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• Why Academics Are Irritated By Jonathan Haidt

  09-07-2024 23:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Haidt is like the friend who tells you you’re overreacting before you’re ready to hear it. And he fulfils that role with the glee of the kid who always wins in debate class. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Music Albums Went Away for Streaming. Now They’re Back

  09-07-2024 23:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The shift to consuming songs as atomised units was depressing for artists too. Cynically, there’s the financial hit sustained when you only get paid for a handful of songs with heavy rotation. But it also forced acts into delivering the narrowest refinement of what audiences expected. – The Critic
  
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• What Is A “PoetJournalist?”

  09-07-2024 22:32 via niemanlab.org
  
  Where a photojournalist trades in photographs, a poetjournalist, according to Dworkin, would trade in “newspoems.” He could think of a few examples from the past: Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, say, or O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman’s lament of the assassination of President Lincoln. – NiemanLab
  
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• How High Ticket Prices Are Changing Theatre On London’s West End

  09-07-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  It’s not just fans who are angry. Theatre’s biggest stars regularly rail against high ticket prices, even though they help pay their salaries. – The Guardian
  
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• Five Theatre Colleagues Bonded At The Public Theatre. Now They’re A Significant Force In Theatre

  09-07-2024 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Their convergence at the Public in the mid-2010s would resonate as far more than happy memories: Now each of them has become a Woman With Power, in a beleaguered field in vital need of new inspiration. – The New York Times
  
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• Ex-Cop In New Orleans Indicted For Art Theft Insurance Fraud

  09-07-2024 21:01 via tampafp.com
  “The indictment alleges that Christian Claus, 55, falsely claimed valuable paintings were stolen from his New Orleans residence in order to collect insurance money. … The indictment further accuses Claus of bribing a fellow officer to document the purported theft in the police report.” – Tampa Free Press
  
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• The South East Asian Film Industry Is Booming

  09-07-2024 20:29 via theguardian.com
  “Covid, and industry issues that impacted Hollywood product flow, have ushered [in] a period of growth for local and regional films, in some cases with record-breaking results.” – The Guardian
  
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• Alexander Knaifel, One Of Russia’s Leading Post-Soviet Composers, Is Dead At 80

  09-07-2024 20:05 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  “Knaifel was one of the most prominent Russian composers of his generation, both at home and in the West. He played a key role in redefining Russian contemporary music after the fall of the Soviet Union, bringing religious themes to the fore and pioneering a radical minimalist aesthetic of contemplation.” – Gramophone
  
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• Meet The UK’s Surprise New Culture Minister

  09-07-2024 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Lisa Nandy, whose most recent position has been as shadow international development minister, will have her work cut out to catch up. She will be keen to make a success of a delicate role that, although it may appear to be low down the governmental pecking order is of huge importance. – The Guardian
  
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• After Half A Century Of Delays, A Contemporary Art Museum Opens In Milan

  09-07-2024 18:59 via apnews.com
  
  “The Brera Modern will be inaugurated this fall, 52 years and 39 Italian governments after it was first envisioned. The new museum, just a few doors from Milan’s Brera Painting Gallery, will house more than 100 contemporary art works that belong to Brera’s collection that have mostly been relegated to storage.” – AP
  
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• Why Your Brain Needs Other People

  09-07-2024 18:32 via theguardian.com
  It seems counterintuitive in the age of neuroscience, but I increasingly think that how cognitively impaired you are is a function of the social context in which you find yourself. – The Guardian
  
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• America’s Small Independent Presses Build Back After Their Major Distributor Collapsed

  09-07-2024 18:06 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade distributor, publishers and distributors alike are moving forward even as damage assessment continues. Approximately 25% of the stranded publishers have found new distributors.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• AI Is Showing Us What’s Similar Among All Lifeforms

  09-07-2024 17:29 via 3quarksdaily.com
  Across that chasm of difference between bats and seals, whales and humans, the unlikeliest new intelligence of computers have been able to discover more that’s similar than might have once been supposed, though even Melville could recognize in the whale a kindred creature “both ponderous and profound.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Philadelphia Plans A $100 Million Makeover Of The Avenue Of The Arts

  09-07-2024 17:03 via msn.com
  The project will include traffic-calming measures, new street fixtures and lots of lush plantings. The goal: “To get more people excited about South Broad (Street) and to attract more economic development … to give people a reason to come down and visit.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Russian Playwright And Director Sentenced To Six Years For “Justifying Terrorism”

