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• The Azure Buildings Of India’s Blue City Are Fading

  18-10-2024 20:57 via bbc.com
  
  A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In recent years, though, the blue has been fading as the price of indigo has soared, making it too expensive for many to touch up their homes. – BBC
  
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• A Small Demonstration Of The State Of AI-Created Movies And What’s Possible

  18-10-2024 20:31 via wired.com
  
  Figuring out what’s possible is a fraught proposition when it comes to AI in Hollywood. – Wired
  
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• Toronto’s Mayor Announces Five-Year, Multi-Million Plan To Boost Arts And Culture

  18-10-2024 20:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Mayor Olivia Chow’s plan would increase the budget of the city’s arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double the budgets of local arts service organizations, index all cultural grants to inflation, and increase investment in creative industries, festivals and special events. – CBC
  
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• We Celebrate The Rise Of Indie Bookstores As A Victory. But What Are We Celebrating?

  18-10-2024 19:44 via thebaffler.com
  
   The indie bookstore is a dialectical synthesis of the crusty old bookstore and the rationalized superstore. – The Baffler
  
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• What Our Language Reveals About Us

  18-10-2024 19:31 via nautil.us
  
  Our language is also infused with our sensory memories and experiences, and this allows it to be a source of pleasure and even transcendence, in addition to being a tool for exchanging information. – Nautilus
  
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• The Guardian view on female artists: a force to be reckoned with | Editorial

  18-10-2024 19:25
  
  Tracey Emin is right, women keep on creating into old age. Their work is finally getting the attention it deservesAt a book launch in the late 1980s, Kazuo Ishiguro quipped to Martin Amis that all the greatest novels were written by authors in their 20s and 30s. Amis, who wrote his first novel at 23, was just about to turn 40. Last week, Tracey Emin expressed a similar sentiment, observing on The Louis Theroux Podcast that most male artists are less of a creative “force” after&n
  
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• You’re A Successful Writer. And Yet You Can’t Make A Living At It

  18-10-2024 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
   A 2022 report from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) found that the median income of full-time authors had fallen by more than 60% since 2006, to £7,000 a year. – The Guardian
  
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• Paris To Spend $55 Million Greening The Spaces Around Notre-Dame Cathedral

  18-10-2024 19:02 via apnews.com
  
  The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral’s underground parking garage into a visitor center, a new riverfront promenade, and a viewing platform overlooking the Seine and the Ile Saint-Louis. – AP
  
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• Boston’s Gardner Museum Buys A $22M Apartment Building

  18-10-2024 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  The deal shows how ingrained the Gardner is within the area—and seems to suggest that the museum views nearby commercial development nearby as a real threat. – ARTnews
  
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• How TV Killed Itself

  18-10-2024 18:31 via thewrap.com
  
  “When streaming starts, people have a choice they can make, and they make it. So what does cable do? They raised the prices. They produced less programming at a time when the building was on fire.” – The Wrap
  
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• Vanessa Bell review – sidelined Bloomsbury figure reveals main character energy

  18-10-2024 18:29
  
  MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
  Usually relegated to the roles of hostess, lover or muse, the painter’s independent spirit shines through in the power of the patterns and colours in this, the largest solo show ever devoted to her workVanessa Bell has seduced me. She has offered nothing fancier than bottles and a bowl, by a window that looks out on terracotta roofs and wooded hills. The frame of the window runs just inside the frame of the painting, squeezing the table and its contents into a nar
  
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• How Our Brains Predict What The World Is

  18-10-2024 18:15 via vox.com
  
  A big idea known as predictive processing says that your experience of the world is a simulated model constructed by your brain… In our brain’s pursuit to plan, survive, and achieve our goals, it has learned how to guess what the world is actually like based on incoming sensory data. – Vox
  
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• Does Money Change Everything? Five Major Dance Artists Talk About Winning Major Grants

  18-10-2024 18:06 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award and the MacArthur “genius” fellowship changes (and doesn’t change) their lives and work. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Study: How Our Brains Attach Meaning To Words

  18-10-2024 17:44 via harvardmagazine.com
  
  They’ve discovered that the brain uses contextual clues to decipher meaning, implying that understanding words and sentences is a dynamic, interpretive process. – Harvard Magazine
  
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• Philosopher Finds Logical Fallacy In The Way Patents Are Awarded

  18-10-2024 17:27 via phys.org
  He explains that patent offices, when assessing an invention’s patentability, have been inadvertently examining the cognitive abilities of the inventor rather than the invention itself. He suggests this introduces dangerous subjectivity into the process, in terms of varying indirect interpretations of an inventor’s intellectual capacity, rather than on the technical merits of the invention. – Phys
  
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• The Pompidou’s Controversial Renovation Plans

  18-10-2024 17:15 via apollo-magazine.com
  The renovation plan and the closure it entails has not received much support within the art world. – Apollo
  
