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• Alexa Now Helps Kids Create Stories

  30-11-2022 23:29 via engadget.com
  To create a new story, your child would begin by speaking, “Alexa, make a story,” and then following several prompts. The AI then generates an illustrated five-to-ten-line narrative — including animations, sound effects and music — built around their answers. – Engadget
  
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• Artistic Producer

  30-11-2022 23:14 via artsjournal.com
  TITLE: Artistic ProducerSTATUS: FT ExemptDIVISION: ArtisticREPORTS TO: Artistic DirectorPOSTITION AVAILABLE: Immediately ABOUT STUDIO THEATRE Since its founding in 1978, Studio Theatre has been based in the historic neighborhood of Logan Circle in Washington DC. Inspired by the world around us, Studio brings personal, political plays to audiences across the Washington metropolitan area. Studio’s mission combines […]
  
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• A Prescription For Our Age: Long Poems?

  30-11-2022 23:01 via psyche.co
  Long poems really had been popular, with wide and diverse readerships, at various times in literary history. Is this a kind of reading that we should try to recover? There are signs that the long poem might be making a comeback. – Psyche
  
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• Berlin’s Massive New Museum Of The 20th Century Under Attack As “Climate Killer”

  30-11-2022 22:29 via theguardian.com
  There has been growing criticism of its main construction material, concrete – one of the highest contributors to carbon dioxide emissions – and of its open and transparent internal structure, which will require a highly sophisticated ventilation system to maintain temperature and humidity levels. – The Guardian
  
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• Artwork Rescued Before The Bombing Of Kyiv Goes On Show In Spain

  30-11-2022 22:01 via news.artnet.com
  Titled “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s,” the show is branded as the most comprehensive survey of Ukraine’s avant-garde movement. – Artnet
  
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• Plans For Makeover Of London’s National Gallery Assailed As “Clownish”

  30-11-2022 21:31 via theguardian.com
  The architect of the controversial Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London has publicly hit back at plans to completely rebuild it, accusing the new designer of “making our building look like a circus clown”. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Rockettes Get Their Own Hallmark Christmas Movie

  30-11-2022 20:58 via dancemagazine.com
  Julie Branam, who directs and choreographs the beloved Radio City Music Hall dance troupe, talks about the dance in the film, titled (what else?) A Holiday Spectacular. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Public Libraries Are Setting Up Their Own Music Streaming Services

  30-11-2022 20:29 via theguardian.com
  Introduction to local artists is common among local libraries using streaming services. “It turns out that people who think they know their city’s music scene do not.” – The Guardian
  
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• India Wouldn’t Nominate This Year’s Biggest Blockbuster For The International Film Oscar — So Its Producers Are Shooting For Best Picture

  30-11-2022 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  After seeing the raucously rapturous reactions that audiences, even in L.A., are having to RRR, producer-director S.S. Rajamouli and US distributor Dylan Marchetti (Drive My Car) think the movie could become the next Parasite. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• Qatar Announces New Round Of Big New Museums

  30-11-2022 19:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  In the run-up to the tournament, the country’s authority for cultural institutions and heritage sites has announced a wave of future construction projects—and revealed the first details of the museums that will house the country’s extensive art collections. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How Do We Reconcile The Journey Anthony Bourdain Took Us On With The Sad Destination That It Reached?

  30-11-2022 19:04 via theatlantic.com
  “The tragic irony of Bourdain’s life and death is that the same interior darkness he succumbed to enabled the alchemy that he performed, again and again, on television: showing us three-dimensional human beings doing their best against often insurmountable odds.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Disney Superfans: Bob Chapek Didn’t Understand Disney’s Magic

  30-11-2022 18:32 via nytimes.com
  We also pushed to have Mr. Chapek fired because he didn’t believe in Disney magic. Disney is so much more than just another big business. Understanding that is crucial to its success. – The New York Times
  
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• English National Opera Was Doomed: Norman Lebrecht

  30-11-2022 18:03 via thecritic.co.uk
  “The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. … The decline and fall of England’s national opera is a lesson to all working in the arts that you cannot kick problems down the road.” – The Critic (UK)
  
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• Defsons for Mustill

  30-11-2022 17:53 via artsjournal.com
  We bloom only onceand some of us never bloom —
  not even once. You were perennial.
  
