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• Could Will Smith Lose His Oscar?

  08-04-2022 23:28 via cbc.ca
  
  Hollywood-watchers say the academy is walking a tightrope: how can it take a stand now after failing to act against other members’ misconduct for decades? – CBC
  
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• Ed Sheeran Wins Song Plagiarism Fight

  08-04-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  In a video on social media, he said there was now a culture “where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there’s no basis for the claim”. – BBC
  
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• UN Climate Report Slams Contemporary Architecture

  08-04-2022 22:31 via fastcompany.com
  
  Policies that favor wasteful new construction, and do little to encourage environmentally minded retrofits, have hindered the building industry’s ability to curb its footprint. – Fast Company
  
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• LA’s Comedy Store Turns 50

  08-04-2022 22:01 via variety.com
  
  The late co-founder and longtime owner Mitzi Shore always envisioned the historic institution on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard as an “artists colony,” a protected enclave where young talent could grow without worrying about money, consequently she mostly didn’t either. – Variety
  
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• No easy answers in search for truth about prized art collection and its benefactor’s past | Paul Daley

  08-04-2022 22:00
  
  Spectre of potential Nazi links with Wollongong gallery’s bequest raises questions about whether we can ever accept capacity of people to be brutal and do goodSteel city Wollongong, and its art gallery boasting one of regional Australia’s most prized collections, is wedged in the middle of an unenviable moral quandary over the apparent Nazi past of its prime benefactor.Can the beautiful art works Bronius “Bob’’ Sredersas gave the city be distinguished from his invol
  
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• Entertainment Glut: Streaming Platforms Offer 100s Of Thousands Of Shows

  08-04-2022 21:29 via variety.com
  
  As of February 2022, there were more than 817,000 unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services in the U.S., with many of those titles featuring hundreds of individual episodes or chapters. Variety
  
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• English National Opera’s New Director Meets A Challenging Job With A Challenging Opera

  08-04-2022 21:03 via nytimes.com
  
  On top of COVID troubles, whoever runs ENO faces the perennial problems of precarious state funding and being the underdog company in London. Annilese Miskimmon is greeting these issues, and hoping to pull in new viewers, with Poul Ruders’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Discordant’: unauthorised chapel revamp lands Spanish artist in trouble

  08-04-2022 18:32
  
  Jesús Cees could be fined for Sant Cristòfol murals, with situation likened to ‘Monkey Christ’ furoreFor more than six centuries, the austere interior of the chapel of Sant Cristòfol has greeted weary hikers as they make their way through the mountains near Spain’s Costa Blanca.That was, at least, until “intense” inspiration struck Jesús Cees, who decided to transform the white walls of the remote chapel with a riot of vivid murals that t
  
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• ‘Ask for forgiveness later’: Artist controversially paints Spanish chapel

  08-04-2022 18:32
  
  Jesús Cees could be fined for his Sant Cristòfol murals, which were likened to the botched ‘Monkey Christ’ restorationFor more than six centuries, the austere interior of the chapel of Sant Cristòfol has greeted weary hikers as they make their way through the mountains near Spain’s Costa Blanca.That was, at least, until “intense” inspiration struck Jesús Cees, who decided to transform the white walls of the remote chapel with a riot of vi
  
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• ‘A completely different language’: how Ukrainian writers and artists are responding to the war

  08-04-2022 15:28
  
  Across the arts, creators are producing poignant, direct work at speed at the front line of Russia’s war of aggression‘Kyiv is being bombed,” the message began, “and I’m not sure I’ll get another chance to do this. So here is the majority of my 2010-19 music that you may have never heard.” And then it ended with the words: “Death to Putin.” I read this on Bandcamp, on 25 February, the day after Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. It was writte
  
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• Lost portrait of black actor and rights campaigner Paul Robeson to go on show

  08-04-2022 15:00
  
  Glyn Philpot’s 1930 painting of actor playing Othello at Savoy one of several portrayals of people of colour in Chichester exhibitionA portrait of the actor, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson painted in 1930 by the British artist Glyn Philpot has been rediscovered through painstaking research, after it was sold nearly 80 years ago under the title Head of a Negro.The painting, one of a number of Philpot’s portrayals of people of colour, will go on public display in Chiches
  
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• A once-in-a-lifetime look at Raphael plus Japanese creativity at Buckingham Palace – the week in art

  08-04-2022 14:03
  
  A Raphael exhibition to convince sceptics, NY minimalist Rosemarie Castoro, spectacular colour from Sheila Hicks and Japanese art with a royal flavour – all in your weekly dispatchRaphael
  This is a once in a lifetime exhibition. It reassembles the legacy of a Renaissance genius who lived fast and died young – from grand frescoes and tapestries to delicate drawings and intimate portraits of lovers. By the end Raphael is laid bare: his personality hovers in the gallery. Even if you don
  
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• Visual Noise: Rankin’s photography fair spotlights new talent – in pictures

  08-04-2022 08:00
  
  The photographer Rankin’s new photography fair, Visual Noise, celebrates the talent of graduates whose final shows were disrupted by Covid. It takes place at Maryland Studio in east London on 9-10 April. Tickets are available from the studio’s website. All profits go to @legacyofwarfoundation Continue reading...
  
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• When Crosswords Became A Craze (100 Years Ago)

  08-04-2022 00:01 via zocalopublicsquare.org
  
  The modern “word-cross” appeared for the first time in print in the December 21, 1913 edition of New York World’s FUN Supplement. Section editor Arthur Wynne, trying to fill the Christmas insert, drew inspiration from his native England. – Zocalo Public Square
  
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