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• Canadian Playwright Under Attack For “Pretendianism”

  29-10-2024 20:23 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a residential school. What if none of it is true? – The Walrus
  
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• Study: An A/B Test Illustrates The Benefits Of Hybrid Work Rather Than Full In-Office

  29-10-2024 20:14 via hbr.org
  
  Before the experiment, managers estimated hybrid would reduce productivity by 2.6%. After the six-month experiment they estimated it increased productivity by 1%. Those working under the hybrid model had a higher satisfaction rate, and 35% lower attrition. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• Here’s Why They Have To Charge So Much For Tickets To A Good Haunted House

  29-10-2024 20:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The owner of Blood Manor, one of New York’s top Halloween attractions, explains how much he has to spend every year — not just on performers and animatronic figures, but makeup (up to $20,000 for 23 nights), stage blood, fog, and odors. Not to mention insurance and year-round rent. – The New York Times
  
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• Steampunk’s Lessons For How To Manage The Technology Age

  29-10-2024 19:44 via newyorker.com
  
  The distance between a mechanical watch and a modern smartphone seems to embody the divide between the pre-digital and digital worlds. We imagine that people used to live among eccentric, fiddly, physical gizmos, whereas now we navigate a network of infallible devices animated by code. But the digital age is often more fiddly. – The New Yorker
  
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• Is Understanding Math The Key To Democracy?

  29-10-2024 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  In civic life, decisions are increasingly driven by data, by algorithms, by statistics. Without the ability to understand or even grapple with the numbers and their implications, people are easily disenfranchised and manipulated. – The New York Times
  
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• Have We Lost Our Ability To Think Through Ideas?

  29-10-2024 19:15 via harpers.org
  
  Thinking through—rather than just thinking—is important. A thought or an idea is never that precious. People have thoughts and ideas all the time, many of them preliminary. Sometimes people mistake their feelings for thoughts and ideas, which are in turn mistaken for absolute truths. – Harper’s
  
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• A Dostoevsky Ballet?? Yep. ABT Is Dancing “Crime And Punishment”

  29-10-2024 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Acknowledging that the idea sounds inadvisable, (director James) Bonas and (choreographer Helen) Pickett explained in interviews what they saw instead as promising: Dostoyevsky’s hefty 19th-century novel has a clear dramatic line, and a small core of complex characters … And the book is a will-he-get-caught page-turner, Pickett added.” – The New York Times
  
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• New York Has Become A Hub Of Endangered Languages

  29-10-2024 18:44 via lithub.com
  
  Just the last few decades, hundreds of thousands of people speaking hundreds of languages have arrived in New York from heavily minority and Indigenous zones of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. At the very moment when languages worldwide are disappearing at an unprecedented rate, many of the last speakers are on the move. – LitHub
  
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• New UK Anti-Terrorism Law Adds Security Obligations To Theatres

  29-10-2024 18:25 via thestage.co.uk
  While theatre leaders have stressed that they are committed to the safety of their audiences, they have also pointed out that Martyn’s Law – officially, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill – could stretch the resources of already cash-strapped venues. – The Stage
  
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• After 50 Years, The Hirshhorn Museum Is Dealing With Something New: Popular Success

  29-10-2024 18:02 via msn.com
  “Could the Hirshhorn be a major institution? These days, Director Melissa Chiu says it should assume its role as ‘the national museum of modern and contemporary art.’ The notion would have invited laughs in 1974.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Giant Opera That Took Over The Streets Of Toulouse

  29-10-2024 17:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Over the past three days, the streets of Toulouse, France, hosted an urban opera titled The Guardian of the Temple—The Gates of Darkness, in which three massive robotic puppets of mythological creatures performed in several locations around the city. – The Atlantic
  
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• Packing And Moving Museum Art Is One Of The Trickiest, Most Challenging, Most High-Stakes Jobs Out There

  29-10-2024 17:06 via msn.com
  “Everyone who works (in the job) has stories about the expensive, delicate, sacred and impossibly large things they’ve had to pack into a crate and ship somewhere:” weird things such as an electric chair, and difficult things like a 3,000 pound pre-Columbian artifact amidst an ice storm. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• ‘I can’t wait to paint myself when I’m old and knobbly’: the sensual world of Louis Fratino

  29-10-2024 16:45
  
  His old-fashioned painting prowess and explicitly queer subject matter has made the young American artist hot property. So why are some people so shocked?Next month, the 2024 Venice Biennale will close, and a memorable painting in the main exhibition will come down: I Keep My Treasure in My Ass, by Louis Fratino. With a title taken from a 1977 book called Towards a Gay Communism, the work depicts Fratino giving birth to himself from his rectum. It has been stopping visitors in their tracks. &ldq
  
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• Halloween Has Become Big Business For The Music Industry

  29-10-2024 16:27 via nytimes.com
  
  “I feel very passionately about Halloween music. It’s camp. It’s carnal. It’s macabre. It’s, like, silly. It’s the only holiday where all of those get to exist at once.” It’s also an $11.6 billion business. – The New York Times
  
