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• Cities Have Become Obsessed With Taller Buildings

  17-05-2024 23:29 via dezeen.com
  
  Seven times more buildings of 150 metres or taller have sprung up since 2000 than were constructed in the entire 20th century. Five decades ago, the height of the tallest building completed each year globally averaged around 250 metres (55-60 storeys). Nowadays, they are typically double that height. – Dezeen
  
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• Transcendent Experiences: Dancing In The Louvre

  17-05-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “Over the years, I have felt many things in the world’s most-visited, and arguably most-famous, museum — irritation, exhaustion and some wonder, too. This time, I felt joy.” – The New York Times
  
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• Where Is The Village Voice For The 2020’s?

  17-05-2024 22:31 via jacobin.com
  
  By rejecting the distinction between observer and observed, subject and author (at least to a degree, and more so in the arts and culture back of the paper rather than the newsy, investigative front of it), the Voice was a dispatch from a world unknown to most, penned by writers who were themselves characters in it. – Jacobin
  
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• How The Language Of TV Is Shaping How We See Ourselves

  17-05-2024 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  You see a lot of this on TikTok now: videos that describe ordinary life using the language of television. Scroll through, and you’ll find users charting the different “seasons” of their lives or highlighting the emergence of plot “arcs.” – The New York Times
  
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• Anna Deavere Smith On Learning To Listen To Americans

  17-05-2024 21:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Stereotypes come about when we stop looking. Why we stop looking is something we all need to discern for ourselves. When we stop looking, we erase the particularness of how humans present themselves physically and vocally. It does not take long to make a judgment. – Washington Post
  
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• Accents Can Be Contagious

  17-05-2024 20:57 via msn.com
  That foreign accent students sometimes come home with after studying abroad isn’t (or isn’t only) an affectation. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• Taylor Swift Remixed (DIY For Fans Who Wanted Something More From The Latest Album)

  17-05-2024 20:27 via wapo.st
  A small cottage industry of DJs, musicians and producers have been twiddling with TTPD since its release last month, and adding their own twists. – Washington Post
  
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• In Search Of Nefertiti’s Tomb

  17-05-2024 20:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  It’s happened numerous times: famous archaeologists (or those looking for fame) claim they’ve finally found the resting place of the legendary ancient Egyptian queen. Yet they might be right this time. – Artnet
  
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• Filter Wars: How Our Digital Life Is Killing Creativity

  17-05-2024 19:32 via english.elpais.com
  
  “In any industry what matters is not what you’re making, but how many followers you have. Do you want to do something, do you want to make an album, put out a book? Okay, but who is your audience? That’s pretty bad, it severely limits who enters the cultural industry.” – El Pais
  
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• A Dance Style Invented In Rio 20 Years Ago Has Been Declared “Intangible Cultural Heritage”

  17-05-2024 19:05 via apnews.com
  
  “It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was around.” The passinho, invented by favela kids in the ’00s, has been given heritage status by the Rio de Janeiro state legislature. – AP
  
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• Why Apple’s “Crush Creativity” Ad Is So Offensive

  17-05-2024 18:31 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Contrary to the walkback last week by Apple marketing communications vice president Tor Myhren — “We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry” — the commercial for the new iPad Pro hit a much tougher mark by being both terrible and honest about Apple’s vision of the future. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• We Have Now Reached Peak Theater, And It’s All Downhill From Here

  17-05-2024 18:06 via msn.com
  “Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade and an audience almost 20% smaller than it was pre-pandemic. … As the Jazz Age attests, bubbles can be fun.” But this one may soon burst. – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• The Dancer As Athlete

  17-05-2024 17:44 via post-gazette.com
  A 2016 retrospective study that tracked injuries in a professional ballet dance company over a 10-year period found that most dancers experience a new injury every year. Researchers are paying increasing attention to the injury rate at companies, and companies are working to reduce their rates. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Seattle Invasion

  17-05-2024 17:31 via seattletimes.com
  
  “In the past, there seemed to be more movement from L.A. and the Bay Area to OSF, especially in terms of artists, so it’s an exciting moment to have a greater conversation and relationship between Seattle and this theater.” – Seattle Times
  
