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• The Trigger-Warning Debate

  23-02-2024 23:32 via classical-music.uk
  
  A trigger warning is not a call to censorship as the quoted tweeter above suggests – if there is an instinct for that, it should be enacted in the rehearsal room. But it is entirely right that we ensure our audiences know what it is they are getting into. – Classical Music UK
  
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• Every Dictator Needs A Good Storyteller

  23-02-2024 23:01 via newstatesman.com
  It is a writer’s work to wrestle coherent storylines out of the mess that is real life (that’s what dictators employ writers for). – New Statesman
  
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• Michelangelo’s Diary Wherein He Describes How Miserable It Was to Paint The Sistine Chapel

  23-02-2024 22:33 via news.artnet.com
  
  Michelangelo was trapped with his thoughts. He began to have doubts, ones he described as “crazy.” He worried painting in such an unnatural position would lead to bad work. “The painting is dead,” he wrote, adding “I am not in the right place—I am not a painter.” – Artnet
  
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• Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing AI Video

  23-02-2024 22:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,” he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, noting that his productions might not have to travel to locations or build sets with the assistance of the technology. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Culture Wars Come For AI

  23-02-2024 21:32 via msn.com
  What we’re seeing here is the collapse of a long and interesting discussion about AI bias into a tense, obfuscating exchange between anti-woke culture warriors and a hypercautious tech giant with a large comms team. – Intelligencer (MSN)
  
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• “Harassment” And “Governance Concerns” Lead Ontario Region’s Arts Fund To Suspend All Activity

  23-02-2024 21:04 via cbc.ca
  
  “The activities of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund have been paused effective immediately, with the region saying the move was necessary due to ‘incidents of harassment of regional staff and governance concerns related to the fund’s administration.'” Two board members have resigned; a nonprofit is stepping in with interim funding. – CBC
  
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• When Fan Fiction Becomes A Commercial Hit… A Legal Grey Area?

  23-02-2024 21:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The great success of Fifty Shades has turned publishers’ attention to the wealth of stories found in online fan fiction archives. These stories sometimes have huge loyal readerships. – The Conversation
  
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• What Will The Arts Canon Look Like In 2050?

  23-02-2024 20:31 via artshub.com.au
  
  In terms of defining the canon in 2050, preservation of the “now” is a big question, but so is whether a preserved work can actually be presented again in the future. – ArtHub
  
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• City of Winnipeg Cuts — No, It Reassigns — Coming Year’s Funding For Public Art

  23-02-2024 19:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  While some artists and observers are criticizing the zeroing-out of Winnipeg Arts Council money for public art, that annual $500,000 will go instead to support capital projects for downtown cultural institutions. Also, the Arts Council’s budget for other projects has been restored to the pre-pandemic level of $4.6 million. – Winnipeg Free Press
  
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• Those Who Are In Love With Chaos

  23-02-2024 19:34 via msn.com
  The researchers came up with a term to describe the motivation behind these all-purpose conspiracy mongers. They called it the “need for chaos,” which they defined as “a mindset to gain status” by destroying the established order. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Throw off the cloak of snobbery and treat fashion as a serious art form | Letter

  23-02-2024 19:24
  
  Cally Blackman takes issue with a ‘dismissive’ review of the John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate BritainWhen I read or hear the word “frock”, my heart sinks and my hackles rise: when will fashion be taken seriously? As the most powerful form of non-verbal communication, clothes tell us a lot about people – from their occupation, to religion, to their Indigenous heritage. The now thriving academic discipline of fashion studies rose from schools of anthropology, et
  
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• News Website DCist Shut Down By NPR Outlet WAMU; 15 Staffers Laid Off

  23-02-2024 19:05 via msn.com
  As with (still-operational) local news sites Gothamist, LAist, and others, DCist was acquired by its nearby public radio station when the -ist sites’ parent shut down. WAMU management says it is refocusing on audio content, and the DCist website is now unavailable to the public. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Brian Elliott obituary

  23-02-2024 18:55
  
  My husband, Brian Elliott, who has died aged 85, was an artist whose creativity celebrated the pleasure of seeing and perception, and whose painting radiated an intense delight in and boundless enthusiasm for life. His work evolved from early Constructivist forms through abstract triptychs to large figurative images.He had entered the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1956, and with his brother, Michael, subsequently set up a studio and print room in Kennington, where he began an intense stu
  
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• Warhol Museum Staff Complain About Wall Text

  23-02-2024 18:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  A second staff member, who also requested anonymity, wrote to Hyperallergic in an email that the text was “a broadly unpopular move, and people in all departments were making it known they weren’t okay with it and wanted the exhibit edited if not removed.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Royal Scottish National Orchestra To Be Stripped Of All Local Government Funding

  23-02-2024 18:06 via msn.com
  “The RSNO (has been) told it will lose all of its local authority support over the next three years. It is expected to cut back its performances at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, (its) permanent base, as well as events in schools and communities across the city.” – The Scotsman (MSN)
  
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• William Blake’s Universe review – polymath’s paintings are outclassed by the Germans

