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• How Gypsy Traditions Shaped UK Music

  27-06-2024 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  The lack of recognition of Gypsy and Traveller contributions to Scottish, Irish or English music styles effectively excludes these ethnic minorities from narratives of Britishness. – The Conversation
  
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• We Sell Art As Fame, Fame As Art. It’s Really About Market Share

  27-06-2024 22:57 via lithub.com
  
  Of course, Gen Xers always knew this would happen: the gradual folding of everything that could possibly be called “culture” into one image-spectacle-and-sensorium corporate machine that thrives on endless niche differentiation as a way of metastasizing its market share. – LitHub
  
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• Despairing Of The Election? Look To The Iliad

  27-06-2024 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Maybe you can relate to my mood: I want this election season over with. I have no more outrage left to give, yet there seems to be no bottom to Donald J. Trump’s authoritarian shamelessness. Thursday’s debate between President Biden and Trump has me ducking for cover. – LA Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Calgary’s Arts Commons Gets The Largest Philanthropic Gift In Canadian Performing Arts History

  27-06-2024 22:01 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  The downtown Calgary cultural hub has been raising funds for a $660-million transformation, which will see its existing facility upgraded, a new building added and the neighbouring outdoor Olympic Plaza redesigned. – The Globe & Mail
  
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• Why Some People Bloom Later In Life

  27-06-2024 21:31 via msn.com
  Why do some people hit their peak later than others? In his book Late Bloomers, the journalist Rich Karlgaard points out that this is really two questions: First, why didn’t these people bloom earlier? Second, what traits or skills did they possess that enabled them to bloom late? – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• The Traditional Chinese Art Of Acting And Singing With Boar Tusks In Your Mouth

  27-06-2024 21:06 via scmp.com
  
  “It could be the most terrifying folk art in China. It is called shua ya, which literally means ‘teeth playing’. … Performers need to manipulate four to 10 tusks in their mouths, using their lips, teeth, and breath to make them move, conveying the emotions of characters.” – South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
  
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• Embracing Queerness in Ballet: A Conversation with Adriana Pierce

  27-06-2024 20:50 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  A conversation with Adriana Pierce, a trailblazing dancer, choreographer, and director, who is reshaping the ballet world through her initiative, Queer the Ballet. Pierce discusses her early dance experiences and how her passion for dance led her to notable positions at the New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet, where she spent seven years honing her craft.   But at the same time, there was much to negotiate: Pierce discusses the challenges of navigating gender and sexual id
  
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• LLM Models Show Biases Broadly Embedded Across Languages

  27-06-2024 20:28 via phys.org
  “The data show that implicitly-measured attitudes are revealed in and perhaps reinforced by language, which is a key vehicle of transmitting culture. If we want to durably address and reduce implicit bias in society, we will likely need interventions that adopt a more cultural (or macro level) focus.” – Phys
  
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• Why Did Leonardo da Vinci Use Mirror-Writing? Probably Not To Keep Things Secret

  27-06-2024 20:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  Mirror-writing, after all, isn’t that hard to read once you figure out the idea, and a genius like Leonardo could easily have come up with an encrypted code. Some have suggested that the mirror-writing was an act of resistance, which seems like presentism. The likely reason is actually a practical one. – Artnet
  
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• Why Music Labels Are Suing New AI Music Generators

  27-06-2024 19:31 via theverge.com
  
  The RIAA’s lawsuits use lofty language, saying that this litigation is about “ensuring that copyright continues to incentivize human invention and imagination, as it has for centuries.” This sounds nice, but ultimately, the incentive it’s talking about is money. – The Verge
  
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• A Performing Arts Center For A Refugee Camp The Size Of A City

  27-06-2024 19:04 via dezeen.com
  
  “Constructed from earth bricks, the Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre (in Uganda) is intended as a creative outlet for the community, which is home to more than 250,000 displaced people, making it the largest refugee settlement in Africa.” – Dezeen
  
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• BEAT SCENE No. 110 Latest Issue Is Filled With Especially Rich Tales

  27-06-2024 19:02 via artsjournal.com
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• Brooks: Creativity Might Be A Solution For Depression

  27-06-2024 18:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Research in neuroscience and psychology reveals that active engagement in creative pursuits is an effective way to see the world in a more positive way. This might be the simplest, easiest, and most natural way for anyone to improve their life. – The Atlantic
  
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• This Trump Biopic Was A Major Hit At Cannes. It Can’t Get A US Release. Is This A Case Of “Catch And Kill”?

