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• Oscars Live Updates, The Vanity Fair Edition

  27-03-2022 22:30 via vanityfair.com
  
  This one will be heavy on the red carpet and after-party updates; we’ll add other live update news sites here once the show gets closer. – Vanity Fair
  
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• It’s Hard To Make A Living As A Theatre Artist

  27-03-2022 22:00 via latimes.com
  
  The group Artists Who Code is trying to help artists (and not just theatre artists) make a transition to the world of actual renumeration for skills – that is, technology. This might sound depressing, but the pandemic meant the group grew quickly. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Charles Dickens Museum Got Shadowbanned On TikTok

  27-03-2022 21:00 via lithub.com
  
  It took a full-blown Twitter campaign to get the author’s name, and the museum’s name, and all of the museum’s content, unbanned. You probably know what the problem was. – LitHub
  
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• Is Streaming Going To Win Best Picture At Last?

  27-03-2022 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Three years ago, Hollywood was engaged in a knock-down, drag-out fight over the future of cinema — what, exactly, constitutes a film — with the Oscars as the boxing ring.” Then, well, you know what happened next. – The New York Times
  
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• Darcy’s White Shirt Is Going On Exhibit In Jane Austen’s House

  27-03-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Yes, Austen lovers, that shirt. “Jane Austen Undressed focuses largely on the undergarments that Austen heroines would have worn under their Regency dresses, but one of the main draws is bound to be the Firth shirt.” Um, indeed. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Happens When Kids (And Some Adults) Learn History Through Video Games?

  27-03-2022 19:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Teachers may not even notice that the student asking why the Ottomans didn’t colonize America or what happened to Burgundy may have a view of history that was molded by Paradox games.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Resurrection Of Andy Warhol

  27-03-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Not that his influence ever went away, “but if Warhol seems particularly ubiquitous right now, that’s because he is — onscreen, onstage, in museums and in the streets.” (The article doesn’t even mention Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground documentary, with prominent Warhol moments.) – The New York Times
  
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• The 10 strangest artefacts in Australian museums – sorted

  27-03-2022 18:30
  
  From a hangman’s journal to ‘The Poo Machine’, here are some weird, unnerving and oddly touching objects in museums around the countryGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastA few months after the pandemic was declared and the cultural life of our cities came to a halt, museum curators around the world started posting their collections on social media in a #curatorbattle started by the Yorkshire Museum. The weekly challenges unearthed #sassiestobjec
  
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• Fine, Let’s Rank All Of The Full-Length And Short Movies Nominated For Oscars

  27-03-2022 18:30 via vulture.com
  
  Yup: “There are actually 53 movies nominated across all 23 Oscar categories this year, ranging in quality from great to terrible.” – Vulture
  
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• Oh No, It’s The Oscars, And Evening Gowns Are In Trouble Because Of Supply Chain Issues

  27-03-2022 18:00 via fastcompany.com
  
  Gowns are out of stock everywhere. “It really has almost been like a roaring twenties situation,” one store buyer said. – Fast Company
  
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• The New Novel For A Time Of New War, A Century Ago

  27-03-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Ali Smith: Take note of what happened when Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf’s friendship addressed war – it changed everything for Woolf, her novel Jacob’s Room, and her future. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Two Men Are Now Helming Madison Ballet

  27-03-2022 17:00 via madison365.com
  
  Ja’Malik, the company’s new AD: “A lot of people think [ballet] is a very elitist art form. It’s only for a certain demographic, a certain sociological background, economic background. … I just want to help demystify that.”- Madison 365
  
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• Why 200 Workers At The American Museum Of Natural History Are Voting On Unionization

  27-03-2022 16:30 via vice.com
  
  What the guest services workers say: It’s the verbal abuse from guests, massive understaffing, and, generally speaking, a lot of stress. – Vice
  
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• Addicted Artists Don’t Seem So Glamorous Anymore

  27-03-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “So many artists have lived hard lives and had awful deaths that for years we seemed to expect this of them — that addiction and an early grave were a kind of tax levied on artists, most especially writers.” – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood May Finally Be Paying Attention To Its Own Deaf Community

  27-03-2022 15:30 via thesmartset.com
  
  “This past year, there are deaf characters and deaf representation all over the place. A list that includes: Hawkeye, Eternals, A Quiet Place Part II, CODA, and Only Murders in the Building. Deaf creatives are out in full force.” – The Smart Set
  
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• Amsterdam Publisher Halts Publication Of Book About Anne Frank’s Betrayer

  27-03-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A report by Dutch historians refuted The Betrayal of Anne Frank. “The book had claimed to identify the informant who alerted Nazi police to the Frank family’s hiding place, but the report’s authors said the conclusions were based on ‘faulty assumptions’ and ‘careless use of sources.'” – The New York Times
  
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• Literature In Odesa Amid The Air Raid Sirens

  27-03-2022 14:30 via theparisreview.org
  
  “When I ask [legendary Odesa journalist Yevgeny Golubovsky how I can help, he replies, ‘Ah, I need nothing, and when I ask again what I can do, he sends a quick message back: ‘Putins come and go. We are putting together a literary magazine. Send us poems.'” – The Paris Review
  
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• If Some Topics In ‘Turning Red’ Shocked Parents, That’s Not The Movie’s Fault

  27-03-2022 14:00 via usatoday.com
  
  That is to say, if you haven’t talked about periods with your kids, you’re gonna blame Pixar for that?– USA Today
  
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• Hew Locke: The Procession review – human history in all its variety

  27-03-2022 14:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  The artist’s longtime fixations of politics, race and history are present in subtle, complex ways in this array of more than 100 figuresThey come surging towards you, wave upon wave, banners flying, drums rolling, a teeming pageant of men, women and children crowding through the grand marble canyons at the heart of Tate Britain. Soldiers, refugees and fishers, mechanics in overalls and dandies in dinner jackets, a green man crowned with chilli peppers, another dressed
  
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• Over Some Opposition, Laurie Cumbo Is Named NY’s New Director Of Cultural Affairs

  27-03-2022 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Cumbo “takes the helm of the Cultural Affairs department at a delicate moment — with the arts sector still struggling to emerge from the pandemic and her predecessor at the department warning that the agency is in trouble.” What kind of a leader will she be? – The New York Times
  
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• Who Is Best Movie Nominee CODA Really For?

  27-03-2022 13:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  Let’s talk about the film’s use of music. “Though music is not intrinsically antithetical to deafness—deaf musicians are not unusual … — CODA largely treats music as an exclusionary club for hearing people.” – The Atlantic
  
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