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• Georgia Ranks Near The Bottom In Arts Funding. Does It Need An Arts Advocacy Group?

  25-08-2023 23:55 via artsatl.org
  
  Despite these advances from some funders, area arts leaders have to deal year in and year out with the lack of government arts funding — and comparisons to other stated’ allocations is a bitter pill for many to swallow. – ArtsATL
  
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• The Trends Are Clear: Listening-On-Demand Is The Future

  25-08-2023 23:31 via insideradio.com
  
  “Podcasting has attuned hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide to the habit of choosing the right audio content at the right time and hitting play. The same goes for music.” – Inside Radio
  
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• After Promising To Crack Down On Misinformation, Social Media Platforms Retreat

  25-08-2023 23:01 via washingtonpost.com
  Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, abandoning their most aggressive efforts to police online falsehoods in a trend expected to profoundly affect the 2024 presidential election. An array of circumstances is fueling the retreat. – Washington Post
  
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• Albert Barnes’ Shaken Foundation: Deviating from Founder’s Strict Dictate That His Trove Remain Intact

  25-08-2023 22:54 via artsjournal.com
  I guess it was just a matter of time before the Barnes Foundation, once an intimate, inviting setting for
  
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• Why Helsinki’s Architecture Is Unlike That Of Most Major Cities

  25-08-2023 22:32 via apollo-magazine.com
  “Some of it is – and more will be – sited below ground. There is no single clear reason for this, though factors include the exigent climate, respect for that polite skyline, and the key part that open space plays as amenity, in the city as in the overwhelmingly forested country.” – Apollo
  
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• Streaming Is Cheaper Than Buying, Certainly. But Something Essential Is Lost In The Experience

  25-08-2023 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  “Collecting is an act of love; even though it risks fetish-like attachments to the objects in question, its essence is found not in the objects themselves but in the pleasure that they provide, by delivering movies, music, literature—by providing the experience of art.” – The New Yorker
  
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• How Music Works On Altering Your Mood

  25-08-2023 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  “I start with music that matches the patient’s frame of mind and slowly shift to more soothing themes. I find that their mood and affect will often follow. It’s called entrainment. We “entrain” to the music and follow along, both mentally and physically.” – Washington Post
  
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• Can AI Write Compelling Reviews? Here’s The Thing…

  25-08-2023 22:01 via wired.com
  
  “I don’t see how AI can recreate the experience of reading a book, which is what the best critics do.” – Wired
  
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• Why Aren’t Our Best Composers Writing For Amateur Musicians?

  25-08-2023 21:31 via classical-music.com
  
  Why is there a gap between today’s composers and the repertoires of most of the musical ensembles in the country – which are not the professionals, but the amateur groups of all kinds who are the fabric of our musical life? It’s a situation that’s a historical anomaly. – Classical Music UK
  
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• Evolving Shakespeare For Our Time

  25-08-2023 20:31 via washingtonpost.com
  “If you are going to hail a writer from 400 years ago as the greatest writer of all time, then you need to look at him in relation to the contemporary moment. Because the moment you don’t do that, he can be bracketed from it all and just kept on his pedestal.” – Washington Post
  
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• The Jokes In Proust (Oh Yes, They’re There)

  25-08-2023 20:03 via lithub.com
  
  “Proust’s humor often has to do with misreadings or over-interpretations, and his question is usually not what happens but to whom and when.” Scholar Michael Wood compares the jokes to the meta-humor in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, such as the differences in the laws of physics for humans and for toons. – Literary Hub
  
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• After the British Museum thefts, what other major art heists have there been?

  25-08-2023 19:59
  
  One Rembrandt has been stolen four times, and works by Van Gogh, Munch and Picasso have also been targeted by criminalsThe British Museum’s director, Hartwig Fischer, has said he will step down from his role after treasures were found to be missing from the London institution. The Metropolitan police have said they have interviewed a man in connection with the suspected thefts.Here are some high-profile cultural heists. Continue reading...
  
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• What Ails Us: The Freedom Of Having Limits

  25-08-2023 19:34 via thepointmag.com
  
  The basic error of liberalism, according to the post-liberals, is its conflation of freedom with the absence of limitation or constraint. – The Point
  
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• The Druids — What Do We Really Know About Them?

  25-08-2023 19:04 via aeon.co
  
  The problem is that their society in ancient Gaul and Britain didn’t read or write, so the only contemporary descriptions we have today come from Roman colonists predisposed to portray them as barbaric. Archaeology, however, can tell us quite a bit. – Aeon
  
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• British Museum Director Steps Down In Wake Of Thefts Scandal

  25-08-2023 18:22 via artnews.com
  
  This week, Ittai Gradel, a Dutch antiquities dealer, said he had told the British Museum about the thefts two years ago and claimed that his allegations had gone unheeded. Fischer previously claimed that he took Gradel’s allegations “seriously.” In a statement issued on Friday, Fischer changed his tune. – ARTnews
  
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• Why Aren’t There Movies For A Family To Go See In A Theater Anymore?

