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• What’s More Staggering Than “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius”? Its Afterlife

  26-02-2025 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  “AHWOSG, as everyone called it, launched Dave Eggers’s career, one that’s seen him publish dozens of books, write screenplays, oversee a literary magazine and publishing company, and launch a nonprofit that’s helped hundreds of thousands of children become better writers. All those things happened because the book was a phenomenon.” – Slate (Yahoo!)
  
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• Inside The Strong Culture of Hobbyists

  26-02-2025 20:31 via unherd.com
  Ardent hobbyists are often viewed as eccentric. I think they might be the only normal people left. As a rule, they are active and engaged. They are more interested in making than consuming. They dream and they do. – Unherd
  
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• History Helps Us Understand The Present. But It Can Also Distract And Misdirect

  26-02-2025 20:15 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  We cannot truly understand our own time and place without a serious understanding of other times and places. Strangely enough, the priming effect, as manifested in the search for politically relevant hooks, actively prevents that understanding. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• FCC Probes Radio Giant For Possible Payola Scheme

  26-02-2025 19:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether iHeartMedia is compelling artists perform at its upcoming country music festival for free or reduced pay in exchange for more favorable airplay. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Bezos Turns Washington Post Opinion Pages Full-Trump. Editor Resigns

  26-02-2025 19:15 via deadline.com
  
  Bezos wrote in his note, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. – Deadline
  
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• “Clueless” At 30: How A Jane Austen-Based Satire Revolutionized The High-School Comedy

  26-02-2025 19:06 via bbc.com
  
  “The popularity of Clueless triggered a rash of insouciantly smart high-school-meets-classic literature movies (including 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, and Easy A, to name but a few). Just as importantly, it started a trend for films and TV shows that focused on friendships between teenage girls.” – BBC
  
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• Transformative Year For Publishing Giant Hachette

  26-02-2025 18:44 via publishersweekly.com
  Earlier this month, Lagardère reported that 2024 HBG sales were up 7% over 2023—the biggest jump posted by any of the groups in Lagardère’s publishing business, which posted €2.87 billion in revenue last year (or just over $3 billion at the current exchange rate). – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Show Canceled By Museum Because It Was Labeled DEI

  26-02-2025 18:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  On February 10 museum leadership informed her that the Trump administration had labeled the exhibition as a “DEI program and event” and withdrawn funding for the show earmarked by the Biden administration. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark may have links to UK

  26-02-2025 18:19
  
  Archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circleAn “extraordinary” timber circle believed to be thousands of years old and connected to Stonehenge in England has been discovered in the ground in Denmark.The circle of at least 45 wooden posts in Aars, North Jutland, has a diameter of about 30 metres and is believed to have been constructed between 2600 and 1600BC. Continue reading...
  
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• NYC Public Radio Stations Get Together In Initiative To Focus On Common Issues

  26-02-2025 18:15 via insideradio.com
  “The idea of collaboration among the New York area’s music stations has been informally discussed for more than a decade. – InsideRadio
  
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• Unpaid Internships In Britain’s Arts Sector Are Likely Illegal, Say Experts

  26-02-2025 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Many organizations are taking advantage of exceptions in British wage laws for student internships as part of a curriculum, and the practice blocks crucial career experience for those who can’t afford to work for free, say advocates. (On the other hand, cash-strapped arts organizations can’t afford to pay interns.) – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Champagne for my real friends!’ Francis Bacon masterpiece escapes to the artist’s old drinking den

  26-02-2025 17:59
  
  Seeing Bacon’s stunning depiction of his lover Peter Lacy hanging in a reincarnation of the watering hole where his skeletal friends would drink, stagger and cackle was a fleeting yet unforgettable experienceWhen a work of art fails to excite, interest or move me, the word that comes to mind is “dead”. Bad art is lifeless, good art is alive and great art is supervital. And it’s a supervital masterpiece I am looking at right now. Face as sharply hewn as a Congolese mask, w
  
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• Has Trump Become Our Minister Of Culture?

