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• Why We Laugh

  27-09-2022 23:31 via theconversation.com
  This raises the possibility that laughter may have been preserved by natural selection throughout the past millennia to help humans survive. It could also explain why we are drawn to people who make us laugh. – The Conversation
  
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• Movie Academy’s LA Museum Sees Boffo Box Office In Its First Year

  27-09-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are still reeling from the pandemic. – The New York Times
  
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• Sydney Festival Quits All Funding By Foreign Governments After Controversies

  27-09-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  Sydney festival has suspended all funding agreements with foreign governments and their cultural agencies, after a mass boycott by artists and audiences earlier this year. – The Guardian
  
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• American Newspapers Are Losing Their Comics Sections

  27-09-2022 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  This shrinking of American “funny pages” comes more than a century after the rise of the print comics section. “Comic strips were created — by editors and publishers —for a very good business reason: to attract and hold readership in order to beat out the competition.” – Washington Post
  
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• TikTok Creators Are Making Shortened Versions Of Movies And Getting Millions Of Views

  27-09-2022 21:25 via restofworld.org
  Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite the translation errors and robotic narrations, each clip garners anywhere between a few thousand to millions of views. – Rest of the World
  
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• Australian Performers Are Back Onstage And In Fine Form.  Not Enough Australians Are Coming To See Them.

  27-09-2022 21:04 via theguardian.com
  Australia’s state capitals had some strict lockdowns, with Melbourne the world’s most severe.  Performing arts groups are still reporting attendance remaining stubbornly below 2019 levels.  (Except in Western Australia, which locked out the rest of the country instead of locking down.  Tickets in Perth are selling like gangbusters.) – The Guardian
  
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• The Organization That Tries To Bring The Performing Arts To Everyone In America

  27-09-2022 20:29 via nightingalessonata.com
  In time, instrumentalists, chamber groups, dance companies, orchestras, theatre troupes, opera companies—even comedians, magicians, and other offbeat entertainers (literally tens of thousands of performers)—would owe part of their livelihoods to Community Concerts. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• France Enacts Another Measure To Protect Independent Bookstores: A Mandatory Delivery Charge

  27-09-2022 20:01 via euronews.com
  “This will adapt the book industry to the digital era by restoring an equilibrium between large e-commerce platforms, which offer virtually free delivery for books,” said a government statement “The €3 delivery fee is not dissuasive for book buyers and the €35 threshold will favour grouped orders.” – Euronews
  
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• Meet Andres. He’s 10. His Last Painting Sold For $230,000

  27-09-2022 19:25 via nytimes.com
  In the last year, he has gone from a relative unknown to a bona fide art phenomenon. His surrealist-style paintings were acquired by deep-pocketed collectors like Tommy Mottola and Jessica Goldman Srebnick during Art Basel Miami Beach. – The New York Times
  
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• She Moved From A Principal Position In Philadelphia To The Corps De Ballet In Paris — At Age 32

  27-09-2022 19:03 via pointemagazine.com
  When the lockdowns started, Lillian DiPiazza was a principal at what was then Pennsylvania Ballet.  She spent the next two years going back and forth between there and the Paris Opera Ballet, where she’s just gotten a permanent contract — at the lowest rank but likely to climb quickly. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Amazon Is Getting Closer To Replacing Humans With Robots (Or Is It?)

  27-09-2022 18:29 via vox.com
  Will a new generation of warehouse robots that can grasp goods almost as well as human hands make work better or easier for the people doing these jobs? Or will the technological evolution eliminate the need for these workers and their jobs? – Vox
  
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• ‘We want to contaminate the street!’: the artist fighting Bolsonaro – with animal costumes

  27-09-2022 18:13
  Weary of repetitive demos, the Brazilian conceived an altogether more unexpected collective action featuring parrots, pink dolphins and six-legged beetlesOne Saturday last October, between the skyscrapers of São Paulo’s main avenue, surrounded by thousands turned out for yet another protest against Brazil’s far right president, a hog danced with a leopard.They were joined by a six-legged beetle, a parrot, a pink dolphin and over a dozen other people in similarly elaborate anim
  
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• What’s The Hottest Theatre Piece In Brooklyn This Fall? An Installation Inspired By Noah’s Ark

  27-09-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  The Antwerp-based collective FC Bergman bringsto BAM a work titled 300 el x 50 el x 30 el (the dimensions of Noah’s Ark as described in scripture), “an ambitious hybrid of theater, installation and live video, with an elaborate set that recreated a rural settlement onstage.” – The New York Times
  
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• Is Endless Choice Ruining Your Love Of Music?

