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• See The First Photos From The Euclid Telescope, Orbiting One Million Miles From Earth

  08-11-2023 20:57 via wired.com
  
  “These new, full-color space photos reveal spectacular snapshots of the vast structure of the cosmos, including a massive galaxy cluster in the Perseus constellation, an object nicknamed the ‘Hidden Galaxy,’ an irregularly structured galaxy, a globular cluster packed with myriad stars, and the gorgeous Horsehead Nebula.” – Wired
  
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• Rebelling Against The Traditional Book Club

  08-11-2023 20:32 via wsj.com
  
  Though traditional book clubs have been a fixture of American social life for decades, some bibliophiles think they have lost the plot. These bookworms don’t want to read books that don’t interest them. Even worse is recommending a book the rest of the group hates. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Ron DeSantis Has Wrecked The State Entity That Governs Disney World, Say Ex-Staffers

  08-11-2023 20:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Morale and trust within the (Central Florida Tourism Oversight District) has deteriorated since allies of (the Florida governor) took it over earlier this year, according to many employees who have departed in recent months saying the governing district has been politicized and cronyism now permeates the organization.” – AP
  
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• Remembering Robert Brustein And The Power of Authority And Insight

  08-11-2023 19:32 via latimes.com
  
  One didn’t read Brustein to determine which Broadway shows to buy tickets to. One read Brustein to understand a play or musical in its larger historical context and to be reminded of the artistic values that guided his judgments. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Problems With Casting Big Movie Stars In Classic Plays

  08-11-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear in the West End is getting panned, but sometimes (as with Paul Mescal and Daniel Radcliffe) they’re terrific. But half the audience comes just to see the celebrity in person, and sometimes producers blow the budget on the star while everything else looks cheap. – The Guardian
  
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• When Aaron Copland Was A Cultural Diplomat

  08-11-2023 18:19 via sfcv.org
  The State Department ran a major cultural diplomacy program during the mid-20th century, sending some of America’s most prominent performers on overseas tours. Best remembered today are visits to Communist Eastern Europe, but the program was active in Latin America as well — with Copland as its leading light. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• You Might Be Amazed At How Much Of Your Everyday Vocabulary Comes From Shakespeare

  08-11-2023 18:02 via bbc.com
  
  It’s not just the common expressions — “wild goose chase,” “cruel to be kind,” “in a pickle,” “fair play,” and lots of others. Shakespeare coined hundred of basic words we use today: “eyeball,” “bedroom,” “puppy dog,” “bedazzled,” “jaded,” and on and on. – BBC
  
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• TikTok Is Closing Down Its $1 Billion Creator Fund

  08-11-2023 17:44 via theverge.com
  
  “The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app’s viral content. … TikTok didn’t respond to questions about whether it had paid out all of the $1 billion.” – The Verge
  
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• People Are Spending Hours Conversing With ChatGPT

  08-11-2023 17:33 via arstechnica.com
  
  “In 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her imagined a world where humans form deep emotional connections with AI. … Ten years later, thanks to ChatGPT’s recently added voice features, people are playing out a small slice of Her in reality, having hours-long discussions with the AI assistant on the go.” – Ars Technica
  
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• This Ballet Dancer Has Returned To The Stage After A Hip Replacement

  08-11-2023 17:17 via newsinteractive.post-gazette.com
  
  Jessica McCann of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre suffered hip pain for years, but by last year’s Nutcracker, she reached the breaking point. Doctors said she had the right hip of a 90-year-old and needed a replacement. She was back onstage last month. Here’s the story of her surgery and recovery. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Remember The Medieval Painting That Was Hanging Over An Old French Lady’s Stove? It’s Going To The Louvre

  08-11-2023 17:01 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Mocking of Christ, by the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue, was sold at auction, reportedly to collectors in Delaware, for €24.2 million. The French government promptly declared the painting a “national treasure,” barring export for 30 months, giving the Louvre time to raise funds to match the bid. – Artnet
  
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• Radio Anchor Shot To Death In Philippines While Live On Air And Facebook

  08-11-2023 16:45 via apnews.com
  
  “The gunman gained entry into the home-based radio station of provincial news broadcaster Juan Jumalon by pretending to be a listener. He then shot him twice during a live morning broadcast in Calamba town in Misamis Occidental province (on the island of Mindanao), police said.” – AP
  
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• Facebook And Google Blocked Sharing News On Their Platforms In Canada. It Has Been a Disaster For Small Publishers

  08-11-2023 16:24 via reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
  While Canadian audiences are undoubtedly harmed by the blocking of journalism, for independent local news business, which the Bill aimed to protect, this new media ecosystem can be a death sentence. – Reuters Institute
  
