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• How Did Philosophy Get Captured By Self-Help Bromides?

  02-11-2023 22:57 via aeon.co
  
  To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to the regulations of competing discourses, trivialising knowledge as something reducible to a methodology. – Aeon
  
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• Drawings Michelangelo Made In A Secret Room Under Church Revealed To The Public

  02-11-2023 22:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino Giovannoni with trying to clean part of the walls of a narrow chamber beneath the church’s mausoleum, which had been designed by Michelangelo in 1520. – Artnet
  
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• Bubon(ic) Plague: Serious Doubts About the Supposed Ancient Home of Cleveland’s Contested Statue

  02-11-2023 21:53 via artsjournal.com
  Is the bronze statue that was seized-in-place by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg really from Bubon (the ancient city
  
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• Oops: Lawsuit Reveals HBO Boss Instructing Staff To Twitter-Troll Critics

  02-11-2023 21:30 via vulture.com
  
  Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to critics talking about their shows and on websites discussing HBO. – New York Magazine
  
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• Remembering Robert Brustein

  02-11-2023 21:01 via newyorker.com
  
  One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. – The New Yorker
  
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• How The Post-Pandemic Arts Recovery Is Going (Or Not)

  02-11-2023 20:29 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a matter of a decrease in demand—it’s also a reaction to increased costs. From September 2019 through September 2023, inflation is up 20 percent.” – Chicago Reader
  
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• “She’s Very Lighthearted. There’s No Hollywood Behavior”: The Once-Tempestuous Sean Young Is Acting Again

  02-11-2023 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play certain Hollywood games … (and) played other games too enthusiastically. … (The industry) had branded her as volatile, difficult, even crazy.” – The New York Times
  
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• America’s First Prima Ballerina Honored With A Quarter

  02-11-2023 19:15 via axios.com
  The late Maria Tallchief — considered the country’s first prima ballerina and one of the most notable Native American figures of the 20th century — was selected as one of two dozen people to be included in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. – Axios
  
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• Floating On The Seine, A Day Center Where Patients With Mental Illness Make Art, Music, And Dance

  02-11-2023 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 230 ‘passengers’ (Philibert prefers this term to ‘patients’) are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they can drop by from Monday to Friday between 9.15am and 5pm (and) partake in workshops for music, radio, drawing, painting or stained glass window-making.” – The Guardian
  
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• The life-enhancing gift of life drawing | Letter

  02-11-2023 18:43
  
  Life drawing classes are under threat from Tory education policies, warns former art teacher Carolynn CookeJonathan Jones, as well as rejoicing in David Hockney’s undoubtable drawing ability from life in all its aspects, also mentions that there are nearly 500 life drawing classes available across the UK via the Eventbrite website (No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying, 28 October).
  Jones also quotes Tracy Emin, who leads regular classes in Marg
  
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• Fired Banff Center Board Chair Explains Conflict With Former CEO

  02-11-2023 18:31 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  “Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of interest – I had a fiduciary duty as chair to advise her that her participation on the CEO succession process was a conflict of interest,” Adam Waterous said. – CTV Calgary
  
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• Community vs. Commodity: Residual Benefits from Purchasing Arts Experiences

  02-11-2023 18:20 via artsjournal.com
  In the May 2023 episode of the NEA’s Quick Study podcast, I alluded to some of the more promising studies about the arts’ positive relationships to social cohesion. While in Boston for a conference, however, I came across an article that made me rethink how the raw experience of arts participation can foster not just togetherness—because of the inherently social quality of many arts activities—but also what keynote speaker, Robert Waldinger, MD, Harvard Medical Scho
  
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• Why Is This Man Reviving A Ballet Company That Closed 27 Years Ago?

  02-11-2023 18:06 via bachtrack.com
  
  Christopher Marney: “My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we’d see London City Ballet at The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, because that was the company that toured and would perform at your local theatre.” And yes, his revived LCB will definitely tour. – Bachtrack
  
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• About Time: Justice Department Begins Investigation Of Live Nation Practices

  02-11-2023 17:32 via wsj.com
  
  The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice Department is probing. It is also exploring whether the company’s agreements restrict venues’ ability to work with other promoters or ticket services. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• The Musical That Acquired Millions Of Online Fans Before It Ever Took The Stage

  02-11-2023 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success around. Its producers cultivated an online fandom for three years before raising the curtain on the show.” – The New York Times
  
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• Big Tech Argues That Proposed Regulation Would Send Innovation Elsewhere

