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• Tending To The Legacy Of Dance Theatre Of Harlem

  22-04-2024 23:26 via nytimes.com
  
  “Moving the organization forward would depend not only on the art that the company produced, but also on the legacy through its alumni. And that is a huge thing.” In April, an alumni platform will go live, a place, he said, “where we could galvanize and connect and become a community.” – The New York TimesImage
  
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• The Toll That Questioning Someone’s Authority Takes

  22-04-2024 23:01 via phys.org
  Growing research shows regular exposure to even relatively subtle prejudice and discrimination degrades physical and mental health, leading to outcomes like high blood pressure, chronic stress and depression.” – Phys
  
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• Designers Are Rebranding: Say Hello To “Visual Strategists”

  22-04-2024 22:17 via fastcompany.com
  Look at the way most branding agencies describe themselves today and “strategy” now gets top billing. Design is out. Strategy is in. – Fast Company
  
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• How Studying Music Makes Better Employees

  22-04-2024 21:31 via theconversation.com
  
  It is well known many musicians work simultaneously in arts and non-arts roles, often to create some income security. Less understood is just how well the extensive skillset developed in music transfers to a non-arts, professional workplace. – The Conversation
  
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• The War On Theatre

  22-04-2024 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  In the Educational Theater Association’s most recent survey, 85 percent of American theater teachers expressed concern about censorship. Even Shakespeare is at risk: In Florida, new laws led to the restriction of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to grades 10 through 12 and “Romeo and Juliet” could not be taught. – The New York Times
  
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• Amazon Is Clogged With Fake Books. How Does This Happen?

  22-04-2024 20:02 via vox.com
  
  Many of them gleefully share misinformation or repackage basic facts from WikiHow behind a title that’s been search-engine-optimized to hell and back again. Some of them even steal the names of well-established existing authors and masquerade as new releases from those writers. – Vox
  
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• Opera Is Elitist? Er… Not So Much

  22-04-2024 19:14 via latimes.com
  
  We have entered a culturally risk-adverse period. Our present age of anxiety — which includes post-pandemic economic challenges to the arts, diminished attention spans and audiences seeking escape from all but virtual reality — has ushered in an atmosphere of caution in just about everything presented to the public. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• AI Copyright Wars: US Copyright Office Shifts On The Rules

  22-04-2024 18:31 via wired.com
  
  he is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the actual sentences and paragraphs themselves are not copyrighted and could theoretically be rearranged and republished as a different book. – Wired
  
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• Christopher Knight: LACMA Will Provide Art For New Vegas Museum — What A Bad Idea!

  22-04-2024 17:45 via latimes.com
  
  As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there. But it fits LACMA’s similarly bad — and unprecedented — decision to build a new, hugely expensive permanent collection building on Wilshire Boulevard that features less gallery space than it had in the 1960s edifice it bulldozed to make way. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Venice Biennale 2024 review – everything everywhere all at once

  22-04-2024 17:23
  
  From an alligator ride across Asia to an escape to outer space, the Venice Biennale’s ‘foreigners everywhere’ theme leaves our critic beguiled, tantalised – and frequently appalledVenice. Terrible. Foreigners everywhere, and it is even worse during the biennale, where the exhibition opened to the public on Saturday. Marked by unrest and protests, the 60th Venice Biennale leaves us uncertain of art’s ability to draw us together in a world in crisis. It is filled with
  
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• Beat Scene All About Cut Up or Shut Up (and Me, Weissner, & Ploog)

  22-04-2024 16:54 via artsjournal.com
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• ‘Great change is possible’: female artists grapple with social and political upheaval

  22-04-2024 16:31
  
  A new group exhibition brings together the work of 28 artists from America and beyond who use their work to cover how difficult times have inspired themAbraham Lincoln seated in a monumental chair. Thomas Jefferson standing tall surrounded by excerpts from the Declaration of Independence. Andrew Jackson raising his hat as his horse rises on its rear legs.Washington’s statues tell a heroic story, usually with a white male face. But the newest arrival, while carved from Carrara marble like a
  
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• How Five Actors With Limited Musical Training Became A Band For Broadway’s Stereophonic

  22-04-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “’I was like, as long as someone is musical, any idiot can be in a band,’ [musician and former Arcade Fire member Will] Butler said. ‘I can write to whatever level.’ Later Butler realized that this was perhaps naïve.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Critical Book Stanley Kubrick Blocked With Legal Threats Is Now, At Last, Going To Be Published

