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• The Decline Of HBO (Worst Emmys Outing Since 1996)

  17-07-2024 23:31 via nytimes.com
  
  On Wednesday, HBO, as well as its accompanying streaming service Max, earned 91 Emmy nominations, down from its massive haul last year (127), and trailing both Netflix (107) and FX (93) this year. – The New York Times
  
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• Taxonomy Is Our Superpower (And It’s In Dire Shape)

  17-07-2024 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation for conserving disappearing plants and animals. Yet the field — often viewed as an archaic, dusty tradition that harks back to intrepid 19th-century botanists describing the plants of newly colonized lands — is dying. – The New York Times
  
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• New JFK Terminal Is Stuffed With Art

  17-07-2024 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The $4.2 billion facility in Queens will showcase the largest number of works of any New York airport by major figures from the United States. – The New York Times
  
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• Country Music Is Hot Again (And Fans Are In Charge)

  17-07-2024 22:01 via wsj.com
  Across the musical universe, country is cool again. This year, for the first time, the country festival Stagecoach sold out before its better-known mainstream counterpart, Coachella. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• “The Bear” Leads With Record Number Of Emmy Nominations

  17-07-2024 21:31 via wsj.com
  “The Bear,” about chefs under pressure at a Chicago restaurant, set a new record for nominations in a single year for a comedy. It has 23 nominations, beating out the previous record holder “30 Rock,” which had 22 nominations in 2009. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• How The Sports Novel Reached Adulthood

  17-07-2024 21:02 via esquire.com
  
  “For much of its history, the Western sports novel had been the stuff of inspirational boys’ tales, full of moral instruction and can’t-lose heroes. … But the twenty-first century, and specifically the past decade, have served as an even richer terrain for the literature of athletics.” – Esquire
  
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• Australian Media Say Catastrophe If Meta Removes News Links From Facebook

  17-07-2024 20:31 via pressgazette.co.uk
  Meta has threatened to remove all news from Facebook in Australia if it is “designated” under the world-first News Media Bargaining Code, which has the power to force digital platforms to pay for the use of news on their platforms. – Press-Gazette
  
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• One Of San Francisco’s Coolest Theaters Is Closing Its Doors

  17-07-2024 20:04 via msn.com
  Cutting Ball Theater plans to cease operations at the end of 2024. In its 25 years, Cutting Ball has mounted a Strindberg marathon, a staged documentary about its Tenderloin neighbors, Gertrude Stein and Suzan Lori-Parks on the same bill, and … classics audiences couldn’t see anywhere else. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Academic Publishing Is A Rip Off. We Need Reform

  17-07-2024 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The annual revenues of the “big five” commercial publishers – Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE – are each in the billions, and some have staggering profit margins approaching 40%, surpassing even the likes of Google. – The Guardian
  
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• The “Yoda-Like Guru” Of Tap Dance

  17-07-2024 19:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The youngsters who studied with Gene Medler at the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble remain devoted to him and his teaching methods for years after they graduate, and among his alums is Michelle Dorrance. One key is Medler’s “student mind-set”: he didn’t start learning tap until age 27. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Silicon Valley Is Exploring Guaranteed Income

  17-07-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  It is a critical moment for guaranteed income, which has been touted by the OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and others. – The New York Times
  
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• MOCA In L.A. Launches New $100,000 ‘Environment And Art’ Prize

  17-07-2024 18:05 via artnews.com
  
  “Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the (biennial) award, which comes with $100,000, will go to an artist whose practice ‘address(es) critical intersections in art, architecture, design, climate, conservation, sustainability, and environmental justice.'” – ARTnews
  
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• Librarians Cull Books All The Time. How Do They Decide What Goes?

