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• Why Should We Have To Allow Facial Recognition To Use Ordinary Services?

  02-07-2024 23:28 via thewalrus.ca
  
  There’s something disconcerting about a sophisticated piece of surveillance technology deployed for something as banal as selling candy. – The Walrus
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Threatens To Ban Patron Over Protest Sign

  02-07-2024 23:01 via msn.com
  Amid growing public outrage over the Board of Governors’ failure to retain the acclaimed Finnish conductor beyond his five-year contract ending after the 2024-25 season, audience member Laura Leibowitz displayed a sign during the June 21 performance that read “F— the board” in Salonen’s native language. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Ownership Of Ancient Culture Is Getting Very Very Complicated

  02-07-2024 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  If a statue cast in Rome 2,000 years ago is discovered in Greece, Cyprus or Turkey, would it belong to one of those states, or would Italians have a claim over Roman antiquities on the ground that they share a culture — whatever that may mean — with ancient Romans? – The New York Times
  
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• US State Department Appoints 11 Musicians As Cultural Ambassadors

  02-07-2024 22:01 via msn.com
  The State Department introduced 11 global music ambassadors who are charged with bridging cultural divides through poetry and melody at a time when the chasm separating Americans from each other and their neighbors abroad seems wider than ever. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• De-Aging Tom Hanks In The Movies

  02-07-2024 21:32 via bbc.com
  
  If Zemeckis can achieve that effect in Here, how long can it be before such de-ageing is as common as using hair dye and make-up to knock a few years off an actor’s apparent age? – BBC
  
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• How Do You Translate The 16th Century’s Bestselling Book, A Rhymed Italian Epic, Into English?

  02-07-2024 21:03 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  Steven Monte talks about Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, finding an equivalent to the original’s eight-liner rhyme scheme in relatively rhyme-poor English, and the episode he chose to translate, a character’s voyage to the moon. – Asymptote
  
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• The Year’s First Movie Blockbuster: “Inside Out 2” Earns A Billion Dollars

  02-07-2024 20:36 via variety.com
  
  After 19 days of release, the animated sequel has grossed $469.3 million in North America and $545.5 million internationally for a worldwide tally of $1.015 billion. It’s one of 11 animated films to join the billion-dollar club (eight of which are Disney titles), and it’s the fastest animated release to do so. – Variety
  
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• The Non-Disclosure Agreement Has Become The Defining Legal Document Of American Life Today

  02-07-2024 20:06 via thecut.com
  
  “Gradually, then all at once, the NDA became enmeshed in every part of our lives. … No one can say how many are signed every day because NDAs often prohibit even the acknowledgment of their existence, but lawyers attest that (it) is now one of the most commonly signed contracts.” – The Cut
  
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• Why Is The Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum Making So Many Mistakes?

  02-07-2024 19:36 via thewrap.com
  
  After the museum initially failed to recognize the Jewish founders of the industry in 2021, this year the exhibit aimed at righting this lapse managed to insult and offend instead of making amends. – The Wrap
  
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• The Science And Art Of Dad Dancing

  02-07-2024 19:04 via theguardian.com
  “While scientific studies have confirmed that older men do indeed dance differently to their younger counterparts – and this may have evolved as a way of signalling their declining biological fitness – experts argue that dad dancing should be celebrated, not slated, for the numerous benefits it can bring.” – The Guardian
  
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• Painting Used For Cover Of The First Harry Potter Book Sells For $1.9 Million

  02-07-2024 18:31 via artnews.com
  
  The painting surpassed its $400,000–$600,000 pre-auction estimate, and has now increased in value by more than 1,650 percent since it was first auctioned in 2001. – ARTnews
  
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• The Dogs Go To The Philadelphia Orchestra

  02-07-2024 18:02 via msn.com
  “They came, they listened, and barely a bark was heard — something that can usually go safely unremarked at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert. But for Saturday’s matinee, in addition to a couple of thousand fans of patriotic music, the orchestra drew eight puppies (training to be guide dogs.)” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• In Praise Of Roadies

  02-07-2024 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Roadies are fundamental workers in the fulfilment of live music events and concert tours. They are much more than “humpers” who haul road cases and equipment in and out of venues and festivals. – The Conversation
  
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• Mysterious Individual In Spain Pays Off Back Taxes With Artworks By Goya

  02-07-2024 17:05 via english.elpais.com
  
  “Someone with a very powerful estate … has settled a tax debt worth millions of euros, … partly by donating more than 200 engravings by Francisco de Goya as well as 87 other works of art — among them, Aurelio Arteta’s outstanding anti-war manifesto Triptych of War.” – El País in English
  
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• NPR’s “The Thistle And Shamrock” To End After 41 Years

  02-07-2024 16:33 via npr.org
  
  Said producer/host Fiona Ritchie in a note to listeners, “When I’m asked what I like least about my work, there’s only ever been one answer: the relentless weekly deadlines! Now I want to continue to develop my other interests, including perhaps creating radio moments with more breathing space in-between.” – NPR
  
