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• Christie’s Auction of the Horten Hoard—Tainted by Nazi Expropriation? (Plus: a “Mishneh Torah” Update)

  17-07-2023 23:19 via artsjournal.com
  In another case of museums’ declining cash donations because of the money’s problematic source, Christie’s had attempted “to donate
  
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• The Transformative Louis Langrée

  17-07-2023 22:59 via nytimes.com
  
  At 62, Langrée has never been one of the world’s most famous or sought-after conductors. His career has been a steady climb of prestige and quality, quietly remarkable but undersung even as he has transformed ensembles. – The New York Times
  
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• Major Met Museum Patron’s Home Raided

  17-07-2023 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office have carted away 71 looted artifacts from Shelby White’s home in the past two years, though they have not suggested that she or her husband knowingly bought stolen antiquities. In fact, investigators would later thank White, 84, for her cooperation. – The New York Times
  
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• Studios Proposed: Scan You Once, Use AI Version Of You Forever, Free

  17-07-2023 22:01 via theverge.com
  
  “They proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. – The Verge
  
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• How Barcelona Became A Design Capital

  17-07-2023 21:06 via thedailybeast.com
  
  In the spring of 1992, Barcelona was in the throws of Olympian joy and design fever. After 36 years of dictatorship, Barcelona’s nomination as host city for the Summer Olympics was a golden opportunity to reset and present a revamped, modern metropolis after decades of cultural, social and political neglect. – The Daily Beast
  
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• Under cover: the artist adding queerness to early American advertising

  17-07-2023 20:34
  
  In a New York exhibition, the striking work of commercial artist JC Leyendecker shows homoerotism in early 20th century adverts“The ability of men to gaze at each other, which Leyendecker depicts, is very of his time. It’s very emblematic of what Bruce Weber does for Banana Republic, or advertising agencies for Abercromie & Fitch, or Calvin Klein underwear ads. That’s the modern-day interpretation of Leyendecker.”Curator Donald Albrecht is telling me about the new exh
  
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• A Movie About Theatre Camp That Helps Explain Theatre

  17-07-2023 20:12 via theatlantic.com
  
  Earnest and ridiculous in equal measure, Theater Camp makes clear that places like AdirondACTS are microcosms of magical weirdness. The film isn’t just a starry-eyed ode to the wonders of theater; it’s a look at how following one’s passions requires immense support. – The Atlantic
  
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• Why The Death Of Newspaper Dance Reviews Has Big Impacts On The Field Of Dance

  17-07-2023 19:24 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Critical dialogue in dance today takes many forms, none in short supply. But reviews of live dance performances, in print or online, in publications with at least a few thousand readers, do not exist in most media markets. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Thousands Of Writers Sign Letter Urging AI Companies Not To Use Their Work W/O Payment

  17-07-2023 18:31 via npr.org
  
  According to a forthcoming report from The Authors Guild, the median income for a full-time writer last year was $23,000. And writers’ incomes declined by 42% between 2009 and 2019. The advent of text-based generative AI applications like GPT-4 and Bard is giving writers across the country even more cause for worry. – NPR
  
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• Pittsburgh Opera Company Takes Stock, Decides To Reinvent

  17-07-2023 17:44 via artsjournal.com
  Pittsburgh Festival Opera, is a “summer festival company” that typically puts on a few small-scale productions during the summer months and provides a training program for aspiring opera singers. Last year, attendance at Festival Opera was “sad and just horrible.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• The Studios Are Doing It To Themselves

  17-07-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As Bob Iger seems to blame Disney+ for blockbusters’ lack of, uh, busting in recent months, “Who knew that convincing audiences they no longer need to go to the cinema would torpedo a blockbuster movie model that’s been in place since the mid-1970s?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Librarians Can Do Anything, Even Get Barack Obama On TikTok

  17-07-2023 16:30 via washingtonpost.com
  This week, Kankakee Public Library’s TikTok features the former president “drinking out of a library-branded mug and leafing through a paperback. It’s the first in a series of TikToks that Obama has filmed with libraries across the country” in a pushback against book banning laws. – Washington Post
  
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• Orange Is The New Black Actor Kimiko Glenn Talks About All The Second Jobs The Actors Had

  17-07-2023 16:00 via vulture.com
  
  The actors weren’t – and aren’t – getting paid a ton. Glenn: Some of the other actors “were fucking famous as shit, like internationally famous, couldn’t go outside, but had to keep their second jobs because they couldn’t afford to not. We couldn’t afford cabs to set.” – Vulture
  
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• Trying To Teach A Post-2001 Generation About The Trauma Of The Towers