  27-06-2024 18:06 via msn.com
  The Apprentice (not to be confused with Trump’s old reality TV series) is a rather unflattering depiction of the young Trump’s disciple-like relationship with notorious lawyer Roy Cohn. The film’s lead US funder, a Trump donor, is reportedly furious over the film, though he denies deliberately blocking it. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Paramount Purges Access To Decades Of Shows Across Multiple Networks

  27-06-2024 17:33 via shellypalmer.com
  
  Comedy Central, CMT, Paramount Network, TV Land, and MTV sites now point visitors to the streaming platform, effectively removing vast archives of content from public access. This follows the unexpected shutdown of the MTV News website earlier this week, which erased two decades of content. – Shelly Palmer
  
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• Atlantic Ballet Of Canada Launches Professional Training Program For Indigenous Dancers

  27-06-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  “The two-year program in Moncton, N.B. will accept eight Indigenous dancers in Grade 11. … The (instruction) will be in contemporary style, but also include traditional and ballet, making it a holistic format that will give students access to a wide range of opportunities in their professional careers.” – The Canadian Press (MSN)
  
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• Their Play Is A Cautionary Tale About Terrorism. Now Putin’s Government Is Prosecuting Them For Promoting It.

  27-06-2024 16:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “Cultural figures supporting the women” — director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, two highly decorated fixtures of contemporary Russian theater — “say this is the first time in Russia’s post-Soviet era that a work of art is effectively being put on trial.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Piano For Players With Small Hands

  27-06-2024 16:02 via ludwig-van.com
  
  It’s called a stretto piano, and it fits 88 keys on a keyboard roughly 7/8 the size of a standard grand piano keyboard. Studies indicate that the benefits in reduced strain and pain for smaller-handed pianists are just what you’d expect they’d be. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Hawaii’s Governor Tries To Keep A Law Allowing Him To Shut Down TV And Radio In An Emergency

  27-06-2024 15:30 via insideradio.com
  
  “A planned veto by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green that would maintain a state law allowing Green or a county mayor to shut down electronic media within the state in an emergency has drawn opposition from the Hawaii Association of Broadcasters.” – Inside Radio
  
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• The Case Against Alec Baldwin For The “Rust” On-Set Shooting

  27-06-2024 15:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “This account is based on more than 30 other interviews” — Baldwin has stopped discussing the case with the press — “conducted in New York and Santa Fe, in addition to public court filings, police records and videos, as well as documents obtained under New Mexico’s freedom-of-information act.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Pompidou Center’s Planned Satellite In Jersey City Runs Into Funding Trouble

  27-06-2024 14:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  The museum, currently expected to open in 2026, had $58 million in earmarked funding from various New Jersey government sources. But the latest estimate from a city agency projects Pompidou x Jersey City to have a $19 million annual operating deficit, and some of the funders are having second thoughts. – Artnet
  
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• American Repertory Theater Begins Construction On New Theater Complex One Town Over From Cambridge

  27-06-2024 14:03 via wbur.org
  
  “The multimillion-dollar (facility) in Allston will expand the A.R.T.’s performance capabilities and meet rigorous standards for sustainability. The 80,000-square-foot building … has been in the works since 2019, when a $100 million gift jumpstarted plans to move the theater from its longtime home at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• Public artwork reframes US history of enslavement through Jefferson’s valet

  27-06-2024 11:22
  
  The Descendants of Monticello shifts focus from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hemmings, his enslaved teen valetIn his 1981 inaugural address, Ronald Reagan gazed out at the magnificent vista of Washington DC. “At the end of this open mall are those shrines to the giants on whose shoulders we stand,” the new US president said. “Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man, George Washington, father of our country. A man of humility who came to greatness reluctantly. He
  
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• ‘My sculptures are alive. They dance around the gallery at night’: the viscerally spiritual art of Bharti Kher

  27-06-2024 09:00
  
  Invoking philosophy, womanhood and religion, the Delhi- and London-based artist turns material objects into something truly humanWhen Bharti Kher talks about her sculptures, she gives them pronouns. For two decades, the British-born artist, who lives between Delhi and London, has been making the most startling works to investigate the female body and all of them have become characters in their own right. As she puts it, “my sculptures are alive – they run around the gallery at night
  
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