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• Branding Your Literary Favorites

  11-10-2023 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Is it the ultimate pairing of the lowbrow (baseball cap) and the highbrow (literature)? Or is it wearing books as one might wear cult fashion labels — and the uncanny performance of it all? Does it matter? – The New York Times
  
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• How Theatre Schools Are Adapting To The Future

  11-10-2023 22:01 via thestage.co.uk
  Drama school leaders are at the sharp end: the issues experienced by the wider theatre sector often land first in drama schools, in raw, unfiltered and unrehearsed and powerful form. – The Stage
  
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• Is The Non-Profit Model Unsustainable For The Arts Today?

  11-10-2023 21:32 via sfcv.org
  As the nonprofit world shrivels in importance, mass media consolidates and grows more influential, and its stars grow ever more powerful, as the economic tidal waves accompanying the summer’s two largest concert tours, by Swift and Beyoncé, have demonstrated. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Choreographer Kyle Abraham On His “Dance With Purpose”

  11-10-2023 20:59 via wmagazine.com
  
  “If I’m making a piece, whether I’m meaning for it to be political or not, I have to be aware that if I have even just a singular Black body in space, it’s considered political, let alone if I have a white dancer (as well).” – W Magazine
  
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• The UK Has 1,500 Micro-Cinemas Happily Serving Up Movies

  11-10-2023 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The UK now has 1,500 volunteer-run venues, according to Jaq Chell, CEO of the charity Cinema for All, which supports them with everything from licensing and insurance to equipment. Some are just pop-ups in pubs or community halls. – The Guardian
  
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• Playwright David Adjmi’s Having His First New York Production In A Decade, And It’s All In A Recording Studio

  11-10-2023 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “(Stereophonic) unfolds in a recording studio, where a rock band’s protracted work on an album straddles a year from 1976-77. ‘It really is like the process and the play are blurring because these people are in a studio forever (and so have we).” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘I’m honoring these people’: Spike Lee’s Creative Sources at the Brooklyn Museum

  11-10-2023 20:00
  
  The New York film-maker once boasted he ‘could fill the Brooklyn Museum’. With this exhibition, he nearly hasSpike Lee is telling me the story of how he had to convince Frank Sinatra to let him use his music for Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. Apparently, Ol’ Blue Eyes was upset about one of the film-maker’s earlier movies, Do the Right Thing. In an unforgettable scene, a ruckus breaks out in Sal’s Pizzeria, the neighborhood restaurant where the film’s pro
  
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• ‘I’m honoring these people’: Spike Lee on ‘filling’ the Brooklyn Museum with his creative sources

  11-10-2023 20:00
  
  The New York film-maker once boasted he ‘could fill the Brooklyn Museum’. With this exhibition, he nearly hasSpike Lee is telling me the story of how he had to convince Frank Sinatra to let him use his music for Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. Apparently, Ol’ Blue Eyes was upset about one of the film-maker’s earlier movies, Do the Right Thing. In an unforgettable scene, a ruckus breaks out in Sal’s Pizzeria, the neighborhood restaurant where the film’s pro
  
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• Where Our Brains Save Different Kinds Of Memories

  11-10-2023 19:35 via nautil.us
  
  “Each time an experience is recalled, there are changes in the connection weights of the network, causing memory elements to get more averaged out. It raises questions about the circumstances under which “eyewitness testimony [could] be protected from bias and influence from repeated onslaughts of queries.” – Nautilus
  
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• Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters

  11-10-2023 19:06
  
  Regent’s Park, London
  This corporate gathering full of artists’ drab, desperate attempts to get bought by clueless rich collectors has domesticated contemporary art and thus killed itThere is an unutterable sadness to seeing Damien Hirst’s new paintings at Frieze. These big pictures of gardens, their blurry photorealism besmirched with Pollockesque drips in a desperate attempt to bring such duds to life, are the star turn at Gagosian, one of the mightiest of the art dealers who
  
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• “An Aesthetic Of Disobedience” — Oscar Wilde As Critic

  11-10-2023 19:04 via thenation.com
  
  As he wrote in “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” – The Nation
  
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• Please join us for a discussion of the Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts

  11-10-2023 18:52 via artsjournal.com
  One week from today, Wednesday October 18, at noon eastern time, my colleague Dr. Joanna Woronkowicz will be interviewing me, and taking questions, on my recently published book, as part of the Center for Cultural Affairs workshop series (we meet every two weeks via Zoom, for the latest in arts management and policy research). It’s free to register – please join us!
  
