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• Martin Mull, 80

  01-07-2024 23:27 via latimes.com
  
  Mull, who was also a singer-songwriter, rose to fame in the 1970s on Norman Lear’s satirical soap opera “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and its spinoffs, “Fernwood 2 Night” and “America 2-Night.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why Architecture Is Obsessed With The New

  01-07-2024 23:00 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  Regularly reinventing architecture is exciting, but it faces a number of challenges. Architecture is an art, hence creativity is important, but it is an applied art, which makes it fundamentally empirical—that is, ruled not by theory but by experience. – American Scholar
  
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• We Need To Rethink The Whole Idea Of School Grading

  01-07-2024 22:15 via 3quarksdaily.com
  Our current system of grading reinforces practices set in a time far different from that of the present, with different values and ideas. As knowledge becomes exponentially more important over time, the way we teach it needs to change. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Many Of Those Traditional Grammar Rules Are In Error

  01-07-2024 21:32 via theguardian.com
  Many “rules” beloved of self-appointed grammar constables were simply made up quite recently by irritable ink-stained wretches. Using “hopefully” as a modal adjunct, for example. – The Guardian
  
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• California Arts Funding On The Chopping Block

  01-07-2024 20:44 via cultureoc.org
  
  The first budget proposal the governor made suggested a 58% cut to California’s state arts programs. Among those cuts is a $10 million reduction from $26 million to $16 million to the California Arts Council (CAC), the state agency that supports local arts infrastructure. – CultureOC
  
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• Report: Why Desantis Canceled All Florida Arts Funding

  01-07-2024 20:02 via artnews.com
  
  DeSantis said the cause was Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, which he characterized as being overtly “sexual” and therefore an inappropriate recipient of state funds. While it’s unclear if the Orlando festival was slated to receive any money from the grants, the state of Florida awards money for cultural projects based on a ranked list. – ARTnews
  
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• The UK’s Next Culture Minister And Her Plans To Boost The Arts

  01-07-2024 19:16 via nytimes.com
  
  Thangam Debbonaire, 57 — a former professional cellist who danced at raves in her college days and has lines of poetry tattooed on her forearm — was in charge of developing Labour’s election promises on the arts. Those include more art, drama and music classes in schools, and a crackdown on ticket scalping. – The New York Times
  
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• Jacqueline de Jong, influential avant garde artist, dies at 85

  01-07-2024 18:41
  
  Born in 1939, De Jong had a six-decade career devoted to asking questions, and her art ranged from abstract to figurative and back againJacqueline de Jong, the Dutch artist and an influential figure of the 1960s avant garde, has died at the age of 85.Known primarily for her paintings, De Jong also turned her radical outlook towards sculpture, printmaking, publishing and jewellery. Her work, which dealt with violence and eroticism – and engaged fully with the revolutionary politics of the e
  
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• French Court Rules Ravel Was the Only Composer Of “Bolero”

  01-07-2024 18:31 via france24.com
  
  The heirs of Alexandre Benois, a celebrated stage designer who worked on the original performance of “Bolero”, argued that he should have been credited as a co-author and demanded a share of the proceeds. And because Benois died in 1960, that would put “Bolero” back under copyright until 2039. – France24
  
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• What Ron Desantis Did To The Arts In Florida

  01-07-2024 17:44 via cbsnews.com
  
  “First of all, the legislature had already reduced the budget from $60 million to $30 million. But $30 million in the budget of the state represents 0.03 percent. So it’s negligible for the state economy, for the budget, but it makes a huge impact for (the arts programs). – CBS News
  
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• The Best Of Pop Shakespeare

  01-07-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Summer heat getting you down? The Bard’s got you covered: There’s a new collection of the coolest Shakespeare movies of our time, including – of course- Baz Luhrmann’s “supercharged teenage dream” Romeo + Juliet. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Percival Everett Isn’t Just A Novelist

  01-07-2024 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  The author of Erasure (on which the movie American Fiction was based) and James is also an artist. When he’s creating art, he says, it’s harder to explain his work. “I’m working off an idea or feeling that is not based in words. There is a physicality to it.” – LitHub
  
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• Without Its Festival, What’s The Future Of Tap Dancing In New York?

  01-07-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Tap City has been an important gathering each summer, a hub on a circuit of festivals that combine performances with classes. These festivals have been pivotal to the passing on of a tradition, largely left behind in popular and commercial culture.” And now Tap City might die. – The New York Times
  
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• To Be More Creative, Maybe Take More Showers

  01-07-2024 15:45 via openculture.com
  
  “The sudden flashes of insight we have in states of meditative distraction—showering, pulling weeds in the garden, driving home from work—often elude our conscious mind precisely because they require its disengagement.” – Open Culture
  
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• Can John Mulaney Save The Late-Night Emmys?