  26-02-2025 17:44 via msn.com
  To the extent that Trump’s cultural designs offer a coherent vision, it shares his larger ambition to restore the country to a “golden age” (and a gilded one). In usurping control of Washington’s premier cultural institution, he appears set on rebuilding Camelot in his own image. – The Atlantic (MSN)
  
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• UK Government Considering Changing Course On AI Rules To Protect Creative Industries

  26-02-2025 17:29 via artsjournal.com
  Faced with a concerted backlash from some of the country’s most famous celebrities, officials are looking for ways to offer them extra protections. One could be to allow creative industries to opt in to the new system, while offering AI companies the use of mass media such as journalism for free unless those companies opted out. – The Guardian
  
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• How Your Biggest Assets Turn Into Liabilities

  26-02-2025 17:23 via bbc.com
  
  Partners who are at first judged to be powerful or strong become controlling or overbearing after a breakup. People who are nice become pushovers. Successful people become workaholics. – BBC
  
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• Poland’s Previous Government Pushed Museums To The Right. This New Museum Is Pushing Only To The Middle.

  26-02-2025 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Under the Law and Justice Party, officials fired many museum directors, replacing them with conservatives whose exhibitions promoted traditional social and artistic values. The current ruling coalition is working on reversing the politicization, and the director of Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art says she’s aiming straight for the center. – The New York Times
  
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• A Renaissance For Print News In London?

  26-02-2025 16:32 via pressgazette.co.uk
  Mind you, we didn’t say newspapers. “Two upmarket London news start-ups are finding a growing (albeit small so far) market for paid online news about the UK capital. Meanwhile a third, more ambitious, title – London Daily Digital – has launched with 18 staff based on Fleet Street.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• The Drama School Preparing Working-Class Actors For Film And TV

  26-02-2025 16:05 via theguardian.com
  “Television Workshop, one of the country’s most successful acting programmes, can be found in a small, unassuming room down a street of former industrial buildings in Nottingham. …  Auditions are rigorous and places are allocated based purely on talent.” And the school is now facing a financial crisis. – The Guardian
  
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• The Debut Of The Microphone, 100 Years Ago This Week

  26-02-2025 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as ‘the Whispering Pianist’ for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test out a newly installed electrical system. Its totem was positioned in front of him, level with his mouth: a microphone.” – The New York Times
  
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• Maybe This Is Canada’s Real National Ballet Company

  26-02-2025 15:07 via thestar.com
  
  “In Toronto, they tend to go unnoticed, but talk to audiences in Glace Bay, Rimouski, Regina or Kitimat and, from their perspectives, Ballet Jörgen is effectively Canada’s national dance troupe. (Without it), audiences in smaller centres and remote communities would never have the chance to see fully realized, professional productions.” – Toronto Star
  
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• Fake Basquiats Case: Orlando Museum Of Art And Family Of Fired Director Drop Lawsuits

  26-02-2025 14:36 via orlandosentinel.com
  Aaron De Groft was axed by the museum’s board after the major Basquiat show he championed was found to be full of forgeries. The museum sued De Groft for malfeasance; he countersued for wrongful dismissal and defamation. De Groft died last month, and the parties have now ended their litigation. – Orlando Sentinel
  
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• Perp Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Sell Graceland Out From Under Presleys

  26-02-2025 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  Lisa Jeanine Findley pled guilty to mail fraud, in exchange for having an identity theft charge dropped, for a scam which cooked up a fake debt supposedly incurred by Lisa Marie Presley and attempted to foreclose on and seize Graceland to satisfy that debt. – NBC News
  
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• Khaled Sabsabi pledges to show Venice Biennale work despite Creative Australia decision to drop him

  26-02-2025 11:31
  
  Artist and curator Michael Dagostino break silence following Creative Australia decision to withdraw them as representativesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe artistic team who were suddenly withdrawn as Australia’s representatives at next year’s Venice Biennale have broken their silence and suggested they will proceed with their exhibition without the Australian government’s endorsement.Artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino issued a de
  
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• ‘Human activity on a massive scale’: a photo exhibition tackles the climate crisis

  26-02-2025 10:09
  
  Photographs from across the globe capture the impact of people on the climate – and of the climate on peopleThe word anthropocene has been proposed to denote an ongoing epoch in which human activity is a primary driving force of geological change. Although the word has caught on like wildfire in a colloquial sense, it was ultimately rejected as a descriptive scientific term, not so much because it was inaccurate but because of disagreements over when exactly it would have started – 1
  
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• Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery

  26-02-2025 07:00
  
  Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in supposedly 17th-century work entitled Samson and DelilahDoubts about whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been revived by new evidence.Forty-five years after it was bought for a then record price, it is being dismissed as a 20th-century copy of a long-lost painting by the 17th-century Flemish master. Continue reading...
  
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