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• Assistant Art Director

  31-10-2023 23:34 via artsjournal.com
  Oregon State UniversityDepartment: College of Engineering (ENG)
  Appointment Type: Professional Faculty
  Job Location: Corvallis
  Recommended Full-Time Salary Range: $51,072-$86,904Job Summary:The College of Engineering is seeking an Assistant Art Director. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.This position is responsible for enhancing and building the online brand image of the College of Engineering through digital and print communications. Primarily, this positi
  
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• How Revelations Of Buffy Ste. Marie’s Heritage Is Affecting Indigenous Culture

  31-10-2023 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Suddenly, this story broke and everything we believed about her was called into question. There was no warning and no sensitivity to the impact it would have on Indigenous peoples. This is not how reconciliation is done. – The Conversation
  
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• An Initiative To Radically Change The Way Scientific Research Is Shared

  31-10-2023 22:29 via nature.com
  
  It outlines a future “community-based” and “scholar-led” open-research communication system in which publishers are no longer gatekeepers that reject submitted work or determine first publication dates. Instead, authors would decide when and where to publish the initial accounts of their findings, both before and after peer review. – Nature
  
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• How Big-Publishing Consolidation Has Changed Fiction-Writing

  31-10-2023 22:03 via washingtonpost.com
  In the conglomerate era, authors like Stephen King and Danielle Steel are pressured to become advertisements for themselves, even as much of the work of authorship (the research, the fact-checking) is farmed out to a small army of aides, assistants and publicists, leaving writers with less control over their output. – Washington Post
  
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• News Consumption Trends — Mainstream Journalism Down, Opinion Channels Up

  31-10-2023 21:31 via pressgazette.co.uk
  In the past 16 months, seven publishers crossed the one million subscriber mark to enter Press Gazette’s ranking for the first time – including the accounts for opinion-led UK broadcaster GB News and global TalkTV programme Piers Morgan Uncensored. – Press Gazette
  
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• Theatre’s Crisis Is Really A Demographic Issue

  31-10-2023 21:01 via thestage.co.uk
  I have been told that staff, tasked to phone up lifelong supporters and subscribers who didn’t renew for the first time, had to be given counselling after hearing the harrowing explanations they were told for why. – The Stage
  
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• Should Theatre’s Performance Time Norm Be 6:30?

  31-10-2023 20:34 via thestage.co.uk
  Six-thirty may not be a traditional starting time for theatre. But then in the 16th and early 17th-century, before the advent of the indoor playhouse, afternoon performances were the norm; in the interwar-period 8.30pm was common. – The Stage
  
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• The Founding Novel Of The Regency Romance Genre Features Some Ugly Stereotypes. Is It Okay To Edit Them Out Now?

  31-10-2023 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Georgette Heyer’s 1950 novel The Grand Sophy isn’t exactly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it definitely includes antisemitic language. That’s been edited out in a new edition. Is that sensitivity to today’s readers or bowdlerization? – The New York Times
  
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• How Story-Telling In Podcasts Is Different From Radio

  31-10-2023 19:27 via current.org
  
  The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a throughline, listeners stick with your documentary only if they’re already invested in the issue. – Current
  
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• What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads

  31-10-2023 19:06 via msn.com
  “These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. … But they’re also clearer in purpose and tell us a lot about what sorts of problems these companies think generative AI can solve — for them, anyway.” – MSN (New York Magazine)
  
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• We Live In An Always-On World. What Does It Mean To Withdraw From It? (From Time To Time)

  31-10-2023 18:31 via aeon.co
  
  Acts of disengagement are routinely met with scepticism, judgment and pushback in public discourse. What if we were to treat them instead as opportunities for open enquiry and ask what is to be gained by them? – Aeon
  
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• As A Show, “Pal Joey” Has Always Been A Mess. Can Making Joey A Gifted Black Jazz Singer Fix It?

  31-10-2023 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  That’s the gambit being tried with a new adaptation, co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover, that’s getting a five-day run in New York this week. (Another change: the addition of tap-dancing ancestral spirits called the Griots.) – The New York Times
  
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• Jon Daniel and the black Britons who should be on a postage stamp | Letters

  31-10-2023 17:57
  
  James McCarthy celebrates the late designer who campaigned to put black heroes on stamps. Plus recommendations from Marietta Crichton Stuart, Owen Knight and Jackie KingThirty years ago, the designer Jon Daniel started and led a campaign to put black people on Royal Mail stamps (They have all earned Britain’s thanks: 20 Black heroes who should be on a postage stamp, 28 October). He designed and printed postcards with his own stamps on one side and the Royal Mail’s address on the othe
  
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• To What Extent Is Misinformation Changing How We Think?

  31-10-2023 17:29 via undark.org
  
  Misinformation is most commonly defined as anything that is factually inaccurate, but not intended to deceive: in other words, people being wrong. However, it is often talked about in the same breath as disinformation — inaccurate information spread maliciously — and propaganda. – UnDark
  
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• Who Looted The Ancient Roman Bronzes From This Village? The Villagers.

