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• Spotify Denies “30-Second-Loop” Can Game Royalties Payout

  13-09-2023 23:28 via bbc.com
  
  Concerns have been raised that artificial streaming – where devices run chosen tracks on loop – is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan executives estimating as much as 10% of all streams are fake, according to the Financial Times. – BBC
  
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• Your 2034th Admonition: You Really Should Care About The Data Companies Are Collecting On You

  13-09-2023 23:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  Retail companies do collect massive volumes of terrifically sensitive data. They do this not only to predict your future behavior, but to influence it. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Complicated Rise Of Curators Of Color

  13-09-2023 22:32 via momus.ca
  
  This tension—between changing the institution from the inside and protesting it from the outside—is not only a psychological conflict for young curators, often of color, but a structural feature of museums, as diversity efforts hoover in more eligible candidates with track records of socially motivated curatorial efforts. – Momus
  
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• The Living Heritage Of Marrakech Lost In The Earthquake

  13-09-2023 22:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The UNESCO designation was a historical acknowledgment of the traditions of poor and rural communities that can often get left out of larger conversations about art history. It is precisely these communities that have maintained Marrakech’s architectural heritage for generations, but the earthquake has destroyed the workshops and residences. – The Conversation
  
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• An Initiative: 18 Communities And Theatre Around An Idea

  13-09-2023 21:35 via nytimes.com
  
  Given the atomization of American culture, the communities will not present a single show — in fact, many of them are not staging shows at all — but they will each come up with ways to express something that connects notions of home with culture and with health on July 27, 2024. – The New York Times
  
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• Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?

  13-09-2023 21:01 via psyche.co
  
  “This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that ‘Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,’ as (language scientist Julie Sedivy) put it.” Recent research put this observation to the test. – Psyche
  
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• So You Want To Make A Play. It’s Tough…

  13-09-2023 20:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  We quit on our work much more readily than our work quits on us. We walk away, we claim defeat, we belittle our inadequate attempts—and in many cases, we blame our own play for this turn of events! As though our play teased, tricked, or betrayed us. It didn’t. – American Theatre
  
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• 1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life

  13-09-2023 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their children with her. The diary Steinbeck wrote throughout the year that followed was the most ‘intense and private’ journal he ever wrote.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Own Culture? You Better Have A Physical Copy Of It

  13-09-2023 19:32 via reason.com
  
  Every time news breaks of one of these deletions, a refrain echoes online: Buy physical media! The internet is too impermanent, the argument goes: The real cultural cornucopia was in the outside world. – Reason
  
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• What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing Aeschylus At Epidaurus

  13-09-2023 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “‘Tragedy,’ in drama, is concerned with suffering, but there’s more to it than that. … Individuals inherit fallout from events in the remote past, through no fault of their own. The next move is the test: What do you do with the bad hand you’ve been dealt?” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Disney/Charter Deal Demonstrates The Weakness Of The Cable And Streaming Businesses

  13-09-2023 18:31 via slate.com
  
  The traditional TV business is losing customers until it hits a bottom that it may take a while to find. Streaming is losing money without any end in sight. It’s ascending, but it’s still underwater. Disney and Charter avoided a breakup. Now they can set about finding a way to change math. – Slate
  
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• Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting Serious Blowback

  13-09-2023 18:06 via variety.com
  
  “Barrymore was initially announced as host of the Nov. 15 (National Book Awards) in late July. Now, just days after some protested her decision to bring back her talk show on Sept. 18, the foundation has revoked its decision, with no replacement host announced.” – Variety
  
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• Who Benefits From Dance Company Apprenticeships?

  13-09-2023 17:32 via dancemagazine.com
  
  As trainees and apprentices, dancers may perform on professional stages for years without being compensated. Not everyone can afford to work for free—much less to pay for the privilege. – Dance Magazine
  
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• ‘The most fun!’ Paul Simon unveils collaboration with The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse illustrator

  13-09-2023 17:21
  
  Charlie Mackesy created his new drawings while listening to Simon’s music, the pair explain at the exhibition launch, with Simon outlining how the Covid-19 pandemic helped his creativityThe singer-songwriter Paul Simon and artist Charlie Mackesy, known for the bestselling book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, have unveiled the fruits of a remote collaboration – and have hinted at further work together.Seven Psalms, the exhibition at Frieze art fair’s London gallery No
  
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• The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave It Back

  13-09-2023 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The purloined painting, says the art detective to whom it was returned, “was a little bit cursed.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille

  13-09-2023 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “They may only be three but they are a horde. They are (La)Horde. … How did the threesome end up as artistic directors of Ballet National de Marseille? While they were visiting Los Angeles, …” – The New York Times
  
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• Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia

  13-09-2023 16:05 via icij.org
  “In one of the most significant repatriations of art to Cambodia from a private collection, the family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to turn over 33 ancient statues that officials say include stolen antiquities trafficked to the United States.” – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
  
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• Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director

  13-09-2023 15:30 via yahoo.com
  
  “An ensemble member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company,” Tarell Alvin McCraney “is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and has earned a reputation as a passionate mentor. He will continue to teach at Yale while leading the Geffen Playhouse.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage

  13-09-2023 15:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably — targeted heritage sites in Ukraine. If the report is correct, the critical legal threshold needed to prosecute Putin for a war crime is now significantly closer.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s Music Director Position

  13-09-2023 14:34 via apnews.com
  
  “The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he starts in New York. … (He) will become The Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director Chair starting with the 2025-26 season” – AP
  
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• Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens

  13-09-2023 14:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “The prestigious award for books, drama and music, which had previously been open to just US citizens, will now consider permanent residents of the US and those who have made the US ‘their longtime primary home’, according to a press release on behalf of the Pulitzer prize board.” – The Guardian
  
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• Constable sketch that was found in suitcase to be sold at auction

  13-09-2023 11:29
  
  The 200-year-old pencil sketch of a view across Dover Harbour was discovered during a house clearanceA sketch by the English landscape artist John Constable that was found in a suitcase during a house clearance is to be sold at auction.The pencil sketch, a view across Dover Harbour towards the castle above the town, is more than 200 years old. It is one of a series of sketches the artist made in April 1803 during a voyage on the East India Company ship Coutts from London to Deal. Continue readin
  
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• Chris Ofili: Requiem review – Grenfell Tower as a burning cage in an ocean of despair

  13-09-2023 09:58
  
  Tate Britain, London
  The artist’s dramatic site-specific work, partly a memorial to artist Khadija Saye, who died in the fire, is like a transition between life and death or grief and acceptanceAt first, Chris Ofili’s Requiem came as a shock. I am well used to the languid, dreamlike qualities Ofili’s art nowadays presents us with: the distortions, the profuse vegetation, the swooning elongations, the ravishing cascades of corpuscular light, the satyrs and the lovers and the nig
  
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• Where’s the $500 million fund for the arts?

  13-09-2023 05:19 via artsjournal.com
  
  Row X by Hannah Grannemann
  Last week, four big name funders, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, and the Knight Foundation, announced a $500 million initiative called Press Forward. The goal of the fund is to support the local news sector (both nonprofit and for-profit) to revive and modernize local news. Funds will support infrastructure for community-centered news, new journalistic practices, increasing diversity in newsrooms, and new business models.
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• The Risks And Creative Rewards Of Loneliness

  13-09-2023 00:01 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  The lonely are at substantially elevated risk for heart disease, stroke, obesity, addiction, and dementia; being lonely increases your overall risk of premature death by more than 60%. And the number of Americans afflicted by loneliness is not small: a recent survey found that more than 50 percent of us reported feeling lonely. – American Scholar
  
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