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• The Lines Among WordPress’s Commercial, Nonprofit, And Founder’s Interests Are Blurring

  06-10-2024 22:00 via theverge.com
  
  Matt Mullenweg “has muddied the boundaries between three essential entities that lead a sprawling ecosystem powering almost half of the web. To Mullenweg, that’s all fine.” – The Verge
  
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• How The Sydney Metro Could Inspire An Improvement In Australian Architecture

  06-10-2024 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “People are looking for serious change in the approach to the environment around us, and yes, there is an appetite to see design charting new approaches to our public domain. We want to be excited by our shared spaces.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• No One In The United States Will Distribute One Of The Year’s Most Powerful Documentaries

  06-10-2024 21:00 via vulture.com
  
  “The subject matter is politically fraught, but once upon a time, American film distributors and exhibitors embraced controversy — especially when it came to acclaimed movies whose controversy was inextricably intertwined with their humanity. Are these companies holding back out of budgetary reasons, out of cowardice, out of political disagreement?” – Vulture
  
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• Spain Is Trying To Decide What To Do With The Remains Of Conquistador Hernan Cortes

  06-10-2024 20:30 via english.elpais.com
  
  “The story began when Spanish pharmacist Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer met historian Alberto María Carreño in Mexico in 1946, who told him a secret: the body of the conquistador was hidden in a niche in the Church of Jesús, in the center of the Mexican capital.” – El País
  
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• How Artist Wendy Red Star Learned Of Her MacArthur Fellowship

  06-10-2024 20:00 via opb.org
  
  “They’re like, ‘Do you have a place where you can have a confidential conversation?’ So the next day I had a meeting, I was in my backyard, it was confidential. And they said ‘We’re sorry, we kind of made this ruse, but you’re the artist that we are recommending.’” – OPB
  
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• Steve McQueen’s Blitz Is About Ordinary People In Extraordinarily Difficult Circumstances

  06-10-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “It’s grimy and chaotic: people pick over dead bodies for valuables, fire crews wrestle with out-of-control hoses, while others find sexual freedom in the fog of war – it all happens.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A Master Storyteller Approaches Her Death The Same Way She’s Approached Her Fiction

  06-10-2024 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with as directly as one can manage.” – The New York Times
  
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• Finding Van Gogh In Arles

  06-10-2024 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “Van Gogh would regularly walk for an hour or more, through the agricultural land that supplied the Saturday market to the Romanesque abbey Montmajour, not to sketch the vast and picturesque ruins, as many artists would have done, but to capture the landscape around.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Glass Timpani

  06-10-2024 18:00 via washingtonpost.com
  On stage in DC: Two timpanists, seventeen timpani: “Rhythmic and melodic material is split between the two soloists — each surrounded by drums and navigating the placement and tuning of each note.” – Washington Post
  
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• The Arts Were An Economic Engine In North Carolina

  06-10-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Then Hurricane Helene hit – and hit hard. In Asheville’s long-gestated River Arts District, the president of the District’s art group describes “the current scene as ‘near apocalyptic,’ adding that ‘two-thirds of the district has been either washed away or is in rubble.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Heartstopper’s New Director Sure Wishes The Series Had Been Around When He Was A Kid

  06-10-2024 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  Andy Newbery, season three’s helmer: “Hopefully, shows like this will make it easier for the next generation coming through… to hopefully accept themselves a bit more easily and a bit quicker, and maybe some of that shame won’t exist in the same way like it did for a lot of us.” – BBC
  
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• Writer, Director, And Actor Alice Lowe Calls For Indie Film To Be A Lot More Punk Rock

  06-10-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  In its funding, anyway. “There are so many people who just need a first chance to make a smaller-budget film,” she says, pointing out that often, women don’t get the chance to make a second film if the first isn’t a huge success. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Working, Teaching, Writing, And Living In Three Languages

  06-10-2024 16:00 via lithub.com
  
  “My husband tells me, ‘You are a nicer person in Hindi than you are in English.’ I believe him. For everything that English has granted me, it has also been the language of competition and of getting ahead in life.” – LitHub
  
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• James Magee, Mysterious Artist, Has Died At 79

  06-10-2024 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Magee was “an enigmatic and idiosyncratic artist and poet who spent four decades building a starkly beautiful monument of stone and steel in the West Texas desert that may be the most significant artwork most people have never heard of.” Then there was his alter ego. – The New York Times
  
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• Asheville’s Biggest Tourist Attraction Might Not Be Fully In Ruins, But The Town Around It Sure Is

  06-10-2024 15:00 via npr.org
  
  Somehow, billionaire mansions survive – the Biltmore House, hotels, and even gardens were little damaged by Hurricane Helene – but Biltmore Village? Yikes. – NPR
  
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• Ukrainian Ballet Dancers, Going On Despite Years Of War

  06-10-2024 14:30 via msn.com
  “Keeping the National Ballet dancing, whether at home or abroad, is a matter of existential importance for Ukraine, Sukhorukov and his colleagues say. ‘Ballet in our culture — this is the face of the country.’” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• We’re In A Golden Age Of Tejano Documentaries

  06-10-2024 14:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Among others, “you can find the contemplative radicals of Hummingbirds trolling the streets of Laredo over on PBS; the determined detectives of The Chicano Squad solving crimes in Houston on A&E; and on Netflix, a dozen or so student musicians competing in Going Varsity in Mariachi.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• This May Be A Long-Lost Canadian Master’s Painting

  06-10-2024 13:30 via bbc.com
  
  At least, that’s what the authenticators say about a painting bought for £2,000. “The artwork had been exhibited in Canada five times between 1912 and 1913, but its whereabouts had since been unknown.” – BBC
  
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• Megalopolis Is A Different Kind Of Flop

  06-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Sure, Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-years-in-the-making creation is a megaflop at the box office – but it’s an auteurist megaflop. – The New York Times
  
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• Vincent van Gogh’s Arles: visiting the pretty Provençal city that inspired his greatest masterpieces

  06-10-2024 12:00
  
  The scenes of some of the paintings currently on show in London’s National Gallery can still be found in the southern French cityThe market at Arles in France every Saturday stretches for more than 2km, the lush countryside around yielding enough produce to fill more than 400 stalls to overflowing. Alongside the plump fruit and vegetables, drifts of cheese and butter paint the whole scene a deep cream, echoing the Provençal city’s warm limestone and light yellow plaster.Vincen
  
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• Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit review – arrested development

  06-10-2024 10:00
  Tate Modern, LondonFeaturing stuffed toys having sex, spunk stars and comic book glass cities, not to mention the noise, this survey of the work of the late US conceptual artist Mike Kelley has all the hallmarks of a teenager who never grew upThe noise hits you first – a wailing, shrieking howlround of slasher-movie drama. Footsteps get closer, heartbeats pound faster, girls scream against swirling winds. Ectoplasm streams from the nostrils of the artist, in giant photographs, poltergeists
  
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• Worcester Chamber Music Society seeks new Executive Director

  06-10-2024 05:08 via artsjournal.com
  OVERVIEWWorcester Chamber Music Society strives to cultivate an appreciation for classical music, building a vibrant, inclusive, and diverse community through inspiring concerts and education. We believe that the transformative power of music enriches the greater Worcester area, empowers young musicians, promotes and preserves the appreciation of a broad range of classical music, and creates connection and dialogue that celebrates the diversity of our community. With our music, we open a pathway
  
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