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• Fonts: An Art You Probably Haven’t Given Much Thought To

  08-09-2023 23:31 via thehustle.co
  
  Every font you see — on your computer screen, a street sign, a T-shirt, or your car’s dashboard — has been crafted by a designer. With 4.5k independent artists selling on MyFonts today, many struggle to attract customers and to make a living in an oversaturated market.  – The Hustle
  
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• Persuadable: The Art Of Making Your Case

  08-09-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “There’s a huge difference between hearing and listening. You have to understand the person you’re negotiating with without judgment, whatever your personal values might be.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘N Sync: Dance And The Communication Between Bodies

  08-09-2023 22:31 via theconversation.com
  
  In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show how the strength of synchronisation in a network depends on the structure of the connections between its members – whether they be brain cells, fireflies, or groups of dancers. – The Conversation
  
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• The Mastermind Teacher Behind Finnish Conductors

  08-09-2023 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Think of major Finnish conductors working around the world today — there are a disproportionate number of them — and chances are they studied with Marja Kantola-Panula. – The New York Times
  
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• Norwegian Man Out For A Walk Finds Ancient Trove Of Gold

  08-09-2023 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings. The jewels, which weigh a little more than 100g, were found to date from about AD500. “At first I thought it was chocolate coins or Captain Sabertooth coins.” – The Guardian
  
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• “Swan Song” — Filming The Tumultuous Gestation Of “Swan Lake”, Karen Kain’s Farewell To The National Ballet Of Canada

  08-09-2023 21:03 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  “‘Nothing was going well!’ (director Chelsea) McMullan recalls. ‘Sean (O’Neill, the writer and producer) and I were terrified: ‘We’re filming Karen Kain’s production as a nosedive bonfire!” … Yet both projects miraculously came together.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)
  
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• How NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts Became Mighty Desk Concerts

  08-09-2023 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The Tiny Desk series became a prime venue for artists seeking an authenticity baptism. The series built its audience organically, getting bigger bookings and finding frequent viral successes. But for pop artists, it has become a tool with a very specific utility: demonstrating in-the-room chops. – The New York Times
  
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• Queen Anastasia Alexander Leads Us Behind the Scenes At A Chattanooga Drag Show

  08-09-2023 20:04 via thenation.com
  
  A young Knoxville man named John takes a reporter through his preparations to perform — as Anastasia, his drag persona — in a sort of educational performance for clergy members and community leaders in Chattanooga, another part of the effort to combat Tennessee’s new anti-drag law. – The Nation
  
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• Experiments In Streaming: Music Streamers Tweak How Royalties Go To Artists

  08-09-2023 19:31 via musicindustryblog.wordpress.com
  
  Streaming has thrown together two old business models (retail and radio) and thrown them into one pot, pretending lean-back and lean-forward consumption are the same. They are not. This move will go a long way to disincentivising the commodification of consumption by rewarding active listening. – Music Industry Blog
  
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• The Guardian view on political portraiture: putting faces to history | Editorial

  08-09-2023 19:25
  
  The motives behind new pictures of the former prime minister Theresa May and the actor David Harewood may be different, but both use art to serve reputationTwo portraits, two very different stories of Britain. Saied Dai’s painting of Theresa May, unveiled this week, is the latest example of what has become a standard honour for former prime ministers, as much part of the aftermath of power as after-dinner speeches and a security team. Meanwhile at Harewood House in West Yorkshire, a framed
  
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• Afghan Musicians Keeping Their Art Form Alive In Exile

  08-09-2023 19:02 via van-magazine.com
  
  “The stories of repression, resistance, and activism that follow are those of three young Afghan musicians who now live abroad and who continue to perform and study music for those who no longer have that right.” – Van
  
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• British Museum Scandal Enabled By Cataloging Deficiencies

  08-09-2023 18:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  That perhaps half of the British Museum’s mammoth collection of some 8 million objects was never fully catalogued has become a matter of keen public interest. Incomplete or out-of-date records is an issue that affects many major museums worldwide. – Artnet
  
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• The Art World Frets About New York’s Armory Show Now That It’s Been Bought By Frieze

  08-09-2023 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  “(The acquisition) raised one uncomfortable question that remains unanswered: how Frieze would juggle both the Armory Show and Frieze Seoul, which run concurrently, in an already over-saturated art world calendar. And that’s, of course, leaving aside the fact that Frieze already hosts a fair in New York in the spring.” – ARTnews
  
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• Amazon Drops Its Periodicals Program; Small Publishers Panic

  08-09-2023 17:32 via theverge.com
  
  Last March, Amazon stated that it was dropping all of its print and Kindle magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Since that announcement, independent publishers have been scrambling to figure out how to make up for the loss in income. – The Verge
  
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• A Visit With Charles Busch, “The Celebrated Male Actress”

