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DANCE
IDEAS
- Tenor Antonello Palombi, 58, Found Dead In Hotel Room
Though he had an active career spanning four continents, he’s best known for stepping in mid-performance as Radames in Aida at La Scala after Roberto Alagna stormed off the stage because he was booed. Palombi’s body was found during a wellness check after he failed to show up for rehearsal in Mainz, Germany. – OperaWire
- Postcards Were Social Media Before Social Media
People themselves made the choices. They selected the postcards they bought, the people they wrote to, and the images they collected. More than a century before platforms started automating this process, political communities were already creating selective environments of their own. – Eurozine
- Alden Ehrenreich’s Huron Station Playhouse Is The “Coolest New Theater Venue” In L.A.
“Artistic director Alden Ehrenreich turned a historic 1906 Pacific Electric Railway power station into an artistic playground with hipster vibes, alluring music, a younger-than-usual audience and high-end soap in the bathroom.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
- The Connections Between Rock Music And Fascism
Such a superhuman magnification of the individual is unsettling to behold at close range. I witnessed the internal mechanics when I followed Radiohead on tour in 2000. Members of the band were variously thrilled, unnerved, and scared by what they were unleashing—a healthily complex reaction. – The New Yorker
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader
ISSUES
- Art Basel Paris To Partially Refund Gallerists For Early Closure
“All exhibitors who participated in the most recent edition of Art Basel Paris, which closed two days early because of planned protests, will get a 20 percent reduction on their final invoices. … Additionally, tickets purchased for that weekend have already been refunded.” – ARTnews
- Art Basel To Discount Gallery Fees After Paris Show Closed Early
“We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. – ARTnews
- The Vatican Has A Huge, Little-Known Collection Of Indigenous Art. Should It All Be Repatriated?
“The Anima Mundi, formerly the Ethnological Museum, (is) home to around 80,000 objects from across the globe, many of which were ‘gifted’ to the Catholic church in Rome by Indigenous peoples at a time when its missionaries were powerful, and sometimes dubious, figures in their far-flung communities.” – The Guardian
- Scholars Announce Two Caravaggio Rediscoveries In Two Days
One historian announced his authentication of a previously unattributed painting at a conference this past Saturday, while another revealed on Sunday that the original of a painting known only from copies had been located. – Artnet
- The National Mall In DC Is Getting Too Full, And The Reason Why Is Not A Happy One
“The sylvan landscape around the Lincoln Memorial is a mess, and it will only get worse. … A landscape that was meant to symbolize peace and reconciliation after the Civil War is becoming cluttered mainly with memorials devoted to war” — too many to fit in this one place. – The Washington Post (MSN)
MEDIA
- Can These Economists Build A Better Case For Public Arts Support?
These discussions, championed by at least one economics research and advisory firm in partnership with a major Australian arts festival, are instead thinking about the arts activities as powerful economic ‘enablers’ and strategic assets which help facilitate wider cultural, economic and social objectives. – ArtsHub
- The Case For Humanities
Encompassing history, literature, philosophy, art, and more, the humanities provide a lens through which one can view one’s personal experiences—making the universal personal and the personal universal. – Jstor
- Russia Is Requiring Theaters To Hire Ukraine War Veterans As Ballet Dancers And Choir Singers
Laws passed in various regions of the country are requiring state-funded employers such as schools, universities, and performing arts institutions to hire veterans of the “special military operation” as instructors ranging from kindergarten to college-level, ballet dancers, choristers, and piano accompanists. (And they’re forbidden to ask about PTSD.) – Meduza
- Claim: AI Has Made It Almost Impossible To Assess Students
Universities should go back to traditional exams and in-person presentations to grade students after lecturers complained that AI has made it “close to impossible” to assess coursework, according to an investigation by England’s higher education regulator. – The Guardian
- Project To Make Downtown Chicago A “Cultural Stadium” Takes A Step Forward
“Former Michigan state representative Donna Lasinski was announced Wednesday as the initiative’s inaugural president. … The project has been discussed in abstract for years but is now moving from idea to reality with the appointment of Lasinski, who has served as the Cultural Stadium’s senior adviser since April.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
MUSIC
- On Poets And Reputations
The maker of an anthology can’t help being aware of the contemporary reputation of poets. But he knows, too, that this enterprise, this book, will be a chance to amend that reputation. – Hudson Review
- The Onion Is Looking To Sponsor A College Football Bowl Game (Yes, Really)
The satirical publication is looking to break the 100,000-subscriber mark, which would make it, by circulation, the fourth-largest print newspaper in the U.S. As a marketing effort, it’s looking to buy naming rights to one of the numerous bowl games that happen around New Year’s. Wouldn’t you watch The Onion Bowl? – Nieman Lab
- Influential CEO Of Poetry Foundation To Step Down At End Of Next Year
Michelle T. Boone, at one time the city of Chicago’s cultural commissioner, became head of the nonprofit in 2021. Under her leadership, the Foundation (which also publishes Poetry magazine) extended its grantmaking portfolio by millions of dollars. – WBEZ (Chicago)
- The Worst Thing About Using AI To Write?