  31-10-2023 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “The story of the Bubon bronzes, though, is more than just a tale of looters’ remorse, investigative zeal, art market intrigue and antiquities repatriation. It’s also a lesson in history, one that presents a more nuanced view of ancient Rome than that popularized by Hollywood epics.” – The New York Times
  
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• Michelangelo’s secret sketches under church in Florence open to public

  31-10-2023 16:37
  
  Artist spent months in a chamber below the Medici Chapels to evade Pope Clement VII’s death sentenceMichelangelo Buonarroti left behind a trail of artistic marvels, including his statue of David and the sublime frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.Now a “secret” room in Florence whose walls are sketched with doodles that the Italian Renaissance master is believed to have created while evading a death sentence ordered by Pope Clement VII amid his falling out wit
  
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• How Art Schools Are Approaching Artificial Intelligence

  31-10-2023 16:31 via artsjournal.com
  “It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” – Artnet
  
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• The Drama Is Over: Philadelphia Has Selected Its Harriet Tubman Monument

  31-10-2023 16:05 via msn.com
  After a long and initially contentious process, a panel has selected a winner from the five finalist designs for a Tubman memorial to be installed near City Hall. (The mayor is one of many who think that the best option won.) – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• French couple take dealer to court for share of African mask’s €4.2m sale price

  31-10-2023 15:52
  
  Pensioners sold rare object found in attic for €150 – but campaigners say it must be returned to GabonA retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 (£130) have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m (£3.7m) at auction.But campaigners insist that the rare artefact instead should be returned to Gabon, in a case that has raised questions over Africa’s cultural heritage looted by colonial
  
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• Music Therapy: How And Why It Works

  31-10-2023 15:33 via nytimes.com
  
  “Scientific research has begun to explore why music appears to have such a strong effect on health and wellness, particularly mental health, where sounds can serve as a conduit to lift someone’s mood, help them reflect and reduce stress, anxiety and depression.” – The New York Times
  
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• Now Boris Johnson Is Going To Be A TV Pundit

  31-10-2023 15:01 via pressgazette.co.uk
  The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK’s right-leaning network GB News. “I’m going to be giving this remarkable new TV channel my unvarnished views on everything,” he says, “… (and) why I believe our best days are yet to come.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• The female gaze: contemporary art through a woman’s lens – in pictures

  31-10-2023 15:00
  
  Australian author Anita Selzer challenges societal norms in her latest book, The Female Gaze in Art and Photography, which showcases the work of 20 contemporary female artists and photographers from around the world. It looks at art with a female gaze, offering an empathetic representation of women, men and those who identify as LGBQTIA+. The featured works address issues as diverse as love and loss, motherhood, gender, racial identity, relationships, migration and the climate crisis. Here is a
  
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• Why The Entire Board of The Banff Centre Was Dismissed

  31-10-2023 14:36 via cbc.ca
  
  It all stems from a conflict between the now-former CEO, Janice Price, and now-former board chair Adam Waterous over her involvement in the choice of her successor — and in questions about how Waterous handled that conflict. – CBC
  
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• What Alessandra Ferri Has In Mind For The Vienna State Ballet

  31-10-2023 14:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “It is one of the great classical repertory companies, but I would like to have a company that lives in the present and looks to the future. What is clear is that it has to be a glamorous company, that reflects its history and the city.” – The New York Times
  
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• Robert Brustein — Stage Director, Formidable Critic, Founder Of Yale Rep And Harvard’s ART — Is Dead At 96

  31-10-2023 13:32 via msn.com
  “A forbiddingly erudite theorist who was also an in-the-arena practitioner, … he had an uncompromising vision of what theater should be and no shortage of platforms to promote that vision. He used them all with gusto, making waves, careers, and more than a few enemies in the process.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack Louvre’s Pyramid With Orange Paint

  31-10-2023 13:00 via rte.ie
  
  “About a dozen protesters of ‘Dernière Rénovation’ (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and doused it with paint.” In this case (unusually), they had specific, actionable demands to make of the government. – RTÉ (Ireland)
  
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• Dog-faced demons and a pitchforked penis: the world’s most terrifying artworks

  31-10-2023 12:52
  
  Sinners being eaten alive by serpents, the antichrist seizing power on Earth, a bound penis menaced by a goat-footed devil … in a Halloween special, we look at four devilish masterpieces. Warning: graphic contentThe devil comes out to play at Halloween – but people haven’t always viewed hell and its creatures as good clean fun. When artists 600 years ago painted their satanic scarefests, they weren’t just trying to entertain. Medieval Europeans believed in the existence
  
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• Hidden women: Madrid show puts forgotten artists in the picture

  31-10-2023 06:00
  
  Maestras explores how talented female artists won recognition in their lifetimes, only to find their works written out of the canonWild festivals, exquisite fruit-bowls and unusually realistic renderings of motherhood and female friendship – not to mention a glimpse of Lady Hamilton as an enthusiastic follower of Bacchus – will go on show in Madrid on Tuesday as one of the country’s most famous galleries seeks to spike the patriarchal canon of art history with a new, and avowed
  
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