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• Have We Lost The Context Of Our Arguments?

  24-05-2024 23:31 via compactmag.com
  
  The crowd addicted to slander and the crowd addicted to censorship are displaying at high visibility the symptoms of what psychologists call disinhibition. When people feel themselves entirely at home, with a group they are sure of, they shed the restraints that are useful in securing a minimal self-censorship in mixed or uncertain company.  – Compact Magazine
  
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• Van Gogh’s Addiction To Coffee: What He Told His Doctor

  24-05-2024 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “Rey says that instead of eating enough and regularly I have been particularly sustaining myself with coffee and alcohol. I admit all that, but it will still be true that I had to key myself up a bit to reach the high yellow note I reached this summer.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• As Social Media Breaks, News Orgs Experiment With Analog Outreach

  24-05-2024 22:32 via niemanlab.org
  
  To reach affected audiences, the Tribune printed 500 flyers and 1,000 postcards in English and Spanish. Journalists knocked on doors in the neighborhoods where they’d reported and made additional stops in school pick-up lines, churches, grocery stores, laundromats, and other spots where residents gather. – NiemanLab
  
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• Australia’s Richest Art Prize Put On Hiatus

  24-05-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The prize was established in 1988, initially as a biannual event, and was then awarded every year from 2007, other than in 2020 due to Covid lockdowns. But the prize was not given out in 2023, though no announcement was made that it had been cancelled, and it will not reappear in 2024. – The Guardian
  
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• Remarkable: How AMC Movie Theatres Have Survived Despite Massive Debt

  24-05-2024 21:29 via variety.com
  
  “We’re still here,” Adam Aron says of Kansas-based AMC, which operates 895 theaters globally. “When you think about what we’ve been through the past four years, it’s kind of a miracle. It could have gone kaplooey 10 times, but it didn’t. And good for us. We’re almost finally through it.”  – Variety
  
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• France’s Post Office Has Issued Scratch-‘n’-Sniff Stamps. They Smell Like Baguettes.

  24-05-2024 20:57 via dezeen.com
  
  The bread scent comes from microcapsules embedded in the ink. The major challenge was to get the ink onto the stamps without breaking those microcapsules before customers ever got to sniff them. – Dezeen
  
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• The Algorithmic Radicalization Of Culture SuperFans

  24-05-2024 20:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics, but the same systems might also calcify our beliefs about cultural products. Yet we still have a fairly limited understanding of how all of this works. – The Atlantic
  
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• “Stereophonic” Was Going To Be David Adjmi’s Final Play, And It Made Him Crazy. Now It’s The Most-Nominated Play In Tony History.

  24-05-2024 20:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “During the audition process, as characters recited certain lines over and over, Adjmi realized the play had become autobiographical. At one point, he felt physically sick. … Even now, Adjmi said he has a hard time watching the play, comparing it to ‘having people watch you take a shower.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Study: Audiences Rate Male Dancers’ “Coalition Quality” Higher

  24-05-2024 19:33 via psypost.org
  Researchers found that groups of male dancers were perceived as having higher coalition quality compared to groups of female dancers, regardless of the synchronization level of their movements. – Psypost
  
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• What The LiveNation/TicketMaster Lawsuit Might Mean

  24-05-2024 19:28 via washingtonpost.com
  Live Nation is essentially a monopoly, the government argues. Its complaint notes the concert giant directly manages more than 400 musical artists, controls around 60 percent of concert promotions at major concert venues across the country, and owns or controls more than 265 concert venues in North America – Washington Post
  
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• For A Century, Egyptology Was Dominated By Europeans And Americans. Can The $1 Billion Grand Egyptian Museum Change That For Good?

  24-05-2024 19:04 via nature.com
  
  When it fully opens later this year, 1¼ miles north of the Pyramids, the GEM will be, at over 5 million square feet, the world’s largest museum devoted to a single civilization, with a large and well-staffed archaeological research and conservation center. Can GEM change the course of an entire field? – Nature
  
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• Fresh From Firing Storytellers At Pixar, Disney CEO Bob Iger Tells Artists To “Embrace Technology Change”

  24-05-2024 18:31 via variety.com
  
  “Don’t fixate on its ability to be disruptive — fixate on [tech’s] ability to make us better and tell better stories. Not only better stories, but to reach more people,” Iger said. – Variety
  
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• García Márquez Didn’t Think “One Hundred Years Of Solitude” Could Be Adapted. Will Netflix Prove Him Wrong?

  24-05-2024 18:06 via vanityfair.com
  
  Netflix’s VP of Latin American content. asked if the miniseries will work out like those multi-generation-family hits Game of Thrones and The Crown, replied, “Well, the Buendías are certainly more fun than the Windsors.” As Gabo knew, the raw material is there and the execution is the hard part. – Vanity Fair
  
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• Hirst, Warhol and a little artistic licence | Brief letters

  24-05-2024 17:58
  
  Warhol’s words of wisdom | Autocorrected | Sixties sunbathing | Adrian Chiles | Nominative determinism | Paula VennellsAfter reading “At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed” (22 May) I realised that Andy Warhol was right when he said: “Art is what you can get away with.”
  Robert Bonnington
  St Albans, Hertfordshire• I once started a text to a retired Methodist minister friend, “Dear Stan” which was autocor
  