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• Non-EU Citizens Should Pay Higher Admission For Sites Like The Louvre, Says French Culture Minister

  29-10-2024 16:03 via standard.co.uk
  
  “Is it normal for a French visitor to pay the same price … as a Brazilian or Chinese visitor?” said Rachida Dati, who wants the proposed €5 surcharge to fund upkeep of national heritage sites. “The French people should not have to pay for everything on their own.” – The London Standard
  
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• Midnight Book Release Parties Aren’t Just For Young People’s Lit Anymore

  29-10-2024 15:31 via publishersweekly.com
  
  The phenomenon — in which bookstores open at midnight on a title’s release date, so readers can get their fix as quickly as possible — started with the Harry Potter and Twilight series. Now publishers of serious literature are picking up the practice for some hotly-anticipated novels. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• It’s all about the Vibes: Lessons from the election for arts marketers

  29-10-2024 15:16 via artsjournal.com
  
  What can we learn about arts marketing from how people consume information about elections? Here are three observations:Low information deciders: Even on important decisions, like who to vote for in elections, some people just don’t look into it that much. Some people literally decide who to vote for on the drive to the voting location. Arts marketing is often wordy and marketers throw more and more information at people, thinking that more information will help audiences decide to purcha
  
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• Is The True Crime Podcast Genre Returning To Its Public Radio Roots?

  29-10-2024 15:05 via niemanlab.org
  
  Serial is, after all, a spinoff of long-running public radio hit This American Life. After Serial‘s massive success, countless people wanted in on true-crime audio, from individuals with home studios to big commercial outlets. The market got flooded, the corporations started cancelling. Is public radio-style funding the way forward? – Nieman Lab
  
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• Talking To or Talking At? Or Even Talking at All?

  29-10-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Nonprofit Arts Leaders: Don’t tell them about your mission, show them how you are fulfilling it. Don’t just present, discuss. Do you talk about what’s happening to other folks in your community? Or are you “too busy?”
  Photo by Mizuno K from Pexels
  This is an exchange that happened during a recent “Town Hall” with Vice President Kamala Harris taking questions from “undecided” voters in Pennsylvania, courtesy of CNN, and hosted by Anderson Coop
  
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• After Violinist Lara St. John Went Public About Sexual Abuse By Her Teacher, Many Others Who Suffered Reached Out To Her

  29-10-2024 14:34 via msn.com
  “I definitely did not know that it was this widespread,” she said. “I’ve heard from people all over the world, mostly about sexual abuse and harassment in schools and orchestras, but also psychological and physical harm done to people as children, students, and even employees of classical music institutions.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• In Pompeii, A Little House Full of Well-Preserved Frescoes Is Unearthed

  29-10-2024 14:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “While the home is modest in size, researchers say that its decorations — including erotic scenes — are equal to those of much larger nearby residences. Found during recent excavations in the central district of the city, the painted dwelling also exemplifies a shift in Roman building styles.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | Margaret Reid

  29-10-2024 14:00
  
  It was my dream job. But what’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies?Margaret Reid is currently on remand for taking action with Just Stop OilI used to be part of the art world but I just can’t stomach it any more. Now I’m in prison, and it suits my conscience better. Back in the 1980s, art was my life. Aged 16, I fell head over heels for painting and could imagine nothing better than spending my life working in museums.Look
  
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• Gérard Depardieu’s Rape Trial Postponed Until Next March

  29-10-2024 13:36 via bbc.com
  
  “Gérard Depardieu’s trial on charges of sexual assault has been postponed until March because the French actor is in poor health, a court in Paris has said.” – BBC
  
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• Here’s How To Get Cheaper Broadway Tickets, Even At The Holidays

  29-10-2024 13:00 via npr.org
  
  That’s right, tourists (and New Yorkers), there are some ways to find those deals – though not, perhaps, if you want to see Robert Downey Jr or Rachel Zegler. – NPR
  
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• ‘I was asked to find a volunteer for an air pollution campaign in Lahore – I couldn’t find anyone’

  29-10-2024 11:00
  
  As Pakistan’s second biggest city takes the lead in the poor air quality index, one artist and activist struggled to find people who caredIt is “smog season” in Lahore. Along with cities in the plains of the Punjab province, October is now popularly called the fifth season in Pakistan as the burning of stubble in the fields after the rice harvest takes the already poor air quality to record lows.On Monday, Lahore took the world lead on several measures of poor air quality. Acco
  
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• NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Visiting Arts Professor Dance, Contemporary Ballet

  29-10-2024 06:19 via artsjournal.com
  NYU Tisch Department of Dance seeks an experienced dance educator and dance practitioner with expertise in contemporary ballet technique with a strong anatomical and somatic approach to their practice. Candidates may also have experience or research in other forms of technique, repertory, and/or dance academic curriculum. Candidates should possess embodied knowledge as a choreographer, performer, and teacher and the ability to teach a diverse student population using inclusive course materials a
  
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