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• Jennifer Higdon On Writing Music

  28-04-2025 20:46 via npr.org
  “I don’t judge people in any way about how much they know about music. In fact, when I’m writing, I think, “Well, let’s pretend that no one in the room has ever heard classical music. Will this speak to them?” – NPR
  
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• Amazon Stomps On National Independent Bookstore Day With Big Online Sale

  28-04-2025 20:02 via fastcompany.com
  Independent bookstores and users on BookTok are expressing their frustration with Amazon while encouraging readers to stay off of the online shopping site and instead make the trek to their local bookstore for the day. – Fast Company
  
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• What Should Be The Story Of American Culture The Kennedy Center Tells?

  28-04-2025 19:31 via washingtonpost.com
  The Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a “living monument” — a place where the story of American culture plays out onstage. Whatever happens at the Kennedy Center becomes part of the history it exists to preserve. That’s the part that worries me. – Washington Post
  
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• Trump Administration Threatens Wikipedia’s Non-Profit Status

  28-04-2025 18:30 via washingtonpost.com
  “Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States.” – Washington Post
  
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• Julia Ball obituary

  28-04-2025 18:15
  My friend Julia Ball, who has died aged 94, was an artist and art teacher.An outstanding abstract landscape painter, she exhibited in London, Brighton, Norwich, Liverpool, King’s Lynn, Bury St Edmunds, and many times at the beautiful Old Fire Engine House in Ely. She also held an annual open event at her studio for 50 years running. Continue reading...
  
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• Netflix CEO: Movie Theatres Are Outdated

  28-04-2025 18:02 via variety.com
   What is the consumer trying to tell us? That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you. The studios and the theaters are duking it out over trying to preserve this 45-day window that is completely out of step with the consumer experience of just loving a movie.” – Variety
  
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• Smithsonian Is Removing Artifacts From The African American Museum

  28-04-2025 17:44 via dcnewsnow.com
  It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. – DCNewsNow
  
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• Remembering Maio Vargas Llosa

  28-04-2025 17:31 via nytimes.com
  Vargas Llosa “has replaced Gabriel García Márquez” as the South American novelist North American readers must catch up on, Updike wrote in 1986, four years after García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature and 24 years before Vargas Llosa himself would. – The New York Times
  
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• How AI Has Changed The Ways I Explore The World

  28-04-2025 17:15 via newyorker.com
  I can hold a tailored conversation on any of the topics I care about with a system that has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across all of them. I can construct the “book” I want in real time—responsive to my questions, customized to my focus, tuned to the spirit of my inquiry. – The New Yorker
  
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• This Company Lights Hollywood, And Congress

  28-04-2025 17:00 via aol.com
  But tariffs are putting that at risk. – Los Angeles Times (AOL)
  
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• How Leni Riefenstahl Hid Her Complicity With Hitler From The World

  28-04-2025 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Riefenstahl, who was full member of the Nazi propaganda machine, spent her entire very long post-WWII life using every tool she had “to deflect from her ideological affinity with nazism.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Challenges Of Putting Dance, And Other Performing Arts, On Screen

  28-04-2025 16:00 via indiewire.com
  “Putting a camera in the audience POV of a dance show is only a reminder that the real thing is probably way better. Putting a camera in the wings, on stage, up close and personal … in a way that no one can experience in an auditorium — that’s worth watching.” – IndieWire
  
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• What Happens When A Reviewer Takes A Year Off

  28-04-2025 15:45 via msn.com
  And when she comes back? “I wondered what the movies would look like a year later; the answer, it turns out, is not nearly as interesting as the mediums they continue to inform and influence.” Ouf. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Film Watchers Shouldn’t Have To Be Talking About Box Office Numbers

  28-04-2025 15:30 via theatlantic.com
  Unless you’re a studio, this discussion is useless, and can have even worse effects: “The defeatist coverage threatens to warp moviegoers’ understanding of box-office success—and whether achieving it is actually possible.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Dangers Of Microdosing

  28-04-2025 15:15 via theguardian.com
  Of microdosing Jane Austen at the office, that is. (Hint: An entire page? That’s an overdose.) – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Went From Diary To Film To Broadway

  28-04-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  And a challenge: “We never wanted the amount of Spanish to take people out of the story. … So it’s been a kind of a dance as we figure out the right balance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Bob Ross’s Happy Little Trees, In The Museum Spotlight At Last

  28-04-2025 14:45 via msn.com
  “His bushy-haired, denim-wearing image has inspired all kinds of merch, from bobbleheads and boxer briefs to wigs and waffle makers. Yet [one museum president] said the artist deserves something more: respect.” – Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• The Massive Run Of The Original, Non-Blockbuster Sinners Continues In Its Second Week

  28-04-2025 14:30 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Ryan Coogler’s film has box office followers’ eyes popping with its unheard-of second weekend take. It dropped a mere 6 percent from its opening weekend, the best performance by far of any R-rated horror movie. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Patrick Adiarte, Of Broadway And The TV Series MASH, Has Died At 82

  28-04-2025 14:15 via nytimes.com
  As a baby, Adiarte was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII. After his family moved to the U.S., he played a little prince and, eventually, the crown prince of Siam to Yul Brynner in The King and I, on both stage and screen. – The New York Times
  
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• The Song That Has Dominated One Chart For Ten Years

  28-04-2025 14:00 via slate.com
  You didn’t know that a cover of The Sound of Silence was the most popular hard rock song of the last decade, did you? “It’s the long-distance runner of hard rock songs. It’s accruing its popularity week by week.” – Slate
  
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• Maybe ‘There’s A Netflix For’ Just About Everything

  28-04-2025 13:45 via wired.com
  That is to say, one person has figured out how to monetize videos of what he calls “grassroots motorsports.” – Wired
  
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• The Next Life Of The Brideshead Revisited And Bridgerton Mansion

  28-04-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Housing crisis, whatever: The mansion is set to become a (rather exclusive) AirBnB. “It’s not a museum. And if you’re going to call it a living house, you’ve got to make it a living house. And that involves having people in it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Guerrilla Girls Are Back

  28-04-2025 13:15 via nytimes.com
  Even though they never left – nor did the need for them, sadly, ever leave. – The New York Times
  
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• The Emmys Race To Take Down The ‘Big Four’ Comedies

  28-04-2025 13:00 via vulture.com
  Forgive us, but Hacks and The Bear are “veteran shows”? Apparently so. Add in Only Murders in the Building and Abbott Elementary, and you have the windmills at which newer shows – Shrinking, The Studio – will tilt. – Vulture
  
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• ‘Love letters to the women of Lebanon’ – in pictures

  28-04-2025 08:00
  After years of civil war and precarious peace, Covid-19 and the Beirut explosions of 2020 once again plunged Lebanon into crisis. But photographer Rania Matar has found inspiration for her project Where Do I Go? in the country’s women. ‘Instead of focusing on destruction, I chose to focus on their majestic presence, their creativity, strength, dignity, and resilience,’ she says Continue reading...
  
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• Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road review – ‘I could look forever at these passing moments in cosmic colours’

  28-04-2025 01:01
  British Museum, London
  The Japanese master’s weightless gaze birthed not only French impressionism but also the whole ideal of art as a way of capturing momentary glimpses of everyday joyThe only thing wrong with the British Museum’s rapturous trip through the Technicolor world of Utagawa Hiroshige’s prints is its final section, which explores this early 19th-century Japanese artist’s continuing global influence. A patchy sampling of Hiroshige’s imitators is all a b
  
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