  02-11-2023 16:32 via news.bloomberglaw.com
  
  “Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme to govern machine learning would create an “intractable economic problem” and incentivize technology companies to take their billions of dollars of investment capital to “more innovation friendly” jurisdictions. – Bloomberg
  
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• WordTheatre, Where Big-Name Actors Read Little-Known Literature Aloud

  02-11-2023 16:05 via yahoo.com
  
  “The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded its audience across continents and within classrooms through WordTheatre Campus.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• One giant ollie for skate-kind! The show where you pull your own gnarly tricks

  02-11-2023 15:40
  
  Design Museum, London
  A new exhibition covers 70 years of skating evolution – from Tony Hawk’s first ever board to a fully functioning mini-ramp (for those brave enough)Behind an urban chain-link fence assembled on the lower floor of the Design Museum, members of the public are skateboarding on a 3.5ft mini-ramp. The noise provides a glorious rolling soundtrack – trucks clinking on a metal lip, plastic wheels growling as they carve shapes on wood – to author, designer (an
  
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• The Malcolm X Opera Opening At The Met On Friday Is A Family Matter. Meet The Davises.

  02-11-2023 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market research executive Christopher Davis; and libretto by their cousin, writer and professor Thulani Davis. Zachary Woolfe talks to the three of them. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Was Tucker Carlson Really Fired From Fox News? Basically, Because He Had It Coming

  02-11-2023 15:04 via vanityfair.com
  
  In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson’s sacking wasn’t a condition of the Dominion settlement. “Think, for just a moment, about the worst relationship in your past — and why it ended. Odds are, there wasn’t just one reason, it wasn’t one thing,” – Vanity Fair
  
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• How Is The Philadelphia Inquirer Getting Millennials To Buy Subscriptions? Inside Jokes.

  02-11-2023 14:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  “The ads lean into the city’s quirky culture across sports, food, and the arts, and evolve quickly to respond to news events so the campaign ‘can really live and breathe and be a real thing’ with the goal of …, in particular, charming and inspiring millennials into engaging.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Emory University’s Art Museum Admits — Reluctantly — That Some Of Its Antiquities Were Looted

  02-11-2023 14:06 via chronicle.com
  “Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some of its pieces ‘were looted and illegally exported.’ The changes come after a Chronicle investigation.” – The Chronicle Of Higher Education
  
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• Disney Is Buying The One-Third Of Hulu That It Doesn’t Already Own

  02-11-2023 13:33 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the streamer ever since Disney’s acquisition of the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• An Elderly Couple, A Bric-A-Brac Dealer, And Gabonese In France Are Fighting Over A Rare Mask

  02-11-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m at auction. But campaigners insist that the rare artefact instead should be returned to Gabon.” – The Guardian
  
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• Chief Executive Officer – Music Teachers National Association

  02-11-2023 04:48 via artsjournal.com
  The board of Music Teachers National Association have retained DHR Global to conduct a national search for a Chief Executive Officer. A full description of the opportunity is available below. Interested candidates should submit resume and cover letter to Philip DeBoer at [email protected] DESCRIPTIONFounded in 1876, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) is the largest and longest-running professional music teacher association in the United States. Boasting over 17,000 m
  
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• Executive Director – Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

  02-11-2023 02:52 via artsjournal.com
  The board of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts have retained DHR Global to conduct a national search for an Executive Director. A full description of the opportunity is available below. Interested candidates should submit resume and cover letter to Philip DeBoer at [email protected] DESCRIPTIONFounded in 1924, with a vision “that the visual arts are for everyone,” the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (“KIA”) continues to serve its community as a valued cultural resou
  
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• Professor of Practice, Arts Administration

  02-11-2023 02:34 via artsjournal.com
  Position OverviewButler University’s Jordan College of the Arts (JCA) invites applications for a full-time, 9-month Professor of Practice faculty position in the Department of Arts Administration beginning August 2024.Responsibilities
  Include the delivery of 24 units of undergraduate classroom instruction per year (12 credits per semester)Including introductory level and upper-division coursesAdvising and mentoring arts administration studentsParticipation in service to the department, col
  
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• Managing Director – Children’s Theatre Company

  02-11-2023 02:26 via artsjournal.com
  Children’s Theatre Company (“CTC”) seeks a dynamic, relational, and visionary leader to serve as the Managing Director of the largest and most prominent theatre company in the nation dedicated to producing world-class performances for youth and multigenerational audiences. The Managing Director will serve as co-leader of this respected institution with a new Artistic Director who will soon be determined through a complementary search process.
  Leading a high-performing team thro
  
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