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• How To Select Ten Books To Represent A Quarter Of A Century

  17-11-2024 22:30 via reactormag.com
  
  “Once we got back about ten years, I had a much better sense of what had lasted, what was really lastingly good and not just shiny. … The closer we get to the present the less perspective we have.” – Reactor Magazine
  
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• A Perennial Sidekick Gets Her Own Movie, Sort Of

  17-11-2024 22:00 via slate.com
  Judy Greer “was just another victim of Hollywood’s tendency to stick accomplished actresses in so-called personal roles, playing the wives and mothers of the people who actually the drive the action in the story.” Now she’s a mom in a Christian family movie. Is this progress? – Slate
  
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• How You Leave The Christian Music Industry Without Losing Your Career

  17-11-2024 21:30 via seattletimes.com
  “Gungor still sees a desire for ritual and for communal gathering. He recognizes the power of the collective — and aims to write non-dogmatic music for corporate, if not religious, worship.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• If You Look At Them Right, Every Oscar Film Is An Anti-Trump Experience

  17-11-2024 21:00 via vulture.com
  
  “If I can’t get my mind off current events even in a movie where acclaimed character actor Simon McBurney bites the head off a pigeon, what hope is there for any other Oscar contender?” – Vulture
  
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• Streamers And Men’s Basketball Work Something Out After Legal Wrangling

  17-11-2024 20:30 via variety.com
  
  A new settlement gives Warner Bros Discovery “a chance to keep professional basketball in its overall lineup, even as it cedes U.S. rights to traditional TV games to rivals.” A very 2024 discussion, ending a lawsuit and having clauses about podcasts and . – Variety
  
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• In Colorado, There’s No History Without Art

  17-11-2024 20:00 via cpr.org
  
  That is to say, “rather than treating art as mere decoration, History Colorado incorporates it as an essential storytelling tool, particularly when addressing challenging subjects.” – Colorado Public Radio
  
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• The San Francisco Symphony Chorus Renews Its Protests Of Wage Cuts

  17-11-2024 19:30 via msn.com
  “The 32 paid choristers, represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists, have not received a pay raise in years and their wages have yet to be restored to pre-pandemic levels.” The Symphony wants an 80 percent budget cut – just to the chorus. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Why Hollywood Suddenly Decided To Flip The May-December Romance Script

  17-11-2024 19:00 via washingtonpost.com
  “Not so long ago, the entertainment industry tucked away women of a certain age on Sexless Mom Island while their male peers wooed girls young enough to be their daughters and granddaughters.” – Washington Post
  
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• Richard Flanagan Says He May Never Write Again

  17-11-2024 18:30 via theguardian.com
  But that his most recent book is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes pleases him. “I thought much about my parents who, in a world they knew to be meaningless, nevertheless asserted an idea of love as their answer to the horrors out of which my island home is torn.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why Are Directors So Into Revamping Classics For A ‘New’ Broadway?

  17-11-2024 18:00 via latimes.com
  
  “Art leaves gaps that invite collaborative dreaming. That is one way Shakespeare manages to keep holding the mirror up to nature.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Inequality in the arts is not new | Letters

  17-11-2024 17:47
  
  Those charged with making and delivering arts policy have consistently failed to alleviate it, writes Dr Susan JonesRegrettably, the Sutton Trust’s confirmation of baseline class inequity in the arts isn’t new news (Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds, 13 November). What is sad is that those charged with making and delivering arts policy have consistently failed to alleviate it.This is surely not due to a lack of data, when as
  
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• Marvel Provides A Sort Of ‘Insurance’ For Actors Who Want To Make Indie Movies

  17-11-2024 17:30 via vulture.com
  
  At least that’s what Elizabeth Olsen, the woman who plays Wanda Maximoff, says. – Vulture
  
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• Daniel Spoerri obituary

  17-11-2024 17:19
  Creator of ‘eat art’, which explored ideas of taste in a series of works that did not just reproduce food, but consisted of it In 2010, the year he turned 80, the artist Daniel Spoerri returned to Romania, the country he had left at the age of 12. Among his many discoveries was the local custom of picnicking in cemeteries. “Romanians eat with their dead,” Spoerri remarked in a 2015 biopic, gazing at a photograph he had brought back from his visit of a dining table next to
  
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• Chalk Another One Up For Bluesky

  17-11-2024 17:00 via theverge.com
  
  The social media site that’s been gaining new members by the million this week says that unlike Twitter (“X”), which has promised the opposite, Bluesky does “not use any of your content to train generative AI, and has no intention of doing so.” – The Verge
  
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• After decades, tiny 500-year-old royal portrait is identified as Mary Tudor

  17-11-2024 15:00
  
  Art historian says miniature is of Henry VIII’s daughter – not his sixth wife Katherine ParrIt’s Mary Tudor – by a nose. Not in a horse race, but from a comparison of portraits of Mary, Henry VIII’s elder daughter who became the first crowned queen of England, and Katherine Parr, his sixth wife.For decades, experts, including the noted historian and museum director Sir Roy Strong, have thought that a near 500-year-old miniature was of Parr. Now several leading Tudor
  
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• Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious; Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury – review

  17-11-2024 10:00
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
  A wry, vivacious original, the artist better known as Mrs Eric Ravilious beguiles in a long overdue retrospective, while her contemporary is outshone by friends and loversJoyous, curious, inventive and droll, the English artist Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) is as original as she is – so far – almost entirely unknown. If you have never seen any of her works you won’t be alone: the last show took place more than 70 yea
  
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