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• Protests Over New Orleans Museum Hiring White Curator For African Collection

  10-07-2023 22:48 via nola.com
  On paper, Maples seemed suited for the job. But criticism quickly arose, because NOMA had selected a White person to manage the collection of art and artifacts that is a touchstone of African culture. – New Orleans Times-Picayune
  
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• Protests Over New Orleans Museum Hiring White Curator Fo African Collection

  10-07-2023 22:48 via nola.com
  On paper, Maples seemed suited for the job. But criticism quickly arose, because NOMA had selected a White person to manage the collection of art and artifacts that is a touchstone of African culture. – New Orleans Times-Picayune
  
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• The Boomers Never Had A Chance

  10-07-2023 21:17 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  The Boomers’ careers followed behind a glut of Traditionalists still in their prime. Disproportionately, the Baby Boomers never made it to the seats of power at the top of the business world. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI Over Copyright

  10-07-2023 20:39 via theverge.com
  
  Their lawsuits each contain six counts of various types of copyright violations, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. The authors are looking for statutory damages, restitution of profits, and more. – The Verge
  
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• AI Explodes Copyright Issues

  10-07-2023 19:54 via wired.com
  
  I’ve created a story using my imagination—but to do that I’ve used an AI helper. So who wrote the tale? And who gets paid for the work? – Wired
  
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• Study: What Nobel Winners Do (Or Don’t) After Winning

  10-07-2023 18:44 via sciencealert.com
  
  Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine tend to reduce their research output after claiming the prestigious honor, according to a new study – suggesting that bagging the prize isn’t so desirable for those who want to stay productive and relevant. – Science Alert
  
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• The Artistic Costs Of Censoring In Movies

  10-07-2023 17:54 via nytimes.com
  
  Artful jump cuts can illuminate all kinds of interesting associations between images. Bad ones just create bumps in logic; they’re disorienting in a way that suggests external, self-interested forces at play. – The New York Times
  
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• How ‘In Cold Blood’ Destroyed Truman Capote

  10-07-2023 17:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Overnight, Capote catapulted from a mere darling of the literary world to a full-fledged global celebrity on a par with the likes of rockstars and film legends. The success was all encompassing, but the cost would prove greater than even Capote had realized.” – LitHub
  
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• Shedding New Light On The Troubles

  10-07-2023 16:40 via theguardian.com
  
  “A quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement drew a line under the Troubles, a documentary series has scraped away the familiar narratives and rote explanations and propaganda to show what it was really like for those who lived it.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Theatres Are Now Trying To Tempt New Audiences With Virtual Reality

  10-07-2023 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  “To watch a show the customer has to insert their phone into the VR device. Once the phone is place, the users strap the box, effectively a pair of cardboard goggles, around their head and plug in their own headphones. The app then streams a recorded performance.” – BBC
  
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• How Tracy Chapman Made Country Music History

  10-07-2023 15:45 via latimes.com
  
  “More than three decades after Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ dropped, … [it] drove to the top of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart” as a Luke Combs cover, making Chapman the first Black woman with a sole songwriting credit on a number one country hit. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Half Of Britain’s Empire Cinema Chain Shutter, With 150 Jobs Lost And Cities Losing Their Main Cinemas

  10-07-2023 15:30 via bbc.com
  
  “Staff apparently turned up for work at branches on Friday to find notes on windows explaining they were closing down.” This leaves Sunderland (yes, the town of Roy Kent’s first team) and Wigan suddenly without large cinemas. – BBC
  
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• How Do You Invent A Language That Half A Million People Want To Learn On Duolingo?

  10-07-2023 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  “You learn to say ‘The woman is sweating’ before that most basic greeting, ‘Hello.’ An incongruously cheerful cartoon asks you to translate ‘All men must die, goodbye.’ And, of course: ‘Ñuhyz zaldrīzesse gevī issi.’ (‘My dragons are beautiful!’).” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A Library Book Comes Back 119 Years Late

  10-07-2023 15:00 via npr.org
  
  Good thing fines are mostly a thing of the past, eh? “This came back in extremely good condition. … Someone obviously kept this on a nice bookshelf because it was in such good shape and probably got passed down in the family.” – NPR (AP)
  
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• The Repurposed Burlap Coffee Bags Of Henry V