  25-08-2023 18:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexis Soloski: “Family films have been undergoing a shift that predates both 2020 and Marvel dominance. The G rating, a stalwart of the films of my childhood, has nearly disappeared, a corollary to the reluctance of producers of family films to admit that they’re meant for families.” – The New York Times
  
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• Trump’s mugshot reviewed: ‘More like a foolish old man with anger issues than a presidential contender’

  25-08-2023 18:00
  
  Has he been crying? Did they dim the lights? Is it self-satire? A glance at past celebrity mugshots – from Martin Luther King to Paris Hilton – would have shown the ex US president how to pose with dignityWe do not know if Donald Trump’s hairdresser and makeup artists blow-dried and primped the former US president on his flight from Mar-a-Lago to Atlanta, but it seems likely. By the time he surrendered at Fulton, like that other fading star Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, T
  
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• Let’s Decode The Cultural Moment Around “Rich Men North Of Richmond”

  25-08-2023 17:32 via npr.org
  
  Lyrics celebrating the working man and woman have a long history in American music, from artists including Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bill Withers and Bruce Springsteen. Scratch the surface, however, and you also find extremist and conspiratorial narratives. – NPR
  
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• Trump’s mugshot reviewed: ‘He looks like Stephen Fry as General Melchett in Blackadder’

  25-08-2023 17:30
  
  Has he been crying? Did they dim the lights? Is it self-satire? A glance at past celebrity mugshots – from Martin Luther King to Paris Hilton – would have shown the ex US president how to pose with dignityWe do not know if Donald Trump’s hairdresser and makeup artists blow-dried and primped the former US president on his flight from Mar-a-Lago to Atlanta, but it seems likely. By the time he surrendered at Fulton, like that other fading star Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, T
  
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• Did The Choreographer Who Smeared Dog Poop On A Critic’s Face Get His Old Job Back?

  25-08-2023 17:03 via ndr.de
  
  Marco Goecke, who was director of the ballet at the Hannover State Opera in Germany before the February incident, was invited to lead rehearsals of his older work as a freelancer, and he told Hannover’s newspaper he’d been rehired. The state culture minister declared that “unacceptable.” (in German) – NDR (Germany)
  
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• TikTok Stars Try Their Hands At Live Standup Comedy At The Edinburgh Fringe

  25-08-2023 16:32 via bbc.com
  
  “This is ‘one great big Edinburgh experiment’, says Coco Sarel, possibly as a caveat in case things go wrong. Sarel (900,000 followers) is one of four TikTok comedians who, she says, want to find out if they’re any good at stand-up. ‘Which is better than four LinkedIn comedians.'” – BBC
  
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• Keen To Polish Their Hometown’s Tarnished Image, Hong Kong’s Flagship Performing Arts Companies Are Back On Tour

  25-08-2023 16:05 via scmp.com
  
  After several years of protests, repression, and COVID lockdowns dimmed the city’s international reputation and kept its performers at home, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ballet, Sinfonietta, and Chinese Orchestra are again traveling abroad to, in the government’s words, “tell a positive Hong Kong story.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Teddy Abrams: The Next Model Of A Modern Major Maestro?

  25-08-2023 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The 36-year-old music director of the Louisville Orchestra has largely eschewed the touring-guest-conductor circuit many of his peers use to build careers.He stays put in Kentucky, putting time and attention into involving himself and the orchestra in the community of the city and the state. – The New York Times
  
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• This Again: A Mass Transit System Is Going To Play Classical Music At Stations

  25-08-2023 15:04 via bbc.com
  
  The Tyne and Wear Metro, which serves the Newcastle-Gateshead-Sunderland area in northeastern England, played classical in some parts of the system 20 years ago to “curb anti-social behavior.” This tie around, it’s “to help create a soothing and warmer environment.” – BBC
  
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• Rumors Are Flying That A Right-Wing Journalist Will Be Made President Of The Venice Biennale

  25-08-2023 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  No announcement has been made, and the current president remains eligible for a second contract term. Nevertheless, several Italian newspapers report that author/broadcaster Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, a lifelong friend of the new culture minister with no management experience, is the leading candidate. – Artnet
  
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• Free Luxury Housing For The Director: A Perk That Major Cultural Institutions Are Starting To Drop

  25-08-2023 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many large organizations, such as the Met Museum, have owned condos or houses that they provide to their CEOs rent- and tax-free, as both recruitment perk and venue for entertaining donors. Recently, with attention on the low pay of junior employees, some institutions are ending the practice. – The New York Times
  
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• York gets flower power, Kew goes immersive and Wendy Red Star heads to London – the week in art

  25-08-2023 13:30
  
  Still lifes by Henri Fantin-Latour, Islamic architectural inspiration and recent acquisitions at the British Museum – all in your weekly dispatchBloom
  Images of flowers, including still-life paintings by the wonderful Henri Fantin-Latour, Jan van Os and others, and an installation by Jade Blood.
  • York Art Gallery until 8 October Continue reading...
  
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• Bloop reel: Ibiza’s street art festival – photo essay

  25-08-2023 08:00
  
  Since 2011, Ibiza has been home to Bloop, a festival involving mural artists from around the worldIbiza, known primarily for its beaches, nightlife and a past steeped in hippy culture, has since 2011 hosted an annual street art festival, Bloop, that each August attracts artists and visitors from around the world.Top left: a mural by the Chilean artist Inti. Top right: works by Helder Cavalcante and by Emilio Cejalvo and Silva Ramacci. Above: a mural by Ramacci covers the facade of a power plant
  
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• Claude Ruiz Picasso, youngest son of Spanish artist, dies aged 76

  25-08-2023 03:26
  
  The son of Picasso and French painter Françoise Gilot, who also died this year aged 101, managed his father’s hugely valuable estate until JulyClaude Ruiz Picasso, the younger son of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, has died in Switzerland aged 76, his lawyer announced on Thursday.Claude’s lawyer, Jean-Jacques Neuer, did not give the cause of death. Continue reading...
  
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• Are UK Arts Selling Out To Corporations?

  25-08-2023 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  In the UK, there are three potentially large funding pots for the arts: government, local authority and private. Anyone who has lived through the past 13 years in Britain will be able to tell you that two of those sources have drastically shrunk. – The Guardian
  
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