  27-09-2022 17:31 via theguardian.com
  “That was the problem. Using music, rather than having it be its own experience … What kind of music am I going to use to set a mood for the day? What am I going to use to enjoy my walk? I started not really liking what that meant.” – The Guardian
  
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• Prue Leith, instigator of fourth plinth, resists calls for Queen statue

  27-09-2022 17:10
  Bake Off judge, who campaigned to use Trafalgar Square space for contemporary art, says site not prominent enough for monarchPrue Leith says her proudest achievement was turning the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square into a showcase for contemporary art and is resisting calls to make it a permanent statue for the Queen.In an interview for the Guardian, the Bake Off judge was wary of a compromise plan to create a fifth plinth to allow modern sculpture to continue to be exhibited in the square if i
  
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• Prosecutor Says Alec Baldwin And Others Could Face Charges In “Rust” On-Set Shooting

  27-09-2022 17:04 via cbsnews.com
  In a request for more funding to pursue the case, the district attorney for Santa Fe County stated that “we will be potentially charging between one and four people with criminal charges … includ(ing) some variation of our homicide statute.” – CBS News
  
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• Universal Isn’t Even Going To Bother Releasing The Gay Rom-Com “Bros” In The Middle East

  27-09-2022 16:35 via variety.com
  “It’s still unclear exactly what markets in the region will be affected, but it’s likely to include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Kuwait — all of which are notorious for censoring movies over even the slightest hint of LGBTQ themes or content.” – Variety
  
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• Joseph Thompson, Former Director Of MASS MoCA, Found Not Guilty In Fatal Driving Accident

  27-09-2022 16:01 via nepm.org
  Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation for a 2018 collision with a motorcyclist who died at the scene and was found to have been drunk. – New England Public Media
  
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• Dustin Lance Black Reports Suffering A “Serious Head Injury”

  27-09-2022 15:33 via variety.com
  The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and creator of the recent TV miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven didn’t reveal the nature of the injury, which happened a month ago, but wrote that “this has been a challenging, frightening time … and now I understand the road back will be long.” – Variety
  
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• In Florida, Three Orchestral Players Fired For Refusing To Get COVID Vaccines Are Suing

  27-09-2022 15:02 via naplesnews.com
  The three musicians, who were dismissed from the Naples Philharmonic as of June 30 and have filed suit against the orchestra’s parent organization, claim a religious exemption from the Philharmonic’s vaccination requirement. – Naples (Fla.) Daily News
  
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• Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On Strike

  27-09-2022 14:34 via inquirer.com
  The 180 unionized members of the museum’s 350-strong workforce walked out after two years of negotiations failed to yield agreement on a contract.  The museum is remaining open with its usual visiting hours. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Guggenheim Museum Ends Its $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize

  27-09-2022 14:06 via artnews.com
  The museum instituted the biennial award in 1996 to honor “outstanding achievement in contemporary art.” Asked why the prize is being discontinued, Guggenheim chief curator Naomi Beckwith said, basically, that it’s no longer necessary. – ARTnews
  
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• Paved with gold: Leicester’s immigration story – in pictures

  27-09-2022 08:00
  From abandoned sewing machines to scooting kids, Kavi Pujara’s images tell the story of the Asian families who’ve made the Midlands city their home • The big picture: Kavi Pujara’s ode to Leicester’s Golden MileContinue reading...
  
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• The Australian Town Keeping Square Dancing Alive

  27-09-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  One of the appeals of square dancing is that it can be done anywhere; once you know the moves, you can attend any club in Australia – or around the world – and dance with strangers as if you’re old friends. – The Guardian
  
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