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• AI Generated ‘History’ Videos Are Going Viral On TikTok

  23-02-2025 22:30 via bbc.com
  
  But – unsurprisingly! – the accuracy leaves a lot to be desired. For instance, a Pompeii “reconstruction” ignores the actual eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger. – BBC
  
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• What It’s Like To Be A Rising Ballet Dancer In Houston

  23-02-2025 22:00 via msn.com
  New principal Angelo Greco, who came from San Francisco: “People are approachable here. We stay in the theater all day long, so once I’m done, I like to have my glass of Chardonnay. There are so many different restaurants and a lot of museums.” – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Spotify Is Expanding Its Audiobook Offerings In New Countries

  23-02-2025 21:30 via thenewpublishingstandard.com
  
  “We should see Spotify rapidly expand its market presence not just in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but shortly in Sweden and across Europe” – and, it’s predicted, using AI to expand in India as well. – The New Publishing Standard
  
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• The Berlin Film Festival Awards Its Top Prize To A Norwegian Teenage Sex Drama

  23-02-2025 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The director, Dag Johan Haugerud, “said the film was about the act of ‘writing and reading.’ He added that people should ‘write more and read more, it expands your mind.’” – The New York Times
  
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• A German High Court Has Ruled That Birkenstocks Are Not Art

  23-02-2025 20:30 via cbc.ca
  
  German hikers – and much of Eugene, Oregon, for that matter – are a little upset. – CBC
  
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• The Trump Administration’s Attempts To Control The Arts Come From A Horrifyingly Familiar Playbook

  23-02-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In Brazil, for instance, “museum director Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt hid artworks and advised artists on how to leave the country after officials from the country’s military regime entered her museum and demanded the removal of ‘dangerous’ images.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• These Objects Look Like Books, But Don’t Expect To Read Them

  23-02-2025 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things.” – The New York Times
  
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• Behind The Scenes With Oscars Strategists

  23-02-2025 19:00 via vulture.com
  
  “When I called one to ask how the season had gone, she responded with seven uninterrupted seconds of laughter. Thankfully, this week was the pencils-down moment” – Oscars voting is over, and there’s nothing more to be done. – Vulture
  
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• The Moral Crisis In Arts Funding

  23-02-2025 18:30 via grantwriting-with-claire-willett.ghost.io
  
  “This is a grim cautionary tale about complying with authoritarianism in advance, and it’s not going to be pretty, but at the end I’ll share with you some of the things that can still be done.” – 8th House with Claire Willett
  
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• Artists Who Have Represented Australia At The Venice Biennale Call For Ousted Artist, Curator To Be Reinstated

  23-02-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the open letter to Creative Australia, the artists write, “To strip the chosen artistic team of this opportunity is unacceptable. Indeed it signals a fundamental disregard for the role of artists in our society – especially by the very institution meant to defend them.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• ‘An ode to Altadena’: LA arts community bands together to support fire-ravaged neighborhood

  23-02-2025 18:00
  
  The eclectic neighborhood was devastated by the wildfire last month; galleries and artists are now working to protect its legacyA charred baby Slinky, a handful of book ash, blackened cowrie shells from a necklace made in Ghana. These are some of the remnants of precious things the artist Kenturah Davis has salvaged from what is left of her Altadena home.Nearby, there is virtually nothing left of her parents’ home of 40 years. Gone are her mother’s intricately stitched quilts and a t
  
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• To Write An Opera Based On Moby Dick, First You Must Know The Hearts Of Men

  23-02-2025 17:30 via theparisreview.org
  “I just read and reread the book, which I hadn’t done since high school—and back then I probably skipped some chapters. I was also reading criticism about it,” says librettist Gene Scheer. “There’s so much about Moby-Dick that is operatic.” – The Paris Review
  
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• Apple News Is Coming Directly At The New York Times Cooking App

