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• Canadian Music Companies Ask Government Not To Treat Streaming Like It’s Radio

  27-09-2024 21:37 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  Under those rules, streaming services that are not Canadian-owned and have more than CAD $25 million (approx. USD $18.5 million)  in revenue in Canada annually are required to pay 5% of that revenue into funds that subsidize Canadian content and creators. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• Harriet Martineau, The Now-Forgotten 19th-Century Novelist Who Changed Far More Than We Realize

  27-09-2024 21:03 via lithub.com
  
  “A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture — everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy — would look different, or might not even exist, if she’d never put pen to paper.” – Literary Hub
  
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• Saying “Like” All The Time Serves A Legitimate Purpose

  27-09-2024 20:05 via vox.com
  
  And that legitimate purpose is, to put it one way, imprecision, which is precisely why all the constant “like”-ing so irks sticklers. Sociolinguist Valerie Fridland talks about how that works in this episode of the podcast Explain It to Me. (includes partial transcript) – Vox
  
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• Australian Court Allows Exhibition That Banned Men From Entering

  27-09-2024 19:44 via bbc.com
  
  The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering. It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won. – BBC
  
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• The Guardian view on the Turner prize at 40: not over yet | Editorial

  27-09-2024 19:25
  
  The award that helped shoot young British artists to stardom is reaching middle age, but it still countsTurning 40 was always going to be tricky for the Turner prize. Set up in 1984 to showcase the best in contemporary British art, the prize will for ever be remembered for Damien Hirst’s dead shark, Tracey Emin’s unmade bed and Martin Creed’s empty room with the lights going on and off. Riding the crest of Cool Britannia in the mid-to-late 90s, the Turner prize – and thos
  
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• Malcolm Gladwell — Beyond “Tipping Point” (But Where’s The Internet?)

  27-09-2024 19:14 via theatlantic.com
  
  Gladwell has insisted that change happens neatly, and he’s sticking to it. Epidemics, he writes in the new book, are “not wild and out of control.” They have a single source… He’s also sticking to a career-long dismissal and devaluation of digital communication and its possible effects. – The Atlantic
  
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• Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Throw Soup At Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” Again

  27-09-2024 19:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London and assaulted the very same painting with almost the same liquid. (This time they used Heinz vegetable soup instead of tomato.) – Artnet
  
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• Report: This Spring’s Art Auction Season Was Worst Of This Century

  27-09-2024 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy—which sold its fine art indices to Sotheby’s in 2016—quantified the decline. – ARTnews
  
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• America’s Two Biggest Satellite TV Companies To Merge

  27-09-2024 18:32 via latimes.com
  
  DirecTV, founded in 1994 by Hughes Electronics, is owned by AT&T Inc. and TPG Inc., and has about 11 million customers. Dish, started in 1980 by billionaire Charlie Ergen, is part of his EchoStar Corp. and has about 8 million subscribers. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A National Trust For Local News Has Been Buying Up Newspapers Around America

  27-09-2024 18:15 via niemanlab.org
  The Trust’s newsrooms earn revenue from traditional sources: advertising and reader revenue, with events, commercial printing jobs, and branded content in the mix as well. Membership programs — and the small-dollar donations that hopefully come with them — “take time to build.” – NiemanLab
  
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• Assessing The State Of The Arts In Maine

  27-09-2024 18:07 via pressherald.com
  
  At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn’t fully recovered from the COVID lockdowns. Panels touched on finding rehearsal and studio space, handling rising costs, and getting a full-time lobbyist at the state capitol. – Portland (Maine) Press Herald
  
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• How Austin Got A Museum Matching Its Cultural Vitality

  27-09-2024 17:44 via forbes.com
  It took the Blanton from good college art museum to global arts pilgrimage site in an instant. – Forbes
  
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• Exit Interview: Rufus Norris On Running London’s National Theatre

  27-09-2024 17:33 via theguardian.com
  Known for his lack of grandness, Norris is reluctant to offer up high-minded pronouncements on his departure. – The Guardian
  
