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• YouTube Removes “Dislike” Buttons And Engagement Goes Down

  17-01-2022 23:14 via variety.com
  
  YouTube’s controversial move to remove public dislike counts in November was aimed at shielding smaller creators from harassment campaigns but has already started to discourage certain viewers from engaging with videos on the platform, new data suggests. –Variety
  
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• Vicious Book Review Are Back With A Vengeance

  17-01-2022 22:31 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  If the hatchet job ever died, it is — like Gawker — back with a vengeance. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that the hatchet job is now the dominant mode of literary criticism for the internet era. – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Why It’s So Difficult To Predict The Future

  17-01-2022 21:44 via wired.com
  
  There is an assumption that the more scientific the approach to predictions, the more accurate forecasts will be. But this belief causes more problems than it solves, not least because it often either ignores or excludes the lived diversity of human experience.
  
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• Audio Books That Become Inseparable From Their Readers

  17-01-2022 21:01 via washingtonpost.com
  With audiobooks, voice narrators are (almost) everything. They can make a great story greater and a bad story better. This is especially true with book series. As one book leads to another, a narrator’s voice becomes ever more integral to the listening experience. – Washington Post
  
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• What Qualities Ought The Next Music Director Of The Kansas City Symphony Have?

  17-01-2022 20:15 via kcstudio.org
  
  The Symphony board could make a statement by requiring, for one thing, that Michael Stern’s successor take up full-time residence in Kansas City. – KCStudio
  
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• IRS Wins: Prince Estate Worth Twice What Executor Claimed It Was

  17-01-2022 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The process came to a head earlier this month when the IRS, the US tax agency, asserted that the estate was worth $163.2m, twice the $82.3m figure previously submitted by Comerica. The higher valuation meant the IRS would claim substantially more tax. – The Guardian
  
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• End Of The BBC As We Know It?

  17-01-2022 18:44 via pressgazette.co.uk
  
  Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell said the Government is signalling “the end of the BBC as we know it” in a “pathetic” attempt to distract from Boris Johnson’s difficulties over Downing Street parties. – The Press-Gazette
  
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• Get To Know America’s First Native American Poet Laureate

  17-01-2022 18:02 via thedailybeast.com
  Joy Harjo’s story is an American epic, a triumph of the spirit, reshaping history’s lens on the West, rewriting a national myth of endless space. – The Daily Beast
  
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• What’s Happened To Those Public Statues Celebrating Racists?

  17-01-2022 17:32 via thedailybeast.com
  Government officials have tried to grapple with the best course of action for monuments that are symbols of both divisiveness and history, balancing the need to confront America’s past without glorifying it. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Misty Copeland Wants To Honor Those Who Came Before Her

  17-01-2022 17:00 via wbur.org
  
  “Copeland says she believes it’s her responsibility to tell the untold stories of trailblazing Black ballerinas who came before her. … She wants aspiring young Black ballerinas and parents wanting to put their kids into dance classes to know that they do belong.” – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• The Tories Freeze BBC’s License Fee For Two Years

  17-01-2022 16:30 via variety.com
  
  Sounds great during a pandemic, right? But the BBC is commercial-free, and the license fee is its income, so when the fee doesn’t keep up with inflation, the broadcaster must plan for budget cuts all around. – Variety
  
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• Emile Zola, Real Bad Art Friend

  17-01-2022 16:00 via lithub.com
  
  Bad Art Friends are far from new. “Case in point: the rift between Émile Zola, novelist/playwright/founder of the naturalism movement, and painter Paul Cézanne. Their decades-long friendship was destroyed when Zola … wrote a book heavily featuring a self-destructive, unsuccessful painter.” – LitHub
  
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• Sundance Is All Online Again, And That’s Great

  17-01-2022 15:45 via washingtonpost.com
  Cheers aren’t what one might expect for yet another canceled in-person event – and yet, 80 films will be on offer, with art houses across the country screening films in-person. Sorry, Park City, but this is “a more democratic and authentic representation of audiences.” – Washington Post
  
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• Where Theatre’s Pause Is Particularly Agonizing

  17-01-2022 15:30 via baltimoresun.com
  “The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory prides itself (in non-pandemic times) on mounting plays where its actors speak in original pronunciation,” and a cabinet-maker who recreated an entire Renaissance England theatre space there mastered it, only to see everything shuttered for the pandemic. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Music Catalogs Are Fetching Massive Prices For The Creators

  17-01-2022 15:00 via latimes.com
  
  But are those dollar values in any way justified? One trade publication said more than $5 billion “changed hands through music rights acquisitions last year, including publishing assets and recordings, with more to come in 2022.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Lynn Nottage Is About To Have Three Shows Up At One Time

  17-01-2022 14:45 via npr.org
  Playwright Nottage: “I will tell you, in all honesty, I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep,” but that’s OK. “The dream is to really be busy doing the thing that you love, deeply immersed in making art.” – NPR
  
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• Cold comfort: film, music, art and more to combat the winter blues

  17-01-2022 11:00
  
  From charmingly meta sci-fi comedy to tales of soaring through the skies, our critics select cultural works to warm your cockles Continue reading...
  
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• Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art

  17-01-2022 09:00
  
  It was an unlikely choice for BBC Two to schedule against Match of the Day. But Berger’s series and book now forms the bedrock of how we interpret art and advertisingOn 2 January 1972, the Sunday Times ran a short preview for a new documentary. “If you are in the least interested in art,” it began, “have your set tuned and be ready to have your eyes opened by John Berger in the first of a stunning new series.” Ways of Seeing was broadcast on BBC Two at the unpromisi
  
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• Fate of Nazi-looted Pissarro to be decided by US supreme court

  17-01-2022 06:00
  
  The legal battle over the painting, in the hands of a Madrid museum, has spanned more than 15 yearsDepicting a rainswept Paris street, the Nazi-looted painting has long hung on the walls of one of Madrid’s top art museums. Its fate is now in the hands of the highest court in the US, in a case that has long pitted the Spanish institution against the heirs of Jewish refugees.At the centre of the US supreme court hearing, set to begin on Tuesday, is an 1897 painting by impressionist Camille P
  
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