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• AMC Networks To Cut Staff By 20 Percent (Including CEO)

  30-11-2022 17:32 via deadline.com
  Today’s staff memo from AMC Networks chairman James Dolan, whose family is the company’s controlling shareholder, was particularly grim, noting that “the mechanisms for the monetization of content are in disarray.” – Deadline
  
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• ‘They said I’m a badass and Hollywood needs me’: how Florence’s Machine took Tinseltown

  30-11-2022 17:31
  As the other half of Florence + the Machine, Isabella Summers plays stadiums and works with the likes of Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson. Now the film world can’t get enough of the musical sensationOn her Instagram account in 2020, Isabella Summers posted a screenshot of a question from the quizshow Pointless: “What is the nickname of Florence Welch’s musical collaborator, Isabella Summers? A) Magician B) Machine C) Maestro.” Underneath, Summers supplied her own answer
  
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• After Five Centuries, The Holy Roman Emperor’s Secret Code Has Been Deciphered

  30-11-2022 17:01 via bbc.com
  “Sent by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to his ambassador at the French royal court — a man called Jean de Saint-Mauris — the letter gives an insight into the preoccupations of Europe’s rulers at a time of dangerous instability caused by wars of religion and rival strategic interests.” – BBC
  
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• The Real Secret Of The L.A. Comedy Scene’s Success? Gigs In People’s Backyards

  30-11-2022 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  “No matter how cobbled together the entire operation might be, some of the very best comedy shows in L.A., for more than two decades, have happened in a comedian’s (or a group of comedians’) backyard, living room, garage, grotto, warehouse, etc.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• “You Can’t East Prestige”: Culture Workers Have Started Organizing and Striking For A Living Wage

  30-11-2022 16:03 via newrepublic.com
  “Professors of art, workers at museums, and assistants at a publishing house have all gone on strike or staged public protests during contract negotiations. Call this a black-turtleneck-worker uprising rather than a white-collar one.” – The New Republic
  
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• The Academy Agrees To Put All Oscar Categories Back In The TV Broadcast This Year

  30-11-2022 15:31 via variety.com
  “The news comes after eight different Oscar categories — original score, makeup and hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live action short and sound — were cut from the main telecast at the 2022 Academy Awards, leading to much outrage across the film industry.” – Variety
  
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• The Rijksmuseum Declares Three More Vermeers Authentic.  But Is That A Self-Interested Decision?

  30-11-2022 15:04 via artnews.com
  Amsterdam’s flagship museum is, after all, about to present the largest Vermeer exhibition in history, so increasing the artist’s slim corpus could very much benefit the institution.  And there’s definitely scholarly disagreement over these paintings, especially Girl With a Flute. – ARTnews
  
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• The politics of air: Goma’s blockbuster exhibition is an ‘incredibly powerful’ ode to an element

  30-11-2022 15:00
  With large-scale works from around the world, Brisbane’s major show comes with a message: we may all inhabit the same planet, but we do not breathe the same airGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art opened its Water exhibition in the summer of 2019, the state was consumed by drought, and ablaze in the worst bushfires in modern Australian history.How would people receive what was planned to be a blockbuster exhibition, fretted the museum&rsq
  
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• Athens Now Faces The Dangers Of Amsterdam-Barcelona-Venice-Style Overtourism

  30-11-2022 14:32 via theguardian.com
  Leisure travel has roared back since the pandemic, with the Greek capital a destination rather than a transit point to the islands; the Acropolis is now getting 16,000 visitors a day.  The mayor of Athens is arguing for a tourist tax to cover the ballooning cost of services. – The Guardian
  
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• BBC Philharmonic Gives Its Chief Guest Conductor The Big Job

  30-11-2022 14:05 via tinyurl.com
  John Storgårds, a Finnish violinist-turned conductor who is also artistic director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, was named the BBC Phil’s Principal Guest Conductor in 2012 and Chief Guest Conductor in 2017. He now succeeds Omer Meir Wellber as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor. – Gramophone
  
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• Doug Moran prize 2022: Graeme Drendel wins for portrait of fellow finalist who painted him

  30-11-2022 01:30
  The Victorian artist wins $150,000 for his small painting of artist and friend Lewis Miller, who was also nominated for his own portrait of DrendelGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailGraeme Drendel has won Australia’s richest portrait prize for his painting of one of his fellow finalists, the artist Lewis Miller, who was himself nominated for a portrait he had painted of Drendel.Drendel, a Victorian artist known for his figurative work, was announced as the winner of the $150,000 Do
  
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• Doug Moran prize 2022: Graeme Drendel wins $150,000 for portrait of fellow finalist who painted him

  30-11-2022 01:30
  The Victorian artist wins for his small painting of artist and friend Lewis Miller, who was also nominated for his own portrait of DrendelGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailGraeme Drendel has won Australia’s richest portrait prize for his painting of one of his fellow finalists, the artist Lewis Miller, who was himself nominated for a portrait he had painted of Drendel.Drendel, a Victorian artist known for his figurative work, was announced as the winner of the $150,000 Doug Moran
  
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• This Year’s Venice Biennale Sets Attendance Record

  30-11-2022 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  It must, however, be noted that the 2022 exhibition ran longer than usual, stretching over 197 days instead of 173 days in 2019. According to the Biennale, 41% of this year’s visitors were from Italy while 59% came from other countries. – Hyperallergic
  
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