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• Two Prominent French Filmmakers Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges

  02-07-2024 16:01 via deadline.com
  
  “Directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon have been taken into police custody for questioning on accusations of sexual assault made against them by actress and director Judith Godrèche, … (who) unleashed a fresh #MeToo wave in France this year after (speaking) out about her own experiences of sexual abuse within the (industry).” – Deadline
  
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• New Jersey Withdraws All Funding For Pompidou Center’s Planned Jersey City Outpost

  02-07-2024 15:36 via news.artnet.com
  
  The state had allocated almost $58 million in funding toward Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, which was originally expected to open late this year or in 2025. Officials changed their minds after projections indicated that the museum would have an annual operating deficit of $19 million. – Artnet
  
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• Novelist Ismail Kadare Dead At 88

  02-07-2024 15:04 via theguardian.com
  Albania’s most famous author both domestically and abroad, Kadare won numerous awards (including the very first International Booker Prize) and was a perennial candidate for the Nobel. “He leaves a body of work as immense as Balzac’s, as unrelenting in its critique of dictatorship as Orwell’s.” – The Guardian
  
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• Ian McKellen Withdraws From Falstaff Tour

  02-07-2024 14:32 via bbc.com
  
  Two weeks after the 85-year-old actor fell from the stage during a London performance of Player Kings, an abridged version of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts One and Two in which he played Falstaff, McKellen announced his withdrawal from the regional tour of the production “to protect my full recovery.” – BBC
  
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• Minnesota Orchestra’s CEO Moves (Back) To Dallas Symphony

  02-07-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “Michelle Miller Burns, who has led Minnesota’s largest performing arts organization since 2018, will take charge of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where she had held several leadership roles before coming to Minnesota, the orchestra announced Friday. She starts with Dallas in September.” – The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
  
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• Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

  02-07-2024 12:40
  
  South London Gallery
  The Dominican Republic-born artist’s first UK solo show is a thrill, her works combining mythology, botany and female agency in beautifully realised imagery and installationThe first time I saw a Firelei Báez I felt as if I’d found a glowing orb at sea, or made friends with a London parakeet. It was rare and magnetic, an arrestingly beautiful rendering of foliage, waves and hair on an archival backdrop, in this instance schematics and yield tables from a c
  
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• ‘I took it personally’: Rejects, the show for artists rebuffed by the Royal Academy

  02-07-2024 11:41
  
  The RA selected 1,700 works for its summer exhibition – but almost 10 times that number were rejected. Now some have a place to shine at lastIf you read the Guardian’s recent evisceration of the Royal Academy summer exhibition – “a miserable garden party of vapid good taste” – and felt bad for the artists involved, spare a thought for the ones who didn’t even make the grade.Because while the RA selected 1,700 artworks to go on display this year, almost 1
  
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• Executive Director, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra

  02-07-2024 07:12 via artsjournal.com
  GENOVESE VANDERHOOF & ASSOCIATES
  Cultural Management ConsultantsEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
  FARGO-MOORHEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  Fargo, North DakotaFargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra (FMSO) invites applications and recommendations for the full-time position of Executive Director.Reporting to the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director, working in partnership with Music Director Christopher Zimmerman, is responsible for managing the human and financial resources of the FMSO to achieve the orchestra&rsqu
  
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• Charleston Gaillard Center seeking a Chief Financial Officer

  02-07-2024 07:06 via artsjournal.com
  Charleston Gaillard Center
  https://www.gaillardcenter.orgA leader in the performing arts in the Southeast, the Charleston Gaillard Center commissions, supports, and presents ambitious, multidisciplinary cultural programming and provides access to the best local, national, and global artists and companies on its stage. Through programming on its public campus and extensive arts education initiatives, the Gaillard Center serves as a platform to participate in community building and essential dialo
  
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• This Just In: A New (and Unedited) Review for “SCENE CHANGE”

  02-07-2024 01:45 via artsjournal.com
  Many in the nonprofit arts sector will decry this manifesto as heresy, only validating its necessity.Harrison presents a radical new vision for nonprofit arts organizations in this nonfiction work.
  Drawing on his 30 years of experience in nonprofit theater, the author breaks down, in easy-to-understand language, the United States tax code and the ways in which nonprofit groups misconstrue their responsibilities as a 501(C)(3): “The purpose of nonprofit arts organizations is not about&helli
  
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• Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

  02-07-2024 01:09
  
  The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao acknowledges the French master’s misdeeds in the Pacific – but just as easily omits or distracts from themGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhat to do with a problem like Paul Gauguin? The 19th-century French master’s radical experimentations with colour, space and syncretic symbolism have made him a canonical artist. Yet it is “Gauguin the monster” &ndas
  
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• The Reboot Industrial Complex

  02-07-2024 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  When we engage with nostalgic media, we are, in essence, engaging with media that attempts to take us home — often to our childhoods, when we weren’t burdened with the stresses of adulthood, or even to a time of perceived simplicity, which we may not have experienced ourselves. – The Conversation
  
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