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• Netflix Is Back On Top. How?

  06-03-2024 23:31 via latimes.com
  
  How did Netflix defend its bulwark when there are still multiple streaming services fighting for eyeballs? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How Schoenberg’s Ideas About Music Shaped Movies

  06-03-2024 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Film composers have taken up serialism as an important technique, employing this to yield a high degree of dissonance and ethereal sounds. – The Conversation
  
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• How American Outsider In Popular Media Shaped Our Culture

  06-03-2024 22:31 via lithub.com
  
  As we entered the new millennium, three daring TV series remade the television landscape, and they all featured a new breed of outsider: lawless, desperate, violent characters once unimaginable on the small screens in our living rooms. – LitHub
  
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• Can Literature Shape Law?

  06-03-2024 22:01 via publicbooks.org
  
  What does it mean to credit the written word with such capacious potencies, to charge it with such real-world responsibilities? And how is literature, poetry, language to operate as a force for good and still maintain its duties to itself, to its self-delighting, essentially purposeless imperative to live as lively language? – Public Books
  
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• Architect Turns To Local Materials, Builds Schools That Stay Cool In 100+-Degree Heat

  06-03-2024 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  “We don’t need air conditioning, which is an incredible energy saving.” Temperatures in this region of the world remain at about 40C (104F) during the hottest season. – The Guardian
  
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• Thirty Years After The Fall Of Apartheid, South Africa’s Film & TV Industry Is Still Looking For Its Identity

  06-03-2024 20:57 via variety.com
  
  “On the surface, there is much reason to cheer. No country on the continent has benefited as much from the disruption of global streaming platforms as South Africa, where competition between Netflix and homegrown rival Showmax has fueled a surge in production.” – Variety
  
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• Paris’ Own Outlaw Street Artist — The French Banksy

  06-03-2024 20:28 via apnews.com
  
  Like Banksy, the British street artist he is sometimes likened to, Invader is elusive, fiercely protective of his anonymity and operating on the margins of illegality. – AP
  
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• He Went From Hip-Hop Moves In Iraqi Kurdistan To New York’s Hotbed Of Contemporary Dance

  06-03-2024 20:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Hussein Smko learned his first hip-hop at age 9, from an American soldier in Erbil, and founded a street dance troupe there when he was 13. From there it’s been a long journey, with some very good luck, to his debut this week at the Joyce Theater. – The New York Times
  
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• Architect Antoine Predock, 87

  06-03-2024 19:29 via architecturalrecord.com
  
  In a 65-plus-year career, he sought to create buildings that were, as he often put it, “grounded in the earth yet soaring toward the sky.” – Architectural Record
  
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• On the high price of West End tickets

  06-03-2024 19:27 via artsjournal.com
  The Guardian has a new editorial up about how the price of a theatre ticket in London is too darn high. I imagine it would be possible to write a similar piece about theatre in any big North American city as well. But it makes some questionable claims and assumptions, so, here we go…“Theatre’s in a perilous state. My wife went the other day, it cost her nearly £200 – who could afford that?” asked the actor David Harewood.Well, for a start …
  
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• Just How Did South Korea Get To Be A Cultural Powerhouse?

  06-03-2024 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  “Some have framed South Korea’s cultural advance as a government-led mission. The Korean state has been instrumental in turning cultural identity into an exportable commodity since … the late ’90s — a thread that has run through successive administrations. …But others see it as more of a fruitful public-private effort.” – The Guardian
  
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• Annals Of Bad AI Ads: This Orchestra Ad Imagines A Fake Audience

  06-03-2024 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “Want to do something different this Saturday? Come see an orchestra play,” reads the ad. It was apparently created by someone who has never seen an orchestra play, and imagines it as rows of violinists seated in the audience, many playing with three hands or one hand or no hands at all. – The Guardian
  
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• The Academy Awards And U.S. Elections Need The Same Voting Reform

  06-03-2024 18:02 via lithub.com
  
  In fact, this reform is already in place in Maine, Alaska, New York City, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities — and in the Best Picture category. It simply needs to be extended to the other categories and to other locales. – Literary Hub
  
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• Play On Shakespeare seeks a Marketing Director

