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• Amazon CEO Teases Big Things Ahead For Amazon Video

  15-04-2022 23:32 via deadline.com
  
  “We have more invention in front of us in the next 15 years than the last 15 — and our team is passionately committed to providing customers with the most expansive collection of compelling content anywhere in the world.” – Deadline
  
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• How The Restitution Of Africa’s Art Stalled

  15-04-2022 23:02 via newyorker.com
  
  More than half a million such objects—by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa—are held in Europe, where they have long seemed destined to remain. – The New Yorker
  
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• Digital Avatars – The Future Of Music Tours?

  15-04-2022 22:29 via theconversation.com
  
  May 2022 sees the latest technological advances in musical immortality when Abba return to the live stage after a 40-year absence. But this time they return as humanoids – the digital hologram “twins” of the original global phenomenon. – The Conversation
  
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• On Being An Art Critic In A Weird Time For Journalism

  15-04-2022 22:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  There doesn’t seem to be a widespread, clear understanding of the distinction between journalism and criticism in the New York art scene. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Somehow, We Decided There’s No Truth. But We Need To Return To The Idea

  15-04-2022 21:32 via aeon.co
  
  If truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922. – Aeon
  
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• The Murderous Bunny Rabbits Of Medieval European Manuscripts

  15-04-2022 20:58 via mentalfloss.com
  
  “Far from being sweet and adorable, rabbits in the margins and illuminated letters of these texts … are frequently shown wielding swords, axes, and bows and arrows as they fight against — and sometimes kill — those who often hunted them.” – Mental Floss
  
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• The International Dance Community Has Mobilized To Help Ukraine

  15-04-2022 20:34 via washingtonpost.com
  The war in Ukraine has hit the tightknit ballet world hard, and dancers have responded with an unprecedented storm of activism. – Washington Post
  
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• Independent Media Under The Taliban: Things Aren’t As Grim As You Might Think

  15-04-2022 20:03 via bloombergquint.com
  
  Saad Mohseni, founder and CEO of Afghanistan’s first independent radio and TV networks: “On one side, we’re dealing with a culture ministry that’s constructive and realistic, and on the other, an intelligence agency and a ministry of vice and virtue that are not.” – Bloomberg Quint
  
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• How The Internet Is Recording Ukrainian History

  15-04-2022 19:32 via washingtonpost.com
  Archivists and librarians around the world have been working to catalogue thousands of websites that hold pieces of Ukraine’s past and present, ranging from policy papers and census data stores to poetry museums to a Soviet-era club that teaches children how to operate railways. – Washington Post
  
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• Brooklyn Public Library Fights Back Against The Wave Of School Book Bannings

  15-04-2022 19:01 via bookriot.com
  
  Under a program called Books UnBanned, anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 may request a free eCard from the BPL, gaining access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks and audiobooks. The library has even selected a list of the most banned books to make readily available. – Book Riot
  
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• How LA Shaped Amanda Gorman As A Writer

  15-04-2022 18:31 via latimes.com
  
  “The first event I went to was at the [former] L.A. Times headquarters. I was so blown away. They had journalists there, and honestly, it was like Writers Disneyland. And the Festival of Books? I went for the first time when I was 8 … and it was like one of the best days.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• “We’re Going Back To The Cold War”: Russian Ballet Is Getting Cut Off From The World

  15-04-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended ballet, as prominent artists shun Russia’s storied dance companies; theaters in the West cancel performances by the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky; and dance in Russia, which had opened up to the world …, seems to be turning inward again.” – The New York Times
  
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• Los Angeles’ Role In American Literature

  15-04-2022 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  Until the middle of the century, its most visible work was crafted by outsiders from the East or Europe, bewildered by what they perceived as the otherness of Southern California, its sun and light, its palm trees. That all began to shift in the 1960s with the emergence of the Watts Writers Workshop. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What Alexei Navalny’s Investigation Into Valery Gergiev’s Finances Found

  15-04-2022 17:02 via van-magazine.com
  
  This week, the Russian dissident leader’s Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project released an extensive report on the conductor’s wealth and its sources. Here’s an English-language summary of the findings — including, the report alleges, “large-scale fraudulent misappropriation of charitable funds.” – Van
  
