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• Love Is Blind, But Make It Books

  03-11-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The first thing customers see when they walk into the Strand Book Store in Manhattan is a table of anonymous books with covers wrapped like Christmas presents and titles replaced by vague descriptions.” Customers are loving this new marketing technique. – The New York Times
  
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• How Archie Moore’s Family Tree Led Him To The Golden Lion At The Venice Biennale

  03-11-2024 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “As the artist has described it, it’s ‘a memorial to everything that has ever lived.’” – The New York Times
  
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• A Booker Shortlist Author On The Ways Language Fails

  03-11-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Anne Michaels, author of the spare, gorgeous Held says, “You can use brutal language to describe brutality, but that’s a lie; language can’t represent brutality. It’s exactly the same when I’m trying to get at the most beautiful, profoundly intense experience of intimacy.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• That Time When Bill Nighy Liberated Shakespeare And Shaw From The Library

  03-11-2024 18:30 via bbc.com
  
  It was all to impress a young woman at drama school auditions. – BBC
  
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• The Motion Picture Academy Just Laid Off A Whole Lot Of People

  03-11-2024 18:00 via latimes.com
  
  Who cares about the history of film, right? You might think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But hey, it’s time to “streamline” and “restructure.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A New Smell-O-Vision, This Time For Museums

  03-11-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “The human sense of smell, which has powerful connections to memory and emotion, has been deployed in art and historical displays and museums around the world.” – The New York Times
  
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• Patricia Johanson, Groundbreaking Environmental Artist, Has Died At 84

  03-11-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Johanson “made nature her medium, transforming highway underpasses, sewage treatment plants and other grimly functional public spaces into sweeping artworks.” – The New York Times
  
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• How A Grad Student Found A Hidden Mayan City From His Computer

  03-11-2024 16:30 via wired.com
  
  “I just started poking around on the internet and eventually got the right combination of search terms and number of Google pages results in and found this data set. As soon as I opened it up I was delighted, surprised, and amazed.” – Wired
  
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• John Williams, From Jazz Pianist To Blockbuster Composer

  03-11-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Williams is undoubtedly the greatest ‘whistle test’ composer of his age – a purveyor of instantly memorable tunes that both capture and breathe life into the movies they accompany.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Woman Who Negotiated For Management During The 2023 Hollywood Strikes Is Stepping Down

  03-11-2024 15:30 via aol.com
  
  “She was a lightning rod for criticism by Hollywood workers, particularly during last year’s walkouts. A parody account portraying Lombardini as a cartoonish corporate shill went viral on X.” – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• Where, Oh Where, Is Clint Eastwood’s Latest, And Probably Last, Movie?

  03-11-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Eastwood fans in the UK will have no problem seeing Juror #2, where it’s enjoying a wide release in more than 300 cinemas nationwide. Across the whole of the US, however, it’s screening in fewer than 50 cinemas” with no plans for a wider rollout or awards campaign. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Philly Gets A Golden Statue Of Trump Making A Grab ‘Em By The Genitalia Gesture

  03-11-2024 14:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Is this effigy, with a plaque that reads, “In honor of a lifetime of sexual assault,” by the same artist who commemorated the dump one January 6 attempted coup member left on Nancy Pelosi’s desk? – Hyperallergic
  
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• What Should You Do If You Make Money From A Film Whose Topic You Find Fairly Gross?

  03-11-2024 14:00 via latimes.com
  
  Looks like Anna Kendrick, director and star of the Netflix film Woman of the Hour, which is about a serial abuser and killer, thinks the best thing to do is donate the money. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Good Night, Sweet Bay Area Theatres

  03-11-2024 13:30 via americantheatre.org
  
  “After the loss of so many theatres here, the closure of Cutting Ball and Cal Shakes, both leaders in their respective genres, feels like a sacrifice too great to bear. Their impact on the region was enormous—and so is their loss.” – American Theatre
  
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• British Police Send Russell Brand’s File To Prosecutors

  03-11-2024 13:00 via bbc.com
  
  More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. “The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year period when he was at the height of his fame – hosting national television and radio programmes, and starring in Hollywood films.” – BBC
  
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• Amazing Antwerp: 10 ways to get the most out of Belgium’s cultural gem

  03-11-2024 12:00
  
  Fashion, culture, art, history – and diamonds – all come together in Antwerp. Here’s how to do itBrussels and Bruges get all the attention, but Antwerp is Belgium’s most dynamic city. Shaped by its Flemish heritage, working port and centuries-old diamond trade, it’s a destination that feels both historic and excitingly modern offering a great mix of art – from Rubens masterpieces to avant-garde galleries – cutting-edge fashion and a buzzy food scene. Con
  
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• Belkis Ayón: Sikán Illuminations; Bettina von Zwehl: The Flood review – singularly strange

  03-11-2024 10:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford; Ashmolean, Oxford
  The huge, bold, myth-inspired prints of the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón dramatically launch a revamped Modern Art Oxford. At the Ashmolean, a cabinet of curiosities…Belkis Ayón was a charismatic and vividly original Cuban artist who took her own life in 1999, at the age of 32. She left behind a body of work so distinctive – enormous prints, in black and white, using spartan cardboard – that it is hard to imagine what she wou
  
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• How Should we Measure Art?

  03-11-2024 09:04 via artsjournal.com
  Pre-internet, the lines were pretty clear about the binary relationship between artist and audience. Artists created and audience consumed. In today’s digital world, the landscape is fluid—we create and express our identities by what we choose to share online. Sharing, or curating what we encounter both online and in the real world, is perceived as a creative act. In the online world, art doesn’t become activated until people decide to “do” something measurable with
  
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• ‘They remind me there’s a life after cancer’: how paintings in NHS hospitals help patients feel better

  03-11-2024 09:00
  
  Feedback on the benefits of displaying pictures on wards, now gathered in a new book, is backed by scientific studiesArt, of course, brings pleasure. Now there is evidence that paintings can also help alleviate medical conditions, as well as boosting NHS staff.A new book produced by the charity Paintings in Hospitals (PiH), which has a collection of 3,500 works and prints, including by Andy Warhol, Maggi Hambling and Bridget Riley, in medical settings across the UK, contains feedback from dozens
  
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