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• Today In Dancing Robots: A Lunar New Year Show In Beijing

  31-01-2025 20:50 via businessinsider.com
  
  “Developed by Hangzhou Yushu Technology, also known as Unitree, the robots kept up with the beat of a Chinese folk dance and danced with red handkerchiefs. They spun the handkerchiefs in circles, tossed them into the air, and caught them again with precision, drawing applause from the audience.” – Business Insider
  
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• Royal Ballet School In London Settles With Student Over Body Shaming Suit

  31-01-2025 20:27 via bbc.com
  
  The Royal Ballet School (RBS) has reached a financial settlement with a former student, who said the body-shaming she experienced while at the elite institution has left her with lifelong psychological damage. – BBC
  
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• This Parody Of “Emilia Pérez” Is A Better Work Of Art Than Its Model: J.P. Brammer

  31-01-2025 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  “In addition to being the most compelling conflict between France and Mexico since the Battle of Puebla, Johanne Sacreblu is the critique of shallow Hollywood representation I’ve been waiting for. .. (It) also models what media criticism can look like when there’s general fatigue with ‘call-out culture.'” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• Mark Swed: The Next Generation Of Piano Virtuosi

  31-01-2025 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Both Sashas are exceptional virtuosos. Neither is particularly demonstrative. But Malofeev, now 23, can become a keyboard demon. Kantorow, on the other hand, is more a genius of the genteel. He keeps his cool in a downpour; he keeps his cool with Rachmaninoff. –Los Angeles Times
  
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• Trump Administration Enemies Lists Have The Feel Of Hollywood’s Blacklist

  31-01-2025 19:31 via deadline.com
  
  To some in Hollywood, today’s rhetoric reflects a throwback to the epoch of the backlist decades ago. Those who publicly defied the mandates of that moment faced job loss and even exile. “If you’re red, you’re dead,” said Dalton Trumbo, the great screenwriter whose career was terminated by his suspected politics. – Deadline
  
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• We’ve Been Obsessing On The End Of The World Since Time Began

  31-01-2025 19:15 via newyorker.com
  
  Apparently, we’ve been thinking about wholesale termination at least since about 1800 B.C., the date ascribed to the myth of Atrahasis, a Mesopotamian creation story that predates Biblical writings by several hundred years and features a world-cleansing flood. – The New Yorker
  
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• This May Be America’s Very Last Store Selling Real Typewriters

  31-01-2025 19:06 via broadstreetreview.com
  Much to the owners’ surprise, business has soared at Philly Typewriter since the pandemic. Now they sell machines, train repairers, and host a Type-In. And at Philly Tech Week, there’s “AI on one side of us, robotics on the other side, and yet our table is still flooded.” – Broad Street Review (Philadelphia)
  
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• Netflix Is Coming For Broadcasters Worldwide

  31-01-2025 18:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Netflix and the other streaming giants are reshaping media systems across Europe. An audience survey in four European countries (Denmark, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands) of 1,813 respondents aged between 16 and 34 revealed that Netflix was by far the most popular destination for long-form content such as films. – The Conversation
  
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• A Life Of Psychological Riches

  31-01-2025 18:31 via theguardian.com
  A psychologically rich life is one filled with diverse, unusual and interesting experiences that change your perspective; a life with twists and turns; a dramatic, eventful life instead of a simple and straightforward one; a life with multiplicity and complexity. – The Guardian
  
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• Storytelling And The Art Of Advice

  31-01-2025 18:15 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  A traditional story forgoes psychological realism in favor of a universality that can be integrated into the lives of its listeners. The novel, on the other hand, offers vicarious experiences that are often psychologically relatable and even cathartic but bear more on the cultivation of feeling than on the guidance of action. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• US Authors Guild Offers Certification Label For Books Created By Real Writers And Not AI

  31-01-2025 17:58 via theguardian.com
  “The initiative, called ‘Human Authored,’ will allow authors to log on to the portal and register their book. They will then be able to use a specially designed logo on book covers and promotional materials to show that their work has been created without AI.” – The Guardian
  
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• Two Seattle Theatre Companies To Merge

