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• How “The Shawshank Redemption” Went From Box-Office Flop To Modern Classic

  25-09-2024 21:05 via bbc.com
  
  The Stephen King adaptation hit cinemas in the fall of 1994 amid a slew of hits competing for audiences. Yet it went on to become the most popular video rental of 1995. Love for the film hasn’t waned; one poll found it the best movie never to have won an Oscar. – BBC
  
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• Statue Of Johnny Cash Unveiled In The US Capitol

  25-09-2024 20:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Cash, whose statue is located in the Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection, is the first musician to be represented in the collection. – Washington Post
  
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• London Standard to feature AI-written review ‘by’ dead art critic Brian Sewell

  25-09-2024 20:27
  
  ‘Experimental review’ to feature in relaunched newspaper ‘to provoke discussion’ about AI and journalismThe late British art critic Brian Sewell is making a return to journalism via artificial intelligence, according to the newspaper that established his reputation as a distinctive cultural voice.The London Evening Standard, rebranded as the London Standard, will feature a one-off AI-written review by the renowned critic, who died in 2015 at the age of 84, when it is publ
  
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• Why Have Pop Music Concert Ticket Prices Spiraled Up?

  25-09-2024 20:15 via bbc.com
  
  Overall, the average ticket price for the top 100 tours around the world was £101 last year, up from £82 in 2022, according to Pollstar, a trade publication that tracks the concert industry. – BBC
  
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• Christopher Marlowe Had A Co-Author For “Dr. Faustus,” Says Researcher

  25-09-2024 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Scholars have long suggested that Marlowe had a collaborator for the comic scenes of his classic play, although his name alone is on the 1604 published edition. Now a largely forgotten dramatist, Henry Porter, has emerged as the likely co-author, based on comparative linguistic evidence … from his surviving play.” – The Guardian
  
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• Norman Ackroyd obituary

  25-09-2024 19:47
  Artist whose etchings of British landscapes were produced with technical brillianceNorman Ackroyd, who has died aged 86, was the outstanding etcher of his generation, renowned for creating images of spectacular British landscapes that he produced with breathtaking technical mastery.To do so he undertook a remarkable series of journeys in search of landscapes of the greatest drama. He found them mostly in the extremities of the British Isles, from south-west Ireland to the Outer Hebrides, where h
  
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• California Passes One-Click Unsubscribe Law

  25-09-2024 19:44 via latimes.com
  
   Companies have been accused of signing people up for subscriptions without their consent, renewing their subscriptions without notice, and imposing a gantlet of obstacles to anyone seeking to unsubscribe. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why Adult Interest In Participating In Ballet Is Soaring

  25-09-2024 19:32 via latimes.com
  
  Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years… And the number of adult ballet summer intensive programs have nearly doubled since the pandemic, according to the weekly online ballet-centric magazine Pointe. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Hollywood Is Stuck In A Nostalgia Rut

  25-09-2024 19:14 via highbrowmagazine.com
  The resurrection of dead franchises and the creation of new ones based on recognizable intellectual properties all target one core emotion: nostalgia. Hollywood is not facing a lack of ideas; rather, it’s facing a nostalgia epidemic. – Highbrow Magazine
  
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• Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn Garth Greenwell’s First Novel Into An Opera? Quite A Few People

  25-09-2024 18:59 via nytimes.com
  
  First to get the idea was conductor Alan Pierson, a friend of Greenwell’s since music-student days at Eastman. Pierson sent the book, What Belongs to You, to composer David T. Little, then they got tenor Karim Sulayman to star and choreographer Mark Morris to direct. – The New York Times
  
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• How Fans Have Taken Control Of Beloved Franchises

  25-09-2024 18:48 via theconversation.com
  
  The use of parody and humour to pour scorn on the series is a common practice among fans. New digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) allow fans to create a sense of realism that again demonstrates their knowledge and love of the original works. – The Conversation
  
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• Inside Trimpin’s Sound World

  25-09-2024 18:22 via sfcv.org
  “The kind of idea in my work with music [had always been] dealing with three parameters — timbre, pitch, and time,” said Trimpin. “But my interest [became] to give it a fourth dimension or parameter — adding space, movement, and motion. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• How Do You Get Kids Into Classical Music? The “Wow Factor,” Says Charlotte Symphony’s Kwamé Ryan

  25-09-2024 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaking of his own experiences as a child in 1970s Trinidad as well as conducting children’s concerts at the BBC Proms in London and in North Carolina in the 2020s, Ryan says the secret is the same. – The Guardian
  
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• How You Make Decisions: Going With Your Gut?

