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• Check Out Some Of History’s Great Literary Forgers And Fraudsters

  17-01-2025 20:50 via lithub.com
  
  There’s the guy who wrote a love letter to Anne Hathaway and some poems and passed them off as Shakespeare. The guy who faked documents and Teddy Roosevelt, Alexander Graham Bell, and Amelia Earhart. An entire rogues’ gallery of Abraham Lincoln forgers. And, of course, the epics of “Ossian.” – Literary Hub
  
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• On Social Media, Disasters Are Now Merely Consumable Content

  17-01-2025 20:31 via msn.com
  Like every major platform in 2025, X has become more like TikTok, prioritizing recommended content from accounts from people users follow. You can still follow people on X, but its new influencer economy demands viral engagement, and viral engagement comes through the For You page and especially video. – Intelligencer (MSN)
  
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• World’s Top Street Dance Competition Comes To Arab World For First Time

  17-01-2025 20:01 via barrons.com
  
  “Rhythmic beats echoed through the Tunis Opera Theatre stage as dancers faced off at the first-ever edition in the Arab world of a street dance tournament originating in Paris. This year’s Juste Debout is hosted in eight cities including London, New York, Beijing and Tokyo, as well as the Tunisian capital.” – AFP (Barron’s)
  
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• Small Study: Readers Don’t Seem To Care If Writing Was Created By AI

  17-01-2025 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  “Throughout the study, writers expressed concerns about audiences’ reactions to their use of AI assistance for their writing,” the authors note. However, the survey results indicate readers didn’t find that much difference in the writing samples. – ZDNet
  
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• Criticize Artists For Promoting After the LA Fires? I Don’t Think So!

  17-01-2025 19:31 via msn.com
  “The Oscars are a big show that will be seen by millions of people and will bring national attention to Los Angeles. That can be made to be very useful, and it’s worth thinking clearly about how to do that.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• How De-Gendering Language Works

  17-01-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “She’s an actor” simply phases out “actress” and sends it on its way, along with Studebakers, Koogle peanut butter and Red Skelton. It creates no new word poised to inherit the potentially dismissive air that “actress” implied. – The New York Times
  
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• They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical

  17-01-2025 19:04 via broadway.com
  “We would love to put Emilia Pérez on Broadway,” said co-composer Clément Ducol. “At the start, (director) Jacques (Audiard) mentioned he was thinking of it as an opera.” Added the other co-composer, Camille Ducol, “We’d love a live version, and there have been talks. More to follow.” – Broadway Buzz
  
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• How We Listened In 2024: Increase To Almost 5 Trillion Streams

  17-01-2025 18:44 via apnews.com
  
  The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which held the previous record. – APNews
  
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• The Death Of DEI

  17-01-2025 18:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  For a large swath of the country, the idea of DEI has become a catchall insult. DEI is part bogeyman, part always-there scapegoat for some combination of bureaucracy, overreach, or mediocrity. – The Atlantic
  
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• The TikTok Ban — End Of An Internet Era

  17-01-2025 18:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  TikTok’s rapidly approaching deadline represents the end of an era in online life and a strange moment for many—even those who don’t consider themselves ardent users. – The Atlantic
  
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• Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”

  17-01-2025 18:02 via msn.com
  “The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a ‘marvel of anti-fire engineering.’ The Villa, which focuses on ancient Greek and Roman art, has a well-tuned anti-fire protocol that kept it intact amid the devastation (in) Pacific Palisades.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Art Of Amazon Reviews

  17-01-2025 17:44 via clereviewofbooks.com
  He embraced all the stylistic quirks, choppy sentence fragments and run-ons, either darting from point to point like a distracted squirrel or leaning heavily into declarative statements. His voice is overly casual, conversational. – Cleveland Review of Books
  
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• How/Why Netflix Changed How We Watch

  17-01-2025 17:31 via nplusonemag.com
  
  Guilds like the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild under-estimated just how quickly Netflix would take over the industry. Suddenly, most of the work in Hollywood was in streaming. And as the journalist Nicole LaPorte found in an investigation for Fast Company in 2018, little of it paid well. – N+1
  
