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• Please Stop Calling The Artisan Oscars The ‘Tech’ Awards

  06-03-2022 22:30 via variety.com
  
  And, as a matter of fact, if the Academy can’t fully respect them, get them their own show. Yes, their own awards show – focused on craft skill. – Variety
  
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• NBCUniversal Is Clawing Back Its Content From Hulu

  06-03-2022 22:00 via latimes.com
  
  Streaming is starting to sort itself out. “The nixing of the content deal comes as Comcast tries to grow its own streaming service, Peacock. … Peacock has 9 million paying subscribers and 24.5 million monthly active accounts, Comcast said in January. Hulu has 45.3 million subscribers.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Writing A Novel Is Like Creating A Good Mixtape

  06-03-2022 21:30 via lithub.com
  
  This metaphor might not work for younger writers, but: “I was suddenly free of the ‘logical order’ I had thought was so important. … It was fun. It was hard. It was like making a mixtape for the crush I had on all of my characters at once.” – LitHub
  
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• Watch What You Share

  06-03-2022 20:30 via vice.com
  
  Time to pull up and reconsider that lightning-fast reshare impulse: Did the Kremlin make the image you’re about to share? (In one prominent case just as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, it sure did.) – Vice
  
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• Leonard Cohen’s Entire Catalogue Has Been Sold To Hipgnosis

  06-03-2022 20:00 via variety.com
  
  The Hipgnosis Songs Fund long game continues. (As Pitchfork points out, “The firm has acquired several major publishing catalogs from legacy artists, including Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Jimmy Iovine, and Neil Young.”)  – Variety
  
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• The Best Independent Music Platform Has Just Blown Up Its Independence

  06-03-2022 19:30 via slate.com
  
  Bandcamp was the one streamer that every fan of music trusted to take care of its artists. When people started leaving Spotify over Joe Rogan, Bandcamp was recommendation for more ethical streaming. Now? Skepticism reigns. – Slate
  
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• Why Would A Fashion Giant Need To Steal Artists’ Ideas And Work?

  06-03-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An intellectual property lawyer explains: “The fundamental issue, I think, is that fashion companies are under pressure to produce large volumes of new and fashionable goods, so their designers often go for the quick fix.” And artists can rarely afford to pursue legal action. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• In Oscar Contender Drive My Car, The Actors Meet And Transcend The Limits Of Language

  06-03-2022 18:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  The main character is “directing a multilingual production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with a cast composed of actors who speak English, Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and Korean Sign Language.” The actors’ – and the audience’s – task is to trust the rhythm and emotional response. – The Atlantic
  
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• Elena Ferrante In Conversation With Elizabeth Strout

  06-03-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ferrante: “I don’t like artists who imagine themselves shamans, and I would prefer that we definitively stop making the alphabet sacred, that we complete the secularisation of literature, that we stop feeling we’re just below the gods and directly inspired by them.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Hollywood Is So Obsessed With Terrible Entrepreneurs Right Now

  06-03-2022 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Why? Series like Inventing Anna and The Dropout “create a shared universe in which scamming and entrepreneurship meet in a chaotic portrait of American decline.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Art Palace Of Lviv Has Turned Into Headquarters For Aid Arriving From Western Europe

  06-03-2022 17:00 via france24.com
  
  “Aid HQ — a palatial faux Art Nouveau exhibition and cultural centre — runs like clockwork. Basement: medicines. Ground floor: food and a stand where displaced people can register their needs. First floor concert hall: children’s clothes and toys. Second floor: supplies for newborn babies.” – France 24
  
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• Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65 review – a magnificent history lesson

  06-03-2022 14:00
  
  Barbican Art Gallery, LondonBomb sites, barbed wire, figures on the verge of collapse… this exceptional show of art made in the aftermath of war speaks directly to present horrorsIt would be hard to imagine a more devastating coincidence of art and life than the opening of Postwar Modern in the same week that Ukrainian citizens are murdered by Russian troops. There is no image in the first half of this exceptional exhibition that does not to speak directly from the past into our present.H
  
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• Ten years of my art was lost in a fire I accidentally started – but I made better work from the ashes

  06-03-2022 12:00
  
  A devastating fire in my studio forced me to approach painting and life in a new wayTwo weeks before the first lockdown I was in my studio putting the finishing touches to my most ambitious body of paintings to date. The studio was packed with hundreds of works of art. For the past four years I had been working with the Syrian writer Professor Ali Souleman and the documentary filmmaker Mark Jones. Ali lost his sight in a bomb blast in Syria in 1997 and we had been attempting to translate his exp
  
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• Feud over ‘antisemitic’ Wailing Wall painting closes Israel museum

  06-03-2022 08:00
  
  Exhibited artists cover up their work in protest after piece portraying ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is removedFour overlapping black and white rectangles make up Israeli artist David Reeb’s painting Jerusalem. On two, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is portrayed praying at the Western Wall – known also as the Wailing Wall – from two different angles, his hands pressed against the stone. Opposite the images, thick brushstrokes spell out phrases in Hebrew: “Jerusalem of gold&rdq
  
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