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• Valencia’s Annual Burning Of Statues

  21-03-2025 19:50 via apnews.com
  
  The burning, called Crema, of hundreds of wood-and-papier-mâché sculptures is the climax of the spring festival called Las Fallas in Spain’s third-largest city. This year’s event is felt to be particularly significant in the wake of deadly floods that struck the region last fall. – AP
  
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• We Underestimate The Importance Of Our Ability To Understand Cause and Effect

  21-03-2025 19:31 via aeon.co
  
  The human power to view cause-and-effect as part of ‘objective reality’ (a philosophically fraught idea, but for now: the mind-independent world ‘out there’) is so basic, so automatic, that it’s difficult to imagine our experience without it. – Aeon
  
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• Meet Idina Menzel’s Latest Broadway Co-Star: A Tree

  21-03-2025 19:03 via csmonitor.com
  Stella, as she’s called, is the title character in the new show Redwood, and she has been very carefully designed. – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Considering The Problematic Revenge Memoir

  21-03-2025 18:31 via lithub.com
  
  Admission of desire for revenge on the page also reeks of shame: it’s the thing that every writer—certainly every memoirist—grapples with but generally never talks about. – LitHub
  
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• Academic Research Publishers Increasingly Turning To AI To Check Peer Review

  21-03-2025 18:15 via insidehighered.com
  
  In 2024, more than 4,600 academic papers were retracted or otherwise flagged for review, according to the Retraction Watch database; during a six-week span last fall, one scientific journal published by Springer Nature retracted more than 200 articles. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• The Broadway Choreographer Who Started A Hip-Hop Dance Company At An Ivy League School

  21-03-2025 18:01 via msn.com
  Jennifer Weber — choreographer of Broadway hit & Juliet and creator of decade-old touring show The Hip-Hop Nutcracker — tried out for every dance company on campus when she arrived at Penn. She was rejected by all of them, so she founded her own — Strictly Funk, still going strong 28 years later. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• What Art Basel Hong Kong Says About The Shifting Art World

  21-03-2025 17:44 via nytimes.com
  
  “Our goal was to have 50 percent of the galleries with a presence in Asia”— meaning a physical space — “and now we are exceeding that,” said Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s director of fairs. – The New York Times
  
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• The Calculations Of Artists Who Haven’t Canceled Their Kennedy Center Gigs

  21-03-2025 17:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Many of the artists who went through with their appearance agonized over whether to perform. They faced a version of the dilemma that many people in government, business, and civil society have confronted under the first and second Trump presidencies: When does quitting count as resistance, and when is it surrender? – The Atlantic
  
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• What Will Be Lost When Library Services Agency Goes Away

  21-03-2025 17:15 via theconversation.com
  
  The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and historic sites. Libraries of all types – public, academic, school and research – also benefit from the agency’s funding. – The Conversation
  
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• Maybe Paul Gauguin Was Not The Syphilitic Colonialist Child-Molester People Had Thought He Was

  21-03-2025 17:04 via theguardian.com
  Biographer Sue Prideaux has found materials indicating that the artist did not have syphilis at all, his lover was well over the age of consent at the time and was free to stay with or leave him as she wished, and he actively campaigned against injustice and corruption in the colonial government of French Polynesia. – The Guardian
  
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• Trump Appoints New Head Of Library Services (While Promising To Shut It Down)

  21-03-2025 16:44 via npr.org
  
  “I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation,” Keith Sonderling wrote in a press release. – NPR
  
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• US Limits Access To Heritage-Listed Library That Straddles US-Canada Border

  21-03-2025 16:31 via cbc.ca
  
  The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built in 1904, has been declared a heritage site on both sides of the border and has long been considered a symbol of harmony between Canada and the U.S. The border line literally runs across the floor of the building. – CBC
  
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• Mariah Carey Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over “All I Want For Christmas”

  21-03-2025 16:20 via reuters.com
  Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from a country song of the same name. – Reuters
  
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• Fred Eversley, Sculptor In “Light And Space” Movement, Dead At 83

  21-03-2025 16:02 via artnews.com
  
  “Whereas (most Light and Space) artists focused in their work on perception and transcendence, Eversley” — a former aerospace engineer — “was more interested in portraying scientific subjects: black holes, dead star matter, and parabolas, whose arc-like forms generated a career-long inquiry for him, in particular.” – ARTnews
  
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• U.S. Museums Might Be Better Off Financially If They Made General Admission Free: Report

  21-03-2025 15:35 via news.artnet.com
  The new study from the think tank Remuseum, based at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, is titled “Access, Scale, and Market Share” and presents new findings in its analysis of American art museums and proposals about how they can maximize resources and practices to widen their reach to the public. – Artnet
  
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• Alexei Navalny, Anne Carson, Hisham Matar Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

  21-03-2025 15:03 via apnews.com
  
  Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for fiction; Carson’s collection Wrong Norma won for poetry; Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won for nonfiction. – AP
  
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• San Francisco Symphony’s Music Director Is Not On Next Season’s Schedule

  21-03-2025 14:36 via msn.com
  Esa-Pekka Salonen didn’t resign as the orchestra’s music director; he simply said that he wouldn’t renew his contract, which runs through the 2025-26 season. The SFS just announced its programming for next season, and Salonen’s name is nowhere to be seen. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Last Week Trump Ordered This Agency Dissolved. This Week He Appointed Its New Director.

  21-03-2025 14:01 via artnews.com
  
  “Last Friday, (he) signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides critical funding to museums, libraries, and archives. Now, less than a week later, Trump appointed a new head of the agency, Keith E. Sonderling.” – ARTnews
  
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• Britain’s National Trust Freezes Hiring Due To Sudden Leap In Costs

  21-03-2025 13:34 via theguardian.com
  
  “The National Trust has frozen all but essential recruitment and is pausing some projects as it faces a £10 million jump in labour costs this year as a result of higher employment costs stemming from last autumn’s budget.” – The Guardian
  
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• Louisville Orchestra CEO Resigns After Less Than Three Years

  21-03-2025 13:07 via lpm.org
  Graham Parker told the board of his decision “to spend more time with his family” in January and stepped down at the end of February, but public announcement of his departure was delayed, orchestra officials said, “out of respect for Graham.” – Louisville Public Media
  
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• Gale warnings, gothic fantasies and a masterpiece of a garden – the week in art

  21-03-2025 13:00
  Victor Hugo seduces, big names tackles a world in permacrisis and Hélène Binet challenges the Englishness of the country house – all in your weekly dispatchAstonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
  These gothic fantasies and nature studies by the author of Les Misérables transport you to a surreal, seductive inner world. Read the full review.
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• ‘I spent six years just repeating dots and lines’: the great painter Arpita Singh on a lifetime in art

  21-03-2025 12:31
  
  She has been painting for 60 years – yet it’s taken until now for her to have an exhibition outside her native India. The artist reluctantly takes time out from her studio in order to grant a rare interviewWhen Arpita Singh’s Remembering opened this week at the Serpentine in London, despite being one of India’s leading artists, it was her first solo institutional show outside her native land in her six-decade-long career. It also marked the first time the Serpentine has g
  
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• Thinking of Gregory Corso’s ‘Happy Birthday of Death’

  21-03-2025 02:21 via artsjournal.com
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