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• John Leguizamo Has Written His First Play For More Than One Actor

  18-10-2024 17:05 via msn.com
  Not to worry: it’s still about Hispanic Americans, and he’s still starring. “Not bragging on myself, but Molière wrote all his plays for himself and he was the lead in all his plays,” Leguizamo says. “So I’m fancying myself a little bit as a Latin Molière.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• University of Cincinnati Press Will Close Down Next June

  18-10-2024 16:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “The university said that it had ‘determined that the long-term financial sustainment of the University of Cincinnati Press is not feasible. Funding resources, including start-up funds, have been exhausted and the press is not in a self-sustaining financial position.'” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Why Concert Halls Still Matter Enough That We Spend Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars Building And Renovating Them

  18-10-2024 16:03 via msn.com
  “A room that’s consecrated to music is one where people come together, sit in quiet communion, listen rather than shout, and focus for a couple of hours instead of getting peppered with notifications. … Such an institution is one of the few sacramental spaces we have outside of explicitly religious buildings.” – Curbed (MSN)
  
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• ‘This just hasn’t been done before’: art by 40 Black women hits Liverpool

  18-10-2024 15:35
  The Walker gallery only had two artworks by Black women out of a 13,000-strong collection. A new exhibition marks the beginning of an attempt to redress the balanceArtist and curator Sumuyya Khader sits on the wooden benches of the Walker Gallery in Liverpool and scans the room. “We are surrounded by deceased white males,” she says, laughing while pointing out the portraits and landscapes on the walls around and above us.“I was always told when I was younger to look up,”
  
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• Hard To Take, But More Right Than Ever: Jeremy Denk On The Music Of Charles Ives

  18-10-2024 15:34 via nytimes.com
  
  “You do not see advertisers beating at the door of the Ives estate to use his music in commercials. His music is not ready to package or post on Instagram. But there is knowledge in it. … His music suggests America will just have to muddle through.” – The New York Times
  
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• Vibrant (sic)

  18-10-2024 15:14 via artsjournal.com
  In the 90s I lived in Regina, Saskatchewan. When I moved there I had never been before, but I had been looking for work, my PhD in-progress dissertation was a bit of a train wreck (I finished it eventually), and the university there was kind enough to offer me a position. Our lives go through stages, and for me a bit of moving around, but when I look back on my Regina days, the thing I remember most fondly was the group of friends I had who were all very interested in contemporary culture, who l
  
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• Radio Sputnik, Putin’s Propaganda Radio Network, Thrown Off U.S. Airwaves

  18-10-2024 15:02 via insideradio.com
  “Stations in Washington, D.C., and Kansas City which had aired programming daily from Voice of Russia’s Radio Sputnik dropped their affiliation with the shows earlier this week, in the wake of the U.S. State Department’s imposition of new sanctions on Russia-backed broadcast outlets last month.” – Inside Radio
  
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• National Gallery In London Bans Almost All Liquids From Premises

  18-10-2024 14:36 via theguardian.com
  For this, we can thank the climate-protesting art vandals, who launched the practice of vandalizing art for the sake of slowing climate change two years ago: they threw tomato soup at a van Gogh and glued themselves to the adjacent wall. – The Guardian
  
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• Mitzi Gaynor, Queen of 1950s Movie Musicals, Has Died At 93

  18-10-2024 14:00 via msn.com
  “A dancer, singer, actress and comic impersonator since childhood, Ms. Gaynor was much admired for her stamina and versatility over more than seven decades in show business” — ranging from movie musicals (most notably, South Pacific) to Las Vegas revues to TV variety shows to cabaret. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Vanessa Bell’s mindful modernism, a landscape throuple, and climbing aboard the Hay Wain – the week in art

  18-10-2024 13:00
  
  JMW Turner faces off against fellow observers of nature, Constable is contextualised, and the Romani community are represented in textiles – all in your weekly dispatchVanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
  The subtle and sensitive paintings of this Bloomsbury Group stalwart prove modernist art doesn’t have to be explosive to be interesting.• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, from 19 October until 23 February Continue reading...
  
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• Payroll/HR Administrator, Mark Morris Dance

  18-10-2024 05:18 via artsjournal.com
  SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:This position supports the entire organization, interacting regularly with all supervisors as well as all employees and independent contractors. In addition to superb attention to detail and accuracy, excellent interpersonal and communication skills are critical to the success of this role. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the HR Business Partner, the Payroll/HR Administrator joins the organization at a pivotal moment as the Dance Group just c
  
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• Global Executive Arts Management Fellowship

  18-10-2024 05:09 via artsjournal.com
  The DeVos Institute of Arts Management invites applications for its Global Executive Fellowship – a three-year, fully subsidized program for leaders of arts and culture non-profits worldwide.Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, the high-intensity program provides training and guidance in strategic planning, leadership, fundraising, marketing, board governance, human resources, and financial planning coupled with peer learning, networking, and time for
  
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