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• The Joys Of Reviving A Century-Old Silent Movie Pipe Organ

  14-07-2024 22:30 via washingtonpost.com
  
  “In its heyday, the Barton Opus was able to recreate the sounds of many instruments, including strings, flutes and tubas. … It also contained real percussion instruments such as a piano, xylophone, glockenspiel, cymbals and drums and could produce sound effects including steamboat and bird whistles.” – Washington Post (AP)
  
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• Miami Art Dealer Gary Nader’s Art Collection And Gallery Are At Risk In Lawsuits

  14-07-2024 22:00 via artnews.com
  
  Nader’s “private collection is filled with blue-chip modern and contemporary artists, including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Joaquín Torres-García, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, and Guillermo Kuitca, as well as more than 100 works by Fernando Botero.” – ARTnews
  
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• Alec Baldwin Isn’t Going To Have A Criminal Conviction For The Rust Shooting

  14-07-2024 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  But here come all of the civil suits. – The New York Times
  
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• How To Write Funny

  14-07-2024 21:00 via slate.com
  Author Sally Franson says that if you want belly laughs, you might have to go through some painful experiences first. “The harder I laughed or the harder I cried, the more people laughed. And it wasn’t malicious, you know, it was like, I see you. That is so human.” – Slate
  
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• What Will It Take To Revitalize The Twin Cities’ Ballet Scene?

  14-07-2024 20:30 via twincities.com
  
  New director Lauren Post, currently dancing Romeo and Juliet with ABT’s corps de ballet at the Met, has some ideas: Focus on education first, and eventually, “Minneapolis could be a destination for classical ballet training, and potentially even for a strong local company.” – Pioneer Press
  
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• Punching Artistic Holes In Protest Of Climate Change

  14-07-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Dutch artist Johannes Harm-Hovinga sits, punching holes in a copy of a UN report on climate change, for hours a day – and the repetitive strain is forcing him to take painkillers to complete his performance. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Equity Actors In Britain File Lawsuit Against A Casting Website

  14-07-2024 19:30 via bbc.com
  
  “Spotlight charges performers to appear in its directory, which it says was used to cast 99% of productions in the UK in 2023. But Equity says the fees, which were recently increased to £216 a year for actors on a monthly tariff, are ‘above what the law reasonably allows.’” – BBC
  
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• Britain Might Be In Line For A Full Cultural Reboot

  14-07-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Arts Council England chair has a five-point plan, and he thinks now, with the new government, is the time to realize it. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• An American Novelist, Telling Immigrant Stories Anew

  14-07-2024 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Dinaw Mengestu, on his character Samuel: “There’s a limitation to how fully we can truly understand his experiences. … That gap becomes part of the narrative, part of what the story is trying to deeply engage with.” – The New York Times
  
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• There Is No Such Thing As A Song Of The Summer

  14-07-2024 18:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  Sorry, those who love to rank the bops and decide which one comes out on top, the idea is “more of a cultural myth or a shared hallucination than a hard-and-fast label.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Gen X Actress Shannen Doherty, Star Of Beverly Hills 2010, Has Died At 53

  14-07-2024 17:30 via variety.com
  
  Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 but continued working, both in TV and in her own popular podcast, including when the cancer spread to her brain. – Variety
  
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• We Need To Have A Serious Chat About OpenAI’s Security

  14-07-2024 17:00 via theverge.com
  
  “Safety issues loom large at OpenAI — and seem to just keep coming. Current and former employees at OpenAI recently signed an open letter demanding better safety and transparency practices from the startup, not long after its safety team was dissolved.”– The Verge
  
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• The Vein Writers Have To Tap Into

  14-07-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  C. Pam Zhang: “It’s fascinating to see that there’s no linear relationship between input and output when it comes to creativity. For me, it feels like there’s a vein you tap into sometimes if you’re lucky.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Bill Viola, Who Showed Us All What Video Art Could Do And Be, Has Died At 73

