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The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War

Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others have been attempting to salvage what’s been damaged or destroyed; still others work on locating and perhaps recovering the art that’s been looted and taken to Russia. - CNN

What If We Just Got Rid Of Art?

If the world was wretched, shouldn’t we be transforming it, not distracting ourselves from it?... What would happen if we didn’t soothe ourselves with imagined utopias, but instead did as John Lydon once suggested, and used anger as an energy? - The Guardian

FCC Investigating Public Radio Sponsorships

The request is a next step in FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s investigation into whether public TV and radio stations are airing advertisements in violation of federal guidelines. Public stations, which are partially funded by taxpayers, operate under strict rules about how they must disclose sponsorships or underwriters. - Inside Radio

The Weird And Wonderful Noises That Choreographers Make

“Dance artists often spout rhythmic medleys of noises and counts during classes and rehearsals. In a wordless art that lacks a widely used form of written notation, these sounds, poetic and onomatopoeic, are strikingly efficient at conveying both what the steps are and how they should be performed.” - The New York Times

The Power Of Nothing (It’s A Mental Construct)

Our mental worlds are lively with such experiences of absence, yet it’s a mystery how the mind performs the trick of seeing nothing. How can the brain perceive something when there is no something to perceive? - Aeon

Who’s Choreographing What Where (A Leadership Thing)

Women choreographed 17.8% of the 891 total programs identified in the study, and 35.9% of these programs included choreographers of mixed genders. A breakdown of programming by format further highlights this disparity: women choreographed 30.2% of full-length works and 32.3% of mixed-bill works. - Dance Data Project

How Satellite Radio Predicted The Streaming Subscription Model

Well before subscriptions became the norm for streaming media, satellite radio companies Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Radio convinced radio listeners to become radio subscribers at the turn of the new millennium. - The Conversation

We’ve Been Missing The Point Of “The Great Gatsby” For A Century

“Gatsby is a more complicated book than its pop-culture footprint suggests. It’s big enough to survive all those turgid high school essays about color symbolism and the American dream, … all those mediocre movies and bad plays. Here’s the story of how The Great Gatsby has endured — and why we keep misreading it.” - Vox

The Enduring Allure Of Greece In Literature

For hundreds of years, we—broadly speaking, these books’ Anglophone-ish audience—have been reading too much into Greece. There were the philhellenes, like Nietzsche, who believed the ancients to be “the only people of genius in the history of the world.” - LA Review of Books

Bill Bryson: There Are Too Many Books (Blame Self-Publishing)

It is thought that about 90 per cent of self-published books sell fewer than 100 copies, although some self-publishing writers have become successful, notably Colleen Hoover. - The Times (UK)

What Does An Editor Of Contemporary Classical Music Do? Quite A Lot

“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce.” - The New York Times

Stage Crews Reach Union Agreement With Atlantic Theatre

The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has undertaken a major drive to organize those stage crews. - The New York Times

Why So Many Musicians Don’t Have Health Insurance

Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans co-governed by their unions, use of labor group-administered insurance among recording artists is spottier.  - The Hollywood Reporter

Remembering Playwright Athol Fugard

Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his agenda as a playwright. - Los Angeles Times

New LACMA Building To Get New Works Of Outdoor Art

“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)

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