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• Picasso masterpiece kicks off auction season forecast to sell $2.5bn in art

  08-11-2023 16:20
  
  The 1932 painting of secret ‘golden muse’ heralds first big lot of autumn with Warhol and Rothko works also up for saleA Pablo Picasso masterpiece of his “golden muse” is predicted to trigger a $120m (£100m)-plus bidding war between billionaire art collectors on Wednesday night, in the first big lot of an autumn auction season that is expected to sell more than $2.5bn (£2bn) of art.The portrait Femme à la Montre (Woman with Watch) will be sold at auctio
  
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• What 35 Years Of Data Show About How Book Awards Winners Are Chosen

  08-11-2023 16:00 via publicbooks.org
  
  Among other things, the scandal of the 1987 National Book Award emphasizes just how little we, as readers, know about how literary distinction is doled out, and by whom. – Public Books
  
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• Picasso masterpiece kicks off auction season forecast to sell £2bn in art

  08-11-2023 15:57
  
  The 1932 painting of secret ‘golden muse’ heralds first big lot of autumn with Warhol and Rothko works also up for saleA Pablo Picasso masterpiece of his “golden muse” is predicted to trigger a £100m-plus bidding war between billionaire art collectors on Wednesday night in the first big lot of an autumn auction season that is expected to sell more than £2bn of art.The portrait, Femme à la Montre (Woman with Watch), will be sold at auction at Sotheby&rsq
  
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• We Have To Either Sell Our Cézannes Or Close Our Doors, Says Museum

  08-11-2023 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The director of the Museum Langmatt in Switzerland described the upcoming auction at Christie’s of three Cézanne paintings as an “emergency measure,” saying that the sales will finance an endowment and compensate the heirs of a Jewish dealer forced to sell the artworks during the Nazi era. – The New York Times
  
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• Cellist Calls For Airlines To Clarify Procedures For Taking Instruments On Board

  08-11-2023 15:01 via classicfm.com
  
  “Most of the airlines do not have a policy for musical instruments,” he said. “And when there is a policy sometimes it is not applied consistently.” – ClassicFM
  
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• A kiss, a queen and a battered Venus: the Art Fund celebrates 120 years of saving art

  08-11-2023 14:58
  
  This week the national charity for art, established on 11 November 1903, reaches its 120th birthday. Here are a few highlights of the great works it has helped to save for the nation Continue reading...
  
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• Artes Mundi 10 review – an exotic plunge into broken, borderless worlds

  08-11-2023 14:16
  
  National Museum, Cardiff and venues across Wales
  From the marshlands of Iraq to a beach in Bougainville, this Wales-wide art extravaganza feels like a passport to the entire planetDespite coming from Wales, I dropped Welsh for Latin at my comprehensive school, so I know what Artes Mundi means. But I am all at sea watching a video in Arabic that has Welsh subtitles. Or rather I should be, but I am actually not: I am absorbed. A youth is punting a boat through the reeds in a sunbaked marshy estuar
  
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• Arvie Smith on his radical art: ‘I’m not painting something to go over your couch’

  08-11-2023 12:21
  
  The 85-year-old has fought for his place as an artist, capturing the complexities of the Black experience on canvas, in ways that provoke and inspireAt 85 years of age, Arvie Smith is arguably in his finest form ever. The artist retired from teaching in 2014, which allowed him focus on his art full-time, and after that followed a 2017 Governor’s Art Award from the state of Oregon, a 2018 honorary doctorate from his alma mater, the Pacific Northwest School of Art, and a showing at the 2022
  
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• ‘Two hours trying to siphon a prawn’: at home with Salvador Dalí – archive, 1973

  08-11-2023 10:45
  
  In May 1973, TV presenter Russell Harty went to film Dalí at his seaside house in Spain. On his return he wrote an account of the meeting for the GuardianBy Russell Harty
  9 November 1973 Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Completely unique’: two early Sidney Nolan paintings to go up for sale for first time in almost 75 years

  08-11-2023 01:27
  
  Canvases going to auction were part of Nolan’s breakthrough exhibition in 1949, described as a ‘pivotal moment’ in Australian artFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo works by Sidney Nolan that haven’t changed hands since they were painted more than 70 years ago – including one believed to be the first he ever sold commercially and a Christmas gift to his wife – are he
  
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• The Myths And Mythologies Of Misinformation (And The Damage They Do)

  08-11-2023 00:01 via niemanlab.org
  
  The internet is, it turns out, a powerful engine for the creation of mistrust and a rich source of raw materials for false beliefs. – NiemenLab
  
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