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• Julia Reichert, Fierce Filmmaker Who Won An Oscar For American Factory, Has Died At 76

  04-12-2022 22:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Reichert, a documentarian, said, “I always wanted to understand how people worked because I often thought I was like a Martian. I was intensely curious about people because I felt so different from everybody else.” – Washington Post
  
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• More Legal Drama Over Mockingbird’s New Version

  04-12-2022 22:00 via nytimes.com
  First, the new version sued the old; now it’s reversed. “At stake is not only who will profit, long-term, from stage versions of the classic story, but also which dramatic interpretation will reach many audiences across the country.” – The New York Times
  
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• Native American Languages Are In Deep Danger

  04-12-2022 21:30 via npr.org
  No surprise, after decades of concerted campaigns to destroy the tribes and their languages. But there’s a plan: “The Biden administration announced an effort to address this at the Tribal Nations Summit, putting forth a draft of a 10-year national plan to revitalize Native languages.” – NPR
  
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• Astra Magazine’s Short Life Shows The Precariousness Of Literary Journals

  04-12-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was ‘both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.’ And then it was over.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Long Friendship And Intertwined Careers Of Tilda Swinton And Joanna Hogg

  04-12-2022 20:30 via aol.com
  Friends since they met as 10 and 11-year-olds at prep school in 1971, the actor and writer-director “have just in the last few years realized their long-held desire to collaborate on feature films.” – AOL (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Best Library Instagram In The United States And Perhaps The World

  04-12-2022 20:00 via lithub.com
  Who knew this was a contest? And yet, the Milwaukee Public Library is clearly winning. – LitHub
  
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• Kanye West’s Massive Reddit Page Turns Into A Holocaust Awareness Campaign

  04-12-2022 19:30 via variety.com
  There’s also a fair amount of Taylor Swift fandom, but “these posts from fans essentially serve as a denouncement of West’s praise of Hitler in the Infowars interview and his denial of the Holocaust, further highlighting the artist’s loss of support.” – Variety
  
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• Aline Kominsky-Crumb, ‘Ranuchy’ And Feminist Underground Comics Artist, Has Died At 74

  04-12-2022 19:00 via latimes.com
  Kominsky-Crumb “was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual — focusing on her insecurities — and explicit.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Can The Academy Forgive Will Smith, At Least As An Actor?

  04-12-2022 18:30 via vulture.com
  Doesn’t seem super likely. But: “If there’s a Best Actor race worth trying to sneak into, it’s this one, and Smith has been careful to cut a penitent figure on the campaign trail.” – Vulture
  
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• What It’s Like To Play Princess Di And Then Come Out As Nonbinary

  04-12-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Emma Corrin: “It’s hard to be discovering something in yourself at the same time you’re navigating an industry that demands a lot of you.” – The New York Times
  
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• Newport statue to commemorate Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda

  04-12-2022 18:00
  Sculpture of campaigner to be unveiled next year as one of five in Monumental Welsh Women projectA statue of a Welsh suffragette who was jailed for setting fire to a postbox, survived a shipwreck, and played a key role in the fight to allow women into the House of Lords is to be erected in Newport.The statue of Margaret Haig Thomas, Lady Rhondda, is being created by the figurative sculptor Jane Robbins and will be unveiled in the city where she worked and campaigned a century ago. Continue readi
  
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• Found: A Recording Of 18-Year-Old Stephen Sondheim’s College Musical

  04-12-2022 17:30 via npr.org
  It’s called Phinney’s Rainbow, and Sondheim was a sophomore in college when he wrote and mounted it in 1948. “It’s the stuff of legend in theater circles because nobody’s heard much of it.” – NPR
  
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• Playwright Lynn Nottage Has Been Running A Theatrical Marathon All Year

  04-12-2022 17:00 via latimes.com
  The writer of Sweat and the most-produced play of this year, Clyde’s, had three productions in New York this year. She says, “The mindfulness and yoga that I practiced during the pandemic really prepared me to deal with juggling three big shows without feeling overwhelmed.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• How Two Norwegian Students Accidentally Created TikTok’s Favorite Sounds

  04-12-2022 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Twenty years ago, high school students Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Soderholm created “nightcore.” But it didn’t take off until TikTok kicked into high gear. – The New York Times
  
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• New Theory: Children Made Stone-Age Owl-Like Carvings

