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• More States Pass Book-Banning Laws

  30-07-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Over the past few weeks, new laws or regulations have gone into effect in Utah, Idaho, South Carolina and Tennessee that will make it more difficult for young people to access books and library materials that could be considered obscene or harmful. – The New York Times
  
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• The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra And The Role It Tries To Play

  30-07-2024 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  In the face of these vast geopolitical movements, and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe, you can’t help but consider the purpose and the impact of cultural interventions such as ours. But everywhere we visit provides some different form of inspiration. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Are We Attracted To Fear? (As Entertainment?)

  30-07-2024 22:32 via thebeliever.net
  
  Why do we do that—why do we crave small doses of terror? Why do we like “safe” fear? – The Believer
  
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• Why The Can Can Dancers In The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Couldn’t Couldn’t

  30-07-2024 22:01 via buzzfeed.com
  
  “We were so dissapointed. It started to Rain just before the Can Can began. 10 seconds before you saw us. We were trying to towel down and dry the stage off with rags.” – Buzzfeed
  
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• Is Culture An Industry? It Doesn’t Work As An Argument

  30-07-2024 21:31 via culturepolicyroom.eu
  
  The policy discourse framing culture as an industrial sector, which became a trend in the 1980s, has not proven effective – for the economy, society, or culture itself. – Culture Policy Room
  
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• Pole-Dancing’s Long, And Probably Futile, Struggle To Become An Olympic Sport

  30-07-2024 21:05 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  Despite the long and serious effort to codify it as an athletic discipline, complete with approved moves, scoring, and judging criteria, pole dancing has had trouble escaping the association with striptease and sex work. On the other hand, some practitioners object to the erasure of sex work from the sport. – Slate (Yahoo!)
  
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• Podcasts: Where The Big Money Is

  30-07-2024 20:32 via wsj.com
  There are still nearly 450,000 active shows that have published recent episodes, according to Podcast Industry Insights. But the top 25 podcasts reach nearly half of U.S. weekly listeners, according to Edison Research. The top talents have tours, merchandise and multiyear deals in the nine figures. Big advertisers want in. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A North Texas Deputy Spent Two Years Trying To Charge School Librarians With Obscenity

  30-07-2024 20:06 via nbcnews.com
  Scott London, a chief deputy constable in the rural DFW exurb of Granbury, secured subpoenas, filed public records requests, received names of students who’d checked out certain books and wrote draft criminal complaints against three school librarians for books London considered obscene — such as Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. – NBC News
  
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• This Year’s Booker Prize Longlist (Just What Critics Feared?)

  30-07-2024 19:32 via wapo.st
  In a development that might raise the hackles of those who criticized the now decade-old rule change that broadened eligibility for the prize, six are Americans. Tommy Orange, nominated for his novel “Wandering Stars,” is the first Native American writer to be named to the longlist. – Washington Post
  
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• Tony Shiels obituary

  30-07-2024 19:15
  Artist and magician whose showmanship was akin to that of Salvador DalíUnusually for a painter, Tony Shiels’s best known work may (or may not) have been a piece of sculpture. In May 1977, Shiels, who has died at 86, was standing below Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness in the Scottish highlands when a creature appeared in the water. It was, Shiels said, glossy and muscular. He managed to take two colour photographs of it, the clearest pictures of the Loch Ness monster then available.The w
  
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• Journalists At Five Of Australia’s Major Dailies Are On Strike For Higher Pay

  30-07-2024 19:04 via aljazeera.com
  
  “Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped working at 11am on Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the 33rd Olympic Games.” – Al Jazeera
  
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• Fake Images Are Getting Harder To Spot. Here’s How To Tell What’s Real

  30-07-2024 18:34 via washingtonpost.com
  Try it the next time you get a weird feeling about a photo. Just be sure not to focus on the wrong things. To help, we’ve created this (slightly exaggerated) sample image to highlight some common signs of image manipulation. – Washington Post
  
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• Christopher Green obituary

  30-07-2024 18:30
  My friend Christopher Green, who has died aged 78, was something of a “wild boy” for much of his life. A printer by trade and artist by predilection, in his earlier days he generally put socialising before anything else, and often had a good time in doing so. But in the end a life of booze, fags and self-neglect caught up with him.When he was born in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Chris seemed destined for a life of respectability. His parents, John, who worked for an animal feedstu
  
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• Director, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

  30-07-2024 18:17 via artsjournal.com
  The OpportunityThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (the Modern) is seeking an inspiring and engaging leader to partner with the Board of Trustees in shaping a vision for and shepherding the organization into its next exciting chapter as an innovative 21st-century institution. With a genuine desire to embed themselves in the Fort Worth community, this individual will be a credible contemporary and modern administrator and “relationship architect,” adept at forging, burnishing, and sus
  
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• Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Persian Image Of Muhammad Settles With University That Fired Her

  30-07-2024 18:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has reached a settlement in its religious discrimination case with former art history professor Erika López Prater.” The terms of the agreement are confidential. – Artnet
  
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• Multidisciplinary Artists and Game Designers Merit Inclusion in U.S. Labor Data Codes, Study Finds

  30-07-2024 17:38 via artsjournal.com
  The very first research report from the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half a century ago, discussed employment and unemployment rates of artists. From that time onward, when analyzing trends for artists and other cultural workers, the NEA’s Office of Research & Analysis has relied on jobs data collected by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (To hear the NEA Chair and the Census Bureau Director reflect on our history of partnerships, go to this&nb
  
