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• When Evidence-Based Reasoning Can Lead Us Astray

  09-08-2023 23:28 via iai.tv
  We should not assume that motivated reasoning, or all other biased thinking that involves ignoring high quality and relevant information, can only lead us astray. Sometimes judgements that are more reflective of the information available around us can bring poor consequences, preventing downstream knowledge gains. – IAI
  
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• This Artist Has 30 Million TikTok Followers. Can He Now Make It In The Art World?

  09-08-2023 23:01 via artnews.com
  
  With over 30 million followers on TikTok alone, Rodriguez has developed a following that has even extended to the outside world. Considered merely by follower count, he would be the most recognizable artist in the world. – ARTnews
  
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• Seattle Museum Presents “Harry Potter” Show, But Excises All References To JK Rowling

  09-08-2023 22:25 via spiked-online.com
  
  Explaining the decision in a 1,400-word blog, the museum’s exhibitions project manager, Chris Moore, brands Rowling a ‘cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity’. – Spiked
  
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• The Books Being Turned Into Plays

  09-08-2023 22:01 via smh.com.au
  
  “I love the way that one art form can light the flame for another. It doesn’t diminish the original … there’s a whole lot of compression that absolutely has to take place, but that doesn’t mean a reduction. It’s creating a new thing.” – Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Could Apple Buy Disney? The Whispers Are Growing

  09-08-2023 21:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  There clearly is no buyer like Apple, which is sitting on $62 billion in cash and cash equivalents and has a $2.8 trillion market cap. And while it may be very true that Apple doesn’t want to buy a studio, maybe it would want to buy this studio. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Another Piece Of 1980s Culture Is Back: Queer Country Line-Dancing

  09-08-2023 21:06 via msn.com
  “LGBTQ country dancing is quite old, a joyous four-decade tradition rooted in the love of the dance and the music. And it’s finding renewed popularity.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• American Theatre’s Existential Crisis

  09-08-2023 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The play’s the thing that’s now in danger. America’s love affair with the stage – embodied by Lincoln and fellow presidential theatregoers such as Bill Clinton – is on the rocks. From coast to coast, the regional theatre movement is facing the biggest crisis in its 75-year history. – The Guardian
  
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• Why “Try That In A Small Town” Sounds As Much Like Grunge Rock As Like Country

  09-08-2023 20:04 via msn.com
  “The big-city problems Aldean laments — violent crime, sedition, even fraying communal ties — are, in many cases, worse problems outside the cities than in them. This reality is a major driver of right-wing resentment — and music about it should, by all rights, have a hint of malaise.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• New York’s Highest Paid Theatre Artistic Directors

  09-08-2023 19:28 via broadwayworld.com
  
  There are several other ways to look at this. You could look at all the top compensated executives. You could view executive compensation in relation to revenue and/or expenses. – Broadway World
  
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• They Became TikTok Stars By Cleaning Up Indonesian Rivers And Beaches

  09-08-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “The Pandawara group … was formed in 2022 after flooding caused by rivers clogged with rubbish damaged their homes. … On TikTok, their profile – @pandawaragroup – contains over 100 short videos of their river and beach cleanups, earning them millions of views and totaling over 100 million likes.” – The Guardian
  
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• Warner Music Revenues Rose 9 Percent In The Second Quarter

  09-08-2023 18:32 via variety.com
  
  “We succeeded with artists and songwriters across the spectrum of genres and generations, with both new releases and catalog projects.” – Variety
  
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• A Johnny Appleseed For Prison Libraries?

  09-08-2023 18:03 via fastcompany.com
  “Reginald Dwayne Betts is the founder of Freedom Reads, a nonprofit with a mission to ‘transform access to literature in prisons’ by opening handcrafted micro-libraries in as many carceral facilities as possible. … With its 13-person team, it aim to open upwards of 1,000 libraries in the next three years.” – Fast Company
  
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• Marvel’s Special Effects Artists Vote To Form Union

  09-08-2023 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Hailing the move as “a major shift in an industry that has largely remained non-union since VFX was pioneered during production of the first Star Wars films in the 1970s”, the IATSE said a supermajority of Marvel’s 50-plus VFX crew had signed authorisation cards. – The Guardian
  
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• Minimalist Set Design Is All Over Broadway These Days

  09-08-2023 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “At its best, minimalism ignites the audience’s imagination, making theatergoers active participants instead of passive consumers. … But practicality may also be driving minimalism’s appeal. Building a set on Broadway has only gotten more expensive.” – T — The New York Times Style Magazine
  
