be called for.Art at Edinburgh has a festival of its own in August, yet who comes for that? In a city gripped by live performance, exhibitio
  
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• In This Rural Town, If Conservatives Can’t Ban Books From The Library, They’ll Shut It Down Altogether

  08-08-2023 15:32 via thenation.com
  
  In Dayton, WA, about halfway between Seattle and Boise, when the public library’s board refused a demand to remove or sequester a list of books that’s now grown past 100 titles, right-wing activists began working on a ballot measure to dissolve the public library system. – The Nation
  
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• “Jeopardy!” Finds A Resourceful Way Around The Writers’ Strike

  08-08-2023 15:06 via variety.com
  
  With no more new clues being written during the work stoppage, the game show will re-shuffle and re-use answers and questions from earlier seasons. Also from previous seasons will be the contestants: players who lost their first games will get a second chance. – Variety
  
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• William Friedkin, Director Of “The French Connection” And “The Exorcist”, is Dead At 87

  08-08-2023 14:34 via msn.com
  “In a checkered filmmaking career spanning 50 years, Mr. Friedkin was regarded as both a cinematic pacesetter, responsible for two box-office juggernauts, and a director who struggled to replicate the commercial and critical highs of his heyday in the early 1970s.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Why DEI Fails When Anyone Gets Demonized

  08-08-2023 14:01 via artsjournal.com
  Do others have the right to force you to adjust your behavior? From whose vantage point?
  “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
  George Galloway
  I wonder if this search for a “safe” space is all it’s cracked up to be.
  We’re halfway through 2023 and already in America, there have been over 200 mass shootings, defined as the killing of 4 or more people in a single event. More than 14,000 people have died from gun violence so far, incl
  
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• It’s Official: Simon & Schuster Has Been Acquired By Capital Firm KKR

  08-08-2023 14:01 via publishersweekly.com
  “In a move that some in the industry will welcome as putting at least a temporary stop to industry consolidation, the private investment firm KKR has reached an agreement with Paramount Global to acquire Simon & Schuster for $1.62 billion in an all-cash transaction.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Director, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

  08-08-2023 06:39 via artsjournal.com
  Bayou Bend, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s house museum for American decorative arts, seeks a highly motivated Director to grow its audience and patronage. Located in the historic River Oaks neighborhood just minutes from the MFAH’s main campus, this 14-acre oasis is the former home of Houstonian Ima Hogg (1882-1975), a prominent civic leader, philanthropist, and collector who donated her house and collection to the museum in 1957. The collection of furnishings, ceramics, silver
  
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• Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

  08-08-2023 06:00
  
  Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesFrom Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi to Andy Warhol’s Four Marilyns, it amounts to an art collection that could grace any gallery in the world.But rather than being the highlights of a blockbuster exhibition at a major gallery, these are just some of the 300, and counting, pieces known to have been recently owned by Russian nati
  
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