  08-09-2023 17:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Ben Brantley visits the “Chinese-red living room” and “blindingly white boudoir” of the award-winning performer-playwright. “It felt like the natural setting for someone who habitually shifts among different selves … the encyclopedic frame of reference, the conjuring of a sophisticated Manhattan, the summoning of a decades-spanning parade of actresses.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Threatens To Sue Poland’s Justice Minister

  08-09-2023 16:33 via variety.com
  
  “Controversy over Venice (Festival) title Green Border continues to heat up as director Agnieszka Holland gave an ultimatum to Poland’s Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro following his comments about her film. … She is demanding a public apology and payment to The Association of Children of the Holocaust in Poland.” – Variety
  
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• Disney Narrows Its Lawsuit Against Ron DeSantis

  08-09-2023 16:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Disney (has) amended its suit to drop Contracts Clause, Takings Clause and Due Process Clause violations. It will focus on allegations … that the Florida governor retaliated against the company in violation of its free speech rights for opposing the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Anchor Books Will Be Shut Down As A Separate Imprint

  08-09-2023 15:34 via publishersweekly.com
  “Vintage/Anchor publisher Suzanne Herz will leave Penguin Random House in December. Anchor Books will gradually be phased out, starting with its hardcover program next January, with its 16,000-strong paperback backlist slated to move over to Vintage over time.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Laurene Powell Jobs And A Group Of Arts Leaders Want To Buy The Defunct San Francisco Art Institute

  08-09-2023 15:01 via msn.com
  “We are working to see that the Art Institute is preserved for aspiring artists to advance their work,” said SF Conservatory of Music president David Stoll. “It will also serve as a resource for established artists to come together.” (Yes, the Diego Rivera mural will be preserved.) – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• A New Arts Center In South Florida Will Be Designed by Renzo Piano

  08-09-2023 14:35 via bocamag.com
  
  “The Center for Arts and Innovation … plans for six adaptive performance and event spaces — indoor and outdoor — ranging in seating capacity from 99 to 3,500 seats. These can be programmed as individual spaces or combined to host events for nearly 6,000 people.” – Boca Raton Magazine
  
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• To dye for: why Victorian Britain was more colourful than we think

  08-09-2023 14:00
  
  A new exhibition shows how a textile transformation brought brightness to the masses, in an era where electric purples and absinthe greens reigned supremeEarly photography’s sepias tint our impression of the 19th century. Yet a real-life encounter with an everyday 1860s gown reveals a startling truth: “It’s electric purple and still shocking now,” curator Matthew Winterbottom enthuses. And, as the exhibition Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design will explor
  
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• America’s Longest-Running Jazz Festival Names Its Next Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its 65-Year History

  08-09-2023 14:00 via sfchronicle.com
  The Monterey Jazz Festival was founded in 1958 by Jimmy Lyons and has been run for 32 years by Tim Jackson. Next year he passes the reins to Darin Atwater, founder of Baltimore’s Soulful Symphony, who will be the first Black musician to lead the organization. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Saied Dai on his Theresa May portrait: ‘Thank God I didn’t have to paint Boris!’

  08-09-2023 13:51
  
  The garlanded artist reveals the ‘intimate and intense’ process of looking for the person behind the politician to make his surprisingly humanising painting of the former PM Earlier this week, the Parliamentary Art Collection unveiled, to great acclaim, its newest item: a portrait of Theresa May by the British painter Saied Dai.The painting was commissioned by the Speaker’s advisory committee on works of art , which serves to memorialise public servants who have made a signific
  
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• African identities, surreal genius Ken Dodd and doors, doors, doors – the week in art

  08-09-2023 11:35
  
  The Fitzwilliam museum re-examines its legacy and recycling found objects points toward the planet’s future – all in your weekly dispatchJulianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight
  An audio-visual poetic installation that meditates on African identity, including choirs from across Europe.
  • Barbican Curve, London, from 14 September until 11 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Dean, School of Drama

  08-09-2023 08:01 via artsjournal.com
  University of North Carolina School of the Arts
  Winston-Salem, NCTHE SEARCHThe University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA or the University), a nationally recognized public arts conservatory, seeks a strategic, courageous, people-centric, institution-builder to serve as the next Dean of the School of Drama (or the SoD). Currently ranked #3 in the 2023 Hollywood Reporter’s list of the “Top 25 Schools of Drama in the World,” the SoD emphasizes a classical training mod
  
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• Artistic Director – Washington Men’s Camerata

  08-09-2023 07:57 via artsjournal.com
  The Washington Men’s Camerata invites qualified applicants to apply for the salaried position of Artistic Director commencing with the 2024-2025 concert season. For best consideration, applications should be submitted no later than Monday, October 16, 2023.About the Washington Men’s Camerata – Washington, DC (https://camerata.com)The Washington Men’s Camerata, founded in 1984 and based in Washington, DC, performs and promotes the rich tradition of men’s choral singi
  
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• “Shostakovich in South Dakota — A Manifesto for the Future of American Classical Music”

  08-09-2023 04:27 via artsjournal.com
  
  My “manifesto for the future of American classical music,” in the current issue of The American Scholar, attempts
  
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