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• The Meaning Of Red

  17-02-2025 20:28 via artsjournal.com
  Red is the color we wear when we want to be noticed, the one that appears in the most national flags, the one that casinos and advertisers use to loosen wallets. The science is in on that: red quickens the pulse and sticks in the memory as no other color does… – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Theatre Is Devolving Into Uselessness

  17-02-2025 20:18 via artsjournal.com
  Does anyone actually read theatre reviews? National newspapers continue to slim down arts sections. Theatre coverage, with confined geography, is lucky to survive with slashed wordcounts. Sometimes the Sunday Times devotes more lines to podcasts than it does to theatre. – The Critic
  
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• How To Save Movie Theatres: Be A Non-Profit?

  17-02-2025 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  Certainly not all nonprofit theaters are doing well, but the model has worked, at least so far, in places like the Berkshires, where a devoted and well-heeled clientele is willing and able to support the arts. – The New York Times
  
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• Finding That Line Between Copyright Protection And AI: A First Copyright Is Granted

  17-02-2025 19:31 via artsjournal.com
  Invoke has been trying to find that thin line to offer a product that would help artists create works that may be eligible for copyright protection. It’s “massive” that the copyright protections were granted for the customers of his product who need to be able to copyright their works. – Artnet
  
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• Boston Conducting Legend Benjamin Zander, Still Going Strong At 85

  17-02-2025 19:15 via artsjournal.com
  Zander has been educating musicians and audiences about classical music for five decades. During his master class, Zander interacts with both the audience and aspiring cellists who have signed up to seek guidance from Zander. – WBUR
  
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• The Small Publisher Making Its Mark With Translations No One Was Paying Attention To

  17-02-2025 19:06 via artsjournal.com
  Since its founding a decade ago, Tilted Axis has gained a reputation for bringing out a wide range of groundbreaking, genre-defying literature in translation. With only eight employees working part-time on a tight budget, it has published 42 books translated from 18 languages. – The New York Times
  
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• Are Things Really Better In The Music Business?

  17-02-2025 18:44 via artsjournal.com
  There’s never been a better time in history to be an intermediary, a middleman, a hanger-on, an aggregator, a shyster. For a guitarist or keyboardist or singer, not so much. – The Honest Broker
  
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• Poetry and Music at the Palace

  17-02-2025 18:15 via artsjournal.com
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• Lebrecht Wonders: Is It Okay To Review A Performance By A Musician Accused Of Harassment?

  17-02-2025 17:44 via artsjournal.com
  I cannot recall a recording of Le Rossignol that gave more tingle to my ears. So am I allowed to recommend it here without incurring the wrath of #MeToo activists and the neighbourhood watch of public morals? – The Critic
  
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• Life classes: is it time to draw a line under nude modelling?

  17-02-2025 17:40
  A row over an art class raises potentially difficult questions about the traditional method of learning to drawName: Life drawing.Age: Ancient. Continue reading...
  
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• How Professional Licensing Has Warped American Culture

  17-02-2025 17:15 via artsjournal.com
  The institution of professional licensing has only grown in its reach and outlandishness. More and more new professions are becoming licensed, such as art therapists and, most recently and most absurdly, fortune tellers. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Pollock And Picasso That Usually Live In A Vault In Tehran Came Out For A Brief Exhibition

  17-02-2025 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  “The Eye to Eye exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in October 2024, was extended twice due to overwhelming public demand,” and contained 15 works never shown before alongside works like Jackson Pollock’s Mural on Indian Red Ground. – BBC
  
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• How The Great French Actor Aurore Clement Survived A Violent Crowd At A Movie Premiere

  17-02-2025 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Only the quick action of a journalist with a trench coat, she says, saved her the day that Meetings with Anna premiered in Paris. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why The Sudden Removal Of The T From The Stonewall Inn’s National Monument Website Is So Ominous

  17-02-2025 16:00 via slate.com
  
  “All autocracies attempt to control the past in order to control the future. Their methods are ham-fisted, because they see history as a purely political endeavor. … [But] history tells us this erasure is a trial balloon for much worse things.” – Slate
  
