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• Two Cast Members Of Netflix’s The Chosen Ones Die In A Crash Near Their Set

  19-06-2022 20:30 via latimes.com
  
  Two actors were killed when their van flipped off the highway, and six other actors and crew members were injured. “One person said that actors on the set had complained about transportation issues, including tired drivers.”– Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Reality Of AI Is Stranger And Far More Interesting Than That Viral Google Story

  19-06-2022 20:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  Part of the issue is language. “On the one hand, PaLM and other large language models are capable of understanding in the sense that if you tell them something, its meaning registers. On the other hand, this is nothing at all like human understanding.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Ukraine, Under Attack, Will Not Be Allowed To Host Next Year’s EuroVision

  19-06-2022 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Though the Ukrainian entry won the 2022 version of the competition, the war makes Ukraine as a host impossible, according to the European Broadcast Corporation – which is now looking to Britain, home of this year’s runner-up. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Were Van Gogh’s Empty Chair Paintings Never Shown Together?

  19-06-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Blame Gauguin – often a good answer for Van Gogh mysteries, of course. And in this case, Gauguin plus Theo Van Gogh’s widow. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The TikTokification Of Food Media

  19-06-2022 18:30 via variety.com
  
  Chefs love the food focus, but also aren’t real happy with some issues. Alton Brown: 15-second clips on TikTok “trivialize cooking in a way that I find potentially harmful because we’re going to have a whole generation who think that cooking is just putting nuts in ice cream.” – Variety
  
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• A National Juneteenth Museum Is Planned For Fort Worth, Texas

  19-06-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “In 2016, at 89, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to help get Juneteenth made a federal holiday, which it finally was in 2021.” Now Lee’s Juneteenth collection, and her vision, have spurred the creation of a new museum. – The New York Times
  
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• Letter: Dame Paula Rego obituary

  19-06-2022 17:40
  
  Paula Rego was charming and modest, and liked to make naughty jokes. At her private views she would remark sotto voce about the sexual implications of the painting or print in front of us.On one occasion she showed me and my wife around her studio, which was a bit like a theatre workshop, with racks of costumes and the weird array of stuffed animals, dolls and grotesque humans. Her current painting was on its easel, with the stage set of her creatures placed out in front. In her studio the impre
  
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• The Artist Making Meticulously Detailed Carvings Of Melbourne Is Blind

  19-06-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Joe Monteleone was also born Deaf. During COVID lockdowns, he recreated Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station and “estimates he spent between 30 to 70 hours on each of the 12 squares, more than 800 hours in total. The station’s famous clock took four hours alone.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Crypto – And NFT – Crime Wave Is Here

  19-06-2022 17:00 via latimes.com
  
  “Financial losses specifically from NFT crimes just through May this year were already more than 600% higher than for all of 2021, with the space seeing twice as many hacks and bigger and bigger heists. … For many victims, there’s little hope of getting their lost art back.”– Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Man Who Gave Us The De Facto History Of Recorded Music Has Died At 82

  19-06-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Joel Whitburn, who published nearly 300 books, “was a music lover whose personal collection — meticulously curated in his basement and, later, in a vault — totals more than 200,000 records, including every single ever to make a Billboard chart.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Brand Is Dead

  19-06-2022 16:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  That is, the personal brand. Thanks, internet culture. “We’ve arrived at a new era of anonymity, in which it feels natural to be inscrutable and confusing—forget the burden of crafting a coherent, persistent personal brand. There just isn’t any good reason to use your real name.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Architecture Students Deserve So Much More Than A Toxic Culture Of Overwork

  19-06-2022 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “For years, both [the teaching and practice of architecture] have been susceptible to a hero complex where the cause of great architecture is so exalted that almost no sacrifice is too much to be made in its name.” It’s simply got to end. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste

  19-06-2022 15:00
  
  Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects’ rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendourThe Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, tucked into a corner of Trafalgar Square, which opened in 1991, is a building like no other. The galleries on its upper level, containing works by Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca and other masters of the Italian renaissance, achieve a widely admired combination o
  
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• Emmys Changes Force Filmmakers To Choose Between TV And Cinema

  19-06-2022 15:00 via variety.com
  
  “For a long time, the Television Academy included a loophole in which Oscar doc contenders could turn around and try again for sloppy seconds at the Emmys — even though the Motion Picture Academy didn’t allow Emmy titles to do the same.” That option is now gone. – Variety
  
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• The Limits Of The Advice To Write 500 Words A Day

  19-06-2022 14:30 via slate.com
  
  Graham Greene’s advice might have been rather … specific. “Greene could have kids and write 500 words first thing every day because he had money, because of the gender norms at his time, and because he abandoned his family in 1947.” – Slate
  
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• Who’s Making And Selling Racist Coins On Ebay?

  19-06-2022 14:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Like the one that celebrates the U.S. Border Patrol’s whipping, from horseback, of Haitian refugees? “Unofficial coins … are funded independently and reflect a more clandestine tradition among agents to valorize their jobs. CBP agents allegedly promote them in a secret Facebook group.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Who’s Responsible For The Death Threats To The Critics Of A Book?

  19-06-2022 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  British publishing surely does not know, or want to deal with it. “You’re not being cancelled, you’re being challenged. You’re not used to being challenged, and, now you are, you don’t know what to do about it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The COVID Outbreak On The Show Expats

  19-06-2022 13:00 via latimes.com
  
  What happened after the outbreak, including a shutdown by Hollywood unions on the Amazon Studios set, “highlights the delicate balancing act facing Hollywood as the industry continues to deal with the fallout from the pandemic. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Elspeth Weir obituary

  19-06-2022 12:51
  
  My friend Elspeth Weir, who has died aged 82, was a painter and a highly creative person who exercised a lasting influence over many of her friends.She was born in London to Scots parents, Jean (nee Fairlie), a housewife, and William Weir, a GP and former surgeon in the Royal Navy), and was educated at the independent Channing school for girls in Highgate. She then received a national diploma in design in fine art at the Hornsey School of Art. Continue reading...
  
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• The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2022 – enter now!

  19-06-2022 09:00
  
  The annual award for aspiring cartoonists offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners going on to land film and book dealsCalling all aspiring cartoonists and graphic novelists: entries are once again open for our graphic short story prize which, in its 15th year, has a brilliant new partner in the form of the publisher Faber, and particularly stellar guest judges in the form of the acclaimed actor and comics fan Michael Sheen (The Queen, Good Omens,
  
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• Story of doomed war artist Eric Ravilious told in new film

  19-06-2022 09:00
  
  The official combat painter died in 1942 when his plane went down. Now his inspiring life story is the subject of a major documentaryThe letter was dated 30 August 1942 and posted from Iceland. Eric Ravilious, one of the official war artists, wrote to his wife, Tirzah (“Tush”), of “an unbelievable lunch of caviar, paté and cheese”. He then described the island’s lunar-like craters before ending: “Would you like a pair of gloves, sealskin with fur on the
  
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