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• Music Labels Sue Internet Archive Over Giving Access To Historic Recordings

  14-08-2023 23:14 via reuters.com
  
  The labels’ lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive’s “Great 78 Project” functions as an “illegal record store” for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday. – Reuters
  
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• What’s Ailing University Music Programs: Study Of The Art Form

  14-08-2023 22:32 via timeshighereducation.com
  
  The progressive marginalisation of the study of music theory and analysis, relentlessly dismissed as “formalism”, deprives music departments of the one thing, other than practical work, that is not undertaken (often more rigorously) by other disciplines. – Times Higher Education Supplement
  
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• Nigel Kennedy: Today’s Musicians Are “Clones”

  14-08-2023 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  “Every kid wants to play because of the love of music. But quite often they’ve got that beaten out of them and they’re having to subscribe to a formulaic syllabus. It basically is a brain and heart turn-off.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Musician Describes Years Of Playing Through Pain

  14-08-2023 20:42 via newmusicusa.org
  
  I developed tendinitis in my elbows and my knees and neither healed. The pain and muscle spasms from those injuries increased and migrated, eventually meeting up with the pain and muscle-spasms in my back and neck. I developed vertigo, brain fog, and tinnitus. – NewMusicUSA
  
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• Has The Culture Of Possessing Art Subverted The Power Of Art?

  14-08-2023 19:26 via artreview.com
  
  Selfie-takers in museums epitomise ‘possessive modes of looking’ that are a symptom of a history of art rooted in the conflict between how the art system (museum, art market) ‘alienates’ the work of art, against art’s ‘constituent alterity’, its ‘infinite capacity… to generate experience over time’ – or, in other words, its freedom. – ArtReview
  
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• How Ancient Rome Used Libraries To Project Power

  14-08-2023 18:37 via aeon.co
  
  Today’s libraries are a direct legacy of the Roman impulse to transcend practicality and invest arenas of knowledge with a sense of scale akin to that of churches – temples to a different creed – with their imposing porticoes and columns, their elaborate ornaments and staircases, their rows of desks and lofty shelves. – Psyche
  
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• Hollywood — Too Big to Fail (Until It Does)

  14-08-2023 17:59 via theankler.com
  
  As the oddly mismatched mega-companies who currently produce, own, and distribute TV shows and movies fumble to align themselves on basic issues, it has become clear that the only goal these corporations have in common is to gain market power and then exploit it; that is, to monopolize. – The Ankler
  
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• The UK Is In A Cost Of Living Crisis, And The National Gallery Wants To Ease It

  14-08-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The London museum has said its pay-what-you-will scheme will extend for one more major show – Franz Hals. They’ve done it for two earlier shows, and research shows 20 percent of pay-what-you-will visitors were seeing a special exhibit for the first time. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Pandemic Changed Many Things, Including What It Means To ‘Own’ A Book

  14-08-2023 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In the fight over the Internet Archive, “it’s rarely this nasty, but free vs. expensive is a struggle that plays out continuously against all forms of media and entertainment. Neither side has the upper hand forever. “- The New York Times
  
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• Disney Plus Is Adding Commercials And A Cheaper Option In The UK And Europe

  14-08-2023 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  That’s already an option in the U.S., but will the rest of the world bite? Disney+ needs money after a series of declines in membership, and disappointing film results as well. – BBC
  
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• Canceling Shakespeare Is Definitely Not The Way, Or Is It?

  14-08-2023 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Given how he’s become an exalted landmark on the high road of culture, it’s easy to forget that there’s always been a secret smugglers’ path to a more salacious and subversive Shakespeare, one well known and beloved by artists and theater people.” – The New York Times
  
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• We’re Addicted To Writing Online

  14-08-2023 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Will AI help us stop the word vomit – the graphomania? Even – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Rethinking, And Reordering, The Idea Of ‘American’ Ceramics

  14-08-2023 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  At the Met Museum, 68 Pueblo potters and cultural leaders organized a new exhibit. “The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Absolutely Pathetic State Of Residuals For Streaming Actors

