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• Creating Invented Languages For Movies

  01-03-2024 23:24 via newyorker.com
  
  Today, with the budgets of the biggest films and series rivalling the G.D.P.s of small island nations, constructed languages, or conlangs, are becoming a norm, if not an implicit requirement. – The New Yorker
  
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• The New Science Of Telling History

  01-03-2024 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  What if instead of digging in the archives and criticising arguments, you could write history directly from the physical remains of the past, reconstructing events with the forensic detail of a crime scene investigator? This would be a history written not from words, but from things. – The Guardian
  
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• A Wave Of Civic Construction Along The Mexican Border

  01-03-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Known for keeping a tireless schedule, Meyer Falcón said P.M.U. has so far completed about $2 billion worth of public buildings and community infrastructure. Towns applied for help through a rigorous process. – The New York Times
  
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• The Crisis In Pop Music

  01-03-2024 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In the streaming era, tours have become the main source of cash as sales of recorded music have plummeted. However, a recent study by the Help Musicians charity found that an astonishing 98% are struggling to make a living. – The Guardian
  
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• The Volunteers Who’ve Pitched In To Keep UK Theatre Going

  01-03-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A theatre belongs to the people who make it more than just a building. That includes the volunteers just as much as it does the stars, staff and audience. – The Guardian
  
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• Updating Our Map Of The Brain

  01-03-2024 21:31 via aeon.co
  
  Beyond the operating table, knowledge of how the body maps onto the motor cortex has been instrumental in the development of brain-machine interfaces that control prostheses to restore function to paralysed patients and amputees. – Aeon
  
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• When Ballet Rocked Austin’s Favorite Hippie Hangout (Hey, It Was The ’70s)

  01-03-2024 21:06 via austinmonthly.com
  
  “In 1972, hundreds of locals clambered to their seats at Armadillo World Headquarters for one thing only: Sunday night ballet. … Guests settled in with overflowing baskets of nachos and ice-cold Lone Stars, the smell of marijuana drifting up to the lofted ceilings as the curtain rose.” – Austin Monthly
  
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• A World Of Hurt For Hollywood

  01-03-2024 20:27 via nytimes.com
  
  Twenty twenty-three was a year of downsizing, diminishment, shelving, sidelining, retrenching, retreating and bet hedging. And 2024 is the year of consequences. – The New York Times
  
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• Air India Brings Indian Classical Dance Into Its Passenger Safety Video

  01-03-2024 20:03 via businesstraveller.com
  
  “Highlights of the video include the Bharatnatyam dance form becoming ‘the living canvas for seat belt and cabin baggage instructions’, with Kathakali and Mohiniyattam forms ‘eloquently expressing the prohibition of electronic gadgets and smoking on board’ against a backdrop of the backwaters of Kerala.” – Business Traveller
  
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• Could Generative AI Finally Break Copyright Law?

  01-03-2024 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Contrary to popular belief, copyright does not exist for the benefit of creators. Its purpose, according to founding documents and recent interpretations, is to foster a culture that produces great works of science, art, literature, and music. – The Atlantic
  
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• How The Criterion Collection Became Cinema’s Ultimate Seal Of Approval

  01-03-2024 19:07 via nytimes.com
  
  “(It’s) a catalog so synonymous with cinematic achievement that …, over four decades, through a combination of luck, obsession and good taste, this 55-person company has become the arbiter of what makes a great movie, more so than any Hollywood studio or awards ceremony.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• The Strain Pop Music Inflicts On Voices

  01-03-2024 18:31 via artsjournal.com
  Pop vocals, then, routinely run up against the physical limits of the human body. Yet what makes a song difficult to sing doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with having to hit a particularly tricky note. – The Atlantic
  
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• A Chinese Emperor’s Robe, In Near-Mint Condition, Turns Up In A British Earl’s Dresser Drawer

  01-03-2024 18:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  The gold-thread-and-royal-blue-silk garment, purchased in Beijing in 1913 and left sitting untouched in a cardboard box for over a century, would have been worn by the emperor as he led twice-yearly festival processions outside the Temple of Heaven. – Artnet
  
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• Martin Boyce review – ripping the beating heart of beauty from the banal and the bizarre

  01-03-2024 17:41
  
  Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
  The Turner prize winner mourns the hellish destruction of Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art before sweeping you to heaven on a terrific tide of soulless tat and elegant craftIt’s hard to imagine a more evocative symbol of forlorn hopes and lost utopias in contemporary Britain than the destruction of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s magnificent building the Glasgow School of Art by not one but two fires. Every generous detail of the place expressed a b
  
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• Time To Give Up Streaming? (It’s Getting Worse)

  01-03-2024 17:32 via lifewire.com
  
  Once you’ve bought it, you’re never going to find that the retailer has reached into your movie, CD, or record collection to remove it with no notice. You own it forever, and in the case of music, it’s trivial to make copies to listen to on your phone, computer, or home media server. – Lifewire
  
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• Co-Directors, HERE Arts Center (Finalists are Compensated)

  01-03-2024 17:12 via artsjournal.com
  We are hiring two new Co-Directors, with a belief in the development of artists and creation of artistic work that moves in new directions and the ability to grow HERE as a connected community and to grow the resources available. Preferred Deadline March 29. $100,000 salary.MORE
  
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• Austin Symphony Orchestra (TX) seeks CEO/Executive Director

