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• Keeping Traditional Sudanese Music, Dance, And Poetry Alive For Refugees From The Civil War

  03-10-2024 18:58 via apnews.com
  
  “A band with 12 Sudanese members now lives with thousands of refugees in Egypt. The troupe, called Camirata, includes researchers, singers and poets who are determined to preserve the knowledge of traditional Sudanese folk music and dance to keep it from being lost in the ruinous war.” – AP
  
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• The American “Faith-Based Film” Industry: A Statistical Analysis

  03-10-2024 18:03 via statsignificant.com
  
  “Insulated from mainstream Hollywood and decidedly idiosyncratic in their production — (faith-based films) are overlooked relative to their consistent success. We’ll explore the rise of the faith-based film industry, tracing its historical roots and exploring the distinctive economics of these projects.” – Stat Significant
  
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• The Problem With Using Software To Determine What Shakespeare Did And Didn’t Write

  03-10-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  Scholar Darren Freebury-Jones used a text database called Collocations and N-grams to spot parallel phrases and passages in Shakespeare’s plays and those of his contemporaries. Oxford Shakespeare scholar Emma Smith writes that Freebury-Jones’s computerized approach is less compelling than his own literary analysis. – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• Please Don’t Build A Football Stadium Across The Street From Our Concert Hall, Begs Orchestra

  03-10-2024 16:31 via theguardian.com
  A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as AFL games, just 130 feet from the Federation Concert Hall, the Tasmanian Symphony’s custom-built headquarters in the island state’s capital, Hobart. – The Guardian
  
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• As Rubin Museum Closes Its Space, Calls To Return Nepali And Tibetan Art And Objects

  03-10-2024 16:04 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Since March, the Tibetan-led campaign Our Ancestors Say No has been protesting the museum and collecting online petition signatures demanding the return of what they allege are stolen sacred cultural artifacts.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• How Paraguayans Have Kept Their Indigenous Language Alive And Thriving

  03-10-2024 15:32 via theworld.org
  
  Despite having been banned under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, Guaraní is now, alongside Spanish, a fully official language of the country. Half of all public school classes in Paraguay are taught in Guaraní, and young people smoothly switch between it and Spanish even within a sentence. – The World
  
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• Gramophone Awards 2024: Hilary Hahn Playing Ysaÿe, Carolyn Sampson, Czech Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas

  03-10-2024 15:06 via tinyurl.com
  
  The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn’s disc of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the Year, the Czech Philharmonic is Orchestra of the Year, and Michael Tilson Thomas, still hanging on against glioblastoma, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. – Gramophone
  
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• Collecting Modernism review – unique set of artworks a testament to queer culture

  03-10-2024 14:46
  Charleston, Lewes
  Including works by Picasso, Pisarro and Hodgkins, this stunning collection of 20th-century works was lovingly handed down through three generations of chosen familyThree queer men built what is now known as the Radev Collection over the course of the 20th century, and it has become an intimate, idiosyncratic vision of modern art. Most collections are the product of a single person’s taste, but this one was handed down from man to man in a creative, purposeful inheritance
  
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• Asheville’s Arts District Destroyed By Floods From Hurricane Helene

  03-10-2024 14:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The neighborhood of galleries, music venues, artist studios, breweries, and other businesses was completely inundated by the clay-brown waters of the French Broad River after more than a foot of rain fell on the North Carolina city. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Manchester Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Acquitted By Judge

  03-10-2024 14:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  The decision was likely because they didn’t actually vandalize any art: the two Just Stop Oil activists simply glued their hands to the frame of J.M.W. Turner’s 1809 painting Tomson’s Aeolian Harp at the Manchester Art Gallery. – Artnet
  
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• ‘I didn’t know he was a fascist’: the artist who spent years stalking Trump

  03-10-2024 09:22
  
  In the late 90s, David Henry Nobody Jr followed Trump around, collecting autographed pictures and even predicting his own presidencyFrom a Brooklyn studio that looks like a cross between a ransacked Toys R Us and a serial killer’s lair, the artist David Henry Nobody Jr is planning the first survey of his career. Held by a headless dummy strung by its heels from the ceiling are a set of photographs from the turn of the century of a then 30-year-old Nobody with the former president of the Un
  
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• ‘Everything can just be what it is’: the liberated art of Nairy Baghramian

  03-10-2024 09:00
  The Iran-born sculptor’s colourful new London show continues her practice of playing with convention and collaborationIn 2005 or 2006, Nairy Baghramian arrived for a site visit at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland to find the pioneering artist Gustav Metzger was there, too. He was scheduled to do a show before her and was walking around the imposing space with the director Adam Szymczyk, when he suddenly became excited at a temporary wall that had been
  
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• Music Director/Conductor of Opera at USC and Collaborative Pianist

  03-10-2024 08:52 via artsjournal.com
  The University of South Carolina School of Music is accepting applicants for a Assistant or Associate Professor, 9-month, tenure-track, faculty position: Music Director/Conductor of Opera at USC and Collaborative Pianist. This position will begin August 16, 2025.RESPONSIBILITIES:
  Conduct fall and spring Opera at USC productions. This includes assisting in choosing repertoire and casts for the season, attending all room staging and onstage rehearsals, and attending casting auditions. Conduct all
  
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• A wild ride! Jarman award nominees on tour – in pictures

  03-10-2024 08:00
  
  Featuring night workers and news reports from another dimension, nominees for the prestigious prize are taking their diverse, boundary-pushing films on tour.We meet the artists up for the prize Continue reading...
  
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• Riots, disasters and cries for justice: the art show charting India’s wildest decades of political pandemonium

  03-10-2024 06:00
  A shocking period of upheavals, from power grabs to nuclear tests, caused India’s artists and activists to innovate. The Barbican in London is exhibiting the defiant onesIndia is the world’s largest democracy. In this year’s national election, which was staged over seven phases from April to June, nearly 650 million voters cast their ballots. Democratic rituals, for all their flaws, seem so profoundly to be embedded in the Indian political landscape that it can be easy to overl
  
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• Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds

  03-10-2024 06:00
  
  Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and postersIt was a truth known to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell back in 1968, but now scientists have caught up with them: there really ain’t nothing like the real thing.A neurological study in the Netherlands has revealed that real works of art in a museum stimulate the brain in a way that is 10 times stronger than looking at a poster. Continue reading...
  
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