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• George Saunders's 'Lincoln In The Bardo' Wins Man Booker Prize

  18-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Saunders is the second American in a row to win the Booker prize, after last year's winner Paul Beatty. Saunders' win falls four years after eligibility rules were changed to allow writers of any nationality writing in the English language and published in the UK. There has been fierce criticism of the rule change."
  
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• The Machine Can’t Do Marilyn

  07-09-2026 01:43 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Today’s stories ask the question: when machines can make something, what’s left that only people can make? Start with the flop. A commissioned AI attempt to turn Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe didn’t work, and Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t sorry it failed (Vulture). Meanwhile the Anthropic settlement, sold as a win for authors, has become a fight among publishers, authors, and third parties over who actually gets paid (The New York Times). Money is easier to ex
  
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• Was Renoir Actually A Fairly Bad Painter?

  06-09-2026 22:00 via news.artnet.com
  The age-old question returns. “Surely Renoir would at least have benefitted from being slightly less prolific.” – Artnet
  
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• At Crystal Bridges, Renovation And Expansion Are The Order Of The Day

  06-09-2026 21:30 via kcstudio.org
  
  Of course, “while the museum and the Walton family espouse natural connections between art, community and general well-being (see also recent major investments in healthcare), the urge to collect continues apace.” – KC Studio
  
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• The Wealthy Friends Interfering In Mexico’s Frida Kahlo Legacy

  06-09-2026 21:00 via lemonde.fr
  “If it were not so tragic for Mexican art, the story would make an excellent detective novel. All the characters and ingredients are there.” – Le Monde English
  
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• Why Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Destined To Be Forgotten

  06-09-2026 20:30 via bostonglobe.com
  
  It’s “a nearly three-hour barn burner, racing from event to event with whirlwind kinetic energy. … Nolan’s reluctance to take a pause should, actually, give us pause. After all, Homer’s poem doesn’t just involve a lot of waiting. It is a postwar tale about waiting.” – Boston Globe
  
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• Another Long Dive On How The Bayeux Tapestry Made It Back To England

  06-09-2026 20:30 via newyorker.com
  
  “Among the French, the mood is anxious. The tapestry’s early life is shrouded in mystery, but it seems to have led a fameless existence in Bayeux for hundreds of years.” – The New Yorker
  
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• A Comedian And Content Creator Sees Shakespeare As His Future

  06-09-2026 20:00 via bbc.com
  
  The aim of this actor’s comedic videos, “he says, was to land on ‘something bigger and onto a new challenge’ – such as theatre acting.” – BBC
  
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• In A World With Awards For Writing Badly About Sex, LitHub Has Tips For Doing The Opposite

  06-09-2026 19:30 via lithub.com
  
  “Even if you’re writing about stereotypically bad sex, your language should be fresh and surprising.” – LitHub
  
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• The Anthropic Settlement Is Turning Into Yet More Struggle For Authors Whose Works Were Stolen

  06-09-2026 19:00 via nytimes.com
  Publishers and authors are wrangling, and third parties are getting into it, and in general, this isn’t great. – The New York Times
  
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• Is The Internet Dead?

  06-09-2026 18:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down.”This is … not great. – The Atlantic
  
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• Grim New Video Games Are Out, From The Governing Party Of The United States

  06-09-2026 18:00 via salon.com
  
  The games, reflecting the political goals of the president, resemble gaming classics. Tetris is unhappy with “Build the Wall,”a little too close to Tetris itself. Then there’s one like Snake, where gamers “patrol the Rio Grande and capture figures representing migrants.” – Salon
  
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• Let Movies Be Movies Again, Hollywood

  06-09-2026 17:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Don’t make a “verse,” like “The Monsterverse.” Just make a movie. They don’t all have to tie in together! – The Atlantic
  
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• Robin Morgan, Who Helped Found Second-Wave Feminism, Has Died At 85

  06-09-2026 17:00 via nytimes.com
  “Morgan caused shock waves in 1970 when she published an essay in Rat, an underground newspaper. The article, titled ‘Goodbye to All That,’ named specific men as sexists. ‘Goodbye to Hip Culture and the so-called Sexual Revolution,’ she wrote.” – The New York Times
  