  06-03-2024 17:38 via artsjournal.com
  Play On Shakespeare is a non-profit company promoting and creating contemporary modern English translations of Shakespeare’s plays. Play On Shakespeare partners with artists and organizations across the globe to deliver and advocate for these translations through theatrical productions, podcasts, publications, and film. For more information, visit playonshakespeare.org.We are using a blind hiring process for this position so there is a very specific hiring process that must be followed. No
  
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• Texas Public Radio Pioneering Leader Dies At 66

  06-03-2024 17:31 via tpr.org
  
  Joyce Slocum was instrumental in TPR’s growth from an organization of modest size and ambition to one whose reach and influence is recognized nationwide, with a deep passion for storytelling rooted in South Texas. – Texas Public Radio
  
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• A Perennial Question Arises Again: Why Won’t More Major American Orchestras Hire American Music Directors?

  06-03-2024 17:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and D.C. Today only one of those jobs is held by an American. – The New York Times
  
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• Playwright Edward Bond, Who Helped End Censorship Of Theatre In Britain, Is Dead At 89

  06-03-2024 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  “The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fought primarily at the Royal Court Theatre in London during the mid-1960s. The plays of Edward Bond, one of the most important British dramatists of the 20th century, … were an essential part of that story and that struggle.” – The Guardian
  
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• Chicago’s New Mayor Fired The City’s Cultural Affairs Commissioner, And The City’s Arts Community Doesn’t Know What’s Next

  06-03-2024 16:01 via wbez.org
  
  Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took office last May, dismissed Commissioner Erin Harkey in February, and nobody knows why (other than wanting to replace his predecessor’s appointee with his own). Johnson has named no replacement, and with Chicago’s festival season coming on, there’s some concern. – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Gabriel García Márquez’s Final Book Is Being Published. Should It Be?

  06-03-2024 15:36 via nytimes.com
  
  During the ’00s, Gabo went through several drafts of Until August and planned to publish it. But by 2012, afflicted with dementia and unable to finalize the book, he asked that it be destroyed. A decade later, his sons decided it could be salvaged. Were they right to try? – The New York Times
  
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• The World’s Largest International Comedy Festival, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Is Cancelled For 2024

  06-03-2024 15:04 via apnews.com
  
  “Groupe Juste pour rire Inc. said that it is seeking protection from its creditors as it begins formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. … The company plans to continue operations in what it called a scaled-down format as it restructures (and) hopes the festival will return in 2025.” – AP
  
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• As Kronos Quartet Celebrates Its 50th Season, Two Longtime Members Are Retiring

  06-03-2024 14:32 via msn.com
  Violist Hank Dutt, 71, who’s been with the group for 46 years, and violinist John Sherba, 69, who joined one year after Dutt, will leave the group as the season ends in June. They leave violinist, founder and artistic director David Harrington, 74, as Kronos’s only veteran member. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• With The Olympics Coming, Paris’s Museums Have Jacked Up Admission Prices

  06-03-2024 14:00 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Louvre is seen as the worst offender (tickets up from €17 to €22), though most other state museums have raised prices as well. The additional cash flowing into the Louvre will be an estimated €44.3 million. – Artnet
  
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• Perfect parabolas of spurting blood! Did Galileo teach Artemisia the science of gore?

  06-03-2024 11:51
  
  Her savage masterpiece Judith Beheading Holofernes shows in gruesome detail what happens when a man is butchered alive. But how did Gentileschi manage to be so accurate? Our writer explores a centuries-old mysteryFlorence is a city of great artistic violence. In its grand public square, Piazza della Signoria, statues variously hold up a severed head, grasp a screaming victim, and grab a doomed man by the hair as a sword is raised. A medieval alley off the piazza is named after the Baroncelli fam
  
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• Heavy metal cowboys and Congolese dandies: Africa’s alternative style icons – in pictures

  06-03-2024 08:00
  
  Daniele Tamagni’s new book journeys from Dakar fashion week to the dance crews of Soweto, capturing the continent’s subversive chicContinue reading...
  
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• How Subsidy for Big Tech Wrecked the Arts (and Journalism)

  06-03-2024 05:53 via artsjournal.com
  Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Spotify, Apple and Google have subsidized what they offer (super-cheap or free content, faster service and better accessibility) to capture audience and attention in ways that have played havoc with culture producers and artists everywhere, whether or not they create on any of these platforms.
  
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