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• Hollywood Has Been Eating Its Own Tail (And Now It’s Dying)

  15-04-2024 23:31 via harpers.org
  
  “It is probably the deepest and most existential crisis it’s ever been in. The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out. The top end of the talent are making more money than they ever have, but the nuts-and-bolts people who make the industry go round are losing out dramatically.” – Harper’s
  
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• A Show So Nice, the NY Times Reviewed It Thrice: The Whitney’s Bifurcated Biennial

  15-04-2024 23:21 via artsjournal.com
  
  In what would seem to be a new technique for explicating an exhibition that’s exasperatingly inexplicable, the NY Times gave
  
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• Remembering Seiji Ozawa

  15-04-2024 22:45 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Ozawa refused to live in Boston, raising his family in Tokyo and commuting when required. His English was never more than functional. Most musicians grasped what he wanted; any who protested did not last long. – The Critic
  
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• How GenAI Can Empower Musicians

  15-04-2024 22:02 via latimes.com
  
  GenAI can benefit musicians as well as the general public. Songwriters are no longer limited to the instruments they can play or a recording process they know, and beginners can more easily learn a new instrument with natural language processing and through conversational prompts. – ZDNet
  
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• Australian Students Are Flocking To Humanities Studies Despite Attempts To Discourage Them

  15-04-2024 21:26 via theguardian.com
  
  “A lot of young people are moving away from conventional ideas of education and the workforce to pursuing things we genuinely enjoy in life. “We know what’s best for us – we’re willing to stand up and say ‘this is our future, we’re not going to allow our lives to be dictated’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Do These People Hate Renoir So Much?

  15-04-2024 20:44 via news.artnet.com
  
  Armed with snobbish hipster fury and signage that read “God Hates Renoir,” “ReNOir,” and “We’re Not Iconoclasts, Renoir Just Sucks At Painting,” the group briefly received considerable media attention—though none from the institutions it was heckling. – Artnet
  
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• Spotify Working On Tools To Let Users Be Their Own DJs

  15-04-2024 20:02 via wsj.com
  The audio streaming company is developing tools that would allow subscribers to speed up, mash up and otherwise edit songs from their favorite artists, according to people familiar with the discussions. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Disney’s Biggest Theme Park Challenge

  15-04-2024 19:15 via wsj.com
  A common vacation itinerary includes three or four days at Disney World and one or two days at Universal. If Universal can now persuade families to spend one more day at its parks instead of at Disney, it could nab hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• AI Translators Are Crushing Languages

  15-04-2024 18:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  The generative-AI boom, despite promises to bridge languages and cultures, may only further entrench the dominance of English in life on and off the web. – The Atlantic
  
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• Time for volunteers to get equal protection from sexual harassment | Brief letters

  15-04-2024 18:26
  
  Equality Act | Pop art | Horrifying sounds | Shower sharing | No fan of JacksonWhile it is good that sexual harassment is being added to the 2010 Equality Act this year, it will not cover volunteers (The world has changed. So why do businessmen still think they can harass women at work parties?, 4 April). In fact, the Equality Act only covers employees. Volunteers can be discriminated against or sexually harassed with no protection. It’s time they were included in the act.
  Lorna Henderson
  
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• Why Are Broadway Tickets So Much More Expensive Now?

  15-04-2024 17:44 via gothamist.com
  If Broadway feels more expensive than ever before, that’s because it is. Despite crowds that haven’t rebounded to pre-COVID levels, the average ticket price for a Broadway show reached an all time high: $128 in the most recent full season. – Gothamist
  
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• Dying For The Liberal Arts

  15-04-2024 17:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  In 1942, a young man at war wrote a defense of the liberal arts to his family, and to his favorite professor – letters that have inspired his relatives to understand how central ideas are to democracy. – The Atlantic
  
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• How Harlem Stage Has Helped Create Choreography Careers

  15-04-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The series E-Moves is 25 years old now, and one of its “intended effects has been to take choreographers who work mainly ‘downtown,’ in white-dominated dance institutions, and bring them ‘uptown’ to Harlem.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Irish Lads Who Founded Smut Press Are Having A Bit Of A Laugh

  15-04-2024 16:00 via irishtimes.com
  
  “The goal of Smut, says Scollard, is to ‘champion work that might find it difficult to get published elsewhere – maybe a bit risqué or provocative. But the main basis is that we want to work with queer artists.'” – Irish Times
  
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• The Resurrection Of Notre Dame Is Bringing The French Together In Some Unexpected Ways

  15-04-2024 15:45 via spiegel.de
  
  “For almost five years, Parisians looked into a sad emptiness when they walked past Notre-Dame and looked up. The void reminded them of a national trauma” of April 15, 2019. – Der Spiegel (Germany)
  
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• In Recent US Cinema, Women Loving Women Have Gotten Very Funny And Bizarre

  15-04-2024 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “With their offbeat B-movie feel, these stories are ‘managing to mess with this dichotomy between the good representation and the bad representation,’” one expert says of such movies as Bottoms, Love Lies Bleeding, and Drive-Away Dolls. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Are Seattle Libraries Announcing 1,500 Hours Of Closures In Eight Weeks?