  17-07-2024 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  With public libraries mandated to support literacy, recreational reading, and free access to information, today’s librarians make decisions about removing books amid competing pressures on their spaces and budgets. – The Conversation
  
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• Eat Your Heart Out, Jersey City: Centre Pompidou Málaga Will Remain Open For Ten More Years

  17-07-2024 17:03 via artforum.com
  
  “Debuting as a pop-up along the (Spanish) city’s waterfront in 2015, the 65,000-square-foot museum is notable for the brightly hued glass cube created by French artist Daniel Buren that crowns its subterranean structure. The satellite drew 200,000 visitors in its first year of operation … and more than a million (since).” – Artforum
  
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• Pete Wells, New York Times’s Most Entertaining Restaurant Critic Ever, Is Moving On

  17-07-2024 16:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “A funny thing happened when I got to the end of all that eating: I realized I wasn’t hungry. I’m still not, at least not the way I used to be. And so … I’ve decided to bow out as gracefully as my state of technical obesity will allow.” – The New York Times
  
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• Minority-Led Arts Groups In Chicago Are Getting More Money From Donors

  17-07-2024 16:04 via wbez.org
  
  “Major arts donors nearly doubled their funding to Chicago groups with diverse leaders and audiences over the past three years, but the authors of a new report worry that support is eroding. Historically, Chicago’s (BIPOC) arts organizations received significantly lower foundational support than majority white organizations.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• After Public Radio’s WAMU Closed DCist, Laid-Off Journalists Start New DC News Site

  17-07-2024 15:31 via msn.com
  “They are calling it The 51st — a nod to the District’s lack of statehood — and say it will deliver hyperlocal news relevant to District residents. Initially, their coverage will focus on topics such as the cost of living in D.C., how to navigate city services, (and) accountability reporting.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Message Of Footwear: Jonathon Heyward, The “Converse Conductor”

  17-07-2024 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Wearing sneakers onstage (and a Nehru jacket rather than a tux) is just one of numerous steps which the new Baltimore Symphony music director is taking to show ordinary folks that classical music does not have to be stuffy and intimidating. – The New York Times
  
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• Mounties Seize 138 Pounds Of Cocaine Hidden In Grand Piano

  17-07-2024 14:30 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  
  Quebec RCMP say they seized 62.7 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the walls of a grand piano during searches in the Lanaudière and Sherbrooke areas following a tip from US Homeland Security. Four suspects have been arrested. – Canadian Press (Yahoo!)
  
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• Philadelphia Museum of Art Faces Yet Another Labor Dispute

  17-07-2024 14:06 via msn.com
  “The museum workers’ union says management is violating their contract by not allowing employees to work from home up to two days a week if they previously had permission to do so. … A grievance about the issue was lodged in February and (should) go to arbitration soon.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• ‘Some of the most shocking photographs ever taken’ – The Camera Never Lies review

  17-07-2024 13:53
  
  Sainsbury Centre, NorwichWhile undeniably powerful, this show of often horrifying photographs from global conflicts and crises needs more context and a more questioning approach to their takers’ status as truth-tellersAt the entry, there’s a wall smattered with some of the most shocking photographs ever taken. In these images, which belong to The Incite Project collection, mankind’s capacity for evil is magnified and feels immutable, an unfathomable sea of carnage and chaos. Ti
  
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• ‘All art is worthy of preserving’: what should artists do to protect what they leave behind?

  17-07-2024 10:05
  
  With a dip in the art market and only one in five artists exhibiting their work in a museum, those on the outskirts are grappling with how to preserve their legacyPainter Renzo Ortega had been thinking a lot about creating a plan for what to do with all the artwork he had accumulated over his 25-year artist career. A storage room in his native country of Perú and one in North Carolina where he lived were already packed with hundreds and hundreds of paintings. Each embraced different artis
  
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• How Lonnie Bunch Has Transformed The Smithsonian

  17-07-2024 00:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Initiatives such as an ethical returns policy that restored twenty-nine looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria—shifting the global conversation around restitution—and a more recent effort, spurred by a Washington Post investigation, to reckon with the scientific racism behind the Smithsonian’s collection of human remains. – The New Yorker
  
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