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• Who’s Getting The Highest Ticket Prices On Broadway (Not Just The A-List Movie Stars)

  24-03-2025 20:04 via thedailybeast.com
  
  Earlier this week, we tracked down what the top ticket cost was to see each of these stars at the evening performance on Saturday, Mar. 22. Like any great piece of theater that warrants a second mortgage in order to afford to see, the results took us by surprise! – The Daily Beast
  
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• The Vast Scale Of Meta’s Use Of Pirated Books

  24-03-2025 19:44 via theatlantic.com
  
   Internal communications show employees saying that Meta did indeed torrent LibGen, which means that Meta could have not only accessed pirated material but also distributed it to others—well established as illegal under copyright law, regardless of what the courts determine about the use of copyrighted material to train generative AI. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Relationship Between Walking And Creativity

  24-03-2025 19:00 via newyorker.com
  
  Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many other writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. – The New Yorker
  
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• Are There Too Many Books Being Published? Too Much Noise In The Clutter?

  24-03-2025 18:32 via theguardian.com
  
   More than 2.6 million books were self-published in 2023 – many of which are uploaded to the dominant platform, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing – and they can’t all be masterpieces. Nevertheless, the idea that self-publishing is the preserve of hopeless hobbyists producing books no one wants to read is at least a decade out of date. – The Guardian
  
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• Alabama Library Board Cancels Funding, Fires Librarian Over Books On Library Shelves

  24-03-2025 18:15 via cnn.com
  
  The chair of the Alabama Republican Party said board members believe the Fairhope library is in violation of state policies to protect children from inappropriate materials. The books cited by the upset parents included “Sold,” a National Book Award finalist about a girl who is sold into sexual slavery in India. – CNN
  
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• Booksellers In France Protest Media Dominance By Placing Publisher’s Books On Lower Shelves

  24-03-2025 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  “Books matter,” said Thibaut Willems, owner of Le Pied à Terre independent bookshop in Paris’s 18th arrondissement and one of the booksellers taking a stand by limiting their orders of Hachette Livre books and placing them on lower shelves. – The Guardian
  
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• Trump Limited Access By Canadians To Shared Library On US/Canada Border. Now Anger On Both Sides

  24-03-2025 17:15 via apnews.com
  
  Coming at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides of the border, which in places has been marked simply by flower pots. – AP News
  
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• Ticket Prices For Popular Shows Are Now Out Of Reach For Most

  24-03-2025 16:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Tickets for the hottest Broadway shows are now out of reach for many. And the same is true for other sought-after live events, such as pop concerts (which now cost hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars per ticket) and big sports games. – The New York Times
  
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• The Real State Of The Kennedy Center (And Its Current Chaos)

  24-03-2025 16:30 via msnbc.com
  
  The second week of March, when the Kennedy Center typically announces programming for the next season, has come and gone. Across Washington, venues like The Anthem and Shakespeare Theatre Company are fielding calls from artists and organizations looking for somewhere else to perform. – MSNBC
  
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• Why Trump Took On The Kennedy Center

  24-03-2025 16:15 via lemonde.fr
  
  It’s no coincidence that Trump is staging a putsch in this cultural jewel. It’s no coincidence that he spends time there. It’s no coincidence that he sees it as a weapon against the left-wing elites, whom he intends to humiliate. For one thing, it’s one of the few places where he can act. – Le Monde
  
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• The Clown Car Didn’t Use To Have Any Room For Women

  24-03-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  But, centuries in, things may be changing. – The New York Times
  
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• The Oregon Symphony Makes A Significant Schedule Change

  24-03-2025 15:30 via orartswatch.org
  
  Though, in retrospect, why was the Oregon Symphony regularly performing on Monday nights anyway?– Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• The Many Small Details That Make Up The Wes Anderson Universe

  24-03-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anderson “believed that, because even the smallest items help create a world onscreen, they needed to be ‘fully formed pieces of art and design.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Suzanne Collins Of The Hunger Games Is Not Bowing To BookTok’s Whims

  24-03-2025 14:45 via slate.com
  “Who are we if not citizens of the Capitol, tuning in to the show, priming ourselves for the emotional punch of the next death, feeling moved to send sponsor gifts to children who are stuck in caves and trees, awaiting the moments of their demise?” – Slate
  
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• How Tate Modern, Now A Quarter-Century Old, Transformed London

  24-03-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “It was genuinely groundbreaking in its relationship with the city. The bridge over to St Paul’s was conceived really early on and it caused a great opening up of the river. … It has helped London develop its confidence.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• In A Hollywood Of Perfect Teeth, Some Actors Are Starting To Buck The Trend

  24-03-2025 14:15 via english.elpais.com
  
  Truly, how can one act without dental veneers? Apparently, “the current trend is shifting away from ‘catalog’ smiles.” Perfect, but not too perfect. – El País
  
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• Was The So-Called AI Backlash To The Brutalist All Part Of Other Studios’ Plans?

  24-03-2025 14:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  David Cronenberg thinks so. “It’s very much a Harvey Weinstein kind of thing, though he wasn’t around,” the director said. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• The Gallerists Of Taipei

  24-03-2025 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  “Taiwan offers a unique blend of strong collector support, rich cultural diversity and a climate of freedom and openness — the ideal ingredients for a strong art scene.” – The New York Times
  
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• Three Out Of Four Members Of A British Punk Rock Band Were Denied Entry To The US

  24-03-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Bassist Alvin “Gibbs, along with bandmates Marc Carrey and Stefan Häublein, were deported back to the UK following their detainment. Only vocalist Charlie Harper had been allowed entry.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• War Paint – Women at War review – female conflict artists get their moment in the spotlight

  24-03-2025 10:00
  From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to warMargy Kinmonth’s latest feature documentary represents the third in a trilogy of films about artists and war, following Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War, which focused on the second world war artist of the title, and the more first world war-skewed War Art with Eddie Redmayne, which showed on ITV. This time the focus is on fe
  
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• Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

  24-03-2025 08:00
  
  Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book“No woman leaves a man like me,” Pablo Picasso is supposed to have declared to Françoise Gilot, his partner and the mother of two of his children, in the spring of 1953. The couple had by this point been together for a decade, their first encounter having taken place in 1943 in a black market cafe in Paris (Picasso
  
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