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• LA’s New Academy Movie Museum Will Rethink How It Portrays Industry Founders

  21-03-2022 23:02 via latimes.com
  
  The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people began asking how, in a museum devoted to a diverse and varied examination of filmmaking, the people who created the industry were largely, and alarmingly, absent. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Report: Hungarian Government Is Suppressing Artists

  21-03-2022 22:15 via npr.org
  The report’s authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists that has resulted in self-censorship. – NPR
  
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• Scientists Watch A Memory Being Formed In A Living Brain

  21-03-2022 21:32 via wired.com
  
  From earlier work, they had expected the brain to encode the memory by slightly tweaking its neural architecture. Instead, the researchers were surprised to find a major overhaul in the connections. – Wired
  
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• Lab In Virginia Working To Save Ukraine Treasures

  21-03-2022 20:44 via washingtonpost.com
  Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling imagery of Ukraine’s cultural sites to help track attacks on them. – Washington Post
  
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• The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good Pictures?

  21-03-2022 20:01 via newyorker.com
  
  A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a landscape shot. “Its complex, interwoven set of ‘smart’ software components don’t fit together quite right,” the report stated. – The New Yorker
  
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• The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine

  21-03-2022 19:13 via theconversation.com
  
  Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. – The Conversation
  
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• Researchers Are Using AI To Understand Animal Language

  21-03-2022 18:31 via tinyurl.com
  
  Researchers are using AI to parse the “speech” of animals, enabling scientists to create systems that, for example, detect and monitor whale songs to alert nearby ships so they can avoid collisions. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• ‘A roaring carnival of humanity’ – Hew Locke: The Procession review

  21-03-2022 18:24
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Ambitious, accomplished and fascinating, this incredible piece features 150 figures in masks and hand-sewn costumes journeying through Tate BritainThe crowd keeps coming, the full length of the Duveen Galleries in Tate Britain. Many on foot, some on horseback, some carried, one in a wheelchair. Men and women and children, little drummers, people in Dogon masks and mantillas, others wearing ferocious animal heads or looking like the Creature from the Black Lagoon. There are d
  
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• The Oscars And Baseball: “Fixing” Them Is Making Them Worse

  21-03-2022 17:44 via washingtonpost.com
  Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen. But it may be that viewers are tuning out because the shows have gotten worse. – Washington Post
  
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• ‘I lived with the sound of bullets’ – the hallucinatory paintings of Iraqi exile Mohammed Sami

  21-03-2022 17:07
  
  As a schoolboy, he painted propaganda murals for Saddam Hussein’s regime. Now, as the rising star prepares for his first solo UK show, he reveals what triggers his powerful workMohammed Sami can never anticipate what the subject of his next painting will be.“The things I articulate in my artwork are memories hidden in the brain cells that are waiting for a trigger,” the Iraqi-born artist says in his London studio, which is lined with large-scale paintings. “So whenever th
  
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• Universal Music Buys An Ape NFT To Lead NFT Music Group

  21-03-2022 17:03 via reuters.com
  
  On Friday, Universal’s 10:22PM label said it paid $360,817 to purchase Bored Ape #5537 – a female character now known as Manager Noët All, to lead the group it founded in November called Kingship. – Reuters
  
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• Rare Marvel Comic Sells For $2.4 Million

  21-03-2022 16:26 via nytimes.com
  
  The book, Marvel Comics No. 1, published in 1939, is so valuable because it is known as the pay copy, in which the publisher recorded the payments he owed to the illustrators, said Stephen Fishler, the chief executive of ComicConnect, an online comic auction house. – The New York Times
  
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• TV Ratings Giant Nielsen Rejects Private Equity Takeover Bid

  21-03-2022 16:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Nielsen ratings were the gold standard for decades, but “the rise of streaming and mobile video has challenged the company, with its clients calling it out for its slow response to streaming.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Demanding Cultural Literacy Isn’t An Inherently Conservative Position

  21-03-2022 15:30 via insidehighered.com
  
  “I wholeheartedly agree with something that the great historical sociologist Orlando Patterson said in a summer teacher seminar:  If you want to critique western culture, you must own the culture and know it from the inside.” – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Hew Locke’s Procession brings colour and conflict to Tate Britain

  21-03-2022 15:11
  
  New work evokes ideas of pilgrimage, migration, trade, carnival, protest and social celebrationsTravelling from one end of Tate Britain to the other, bright, multicoloured figures are on parade as part of a major new public installation that addresses urgent contemporary issues including the climate emergency, Black Lives Matter and the invasion of Ukraine.Unveiled on Monday, The Procession by Hew Locke is made up of 150 life-sized figures staging a powerful and unsettling procession. Continue r
  
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• Why CODA Should Indeed Win The Best Picture Oscar

