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• Arnold Schoenberg’s Hollywood

  11-03-2024 22:31 via newyorker.com
  
  He played tennis with George Gershwin, who idolized him. He delighted in the American habits of his children, who, to the alarm of other émigrés, ran all over the house. He taught at U.S.C., at U.C.L.A., and at home, counting John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Oscar Levant among his students. – The New Yorker
  
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• Yerba Buena CEO Quits After Controversy

  11-03-2024 22:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Sara Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at the center. After artists Jeffrey Cheung and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alleged that YBCA prevented them from advocating for Palestine in additional projects for the Bay Area Now 9 exhibition, eight artists in the show altered their own artworks with pro-Palestine messaging. – Hyperallgeric
  
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• UNESCO Talks About Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage

  11-03-2024 21:14 via theconversation.com
  
  The Unesco convention defines intangible cultural heritage as: “Practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage.” – The Conversation
  
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• NY Times Co-Chief Art Critic To Retire After 32 Years, 4,500 Reviews

  11-03-2024 20:25 via nytco.com
  
  Roberta Smith started freelancing for The New York Times in 1986, after writing for Art in America and The Village Voice, and after a semester at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Before writing full time, she also worked at MoMA; with Donald Judd, the celebrated Minimalist; and at the Paula Cooper Gallery. – The New York Times
  
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• Proposed Law To Increase Streaming Royalty To A Penny A Stream

  11-03-2024 19:02 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Streaming has grown to represent 84 percent of recorded music industry revenue, but that Spotify, the leading music streaming platform, only pays an average per-stream royalty of $0.003, meaning an artist must reach 800,000 monthly streams to equal a full-time $15/hour job. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Those Round-Up Purchase Donations Have Added Up To Be Big Money

  11-03-2024 18:14 via npr.org
  
  In 2022 alone, charities raised $749 million nationwide through so-called point-of-sale donations, a 24% jump from 2020, according to Engage for Good, which tracks this type of charitable giving. – NPR
  
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• The Evolutionary Roots Of Our Attraction To Music

  11-03-2024 17:31 via psychologytoday.com
  Groups that could make music together – whether a simple drumbeat or a beautiful melody – were more cohesive, communicative, cooperative and defensive. Natural selection then embedded the capacity for music into our biology. – Psychology Today
  
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• Technology And Teaching The Violin. What Will AI Change?

  11-03-2024 16:44 via nightingalessonata.com
  
  A team at the University of Maryland (UMD) has received almost a million dollars from the US National Science Foundation (USNSF) to study the possible application of artificial intelligence to violin pedagogy. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• Some May Work As Symbols review – this raucous Brazilian art extravaganza can stop you in your tracks

  11-03-2024 16:25
  
  Raven Row, London
  From cool Bauhaus-inspired pieces to portraits of people with terrifying teeth, this refreshing show of 50s-70s art revels in a sense of discordWild sambas and strict abstractions, vibrating lines and arrangements of eye-popping triangles. Weddings in church and a walk in the park. The rational and the religious, the grid and the carnival collide in Some May Work As Symbols at Raven Row. The exhibition shuttles between Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Salvador in the state o
  
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• ‘I enjoyed hearing her sharp tongue’: a new Frida Kahlo documentary adds insight

  11-03-2024 16:06
  
  A new documentary about the groundbreaking artist uses her journals to illustrate a fearless voice who lived a unique lifeThe life of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is a story that has been told many, many times. Since she began to be rediscovered in the 1980s, there have been hundreds of books written about her, as well as several feature films telling her story from various angles. And then there are the art exhibitions – dozens since 2020 alone.Kahlo’s story has been so well-docum
  
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• The Gay Best Friend Was A Tired Trope, Sure, But Did He Really Need To Vanish Entirely?

  11-03-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “For a long time now, popular culture has been moving forward without a once-essential style accessory: the Gay Best Friend. We’re not supposed to mourn his absence; we’re not supposed to want him back. But I kind of do.” – The New York Times
  
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• The International Booker Longlist Showcases The Strength Of Latin American Fiction

  11-03-2024 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The 13-book longlist “signals a ‘second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction’, said judges, with a quarter of the nominated authors being South American.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Let’s End The ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Curse Now

  11-03-2024 15:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Taking home one of the industry’s most prestigious awards might seem to indicate that an actress is one worth paying attention to, making it more conspicuous when they’re seemingly nowhere to be seen, or limited to more supporting parts.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Britain Released An Official Photo Of Kate As Proof Of Life – Then The AP Withdrew It

