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• How MTV’s “The Real World” Pioneered Today’s Reality TV

  21-06-2024 23:31 via newyorker.com
  
  In many ways, “The Real World” was a great leap forward from the proto-reality ventures of the past. These attempts had ranged from culture-rattling “audience-participation” formats such as “Candid Camera,” which began in the late forties, to the smutty Chuck Barris game shows of the sixties and seventies. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Does The UK Conservative Party Not Want To Talk Arts And Culture?

  21-06-2024 23:01 via theconversation.com
  
  The Conservatives state that culture and sport lie “at the core of our national and local identities” and pledge to “support our world-leading creative industries”. Yet, arts and culture are squeezed into one short page, alongside sport, media and the nighttime economy. – The Conversation
  
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• In Praise Of Ambivalence

  21-06-2024 22:25 via poetryfoundation.org
  
  Ambivalence can be quicksand, slowly swallowing us whole. But some ambivalence, as lyric poetry taught me, is essential to a life. – Poetry Foundation
  
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• Of Balanchine And Graham: Important Lessons About Legacy

  21-06-2024 22:01 via thedriftmag.com
  If the intertwined fates of Balanchine and Graham tell us anything, it should be that trajectories of dance styles and legacies of choreographers are just as much the products of money and institutional support as of artistic talent. – The Drift
  
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• Debating How Babies Learn Language

  21-06-2024 21:29 via lithub.com
  
  First, is language acquired by specialized mental processes that are dedicated to this task or learned by general-purpose processes used for a variety of learning tasks? Second, can we project the processes of language acquisition/learning that we observe in the present into the prehistoric past to gain insights about the evolution of language? – LitHub
  
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• Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) seeking Executive Director & Curator

  21-06-2024 21:18 via artsjournal.com
  Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA), a 501c3 non-profit in its 50th year dedicated to enriching community life by promoting involvement and excellence in contemporary art, seeks an Executive Director & Curator (combined role). The Executive Director & Curator must have a commitment to the institution’s contemporary art mission, relevant postgraduate qualification, and demonstrated ambition, ability, and enthusiasm to continue the institution’s trajectory as a re
  
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• Were Or Were Not Berthe Morisot And Edouard Manet Lovers?

  21-06-2024 21:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  “(The question) is a matter of wide speculation. New Criterion says they burned their correspondence when she wed. However, Morisot’s letters with her sister show their flirtation was not always a delight. …Morisot rebuffed her mother’s persistent matchmaking, but she obliged Manet’s eventual suggestion that she marry his brother.” – Artnet
  
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• Boston MFA Director To Step Down

  21-06-2024 20:48 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  His tenure at the MFA was marked by both successes and challenges, from the overhaul of many galleries, conservation facilities and education programmes, to a racial incident involving a visiting school group and contract negotiations with (and a brief strike by) unionised workers. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Your Off-Broadway Show Is A Hit. Should You Move It To Broadway?

  21-06-2024 20:32 via theatermania.com
  
  With production costs soaring, is it even worth moving a hit off-Broadway show to Broadway anymore? – TheatreMania
  
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• Virginia Opera Owes $270,000 In Unpaid Rent, Says City of Norfolk

  21-06-2024 20:03 via pilotonline.com
  
  “The city, which leases Harrison Opera House to Virginia Opera, says the organization owes $270,000 … for (2019-2024). … Virginia Opera leaders dispute those claims, said Peggy Kriha Miller, general director. … When asked why opera leaders do not believe the organization is behind on rent, Miller declined to comment.” – The Virginian-Pilot
  
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• Scottish Arts Leaders Brace For Big Funding Cuts, Exodus Of Talent

  21-06-2024 19:32 via scotsman.com
  The possibility of wide-ranging cuts has emerged as industry leaders warned of growing evidence of an exodus of talent from performers and arts workers seeking more stable careers due to Scotland’s “extremely precarious” arts funding environment. – The Scotsman
  
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• Sophocles In A Maximum-Security Greek Prison

  21-06-2024 19:04 via reuters.com
  A photo essay on a production of Antigone, with a cast almost entirely of inmates, at the Korydallos prison in Athens. – Reuters
  
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• Guy Warren obituary

  21-06-2024 19:04
  
  Australian painter whose works married landscape and figurative styles, and drew heavily on his time in New GuineaAt a dinner party in 1985, the Australian artist Guy Warren, who has died aged 103, was asked by a fellow guest whether he had ever entered his work for the Archibald prize, Australia’s premier portrait award. “Oh God no,” he replied. “Nobody goes in for that. The trustees wouldn’t know a good painting if it fell on them.”His friend and host, the s
  
