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• Has Indigo Books Lost What It Means To Be Good At Selling Books?

  03-11-2023 23:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  The plot’s got something for everyone: a cybersecurity attack for the tech junkies, a CEO see-saw and mass board exodus for the corporate drama aficionados, the ambient hum of the Canadian existential crisis for the doomsayers, and for the nonfiction zealots—well, it’s not fiction. – The Walrus
  
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• My ChatGPT Became My Best Friend. Creepy!

  03-11-2023 22:31 via arstechnica.com
  
  “I thought I’d turned it off, and I saw a pelican, and I said to my dog, ‘Oh, wow, a pelican!’ And my AirPod went, ‘A pelican, huh? That’s so exciting for you! What’s it doing?’ I’ve never felt so deeply like I’m living out the first ten minutes of some dystopian sci-fi movie.” – Ars Technica
  
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• Is A Recalibration Of The Art Market Coming?

  03-11-2023 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Sotheby’s and Christie’s expect that the November auction season could bring their companies upward of $1 billion each. But despite the claims of some auctioneers who said there are masterpieces around every corner, art advisers and market experts have noted the broader market’s lack of stellar inventory and buyer focus. – The New York Times
  
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• Conde Nast To Cut Five Percent Of Its Staff

  03-11-2023 21:30 via thewrap.com
  
  The layoffs will impact around 270 Condé Nast employees. The company currently has around 5,400 full-time employees globally. – The Wrap
  
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• How Dehumanizing Language Makes Things Worse

  03-11-2023 21:01 via bbc.com
  
  “There’s surprisingly little evidence that dehumanising language causes violent behaviour, but plenty of evidence says it accompanies it. People who dehumanise others are certainly more likely to treat them badly.” – BBC
  
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• Celebrating the Ives Sesquicentenary: An American Landmark

  03-11-2023 20:47 via artsjournal.com
  
  The upcoming Sesquicentenary of Charles Ives (1874-1954) is a landmark moment in American cultural history. Not only is
  
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• The End Of Prestige TV — How Did This Happen?

  03-11-2023 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Many streaming services are cutting costs and curbing output while casting around for the broadest possible audience. – The New Yorker
  
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• Miami Beach’s Removal Of Mural Memorializing Victim Of Police Shooting Is “Government Speech”, Rules Appeals Court

  03-11-2023 20:04 via artnews.com
  
  A three-judge panel upheld the U.S. District Court ruling that, since the city government had commissioned Rodney Jackson‘s Memorial to Raymond Herisse (2019) and funded and organized the exhibition in which it was shown, the city also had the free-speech right to take the piece down. – ARTnews
  
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• How Big Publishing Has Changed Being An Author

  03-11-2023 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  “At a certain point in my tenure at Penguin Random House I just gave up trying to understand a lot of the emails that arrived from corporate and would just hit delete, asking myself quizzically, ‘And the contribution this makes to the actual publication of actual books is . . . ?’ ” – The New Yorker
  
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• Don’t knock mindfulness – it helps us artists see the world as it is | Letter

  03-11-2023 19:27
  
  Even though the word has become a marketing cliche, it is a disciplined practice with the intention of paying close attention to the present moment, argues Mary NeaveI enjoyed reading Jonathan Jones’s article (No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying, 28 October). But within this celebration of a revival in life drawing were some rather disparaging comments about mindfulness and drawing, as if it involved thinking more about feeling better than the
  
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• The Oxford English Dictionary Is One Of History’s Great Crowdsourcing Projects

  03-11-2023 19:06 via msn.com
  “The OED’s founders realized that such a titanic task could never be accomplished by a small circle of men in London and Oxford, so they sought out volunteers. (The OED’s third editor, James Murray,) circulat(ed) a call for contributors to newspapers, universities, and clubs around the globe.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Humanities On The College Chopping Block

  03-11-2023 18:27 via nytimes.com
  
  For years, economists and more than a few worried parents have argued over whether a liberal arts degree is worth the price. The debate now seems to be over, and the answer is “no.” – The New York Times
  
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• Keeping The Choreography Of “Wicked” Fresh For 20 Years

  03-11-2023 18:02 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: “It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we try to turn them all over at once. But the ensemble is like a revolving door because of how the contracts work.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Return Of Cultural Diplomacy? ABT Goes To China

  03-11-2023 17:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The tour marks a revival of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The Asian nation will also host a series of performances starting next week by the Philadelphia Orchestra, marking the 50th anniversary of the orchestra’s historic visit to China in 1973. – ABCNews
  
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• US museum criticized for postponing Islamic art exhibit due to Israel-Hamas war

  03-11-2023 17:22
  
  Frick Pittsburgh staff said exhibit would be ‘insensitive’ to Jewish community, but decision angered both Muslims and Jewish people Officials at a Pittsburgh museum have promised to “repair our relationships with the Muslim community” amid criticism of its decision to postpone an Islamic art exhibition because of the Israel-Hamas war.Staff at Frick Pittsburgh believed pressing ahead with its Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art exhibition, which had been schedu
  