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• Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate

  15-04-2022 16:46 via artsjournal.com
  "I've sometimes been asked why he wasn't as famous as Burroughs and Ginsberg, and the other celebrated Beat writers, and I've always said he needed a better press agent or a better strategy. Until he was taken up by San Francisco's radical gay activists, he was strictly a literary man—which was not enough to vault him to fame. His poems, fine as they were, didn't make headlines." — from the Prologue by JHAvailable from
  Clemonson Unversity Press, 2022"The most important thing to unde
  
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• 100,000 Purple Martins Vs. The Nashville Symphony

  15-04-2022 16:35 via mainstreet-nashville.com
  
  Yes, it was that many of the migratory birds taking up residence at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center the past two summers, damaging the trees on the grounds and badly soiling the building. So, before the purple martins return this year, the orchestra is removing all its trees. – Main Street Nashville
  
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• Marvin Chomsky, Who Directed Two Of The Most Important TV Miniseries In History, Dead At 92

  15-04-2022 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  His specialty was history-based television dramas such as Attica, Inside the Third Reich, Peter the Great, The Deliberate Stranger (about serial killer Ted Bundy), and the landmarks Roots and Holocaust. – The New York Times
  
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• Archaeologists Have Been Making “Extraordinary” Finds Beneath Notre-Dame In Paris

  15-04-2022 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  “We uncovered all these riches just 10-15cm under the floor slabs,” said the leader of the dig. “Suddenly we had several hundred pieces from small fragments to large blocks including sculpted hands, feet, faces, architectural decorations and plants. Some of the pieces were still coloured.” – The Guardian
  
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• Frank Langella Fired From Netflix Miniseries “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”

  15-04-2022 15:04 via deadline.com
  
  “(An) investigation was launched after the 84-year-old actor had been accused of sexual harassment, including making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set during work.” – Deadline
  
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• Roundabout Theatre’s Jill Rafson To Lead Classic Stage Company

  15-04-2022 14:32 via playbill.com
  
  Rafson becomes Producing Artistic Director of the influential Off-Broadway troupe as of June 21, succeeding John Doyle, known for his stripped-down productions of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Company, and Assassins in which the actors play instruments as well as speaking and singing. – Playbill
  
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• Indie Bookstores Used To Hate Barnes & Noble. Now They’re Rooting For It.

  15-04-2022 14:05 via nytimes.com
  
  So’s the entire publishing industry. “(The chain’s) unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested in physical stores, makes it an essential anchor in a world upended by online sales and a much larger player: Amazon.” – The New York Times
  
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• Romantic aliens, talking hills and riddling rhododendrons – the week in art

  15-04-2022 13:00
  
  Nathan Coley places neon signs in Sussex, Edinburgh goes botanical and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster gets cosmic in London – all in your weekly dispatchDominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Alienarium 5
  A futuristic installation that brings this artist’s style of image overload to bear on the pressing question: what if aliens fell in love with us?
  • Serpentine South Gallery, London, until 4 September. Continue reading...
  
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• Silvestre Revueltas, Arthur Farwell, and the “New Paradigm”

  15-04-2022 06:56 via artsjournal.com
  
  Every once in a while a review comes along that eloquently affirms the convictions inspiring a book or
  
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• Director of Legacy Giving – Houston Grand Opera

  15-04-2022 05:14 via artsjournal.com
  HOUSTON GRAND OPERA (HGO) is seeking applications from talented individuals who are interested in being responsible for the planning and implementation of all aspects of Houston Grand Opera’s legacy giving program, benefitting the Houston Grand Opera Endowment.
  The Director of Legacy Giving will serve as the key staff member on the HGO Philanthropy team for the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of planned, deferred, estate, and endowment gifts. Houston Grand Opera&
  
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• Are We Finally Done With Prestige TV?

  15-04-2022 00:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton N. Minow called it in 1961) began earning regular comparisons to great cinema and literature. – The Atlantic
  
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