  09-07-2024 16:32 via bbc.com
  
  Prosecutors charged director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk over their 2021 play Finist the Brave Falcon, a cautionary tale about Russian women who were lured to marry ISIS militants in Syria and imprisoned upon returning to Russia. The production won two Golden Masks, Russia’s highest theatre awards. – BBC
  
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• ‘It’s like Where’s Wally in broken Britain’: Ben Jennings on his Tory-era take on A Rake’s Progress

  09-07-2024 16:10
  
  A millennial navigates the gig economy, fights in pubs and gets kettled on a demo in Snowflake’s Progress, the Guardian’s political cartoonist’s Hogarthian epitaph for the last 14 years of Conservative ruleGuardian cartoonist Ben Jennings and I stand forlornly before Sir John Soane’s Museum in London as we are told that is it closed. We had planned to see William Hogarth’s tragicomic painting cycle A Rake’s Progress, the model for Jennings’ Snowflake&rsq
  
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• Afghan Women Do Online What The Taliban Won’t Let Them Do In Real Life

  09-07-2024 16:04 via msn.com
  Barred from high school and college, they attend online classes, learn foreign languages with chatbots and e-books, and trade cryptocurrencies hoping for financial independence. They try to make up for closed cinemas and women’s gyms and banned music with YouTube’s comedy shows, fitness classes and music videos. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• His Saudi Cartoon Series Was A Hit. Even As He Was Publicly Celebrated, He Was Convicted Of Promoting Extremism.

  09-07-2024 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  As the conservative kingdom loosened up, Abdulaziz Almuzaini’s show Masameer (often likened to South Park) got a fan base and he was feted as a star of Saudi Arabia’s nascent entertainment industry. Yet he was convicted of promoting the very extremism that the series satirizes. – The New York Times
  
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• What David Devan Leaves Behind After 13 Years Running Opera Philadelphia

  09-07-2024 15:05 via msn.com
  “The Devan era had its shortcomings. … But (they) shouldn’t overshadow (his) central accomplishment: He took an undernourished, traditional opera company, set in motion a period of artistic experimentation and financial growth, learned important lessons, got through the pandemic, and delivered it all to his successor in one piece.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Leaders: Just Like the Overhead Myth, Ratios are Ridiculous

  09-07-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Plus: a bonus, non-hypothetical question for you!
  Budget realistically. If you insist on selling tickets to unpopular art, don’t force your budget to overspend on it.
  Now that the end of the fiscal year has passed, and while you’re busy toting up the red ink and how you’ll hide it from the board and your funders, let’s all try not to make the same mistakes regarding your marketing budget for the coming year, okay?This one’s not for the marketing folks. They know wha
  
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• Willem Dafoe Is The Next Director Of Theatre At The Venice Biennale

  09-07-2024 14:30 via variety.com
  
  “The Biennale’s theater department was founded in 1934, following the establishment of its art, music and cinema branches. Its previous directors include Renato Simoni, Luca Ronconi, Franco Quadri, Carmelo Bene and Lluís Pasqual, and it is programmed yearly alongside major cultural events like the Venice Film Festival.” – Variety
  
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• John Neumeier Concludes His 51 Years Directing Hamburg Ballet

  09-07-2024 14:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “Neumeier is 85, which might seem like a decent age to retire. But choosing to go was difficult for him. ‘It was a rational decision, not an emotional one. … When I started approaching 50 years here, I thought, I don’t want a downward slide.” – The New York Times
  
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• Development Director – New Orleans Opera

  09-07-2024 06:40 via artsjournal.com
  OUR MISSIONThe mission of the New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) is to provide the finest possible operatic performances within its means to the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, the State of Louisiana, and the River and Gulf Regions. The company seeks a qualified Director of Development to establish a new, strategic annual fundraising plan and lead a collaborative effort with the staff and the board to achieve the determined goals. The position reports directly to the General and Artistic Direct
  
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• Hanover Theatre & Conservatory Seeks President & CEO

  09-07-2024 06:31 via artsjournal.com
  Position SummaryThe President & CEO is the strategic and visionary leader who establishes a comprehensive and robust business model that integrates the various programmatic and educational elements of the organization into a synergistic whole. Reporting to the Board of Directors and guiding an experienced senior leadership team, the President & CEO oversees programming, financial resources, venue capitalization, and overall operations that ensure resiliency and sustainable growth.
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