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• The 24 Hour Plays — What I’ve Learned Pulling All-Nighters To Help Create One-Acts From Scratch

  03-11-2023 17:04 via americantheatre.org
  
  Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): “Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to write and how many actors they’re going to take. And they draft two actors and then they stop. And inevitably when they do that, they fail.” – American Theatre
  
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• Vasily Petrenko: Thinking About Concerts (And Orchestras) In A Broader Context

  03-11-2023 16:32 via van-magazine.com
  
  “Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are we doing for schools, for education, for deprived people, for mental health, for everything else?” – Van
  
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• A feminist fightback, exploring the fourth dimension and a Greek odyssey – the week in art

  03-11-2023 16:04
  
  A survey of female protest hits the Tate, the dazzling sculpture of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui and the drawings that made Genoa a Renaissance powerhouse – all in your weekly dispatchWomen in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement 1970–1990
  Survey of feminist art and protest with Ingrid Pollard, Mary Kelly and more.
  • Tate Britain, London, 8 November-7 April Continue reading...
  
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• Malaysian Government Orders All Concert Organizers To Have A Kill Switch To Cut Off Power

  03-11-2023 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have ‘a kill switch that will cut off electricity during any performance if there is any unwanted incident. We hope that with stricter guidelines, foreign artists can adhere to the local culture.” – The Guardian
  
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• Court Ruling Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over Dance Movies In Video Game “Fortnite”

  03-11-2023 15:31 via billboard.com
  
  “In a ‘novel’ ruling on ‘one of the oldest forms of human expression,’ the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a decision last year that dismissed choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s lawsuit, which claimed that Epic Games stole his dance moves and used them as ’emotes’ in Fortnite.” – Billboard
  
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• A Hollywood Writer’s (Anonymous) Post-Strike Diary

  03-11-2023 15:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as long as SAG-AFTRA and Fran, Mother of Labor Dragons, are still at the table. God, I wish I could be in that dimly lit room.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘Sheer spectacle’: biggest Kandinsky show to reach Australia opens in Sydney

  03-11-2023 15:00
  
  You may know his Blue Mountain but there’s much more to the impenetrable artist, says the curator of the Art Gallery of NSW showGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you are a person who doesn’t “get” art, there is something thrilling about Wassily Kandinsky. Because trying too hard to find something concrete under all the sugary colours, random shapes and squiggles would give anyone a headache.“Looking at a painting by Kandinsky, we are simultaneously looki
  
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• The (Worrisome?) Rescue And Resurrection Of Ebony Magazine

  03-11-2023 14:36 via cjr.org
  
  The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors came to the rescue, and Ebony is active on paper and online — but the wall between advertising and editorial has become unsettlingly porous. – Columbia Journalism Review
  
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• Plans For Museum About Pulse Nightclub Massacre In Orlando Are Abandoned

  03-11-2023 14:02 via apnews.com
  
  “Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida said Friday that they were dropping their plans to build a museum, even as the city of Orlando is moving ahead with constructing the memorial.” – AP
  
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• Frick Pittsburgh Cancels Exhibition Of Islamic Art

  03-11-2023 13:34 via wesa.fm
  
  “‘Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art’ was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was slated to open Saturday, Nov. 4. The touring exhibit featured ‘fine glassware, ceramics, metalwork, painting, weaponry, weaving and more from countries across the Middle East.'” – WESA (Pittsburgh)
  
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• John Craxton review – why paint when there’s ouzo, dancing and drunken sailors?

  03-11-2023 13:00
  
  Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
  An expat in Crete, Craxton put the pleasures of Mediterranean life first, but still managed to paint graphic works full of vitality. These are joined here by Crackers, a biopic by Tacita DeanSwallows on the nest, a black cat at the gate, swifts hunting in a bright sky over the island of Crete. Ancient sculptures of gods, bulls and men, and a pair of sculpted breasts, their shape echoed in the hilltops. Tacita Dean’s new film, Crackers, takes as its title b
  
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• Conductor Yuri Temirkanov, 84

  03-11-2023 13:00 via msn.com
  “(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Grace Ndiritu review – a shamanic journey into the ‘lower world’

  03-11-2023 10:51
  
  Kate MacGarry, London
  Ndiritu’s ambitious art aims to turn galleries into spaces of healing. This new show, featuring pregnant women, trance-inducing drums and protest carpets is just a tasterA group of heavily pregnant women lie in a circle on the museum’s carpeted floor, their eyes covered, blankets pulled over them. A shaman dressed in a Mexican fringed floral shawl, feather headdress and Masai garments beats a drum in a lurching rhythm, erupting now and then into spontaneous shri
  
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• A Great Present-Day Pianist

  03-11-2023 07:10 via artsjournal.com
  
  When I reminisce with pianists of my generation (born 1948), the perennial topic is Great Pianists of the
  
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• Cultural Leadership starts here

  03-11-2023 06:37 via artsjournal.com
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