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• Improbably, A Brilliant Park Rises In Brooklyn

  05-07-2024 23:32 via msn.com
  Finally, a long stretch of nothing happening, of innumerable plans, tradeoffs, controversies, objections, and delays — that whole impasto of New York–style dithering — has been overwhelmed by the vivid, sensual presence of one of the city’s great public spaces. – New York Magazine (MSN)
  
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• First Ever: Dancers Competing In The Olympics This Summer

  05-07-2024 23:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Thirty-two dancers total—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—will compete battle-style in Paris’ Place de la Concorde to sold-out crowds on August 9 and 10. Qualifying competitions have been going on since 2022. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Pomp(idou) & Circumstance in New Jersey: Economics & Politics Sink the Paris Museum’s Jersey City Bateau

  05-07-2024 22:43 via artsjournal.com
  As someone who lives about 10 miles north of the site that had been chosen for the Jersey City Pompidou
  
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• Bay Area Arts Institutions Finding Their Ways Back

  05-07-2024 22:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Although attendance at the city’s arts institutions remains down from prepandemic levels — with tourism, hotel occupancy and office attendance yet to fully recover — its cultural ecosystem has been showing signs of inching its way back. – The New York Times
  
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• That Was Quick: Starmer Appoints New UK Culture Minister

  05-07-2024 22:01 via screendaily.com
  
  Prior to yesterday’s UK general election, she was shadow cabinet minister for international development and has previously held shadow cabinet roles in housing, foreign and commonwealth affairs, and energy and climate change. – Screen Daily
  
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• Are Protests Against Corporations Funding The Arts Killing Corporate Arts Funding?

  05-07-2024 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Increasing protests around elements of corporate sponsorship of the arts – most notably last month, when support from investment firm Baillie Gifford for the Hay, Edinburgh and Borders book festivals ended after pressure from Fossil Free Books – are starting to make the sector look too risky for corporate brands to back. – The Guardian
  
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• Mollywood, The Thinking Person’s Bollywood

  05-07-2024 21:05 via economist.com
  
  The Malayalam-language film industry, based in the state of Kerala in India’s far southwest, never went in for the mythological films or song-dance-melodrama extravaganzas on which Bollywood was built. It simply tells compelling stories about believable people. And it’s now breaking out into the rest of India. – The Economist
  
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• How Words Shape The Future

  05-07-2024 20:29 via lithub.com
  
  We make something more likely, more widely believed, by saying and repeating it. Our rhetoric encourages or discourages. Which is why sports teams chant a version of “I believe we will win.” – LitHub
  
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• The Occupational Injuries Of Ancient Egyptian Scribes

  05-07-2024 20:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Just as modern-day government workers suffer neck and spinal injuries from sitting at desks and arching forward to stare at screens, ancient Egyptian scribes endured comparable physical stresses from hunching over papyrus for prolonged sessions.” Scribe skeletons show evidence of serious osteoarthritis in the neck, collarbone, arm, thigh, and spine. – Artnet
  
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• The World’s Oldest Story Painting Is 51,000 Years Old

  05-07-2024 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The previous record holder was a lifesize picture of a wild pig believed to be created at least 45,500 years ago in a cave at Leang Tedongnge. – The Guardian
  
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• The Man Who Stole Munch’s “The Scream” Has Died At 57

  05-07-2024 19:02 via apnews.com
  
  Once a promising teenage soccer player, Pål Enger decided he was a better criminal than athlete and began a career of art and jewelry thefts interspersed with prison sentences. On opening day of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Enger took Munch’s Scream from Norway’s National Gallery in Oslo. – AP
  
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• LLMs And AI Challenge Our Notions Of Consciousness

  05-07-2024 18:31 via psychologytoday.com
  LLMs challenge traditional notions of intelligence and consciousness, blurring lines between AI and biology. – Psychology Today
  
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• Meet Simone Biles’s Choreographer, Who Trained At The Paris Opera Ballet

  05-07-2024 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Until now, Grégory Milan wryly considered his life to be ‘a series of failures of sorts.’ When he turned to gymnastics choreography full-time, in 2017, he was in debt, having started a dance company that never took off, and still reeling from a tumultuous career in ballet.” – The New York Times
  
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• Are There Too Many Non-Profits?