  31-01-2025 17:44 via seattletimes.com
  ACT, founded in 1965, has a fiscal year 2025 operating budget of $6.8 million while Seattle Shakespeare Company, founded in 1991, has a current operating budget of $2.5 million. The new company’s fiscal year 2026 budget is still in development. – Seattle Times
  
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• How Hollywood Plans To Help Rebuild LA

  31-01-2025 17:32 via csmonitor.com
  “Rebuilding is not just about money,” Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, told The New York Times. “It’s about ingenuity and determination.” – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Using Art To Unlock Potential In A Small City

  31-01-2025 17:15 via csmonitor.com
  “People drive out to Gary and see nothing but blight,” says artist Lauren Pacheco, who grew up in Chicago and moved to Gary nine years ago. “I drive around and see nothing but potential.” – Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Have Karla Sofía Gascón’s Old Tweets Torpedoed The “Emilia Pérez” Oscar Campaign?

  31-01-2025 17:05 via variety.com
  
  The discovery of posts from 2020-21 in which she disparaged George Floyd, Islam, Arabs in Spain, China and its COVID vaccine, and even the Oscars themselves may have taken the movie she starred in — which was receiving backlash already, especially from appalled Mexicans — from frontrunner-with-13-nominations status to … well, a touchy subject. – Variety
  
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• Patti Smith Collapses Onstage In Brazil

  31-01-2025 16:31 via apnews.com
  
  The 78-year-old, who had been suffering a days-long migraine, was onstage in São Paulo, reciting some of her writing during a joint performance with Berlin-based band Soundwalk Collective, when she became visibly dizzy and fell. She later returned to the stage in a wheelchair to apologize for being unable to finish. – AP
  
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• At Last! Scotland’s Arts Groups Finally Know How Much Funding They’ll Get

  31-01-2025 16:04 via scotsman.com
  While the announcement of three-year funding grants is months overdue, it’s finally here — and, at £208 million, more generous than many organizations had expected. – The Scotsman
  
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• Over $200 Million Worth Of Stolen Paintings Recovered By French Authorities

  31-01-2025 15:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  “A Paris court has secured 135 stolen paintings estimated to be worth over €200 million for the family of (collector) Uthman Khatib, (who) is seeking to recover a collection of 1,800 pieces of Russian avant-garde art allegedly taken from a storage facility in Germany in 2019.” – Artnet
  
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• Design For 2025 Serpentine Pavilion In London Revealed

  31-01-2025 15:03 via dezeen.com
  
  “Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has unveiled her design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the annual commission. Named A Capsule in Time, the lightweight timber structure is informed by … ‘the transient nature of the commission.'” – Dezeen
  
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• Three Suspects Arrested In Theft Of Ancient Gold From Dutch Museum

  31-01-2025 14:30 via apnews.com
  
  “Dutch authorities on Wednesday arrested three suspects after the theft of a ancient golden helmet considered a cultural icon of Romania and were on display in a small museum in the Netherlands. There was no sign that the intricate helmet (or three gold wristbands) dating back 2,500 years had been recovered.” – AP
  
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• Marianne Faithful, 78

  31-01-2025 14:06 via msn.com
  “(The) British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channeling her struggles with drug abuse and personal loss into songs of torment, anger, sorrow and resilience.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Seaside surrealism, a techno Man Ray and new paintings from Billy Childish

  31-01-2025 13:04
  
  Tate St Ives hosts an intriguing show by occultist and artist Ithell Colquhoun, the Warburg Institute explores tarot and the Barbican exhibits Noah Davis’s dreamlike paintings of everyday Black life – all in your weekly dispatchIthell Colquhoun: Between WorldsSeaside surrealism gets a show by the picturesque shores of St Ives, in an intriguing survey of this British occultist and modern artist.• Tate St Ives, Cornwall, 1 February to 5 May Continue reading...
  
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• Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico

  31-01-2025 12:00
  
  Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish’s The Struggle Against Terrorism revealed as some fear resurgence of fascismA long-neglected 1930s mural in Mexico that warns about the rise of fascism has been revealed and restored – just as some historians say the world faces that threat once more.The mural, which is titled The Struggle Against Terrorism, covers a 40ft wall in a colonial courtyard in Morelia, Michoacán, and depicts a history of persecution and resistance from biblical times t
  
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