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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Survey Of UK Musicians With Disabilities: 70 Percent Hide Their Disability So They Can Work by Artsjournal

Seventy percent said they had kept their disability hidden because of worries it would damage a relationship with a venue, promoter or festival, while two thirds said they had to "compromise…

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Where Does The Original End And The Copy Begin? (And Don't Even Mention Fakes) by Artsjournal

It's an issue, since the beginning of art. Where does one person's art end and another's begin. The lines are quite blurry… " Smithsonian

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In Ancient Times, Timekeeping Was Erratic. When We Figured It Out, It Revolutionized The World by Artsjournal

"In our own world, filled with ubiquitous date marks, it is easy to underestimate the sheer novelty, and so historical significance, of this mass year-marking. But, in the ancient world, thi…

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New Deal: Italian Galleries Won't Have To Pay Artist Resale Royalties by Artsjournal

Primary market galleries in Italy no longer have to pay the artist's resale right (ARR) when selling a work for the first time on behalf of an artist, meaning only works being resold are sub…

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Blunt Instrument: The Complexity Of Using Quotas To Drive Equity by Artsjournal

"In the future, 50/50 ideologies fade to dust because they are too narrow, too binary and mistake equality for equity or justice. To paraphrase political activist Angela Davis, equality is n…

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The Shocking Number Of Americans Who Say They're "Bothered" Hearing Someone Speak A Foreign Language by Artsjournal

According to Pew Research Center, 47 percent of such Republicans say it would bother them "some" or "a lot" to "hear people speak a language other than English in a public place." Eighteen p…

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What "The Great Gatsby" Tells Us About Jazz In The 1920s by Artsjournal

F. Scott Fitzgerald's deployment of jazz imagery was as cutting-edge as it was conservative. He embraced the new music; he struggled more to embrace its practitioners and progenitors. He was…

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

LA MoCA Announces A New Senior Curator, Says No To A New Chief Curator by Artsjournal

The museum will announce Wednesday that its new senior curator and head of new initiatives will be Mia Locks, co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. She is an independent curator based in …

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Nicholas Hytner To Open New 600-Seat Theatre In Kings Cross by Artsjournal

Former National Theatre bosses Sir Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr will run the venue, which is under construction and is set to open in winter 2021. It will be based on the Bridge Theatre, w…

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Study: Participating In Arts Boosts Sense Of Wellbeing by Artsjournal

Commissioned by BBC Arts, it represents the first time that researchers have explored how creative activities, such as acting in a play, singing in a choir, or playing an instrument or paint…

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Activists Conduct A Tour Of "Stolen Goods" At The British Museum by Artsjournal

The unofficial tour featured talks by Palestinian, Iraqi, Greek, and Indigenous Australian activists. Around 300 people attended the tour, including those who came especially for the event a…

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Does What I'm Doing Right Now Count As Writing? by Artsjournal

Making lists of ideas, reading novels, scheduling time to sit down at your computer, researching new coffee shops at which to work, and establishing weekly word goals may seem like parts of …

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Dressing Up: Miami Beach Is Getting A Major Public Art Makeover by Artsjournal

Like the city around it, the public-art program aspires to be both local and global. According to curator Brandi Reddick, the projects, by six internationally-renowned artists chosen from ov…

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Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR seeks Grants & Events Manager by Artsjournal

Artists Rep seeks development professional to lead corporate, foundation, and government grants program to advance long-term engagement and investment. GRANTS AND EVENTS MANAGER Reports to "…

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The Rise Of Book Clubs In Afghanistan by Artsjournal

"Books clubs are an indicator of a young generation that has come of age after 9/11. Many have liberal leanings and seek a space where they can talk openly. During the Taliban, Kabul Univers…

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Adam Gopnik Tries To Explain Liberalism (It Doesn't Go Well) by Artsjournal

"The imaginative locus of Gopnik's liberalism is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. It is the liberalism of the Enlightenment café, of the bourgeois-bohemian bedrooms of nineteenth-…

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Study: Country Music Is Getting More White, More Specifically Male by Artsjournal

"Contemporary country celebrates heterosexual men in blue-collar occupations just like the genre did in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. But the ideal rural man is now depicted as a particular t…

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Starbucks Got About $2.3 Billion In Free Advertising From The "Game Of Thrones" Coffee Gaffe by Artsjournal

"The label is muddled in shadow, but many fans speculated that it was the iconic green siren from Starbucks " and most of the jokes and discussion called out the Seattle coffee chain by name…

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Have Video Games Become The Definer Of Common Culture? by Artsjournal

Film can no longer claim to perform a function for our whole culture when there is no whole. When Golden Age Hollywood promised to tell the story of our culture, it was usually the story of …

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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

That "Game Of Thrones" Accidental Coffee Cup? After Internet Ridicule, HBO Has Erased It by Artsjournal

While the big, bad Night King failed to "erase the memory of Westeros," as Bran Stark put it, HBO was able to do so using the magic of digital editing. " The New York Times

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Have You Picked The Music For Your Funeral Yet? by Artsjournal

Data by Co-op FuneralCare suggests that 24% of UK adults (in a survey of 2,000) have already made clear what music they want played at their funeral " up from 19% in 2016 " with one in fo…

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Director of Marketing and Communications " Shea's Performing Arts Center by Artsjournal

The Director of Marketing and Communications will manage all facets of marketing and public relations for Shea's. This includes the strategic planning of marketing and audience development c…

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The Dentist Who Collected His Way To Deep Expertise by Artsjournal

Across the next six decades, on his dentist's salary, he built a collection that made him what The Washington Post has called the world's "pre-eminent private collector of Kollwitz." The fir…

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Are Companies Like Facebook and Twitter Platforms Or Publishers? It Really Matters by Artsjournal

If they're platforms, they don't have legal responsibility for the content carried on their sites. If publishers, then they're legally liable. Fair enough. But the companies are muddying the…

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The Book-Review-Is-Dying Essay Is A Familiar Trope. Anything New To Report? by Artsjournal

Is relentlessly sunny book "coverage" replacing honest book criticism, or merely supplementing it? Are listicles, Bookstagram, and literary Twitter nothing but treacly promotion puddles on t…

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Emotional Labor Is Uniquely Human, Right? But What If It's Outsourced? by Artsjournal

The real risk is that companies might now try to outsource emotional labour rather than do it in-house " just like they did with 'brain work'. The rise of management consulting a century ago…

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Listen Up: Social Media Is Not A Public Square (Though We Understand The Confusion) by Artsjournal

Kara Swisher: "What's obvious is that the rules are not clear in a world in which the idea of the public square has been turned on its head. It is a truly challenging problem for democracy i…

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Podcasts Are Internet For Your Ears by Artsjournal

Does that sound good to you? Because now you can be plugged in online even when there are no screens around? Okay, but at least be aware of the distraction costs… n+1

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Seattle International Film Festival Executive Director by Artsjournal

SIFF seeks an Executive Director to lead our organization at one of the most exciting times in our history. We have been actively transforming from being primarily focused on a world-class f…

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The Nebraska Theatre That Pops Out Of A Storefront On To Main Street by Artsjournal

The Storefront Theater is a retractable theatre disguised as a shop. It was built to re-invigorate the main street in the town of Lyons, Nebraska, and create a community space for its reside…

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