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• Meet Fabian Debora–Chicano Muralist and 2024 National Heritage Fellow

  29-09-2024 23:58 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  Art Works  is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and the NEA National Heritage Fellowships with a conversation with Chicano muralist and 2024 National Heritage Fellow Fabian Debora. Debora discusses his remarkable journey from growing up in the gang culture of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, to becoming an acclaimed artist and advocate.  He shares how art became his lifeline during difficult times and the profound influence of the Chicano Mural Movement on h
  
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• ‘Dear Willy’ Tells a Tale of Love and War

  29-09-2024 23:16 via artsjournal.com
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• The Film Industry Is Mildly Obsessed With Wuthering Heights

  29-09-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The current controversy isn’t (to mix countries) the industry’s first rodeo with the classic. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Podcasts Are Dominated By People Chatting – And Always Will Be

  29-09-2024 21:30 via wired.com
  
  Why? Money. “Just to be straight up, a lot of the companies wanted to figure out ways to invest less in programming. Narrative podcasts are very expensive to make.” Chat podcasts? Not so much. – Wired
  
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• It’s Aubrey Plaza’s Autumn, And We’re Just Living In It

  29-09-2024 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I’m never going to not be hungry to find parts. … It’s almost a survival thing for me where I need to act or I’ll just die.” – The New York Times
  
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• What That Warhol Decision Means For Art

  29-09-2024 20:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town is offering a retrospective survey of Goldsmith’s rock star photos or Korman’s publicity shots?” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Maggie Smith Grew Older, And Old, In Public

  29-09-2024 19:30 via msn.com
  She helped redefine what that meant, too, especially for women. “The face and body may change, but the spirit need not falter, the desire and ability to do what you love need never abate.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• What’s With The Fourth Wall Break In Francis Ford Coppola’s New Movie?

  29-09-2024 19:00 via vulture.com
  
  It only happens in selected screenings (sorry, small-city America). But “it’s more of a feature than a bug, and I salute the audacity.” – Vulture
  
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• Herb Alpert At Fifty

  29-09-2024 18:30 via npr.org
  
  Fifty albums, that is. The nearly 90-year-old trumpeter, planning a 2025 tour, says, “Music is a healing vibration that fills me.” – NPR
  
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• For A While, We All Had To Read A Separate Peace, But It Actually Changed Elizabeth Strout’s Life

  29-09-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And then, the novelist explains, there’s Gertrude Stein – and William Trevor. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• National Symphony Orchestra Strike Ends A Short-Lived, Historic Strike

  29-09-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “In an escalation after months of labor talks, the musicians walked off the job on Friday for the first time since 1978.” The strike lasted for three and a half hours. – The New York Times
  
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• The Erotic Review, Formerly An Online Literary Magazine, Is Now In Print

  29-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And, supposedly, quite a bit more feminist. The second issue of the relaunch has “’the explicit aim of moving away from the male gaze’ and a view to showcase ‘more diverse and inclusive explorations of desire.’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Clarice Rivers, Muse Of Many An Artist, Poet, Playwright, And Actor, 88

  29-09-2024 16:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Rivers is the one who inspired Niki de Saint Phalle’s iconic Nana figures, but in addition, she was “a bohemian saloniste whose lifestyle was a kind of art making.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Fight To Save The History Of The Internet

  29-09-2024 16:00 via wired.com
  
  “The Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion.” – Wired
  
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• How To Game Your Betting On The Oscars

  29-09-2024 15:30 via vulture.com
  
  Just like fantasy football, betting on the Oscars (why not, right?) has some simple rules. For one thing, nail your bargain picks. – Vulture
  
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• A Judge Rules That Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Didn’t Live Up To Its Billing As A True Story

  29-09-2024 15:00 via variety.com
  
  That ruling allows “the real-life ‘Martha’ to pursue her defamation lawsuit.” – Variety
  
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• The Tech Ethics Drama Playing Out At WordPress

  29-09-2024 14:30 via theverge.com
  
  “Last week, WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg came out with a harsh attack on WP Engine, a major WordPress hosting provider, calling the company a ‘cancer’ to the community. The statement has cracked open a public debate surrounding how profit-driven companies can and can’t use open-source software.” – The Verge
  
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• Westminster Abbey Finally Fixes A Typo On The Bronte Sisters’ Plaque

  29-09-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  They got their umlaut, “a small but sizable victory for three sisters who could not publish under their own names nearly 200 years ago, even as their novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights helped change the portrayal of women’s lives in fiction.” – The New York Times
  
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• For The Turner Prize, Forty Is The New Twenty

  29-09-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Sure, it was cooler in the 1990s. And true, “the prize has sometimes struggled to find the balance between challenging assumptions and maintaining a sense of fun.” Yet … – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• When Did Science Fiction Go From Niche To Huge?

  29-09-2024 13:00 via reactormag.com
  
  There was a time when a fan could know most of the genre, and fantasy too. That time? Long gone. – Reactor Magazine
  
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• The new Wolf Hall? Bitter rivalries in Renaissance Florence coming to BBC

  29-09-2024 12:00
  
  Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty examines the struggle between Michelangelo, Raphael and LeonardoRenaissance Florence bubbled with deceit and corruption. It was the place menaced and blackmailed by Cesare Borgia and ruled on the advice of Niccolò Machiavelli himself. Yet inside this treacherous city, three of the greatest names in art vied to create works of transcendent beauty. Each of them is still recognised by only one of their names: they are Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.N
  
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• Turner prize 2024 – everything, everywhere, all at once

  29-09-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Britain, LondonThe quartet of artists in this 40th anniversary show is properly international, but in spite of the sheer density of the exhibits, there’s precious little to look atFor its 40th anniversary, the Turner prize returns to Tate Britain after national outings to museums from Liverpool and Coventry to Eastbourne and Hull. For the next five months, the upper galleries at Millbank will be entirely devoted to the 2024 shortlist. And if, as the old saying goes, we get the Turner
  
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• This Week’s AJ Highlights

  29-09-2024 10:00 via artsjournal.com
  Good morning: We collected 132 stories this week. That’s a lot to sort through, so here are some highlights. Jump down to see all the stories we posted.
  Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Art at Show Opening in Rome
  A man vandalized a sculpture by Ai Weiwei at an art show in Rome, smashing the piece during the exhibition’s opening. The footage was shared on Ai Weiwei’s Instagram, sparking debates about the motivations behind art vandalism and the role of protest in contemporary art. Read m
  
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