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• Canada’s Juno Awards Celebrates Canadian Music, Takes Digs At US

  31-03-2025 20:31 via cbc.ca
  
  Michael Bublé handed Canadians a heartfelt dose of patriotism at the Juno Awards on Sunday, setting the tone for a night of not-so-subtle references to Canada’s current tensions with the United States. – CBC
  
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• Hollywood Workers Protested AI. Now Hollywood Is Using AI

  31-03-2025 20:02 via bbc.com
  
  It was only two years ago that actors and writers shut down Hollywood with strikes demanding protections from AI. Now the technology is controversially creeping into TV, movies and video games. Two films honoured at the Oscars even used the technology. – BBC
  
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• Where Journalism Is Being Reinvented

  31-03-2025 19:40 via thewalrus.ca
  
  What if this so-called “extinction-level event” isn’t the end of journalism but just the end of a certain kind of journalism? It’s a crisis, yes—for the people losing their jobs, for the old-school media barons, for the hedge funds. But for journalism as an institution? – The Walrus
  
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• A Musical About The End Of The World

  31-03-2025 19:20 via theconversation.com
  
  The End has more than one meaning. On the surface, the title refers to the end of civilisation. But “the end” can also mean the purpose of something, like the meaning of life. As one of the songs on the film asks, how can we make a “life worth living”? – The Conversation
  
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• Marina Abramović, Wellness Guru?

  31-03-2025 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  Want to learn to live like her? The Marina Abramović Institute offers €2,450 (~$2,600) five-day Cleaning the House workshops in various locations—Brazil, Thailand—taught by people (not her) trained to lead guests “through a series of long durational exercises to improve individual focus, stamina, and concentration.” – ARTnews
  
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• Let’s Take A Critical Read Of That AI-Written Story Sam Altman Was So Impressed By

  31-03-2025 18:30 via newsletter.thedriftmag.com
  
  Altman wrote that the model “got the vibe of metafiction so right.” But that’s like saying that Trump Tower gets the vibe of Versailles so right. Or that Mark Zuckerberg gets the vibe of human so right.  – The Drift
  
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• Why We’re Drawn To Apocalyptic Stories Right Now

  31-03-2025 18:15 via theconversation.com
  
  Dystopian dramas are clearly in vogue right now, but films and TV dramas have often reflected the fears and anxieties of their times. – The Conversation
  
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• Visitors: Isn’t The Smithsonian Already Telling The Story Of America?

  31-03-2025 18:02 via washingtonpost.com
  “There’s no way this is anti-American if it’s showing everything we’ve been through and what our nation is founded on. How is it divisive to educate people on what happened?” – Washington Post
  
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• Architect David Childs, 83

  31-03-2025 17:41 via nytimes.com
  
  David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1 World Trade Center in place of the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 — died on Wednesday in Pelham, N.Y. He was 83. – The New York Times
  
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• GenX Creatives Have Been Screwed

  31-03-2025 17:23 via nytimes.com
  
  If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. – The New York Times
  
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• What To Say To A Friend After A Rough Theatre Performance

  31-03-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Basically, lie (unless you’re a critic, in which case say nothing until the review). One actor: “It takes incredible amounts of bravery to be vulnerable enough to offer yourself to an audience, whether screen or stage. I’m proud of anyone who dares.” – The New York Times
  
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• Beloved Los Angeles Landmarks Face An Uncertain Post-Fire Future

  31-03-2025 16:30 via npr.org
  
  For instance, at the destroyed Zane Grey estate: “How to rebuild the site in a way that preserves Grey’s legacy while protecting it from the inevitable future fires and other disasters resulting from the impacts of human-caused climate change?” – NPR
  
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• Roxane Gay And Debbie Millman Take Over Literary Magazine The Rumpus

  31-03-2025 16:00 via publishersweekly.com
  Novelist and essayist Gay said, “The Rumpus was one of the first places where my writing found a significant audience, and it helped shape me into the writer I am today.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• A Rising Star Conductor Makes Her Met Debut

  31-03-2025 15:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Joana Mallwitz “did not come from a musical family. Her talent on the piano at home in Hildesheim was quickly apparent, but for three hours each afternoon she was banned from touching it and sent to play in the garden instead.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why The Current Administration Is Threatening Libraries