  21-03-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “There is some sniffiness out there towards Coda as best picture material: the feeling that it’s too blatant a crowdpleaser, machine tooled to leave viewers with a warm, squishy feeling. II hits familiar beats. But Coda is a landmark in deaf culture and representation.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Fans Forced A Finish To A Canceled Adaptation Of An Incomplete Jane Austen

  21-03-2022 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The show was canceled in Britain, where the fan movement started – “a fan group called the Sanditon Sisterhood, which began a mass Twitter campaign.” Then the Americans got involved. – The New York Times
  
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• Broadway Fans Now Have Their Own Pop-Up Store

  21-03-2022 14:30 via npr.org
  It is, of course, located in New York – in a corridor of the Columbus Circle subway station. It’s “physical arm of the Broadway Makers Alliance – a confederation of 65 craftspeople, both theater professionals and super fans, who create Broadway-themed work.” – NPR
  
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• Where To Turn When You’re A Breakout Movie Star Who Doesn’t Have A Ticket To The Oscars

  21-03-2022 14:15 via variety.com
  
  TikTok, of course. (But honestly, how the heck did this happen?) – Variety
  
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• The Last Time Campion And Spielberg Went Head To Head

  21-03-2022 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  That would be 1994, when The Piano and Schindler’s List were up against each other for various things, and the directors were neck and neck for months. – The New York Times
  
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• The Joys Of Singing In Harmony With Others

  21-03-2022 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  “The voice is the oldest musical instrument of all – and the most complicated. At root it is just an exhaled breath, the noise made when the air rising up from the lungs vibrates against the glottis.”The noise paused by COVID, and perhaps, cautiously, resuming. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Now The Movie Editors Group Is Calling For The Oscar To Reinstate Live Awards

  21-03-2022 13:30 via variety.com
  
  The letter reads, “Treating certain categories differently from others has struck a nerve within our community, with the overwhelming majority of our membership feeling unheard, disrespected and abandoned by the very same Academy which so many of us have supported for decades.” – Variety
  
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• The Parents Of The Late Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Are Trapped In Ukraine

  21-03-2022 13:15 via npr.org
  The cinematographer was shot and killed as she filmed the movie Rust. Her widower “Matt Hutchins said in a tweet that his late wife’s family remains in Kyiv as attacks on the country’s capital continue in areas that had been designated as safe passages.” – NPR
  
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• Need A Film That Truly Captures The Process Of Making Theatre?

  21-03-2022 13:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Then you’re in luck with Oscar nominee Drive My Car. The three-hour Japanese film is “an impeccably textured elucidation of a group of strangers joining up to animate the written word, and of the ways a great play remains eternally relevant.” – Washington Post
  
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• Why Are Publishers Fighting Libraries So Very Hard On E-Books?

  21-03-2022 12:45 via readsludge.com
  
  Maybe because people love them so much. No, seriously, what’s up with all of the lobbying against state legislatures trying togive libraries what they need? Follow the (large amounts of) money. – Sludge
  
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• The Myths Of Black Artists And Landscapes

  21-03-2022 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ingrid Pollard, a British photographer known for her portraits and landscapes, says, “Everything about [the British landscape] is fabricated for industrial rural use. The barbed wire, the telegraph pole, the tarmac. Stereotypes about Black people are constructed in exactly the same way.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Cui Jie: ‘This kind of communal life is long gone, and memories of it are fading away’

  21-03-2022 10:00
  
  In her new exhibition in Southend, the Chinese artist explores abandoned visions of modernist living in 1920s Essex and 1950s ShanghaiIn the late 1920s and early 1930s, two sleepy corners of Essex woke up to the modern world. Czech footwear giant Tomáš Baťa’s model town rose from nothing in the East Tilbury marshes: a workers’ community with everything a short walk from the front doors of its flat-roofed houses, from the shoe factory to the football pitch, the ball
  
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• Berlin Krautrock exhibition celebrates groundbreaking genre

  21-03-2022 06:30
  
  Posters of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Can span movement’s roots in the counterculture scene of 1968A motley train of shaggy-haired musicians is gliding into the future on a hastily sketched highway, brandishing bongos, vegetables and flaming guitars.The poster for a 1971 gig by German-English-Swiss trio Brainticket, on display at Berlin’s small Bröhan Museum until 24 April, visually sums up the essence of a German musical movement so forward-looking at its height, its country of origin
  
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• Norway’s £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait

  21-03-2022 06:15
  
  Mega-museum’s director apologises for delays that have kept Munch’s The Scream out of public viewFrom its “grey box-like” appearance and eye-popping price tag to protracted construction delays, Norway’s new National Museum has kept the critics busy.Located on Oslo’s western waterfront, the £500m museum will be the biggest in the Nordic region when it opens on 11 June. Yet its director, Karin Hindsbo, has felt sufficiently contrite to apologise for extens
  
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