  17-07-2023 15:45 via lithub.com
  
  “Their generation has come-of-age in a pandemic that killed millions of people and laid bare incredible systemic inequities. … Many of my students don’t know how they will ever afford to pay off their student loans, much less buy a house.” 9/11? So what? – LitHub
  
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• When A Reporter Falls In Love With A Musical

  17-07-2023 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A French musical based on a Hugo novel, but still. “A song debating the merits of the printing press at the top of Act II after a cliffhanger Act I ending? (I guess they had to leave at least one trademark Hugo tangent in there!)” – The New York Times
  
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• Sounds Like Portland Might Want To Build A New Hall Elsewhere And Demolish The Keller

  17-07-2023 15:15 via orartswatch.org
  
  The options for renovating Portland’s not-at-all-earthquake-safe, landmark-in-downtown big hall aren’t great. Now, the city is checking out ideas for a new site, “which would allow continuous operations at the Keller Auditorium until the new facility is completed.” Hmmm. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Don’t Mistake These Strikes As A Whine From The Privileged

  17-07-2023 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  No indeed: We’re all essentially the background actors. “If a digital replica of you — without your bothersome need for money and the time to lead a life — can do the job, who needs you?” – The New York Times
  
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• More Than 100 Tourists Get Stuck At Agatha Christie’s Home

  17-07-2023 14:45 via salon.com
  
  Does it sound like a Christie plot? “That joke was not lost on the nerve-rattled people left with nothing to do but wander around her property sipping calming beverages, eating sausage rolls prepared by the staff and playing croquet on the front lawn.” – Salon
  
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• Colson Whitehead On Writing A Trilogy, But Hedging His Bets

  17-07-2023 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “If you do two, you might as well do three! But when Harlem Shuffle came out I didn’t say it was the first in a trilogy, because what if I got bored? I wanted to give myself an out. I didn’t want it in my obituary.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Wait, Another Napoleon Movie?

  17-07-2023 14:15 via irishtimes.com
  
  Why, and why now? After all, “no figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies. … Every generation gets a Napoleon. Every generation several Napoleons. We may occasionally get the Napoleon we deserve.” – Irish Times
  
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• The EU Strongly Suggests The US Join Its Fight To Regulate AI

  17-07-2023 14:00 via wired.com
  
  Here’s the issue with a lack of US regulation: “If the EU’s forthcoming AI Act isn’t matched with US rules for AI, it will be more difficult to ask tech giants to be in full compliance and change how the industry operates.” – Wired
  
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• The Years When The US Thought The Swastika Was A Fashion Symbol

  17-07-2023 13:45 via slate.com
  
  We’re not talking about the Bund or other Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. – of course they liked it. But its use “was widespread and fashionable, first infused with a sense of vaguely whimsical ‘exoticism,’ and then perfect for the developing Art Deco aesthetic.” – Slate
  
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• Director Shekhar Kapur Says Some Diverse Casts Are Driven By Guilt

  17-07-2023 13:30 via bbc.com
  
  Kapur thinks that series like Bridgerton have casts possibly more diverse than historical record because there’s guilt over actors not getting work. Instead, he says, Hollywood needs to tell different, new, diverse stories. – BBC
  
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• Jane Birkin, ‘French Icon,’ Actor, Musician, And Eponymous Bag Inventor, 76

  17-07-2023 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Birkin “helped define chic female sexuality of the 1970s as an actress in arty and erotic European movies and in her relationship — equal parts romantic and artistic — with the singer Serge Gainsbourg.” (Later came the Birkin Bag.) – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Music Memoirs Big Business Right Now?

  17-07-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  There’s one very good reason: In 2012, publisher Faber committed to “campaigns that applied lessons learned from record labels, a faster-moving industry – creating a big noise, a big moment, having that book in market as quickly as possible afterwards.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Stan and deliver: art, books, film and more about super-fandom

  17-07-2023 11:00
  
  From an intimate take on Harry Potter to a moving monument to Marilyn, our writers celebrate culture that plays the fame gameThe special effects are dodgy, the fans zealous, and Alan Rickman is in devastatingly droll form in Galaxy Quest, an adventure caper that both satirises sci-fi fandom while heeding the joy and heart of these communities at their best. Rickman, Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver play actors who used to be leads in a cult Star Trek-like television series, and now spend their day
  
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• After the floods, the future looks bright: truck art in Pakistan – a photo essay

  17-07-2023 08:00
  
  Ali Salman Anchan and his team of artists travelled to meet some of the people affected by last year’s devastating monsoon rains in Sindh province. They set to work covering an aid truck with vibrant images to share people’s stories of resilience and recoveryPakistan artist Ali Salman Anchan has received commissions from across the world. His “truck art” – known as Phool Patti in Urdu – appears in buildings in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. M
  
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