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• Sesame Street Is Homeless After 55 Years

  17-01-2025 17:15 via csmonitor.com
  These shows didn’t just pioneer ways to teach children their letters and numbers. They created a set of tenets rooted in love – the science of sharing. – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok

  17-01-2025 17:06 via thewrap.com
  
  “TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its users — an argument that the court ultimately shot down on Friday.” – TheWrap
  
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• Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute

  17-01-2025 16:30 via msn.com
  The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis’s home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an interested real estate developer dropped out. The final auction price was $7.5 million. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• ‘I don’t mean to paint badly’: accountant inundated with commissions for ‘terrible’ paintings

  17-01-2025 16:04
  
  Jamie Lee Matthias’s art becomes popular with social media users after seeing his ‘talent’ in portrait of wife An accountant from Stoke-on-Trent who started his painting career little more than six months ago has been flooded with requests to work his magic thanks to his talent for “terrible” paintings.Last May, Jamie Lee Matthias gave his then fiancee a poster-paint canvas of the couple on their wedding day. The piece, which was crudely drawn, delighted their guest
  
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• Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct

  17-01-2025 16:03 via apnews.com
  
  “Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He was fired in 2020 after an investigation found he had solicited at least three students and shared a sexually explicit video with one.” – AP
  
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• Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft

  17-01-2025 15:36 via insideradio.com
  
  “The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and other personal expenses. CapRadio is seeking $900,000 in damages and is requesting that Reina’s 4,500-square-foot West Sacramento home be placed in a trust.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has To Move

  17-01-2025 15:01 via niemanlab.org
  GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the Woods Hole Community Association, which rallied to buy it for the sake of CAI. GBH, however, says it’s still looking for “a more suitable home” for CAI. – Nieman Lab
  
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• Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place

  17-01-2025 14:34 via msn.com
  “Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected mid-March departure of Macy’s from the Wanamaker Building’s retail spaces. Macy’s has contributed toward upkeep of the enormous instrument.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Actor Joan Plowright, 95

  17-01-2025 14:07 via msn.com
  Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary achievements on film and, especially, on stage. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Suggestive sculptures, Hockney’s snaps and painterly panoramas – the week in art

  17-01-2025 13:09
  
  Ugandan artist Acaye Kerunen supplies rich textures, Bradford’s most famous son kicks off its year as city of culture and Jake Grewal offers a queer take on landscape painting – all in your weekly dispatchAcaye KerunenRichly textured, historically and socially suggestive sculptures and wall hangings by this Ugandan writer and artist.• Pace Gallery, London, until 22 February Continue reading...
  
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• Seraphic Fire Seeks Director of Sales and Marketing

  17-01-2025 04:00 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION SUMMARYThis key position is responsible for driving ticket sales, increasing audience engagement, and enhancing brand visibility to support Seraphic Fire’s mission. Based in Miami, Seraphic Fire is a GRAMMY®-nominated professional vocal ensemble seeking a dynamic and strategic leader to serve as Director of Sales and Marketing. By overseeing innovative marketing strategies, box office operations, and audience development initiatives, the Director will play a vital role in sha
  
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• NYU’s Steinhardt School: Clinical Assistant Professor in Performing Arts Administration

  17-01-2025 03:53 via artsjournal.com
  A motivated, creative educator who has the potential to develop a strong record of teaching, scholarship, and service that will enhance the educational experience for students in the Performing Arts Administration program.
  They will have professional experience and academic expertise in performing arts administration, some artistic training in one of the performing arts, and the ability and desire to equip students with the skills and global perspective necessary to help them grow professionally
  
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• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco seeks Chief Marketing Officer

  17-01-2025 03:47 via artsjournal.com
  The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing FAMSF’s institutional marketing, communications, and public relations activities, both external and internal; directing the efforts of the marketing, communications, visitor experience, group tourism and sales, and graphic design staff; and coordinating at the strategic and tactical levels with other departments and functions of the Museums. The CMO is a key member of the museum’s senior leade
  
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• David Lynch, 78

  17-01-2025 00:13 via msn.com
  “(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences — with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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