  23-02-2025 17:00 via theverge.com
  
  OK, that’s not the explicit reason that Apple News Plus is adding a recipes section, but let’s not fool ourselves. – The Verge
  
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• Not To Overpraise The CIA, But This Book Smuggling Operation Behind The Iron Curtain Was Pretty Great

  23-02-2025 16:30 via theguardian.com
  “The uncensored literature flooding the country wasn’t reaching Poles by chance. It was sent as part of a decades-long US intelligence operation … designed, in the words of the programme’s leader, George Minden, to assault the eastern bloc with an ‘offensive of free, honest thinking.’”  – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What In The Name Of All That Is Far From Holy Are Trump’s National Archives Appointees Doing To The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library?

  23-02-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sudden cancellations of author events about civil rights, voting, homelessness, and climate change make the authors suspicious. One source said “the Carter Library would now need to seek approval from the National Archives for all programs, even those already scheduled.” – The New York Times
  
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• How To Lose An Oscar In A Brutal Ten Online Days

  23-02-2025 15:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Karla Sofia Gascón’s fall from assumed winner to persona non grata was intense. “Rarely has a nominee’s curated image—that of a righteous up-and-comer, applauded by an industry eager to demonstrate its tolerance—so thoroughly differed from the one conjured by her personal online accounts.” – The Atlantic (Yahoo)
  
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• The Dream Accessory Of Every Booklover

  23-02-2025 15:00 via slate.com
  
  “There is—and has long been—a physical appeal to being blanketed by books. … The ladder is a symbol of the scale of the collection, which can be awe-inspiring—both just to look at aesthetically and to consider how much knowledge is held in those books.” – Slate
  
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• It’s Ten Years Out From The Oscars So White Debacle

  23-02-2025 14:30 via npr.org
  
  Has anything changed for young Black actors (or, for that matter, older Black actors) in Hollywood? – NPR
  
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• Is The Brutalist’s Small Use Of AI Going To Ruin Adrien Brody’s Chances?

  23-02-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Legally, “producers do not need to acquire consent from their performers when using AI to alter ‘pitch, tone, clarity … or the voice of the performer to a foreign language.’” There’s the rub. – CBC
  
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• Operatic Soprano Olga James, Star Of Carmen Jones And Mr. Wonderful, Has Died At 95

  23-02-2025 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “James had performed with an opera company in France and in a popular musical revue in Atlantic City, N.J., when her manager, Abe Saperstein — the basketball impresario behind the Harlem Globetrotters — landed her an audition in 1954 for Carmen Jones.”  – The New York Times
  
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• Only Some Celebrity Book Clubs Truly Change The Authors’ Lives

  23-02-2025 13:00 via thecut.com
  
  No surprise: Oprah is still on top. Then there are the other three. Sorry, Natalie Portman: Your fans think you’re hot, but they don’t buy the books you pick. – The Cut
  
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• The Violet Hour by James Cahill review – soapy and satisfying art-world yarn

  23-02-2025 12:00
  Artists, gallerists and collectors vie for power in a rollicking mystery that pokes fun while also examining desire and regretJames Cahill’s debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, was full of interesting things but weakened by implausibilities. In his second novel, he gets around this by setting it in the world of modern art, where the implausible and ridiculous are de rigueur.After a punchy intro in which a young man falls to his death in London (“abruptly, he toppled back – his body sepa
  
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• Allan Weber: My Order; Daniel Lind-Ramos: Ensamblajes – review

  23-02-2025 10:00
  
  Nottingham Contemporary
  Drawing on his stint as a food delivery driver in Rio during Covid, Allan Weber riffs on life in the favela where he was born, lives and works. In a separate show, Puerto Rico’s Daniel Lind-Ramos speaks to colonialism and the climate crisisMultidisciplinary Brazilian artist Allan Weber was born in 1992 in the 5 Bocas favela in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. His practice fuses assemblage, installation, sculpture and photography, all of which collide at Nottingh
  
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