  11-03-2024 14:45 via latimes.com
  
  Speculation has been absolutely rife online about Catherine, Princess of Wales, and the photo was supposed to calm it down. But “at closer inspection, it appeared the source had manipulated the image in a way that did not meet AP’s photo standards.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• When This French Actress Had Trouble Landing Roles, She Made Her Own Play, And Her Own Way

  11-03-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “The production is testament to Blanc’s ability to forge a lasting career in a performance landscape that has often felt hostile to her. … [But] last year, she became the first actress on the core syllabus for all French high school students studying theater.” – The New York Times
  
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• Oregon Finally Passed Some Arts Funding, But Left A Major Museum And Most Smaller Organizations Out

  11-03-2024 14:15 via msn.com
  The state legislature hadn’t funded the arts at all during its regular session in 2023, so “news was both good and bad Thursday … when, in the closing hours of the short legislative session, lawmakers approved less than half of the funding arts champions had hoped for.” – MSN (Oregonian)
  
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• Songwriters Are Terrified Of AI

  11-03-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And rightly so. “Any person could put into an AI programme something like ‘I want a song 100 BPM that sounds like a cross between Abba and Arctic Monkeys’. And some music will be created and it will be pretty good.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Polarizing Movie That Paved The Way For Barbie-Mania

  11-03-2024 13:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Before the buzzy movie debuted, paparazzi photos of the costumed stars began leaking from the location shoot. When the premiere rolled around, it was just the first in a months-long series of red-carpet events, for which the cast … wore clothes inspired by” Bonnie & Clyde. – The Atlantic
  
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• Revered Editor And Writer William Whitworth Has Died At 87

  11-03-2024 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Whitworth “wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker … and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Revered Editor And Writer William Whitman Has Died At 87″

  11-03-2024 13:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Whitworth “wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker … and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years.” – The New York Times
  
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• With Contract Negotiations Coming Up, Jimmy Kimmel Brought Crew Members To The Oscars Stage

  11-03-2024 13:00 via vulture.com
  
  After honoring and thanking the crew members, “Kimmel turned to leave the crew members with a final promise. ‘Thank you for standing with us,’ he said. ‘And also, we want you to know that in your upcoming negotiation, we will stand with you, too.’” – Vulture
  
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• The Thing New Actors Misunderstand About The Job

  11-03-2024 12:45 via slate.com
  
  Acting coach Howard Fine says that acting is “incredibly tough,” and if it’s not your passion, you better step away. – Slate
  
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• How Far Can A Writer Push Fiction’s Boundaries?

  11-03-2024 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Kathryn Scanlon, winner of the Gordon Burn prize, says, “I love that you could come to this book and not really know what it is you’re reading.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Past Lives Conveys So Much About The Immigrant Experience

  11-03-2024 12:15 via huffpost.com
  
  “Like Nora, I had lofty dreams and thought of America as my salvation of sorts. The place where I could achieve things I’d never have an opportunity to experience in Iran. As I watched the movie nestled next to my Midwestern husband, I wondered … what did I sacrifice?” – HuffPost
  
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• Roku Is Now Locking Up TVs For People Who Don’t Want To Agree To Its Terms

  11-03-2024 12:00 via wired.com
  
  To opt out, “users must send a letter to Roku’s general counsel in California mentioning: ‘the name of each person opting out and contact information for each such person, the specific product models, software, or services used that are at issue’” and much more. – Wired
  
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• Artist defends Tate Britain’s display of ‘undeniably racist’ Whistler mural

  11-03-2024 07:00
  
  Keith Piper says engaging with offensive and traumatic imagery can be important in keeping a clear sense of historyAn artist commissioned to respond to a mural in Tate Britain that has been sealed off from the public since 2020 because of its depictions of black and Chinese people, says viewing traumatic and racist images is crucial for us to truly grapple with our history.Keith Piper was commissioned by Tate Britain in 2022 to create a work that reacted to the Rex Whistler mural, titled The Exp
  
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• Artist defends decision to display ‘undeniably racist’ Tate Britain mural

  11-03-2024 07:00
  
  Keith Piper says engaging with offensive and traumatic imagery can be important in keeping a clear sense of historyAn artist commissioned to respond to a mural in Tate Britain that has been sealed off from the public since 2020 because of its depictions of black and Chinese people, says viewing traumatic and racist images is crucial for us to truly grapple with our history.Keith Piper was commissioned by Tate Britain in 2022 to create a work that reacted to the Rex Whistler mural, titled The Exp
  
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• Live Updates From The Oscars

  11-03-2024 00:45 via latimes.com
  
  As they happen! – Los Angeles Times
  
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