  10-07-2023 14:45 via cbc.ca
  
  The set designer for the production at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: “It just immediately added a layer that I don’t think we would have achieved if we had to fake it out of totally brand new bolts of fabric from the store.” – CBC
  
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• A Thumbs-Up Emoji Can Be A Contract, Court Says

  10-07-2023 14:30 via fastcompany.com
  “The ruling shows how ingrained emojis are in modern culture, also that so much of our daily communication happens via text. The playful symbols and faces are an accepted way of expressing emotion, but they’re also used so commonly, they even show up regularly in straightforward business deals.” – Fast Company
  
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• The Set Used For The Banshees Of Inisherin Is Now A Real Pub, Open For Business

  10-07-2023 14:15 via bbc.com
  
  “The film set pub lay for a year-and-a-half in a yard on Achill Island – and when Luke [Fee] offered to buy it from his brother-in-law, he was told he could have it for nothing. … He already had a pub licence – ideal.” – BBC
  
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• Minnie Bruce Pratt, Poet And Activist, Dead At 76

  10-07-2023 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Pratt, originally from Alabama, “moved between the worlds of literature, scholarship and activism over nearly five decades as the LGBTQ+ community achieved gains such as legalization of same-sex marriage and greater recognition of trans and nonbinary identities. But Ms. Pratt rarely adopted a celebratory tone.” – Washington Post
  
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• Netflix Gets Deeper Into Europe With Deal In Germany

  10-07-2023 13:45 via variety.com
  
  The deal gives the streamer access to upcoming films “involving Jella Haase, Peter Saarsgard, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, and many others, Constantin Film announced.” – Variety
  
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• A Trial May Determine Which Of Aretha Franklin’s Handwritten Wills Is Valid

  10-07-2023 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Shall it be the will in the cupboard, or the will from the sofa cushions? “I think they all wish this had been settled a week after she passed away. … But they’re not blaming anyone — it is what it is.” – The New York Times
  
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• Puritanical British Transport Bans Theatre Add Featuring Wedding Cake

  10-07-2023 13:15 via bbc.com
  
  Just what we need: More joyless, foolish bureaucrats quashing theatrical productions. “The interactive show is set at an Italian-American wedding, with a three-course meal, live music and dancing.” – BBC
  
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• Puritanical British Transport Bans Theatre Ad Featuring Wedding Cake

  10-07-2023 13:15 via bbc.com
  
  Just what we need: More joyless, foolish bureaucrats quashing theatrical productions. “The interactive show is set at an Italian-American wedding, with a three-course meal, live music and dancing.” – BBC
  
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• A Documentary Of Wham In East Asia, Squelched

  10-07-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  To watch If You Were There, director Lindsay Anderson’s cut of a documentary about Wham! in China, you have to go to a university library in Scotland. But it might be worth the trip for Anderson’s artistry – and this record of his clash with George Michael. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• ‘I didn’t live up to my dad’s expectations’: artist Corbin Shaw on how masculinity inspires his work

  10-07-2023 11:26
  
  After collaborations with Martin Parr and queer party Homobloc, the 24-year old reflects on how Sheffield’s football terraces, boxing gyms and pubs influenced him‘I desperately wanted to be liked at school,” recalls Corbin Shaw. “I was always trying to fit in with this group of boys, which is where a lot of my work stems from.” Explorations of what is expected of young men permeate much of the 24-year-old’s work. Utilising textiles, flags and slogans, masculin
  
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• ‘Such a beautiful creature’: Chris Packham, Dan Snow and more on their favourite museum exhibit

  10-07-2023 06:00
  
  Five UK museums are up for a £120,000 prize. So what’s the best item in each of them? From a sleeping beauty to an extinct bird, famous fans pick their most treasured objectIt’s been a difficult few years for Britain’s museums. Forced to close their doors because of Covid-19, they then had to adjust to a new landscape, all while the arts and culture budget was slashed at like a piñata by the government. It makes the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize feel like a cha
  
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• Painting reattributed to Gainsborough after six decades labelled unknown

  10-07-2023 01:01
  
  Experts delighted portrait re-found but say this is ‘cautionary tale’, stressing importance of rigorous checks to avoid misattributionAfter being consigned to dark storage rooms for up to six decades as the work of an unknown artist, a portrait of a one-armed naval veteran has been reattributed to the celebrated 18th century painter Thomas Gainsborough.A fundraising drive has been launched to raise £60,000 for extensive conservation work on the painting and its frame before it
  
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