  15-04-2024 15:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Library workers aren’t happy. “The City is denying Seattleites 1,500 hours of learning, checking out books, applying for jobs, talking with neighbors, sheltering from bad weather, and, though librarians should not be de facto social workers, perhaps overdose prevention, workers said.” – The Stranger (Seattle)
  
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• How Edward Hopper Nails Life In New York

  15-04-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Or so says SNL’s Bowen Yang. “You look at a Hopper painting [at the Whitney], and it’s like people being in rooms regarding the arrangement of the city, which is people in close proximity who are still isolated on some level.” – The New York Times
  
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• Geoff Dyer: ‘A gas mask on a tree stopped me in my tracks – it shows the air itself can be toxic’

  15-04-2024 14:48
  
  A recent Guardian news story on the Russian use of poison gas in Ukraine featured an arresting photograph that spoke to me of the anonymity of warThis photograph of a gas mask on a tree beside a track in Kreminna in Ukraine’s Luhansk oblast stopped me in my tracks.The original caption in the Guardian reads “tree” but it looks like the remains of a tree, more like a planted post. Has the rest of it – the parts that make it a tree – been damaged by war? Whatever the e
  
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• Sunset Boulevard, Heading To Broadway, Just Swept The Oliviers In London

  15-04-2024 14:45 via msn.com
  The revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber show won seven Oliviers, matching the totals won by Hamilton, Matilda, and Cabaret. – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
  
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• John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger review – exploring the artist’s work in style

  15-04-2024 14:00
  
  Academics, artists and curators delve into the background behind Sargent’s glossy society portraits in this polished documentaryWith impeccable timing, as the show it explores is still running at London’s Tate Britain, here is an appreciation/profile of the American painter most famous for his brilliantly rendered portraits of the late Victorian and Edwardian upper crust and nouveau riche. The art world being what it is, the film takes its cue as much from the similarly themed Sargen
  
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• Femicide surge: the Cycladic figures found in the Aegean show a deep respect for the female body. How did Greece lose this?

  15-04-2024 09:00
  
  With their serene poses, beautiful curves and arms often enfolding pregnant bellies, these figurines celebrate the miracle of fertility. Sadly, I saw them during protests about violence against womenTall, thin, small, wide, or shaped like a violin. Lying down, standing up, arms folded or looking up to the stars. Male, female, intersex or abstracted. Alone or in groups, drinking, or playing music. All these descriptions came to mind last week when I came into contact with some of the earliest kno
  
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• A new start after 60: there was no time to waste – so I gave up my job and started stone carving

  15-04-2024 08:00
  
  Ane Freed-Kernis used her pension to build a workshop where she could create the tactile, surprising sculptures of her dreamsIn 2019, after retiring from her career as a social worker, Ane Freed-Kernis decided to build a home workshop and devote all of her free time to stone carving. “It’s really therapeutic and completely absorbing,” she says. “I might be covered head to toe in dust but I’m happy – it was something I needed more of in my life when I hit 60.&r
  
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• Yayoi Kusama exhibition to bring art star’s infinity rooms and polka dots to NGV

  15-04-2024 03:00
  
  The National Gallery of Victoria will show eight decades of work by the Japanese artist who’s become an Instagram favourite in her 90sGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who has become an Instagram favourite in her 90s with her fantastical pumpkin sculptures, polka dots and kaleidoscopic infinity rooms, is the subject of a blockbuster retrospective heading to Australia.In December, the National Gallery of Victoria will present one of its most expans
  
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• Edinburgh gallery invites public to hang their own art on its walls

  15-04-2024 01:00
  
  Edinburgh Printmakers says anyone can add work or co-curate the exhibition by moving artworks aroundA gallery in Edinburgh has invited the public to hang their art on its walls.Edinburgh Printmakers, based in a former factory in Fountainbridge, was the first open-access print studio in the UK when it first opened 57 years ago. Continue reading...
  
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