  14-07-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Many of his most powerful works slow down the passage of time so that viewers become keenly aware of their own physical presence and thoughts.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘A home should be a living composition, like a garden or painting’: an artist’s home in Antwerp

  14-07-2024 16:00
  
  An unappreciated ‘hodgepodge’ of a building in Belgium has been opened up into a spacious and unusual homeFor Belgian painter Nils Verkaeren, a home of his own wasn’t strictly necessary. He could just as easily live as a nomad. “In 2002, I didn’t have an official address. I traded two landscape paintings for a Renault Twingo and set off into the wild. I found it quite easy to have nothing. But owning a home also has its charm.”But his partner, Eva Wuytjens, ne
  
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• A University In Canada Reconsiders It Tight Ties To Alice Munro

  14-07-2024 15:30 via cbc.ca
  
  “Western University on Friday took a step toward reconsidering its relationship with acclaimed local writer and Nobel laureate Alice Munro, announcing it has decided to pause a chair created in her honour.” – CBC
  
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• Keeping The Lights On, Literally, In The Met

  14-07-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “At the Met, there’s the art — and then there’s the art that goes into displaying the art, and those are the lights.” – The New York Times
  
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• Goodbye, Redbox, The Wrong Idea At The Wrong Time

  14-07-2024 14:30 via wired.com
  
  “Maybe if we could figure out where all the DVDs in those 24,000 kiosks were going we could start to stockpile for our discless future” – Wired
  
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• New British PM Says The BBC License Agreement Is On For Three More Years

  14-07-2024 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  “The Conservative government suggested in 2022 it would abolish the licence fee when its charter was up for renewal and move towards a voluntary funding model,” but Keir Starmer says it will stay the same for now, and for a few years. – BBC
  
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• Anthea Sylbert, Costume Designer For Chinatown Turned Producer With Goldie Hawn, Has Died At 84

  14-07-2024 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Sylbert, said Hawn, “didn’t have any fear at all. She fought for what she believed in and made everyone around her better.” – The New York Times
  
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• Seven ways to experience the best of Switzerland

  14-07-2024 13:00
  
  From the turquoise waters of Bernese Oberland to toothsome Ticino and musical Montreux, Switzerland caters for every tasteEurope’s best crossroads city, Basel, is a short tram ride from both Germany and France. Every person who stays in a hotel or guest house here gets free public travel – from the moment you arrive, your reservation counts as your ticket from the airport. Basel isn’t just brilliant for transport nerds, it’s also an art-filled, leisure-focused haven, espe
  
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• Britain’s Flawed Artist Visa Program Has Serious, Worldwide Consequences

  14-07-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “The problem of visas for visiting artists has become almost as much part of festival season as festivals themselves. … There is also an unpalatable whiff of profiteering, with analysis showing that the UK last year raised £44m in fees for visa applications that were rejected.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life; Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud; Bharti Kher: Alchemies – review

  14-07-2024 10:00
  
  Hepworth Wakefield; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
  A long-awaited retrospective of the Jamaican-born sculptor Ronald Moody exudes humanity; South Africa’s Igshaan Adams is a weaver of dreams; and surrealism meets Asian tradition in the giant goddesses of Bharti KherWakefield is at the centre of sculpture in Britain. Take a trip to the birthplace of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and you pass into the realms of three-dimensional art: 10 gracious galleries of these artists’ carv
  
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• Britain needs a cultural reboot. Here’s how to do it | Nicholas Serota

  14-07-2024 10:00
  
  In an appeal to the new government, the Arts Council England chair proposes the missions needed to achieve renewalThe power of art lies in its ability to change our hearts, and open our minds. At its best, it changes the world.Our country is experiencing a moment of generational political transformation. Change of this kind creates opportunity: to think differently; to imagine in new ways. It’s imperative that we seize this moment to advocate for the value creativity and culture can offer
  
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