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• Why So Many People Feel They’re Stuck In BS Jobs

  11-10-2023 18:31 via psyche.co
  
  Simon Walo estimated that 19 per cent of people in the United States believe their jobs are ‘bullshit’ and, for the most part, working in one of Graeber’s BS occupations significantly increased the probability that a person perceived their job as socially useless, compared with being in another kind of job. – Psyche
  
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• Influencer Boxing (Or, The Joys Of Watching Obnoxious Social Media Celebrities Punch Each Other’s Light Out)

  11-10-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “This is the world of internet-famous tough guys and celebrities clinging to relevance, of manufactured beefs and emotional arcs plotted via training videos and podcast appearances. … What’s more entertaining: an eight-round heavyweight qualifier or watching family vlogger Austin McBroom knock out TikTok frat bro Bryce Hall?” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Portland Art Museum Got Rid Of Its Volunteer Docents. Was There A Problem?

  11-10-2023 17:31 via wweek.com
  
  Does reflecting the communities they serve mean reducing the role of senior white women, who made up a large proportion of the docent council? – Willamette Week
  
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• Shirley Jackson’s Horror Fiction As Grief Therapy

  11-10-2023 17:03 via lithub.com
  
  “A common trope in horror is that the character being haunted, possessed, or hunted is going through a personal agony — one that either helps them rise above the evil or destroys them altogether. … Grief cannot — should not — be sugar-coated. So we come to scary movies and books to relate.” – Literary Hub
  
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• A Never-Before-Published Interview With Gabriel García Márquez

  11-10-2023 16:36 via english.elpais.com
  
  “What would be great is to collect all the myths that exist about me, because maybe they’re more interesting than my life!” Q: “Could it be that you yourself encourage these myths?” A: “Well let’s see …” (in English) – El País (Spain)
  
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• The Tiny Village Radio Station In India That’s Helping Fight The Patriarchy

  11-10-2023 16:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Meet ‘Alfaz-e-Mewat,’ a community radio station that offers a mix of group therapy, education, women’s empowerment and entertainment. … In this region — which has some of the country’s lowest female literacy rates and where violence against women is the norm — the station is the voice of change.” – The New York Times
  
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• U.S. Federal Trade Commission Proposes Requiring All Ticket Sellers To State Service Fees Up Front

  11-10-2023 15:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The rule would not set a limit on the fees, but rather would require broader disclosures, including the purpose of the fees and whether they are refundable. This action comes as President Biden has made cutting down on the so-called junk fees one of the priorities of his administration.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘All I wore was my camera strap’: David Hurn’s best photograph

  11-10-2023 15:25
  
  ‘This was the Isle of Wight music festival in 1969. We had started to smell and had gone down to the sea to get clean. To do that, you have to take your clothes off. It seemed perfectly natural’Early in my career, I realised that having a well-numbered archive with clear captions was something that would bring in an income for ever. I realised, too, that it was a good idea to go out and photograph unique subjects: the biggest, the smallest, things that were about to disappear. When y
  
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• A New Alabama Sculpture Park Aims To Tell The Story Of Slavery In The U.S.

  11-10-2023 15:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “When the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park opens in Montgomery, Ala., in early 2024, on a bluff flanked by railroad tracks overlooking the Alabama River, visitors will be able to arrive by boat — retracing the footsteps of tens of thousands of Africans.” – The New York Times
  
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• Princeton Art Museum Decides It Has A Rubens

  11-10-2023 14:34 via artnews.com
  
  “The work in question appears to be The Death of Adonis, an oil sketch on a wood panel depicting the hunter laid flat as a boar attacks.” – ARTnews
  
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• Winnipeg Symphony Posts $1.3 Million Deficit, But Things Aren’t Desperate Yet, Says Board

  11-10-2023 14:00 via cbc.ca
  A COVID stabilization reserve fund set up by the orchestra’s board has covered that budget hole, but with government pandemic aid over and attendance not all the way back, difficult times do lie ahead. Said the executive director, “We’ve known this was coming.” – CBC
  
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• Executive Director – Geva Theatre Center

  11-10-2023 06:06 via artsjournal.com
  Geva Theatre Center (Geva) is seeking its next Executive Director, an ambitious leader who is ready to bring in new ideas and activate plans to generate increasing support for the company’s impressive artistic work. As a co-leader with Geva’s Artistic Director, the Executive Director’s focus will be on the overall health and welfare of the institution with a major focus on building an expanding culture of philanthropy and igniting a more cohesive and aggressive approach to bran
  
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• Is The Internet Less Fun Now?

  11-10-2023 00:00 via newyorker.com
  
  The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over. The precipitous decline of X is the bellwether for a new era of the Internet that simply feels less fun than it used to be. – The New Yorker
  
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