  25-09-2024 17:46 via psyche.co
  
  “My recent research findings suggest that people are often well-advised to decide intuitively, in terms of how it makes them feel. There is emerging evidence that the act of deciding – and, in particular, making gut decisions – is emotionally rewarding.” – Psyche
  
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• Fandom Is Increasingly Becoming A Problem

  25-09-2024 17:37 via vox.com
  
  Fandom has changed over the last decade to become more of a discourse, but while celebs have had to hear more and more of what fans have to say, now fans are getting a peek at what their actions mean to their favorite stars — and a lot of it is not so flattering. – Vox
  
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• Archaeologists Using AI Discover 303 Unknown Geoglyphs In Peru’s Nazca Desert

  25-09-2024 17:01 via english.elpais.com
  
  “The large number of new figures has allowed the researchers to differentiate between two main types, and to offer an explanation of the possible reasons or functions that led their creators to draw them on the ground more than 2,000 years ago.” – El País (Spain) (in English)
  
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• Off-Road Joyriders Are Damaging Ancient Geoglyphs In Chilean Desert

  25-09-2024 16:34 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The rugged terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert is etched with giant images of llamas, cats, fish, birds, and humans. … At Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region, … the most persistent damage comes from motorcycles and 4×4 vehicles, whose tire tracks are erasing the geoglyphs.” – Artnet
  
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• Because Of New State Laws, Book Bans In U.S. Schools Are Soaring

  25-09-2024 16:02 via publishersweekly.com
  “PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly triple the number from the previous school year.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• In U.S. Libraries, At Least, Book-Banning Efforts Are Slowing

  25-09-2024 15:35 via publishersweekly.com
  “The American Library Association released its preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries, finding that the number of tracked challenges fell significantly for the first eight months of 2024.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Where Things Stand Now And What Comes Next

  25-09-2024 15:03 via keranews.org
  
  With DBDT management having fired all the dancers (with an unconvincing explanation) after they tried to unionize, both the National Labor Relations Board and the city of Dallas are investigating the company. There will be no quick resolution: NLRB investigations take months. – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• UK Culture Secretary Says Previous Government Had A “Violent Indifference” To The Arts

  25-09-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Lisa Nandy said that, under the 14 years of Conservative government which ended this past summer, “there’s been a vandalism of the arts” and pledged that the Labour government would get arts funding spread throughout the country and arts education back into state schools. –The Guardian
  
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• Why San Diego Symphony’s Concert Hall Needed That $125 Million Renovation

  25-09-2024 14:06 via msn.com
  “Audience members had long complained about lousy acoustics under the balcony overhang and bad views from many seats. … Musicians coped with a backstage area that felt like a cramped obstacle course. … Guest performers had to walk out to steel catwalk stairs and down four floors from the artist entrance.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• ‘There’s a lot of James Baldwin in this show’: Glenn Ligon and identity politics

  25-09-2024 09:00
  
  In a show at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum, the leading US artist highlights how identity, culture and history in art is contingent on who is doing the lookingWhen Glenn Ligon was first invited to create a show of his text paintings, drawings and neon sculptures at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, he took a walk through the museum’s lofty neoclassical galleries. In the Italian Renaissance room, there was a rehang in progress and one bare wall caught the leading US artist’s
  
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• The Downfall of Classical Music

  25-09-2024 05:37 via artsjournal.com
  
  If you’re in the mood for a rollicking conversation about the downfall of classical music in the US, check out this podcast
  
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