  23-02-2024 17:43
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  A wide-ranging exhibition on the English mystic makes unfortunate comparisons with his European contemporaries who, it turns out, are the far superior RomanticsIf any artist was ever a one-off it’s William Blake. To start with, “artist” isn’t quite the right word for Blake who is also one of the greatest poets in the English language. His images and his words are intertwined in his (very) limited edition illuminated books, printed as he puts
  
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• Orange County’s Hilbert Museum To Triple In Size

  23-02-2024 17:32 via cultureoc.org
  The $12 million museum – a part of Chapman University – will expand from 7,500 to 22,000 square feet, nearly tripling its size. Galleries will grow from 12 to 26. – Culture OC
  
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• The Outsider Queer Trio Running — Entirely Together — The Ballet National De Marseille

  23-02-2024 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Marine) Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel are the trio behind (La)Horde. They met 14 years ago on Paris’s queer club scene and … started helping each other out with projects. Over time it coalesced into something official and since 2019 they have been (BNM’s) artistic directors.” – The Guardian
  
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• “The Real Tragedy Of This Play Is That Everyone’s Right All The Time”

  23-02-2024 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  That’s what one cast member said, during rehearsals at New York’s Public Theater, about Itamar Moses’s The Ally, in which the characters hash out a myriad of today’s thorniest issues — and they all have good points to make. – The New York Times
  
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• Middle School Teacher Accused Of Copying Students’ Art Onto Mugs And Tote Bags For Sale

  23-02-2024 16:04 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “(Mario) Perron allegedly asked his class to create artwork in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat for a ‘creepy portraits’ project … (at) the Lester B. Pearson School Board in Montreal. On February 8, two students Googled Perron and stumbled across his selling platform, where they encountered their homework for sale.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• France’s Film Industry Enters A New Phase Of #MeToo

  23-02-2024 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  “Actors who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the repulsive underside of the country’s industry. The latest step in the #MeToo movement could come at the French cinema awards (the Césars) on Friday.” – AP
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Is Knocking Scents Into Scriabin

  23-02-2024 15:10 via nytimes.com
  
  “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire … has an element of synesthesia in its score, which calls for a color organ along with a full orchestra, a piano soloist and a choir. But in October at Davies Symphony Hall, … the piece was being prepared with an additional sense in mind.” – The New York Times
  
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• Vice Media Is — Well, If It’s Not Completely Dead, It’s A Zombie

  23-02-2024 14:37 via msn.com
  “Several hundred of Vice’s remaining 900 employees will soon be laid off in a restructuring that essentially kills off the editorial brand. … No more stories will be published on Vice.com. But … remaining employees will put ‘more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussion with partners.'” – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• Previously Unknown Cézanne Mural Uncovered In His Childhood Home

  23-02-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  “The mural is the tenth to have been discovered on the walls of the house (in Aix-en-Provence), having been found last August in the Grand Salon as the home, Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, underwent renovations in preparation for a celebration of Cézanne’s connection to the city.” – ARTnews
  
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• Black identity, Blake’s intensity and how to dust David – the week in art

  23-02-2024 13:00
  
  Plus splashy colourful paintings, Korean colour pencil drawings and Yoko Ono’s huge retrospective – all in your weekly dispatchThe Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
  Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall and Amy Sherald are among the artists in this survey of Black identity in painting.• National Portrait Gallery, London, until 19 May Continue reading...
  
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• Aryan homoeroticism and Lenin’s head: the museum showcasing Berlin’s unwanted statues

  23-02-2024 12:01
  
  At the ancient citadel of Spandau, German history is redefined with rejected sculptures of figures ranging from Kant to HitlerHoused in a former munitions depot in a fortress on the outskirts of Berlin is an exhibition like no other: a veritable car boot sale of statues – damaged, dismantled or dumped – dating from medieval times to the Nazis to Communism. Unveiled: Berlin and Its Monuments has for the past eight years cast an unvarnished light on German
  
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• Deutsche Börse prize review – from crotchless knickers to the sound of a grave

  23-02-2024 11:04
  
  Photographers’ Gallery, London
  The photographic equivalent of the Turner prize delves into our current state of loss and absence to such a degree that one installation doesn’t feature images at allMind-bending photography: the Deutsche Börse prize – in picturesI’m standing in a black box. It’s so dark I can hardly see. There are ominous scraping and scratching sounds, the distinctive chink of metal, the vexing buzz of insects reverbing through a subwoofer. The
  
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• Cantus Vocal Ensemble seeks Executive Director

  23-02-2024 03:12 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe Executive Director will be a collaborative, visionary, and entrepreneurial leader who will guide the strategic vision and direction of Cantus. A business performance driver and market strategist, they will be responsible for all aspects of strategic planning, fundraising, public visibility, and financial and management oversight. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will lead a professional staff and collaborate with the eight ensemble singers who each
  
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• Could a Paywall Have Saved Pitchfork?

  23-02-2024 00:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Implementing a paywall would have given Pitchfork’s readers an opportunity to support it while liberating its staff from having to conjure money out of thin air. Instead, Condé Nast bought it, failed to set it up for success, then cut it up as soon as it became a burden. – The Walrus
  
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