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DANCE
IDEAS
- What It Means To Lose, And Regain, A Language
Ask the grandchildren of immigrants – they know all too well. But one thing is clear: Shaming younger generations doesn’t work. “If the end goal is to farther fluency … then we need to be more positive about how we embrace young people for trying.” – Sahan Journal
- Memorials Can Make A Shift In How California – And The US – Sees Its History
As L.A.’s Chinese American Museum makes plans with full city support to commemorate the massacre of 1871, it’s a good time to consider which monuments, and to whom, are visible around the country. There’s so much more history to tell. – Los Angeles Times
- Cambodia Asserts That The Met Has Dozens Of Looted Antiquities
This isn’t idle speculation. “Cambodian officials said they have developed a spreadsheet of 45 ‘highly significant’ items at the Met that the evidence suggests were stolen before being donated or sold to the museum.” – The New York Times
- Halyna Hutchins, 42, A Cinematographer Who Was On The Edge Of A Breakthrough
Hutchins, killed by a prop gun, was finally on her way up. One director wrote, “She worked tirelessly for eleven years, and her career just started to take off this year. And it ends like this? … Why does this industry take forever to notice a talent?” – Washington Post
- Netflix Still Isn’t Any Viewer’s Friend
Look … its social media accounts, including one touting LGBTQI+ content, may have a personal feel, but Netflix is about profits. “What is surprising is how long Netflix managed to convince both its users and its workers that they weren’t like anybody else.” – Slate
ISSUES
- Memorials Can Make A Shift In How California – And The US – Sees Its History
As L.A.’s Chinese American Museum makes plans with full city support to commemorate the massacre of 1871, it’s a good time to consider which monuments, and to whom, are visible around the country. There’s so much more history to tell. – Los Angeles Times
- Cambodia Asserts That The Met Has Dozens Of Looted Antiquities
This isn’t idle speculation. “Cambodian officials said they have developed a spreadsheet of 45 ‘highly significant’ items at the Met that the evidence suggests were stolen before being donated or sold to the museum.” – The New York Times
- Did Judy Chicago Troll A Crowd At The De Young Museum?
No, but yikes. “When that initial plume dispersed a bit the first things I could see were dozens of people running in the opposite direction, masked or scrambling to find their masks, and throwing their kids over their shoulders to escape.” – Hyperallergic
- A Different Kind Of Gold Torso
These aren’t from ancient Greece or Rome. Instead, they’re modern casts artist Ellen Downes makes to help women heal from trauma. – BBC
- Seriously? Send Your Art To Space?
Uplift promotes ‘Constellation Vault’: ‘a platform for commercial promotion and exhibition in low Earth orbit’. ‘The Constellation Vault will offer patrons the exclusive opportunity to acquire highly coveted items for private sale and auction in space, delivered upon return to Earth.’ Apollo
MEDIA
- Interlochen Has Been Following A Master Plan For Decades
And the results for arts education are, according to Philip Kennicott, correctly focused. “It feels a bit like a small city in Scandinavia, modest and hodgepodge, a collection of functional, appealing but never ostentatious buildings.” – Washington Post
- Arts Organizations Coping With A Changed Labor Market
As some arts organizations retool and expand their hiring, they’re finding that the upheavals of 2020 — the dislocation of the pandemic and a renewed interest in racial and social justice — have created a different pool of job applicants. – San Francisco Chronicle
- We’re Not Supposed To Call It The Brexit Festival, But Here You Have It…
Unboxed: Creativity in the UK – formerly known as Festival 2022 and derided by some as a “festival of Brexit” – draws on arts, science, engineering, technology and maths in a government-backed £120m celebration of ingenuity. – The Guardian
- The High-Tide Flooding In Venice Is Only Getting Worse
Says the chief caretaker of St. Mark’s, which sits at the city’s lowest point, “I can only say that in August, a month when this never used to happen, we had tides over a meter five times. I am talking about the month of August, when we are quiet.” – AP
- With His “Team TERF” Routine, Dave Chappelle Dishonors A Long Line Of Great Black Performers
Artists from Richard Pryor to Moms Mabley to Ma Rainey “took big risks to affirm LGBTQ people and be honest about their own sexuality. … Chappelle is doing something they never did — making a career of going after a group even more reviled than Black people.” – CNN
MUSIC
- The Insidious Harm Of “Inspiration Porn”
I’ve “come to see Keller’s mainstream image and story as a textbook example of “inspiration porn,” where disabled people’s lives are flattened into saccharine narratives about overcoming adversity, usually designed to make nondisabled people feel uplifted and grateful.” – The New York Times
- This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts “financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000 at last count. You can check out books and movies, but also sewing machines, bicycle repair kits and laptop computers.” – Smithsonian Magazine
- The New York Times Long History (And Ambitions) For Books
