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• Changing Outlooks Make Museums Full Indoor-Outdoor Experiences

  27-04-2025 22:30 via nytimes.com
  “A turning point was a project with the artist Cecile Abish, who uses a wheelchair: ‘To get to the garden we needed to take her through the museum’s basement and out through our loading dock. … It threw into sharp relief how urgent this work was.’” – The New York Times
  
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• When The Pandemic Shut Down The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Longtime Actors Turned To A Winery

  27-04-2025 22:00 via orartswatch.org
  The space near the OSF campus “featured a raised stage area, intimate seating in-the-round on folding chairs, and ample shade from the surrounding trees. It served as a natural, open-air theater that felt both rustic and inviting” – and COVID-19 safe. – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Charlotte Bronte Knew When She Was A Young Teen That She’d Be A Writer

  27-04-2025 21:30 via nytimes.com
  “The poems in [13-year-old] Brontë’s Book of Rhymes were written in tiny script to fit on scraps of paper no larger than playing cards that were hand-stitched together with a carefully written contents page.” Now, everyone can read them. – The New York Times
  
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• The Folks Who Make Broadway Orchestras Work

  27-04-2025 21:00 via americantheatre.org
  “You can’t start orchestrating much before the rehearsals begin because things haven’t settled. Until you get into rehearsals, you may not know what key a number is in or how much intro you need. So we have a lot of time pressure, put it that way.” – American Theatre
  
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• Oscars Voters Are Now Supposed To Actually Watch The Movies They Vote On

  27-04-2025 20:30 via npr.org
  Wild requirement, hunh? “It’s not a sea change, but it’s something.” – NPR
  
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• Andrea Nevins, Whose Documentaries Covered Everything From Punk Dads To Barbie, Has Died At 63

  27-04-2025 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “Her most recent film, The Cowboy and the Queen (2023), examined the unlikely friendship that blossomed between a Texas cowboy and Queen Elizabeth II after she learned of his unconventional approach to rearing horses.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Century Ago, This Magazine Was Crushed By U.S. Government Censorship

  27-04-2025 19:30 via lithub.com
  Might it be time to reread The Masses? “2025 isn’t the first time our neighbors have delighted in violence against a minority, it’s not the first time censors have told us what we can and cannot read.” – LitHub
  
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• Should We Be Freaking Out So Much About Hollywood’s Potential Death Spiral?

  27-04-2025 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Maybe! “What happens to a region when the thing you’re best known for four out of five times is done somewhere else?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films

  27-04-2025 18:30 via nytimes.com
  Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years, people he knows very closely, who he loves and defends regardless of the role they play in his stories.” – The New York Times
  
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• How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?

  27-04-2025 18:00 via niemanlab.org
  Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) – Nieman Lab
  
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• Hollywood Asks For Government Help

  27-04-2025 17:30 via yahoo.com
  “The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the same side.” Will California show the studios the money? – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory

  27-04-2025 17:00 via nytimes.com
  But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: “In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.”– The New York Times
  
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• Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day

  27-04-2025 16:30 via vulture.com
  Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one day where it’s just us — Amazon has to swoop in.” – Vulture
  
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• Benin Wanted Its Bronzes Back From Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts. Instead, The Collector Yanked Them All.

  27-04-2025 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The MFA’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum: “This was not the outcome anyone wanted.” – The New York Times
  
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• We’re All Living In ‘The Studio’ Now

  27-04-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “Barbie was self-aware and auteur-driven, and demonstrated that there was a way to slightly elevate miserable brand properties. So now we live in a world where JJ Abrams is making a ‘grounded and gritty’ Hot Wheels movie.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Folk Music Of The 19th Century Is Being Pressed Into Service For Oppressed Folk Of The 21st Century

  27-04-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Everything feels so precarious, … and suddenly there’s these songs that put you in dialogue with people going back over hundreds of years. That’s a really beautiful antidote to the precarity and uncertainty.” – The New York Times
  
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• In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company Auction Off Potential Sacred Heirlooms

  27-04-2025 14:30 via cbc.ca
  But the judge seems OK with it, with a caveat. “Osborne ordered Hudson’s Bay to provide him and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs with a catalogue at the soonest opportunity.” – CBC
  
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• How Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Became A Launching Pad For New Musicals

  27-04-2025 14:00 via americantheatre.org
  “Something that always has to be true is: Will this story make the world a better place in some way? It’s a big question—but why tell a story if it isn’t going to move the audience forward?” – American Theatre
  
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• Bunheads Walked So The New Series Etoile Could Leap

  27-04-2025 13:30 via nytimes.com
  Or at least, that’s what creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (the force behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) wants to see. “Ballet isn’t something for someone else. It’s storytelling; it’s athletic; it’s powerful, emotional, transporting. It’s a great, dynamic art form.” – The New York Times
  
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• What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete

  27-04-2025 13:00 via buttondown.com
  No, she wasn’t “the first great woman novelist.” There were so many great ones before her – but somehow they’re missing in our general knowledge base. Hm, wonder why! – Happy Dancing
  
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• ‘Tragedy to transcendence’: Alice Coltrane exhibit honors jazz legend’s sonic and spiritual legacy

  27-04-2025 13:00
  Monument Eternal at Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum showcases the life, music and writing of the groundbreaking artist also known as TuriyaOm …Om … Continue reading...
  
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