  01-07-2024 15:30 via vulture.com
  
  “The late-night categories are some of the most dynastic in Emmys history, but every reign has to end some time, and The Daily Show’s has never felt more vulnerable.” – Vulture
  
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• Boston’s Cultural Institutions Face Climate Change Head-On

  01-07-2024 15:15 via msn.com
  At the Gardner, it’s not easy to meet the city’s climate goals: “The building is strictly governed by Stewart Gardner’s will, which requires each gallery to remain exactly as it was at the time of her death.” – Boston Globe (MSN)
  
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• How Kathy Bates Became A Star

  01-07-2024 15:00 via english.elpais.com
  
  “When Daniel Day-Lewis read the name of Kathy Bates, there was some surprise in the Shrine Civic Auditorium. In the 1990 race to win the Oscar for Best Actress … Bates was a virtual unknown. What’s more, she was nominated for playing a villain in a horror movie.” – El Pais
  
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• Why Fix Things When You Can Simply Shutter Your University Museum And Dismiss Its Staff?

  01-07-2024 14:45 via news.artnet.com
  
  That’s what’s happening in Indiana, where “Valparaiso University has shuttered the Brauer Museum of Art and dismissed its director, Jonathan Canning, amid ongoing controversy over the university’s plan to sell three artworks to fund renovations of its freshman dormitories.” – Artnet
  
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• The Other Most Important Music Event Of 1969

  01-07-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  It took place the month after Woodstock, and it was in Toronto, but “the performances by each of the rock pioneers floored the young crowd, who had no idea of their power.” – CBC
  
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• Between Netflix And TikTok, Comedy Is Booming

  01-07-2024 14:15 via cbc.ca
  
  But comedians are exhausted. – CBC
  
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• What Happened When Writer Anita Desai Left India

  01-07-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  She learned “to express my thoughts and opinions. I wasn’t used to that. I was never asked my opinion in India; I just kept quiet and listened to others. And then I’d go back to India and … they’d all look at me and say, what’s happened?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Eric Hazan, Publisher And Historian Of France’s Left, Has Died At 87

  01-07-2024 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Though his publishing house has a massive influence, his histories of Paris may be more lasting. “Hazan’s passion derived in part from his despair over the disappearance of the old working- and middle-class Paris under a vast tide of tourism, gentrification and ostentatious wealth.” – The New York Times
  
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• If An LGBTQIA Book Is Banned Anywhere, This Bookstore Will Send The Book For Free

  01-07-2024 13:30 via npr.org
  
  “In an effort [bookstore owner Becka Robbins] calls ‘Books Not Bans,’ she sends titles about queer history, sexuality, romance and more — many of which are increasingly hard to come by in the face of a rapidly growing movement by conservative advocacy groups and lawmakers to ban them.” – NPR
  
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• Banksy Sets, Or Maybe Starts, A Work Of Art During A Band’s Set At The Glastonbury Festival

  01-07-2024 13:15 via bbc.com
  
  “As the raft bobbed its way across the many thousands at the Other stage, the band played the song ‘Danny Nedelko,’ which features lyrics that strongly condemn right-wing immigration policies and call for togetherness and compassion.” – BBC
  
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• Indie Horror Movies Aren’t Enough Anymore

  01-07-2024 13:00 via aol.com
  
  Why is Blumhouse, so successful with horror flicks like M3gan, starting up a game division? Well … “It’s not just potential revenue. … It’s culture. It’s fishing where the fish are.” – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales

  01-07-2024 12:00
  
  Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and BangkokThe Koung Jor refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is just three and half hours from Jakkai Siributr’s home in Chiang Mai. But it was only during a visit in 2019 that the Thai textile artist learned about the ordeals of the Shan refugees living there.That visit inspired a collaborative embroidery project, with participation from 20 gir
  
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• Being seen and heard: Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at biennales

  01-07-2024 12:00
  
  Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Maritime Crossing exhibition in Venice and BangkokThe Koung Jor refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border is just three and half hours from Jakkai Siributr’s home in Chiang Mai. But it was only during a visit in 2019 that the Thai textile artist learned about the ordeals of the Shan refugees living there.That visit inspired a collaborative embroidery project, with participation from 20 gir
  
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• Artists target Wimbledon’s ‘strawberries and cream image’ over link to Barclays

  01-07-2024 09:22
  
  Spoof ads with tennis players appear near club in protest against sponsor’s ties to fossil fuels and arms companiesHundreds of ads on commercial billboards, the tube and bus shelters near Wimbledon have been replaced with artwork taking aim at the tournament’s sponsorship with Barclays over its ties to fossil fuels and companies supplying arms to Israel.Tournament organisers have come under pressure to drop the bank as a sponsor by climate groups and anti-war activists who accuse Bar
  
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