  14-08-2023 15:00 via variety.com
  
  Lisa Edelstein “recently was paid 97 cents in residuals for the two episodes of Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce which she wrote and starred in.” Ninety. Seven. Cents. – Variety
  
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• The United States Still Has A Deep Cultural Love Affair With Europe

  14-08-2023 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “For centuries, and no matter how much it has changed, Europe, for us, has meant art and architecture, science and philosophy, fashion and fame, sex and perfume — and some connection to the past.” – The New York Times
  
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• Shakespeare Is Far Too Sexy For Florida

  14-08-2023 14:30 via npr.org
  
  The state of Florida under Ron DeSantis certainly has come to resemble a parody of itself, and, well: “Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare’s plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides.” – NPR
  
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• Ignore Keith And Mick, For England Has Some Actually Decent Public Sculpture

  14-08-2023 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  For instance, there’s the Wild Boar, or the Crystal Palace dinosaurs: “Scientifically, they’re wildly inaccurate. But in every other way, they’re perfect: endlessly surprising, vividly alive; an enduring memorial to our Victorian ancestors’ hunger for knowledge.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Fantasticks, Weirdly, Had A Four-Decade And Massively Quiet Journey From Stage To Screen

  14-08-2023 13:45 via variety.com
  
  Perhaps it’s time to revive the film of the stage version? But early on, “there was good reason to think that a film version could be viable, at least before the bottom fell out for movie musicals around the end of the 1960s.” – Variety
  
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• Angela Flowers obituary

  14-08-2023 13:31
  
  Leading British art gallery owner and businesswoman who placed loyalty above all elseIn 1936, Geoffrey and Olive Holland moved to a house they had had built for themselves near Reigate in Surrey. It was, as their daughter, Angela, would recall, mentioned in Pevsner’s county guide. “Much less gauche than most 1930s houses” was the gazetteer’s backhanded verdict.The first British commission of Frederick Curtis, a refugee from Nazi Germany, the house, which they called Pever
  
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• The Dracula On A Boat Movie Is Tanking, But The Memes Are Hypnotically Strong

  14-08-2023 13:30 via vulture.com
  
  Memes are a form of currency that go far, far beyond the original spark. And though Last Voyage of the Demeter might as well not be in theatres at all, at least we can all enjoy multiple levels of Dracula memes. – Vulture
  
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• National Gallery in London extends pay what you wish scheme for major shows

  14-08-2023 13:21
  
  Visitors can pay £1 for special exhibitions, including Frans Hals showcase next month, amid cost of living crisisThe National Gallery is extending its scheme allowing visitors to major exhibitions to pay as little as £1 entrance to a third show opening this autumn.The gallery’s pay what you wish initiative, which was launched as a response to the cost of living crisis, will apply to its exhibition of Frans Hals works opening on 30 September.Booking for the Frans Hals exhibition
  
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• Italians Gather En Masse To Mourn Feminist, Outspoken Novelist Michela Murgia

  14-08-2023 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “‘She was a special person and merited a special send-off,’ said Patrizia Mosca, a newly retired civil servant who said that she didn’t typically attend public funerals — ‘not even for the popes.’ But Ms. Murgia was different.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are LGBTQIA Films Getting Unfairly Slapped With R And NC-17 Ratings?

  14-08-2023 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  “Critics say the MPA has long held a double standard against movies with LGBTQ characters, slapping them with higher ratings than movies featuring heterosexual characters [and that] this further stigmatizes people from queer communities by making it more difficult to access films that depict their lives.” – CBC
  
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• ‘I’m not littering – the Nanofiche is very small!’: meet the man who sends art to the moon

  14-08-2023 09:00
  
  Physicist Samuel Peralta’s Lunar Codex project has seen the work of 30,000 artists from 158 countries carried on into space – and the effect on them has been profoundBefore the age of space exploration, all artists could do was look up and gaze, sketch and write about a moon they could never reach. But Samuel Peralta, a semi-retired physicist living in Canada, has changed all that with the launch of the Lunar Codex, a project that sends art to the moon, converted into Nanofiche files
  
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