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• How Thailand Became A Refuge For Myanmar Artists

  17-12-2024 23:31 via artreview.com
  
  Since the 1 February 2021 coup in Myanmar created a new generation of fugitive political activists – among them artists, filmmakers, musicians and creative workers – a calculated sense of curatorial care has underpinned numerous shows. – ArtReview
  
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• The Mathematics Behind The Rockettes’ High-Precision Dance Routines

  17-12-2024 21:04 via popsci.com
  
  “During the dance company’s roughly 200 shows over eight weeks, a dancer can do up to 650 kicks in a single day. … While this signature kick is a festive feat of physics in its own right, the math on stage also makes the magic.” – Popular Science
  
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• How Shirley Temple Saved Fox Studios

  17-12-2024 20:01 via bbc.com
  
  “In 1933, Fox Studios was nearly bankrupt. Founded by William Fox in 1915, it thrived during the silent-movie era. By the time the Great Depression arrived, it was operating at a loss, owed millions and share prices had plummeted. To the rescue: one blonde, curly-haired little girl.” – BBC
  
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• How The Digital Age Is Reimagining Visual Culture

  17-12-2024 19:44 via artreview.com
  
  If Pop art recognised the media image as our new ‘nature’ and Minimalism was an art of phenomenological sensibility, Electric Op proposes perception as an artifact of relations among biological, material, technological and intellectual systems. More challenging yet are our relations with that which we cannot see, or don’t yet know how to see. – ArtReview
  
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• The Year Of The “Creators”

  17-12-2024 19:15 via newyorker.com
  
  These days, the favored term for an Internet powerhouse is “creator,” and in the course of this year a threshold of creatordom was passed. We don’t talk so much about podcasters, musicians, authors, or pundits anymore; they are simply creators, a catchall for people who are famous for making stuff across any number of platforms. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Defining Art Events Of 2024

  17-12-2024 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  From fireworks injuries to the collapse of UArts to Venice Biennale drama to prison sentences for the original climate-protesting art vandals, here are 26 events and developments that made 2024 the year it was. – ARTnews
  
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• Dance Critic Arlene Croce, 90

  17-12-2024 18:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Croce was loved for her wit — but not by those she skewered. Her criticism could be wicked, even merciless. She once described the feet of the ballerina Carla Fracci as “flapping along the floor like a loose mudguard.” The choreography of Gerald Arpino, she wrote, was a “love letter from an illiterate all in capitals.” – The New York Times
  
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• Four Syrian Artists Share Their Hopes For A Future Without The Assads

  17-12-2024 18:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  More than five decades of severe repression under father Hafiz and son Bashar al-Assad left Syria with no structure for any kind of art scene and almost no living experience of free expression. Here four artists who have spent recent years in exile share what they expect and hope for now. – Artnet
  
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• How Netflix Destroyed The Movie And TV Businesses

  17-12-2024 17:31 via nplusonemag.com
  
  Netflix, which first emerged as a destroyer of video stores, has developed a powerful business model to conquer television, only to unleash its strange and destructive power on the cinema. In doing so, it has brought Hollywood to the brink of irrelevance. Because Netflix doesn’t just survive when no one is watching — it thrives. – N+1
  
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• Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Has Badly Hurt Lebanese Publishing

  17-12-2024 17:05 via publishersweekly.com
  
  Lebanon’s book industry is historically one of the Arab world’s most important, due to the country’s relative tolerance and press freedom. But this year’s violence has made traveling to book fairs risky, and Hezbollah’s party headquarters, an aerial bombardment target, are in a neighborhood that’s a major logistics center for publishers. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Consuming Arts And Culture Is Good For Your Health, Says Major UK Study

  17-12-2024 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “Consuming culture is good for your health and wellbeing – and generates £8bn a year worth of improvements in people’s quality of life and higher productivity. That is the conclusion of the first major UK research to quantify the impact the arts and heritage can have on physical and mental health.” – The Guardian
  
