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• Right Wing Journalist Nominated To Lead Venice Biennale

  27-10-2023 23:29 via news.artnet.com
  
  Since coming to power last fall, Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her party the Fratelli d’Italia have been installing right-leaning candidates into leadership positions in the culture sector. – Artnet
  
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• Fascinating List – Here Are The Most-Banned Books In US Prisons

  27-10-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The list includes Amy Schumer’s memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, flagged by Florida officials for graphic sexual content and for being “a threat to the security, order, or rehabilitative objectives. – The Guardian
  
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• Public Radio Station Sees Huge Ratings Boost With High-Context News

  27-10-2023 22:32 via insideradio.com
  
  “We’ve been in a crazy news cycle, [where] people are coming to us for nuance and context, like they’ve been doing [for] many public radio stations across the country,” WYPR Chief Content Officer Jonathan Blakley says about the station’s 40% Aug.-Sept. gain according to Nielsen. – Inside Radio
  
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• Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Panoramic Viewing Platform

  27-10-2023 22:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of controversy after visitors began peering into the glass-walled, luxury apartments opposite and, in some cases, taking invasive snaps for Instagram.  – Artnet
  
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• Is Our Definition Of Creativity Too Narrow?

  27-10-2023 21:34 via aeon.co
  
  You can show creativity in countless activities, from organising storage space to trimming shrubs to fixing a hole in your wall to training the local crows so they bring you shiny objects. I understand the art bias. – Aeon
  
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• How Does A Kosovo Theater Dramatize The End Of The Post-Yugoslav Wars? Farce, Of Course.

  27-10-2023 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  In Jeton Neziraj’s Negotiating Peace, “vain generals can only be lured to the negotiating table by promises of Hollywood films celebrating their actions. Opposing parties get drunk while negotiating demilitarised zones, mix up drafts of ceasefire agreements and sign on the wrong dotted line.” – The Guardian
  
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• 2023 List: America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Cities

  27-10-2023 20:29 via culturaldata.org
  
  Adjusting values on a per capita basis as well as accounting for differences in costs of living enable this analysis to level the playing field as much as possible. – SMU Cultural Data
  
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• All About Fake Movie Blood

  27-10-2023 20:03 via qz.com
  
  “In all its elemental, metaphorical, campy, over-the-top, gore-y goodness, blood is something that has seeped into the visual vocabulary of movies. But how exactly did all that gloop get on the movie set? It’s kind of a sticky story.” – Quartz
  
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• Board Of The Much-Troubled Banff Centre Is Fired

  27-10-2023 19:31 via rmoutlook.com
  
  The Province of Alberta has sacked the board and appointed an administrator to oversee and assess. The institution has suffered for years with poor leadership. – Rocky Mountain Outlook
  
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• You Should Never, Ever Tell David Sedaris Your Humiliating Stories

  27-10-2023 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Well, unless you want them recounted in his writings or on stage, as Gabb Schivone learned the hard way. – Yahoo! (Slate)
  
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• This Is What AI Thinks Is Attractive Humans

  27-10-2023 18:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  When an AI image-generation tool—like the ones made by Midjourney, Stability AI, or Adobe—is prompted to create a picture of a person, that person is likely to be better-looking than those of us who actually walk the planet Earth. – The Atlantic
  
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• How Akram Khan Found Himself Combining Classical Indian Kathak With Contemporary Dance

  27-10-2023 17:58 via sfcv.org
  “That was accidental. … (At university) there were modules on contemporary dance. I didn’t know what the hell that was. But I decided because it’s dance, I’ll do that. I don’t think anybody really knows how to combine the two. … My body got confused, and I celebrated that confusion.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Spotify Says It Will De-Monetize Least-Popular Tracks

  27-10-2023 17:32 via stereogum.com
  
  Presumably, Spotify will frame this as a way to combat fraud and to limit payments to ambient-noise generators, but it could also have a tremendous effect on the service’s role within the independent music world. – Stereogram
  
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• In Search Of The Songs In Shakespeare’s First Folio

  27-10-2023 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The plays have many passages marked as songs, but no indication of what the melodies were or who composed them. Identifying that music requires a lot of detective work, and scholar Ross Duffin has found art songs by composers such as Thomas Morley and popular ballads. – The New York Times
  
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• Conductor Zdeněk Mácal Is Dead At 87

