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• Meet Wikipedia’s “Deaditors” Who Updated Queen Elizabeth’s Entry

  12-09-2022 23:13 via gizmodo.com
  While some on the internet were glued to Twitter or the BBC, checking for news or watching the planes en route to Balmoral Castle, one group of dedicated Wikipedia editors sprang into action updating the late queen’s page in the minutes after Buckingham Palace announced the news. – Gizmodo
  
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• 150 Years Of Technological Progress That Changed The World

  12-09-2022 22:28 via vox.com
  It really looks that we had as much technological change and progress between 1870 and today as we had between 6000 BC and 1870 AD. – Vox
  
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• What The Arts Learned About Digital Engagement

  12-09-2022 21:44 via artsjournal.com
  Digital events can reduce geographic inequalities, and lessen the costs associated with attending a festival. Digital delivery of a festival also provides something of a ‘safe space’ for those who lack the confidence to engage with arts and culture. It also allows for the use of accessibility features such as closed captioning. – RTE
  
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• Amazon Settles With Writers Guild Over Residual Payments

  12-09-2022 20:14 via seattletimes.com
  “Like Netflix, Amazon had been systematically undervaluing imputed license fees on theatrical films where it was both the producer and the distributor,” wrote WGA West leaders in a memo to members, first reported by Deadline. The guild filed its arbitration claim against Amazon in 2020. – Seattle Times
  
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• That Time Duke Ellington Made A Record With A Single Copy Just For Elizabeth II

  12-09-2022 19:31 via tedgioia.substack.com
  We created a unique album solely for the pleasure of giving it to Queen Elizabeth. With the help of Billy Strayhorn, he composed The Queen’s Suite, had one record manufactured—and sent it directly to Buckingham Palace, solely intended for Her Majesty’s ears. – Ted Gioia
  
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• A First: University Offers Degree In Chess

  12-09-2022 18:44 via theglobeandmail.com
  Webster University in St. Louis is renowned for attracting top-notch chess talent to its school, and now its School of Education is offering a minor degree focused on the game. Core courses range from chess in history to the psychology and strategy of the game. – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• How Book Battles Roiled A Texas Town And Put Librarians On The Front Lines

  12-09-2022 18:03 via nytimes.com
  Strategies on how to lodge complaints against books are traded on Facebook and shared among branch chapters of parental rights groups. One of the most influential of these groups is the Florida-based Moms for Liberty. Since January 2021, it has grown to 200 chapters with 100,000 members.  – The New York Times
  
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• Putin Stifles Artists As War Goes Badly

  12-09-2022 17:31 via thedailybeast.com
  The number of banned theater directors, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians had been growing by the day. “I look around and I cannot find anything left of my favorite free theater,” Kogut told The Daily Beast. “There is not a single acute play left in the repertoires of Moscow theaters.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• How German Playwrights And Writers Gave Us All A Sense Of Self

  12-09-2022 17:00 via theatlantic.com
  The modern idea of the self emerged “in a quiet university town called Jena, some 150 miles southwest of Berlin. It was there that, in the 1790s, a small group of rebellious playwrights, poets, and writers revolutionized the way we think of ourselves and the world.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Lawsuit That Is Threatening The Entire Internet Archive

  12-09-2022 16:30 via slate.com
  Early in the pandemic, “the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many netizens fear could weaken the archive, its finances, and its services long into the future.” – Slate
  
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• Let’s Talk About That NC-17 Rating For The Netflix Marilyn Monroe Biopic

  12-09-2022 16:00 via salon.com
  The history of the rating is, one might say, fraught. But Netflix isn’t a movie theatre; why does it have an NC-17 rating on its film? The answer: The streaming service is reaching for an Oscar. – Salon
  
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• Beauty and the Balance Sheet

  12-09-2022 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  The balance sheet may be a “beast of boredom” for many in the world of the nonprofit arts. But I propose that it’s one of the most essential and evocative lenses on our work. The balance sheet (aka, the Statement of Financial Position) sets the scene that shapes our capacity and constraint. And it describes a foundational difference between for-profit and nonprofit endeavor.
  The latest episode in the ArtsManaged video series attempts a basic overview of the balance sheet, and o
  
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• The Not So Comfortable Discussions About Sidney Poitier

  12-09-2022 15:45 via huffpost.com
  Poitier was “a man who both aspired and inspired just as much as he frustrated and disappointed. We rarely ever really talk about that last part. Sidney implores us [to] anyway.” – HuffPost
  
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• Winnie The Pooh Stars In A New Horror Movie

  12-09-2022 15:30 via npr.org
  Thanks, public domain! No, but truly, thank you for expiring, copyright. We now have everything from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to “all-time classic” 10 Things I Hate About You. – NPR
  
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• France’s Anonymous Street Artist Fills The Cracks With Colorful Mosaics

  12-09-2022 15:15 via theguardian.com
  Ememem “has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in striking geometric patterns. Some bear his signature, often in the form of an image of a trowel underscored by his name.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• YouTube’s Chaos Led To Its Massive Rise