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• How Humor Sells

  27-09-2024 17:15 via fastcompany.com
  Research from Oracle indicates that 90% of consumers are more likely to recall a product or brand associated with a humorous treatment, and 72% would choose a brand that uses humor over their competition. – Fast Company
  
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• This Poor Cellist’s Instrument Was Just Stolen For The Second Time

  27-09-2024 17:03 via thestrad.com
  
  Ophélie Gaillard’s 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window nearby and leaving them inside. This week, a thief broke into her home — while she was there — and made off with the cello and bows. – The Strad
  
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• A Theater Critic Watches A Show From Backstage. Fittingly, It’s “The Play That Goes Wrong”

  27-09-2024 16:41 via msn.com
  Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like this one so successfully. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Why Did Houston Public Media Spike A Podcast It Had Promoted The Heck Out Of?

  27-09-2024 16:16 via texasmonthly.com
  
  The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter’s long-term partner is a Houston ISD teacher, and HPM management decided just before release that this was too big a conflict of interest. – Texas Monthly
  
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• Maggie Smith, 89

  27-09-2024 15:35 via msn.com
  Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Hedda Gabler and became genuinely beloved for her work in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• In A Metro Atlanta Town That’s Half Hispanic, A Theater Company Goes Bilingual

  27-09-2024 15:04 via artsatl.org
  Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time, the company did dual productions of a play, Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics, in English and Spanish, reaching an audience that local theaters rarely connect with. – ArtsATL
  
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• Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Prosecution For Manslaughter Was Thrown Out. What Happens To The Armorer Who Was Convicted?

  27-09-2024 14:37 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The case against Baldwin, who accidentally shot the movie’s cinematographer because the prop gun he was handling turned out to have live ammunition in it, was dismissed due to prosecutors’ serious mishandling of evidence. Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed had already been convicted; could she now be freed? – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Art Historian Left His Rembrandts To Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back. The Law May Be On Their Side.

  27-09-2024 14:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum on condition that they be displayed. Only five are on public view, so Bredius’s heirs say the Mauritshuis is violating the bequest’s terms. – The New York Times
  
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• Teletubbies and Traitors launch immersive events despite Wonka and Bridgerton fiascos

  27-09-2024 13:54
  
  Wonka and Bridgerton debacles have failed to dent demand for real-life experiences based on TV showsDespite the fiasco of the Detroit Bridgerton-themed ball and last year’s infamous Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow, the demand for real-life experiences based on TV programmes is seemingly unabated, with The Traitors launching an immersive live event and the Teletubbies an art gallery show.After the Wonka and Bridgerton debacles, consumers have been being advised to check if events are auth
  
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• Thomas Hardy on rural creative placemaking

  27-09-2024 13:09 via artsjournal.com
  “The town was intentionally bent upon being attractive by exhibiting to an influx of visitors the local talent for dramatic recitation, and provincial towns trying to be lively are the dullest of dull things.
  “Provincial towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable carica
  
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• Impressionism-on-Thames, a star slacker and a disturbing double act – the week in art

  27-09-2024 13:00
  
  Monet brightens up London, Mike Kelley’s teddies have their big day out and Goya goes head-to-head with Paula Rego – all in your weekly dispatchMonet and London
  One of the most hyped exhibitions of the year – and the hype is justified by this intense encounter with Monet in the smog.
  • Courtauld Gallery, London, until 19 January Continue reading...
  
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• Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place review – Black art disruptor shakes down the museum

  27-09-2024 11:15
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  The US artist has rifled the Fitzwilliam’s collections and ruffled the calm of its gilded masterpieces with playful unruliness and stark, neon-lit questionsCurators of museum collections are a cautious and often conservative bunch (conservation, after all, is their business). Artists, like the court jester, are invited in to stir things up and break the rules. Glenn Ligon’s All Over the Place at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is a model for what art
  
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• A Revelatory Visual Rendering of an American Musical Masterpiece

  27-09-2024 04:11 via artsjournal.com
  Three Places in New England by Charles Ives – a visual rendering by Peter BogdanoffOf the masterpieces of American classical
  
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