  27-10-2023 16:34 via njarts.net
  
  After fleeing Czechoslovakia following the 1968 Soviet invasion, he made an international career. He was music director/chief conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony (1970-74), the NDR Radiphilharmonie in Hannover (1980-1983), the Milwaukee Symphony (1986-1995), New Jersey Symphony (1993-2002), and, in a triumphant return to his homeland, the Czech Philharmonic (2003-2007). – NJArts.net
  
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• Italy Has Another Leaning Tower, And It Has Scientists Very Worried

  27-10-2023 16:02 via euronews.com
  
  “The (Garisenda Tower in Bologna) already leans at an angle of four degrees — only slightly less than the renowned five-degree tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Now, the detection of ‘anomalous oscillations’ has prompted road closures around the structure to allow for detailed monitoring of potential instability.” – Euronews
  
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• Why There’s A Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Being Built In A Tiny North Dakota Hamlet

  27-10-2023 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mention it, and you tend to get a puzzled look and two questions: Doesn’t Roosevelt already have a presidential library? (No.) And why the heck is this one being built in North Dakota? That second question is one just about everyone in Medora is ready to answer.” – The New York Times
  
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• Comedian Hasan Minhaj Responds To New Yorker Story Suggesting That His Stand-Up Act Is Full Of Lies

  27-10-2023 15:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “To everyone who read that article, I want to answer the question that’s probably on your mind: Underneath all that pomade, is Hasan Minhaj just a con artist who uses fake racism and Islamophobia to advance his career? Because after reading that article, I would also think that.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Mario Vargas Llosa Says He Has Published His Last Book

  27-10-2023 14:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “In a postscript to the new book, Le dedico mi silencio (I Give You My Silence), the 87-year-old novelist writes: ‘I think I’ve finished this book. I’d now like to write an essay on Sartre, my teacher as a young man. It will be the last thing I write.'” – The Guardian
  
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• Artforum’s Editor-In-Chief Fired Following Open Letter About Gaza War

  27-10-2023 14:00 via thewrap.com
  
  “A week after Artforum published a widely criticized open letter calling for Palestinian liberation that didn’t mention the Hamas attacks on Israel, editor-in-chief David Velasco has been fired” by the magazine’s owners, Penske Media. – TheWrap
  
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• Hockney bounces back, a Myanmar blockbuster and fantasy in the library – the week in art

  27-10-2023 13:00
  
  Hockney’s life and art, the crises of modern Myanmar, new works by Yinka Shonibare, and a celebration of the many worlds of fantasy – all in your weekly dispatchDavid Hockney: Drawing from LifeThis exhibition, returning after its original run was cut short by Covid, is a moving chronicle of Hockney’s life in his art.• National Portrait Gallery, London, 2 November-21 January Continue reading...
  
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• How a biologist turned amateur sleuth to solve a century-old art riddle

  27-10-2023 06:00
  
  Nineteenth-century psychiatrists believed a patient’s condition could be diagnosed by analysing their face. Théodore Géricault, master of French romanticism, was commissioned to paint 10 portraits but five went missing …On a hot summer night in 2018, Javier Burgos stayed up late on his computer. His wife and daughters were already asleep when he decided to do another round of Google searches. This time the biologist’s quest to solve a century-old art riddle took
  
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• Two Key Leadership Positions at Brevard Music Center

  27-10-2023 04:13 via artsjournal.com
  Brevard Music Center (BMC), one of the United States’ most revered summer music festivals and summer training programs, is seeking leaders for two key positions:Director of Artistic Planning and Educational Programs
  Director of Marketing and CommunicationsBoth of these exceptional positions will provide for meaningful opportunities to advance the mission of a storied organization, work alongside a gifted leadership team, impact the lives of young musicians, and live in a beautiful and bur
  
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• ‘This is not rubbish’: retired Australian teacher painted thousands of works in secret

  27-10-2023 03:40
  
  A collection of 7,000 works was discovered in Robert Martiensen’s South Australian farmhouse after his death in 2007, and is now on displaySign up for the Rural Network email newsletterJoin the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the communityAs a child, Viola Morton used to spend her school holidays at the South Australian farmhouse where her eccentric cousin, Robert Martiensen, lived.“Bob’s mum would pick me up from the train station and we would have lots of fun,&r
  
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• Why American Theatre Magazine Is Back In Print

  27-10-2023 00:02 via americantheatre.org
  
  “We weathered our own shutdown of sorts, pausing our print publication in May 2020. Now that we’re back on ink and paper, I have frequently been asked: Why now? Isn’t this a counterintuitive move, given the state of the American theatre, let alone of publishing?” – American Theatre
  
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