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• This Little Publisher In A Stone House In Yorkshire Issues Only Ten Books A Year — And Those Books Win Prizes

  09-08-2023 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “The green front door leads straight into Kevin Duffy’s living room, the nerve centre of Bluemoose books, his independent literary hit factory. It is at a cluttered table in the corner that Duffy has built a business with a success rate that billion-pound publishers regard with envy.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘She’s hard to pin down’: the ‘avant-garde It girl’ who became a revolutionary photographer

  09-08-2023 16:10
  
  Tina Modotti moved in the same circles as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo but, until now, little was known of the artist and activist whose work was galvanised by her politicsOne morning in the mid-90s, the art historian Patricia Albers and her husband drove out to a farm in Oregon, looking for clues that would bring her closer to a woman she had encountered a decade before. She had been perusing an exhibition celebrating the work of California photographer Edward Weston, yet, wandering through the
  
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• ‘the kind of thing to stir / belief in mythic gods’

  09-08-2023 16:04 via artsjournal.com
  In the pissing rain last night
  a skywide lightning show
  flashed for half an hour.
  The blackness of the night
  turned white, a most amazing
  strobing whiteness everywhere . . .
  
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• Chautauqua Institute Cuts Its Opera Programming, And Donors Rebel

  09-08-2023 16:01 via post-gazette.com
  “In June the opera company announced plans to slash its budget by about two-thirds and no longer put on full productions. After a transition year in 2024 with only a couple of scaled-down productions, the company would serve as an ‘incubator’ that hosts workshops of new operas in development.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Jacaranda, L.A.’s Widely Admired Contemporary Classical Series, Will Close Its Doors After Next Season

  09-08-2023 15:35 via sfcv.org
  “Hailed by critics for its high standards and wide-ranging repertoire, which has included all eras but emphasized the 20th and 21st centuries, the organization has struggled financially for years. Its financial problems have been exacerbated by a drop-off in both ticket sales and donations following the pandemic.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Staffers Have Their First-Ever Union Contract

  09-08-2023 15:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The two-and-a-half-year contract is retroactive to July 1 and includes a minimum salary increase of nine percent, starting with three percent now and again at the start of 2024 and 2025 (this is in addition to the three percent increase the staff received in January).” – Artnet
  
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• Due To DeSantis’s Law, Public Schools In Tampa Will No Longer Teach Complete Shakespeare Plays, Only Excerpts

  09-08-2023 14:33 via tampabay.com
  
  “English teachers in Hillsborough County … (and) school district officials redesigned their instructional guides for teachers because of revised state teaching standards and a new set of state exams that cover a vast array of books and writing styles.” – Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Michael Boyd, Former Director Of Royal Shakespeare Co., Is Dead At 68

  09-08-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Boyd’s tenure at the RSC (2003-2012) helped rejuvenate the organisation after the rocky stewardship of his predecessor Adrian Noble. It also saw him direct a cycle of eight of Shakespeare’s historical plays in the space of just two years, a process he admitted left him exhausted but satisfied.” – The Guardian
  
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• Pedro Pascal visits fan’s art show dedicated to him in Margate

  09-08-2023 13:16
  
  The Last of Us actor went to exhibition with friend and fellow actor Russell Tovey – but gallery was closedThe internet’s favourite TV actor, Pedro Pascal, best known for his roles in The Last of Us and The Mandalorian, turned up at a fan’s art show that was all about him last weekend.The Margate exhibition, called ADHD Hyper Fixation and why it looks like I love Pedro Pascal, was created by the artist Heidi Gentle Burrell, 45, in June. Pascal visited with his friend and fellow
  
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• ‘There’s nothing quite like them’: Saul Leiter’s photos and paintings – in pictures

  09-08-2023 08:00
  
  The iconic photographer considered himself a painter before anything else – and a new exhibition shows his colourful, abstract work alongside his photography Continue reading...
  
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• Archibald prize 2023: Noni Hazlehurst portrait wins people’s choice award

  09-08-2023 03:23
  
  Jaq Grantford’s portrait of the beloved actor and former Play School presenter wins $5,000 prize decided by the publicGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA realist portrait of television personality and actor Noni Hazlehurst has won the $5,000 people’s choice award for the 2023 Archibald prize, announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Wednesday.It is a first-time Archibald win for Melbourne artist Jaq Grantford and the second portrait the artist has painted of Hazleh
  
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