  04-12-2022 16:00 via newscientist.com
  “Archaeologists have previously suggested that they were symbols of goddesses that were placed on deceased people as a burial offering. It is debated whether the engravings are of owls, people or other figures.” – New Scientist
  
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• Front room of prolific pub-scene painter recreated for Mayfair exhibition

  04-12-2022 16:00
  Eric Tucker, self-taught and virtually unknown until his death in 2018, has since been compared to LS LowryIt is the cluttered front room of a Warrington council house: gas fire set into a tiled surround, glass-fronted cabinet housing treasured knick-knacks; shoes tucked under a chair; magazines and books piled up. And in the middle, an easel, surrounded by tubes of paint and jars of brushes.The room is where Eric Tucker, an artist virtually unknown until his death in 2018 but since compared to
  
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• The True Cost Of A Twitter Implosion

  04-12-2022 15:30 via wired.com
  “There are whole nations whose political discourse occurs mainly on Twitter. The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses is astounding. Twitter currently functions as perhaps the world’s biggest status bank.” – Wired
  
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• Ukraine Detains Eight People Over Banksy Theft

  04-12-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  According to Kyiv’s governor, “‘The image is in good condition and in the hands of the authorities.’ Other works in the area thought also to be the work of Banksy are under police protection, he said.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Nalini Malani: ‘Trump and Bolsonaro are totally phallic people – but there are men inclined to feminist thought’

  04-12-2022 15:00
  The 76-year-old Indian artist reflects on the sectarian violence and misogyny that has inspired her work, including the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girlGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIndian artist Nalini Malani had been looking forward to flying to Adelaide to see her first Australian survey open at the Art Gallery of South Australia – but she wasn’t be able to. Just as she was leaving India for the opening of an exhibition in the UK – one of five major int
  
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• How A Sync Made A 1985 Song A Hit In 2022

  04-12-2022 14:30 via variety.com
  Instead, it took a lot of planning and some carefully waged campaigns. “While syncs have previously boosted older singles, they’ve never generated this level of resurgence for a 37-year-old song.” You can thank Sony’s VP of creative, Amy Coles. –Variety
  
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• On Writing Memoir-ish Fiction And Reader Complaints About Not Enough Sex

  04-12-2022 14:00 via theparisreview.org
  Elif Batuman “expects from any book, her own included, nothing less than a real-time experiment in how we should think and live.” – Paris Review
  
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• Why Isn’t Season 5 Of ‘The Crown’ Damaging Charles?

  04-12-2022 13:30 via nytimes.com
  Well, let’s be honest: He just (finally) became king. Britain is not having the popular series’ narrative anymore. (Also … he’s played by Dominic West.) – The New York Times
  
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• Mourning Los Espookys

  04-12-2022 13:00 via latimes.com
  Maybe HBO wasn’t quite ready for a show that is creators couldn’t even describe. “Imagine ‘Scooby-Doo’ as written by Jorge Luis Borges and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and you can begin to approximate the vibe.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Renaissance masterpieces leave Italy for first time to show in Paris

  04-12-2022 11:00
  The collection includes a portrait of Saint Sebastian considered one of the finest works by Andrea MantegnaA collection of Renaissance masterpieces, many of them never seen outside Italy, have gone on display in Paris in an exhibition described as a “rare and extraordinary experience”.The paintings, sculptures and bronzes are from one of Venice’s most beautiful but little-visited museums, which has closed for renovation. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist Nan Goldin on addiction and taking on the Sackler dynasty: ‘I wanted to tell my truth’

  04-12-2022 10:00
  The American photographer’s battle against the billionaires who fuelled the opioid epidemic upended the art establishment. As a film about her life is released, she talks about family tragedy and her journey from drug abuse to activismIn September 2016, I met with Nan Goldin in C Wing of Reading Gaol. She was there alongside several other artists at the invitation of Artangel, the London-based organisation that specialises in often ambitious site-specific installations. The ensuing group e
  
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• The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture review – nonstop shocks

  04-12-2022 06:30
  Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
  Nudes in bondage, endless bared breasts, passion, prurience… this superb survey of sculpture’s depiction of women in 19th-century Britain unsettles at every turnThe most famous sculpture in American art is currently on show at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave (1844), a lifesize female nude carved in pristine white marble, toured a dumbstruck continent for more than four years, from 1847 to 1851.Nubile, depilated, d
  
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