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• Rather Than Something To Be Avoided, Anxiety Helps Focus Our Creativity

  01-05-2024 23:32 via washingtonpost.com
  Even if we are fated to anxiety by our very nature, we needn’t be anxious about being anxious. Contra those who would abolish every form of friction or frustration, he insists that anxiety is a way of honoring who and what we are. – Washington Post
  
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• What Matters In The Age Of Distraction

  01-05-2024 23:02 via newyorker.com
  
  For years, we have heard a litany of reasons why our capacity to pay attention is disturbingly on the wane. Technology hounds us. Modern life, forever quicker and more scattered, drives concentration away. For just as long, concerns of this variety could be put aside. – The New Yorker
  
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• What Does The Rise Of AI Writing Suggest About Human Creativity?

  01-05-2024 22:32 via newrepublic.com
  
  If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity? What, if anything, sets us apart? And if AI does indeed supplant human writing, what will humans—both readers and writers—lose? – The New Republic
  
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• Astonishing Ancient Construction Found In France

  01-05-2024 22:01 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) unearthed the monument while excavating a prehistoric site in the eastern commune of Marliens. – Smithsonian
  
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• Art Gallery Of Ontario Strike Revealed A Class Divide

  01-05-2024 21:31 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  If the union made scant material progress, the strike looks mainly like a huge strategic error on the AGO’s part. — The Globe & Mail
  
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• So What’s The Deal With Actors’ Superstition About Saying “Macbeth” Inside A Theater?

  01-05-2024 21:04 via mentalfloss.com
  Well, turns out there’s a history of very bad things happening during productions of “the Scottish play” going all the way back to Shakespeare’s own company in 1606. Actors getting injured or killed onstage. Theaters burning down. Massive audience brawls. The 1849 Shakespeare riots in New York? Yep, over Macbeth. – Mental Floss
  
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• How Daniel Radcliffe Got Past Harry Potter

  01-05-2024 20:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  When he’d auditioned for a British TV adaptation of David Copperfield, it was less out of great hope or ambition than because he’d been having a rough time at school and his parents (his father was a literary agent; his mother, a casting agent) thought that the experience of auditioning might boost his confidence.  – The Atlantic
  
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• Why Cathy Marston Turned Ian McEwan’s Novel “Atonement” Into Ballet

  01-05-2024 20:07 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “Briony’s idea of being able to rewrite someone’s life for the better is, for any sensible brain, a ridiculous notion. Yet there’s scientific evidence that we feel our experiences differently according to the stories we tell about them. … Whether we change the truth through stories we tell is a very relevant topic.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• What Scientists Are Telling Us About Our Relationship With Music

  01-05-2024 19:32 via sfcv.org
  More and more, science is allowing us to understand our attraction to music and what it does for us — and consequently, what makes us human. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• With “Illinoise”, Justin Peck Has Expanded The Idea Of What A Broadway Musical Can Be

  01-05-2024 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “The 37-year old’s directorial debut is the result of a three-force collaboration: the dance is by Peck himself to Stevens’s introspective coming-of-age album with a narrative written by playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury. A group of singers perform the album’s songs while dancers express Sibblies Drury’s storyline without uttering any lines.” – The Guardian
  
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• Australian Arts Organizations Struggle With Inflation In Costs

  01-05-2024 18:32 via artshub.com.au
  
  Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising costs in a funding environment that is simply not keeping pace with the price hikes associated with presenting arts events. – ArtsHub
  
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• Puccini The Modernist?

  01-05-2024 18:05 via bachtrack.com
  
  “Puccini is typically seen as representing the end of a tradition, but might he actually have sown the seeds of a variety of new traditions? We can hear nods to his style in works by Janáček, Korngold, Orff and Berio.” – Bachtrack
  
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• How Your Sense Of Time Impacts Your Creativity

  01-05-2024 17:32 via psyche.co
  
  When it comes to how you would ideally plan your days, the research suggests that people differ, with some more drawn to clock time and some more to event time. – Psyche
  
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• Well, Here’s What Happened When Another Large Country Banned TikTok

  01-05-2024 17:03 via bbc.com
  
  “After (a 2020) border skirmish, the Indian government banned the app. … As the app’s 150 million US users swipe through videos in limbo, the story of India’s TikTok ban shows that users are quick to adapt, but also that when TikTok dies, much of its culture dies with it.” – BBC
  
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• One-Quarter Of Young-Adult-Lit Readers Are More Than 28 Years Old

  01-05-2024 16:36 via theguardian.com
  
  “According to the report (commissioned by HarperCollins), 74% of YA readers were adults, and 28% were over the age of 28. The research suggests this is due to behavioural changes described as ’emerging adulthood’: young people growing up more slowly and delaying ‘adult’ life.” – The Guardian
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandals In Paris Arrested Before They Could Vandalize Art

  01-05-2024 16:01 via artnews.com
  
  “Two people were arrested on Sunday morning at the entrance of the Musée d’Orsay for being suspected of attempting to damage classified property. … When they were arrested, they were ‘in possession of a white liquid – glue and a viscous whitish mixture – and were wearing” t-shirts of an environmental activist group. – ARTnews
  
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• When James Baldwin Went To Hollywood

  01-05-2024 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  He loved cinema all his life and wrote some genuinely great film criticism. Yet, says one Baldwin scholar, he “craved an Oscar almost as much as he did a Pulitzer” and pitched a number of ideas to directors. Some filmmakers approached Baldwin themselves; Fassbinder suggested filming Giovanni’s Room. – The Guardian
  
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• Álvaro Mutis on the Real Nowhere Man

  01-05-2024 15:10 via artsjournal.com
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• State Of The Arts In The US: Cultural Organizations’ Staffing Levels Post-COVID

  01-05-2024 15:02 via culturaldata.org
  
  “On average, organizations retained their full-time staff through pandemic shutdowns. Average staff size has grown over the last two years (2022 to 2023) through the addition of permanent part-time positions. Payroll has also increased over the period analyzed, outpacing inflation by 11%.” – SMU DataArts
  
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• Author Paul Auster Dead At 77

  01-05-2024 14:27 via apnews.com
  
  “Called the ‘dean of American post-modernists’ and ‘the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,’ Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-conscious references to writers and writing. … Starting in the 1970s, Auster completed more than 30 books, translated into dozens of languages.” – AP
  
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• Toronto’s Largest Art Museum Reopens After Monthlong Strike

  01-05-2024 14:00 via artforum.com
  
  “The Art Gallery of Ontario, which closed to the public on March 26 as more than 400 unionized workers went on strike, (reopened) on April 30. The employees, whose ranks included curators, archivists, designers, researchers, technicians, and front desk staff, … had sought wage increases and protection for part-time workers.” – Artforum
  
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• Mahler in Sioux Falls (with yet another glance at Klaus Makela)

  01-05-2024 06:02 via artsjournal.com
  
  I have just returned from a trip to Sioux Falls, where I heard Delta David Gier lead the South Dakota
  
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• What Does Culture Look Like Without Nightlife?

  01-05-2024 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Last year, 125 grassroots music venues closed permanently and 1,293 pubs shut their doors across Britain. According to the Night Time Industries Association, more than 3,000 pubs, clubs and venues have closed down in London alone since the pandemic began in March 2020. – The Guardian
  
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