  22-04-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “His reaction to The Magic Eye showed Kubrick’s image-control obsessions taken to extremes. He didn’t just make edits – he erased the entire project.” But now, after the director’s death, Neil Hornick’s 55-year-old manuscript has been prepared for publication. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Smithsonian Staff Are Worried About A Clampdown On LGBTQIA Content

  22-04-2024 15:45 via washingtonpost.com
  At a GOP hearing in December, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told representatives that he didn’t think having children at drag shows was “appropriate.” Since then, one drag performer has been scheduled, canceled, rescheduled, canceled … and LGBTQIA+ staff members are alarmed. – Washington Post
  
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• Marvel Star Chris Pratt And His Wife Demolished An Architecturally Significant Los Angeles House

  22-04-2024 15:30 via msn.com
  The Zimmerman House was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1950, and was – before Pratt and his wife, Kathryn Schwarzenegger, had it torn down, a fine example of mid-century modern architecture. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Blue Denim, A Painting Seems To Show, Is Centuries Older Than Levi’s

  22-04-2024 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  An Italian gallery “is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialised in street scenes that often depict poor people in northern Italy wearing what looks like blue denim.” The gallery calls the painter, “Master of the Blue Jeans.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• At The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Winners Support Ousted USC Valedictorian

  22-04-2024 15:00 via latimes.com
  
  “Tananarive Due, who won … for her novel The Reformatory, used her speech to add: ‘As we face the horrors in our cities, in Gaza and elsewhere, and witness true-life racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and antisemitism, let us honor the courage of young people.’” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Tips And Tricks Of A 23-Year-Old Crossword-Solving Champion

  22-04-2024 14:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  The young speedster says, Ttraining your eye to move back and forth from clues to grid without losing your place, remembering clues when you can, really helps.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Original Star Trek Enterprise Model, Missing For Decades, Has Surfaced At Sotheby’s

  22-04-2024 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “For die-hard Trekkies, the model’s disappearance had become the subject of folklore, so an eBay listing last fall, with a starting bid of $1,000, didn’t go unnoticed.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Is Caravaggio Everywhere On The Cultural Scene?

  22-04-2024 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  “This is, after all, the guy who changed it all by introducing emotional intensity and identifiable humanity into the business of representing biblical stories.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Stephen review – fact blurs with fiction in powerfully raw study of addiction

  22-04-2024 14:00
  
  Stephen Giddings gives a committed performance as a recovering alcoholic who’s started betting again in this often tense experimental docudramaThe line between fact and fiction is thin to vanishing in this Liverpool-set experimental docudrama, a study of addiction and how it rumbles down through generations. It’s directed by visual artist Melanie Manchot and is being shown as a multiscreen installation in Cornwall as well as screening in cinemas. Manchot worked with a Liverpool recov
  
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• Lourdes Portillo, Director Of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps’ And A Visual Artist, Has Died At 80

  22-04-2024 14:00 via variety.com
  
  The documentary filmmaker ” ocused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican and Chicano experiences,” including Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. – Variety
  
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• Netflix Gets Caught Using AI-Generated Images Of A Murder Victim In A True-Crime Documentary

  22-04-2024 13:45 via futurism.com
  
  “This isn’t inventing a fictional narrative for the sake of entertainment — this is tinkering with the fabric of reality itself to manipulate a true story that actually happened.” (There’s more at the subscription-only 404 Media.) – Futurism
  
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• The Very Dark Side Of The Rare Book World

  22-04-2024 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  That is, the side where some books are bound in human skin. – The New York Times
  
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• Google’s AI Results Are A Disaster For Publishing

  22-04-2024 13:15 via readtpa.com
  
  “According to ad sales company Raptive, Google’s Search Generative Experience could lead to a drop in search traffic ranging from 20% to 60%, a potential hit of up to $2 billion in global ad revenue.” – The Present Age
  
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• Wait, The Actors From Blair Witch Project Have Never Gotten Residuals?

  22-04-2024 13:00 via vulture.com
  
  The actors improvised the script and shot most of the footage. “The film was bought by Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, after which the actors were paid a $300,000 buyout of their ownership points on the film. They were also listed as ‘missing, presumed dead’ on IMDb.” – Vulture
  
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• ‘Luminous’ truck strap artwork wins prestigious Biennale prize in first for New Zealand

  22-04-2024 06:44
  
  Collective of Māori artists wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale for Takapau, a large-scale installation inspired by woven matsA Māori artist collective’s dazzling, intricate canopy woven from reflective trucking straps has been awarded a prestigious global art prize– the first time a New Zealand artwork has won the award.On Saturday, the jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale awarded New Zealand’s Mataaho Collective the Golden Lion for be
  
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