Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:02 Brazil Has Restored Nearly All The Art Damaged In Bolsonaro’s 2023 Insurrection “The collection, which includes contemporary and historical artworks, design objects, and artifacts, was targeted on January 8, 2023, when riots erupted in Brasília following the defeat of then-president Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the general election.” – ARTnewsSource: Visual Arts Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:35 Ordinary Tweet Leads To Discovery Of 16th-Century Portrait Of Henry VIII In the background of a tweet from the regional government in the English county of Warwickshire, an art historian recognized what turned out to be a portrait of the king painted for famous tapestry-maker Ralph Sheldon in the 1590s. – BBCSource: Ideas Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:29 What Orwell Would Have Thought About Cancel Culture “Orwell would have been more disturbed by the mendacity of those claiming to have been canceled than he would have been by the decision of some media not to publish them.” – The Smart SetSource: Issues Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:02 “Brat” Summer And The Emptiness Of Zombie Publicity Something about this “Brat” summer we’re living through gets me down — something about our eagerness to replace the seasons of our lives with industry promo cycles, about how contemporary pop fandom feels like a zombie publicity reflex, about hype’s uncanny ability to blot out the thing it’s hyping. – Washington PostSource: Music Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:32 Sonos CEO Admits Enormous Failure Of App Update I am having trouble thinking of an app update fiasco large enough to compare it to this one, because in my time as a consumer tech reporter and editor, I cannot think of another software update that took away users’ ability to control the volume. – WiredSource: People Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:01 Leonard Slatkin At 80 Few currently active conductors have developed such a natural affinity with the recording studio. The independent producer Andrew Keener, who collaborated on his UK recordings, tells me that Slatkin always stood out as ‘a conductor who is totally studio wise, and who knew how to apportion time in the studio. – GramophoneSource: Music Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:31 Study: Memory For Music Doesn’t Degrade With Age Research has shown that many aspects of memory are affected by ageing, such as recall tasks that require real-time processing, whereas recognition tasks that rely on well-known information and automatic processes are not. – NatureSource: Dance Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:04 Granny-Dancing In Japan Is Done To Hip-Hop “Senior breaking is one of a growing category of sports tailored to Japan’s large population of older people who, thanks to the country’s extraordinary longevity statistics, are determined to keep popping and locking for as long as their bodies will allow.” Their inspiration: breaking as an Olympic sport. – The GuardianSource: The World Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:43 Assistant Professor (tenure track): Theatre, Performance Studies Position Type:Regular Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $83,771 to $93,107, depending on the successful candidate’s years of teaching experience at the college-level. The position comes with generous benefits (scu.edu/hr/benefits), including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, and university contributions toward retirement. Recognizing the high cost of housing in the local area, […]Source: Issues Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:32 Astonishing French Department Stores Changed Cities. Can We Learn From Them? Inspired by opera houses, the grands magasins were astonishing spectacles, built on a pharaonic scale. A new exhibition in the French capital charts the golden age of a dying concept. – The GuardianSource: Music Fri, 26 Jul 2024 18:05 The Slow Strangling Of Welsh National Opera “The company is liable for few of the major criticisms levied at the opera world, with varying degrees of justification, by politicians and their quangos. And yet … the company has been bullied into an acquiescent silence concerning its forced transformation into a shadow of its former self.” – Classical Music (UK)Source: Issues Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:28 US House Fends Off Cuts To NEA, NEH Budgets As of June 28, the House of Representatives has approved $203.9 million each to the NEA and the NEH, evenly distributing the Biden-Harris administration’s original allocations of $210 million for the arts and $200 million for the humanities. – HyperallergicSource: Dance Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:32 Musing On Dance And Addiction A dancer’s day is all about discipline, be that in relation to movement or intake (even healthy, appropriate eating: food is fuel etc). So when it comes time to leave the constrained environment, is it any wonder if things go off the scale in the opposite direction? – GramilanoSource: Theatre Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:03 Jeremy O. Harris Says He’s A “Theater Supremacist,” But … “… more fitting might be a theater proselytizer. … In his eyes, theater should be as much a part of the American story as music is: ‘Music has figured out a way to really brand itself as necessary, because people can see the tangible links to profit.'” – The Washington PostSource: Media Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:31 Why The TV Experience Sucks Right Now  As viewers, we’re being flattened by a fire hose of programming — and the experience of watching TV feels like a ritual of submission, passively accepting a slush of shows served up by a streaming service’s algorithm. – The New York TimesSource: Issues Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:06 A Brief History Of Olympic Villages — And What They Left Behind In Their Host Cities Have the buildings created as lodging for thousands of athletes really provided housing and other benefits for their neighborhoods after the Games are over? Don’t cynically assume that the answer is no: the record is quite mixed. Perhaps the best example: Helsinki. – BBCSource: Issues Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:31 What’s The Real Innovation Of The Paris Olympics? Temporary, Recyclable Venues “Erector-set arenas have sprung up like crystals in the city’s traffic circles and parks, often with Parisian landmarks as backdrops. There are temporary pools, temporary television studios, and temporary bleachers to watch the swimming events in the Seine, where there is a temporary floating halfpipe.” – SlateSource: Words Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:04 Conglomerate That Owns Publisher Hachette Plans To Spin It Off “Vivendi has updated its plans to separate into … three new companies. One of these would be newly named company, Louis Hachette Group, which includes Vivendi’s 63.5% majority stake in Lagardère, the parent company of Hachette Livre, and 100% ownership of Prisma Media, which is primarily a magazine publisher.” – Publishers WeeklySource: Words Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:02 “At My High School, The Library Is For Everything But Books” “According to school records, only about 50 books were checked out by students during the 2023 fall semester. In response, the administration has decided to take a different approach, rebranding the library as a student union — a communal space for students to interact and complete school work.” – The NationSource: Media Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:33 SAG-AFTRA Actors On Strike Against Video Game Makers “Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a halt over artificial intelligence protections. Leaders of the (union) have billed the issues behind the labor dispute — and AI in particular — as an existential crisis for performers.” – APSource: