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• Report: Children Become Discouraged From Reading By Adult Judgment

  08-03-2024 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  “Children have told us that they think that reading choices are judged by the adults around them,” said Cassie Chadderton, CEO of World Book Day. “It discourages them, it puts them off reading for pleasure and by choice”. – The Guardian
  
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• Study: Big Increase In Retail Record Shops In The UK

  08-03-2024 23:31 via theguardian.com
  
  A study by the Digital Entertainment and Retail Association (ERA) finds that there are now 461 indie record shops in the UK, 122 more than 2014. Purely in terms of store numbers, the sector has recovered strongly after a small dip during 2020 that is likely attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic. – The Guardian
  
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• Museums Are Buying As Private Sales Decline

  08-03-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Museums are increasingly important buyers at TEFAF Maastricht, as the number of private individuals purchasing old master pictures, sculptures and antiques has declined. – The New York Times
  
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• Have A Conversation With A New Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot

  08-03-2024 22:31 via variety.com
  
  The AI-generated Digital Marilyn chatbot lets you interact “in real-time using advanced natural language processing, deep learning and GPT 3.5,” Soul Machines said in announcing the project Friday. – Variety
  
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• Hollywood’s Rough Year, And Trends We’d Like To See

  08-03-2024 22:01 via washingtonpost.com
  The movie industry is notorious for learning precisely the wrong lesson from its successes, not to mention failures. Here are some trends from last year that I hope to see more of. – Washington Post
  
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• Russia Opens Museum Celebrating Its War In Ukraine

  08-03-2024 21:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Russian authorities have announced plans to memorialise the destruction of the occupied city in the Donbas—which it blames on Ukraine—with a new “museum of the liberation of Mariupol”, scheduled to open in summer 2024. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Kyoto is Banning Tourists From Its Historic Alleyways

  08-03-2024 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “Residents of Japan’s ancient capital have struggled to reconcile the financial boost from a return to pre-pandemic visitor numbers with overcrowding and incidents of bad behaviour among tourists,” especially in the geisha district of Gion. While the neighborhood’s alleyways are now off-limits, its main street remains open. – The Guardian
  
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• The Binge: Healthy Indulgence Or Destructive Behavior?

  08-03-2024 20:31 via thesmartset.com
  
  Here’s what has me perplexed: The word itself means doing something excessively, and to do anything excessively means doing it more than is reasonable or acceptable. If that’s still true and the English language hasn’t shifted just yet, then to binge means to do something too much. – The Smart Set
  
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• As Space In New York Gets Ever More Expensive, Indie Theatermakers Are Getting More Resourceful

  08-03-2024 20:04 via gothamist.com
  In years past, what used to be called Off-Off-Broadway would take place on small, out-of-the-way stages in storefronts, schools or church basements. Post-pandemic, they’re happening in people’s living rooms or tiny backyards or on their rooftops. – Gothamist
  
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• The Psychology Of How We Sort Into Categories

  08-03-2024 19:45 via thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
  
  At some point, we have to make a principled decision about what the category is and why that is the best way to think about it, because the world isn’t pre-divided into nice categories that we simply have to notice. – The Reader
  
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• The Physicality Of Books Versus What They Say

  08-03-2024 19:31 via lrb.co.uk
  
  Sometimes we ignore a book’s material presence: absorbed, ‘good’ reading is often figured as a forgetting of the material conditions of book, body, room and time, even though these conditions affect how we read. With certain other books it makes no sense to separate text from object. – London Review of Books
  
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• Is A Solution To The Plague Of Counterfeit Books At Hand?

  08-03-2024 19:03 via publishersweekly.com
  “Counterfeiting occurs when a party poses as a book’s real publisher to sell fake versions of books. … Sometimes these versions are obviously fake — bad scans of a book are not uncommon. Sometimes the fakes are actual EPUBs that the counterfeiter duplicated.” There’s a new way to help block these forgeries. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Two artists withdraw work from Barbican show in row over Gaza talk

  08-03-2024 18:49
  
  Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit ask for art to be removed from exhibition after venue pulled out of hosting speech about warTwo artists have withdrawn their work from a critically acclaimed Barbican exhibition because of the institution’s decision to pull out of hosting a speech about the Israel-Gaza conflict, which its chief executive acknowledged had caused “significant concern about artistic freedom”.The French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada and the Filipino artist Cian Dayrit requ
  
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• If Our Tools Shape Us, How Will AI Change Us?

  08-03-2024 18:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Just as Joseph Stalin called artists the “engineers of the soul,” Gemini and other AI bots may function as the engineers of our mindscapes. Programmed by the hacker wizards of Silicon Valley, AI may become a vehicle for programming us—with profound implications for democratic citizenship. – The Atlantic
  
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• Meet The Founders Of Hollywood’s New Union For Choreographers

  08-03-2024 18:06 via ladancechronicle.com
  
  Although choreographers for the stage are represented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the film/television/video industry had no equivalent of SAG-AFTRA or the Writers Guild for dancemakers — until 2022, when the Choreographers Guild was born. Here’s a Q&A with a few of its founding leaders. – LA Dance Chronicle
  
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• Akira Toriyama, Legend Of Manga And Anime, Dead At 68

  08-03-2024 17:03 via msn.com
  “There is hardly a space in pop culture today that hasn’t been touched by Akira Toriyama’s art. … He brought manga and anime into the global mainstream and broke down the walls that had once sealed off Japanese storytelling.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Starchitect Bjarke Ingels Talks About His “Spherical Armadillo” For Las Vegas

  08-03-2024 16:35 via theathletic.com
  
  “I mean, it’s not like we tried to make it look like an armadillo.” On comparisons to the Sydney Opera House: “I’ll definitely take it as a compliment. I think it’s one of the most beautiful buildings on Earth. And I think, in all fairness, this is a very different building.” – The Athletic
  
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• A Cross Between A Baseball, An Armadillo, And The Sydney Opera House: Design For Vegas’s Major League Stadium Is Revealed

  08-03-2024 16:35 via sports.yahoo.com
  
  Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and HNTB designed the planned 33,000-seat arena for the team currently known as the Oakland A’s, which is moving to Nevada. Ingels himself describes the structure as a “spherical armadillo.” The stadium will be on the Strip, on the current site of the Tropicana. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Gold statues and jewellery stolen in €1m heist at museum by Lake Garda

  08-03-2024 16:09
  
  Items by Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni taken from exhibition at Vittoriale degli Italiani estateGold statues and jewellery made by the Italian sculptor Umberto Mastroianni have been stolen from an exhibition in northern Italy in a €1m (£850,000) heist.The 20 gold statues and 30 pieces of jewellery were crafted between the 1950s and 1990s by the artist, who was the uncle ofLa Dolce Vita film star Marcello Mastroianni. Continue reading...
  
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• Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre, Nearly Dead Last Summer, Has A New Artistic Director And A New Business Plan

  08-03-2024 16:02 via msn.com
  “The company, which was founded in 1988 by a group of Northwestern University graduates and achieved national fame for its original theatrical works, has been struggling financially since the COVID-19 crisis and has seen its theater production activities dwindle.” – Chicago Tribune (MSN)
  
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• Police In Spain Capture Alleged Ring Of Banksy Forgers

  08-03-2024 15:34 via cnn.com
  
  “Spanish police said they have shut down an alleged forgery ring selling fake Banksy artworks across the US and Europe for up to €1,500 ($1,642) a piece. Investigators seized nine artworks during a raid of an apartment in the city of Zaragoza.” – CNN
  
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• The Wave Of Public Radio Layoffs Hits Colorado

  08-03-2024 15:01 via insideradio.com
  
  The statewide network is eliminating 15 positions, some 8% of its workforce, mostly in audio and podcast production. (The newsroom is not affected.) The reason is the same as with other public radio outlets shedding staff: reduced revenue, especially from corporate advertising/sponsorships. – Inside Radio
  
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• Sydney Biennale 2024: Armageddon is met with joy and subversion in epic art feast

  08-03-2024 15:00
  
  Spread out across six venues, including the anticipated White Bay Power Station, Ten Thousand Suns is an exhibition of global scope and resilienceThe trauma of colonisation and war, and an impending environmental apocalypse, are themes that permeate the 2024 Biennale of Sydney. But there are also glimpses of promise and joy to be found in the free art festival, which this year draws 96 artists and collectives from 50 different countries.Titled Ten Thousand Suns, the 24th iteration of the major e
  
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• Steve Lawrence, Half Of Popular Jazz-Pop Duo Steve And Eydie, Is Dead At 88

  08-03-2024 14:33 via apnews.com
  
  “As a solo performer and with his wife, Eydie Gormé, (he) kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era. … Steve & Eydie were known for their frequent appearances on talk shows, in night clubs and (in) Las Vegas, (singing) George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and other songwriters.” – AP
  
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• Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Will Make Its First-Ever Asian Tour

  08-03-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The full company has toured the Far East before, but this June will be the first time for the orchestra as a concert ensemble. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and vocal soloists Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa, and Christian Van Horn will perform in Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo and Hyogo, Japan. – The New York Times
  
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• A tropical storm, an ancient sisterhood and Toni Morrison sculptures – the week in art

  08-03-2024 13:00
  
  Postcolonial architecture in Ghana, fresh responses to an all-female medieval community and sculptures inspired by radical writing – all in your weekly dispatchTropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
  An atmospheric look at how high modernist architecture was reinvented as the style of postcolonial Ghana and India in the 1950s and 60s.
  • V&A, London, until 22 September Continue reading...
  
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• Descendants of King William II’s killer want to donate triptych depicting death to UK museum

  08-03-2024 06:00
  
  Latin-inscribed artwork believed to date back to 1100 tells story of Walter Tirel, whose son killed British monarchThe Italian descendants of King William II’s killer want to donate a work of medieval art partly depicting William’s death to a British museum.The three-slab triptych, believed to have been made by a Norman artist in 1100, has been owned by the Tirelli family, whose aristocratic origins can be traced back to France, for over 400 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Descendants of King William II’s killer keen to donate triptych depicting death to British museum

  08-03-2024 06:00
  
  Latin-inscribed artwork tells story of Walter Tirel whose son killed monarch, William the Conqueror’s sonThe Italian descendants of King William II’s killer want to donate a work of medieval art partly depicting William’s death to a British museum.The three-slab triptych, believed to have been made by a Norman artist in 1100, has been owned by the Tirelli family, whose aristocratic origins can be traced back to France, for over 400 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Europe Works To Pry Open Big Tech Companies

  08-03-2024 00:01 via wired.com
  
  The law essentially crowbars open what the EU calls the gatekeepers’ “core services.” In the past regulators have proposed containing corporate giants by taking them to pieces. EU lawmakers have adopted the motto “Don’t break up big tech companies, break them open.” – Wired
  
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