It all started in the very first issue of The New York Daily Times on Sept. 18, 1851. In an article on Page 2 headlined “Snap-Shots at Books, Talk and Town,” the paper laid out its ambitious plans for covering books and the publishing industry. – The New York Times
- The Believer, Award-Winning Literary Magazine, To Close
The announcement comes seven months after high-profile editor Joshua Wolf Shenk was forced to resign after an indecent exposure incident on Zoom and multiple accusations of inappropriate behavior. The final issue will be February/March 2022. – AP
- How TikTok Is Spreading Learning Of Indigenous Languages
The platform best known for it’s viral dance clips, is making learning languages fun. – The World
PEOPLE
- What It Means To Lose, And Regain, A Language
Ask the grandchildren of immigrants – they know all too well. But one thing is clear: Shaming younger generations doesn’t work. “If the end goal is to farther fluency … then we need to be more positive about how we embrace young people for trying.” – Sahan Journal
- Memorials Can Make A Shift In How California – And The US – Sees Its History
As L.A.’s Chinese American Museum makes plans with full city support to commemorate the massacre of 1871, it’s a good time to consider which monuments, and to whom, are visible around the country. There’s so much more history to tell. – Los Angeles Times
- Cambodia Asserts That The Met Has Dozens Of Looted Antiquities
This isn’t idle speculation. “Cambodian officials said they have developed a spreadsheet of 45 ‘highly significant’ items at the Met that the evidence suggests were stolen before being donated or sold to the museum.” – The New York Times
- Halyna Hutchins, 42, A Cinematographer Who Was On The Edge Of A Breakthrough
Hutchins, killed by a prop gun, was finally on her way up. One director wrote, “She worked tirelessly for eleven years, and her career just started to take off this year. And it ends like this? … Why does this industry take forever to notice a talent?” – Washington Post
- Netflix Still Isn’t Any Viewer’s Friend
Look … its social media accounts, including one touting LGBTQI+ content, may have a personal feel, but Netflix is about profits. “What is surprising is how long Netflix managed to convince both its users and its workers that they weren’t like anybody else.” – Slate
PEOPLE
- What It Means To Lose, And Regain, A Language
Ask the grandchildren of immigrants – they know all too well. But one thing is clear: Shaming younger generations doesn’t work. “If the end goal is to farther fluency … then we need to be more positive about how we embrace young people for trying.” – Sahan Journal
- Memorials Can Make A Shift In How California – And The US – Sees Its History
As L.A.’s Chinese American Museum makes plans with full city support to commemorate the massacre of 1871, it’s a good time to consider which monuments, and to whom, are visible around the country. There’s so much more history to tell. – Los Angeles Times
- Cambodia Asserts That The Met Has Dozens Of Looted Antiquities
This isn’t idle speculation. “Cambodian officials said they have developed a spreadsheet of 45 ‘highly significant’ items at the Met that the evidence suggests were stolen before being donated or sold to the museum.” – The New York Times
- Halyna Hutchins, 42, A Cinematographer Who Was On The Edge Of A Breakthrough
Hutchins, killed by a prop gun, was finally on her way up. One director wrote, “She worked tirelessly for eleven years, and her career just started to take off this year. And it ends like this? … Why does this industry take forever to notice a talent?” – Washington Post
- Netflix Still Isn’t Any Viewer’s Friend
Look … its social media accounts, including one touting LGBTQI+ content, may have a personal feel, but Netflix is about profits. “What is surprising is how long Netflix managed to convince both its users and its workers that they weren’t like anybody else.” – Slate
THEATRE
VISUAL
- What It Means To Lose, And Regain, A Language
Ask the grandchildren of immigrants – they know all too well. But one thing is clear: Shaming younger generations doesn’t work. “If the end goal is to farther fluency … then we need to be more positive about how we embrace young people for trying.” – Sahan Journal
- Visual Humor Might Be Helping Ease The Stresses Of Pandemic Life
That’s right, to deal with the constant dread and worry about what’s next with a constantly evolving virus, we all need … memes. – Fast Company
- Can You Really Be A Better Person Taking Masterclasses Online?
Mark Williamson, the company’s chief operating officer, told me, “I think it’s legitimately possible for us to create an algorithm that builds a personalized catalogue that leads you to become the best person you can be.” – The New Yorker
- How The Big Resignation Is Remaking America
This is a moment of fascinating decentralization. The U.S. economy lost its mojo. We had less quitting, less moving, and less entrepreneurship than in the 20th century. But now that’s reversed. We’re moving out of jobs, out of companies…. – The Atlantic
- Reconsidering The History Of Humanity
Humanity was not restricted to small bands of hunter-gatherers, agriculture did not lead inexorably to hierarchies and conflicts and there was not one mode of social organisation that prevailed, at least until thousands of years after the introduction of agriculture. – The Guardian