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• With Freedom And Community, Music Has The Power To Transform Young Lives

  06-09-2026 16:30 via theguardian.com
  “If you want to get a young person out of trouble, put a trumpet in their hands – then just watch what they do.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Trying To Revitalize A Tiny ‘Lost’ Town With Traditional Arts In North Carolina

  06-09-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “In the wake of Helene and the subsequent inland migration, the [Lost Province Center for Cultural Arts] is teaching so-called Old World skills — like fiber arts and clay throwing — as essential tools in the modern age.” – The New York Times
  
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• Court In Argentina Rules In Favor Of Jewish Art Dealer’s Heir

  06-09-2026 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “Portrait of a Lady by Italian baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was missing for eight decades before being photographed in 2025 hanging in the home of the daughter of a senior Nazi officer who had fled to Argentina after the second world war.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Remembering Gloria Steinem As A Writer

  06-09-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  As she said, “It’s one of the ironies of trying to be a writer and an activist at the same time that just when you feel you have the most to write about, you have the least time in which to write it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Bad Bunny Finally Gets An Emmy, For The Super Bowl

  06-09-2026 14:30 via msn.com
  The so-called “Primetime Emmys” happen next week, but Bad Bunny cleaned up with seven “creative Emmys” for his halftime show at the huge sporting event. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Turns Out AI Can’t Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe

  06-09-2026 14:00 via vulture.com
  
  And Maggie Gyllenhaal is kind of sorry she ever tried something “the people who commissioned this project” wanted. – Vulture
  
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• CD Sales Are Booming, Alongside Vinyl And Cassettes

  06-09-2026 13:30 via theverge.com
  
  “Despite the increased interest in physical media and the ongoing iPod revival, people are not leaving streaming in droves. Streaming revenue grew by 4.7 percent to $4.9 billion — dwarfing all physical media combined.” – The Verge
  
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• What To Do With All Of Europe’s Empty Churches?

  06-09-2026 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Sure, indoor pickleball courts can work, but there are many arts options. – The New York Times
  
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• Vietnam Veterans File Restraining Order to Block Progress on Trump’s 250-Foot Triumphal Arch

  05-09-2026 18:52 via artnews.com
  
  A group of Vietnam veterans filed for a temporary restraining order on Friday to stop progress on one of Trump’s projects to alter the landscape of the nation’s capital, a 250-foot triumphal arch. The plaintiffs are veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, along with architectural historian Calder Loth, who are represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, of Washington, D.C. They filed their motion for a 14-day restraining order on Friday, after Interior
  
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• Afa Dworkin talks about the key events celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Sphinx Organization

  05-09-2026 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  Afa Dworkin, President & Artistic Director of the The Sphinx Organization, shares the three keystone events of their milestone 30th Anniversary.
  
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• Beyoncé Gives the Studio Museum in Harlem a $2 M. Gift on Her Birthday

  05-09-2026 17:00 via artnews.com
  
  Beyoncé Knowles turned 45 on September 4, and to mark the occasion, the global superstar entertainer made an unusual birthday gift, of $2 million, not to herself but to the Studio Museum in Harlem. “Art tells all our stories; the past and the present, but is not always accessible to everyone,” said Beyoncé in a press release. “I have always been impressed with the Studio Museum in Harlem because of its intention to make the museum an integral part of the comm
  
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• Queen of crime, queen of the camera — the revelatory photography of Agatha Christie

  05-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The author’s passion for making images sheds new light on her writing, as a forthcoming British Library exhibition shows
  
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• All creatures great and small

  05-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The best artistic depictions of animals remind us about the richness of the natural world
  
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• Kehnide Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt

  05-09-2026 01:53 via artnews.com
  
  Kehnide Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said
  
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• Kehinde Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt

  05-09-2026 01:53 via artnews.com
  
  Kehinde Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said
  
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• Artistic Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts

  05-09-2026 01:08 via artsjournal.com
  Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is seeking a talented theater professional to lead the planning and execution of the organization’s core programming as Artistic Director. This newly conceived role will be part of a reimagined leadership team as FST’s long-serving Producing Artistic Director transitions into retirement and top leadership of the organization transfers to an Executive Director, a role effectively defined as a chief executive officer leading a team that includes the Artist
  
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