  05-07-2024 17:32 via thephiladelphiacitizen.org
  
  While each example in the litany of headlines of late is unique, taken together, the drumbeat of bad news raises serious questions about nonprofit governance, and ought to shine a light on government’s increasing reliance on outsourcing vital services to unaccountable entities. – Philadelphia Citizen
  
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• Aphra Bean Comedy, So Controversial It Was Only Performed Once, Is Revived After 353 Years

  05-07-2024 17:03 via bbc.com
  
  Bean’s The Amorous Prince, or The Curious Husband was considered “too radical, too shocking” in its day, says director Natalie Cox. “Some of the things it made fun of, such as masculinity, were not au fait with what should have been on stage at that point. It just fell into obscurity.” – BBC
  
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• Finland’s Latest Boy-Wonder Conductor Gets His First Major Orchestra

  05-07-2024 16:31 via apnews.com
  
  “Tarmo Peltokoski was hired Thursday to succeed Jaap van Zweden as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Peltokoski, at 24 far younger than most music directors, will start a four-year term in the 2026-27 season after serving as music director designate in 2025-26.” – AP
  
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• The Utterly Bleak TV Series That Captures Russians’ Utterly Bleak Mindset

  05-07-2024 16:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Slovo Patsana: Krov na Asphalte (roughly, “The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt”) “is a warning about what happens when our ability for moral reasoning becomes so impoverished that the most straightforward response to any situation is to punch somebody in the face.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Melodies Of Hit Pop Songs Have Become Much Less Complex Over Past 50 Years: Study

  05-07-2024 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “(Researchers) studied songs placed in the top five of the US Billboard year-end singles music chart each year between 1950 and 2022. … The results revealed the average complexity of melodies had fallen over time, with two big drops in 1975 and 2000, as well as a smaller drop in 1996.” – The Guardian
  
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• Titian Painting Discovered In A Plastic Bag Sells For $22.3 Million

  05-07-2024 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Venetian master’s Rest On The Flight Into Egypt (1510) was looted by Napoleon’s soldiers in 1809 and returned at bayonet-point after Waterloo; it was stolen again in England in 1995 and found in a plastic carrier in London in 2002. At Christie’s it sold for £17.6 million, a record for Titian. – CNN
  
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• New British Government’s Designated Culture Secretary Lost Her Seat In Parliament

  05-07-2024 14:34 via screendaily.com
  
  “Incoming UK prime minister Keir Starmer will need to appoint a new secretary of state for culture, media and sport (CMS) after shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire lost her seat (in the newly-created district Bristol Central) in the general election.” – Screen Daily
  
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• What Britain’s Arts And Culture Sector Expects From The New Labour Government

  05-07-2024 14:00 via variety.com
  
  As UK Equity summed it up, “We’ll be pressing … for UK arts funding to reach the European average, … to make Universal Credit fairer for freelancers, to ensure public subsidy only supports work on decent union terms and to fight for better rights in the video games and TV commercials sector.” – Variety
  
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• Barbie graces London and the Rokeby Venus heads to Liverpool – the week in art

  05-07-2024 13:15
  
  Plus Dominique White’s subaquatic sculptures, Lonnie Holley’s salvaged objects and a new Rembrandt at the British Museum – all in your weekly dispatchDominique WhiteSubaquatic sculptures that speak a powerful abstract language, by a hugely promising young British artist.• Whitechapel Gallery, London, until 15 September Continue reading...
  
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• Opening Nights at Florida State University – Executive Director

  05-07-2024 04:09 via artsjournal.com
  OPENING NIGHTS is seeking a creative and dynamic individual to serve as its next Executive Director. Reporting to the Office of the President, the Executive Director will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction, programming, and management of Opening Nights. As a leader in the community, the Executive Director will provide vision for the future of Opening Nights and will be passionate about providing excellence in performance arts at Florida State University.The Ex
  
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