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• This Artist Emerged From COVID’s Early Days Of Isolation With An Instagram Following, And Then A Gallery

  18-02-2024 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Danielle Mckinney had “spent her entire professional life pursuing photography without showing in a commercial gallery, but soon she had dealers on both coasts, solo shows lined up and a waiting list of collectors and institutions interested in acquiring her paintings. She was excited and perplexed.” – The New York Times
  
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• The U.S. Is Mired In The Who Can Be A Country Singer Debate Again

  18-02-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Remember Lil Nas X and “Old Town Road” (2018) or, gosh, Beyoncé and “Daddy Lessons” (2016)? The discussion rages on as country music stations at first weren’t playing Bey’s two new country singles. Things seem to have changed during the week since the Super Bowl. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• New Biographies Of Recently Deceased Celebrities Are Coming From – You Knew It – AI

  18-02-2024 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  This is a “macabre new publishing subgenre: hasty, shoddy, A.I.-generated biographies of people who have just died.” – The New York Times
  
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• What’s The Matter With Public Art In New Hampshire?

  18-02-2024 21:00 via csmonitor.com
  
  “If the residents of Littleton vote to limit public art, as one Board of Selectmen member has suggested, the statue will have to be removed. There’s no middle ground: Either all art or none would be allowed on government property.” – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• We Need To Talk About Goodreads

  18-02-2024 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Goodreads appears to be somewhat innocently letting “the public” tell other members of the public what is worthwhile. “For the well-reviewed author, this is a fine setup. For the author who may not benefit from a wide general readership, it’s a psychological thriller.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Mashup of Amanda Gorman and Bach at Carnegie Hall

  18-02-2024 20:20 via artsjournal.com
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• How The Met Is Bringing The Harlem Renaissance Back Into The Spotlight

  18-02-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The last Harlem show at the Met, in 1969 (!), contained no Black artists. This one is going to be different. Some works were stored in family members’ basements, for instance, and needed serious renovation. – The New York Times
  
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• All Of The BAFTAs, As They Happen

  18-02-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A live feed mixing fashion commentary and media reporting, the way the internet was intended to give us our awards news. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Reddit Has A Deal To Train AI With Its Many Years Of User Info

  18-02-2024 19:00 via theverge.com
  
  Yes, longtime users, Reddit ITA, to the tune of $60 million a year. “It’s not known what company Reddit made the deal with, but it’s quite a bit more than the $5 million annual deal OpenAI has reportedly been offering news publishers for their data.” – The Verge
  
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• The ‘Glass Church’ In LA, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright’s Son, Shuts Amid Landslide Fears

  18-02-2024 18:52 via theguardian.com
  
  The Wayfarers Chapel “sits on the Palos Verdes peninsula, which is prone to landslides. Cracks had begun to appear in the structure, and several panes of glass had broken in recent months.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Turns Out Live TV Isn’t Dead

  18-02-2024 18:00 via wired.com
  
  And it can thank streaming for that: “With streamers raising prices and adding commercials, maybe the urgency of watching something as it’s happening has the juice to bring people back to broadcast.” – Wired
  
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• Choreographer Fatima Robinson Says The Dance World Has Changed Dramatically In Her Time

  18-02-2024 17:30 via npr.org
  
  That includes, in recent years, TikTok trends. “I find it so much fun. It’s an inspiring place to go to find out how young people are moving their bodies – young and old,” Robinson says. – NPR
  
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• A White Singer Rejects A State Honor For Her Grammy Because The Legislature Chose Not To Honor A Black Singer’s Grammy

  18-02-2024 17:00 via tennessean.com
  
  “Paramore singer Hayley Williams decried a Tennessee House of Representatives dustup this week where a Republican lawmaker blocked a resolution honoring the Grammy win of Black musician Allison Russell while allowing a similar resolution honoring Paramore to go forward.” – The Tennessean
  
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• Queer Literature Is On The Rise Across The Continent Of Africa

  18-02-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  One Nigerian author: “I knew I wanted to write characters who are queer. That’s the only way I am going to show up on the page.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sure, The New J-Lo Movie Is A Celebrity Vanity Project

  18-02-2024 16:00 via slate.com
  
  But why aren’t more celebrities using their money for this kind of baffling, joyous, wacky creative venture? “It is genuinely exciting to see an A-lister in the pursuit of pure, honest, sincere cringe.” – Slate
  
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• School District Near Minneapolis Accedes To Somali Families’ Anti-LGBTQIA Books Request

  18-02-2024 15:30 via sahanjournal.com
  
  “St. Louis Park Public Schools will allow opt-outs for families who don’t want their children to read books with LGBTQ+ characters, after six Somali Muslim families threatened to sue the district.” – Sahan Journal
  
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• A colossal artistic joke – Flaming June at the Royal Academy review

  18-02-2024 15:19
  
  Royal Academy, London
  A clever, titillating work offering easy visual thrills – Look at all that orange! Notice the nipple! – Frederic Leighton’s iconic painting is back in the UK while its Puerto Rico home undergoes repairsSome artworks are iconic the moment they are created, such as the Mona Lisa or Warhol’s soup cans. Others become famous in more twisty ways. Frederic, Lord Leighton’s late 19th-century painting Flaming June was forgotten and lost for much of the
  
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• Alexei Navalny’s Last Laugh

  18-02-2024 15:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “I will always remember the words written on a piece of paper that Navalny held at one of his court hearings: ‘I am not afraid and you should not be afraid.’ Navalny was still smiling and laughing on the eve of his death.” – The Atlantic
  
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• How Novels Can Crack The Tightest Belief System

  18-02-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  When George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Toni Morrison let some light in. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Please, Please Quit It With Overperformed Audiobooks

  18-02-2024 14:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Please just read me a story without distraction. I don’t need to hear a variety of voices from a single narrator if a full-cast production is not in the cards. Not every novel needs to be read as a radio drama. And please go light on the accents.” – LitHub
  
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• The BAFTAs Have Never Awarded A Black Woman With The Best Actress Award

  18-02-2024 13:30 via variety.com
  
  That seems unlikely to change this year either, despite the nominations of Vivian Oparah for the charming Rye Lane and Fantasia Barrino in the new musical movie version of The Color Purple. “The question of how to address the UK’s persistent issue with embracing diverse performers remains unanswered.” – Variety
  
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• For These Major Awards, Some Authors Were Unaccountably Declared Ineligible

  18-02-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Then Hugo Awards rumors started; now leaked emails confirm that “one of the Hugo administrators had advised other members to vet the finalists and ‘highlight anything of a sensitive political nature’ in China. … Such works, he added, might not be safe to put on the ballot.” – The New York Times
  
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• Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

  18-02-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this painstaking retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructiveIt begins with her voice in an early sound piece: gentle, melodic, answering the phone somewhere in the 1960s – “Hello. This is Yoko.” Next, her fingers strike a match, which gradually flares and fades on film in mesmeris
  
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• ‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

  18-02-2024 09:00
  
  As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists, including David Hockney, Cornelia Parker, Jesse Darling and Lubaina Himid, to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to themThe National Gallery in London celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, a fact that seems at first to have little bearing on the spell it casts on visitors, who come in search of paintings both much older and much younger than the institution itself. But its history is a part of its cha
  
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