  12-09-2022 15:00 via slate.com
  Why doesn’t its history with a content provider who had zillions of subscribers – but was a favorite of the neo-Nazis – get the same blowback as other social media? (Transcript of this podcast here.) – Slate
  
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• Talking cats, magic brooms and robot bar staff – welcome to the future of storytelling

  12-09-2022 14:51
  The Venice film festival’s sidebar Venice Immersive is dedicated to ‘extended reality’, where visitors can explore new narrative worlds. Our intrepid correspondent gets lostI’m at the Venice film festival, in a hyper-real city square, surrounded by lapping blue water and tourists who move in mysterious ways. There is a ginger cat here called Dorian who walks on his hind legs and speaks with a French accent. Dorian is showing us how to walk and turn and jump and crouch. He
  
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• Peak TV Is Making The Emmys A Lot Weirder

  12-09-2022 14:45 via seattletimes.com
  There are so, so many series out there – 500 or more, and “the crush of programming means that even worthy shows struggle for recognition.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Judging The Sometimes Violent Art Of Video Games

  12-09-2022 14:30 via wired.com
  MoMA makes a case for including games in the permanent collection – and a case that says humans respond the same way to video game art as they do to sculptures, paintings, and prints. – Wired
  
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• Why Did Instagram Ban This Livestreamed French Play?

  12-09-2022 14:15 via nytimes.com
  No one (associated with the play) knows. “In early 2021, a few months into the production’s run, Instagram started cutting off these live streams, citing ‘nudity or sexual acts.’ Then the account tied to the play disappeared from the platform’s search results.” (There was no nudity.) – The New York Times
  
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• Why So Many Book Bans? Facebook

  12-09-2022 14:00 via lithub.com
  “It’s absolutely beyond creepy—and therefore totally in keeping with Facebook’s general vibe—that adults are spending time avidly thumbing through children’s books to look for anything they might consider vaguely ‘pornographic’ (or, you know, vaguely affirming of non-white or queer identities).” – LitHub
  
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• The Flamenco Singer Who Defies Tradition To Reinvent The Music

  12-09-2022 13:45 via latimes.com
  Rosália won Latin Grammys for her album El Mal Querer – a flamenco-pop fusion that also became her thesis project at the Catalonia School of Music in Barcelona. Now she says her new flamenco fusion album is based on “the fragmented chaos of the internet.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Some Teenage Girls In Afghanistan Meet In Secret To Read The Diary Of Anne Frank

  12-09-2022 13:30 via npr.org
  One 17-year-old in the secret book club: “Anne Frank is, like, as a friend for me. … I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from war, and I am, too. And Anne Frank cannot go to school, cannot, like, go out very freely. And I have the same situation.” – NPR
  
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• What It’s Like To Chair The National Endowment For The Humanities During A Pandemic

  12-09-2022 13:15 via insidehighered.com
  Shelly Lowe, the first Native American chair of the NEH, wants to make some changes: “More small organizations that haven’t had NEH funding will be applying and will be announced as receiving grants. This will bring more attention to … untold stories of our country.”– Inside Higher Ed
  
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• Russia’s War On Wikipedia Editors Ramps Up

  12-09-2022 13:00 via niemanlab.org
  Editors have been doxxed, threatened, and arrested. “Doronina of the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees said that Russia’s state agencies could target one of those editors any day. ‘You cannot predict who is going to attack. It’s not a bear, it’s a pack of bears,’ she said.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• ‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about women painters

  12-09-2022 11:48
  Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’Georg Baselitz is talking about Tracey Emin. “She ate too much spaghetti at De Kooning’s restaurant,” says the German painter. I understand this as meaning her paintings are overly indebted to the abstract expressionist master.“But he says
  
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• ‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters

  12-09-2022 11:48
  Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’Georg Baselitz is talking about Tracey Emin. “She ate too much spaghetti at De Kooning’s restaurant,” says the German painter. I understand this as meaning her paintings are overly indebted to the abstract expressionist master.“But he says
  
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• Get bent: music, film, books and more about corruption

  12-09-2022 11:00
  From murky goings-on within Fifa to warring media scions, our critics select culture that delights in degradationWritten in response to the accusations of corruption within Fifa around the 2014 World Cup, Declan McKenna’s Brazil is multifaceted in its outlook, and all the more impressive when you consider that he was only 15 years old when he wrote it. Unravelling the “global north” snobberies that tend to assume everyone is striving for a life of upwardly mobile excess, it rem
  
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• A faith in fabric: can Farwa Moledina’s art change perceptions of Muslim women?

  12-09-2022 09:00
  Drawing on Islamic design, the Birmingham-based artist offers detailed, colourful depictions of female strength, bravery and independenceSince moving to the UK from Dubai in 2010, Birmingham-based artist Farwa Moledina has set about reclaiming the narrative around Muslim women. “I think there’s an erasure of Muslim women in contemporary art. There’s a singular narrative that you find in museum and gallery spaces. There’s never an alternative presented.”Moledina, who
  
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• Did Kurt Weill “Look Back”?

  12-09-2022 00:08 via artsjournal.com
  My favorite recording of any Kurt Weill song – as I have occasion to remark at the close
  
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