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• Bridget Jones 4 Breaks Box Office Records In Britain, Where It’s Not Streaming

  17-02-2025 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Who knew the fourth entry in what seemed a played-out story would prove both so well reviewed and so well attended? The film “accounted for 45% of the UK box office take over the weekend.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Turns Out There Isn’t Actually A More Neighborly Recent Past

  17-02-2025 15:30 via yahoo.com
  
  “The first half of the 20th century … was ‘extraordinarily social.’ Shared spaces—libraries, theaters, and playgrounds—were rapidly built across the U.S. People were gathering regularly in public, and participating in clubs and organizations with their peers.” Then things changed, drastically, and not because of cell phones. – The Atlantic (Yahoo)
  
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• Maria Teresa Horta, The Last Of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Has Died At 87

  17-02-2025 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Along with two other writers, Horta helped bring global attention to the dictatorship in Portugal – and to show how all of Portuguese society made women suffer. – The New York Times
  
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• The New Musical About Frederick Douglass And Abraham Lincoln Isn’t Meant To Be A History Lesson

  17-02-2025 15:00 via latimes.com
  
  “The adversaries-turned-allies famously shaped the course of American history, even though the two leaders met in person only three times .” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Eighty tonnes of sand and junk: why Mona’s latest exhibition is destined to collapse in front of our eyes

  17-02-2025 15:00
  
  Mirrorscape, an intricate sand sculpture by French artist Théo Mercier, is a ghostly scene of decay that resembles the aftermath of a disaster – or perhaps ‘a fossil from the future’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThéo Mercier, the French visual artist, choreographer and stage director, has spent months in Tasmania taking photos of junk.In Mirrorscape, an exhibition that opened on the weekend at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), he and an
  
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• Taking Conclave From Page To Screen

  17-02-2025 14:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “It’s almost like mosaic work. … You have all these pieces; sometimes they’re going to be laid out in a very similar order to the book, sometimes a completely different order. Sometimes you’re going to deconstruct and rebuild completely.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Chiwetel Eijiofor Went, Happily, From Shakespeare To Bridget Jones

  17-02-2025 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Eijiofor: “You can’t hold onto your 30-something self, obviously, but if you still maintain a bit of that quality, it assists you in navigating these waters.” – The New York Times
  
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• Gilda Radner Was SNL’s First Cast Member, And One Of Its All-Time Best

  17-02-2025 14:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Radner’s particular charisma came from this blend of bigheartedness and fearlessness. She always went for it.” – The Atlantic
  
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• YouTube Nearly Lost Its Deal With Paramount, But Saved It At The Last Minute

  17-02-2025 14:00 via theverge.com
  
  That means “channels such as CBS, CBS Sports, and Nickelodeon and add-ons like Paramount Plus, Showtime, and BET Plus will stick around after all” for YouTube TV subscribers. – The Verge
  
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• Bullied At School, Samuel Marino Can Now Say He Has One Of The Rarest Voices In Opera

  17-02-2025 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Mariño, a sopranist, once begged his mother to take him to the doctor to fix his voice. Now, he says before a residency in Australia, “I like to describe my voice as a light lyric soprano, with a bit of coloratura.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Theatre Critic Misha Berson Of Seattle, And Much Farther Afield, Has Died

  17-02-2025 13:30 via orartswatch.org
  
  Berson was a theatre critic for the San Francisco Bay Guardian for a while, and then she spent 25 years at the Seattle Times, along with writing books and creating theatre discussions at both regional and national publications. Says an editor, “Her writing was clear, clean, and imaginative.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Yes, Even Julianne Moore’s Book About Freckles Is Being Banned

  17-02-2025 13:15 via variety.com
  
  Her children’s book is now banned at Department of Defense schools by order of the president. “I am truly saddened and never thought I would see this in a country where freedom of speech and expression is a constitutional right,” the actor said. – Variety
  
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• Wait, How Did Romance Get So Mainstream That Even The New Yorker Is Weighing In?

  17-02-2025 13:00 via lithub.com
  
  “I’m not the only one feeling it—romance is zeitgeisting. Over the past few years, authors and booksellers have noticed a change in the genre’s cultural perception.” – LitHub
  
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