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• What ‘Atlanta’ Gave To The Cultural Landscape

  18-09-2022 22:30 via wired.com
  “Agile in its strangeness from the beginning, Atlanta never lacked for awe. It reveled in it. What gave the series its juice was its willingness to experiment while staying true to the intonations of Black storytelling.” – Wired
  
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• Korea’s Arts, Media, Music And Fashion Popularity Keep Growing

  18-09-2022 22:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s a soft power wave. “My resigned teenage self could never have imagined that one day, my non-Korean friends would be recapping the latest hit K-dramas before I’d heard of them, or that I’d be shopping for Gotchu hot sauce … in Brooklyn.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Here Are Your National Book Award Fiction Finalists, Including Eight Debuts

  18-09-2022 21:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Gayl Jones and Jamil Jan Kochai are the only established names on a list that includes two filmmakers and several books of short stories – and that leaves off some expected nominees like Yiyun Li, Lydia Millet, and Andrew Sean Greer. – Washington Post (AP)
  
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• British Comedians Based In Los Angeles Deserve A New Queen

  18-09-2022 21:00 via latimes.com
  Gina Yashere knows. “I came here thinking I’m a great comic, I’m going to earn a living immediately, just from the comedy — until I get on TV.” Instead, it’s been a hard hustle from day one. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Phantom Of The Opera Will Exit Broadway In Early 2023, Victim Of COVID-19

  18-09-2022 20:30 via playbill.com
  Phantom “was the Hamilton of its day. To put its staying power in perspective, … Into the Woods opened during the same season as Phantom. That fairytale-themed musical is currently playing its second Broadway revival and will shut its doors before Phantom ends its first run.” – Playbill
  
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• Producing Director, Huntington Theatre

  18-09-2022 20:07 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION: Producing DirectorDEPARTMENT: ArtisticFT or PT: Full-TimeCLASSIFICATION: SalariedSTATUS: ExemptREPORTS TO: Artistic DirectorPAYRANGE: 105k-120k per yearSTATEMENT OF JOB:Reporting directly to the Artistic Director, the Producing Director supervises productions starting with the casting process through their respective openings. They serve as the Line Producer for selected shows and as the artistic representative for community partnerships. They directly supervise the Associate Producer
  
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• Black Characters Make Fantasy Media Better

  18-09-2022 20:00 via npr.org
  It’s more than just dunking on people who think (white) mermaids are real. “These new visions of classic fantasy worlds and characters are simply a reflection of our new, more multicultural world. And that’s probably what most scares fans who are used to white-centered fantasy.” – NPR
  
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• Ian McEwan Says The Perfect Book Is Always Just Outside Of His Reach

  18-09-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “I’m sometimes asked about fiction I wrote 50 years ago and it’s cheering to know that for readers there is no time dimension. Books live in a form of the perpetual present.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What’s Up With The Portrayal Of Twins On The Screen?

  18-09-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  A new film, based on a real-life pair of twins, aims to upend the narrative of identical twins as creepy, potential serial killers. – The New York Times
  
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• Arts Groups In Britain Start To Scramble For New Royal Figureheads

  18-09-2022 18:30 via theguardian.com
  No beloved arts Princess, no Prince Consort, no Queen: Who will take over?”Although a 2020 study found no proof that charities benefit financially from a royal patron, kudos is hard to evaluate. ‘It is a competitive moment,’ said one former museum head.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Historical Fiction Takes Messy Real Lives And Turns Them Into Neat Stories

  18-09-2022 18:00 via theatlantic.com
  “Once maligned as lowbrow, the genre has gained popularity over the past two decades” – perhaps because of social media and our hyper-aware lives. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Culture War Over Which Star Trek (Or Treks) Are Real

  18-09-2022 17:30 via slate.com
  Well, you might say, not a one is real. We don’t have matter transporters, faster than light engines, or for that matter a Federation. But the whines aren’t new: a 50-year history of Trek “recounts decades of skeptics dismissing various iterations as not ‘real.'” – Slate
  