  01-03-2024 17:10 via artsjournal.com
  Founded in 1911, the Austin Symphony Orchestra is Austin’s most established and enduring performing arts group. Austin is a vibrant, artistic hub with a community that cares deeply for music and the arts. The ASO offers a complete season of musical and educational programming for the citizens of Austin and Central Texas. Masterworks concerts include a series of eight concert pairs running monthly September through May in the state-of-the-art Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Center for the
  
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• Putin Is Using Classical Music Just The Way Lenin And Stalin Did

  01-03-2024 17:02 via van-magazine.com
  
  That is, “to project ‘feelings of patriotism and national pride’ inside Russia and ‘the authority of the country on the international stage.'” (The phrases come from Putin’s decrees.) One good example: an August 2022 performance of Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony (the 7th) in St. Petersburg. – Van
  
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• Culture Wars Over AI Will Be Afflicting Us For A While

  01-03-2024 16:34 via wired.com
  
  The latest battle (last time we checked, at least) was last week, when the image generator of Google’s Gemini bot was found to default to women and people of color even when asked to create images of Vikings and popes. Conservative critics accused the bot of being woke, of course. – Wired
  
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• John McWhorter: Black English Isn’t, And Shouldn’t Be, The Exclusive Property of Black People

  01-03-2024 16:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “There is simply no way that whiteness and Blackness will mingle as they have in music, cuisine, gesture, greeting styles, dating, and multiracial identity, and yet for some reason be halted at language. One might wish to enforce an artificial blockade here, but it’s far too late.” – The New York Times
  
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• Filmmaker Paolo Taviani Has Died At 92

  01-03-2024 15:31 via euronews.com
  
  “For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. … (Their) film Padre Padrone won top prize at Cannes (in 1977, and in 2012 they received) the Golden Bear in Berlin for Caesar Must Die.” – Euronews
  
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• Georgia Lawmakers Think The State’s Film Tax Credit May Have Gone A Little Too Far

  01-03-2024 15:03 via apnews.com
  
  “The program has supported thousands of Georgia jobs and the creation of several thriving studios. But it’s hugely expensive — the state is projected to give out $1.35 billion in credits this year alone. Supporters of the measure say they want to … protect the state against a limitless liability.” – AP
  
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• “Slave Play” In London Will Have Two Performances For Black Audiences, And Even The Prime Minister Has An Opinion

  01-03-2024 14:37 via bbc.com
  
  As during the play’s Broadway run, the West End production will have “Black Out” nights, as playwright Jeremy O. Harris calls them, when Black playgoers can enjoy the show (in Harris’s words) “free from the white gaze.” More than in New York, some people are flipping out over this. – BBC
  
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• Bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute Purchased By Nonprofit

  01-03-2024 14:00 via sfchronicle.com
  “A newly formed nonprofit, composed of prominent local arts leaders and backed by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, purchased the 93,000-square-foot campus through a limited liability company, BMAI LLC, for roughly $30 million, or $322 per square foot.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Martin Boyce meditates, Angelica Kauffman returns and Enninful celebrates Mapplethorpe – the week in art

  01-03-2024 13:00
  
  Everyday objects are imbued with beauty by the Glasgow artist, while France celebrates the 150th birthday of impressionism – all in your weekly dispatchMartin Boyce: Before Behind Between Above Below
  The Turner prize winner continues his meditations on 20th-century modernism and 21st-century life.
  • Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, from 2 March to 9 June Continue reading...
  
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• Instagram is vital to art and museum culture, say gallery founders

  01-03-2024 10:44
  
  Owners of Moco, which is opening a space in London, say platform can help bring in younger audiencesInstagram is now vital to art gallery and museum culture and can be used to bring in younger audiences, according to the founders of a Dutch contemporary art space which is coming to London this summer.Kim Logchies-Prins and her husband, Lionel, co-founded the Moco museum of modern, contemporary and street art in Amsterdam and are now opening a new 25,000 sq ft space in London. Continue reading...
  
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• Museums Without Men: audio guides to celebrate dozens of female artists

  01-03-2024 07:00
  
  Project to run during Women’s History Month at institutions including Tate Britain and Met in New YorkFive big museums, including Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are launching audio guides dedicated to underserved female artists in their collection during Women’s History Month.Museums Without Men, devised by the Guardian art critic Katy Hessel, will showcase dozens of female and gender non-conforming artists who at present are often in the shadow of their
  
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• 5 reasons declining media coverage of the arts isn’t the problem

  01-03-2024 04:03 via artsjournal.com
  
  At the end of a long list about why audiences are shrinking, a burned out, defeated arts manager’s last bit of ire will be directed at the declining arts coverage in the mainstream media. It will be the final gasp of their venting session. Then their voice will trail off, they’ll throw up their hands, and reach for their glass of bourbon. An anecdote from an artistic director of a “struggling theater in Florida” was the centerpiece of a story by Cara Joy David&
  
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• Museums Without Men: my project to end their shocking gender imbalance

  01-03-2024 01:01
  
  From the Tate Britain to New York’s Met, some of the world’s mightiest galleries have signed up for my audio guides, which shift the spotlight onto female artists like Rosa Bonheur – who required a permit to wear trousers‘Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?” asked a 1989 artwork by the Guerrilla Girls, the all-female-identifying activist artist collective. A valid question considering, as the work went on to point out: “Less than 5% of the ar
  
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• American Museums Have A New Approach To Provenance

  01-03-2024 00:03 via artnews.com
  
  We are currently witnessing a changing climate—specifically when it comes to objects taken from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Indigenous peoples—that has led to a job boom when it comes to provenance research–related positions at top museums in the United States. – ARTnews
  
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