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• We Should All Just Relax About Apostrophes, Says John McWhorter

  17-05-2024 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Here’s his argument. He’s wrong, of course. – The New York Times
  
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• The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: An Explainer

  17-05-2024 16:32 via euronews.com
  
  Here’s an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will be seen in Paris through this summer. – Euronews
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers’ Chapel In California Will Be Dismantled

  17-05-2024 16:04 via archpaper.com
  
  The glass-clad church, perched on an oceanside bluff in Los Angeles County, has suffered severe structural damage as the ground underneath it shifted due to the heavy rains of recent years. It will be taken apart and stored until a new site has been chosen. – The Architect’s Newspaper
  
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• There’s Another Problem With That New York State Tax Credit For Producing Broadway Shows

  17-05-2024 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People shouldn’t be going to Phantom and The Lion King as well. – The New York Times
  
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• British Museum says 626 items lost or stolen have been found

  17-05-2024 15:05
  
  Museum chair George Osborne hails ‘remarkable result’ as recovery effort continues with leads on another 100The British Museum has located another 268 items that went missing or were stolen from its storerooms, bringing the total number recovered to 626.About 2,000 items were found last year to be missing or lost, some of which had been sold on eBay. Continue reading...
  
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• After Industry-Wide Criticism, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Un-Cancels Jerusalem Quartet Concert

  17-05-2024 15:05 via thestrad.com
  
  While it’s too late to restore the first of the string quartet’s scheduled performances there, the second, for Saturday night, was reinstated with additional security measures and an earlier starting time. The venue’s stated concern was over property destruction during Gaza-related demonstrations at a nearby university. – The Strad
  
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• After A Yearlong Standoff, Philadelphia Museum Of Art And Its Staffers Resolve Their Pay Dispute

  17-05-2024 14:30 via msn.com
  These raises were part of the museum’s first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn’t settled: there’s a binding arbitration case about it that’s now on hold until a new contract is negotiated next year. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• NPR Adds An New, Extra Layer Of Editing, And Journalists There Are, Um, Concerned

  17-05-2024 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  Many of the network’s reporters believe that this extra layer, called the “Backstop,” was put in place only because of right-wing pressure over allegations of bias and will only cause bottlenecks in the reporting process. They’re even more concerned because the execs won’t say who’s paying for it. – The New York Times
  
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• Judy Chicago’s illuminated epic, Elton John’s best shots and an earshredding blast – the week in art

  17-05-2024 13:27
  
  The manuscript behind the US feminist’s monumental Dinner Party is finally published, Elton’s photography obsession returns and some woodcuts warn of disaster – all in your weekly dispatchJudy Chicago: Revelations
  An illuminated manuscript that Chicago started in the 1970s and is only now being published reveals the thinking behind her renowned work The Dinner Party.
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• The artist behind the short-lived portal linking New York and Dublin: ‘People got carried away’

  17-05-2024 09:00
  
  Benediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two citiesThe artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted he was surprised by the reaction.Benediktas Gylys also vowed to continue with his project, which has the aim of connecting people and communities all over the w
  
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• The artist behind the portal linking New York and Dublin: ‘People got carried away’

  17-05-2024 09:00
  
  Benediktas Gylys admits he was surprised by the rowdy behavior that came from the exhibit connecting people in the two citiesThe artist behind the controversial “Portal” art exhibit that visually linked New York and Dublin in real-time, but was then closed due to rowdy and extreme behavior by the public using it, has admitted he was surprised by the reaction.Benediktas Gylys also vowed to continue with his project, which has the aim of connecting people and communities all over the w
  
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• Olympic swimmers demand justice for, um, Gina Rinehart | First Dog on the Moon

  17-05-2024 08:34
  
  Hold my philanthropy bucket! What have the arts done now?Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
  
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• Swimming boss defends athletes lobbying national gallery to take down Gina Rinehart portraits

  17-05-2024 07:13
  
  Swimming Queensland chief Kevin Hasemann says ‘I’ve never been to a gallery’ and furore has ‘evolved into something I could never have imagined’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Swimming Queensland has defended a campaign that saw Olympic champions lobby the National Gallery of Australia to take down portraits of their patron, Gina Rinehart, because they were dee
  
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