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• An Uyghur Author And His Translator Have Been Disappeared

  18-09-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  And so his English translator says now’s the time for Perhat Turson’s bleak novel finally to come out in English. “They deserve to have their voices and their work recognized,” he says. – The New York Times
  
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• Playwright Sarah Ruhl On Writing A Memoir, And The Medical Trauma Behind That Memoir

  18-09-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  “While I don’t think of myself as someone who would have judged by appearances much before Bell’s palsy, it has given me a greater empathy for people who might have a mismatch between the outward and the inward,” Ruhl says – and it’s changed how she sees actors. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Allegations Of Child Exploitation Keep Director Of ‘Sparta’ Away From Spanish Film Festival

  18-09-2022 16:00 via variety.com
  “Austrian director Ulrich Seidl has cancelled his visit to San Sebastian for the Sept. 18 world premiere of Sparta, amid allegations of impropriety and child exploitation made against the director.” The film was not screened at the Toronto International Film Festival after the allegations emerged. – Variety
  
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• How Did A Fictional Bear From Peru Become The Queen Of England’s Psychopomp?

  18-09-2022 15:30 via irishtimes.com
  “For all the madness on display, there are, however, reasons to cautiously celebrate what has become of Paddington. … Paddington is nearly as old as the queen’s now completed reign.” And indeed, he “is the sort of characteristic English creature who values decency, politeness and tolerance of difference.” – Irish Times
  
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• The Vicious, Accelerating Attacks On Books From The Right Wing

  18-09-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Public libraries have been threatened by politicians and community members with a loss of funding for their refusal to remove books. Members of the Proud Boys, an extremist right-wing group, showed up at a school board meeting. … Librarians have been accused of promoting pedophilia.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Industrial Visions Of Artists Who Lived A Century Ago

  18-09-2022 14:30 via themillions.com
  The artists believed factories were the future. “Diagonal lines hint at stained glass—and at the notion, widespread at the time, … that industrial structures were the cathedrals of the machine age.” – The Millions
  
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• Independent Radio Stations Are Under Threat In Britain

  18-09-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Why? Energy bills. “Autumn has arrived with stark warnings from industry bodies, including UK Music and the Music Venue Trust (MVT), that live venues, studios and other music businesses will face insurmountable costs this winter.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Copyright Is Disgustingly Broken

  18-09-2022 13:30 via theverge.com
  “The People’s Joker is … an extremely loose retelling of the Batman villain’s origin story, reinterpreting the Joker as a trans woman trying to break into the mob-like world of Gotham’s stand-up comedy scene.” Of course, it was pulled from the TIFF line-up. – The Verge
  
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• The Married Couple Who Writes (Dozens Of Bestsellers) Together, Stays Together?

  18-09-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  How do the people making up the Ilona Andrews brand do it? Gordon Andrews: “We have argued about the fate of certain characters. Who lives, who dies.” (Ilona agrees.) – The New York Times
  
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• Frank Auerbach: how artist drew himself for Covid ‘plague years’ drawings

  18-09-2022 11:00
  The renowned British artist found inspiration in his own features after the pandemic left him without sittersWhat do you do when you are a portrait painter but can’t get anyone to sit for you? Frank Auerbach, once described by the Tate as “one of the greatest painters alive today”, has come up with an answer he didn’t expect to find. At 91, he has painted himself – and it’s all thanks to Covid.For decades, the painter and draughtsman has had friends and family
  
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• The web has expanded the reach of art but nothing beats standing in front of a Picasso | Kenan Malik

  18-09-2022 08:30
  As MoMa raises funds for online works, let’s remember the thrill of viewing actual objectsIt is more than 30 years since I saw Pablo Picasso’s Guernica face to face, as it were, in Madrid’s Prado Museum, shortly before it was moved into the Museo Reina Sofia, where it still hangs. Painted in 1937 in furious protest at Germany’s bombing of the Basque town of Guernica at the behest of Franco’s nationalist forces during the Spanish civil war, Picasso had refused permis
  
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