Above the chaos is a question: Why did this novel, thematically rote and stylistically bland as it is, receive such acclaim in the first place? – The Atlantic
- Rethinking What Biographies Are For
On its face, biography is the genre of the integral subject—a person interacting with others but distinct from them, not dissolving in a sea of substance. For Carlisle, though, the “metaphysical selfishness” of a world composed of discrete human beings “reinforces moral selfishness, and vice versa.” – The New Yorker
PEOPLE
- Tenor Antonello Palombi, 58, Found Dead In Hotel Room
Though he had an active career spanning four continents, he’s best known for stepping in mid-performance as Radames in Aida at La Scala after Roberto Alagna stormed off the stage because he was booed. Palombi’s body was found during a wellness check after he failed to show up for rehearsal in Mainz, Germany. – OperaWire
- Postcards Were Social Media Before Social Media
People themselves made the choices. They selected the postcards they bought, the people they wrote to, and the images they collected. More than a century before platforms started automating this process, political communities were already creating selective environments of their own. – Eurozine
- Alden Ehrenreich’s Huron Station Playhouse Is The “Coolest New Theater Venue” In L.A.
“Artistic director Alden Ehrenreich turned a historic 1906 Pacific Electric Railway power station into an artistic playground with hipster vibes, alluring music, a younger-than-usual audience and high-end soap in the bathroom.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
- The Connections Between Rock Music And Fascism
Such a superhuman magnification of the individual is unsettling to behold at close range. I witnessed the internal mechanics when I followed Radiohead on tour in 2000. Members of the band were variously thrilled, unnerved, and scared by what they were unleashing—a healthily complex reaction. – The New Yorker
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader
PEOPLE
- Tenor Antonello Palombi, 58, Found Dead In Hotel Room
Though he had an active career spanning four continents, he’s best known for stepping in mid-performance as Radames in Aida at La Scala after Roberto Alagna stormed off the stage because he was booed. Palombi’s body was found during a wellness check after he failed to show up for rehearsal in Mainz, Germany. – OperaWire
- Postcards Were Social Media Before Social Media
People themselves made the choices. They selected the postcards they bought, the people they wrote to, and the images they collected. More than a century before platforms started automating this process, political communities were already creating selective environments of their own. – Eurozine
- Alden Ehrenreich’s Huron Station Playhouse Is The “Coolest New Theater Venue” In L.A.
“Artistic director Alden Ehrenreich turned a historic 1906 Pacific Electric Railway power station into an artistic playground with hipster vibes, alluring music, a younger-than-usual audience and high-end soap in the bathroom.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
- The Connections Between Rock Music And Fascism
Such a superhuman magnification of the individual is unsettling to behold at close range. I witnessed the internal mechanics when I followed Radiohead on tour in 2000. Members of the band were variously thrilled, unnerved, and scared by what they were unleashing—a healthily complex reaction. – The New Yorker
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader
THEATRE
VISUAL
- In Medieval Times, Curiosity Was A Negative
Curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information. The curious person was thought to reach for what was hidden and secret, beyond their proper purview, and thereby isolate themselves from spiritual and social community. – MIT Reader
- Why Do Things Exist?
This very obvious fact about the world – that things exist – can shift from seeming mundane and trivial to very surprising, even downright weird. – Aeon
- How America Developed A Culture Of The Telephone
Advertising could turn people into customers, but helping phone owners form what Bell called a “telephone habit” required a different tool. – JStor
- Why We Are Not Our Brains
Remember that the brain itself is merely another object in the world. To talk about it at all is to have already accepted a level of objective existence which cannot be reduced to sensory experience. – 3 Quarks Daily
- The Death Of Online Search?
Even Google may not be too big to fail, as pessimism mounts about the possibility of Search ever again working the way it used to. – The New Yorker