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• Accessing Jaap van Zweden’s Tenure At The New York Philharmonic

  24-05-2024 17:31 via wsj.com
  The ensemble’s playing, across all instrumental choirs, sounds richer and more flexible than it did before his tenure. So what Mr. Dudamel stands to inherit largely bears Mr. van Zweden’s stamp. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Hannah Starkey review – women scrutinised in unsafe spaces

  24-05-2024 17:26
  
  Maureen Paley, London
  In six enigmatic images, the photographer explores the way the camera is used both by against womenA series of visual conundrums awaits at Maureen Paley’s London gallery in the form of six large-scale C-type prints by Hannah Starkey. In this small and surreptitious show, Starkey destabilises the certainty of seeing and complicates the act of looking, poking at the paradoxical nature of photography.The first image in the show is Untitled, January 2023, a riveting and c
  
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• Morgan Spurlock, Who Made Documentaries “Super Size Me” And “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” Has Died At 53

  24-05-2024 17:01 via variety.com
  
  After Super Size Me, in which he ate only at McDonald’s for a month (and suffered for it), Spurlock was for a time as prominent a documentarian as Michael Moore, producing 70 films on subjects like consumer susceptibility to marketing (The Greatest Movie Ever Sold) and minimum wage labor (30 Days). – Variety
  
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• Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis Presley’s Home

  24-05-2024 16:33 via apnews.com
  
  Once Presley’s granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, filed suit and provided evidence that the organization attempting to foreclose doesn’t actually exist, the apparently fraudulent attempt was withdrawn. Now the Tennessee Attorney General is investigating, and so, reportedly, is the FBI, which won’t officially comment. – AP
  
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• Brooke Shields Elected President Of Actors’ Equity

  24-05-2024 16:05 via mailchi.mp
  “Shields got 2794 votes, vs. 1940 votes for stage manager Erin Maureen Koster and 834 for Chicago-based actress Wydetta Carter, according to a tally shared with Broadway Journal. Shields hasn’t served in Equity’s governance, unlike Koster and Carter, who continue to have top positions in its volunteer leadership.” – Broadway Journal
  
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• American action, blockbusting birds and Alvaro Barrington’s gallery takeover – the week in art

  24-05-2024 15:32
  
  A forgotten star from the golden age of abstraction, avian amazements and new ideas in a grand neoclassical hall – all in your weekly dispatchEd Clark
  Abstract American paintings from New York’s artistic golden age, by a lesser-known and perhaps marginalised action painter.• Turner Contemporary, Margate, from 25 May to 1 September. Continue reading...
  
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• Where Are The Movies That Can Earn $100 Million On Opening Weekends?

  24-05-2024 15:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “For the first time in over a decade — excluding the worst of the COVID-19 crisis — no movie opening during the first six months of the year has come close to hitting the $100 million mark in its domestic launch.” Indeed, the last one to do so was last summer’s Barbie. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Stolen $5.4 Million Portrait By Francis Bacon Recovered

  24-05-2024 15:02 via bbc.com
  
  “Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon that was stolen from a banker’s Madrid home in 2015. The €5m work is one of five portraits of the banker, José Capelo, who was a friend of the artist. Three of the stolen paintings were recovered in 2017.” – BBC
  
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• How A Gifted Black Musician Lost Tenure At The Kansas City Symphony, And How He’s Fighting Back

  24-05-2024 14:34 via msn.com
  Principal percussionist Josh Jones was told over and over that his audition was the best people had ever heard, and he regularly got high praise from the music director. Two years later, he was told his organizational skills were lacking and denied tenure. Was this really about race? – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Oh, Great, They’re Using Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers To Feed ChatGPT

  24-05-2024 14:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The deal between OpenAI and News Corp. means that ChatGPT will be drawing text and info from The Wall Street Journal and Britain’s The Times, yes, but also from the New York Post and the London tabloid The Sun. – The Guardian
  
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• 'Superstar' Indigenous artist and activist dies aged 67

  24-05-2024 07:58
  
  The artist used ephemera to convey how white Australia failed to come to terms with the country’s Indigenous peoplesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDestiny Deacon, the trailblazing First Nations artist and activist known for her works using “Koori Kitsch” to subvert colonial interpretations of Indigenous culture, has died aged 67.Deacon’s death was announced on Friday by Sydney&
  
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• Destiny Deacon, ‘superstar’ Indigenous artist and activist, dies aged 67

  24-05-2024 07:58
  
  The artist used ephemera to convey how white Australia failed to come to terms with the country’s Indigenous peoplesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDestiny Deacon, the trailblazing First Nations artist and activist known for her works using “Koori Kitsch” to subvert colonial interpretations of Indigenous culture, has died aged 67.Deacon’s death was announced on Friday by Sydney&
  
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• Why Colorado Mahlerfest Matters

  24-05-2024 06:10 via artsjournal.com
  
  Ken Woods plies his guitar at “Electric Liederland” [Photo: Mark Bobb]The most profound music ever conceived by Richard Strauss
  
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• What, Exactly, Are Editors Supposed To Do?

  24-05-2024 00:01 via tabletmag.com
  That editors edit, which would seem to go without saying, turns out to be a pretty facile summary of a role whose essential ambiguities make it best suited to confidence men or obsessives. The most we can say is that the editor assists the writer. – Tablet
  
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