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• When Musicians’ Bodies Turn On Them

  24-10-2023 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The term dystonia is rooted in the Latin prefix dys, or difficulty, and tonus, meaning tone or tension. It refers to involuntary disruptions in muscle tone that cause spasms and shakes. It has been divided into many categories and subtypes, depending on the body parts affected and the age of the person when it began. – The Guardian
  
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• The Top Classical Music Radio Station In America? It’s In Portland Oregon

  24-10-2023 23:01 via oregonlive.com
  
  “We’ve received our ratings from Nielsen, and they said it is not even close,” said All Classical’s President and CEO Suzanne Nance. “We’ve been pulling a 6.5 market share, and the closest competitor is 3.0.” – The Oregonian
  
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• A Northern Ireland Orchestra: Peace Through Music

  24-10-2023 22:34 via bbc.com
  
  The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost 30 years on, this remains the central goal of the 140-member orchestra. – BBC
  
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• Study: Why Art Seems Better When You See Something Of Yourself In It

  24-10-2023 22:01 via psyche.co
  
  A recent set of studies in the journal Psychological Science suggests that a more personal factor – specifically, how much a piece of art seems to relate, in one way or another, to you – can contribute greatly to its aesthetic power. – Psyche
  
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• CBC Ditched ExTwitter. Didn’t Make Much Difference

  24-10-2023 21:28 via ca.finance.yahoo.com
  
  “The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic,” a CBC spokesperson told The Canadian Press when asked why it hasn’t fully returned. – Yahoo!
  
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• Why Does The California Arts Council Keep Changing Its Funding Guidelines Without Warning?

  24-10-2023 21:02 via msn.com
  Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap — and then reinstated it in August. Many larger organizations spent time completing the very involved application, then learned they weren’t eligible after all. Why? – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• Americans Are Cutting Back Their Streaming Subscriptions

  24-10-2023 20:31 via cordcuttersnews.com
  
  Reports said that many Americans were paying for up to six streaming services. Since then, numbers have mostly returned to pre-pandemic with Americans paying for about three or four subscriptions. – Cordcutters News
  
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• I Reviewed The Most Popular Artist On Social Media. His Followers Came After Me. Here’s What I Learned.

  24-10-2023 20:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez’s first solo show (whose opening was covered by CNN), and Rodriguez sicced his fans on Davis — who says this all “raises some larger issues worth thinking about.” – Artnet
  
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• Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Feds To Block Seizure Of Ancient Sculpture

  24-10-2023 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  The lawsuit comes two months after a New York judge issued a search warrant citing “reasonable cause” to believe the statue, which was legally acquired by the museum almost four decades ago, was stolen property. – CNN
  
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• The Wealthy San Francisco Matron Who Transformed Modern Study Of The Aztecs

  24-10-2023 19:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  “(Zelia Nuttall) was the first to decode the Aztec calendar and identify the purposes of ancient adornments and weapons. She untangled the organization of commercial networks and transcribed ancient songs. … Having taught herself Nahuatl, she was the first to transcribe and translate ancient manuscripts.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• New Tool Lets Artists “Poison” Their Images At The Pixel Level To Thwart AI

  24-10-2023 18:31 via technologyreview.com
  
  Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. – MIT Technology Review
  
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• Washington Ballet Names A New Artistic Director

  24-10-2023 18:06 via msn.com
  “Edwaard Liang comes to Washington after spending the past decade as artistic director of BalletMet, an esteemed midsize company in Columbus, Ohio. He is credited with nearly doubling the organization’s budget and choreographing 21 works during his time there, which also saw an expansion of BalletMet’s school.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• The Twisty-Turny Saga Of The British Museum Thefts

  24-10-2023 17:32 via wsj.com
  
  So began an antiques whodunit—whose cast of characters includes an Oxford-based priest-cum-archaeologist, a handful of rare-gem dealers and some of the British Museum’s most august researchers—that has shaken the premise behind the museum’s most important reason for existing. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Why Investing In A Broadway Production Is Like Investing In A Tech Startup

  24-10-2023 17:03 via npr.org
  
  The Indicator podcast from NPR’s Planet Money features a tech exec-turned-Broadway producer who says that “the industry fully functions like venture capital. If you fail, it just goes (whooshing sound) to zero.” The crucial difference is in how you scale up. (audio plus transcript) – NPR
  
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• Steven Lutvak, Composer Of “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder,” Is Dead At 64

  24-10-2023 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Over the years, Mr. Lutvak wrote several musicals that were staged in regional theaters and Off-Off-Broadway. But none were nearly as successful as A Gentleman’s Guide.’ … The show opened in November 2013 and ran for 905 performances over more than two years,” winning four Tony Awards. – The New York Times
  
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• Israeli Government Tries To Ban Al Jazeera From The Country

  24-10-2023 16:04 via cjr.org
  
  Communications minister Shlomo Karhi pushed for the authority to unilaterally shut down the Qatar-based network’s Israeli reporting operations (and, presumably, those, of other foreign outlets if he wishes), though he settled for doing so only with the approval of several Cabinet members and a court. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• North American Opera Companies Offer Reciprocal Discounts Through A New “Opera Passport”

  24-10-2023 15:32 via ludwig-van.com
  
  The initiative by Opera America, described as a discount exchange for traveling audience members, has 85 participating companies across the US and Canada offering a 10% discount on tickets to subscribers of any other participating company. – Ludwig Van
  
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• An Entire Touring Production Is Stolen From A San Francisco Parking Lot

  24-10-2023 15:05 via msn.com
  “The stolen U-Haul truck contained 500 shadow puppets, props, costumes, projectors and other items used to stage puppet master Hamid Rahmanian’s Persian epic Song of the North, … leaving the production company empty-handed after four San Francisco shows.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• The Craven

  24-10-2023 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  A Halloween poem for the nonprofit arts leaders among you. Laugh at your own peril.With apologies to the Poes.Once upon a desk so dusty, while I called a sixteenth trustee,
  All about a new donation that would keep open our door—
  While I wept and gave a holler, “Oh, why can’t we raise a dollar?”
  And the tightness of my collar made me sweat profusely more.
  So I wiped my brow with Kleenex, but I sweat profusely more,
  Sweating bullets, nothing more.Was it August or November?
  
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• RB Kitaj review – kaleidoscopic collage-paintings haunted by the Holocaust

  24-10-2023 12:33
  
  Piano Nobile, LondonThe weight of history hovers over this American postwar figurative artist who settled in the UK, with an increasing focus on the experience of Jews‘Cézanne said he wanted to do Poussin over again after nature,” said the painter RB Kitaj. “I like the idea that one might try to do Cézanne and Degas over again after Auschwitz.” London gallery Piano Nobile has created an intimate exhibition that shows you how Kitaj came to such a conception.
  
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