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• What It Would Mean For Music If Bandcamp Goes Away

  20-10-2023 23:29 via washingtonpost.com
  First, there’s the fear that an uncaring new ownership might end up sending one of the world’s most vital music libraries down the digital flush hole. Then there’s the concurrent fear that the community surrounding this special ecosystem will erode and go poof. – Washington Post
  
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• Research: Public Radio’s Storycorps Debates Move The Dial

  20-10-2023 23:05 via current.org
  
  Jennifer Richeson analyzed questionnaires completed by 400 One Small Step participants before and after their conversations. Her analysis showed that both liberals and conservatives felt more empathetic towards their partners following their conversations. – Current
  
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• Culture Wars And The Shaping Of Language

  20-10-2023 22:32 via aeon.co
  
  The culture wars that take place over controversial moral questions are, in part, battles over which ethically loaded concepts should win out within a society. – Aeon
  
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• Museums Are Caught In A Big Donor Problem

  20-10-2023 22:00 via apollo-magazine.com
  “There’s less philanthropic money around and [institutions] need to work a lot harder to engage new donors and this will require a more balanced approach to ethics. There is no such thing as “pure” private funding. If you dig deep enough, anyone who’s made a lot of money is likely to have some skeletons.” – Apollo
  
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• The Swiftie Universe Expands Yet Again (To Film). What’s It Mean?

  20-10-2023 21:28 via washingtonpost.com
  Swift is that rare artist who’s been rolling along, picking up new fans and keeping the old, during her long career. Just as Taylor has reinvented herself, giving some lyrics little tweaks in her re-recordings, different iterations of me, and everyone, have had our own evolutions. – Washington Post
  
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• Could This Documentary Finally Convince People That Nonprofits Need Unencumbered Donations For Covering Basic Operating Costs?

  20-10-2023 21:02 via apnews.com
  
  “I hope that it becomes the equivalent of An Inconvenient Truth to the conversation about climate change,” says Dan Pallotta, main subject of the documentary Uncharitable, “so that it begins to become civically incorrect to judge charities on superficial, knee jerk reactive measures.” – AP
  
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• Redefining The Canon Of Women Artists: National Museum Of Women Artists Reopens

  20-10-2023 20:29 via news.artnet.com
  
  Yes, our encyclopedic museums need to do a better job of painting the full picture of art history, women and artists of color included. But there is something special about a space fully dedicated to women. – Artnet
  
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• Tired Of Being A Culture Wars Target, LSU Professor Resigns The Day After Louisiana’s Election For Governor

  20-10-2023 20:05 via slate.com
  
  “My reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,” tweeted journalism professor Robert Mann. “And I have no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor’s efforts to punish me and other faculty members.” – Slate
  
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• AI Companies Are Using Artists’ Work (And Getting Rich). How Do Artists Get Paid?

  20-10-2023 19:33 via washingtonpost.com
  Right now, a few authors joining together to sue the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is a bit of a David-vs.-Goliath situation. Book publishers need to join this fight. Magazine publishers need to join this fight. – Washington Post
  
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• On Very Little Money, Belfast Has Developed A Lively Little Dance Scene

  20-10-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Everywhere I go in Belfast people tell me there’s no lack of talent here, just opportunity, infrastructure and funding. There’s been no executive committee in the Northern Ireland government since February 2022. … Still, artists talk about the Arts Council of Northern Ireland like friends, rather than bogeymen.” – The Guardian
  
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• Iowa’s New Library Book Ban Law Bans Books By James Joyce, Margaret Atwood And Toni Morrison

  20-10-2023 18:32 via washingtonpost.com
  This week, the Iowa City Community School District released a list of 68 books that it removed from schools to comply with the law. Among the titles: “Ulysses” by James Joyce, “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. – Washington Post
  
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• British Tour Of “The Merchant Of Venice 1936” Forced To Hire Security Guards

  20-10-2023 18:01 via variety.com
  
  The production, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play set in the days of Oswald Mosley’s Union of British Fascists, stars Tracy-Ann Oberman as a single-mother Shylock. She says audiences and critics have been very supportive, but since the Gaza War broke out, antisemites have made verbal attacks and threats. – Variety
  
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• The Vegas Sphere: A Glimpse Of Architecture To Come…

  20-10-2023 17:58 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  The building raises “the question of analog architecture’s ongoing ability to compete with digital wizardry for popular attention.” – Smithsonian
  
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• What To Learn From Being Bored At The Opera

  20-10-2023 17:31 via van-magazine.com
  
  There’s a volitional component to situational boredom—it inspires a pivot, a consideration of what one deems valuable. To be bored in this way is to desire change. – Van
  
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• Mat Collishaw review – fabricated plants put the shock and sensation back into British art

  20-10-2023 17:17
  
  Kew Gardens, LondonThe artist gleefully tricks us with his digital creepers, disappearing oak trees and blossoming flowers made with AI. The message? Nature will have its revengeSomething evil is blooming in a shady corner of Kew Gardens. Poisonous plants produce red fleshy flowers and sinister insects pretend to be harmless petals – or are the petals posing as insects? Mat Collishaw has created a creepy and beautiful, horrible and exquisite cabinet of botanical curiosities that puts the s
  