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• Russia’s Artists Say Putin Regime Is Killing Russian Culture

  30-07-2024 17:31 via washingtonpost.com
  Musicians, actors and writers who oppose the war are being hounded into exile or driven underground — while artists remaining in Russia are compelled by the government to echo a new nationalist zeal in their work. – Washington Post
  
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• Olympic ‘drag queen scene’ DJ files legal complaint after torrent of online abuse

  30-07-2024 17:03
  Barbara Butch has received homophobic abuseLegal complaint is precursor to possible police actionLatest medal table | Live Paris schedule | Full resultsA DJ and LGBTQ+ activist who performed during a controversial scene in the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony has said she is taking legal action after becoming the target of “an extremely violent campaign of cyber-harassment and defamation”.Barbara Butch, who calls herself a “love activist”, had been “threatened
  
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• A High-End Jeweler Has Become A Major Worldwide Supporter Of Contemporary Dance

  30-07-2024 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Van Cleef & Arpels has sponsored a months-long festival called Dance Reflections in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York, and, this year, Kyoto. And it supports residencies, revivals, new productions and touring through a network of partnerships with theaters, festivals and dance companies in 16 countries so far. – The New York Times
  
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• BBC Cancels Next Year’s Cardiff Singer Of The World Competition

  30-07-2024 16:31 via bbc.com
  
  The broadcaster will replace the 2025 edition of the biennial event, which has a history of discovering major opera stars, with a gala concert featuring previous winners and competitors. The stated reason is that the usual venue, St. David’s Hall, is under repairs, though there are other venues in Cardiff. – BBC
  
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• “Sleep No More” Owes $4.5 Million In Back Rent, Claims Landlord

  30-07-2024 16:05 via therealdeal.com
  Centaur Properties, owner of the McKittrick Hotel, where the immersive production has been playing since 2010, has been in a legal contretemps with PDNYC (the entity producing Sleep No More) for months. The latest development has Centaur demanding back rent and seeking dismissal of a PDNYC lawsuit. – The Real Deal
  
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• Internal Board Dispute Threatens Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic

  30-07-2024 15:36 via sanantonioreport.org
  
  As the orchestra prepares, with new music director Jeffrey Kahane on the podium, to begin its third and most ambitious season, a struggle has broken out among the Board of Directors, with members apparently trying to replace each other for reasons as yet unclear. – San Antonio Report
  
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• The Original Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Convicted And Will Go To Prison

  30-07-2024 15:04 via bbc.com
  
  On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland started the protest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-call-attention-to-climate-change-by-vandalizing-artworks phenomenon by throwing tomato soup at van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at London’s National Gallery. The judge in their case told them to prepare themselves for prison when they are sentenced on September 27. – BBC
  
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• Strike At Disneyland Avoided; New Contract Has Largest Pay Raise Ever

  30-07-2024 14:32 via deadline.com
  
  The four unions representing over 14,000 “cast members” at Disney’s southern California resort properties ratified a three-year agreement which includes an immediate 20% increase in pay and a minimum starting wage of $24 an hour as well as, for the first time, longevity pay. – Deadline
  
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• Composer Wolfgang Rihm Is Dead At 72

  30-07-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “(He) was considered one of the most original and prolific musical voices in Europe and the most performed German composer of contemporary classical music. … He insisted that great art results from aesthetic liberty and intellectual rigor, not adherence to predetermined ideas about beauty.” – The New York Times
  
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• Marketing and Patron Services Manager

  30-07-2024 07:15 via artsjournal.com
  Reports To: Director of Audience Engagement
  Location: Stamford, CT. Office based with flexibility for virtual working.
  Type: Regular full-time, exempt position with periodic evening and weekend hours
  Salary/Benefits: In the range, $55,000-$60,000, more may be available for an exceptional candidate, plus a 2% contribution to a retirement account.
  Paid Time Off: The Orchestra offers four weeks of paid vacation in addition to which the office is closed between Christmas and New Year and on Fridays
  
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• Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

  30-07-2024 06:00
  
  When Putin invaded, a historian in Kyiv saw that Ukraine’s cultural heritage was in danger. So he set out to save as much of it as he couldIn early March 2022, when his country seemed in danger of falling to the Russians, it occurred to Leonid Marushchak, a historian by training, to call the director of a museum in eastern Ukraine to check that a collection of 20th-century studio pottery was safe.He had loved the modernist works by artist Natalya Maksymchenko since he had encountered them
  
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• Portrait of Peter Tatchell hung in National Portrait Gallery

  30-07-2024 06:00
  
  LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner ‘delighted and honoured’ to have painting by Sarah Jane Moon on displayA vibrant portrait of the LGBTQ+ and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has been hung in the National Portrait Gallery’s History Makers gallery as part of a drive to better reflect the diversity of the UK.The painting by Sarah Jane Moon shows Tatchell in a casual pose, seated with his hands clasping his left calf. The 72-year-old activist is sporting a rainbow tie to ce
  
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• Tanglewood: Idyllic to the eye, radical to the ear

  30-07-2024 05:16 via artsjournal.com
  So much stimulating, challenging music threatened to overflow and overload the Tanglewood Music Festival’s annual composer’s week that one had to stand back and realize how radically this bucolic setting in Lenox MA diverges from the typical summertime concert life of major orchestras. The closest thing to recreational listening over the 42 pieces played July 25-29 was the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the anguished Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6. Elsewhere, even famil
  
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