  31-03-2025 15:30 via salon.com
  
  And why it’s so deeply, furiously urgent to save them. – Salon
  
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• Linda Williams, Scholar Who Essentially Invented Feminist Film Theory, Has Died At 78

  31-03-2025 15:15 via nytimes.com
  
  “Her most headline-grabbing work focused on pornographic films, which she saw as worthy of consideration as a discrete genre — and worthy of scholarly analysis and inquiry as well. She shrewdly compared pornography to another popular genre: the musical.” – The New York Times
  
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• If The Minnesota State Capitol Were On Fire, Its Historian Would Save This Painting

  31-03-2025 15:00 via mprnews.org
  
  Why would historic site manager Brian Pease save The Battle of Nashville? The Capitol “was finished in 1905, only 40 years after the Civil War. The war was fresh in people’s minds, especially the state’s veterans, who had become politicians, governors and business leaders.” – MPR
  
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• Writing In The Dance Steps of Pina Bausch

  31-03-2025 14:45 via lithub.com
  
  “On that island of quest, … Pina occupied my thoughts. She became an inspiration and a companion during my sleepless nights, often spent poring over her videos. Soon enough, I developed an aspiration: How to write a novel as if it were a piece of choreography by Pina.” – LitHub
  
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• In Berlin, Fine Tattoo Art Is Thriving

  31-03-2025 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “Works on Skin sells artwork in numbered limited editions of 100, initially for €100 each but reaching up to €2,000 for the last remaining numbers. With their purchase, buyers acquire a signed fine-art print of the artwork.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Canada’s Classical And Jazz Juno Awards Include A Win For Inuk Opera Soprano

  31-03-2025 14:15 via classic107.com
  “Deantha Edmunds was the 2025 winner of the Classical Composition of the Year Juno Award. Her project Angmalukisaa (the Inuktitut word for ‘round’) was part on the album Alikeness with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra.” – Classic 107.
  
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• In Texas, A Librarian Standing Up For Her Students’ Rights To Read Is Threatened With Firing

  31-03-2025 14:00 via statesman.com
  
  “This is a book ban, and I am not going to participate in a book ban,” Georgetown High School librarian Susan Cooper said. “I believe that our community would not go along with these book bans and that they have the right to know that it’s happening.” – Austin American-Statesman
  
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• Tate Britain Will Return A Nazi-Looted Work To The Family Of A Belgian Art Collector

  31-03-2025 13:45 via bbc.com
  
  “Painter Henry Gibbs’ 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as ‘an act of racial persecution,’ said the Spoliation Advisory Panel, which which looks into cases of looted artworks.” – BBC
  
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• March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour

  31-03-2025 12:20
  
  Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by AlessiThis is the final monthly design news round-up, so we’ve made it a bumper edition. As well as previewing some shows that will be this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, there’s pyjamas from Grayson Perry and Greek mythology reinterpreted by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan. Enjoy. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Nothing stopped her’: the 136 reasons why Vanessa Bell is breaking free of Bloomsbury

  31-03-2025 09:00
  
  She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only oneWhen you think of the Bloomsbury Group – the writers, artists and intellectuals who congregated at 46 Gordon Square in London in the early 20th century – you might think of Virginia Woolf; the Omega Workshops, which brought fine art to modernist designs; Charleston, a farmhouse in S
  
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• Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

  31-03-2025 06:00
  
  Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce lonelinessIt was about six years ago that Nathalie Bondil heard of doctors prescribing outside the boundaries of traditional medicine, scribbling out orders to walk, cycle or swim, or sending their patients into nature.As she made her way through the halls of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, however, she was certain that its collection of Inuit art or paintings by Claude Monet
  
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• ‘My brain reaches for morbidity’: inside the unsettling world (and 700 Post-it notes) of artist Ed Atkins

  31-03-2025 06:00
  
  He was a digital art pioneer, making himself an avatar in disturbing films. Now Ed Atkins has a new medium: the pandemic Post-it note. Ahead of a major Tate show, we meet the shapeshifting artistWhen he was younger and his parents were out of the house, Ed Atkins used to sit on the landing and force himself to imagine all the ways they might die. “My thinking was that if I imagined it first, then it would be very unlikely to actually happen,” says the 42-year-old artist.Atkins’
  
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