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• Why Evolving Our Morality Is Really Hard

  21-06-2024 18:28 via aeon.co
  
  When we’re told that something we see as ordinary – like eating meat – is actually wrong, our first reaction is to get irritated and dismissive. If it’s not about bacon, it’s about plastic straws. Or a phrase we’ve been using for years but is now considered offensive. Or having to share your pronouns. – Aeon
  
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• The First Post-Pandemic Carbuncle Cup, For Britain’s Worst New Building, Goes To —

  21-06-2024 18:02 via the-fence.com
  
  “A bunch of developers have been allowed to knock down a happy, eclectic row of buildings … and (have) replaced it with such nothingness, such banality that their only option is to cover it with a screen. Upon which, they have drawn portraits of those same old demolished buildings.” – The Fence
  
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• The Online News Media Is About To Try Another “Pivot To Video”

  21-06-2024 17:05 via niemanlab.org
  
  True, the last one didn’t work out so well. Yet “aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming from video or video-led networks such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram while legacy networks such as Facebook are becoming less important.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Is There Any Corporate Funder Of The Arts Who’s Pure Enough For The Activists?

  21-06-2024 16:31 via tinyurl.com
  
  “Activists targeted an asset manager that invests much less in fossil fuels than most of its peers. They succeeded in reducing funding for literary festivals, not fossil fuels or arms companies. The whole arts sector is already struggling. … If Baillie Gifford isn’t clean enough to fill the gap, who exactly is?” – Financial Times
  
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• BalletMet In Columbus, Ohio Appoints New Artistic Director

  21-06-2024 16:03 via dispatch.com
  
  Remi Wörtmeyer, an Australian-born choreographer and visual artist and a former principal of the Dutch National Ballet, succeeds Edwaard Liang, now artistic director of Washington Ballet. – The Columbus Dispatch
  
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• No perky cockneys? How Henry Moore’s sheltering souls puncture our blitz bravado

  21-06-2024 15:42
  
  On the eve of a general election, the artist’s drawings of Londoners sheltering from Nazi bombs in the Underground come as a sobering yet welcome reminder of British decencyWhen the blitz began in September 1940, Londoners sought the safety of deep Underground stations and tunnels – and Henry Moore, the most famous British modern artist of the age, went down there to sketch them. His eerie drawings of people neatly lying in rows or sitting haggard in vortex-like ashen tunnels are sta
  
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• Folger Shakespeare Library Reopens In “A Building Transformed”: Philip Kennicott

  21-06-2024 15:34 via msn.com
  “By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would be necessary: assert the importance of Shakespeare to public life, from scholars to laymen, passersby and politicians.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Abruptly-Shuttered University Of The Arts Doesn’t Have The Cash For Legally-Required Severance Pay

  21-06-2024 15:02 via msn.com
  “(The school), which shut down suddenly earlier this month, does not appear to have enough money to pay its employees the minimum it owes them under federal law. The news came out of the first negotiating session that (administrators and attorneys) held with the school’s staff unions.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Museum Of Fine Arts Boston Director Announces Retirement

  21-06-2024 14:35 via msn.com
  “Matthew Teitelbaum, … who stewarded the institution through a tumultuous era of social upheaval and change, announced his retirement Thursday evening at a meeting of the museum’s board of directors. Teitelbaum, 68, became director in August 2015. He will leave his post … in August 2025.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• France’s Far-Right Party Pledges To Privatize Public TV And Radio

  21-06-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally intends to privatise public television and radio if it wins an absolute majority in the French parliament in snap elections. … Jordan Bardella, the party president, said selling off the public radio and television services would save more than €3bn, which could fund other policies.” – The Guardian
  
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• Blue Black portraits, electric light relief and sugar in space – the week in art

  21-06-2024 13:00
  
  Claudette Johnson’s intimate observations, Anthony McCall’s gleaming geometry and Tavares Strachan’s rocket launch – all in your weekly dispatchClaudette Johnson: Darker Than Blue
  The enigmatic portraits of this Turner-nominated artist hold you and haunt you with their mixture of careful observation and conceptual suggestiveness.• Barber Institute, Birmingham, 22 June to 15 September Continue reading...
  
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• Paula Rego ‘masterpiece’ may set record for artist at Sotheby’s auction

  21-06-2024 07:00
  
  Meadow has top-end initial estimate of about £3m, as Rego’s work about gender and abortion finds new audiencesA “masterpiece” by Paula Rego is set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next week and could set a new record for the artist.Rego’s challenging work about abortion, gender roles and domestic violence has found new audiences in an era when identity is king. Since her death in 2022 the record price for one of her works at auction has risen significantly,
  
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