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• What’s Entering Public Domain In The US As Of 2025? Popeye, Tintin, Faulkner, Hitchcock, Porter, …

  17-12-2024 16:04 via apnews.com
  
  The initial versions of characters Popeye and Tintin (though not yet their most famous versions) are becoming available, as are key novels by Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck; early sound films by Hitchcock, De Mille, and the Marx brothers; and hit songs by Cole Porter and Fats Waller. – AP
  
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• Poor David Tennant’s “Macbeth” In London Just Can’t Catch A Break This Week

  17-12-2024 15:31 via standard.co.uk
  Or, to put it another way, the show is having to take too many breaks. Tennant, Cush Jumbo, and their colleagues have had to leave the stage mid-show twice this week: once due to an audience disturbance and once because a colleague lost her voice. – The Standard (London)
  
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• Judge In Brazil Orders Sony/Universal To Withdraw Adele Song Worldwide

  17-12-2024 15:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The injunction requires Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music to stop distributing Adele’s “Million Years Ago” in any and every format during an ongoing plagiarism claim by a Brazilian composer. The Brazilian subsidiaries of the labels will be fined $8,000 “per act of non-compliance.” – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• “The Planet Will Be Fine. It’s the People Who Will Be F**ked.” — George Carlin

  17-12-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  The comedian’s late-career epiphany and the nonprofit arts sector begs the question: what happens when you eliminate “hope?”
  Photo by Insomnia Cured Here licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
  We’re rounding the turn and heading into the home stretch of 2024. Your nonprofit arts organization is well into its year-end, give now while you can still get a tax deduction, do it for the children (“Won’t someone think of the children?!”), just click on the “donat
  
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• Ozy Media Founder Carlos Watson Gets Nearly 10 Years’ Imprisonment For Fraud

  17-12-2024 14:30 via apnews.com
  
  “Prosecutors accused the former cable news commentator and host of playing a leading role in a scheme to deceive Ozy investors and lenders by inflating revenue numbers, touting deals and offers that were nonexistent or not finalized, and flashing other false indications of Ozy’s success.” – AP
  
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• Artist Lorraine O’Grady Dead At 90

  17-12-2024 14:06 via artnews.com
  
  “O’Grady developed a loyal following for artworks that often proved unclassifiable. She produced photographs, collages, and performances, and wrote frequently. … Her art critiqued racism, misogyny, and privilege, but it did so using methods that were ambiguous and occasionally even tough to interpret.” – ARTnews
  
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• Hamad Butt review – the truncated brilliance of the most dangerous YBA

  17-12-2024 11:09
  
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, DublinButt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop Pairs of glass sheets, displayed like the open pages of books, sit on little stands low on the floor, each accompanied by an ultraviolet tube where the book’s spine should be, whose glare picks up the image of a 1950s sci-fi monster printed on the glass pages. The light will damage your eyes if you look too long.The room
  
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• Africa Foto Fair: ‘You don’t need to fly in somebody from outside to tell us about our own realities’

  17-12-2024 10:00
  
  The annual exhibition, held in a working-class area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, is organised by photographer Aïda Muluneh, who is determined to tap into the continent’s creative potentialAïda Muluneh has had her eye on the road ever since she left Ethiopia with her mother when she was five years old, making stops in Yemen, Cyprus and Canada. Now she has her eye on the future, building on her reputation as one of Africa’s most accomplished photographers.Today, Muluneh is traini
  
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• Presidio Theatre seeks Director of Development

  17-12-2024 02:58 via artsjournal.com
  The Presidio Theatre, a not-for-profit organization created to restore and operate the historic Presidio Theatre on the Main Post of the San Francisco Presidio, invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of Development.The Presidio Theatre
  https://www.presidiotheatre.org/In September 2019, the revitalized Presidio Theatre reopened its doors in San Francisco’s Presidio National Historic Landmark District as a high quality and affordable multipurpose space for live th
  
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