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• Mat Collishaw review – AI plants put the shock and sensation back into British art

  20-10-2023 17:17
  
  Kew Gardens, LondonThe artist gleefully tricks us with his digital creepers, disappearing oak trees and blossoming flowers made with AI. The message? Nature will have its revengeSomething evil is blooming in a shady corner of Kew Gardens. Poisonous plants produce red fleshy flowers and sinister insects pretend to be harmless petals – or are the petals posing as insects? Mat Collishaw has created a creepy and beautiful, horrible and exquisite cabinet of botanical curiosities that puts the s
  
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• A Wave Of Contemporary Operas Is Taking On Black Experiences In America, Past And Present

  20-10-2023 17:06 via msn.com
  The highest-profile recent examples have been the Metropolitan Opera productions of Terence Blanchard’s Champion and Fire Shut Up in My Bones, but there are more: Rhiannon Giddens’s Pulitzer-winning Omar, Anthony Davis’s X and The Central Park Five, Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori’s Blue, Jake Heggie’s Intelligence, … – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• The Met Museum Is Spending $2 Billion To Do Major Capital Projects Without Closing The Building

  20-10-2023 16:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “By the end of this, more than a quarter of our galleries will have changed,” said CEO Max Hollein. “It’s open-heart surgery and the patient is awake.” Here’s a look at what’s planned — and whom the Met has hired to oversee it all. – The New York Times
  
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• National Theatre In London To Try Early Weeknight Curtain Times

  20-10-2023 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  After surveying more than 8,000 audience members, who expressed desires for more time for post-show dinner, discussion, and/or catching the last train home, the NT will start a pilot scheme this winter of 6:30 pm start times for some Tuesday and Thursday performances. – The Guardian
  
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• Sculpture by the Sea 2023: Bondi cliffs transformed by coastal artworks – in pictures

  20-10-2023 16:00
  
  The free annual outdoor exhibition of sculptures winds its way along the 2km coastal path from south Bondi to Tamarama beach in Sydney’s east. More than 450,000 people are expected to visit the exhibition, which runs until 6 NovemberSail on: 50 years of the Sydney Opera House – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Manhattan DA To Get Its $20 Million Roman Statue Back

  20-10-2023 15:30 via ideastream.org
  
  “The museum has filed suit against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the August seizure of “Draped Male Figure,” which has been part of the museum’s collection since 1986 and is valued at more than $20 million. The ancient bronze remains in Cleveland, seized in place and off-view.” – Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)
  
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• Vincent Patrick, Author Of “The Pope Of Greenwich Village”, Is Dead At 88

  20-10-2023 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  “The son of a Bronx pool-hall owner and numbers runner, Mr. Patrick was raised in a milieu sprinkled with the grifters, hustlers and mobsters who would eventually become characters in his novels, which also included Family Business (1985) and Smoke Screen (1999).” – The New York Times
  
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• So Just What Is This $150 Million Offer George Clooney Made (And The Union Turned Down) To End The SAG-AFTRA Strike?

  20-10-2023 14:33 via variety.com
  
  The heart of the offer, also backed by Scarlett Johannson, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and others, is to remove the cap on actors’ pay subject to union dues, thus bringing more income to SAG-AFTRA. Generous, sure, but it has nothing to do with the issues underlying the strike. – Variety
  
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• The UK’s Best New Building: A Retirement Community In London Wins The 2023 Stirling Prize

  20-10-2023 14:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “In its arrangement of spaces, carefully judged details and tactile material qualities, (the John Morden Centre) is a model for how to create a sociable setting for life in older age – a beacon of optimism after a decade of swingeing cuts to social care.” – The Guardian
  
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• Creepy AI blooms, Raphael’s crafty treasures and a neglected pop star – the week in art

  20-10-2023 12:07
  
  Plus Picasso’s enduring influence on modernism, brand new work from Derek Boshier and Venus dries her hair – all in your weekly dispatchMat Collishaw: Petrichor
  Creepy and disconcerting flower pictures, fabricated using AI and resembling Dutch still lifes corrupted by sin.
  • Kew Gardens, London, until 7 April Continue reading...
  
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• Picasso in Fontainebleau: what happened in the summer of 1921?

  20-10-2023 11:18
  
  A new exhibition at MoMA in New York offers a strange selection of differently styled masterworks from the artistA short train ride from the center of Paris, the town of Fontainebleau is a picturesque tourist destination, widely loved for the rich forest that surrounds it and its magnificent, opulent palace. The town’s cemetery holds the remains of the writer Katherine Mansfield, among others, and its palace was contributed to by French monarchs throughout the middle ages, including Sun Ki
  
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• Why Netflix Doesn’t Disclose Ratings: To Help Creators?

  20-10-2023 00:01 via variety.com
  
  “It was part of our promise with creators. At the time we started creating original programming, our creators felt like they were pretty trapped in this kind of overnight ratings world and weekend box office world defining their success and failures.” – Variety
  
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