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• The 19-Year-Old Bisexual Diarist Who Became The Literary Sensation Of 1902 America

  29-04-2025 21:06 via publicdomainreview.org
  “Originally titled ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, The Story of Mary MacLane records four months in the life of its author. Nothing much happens in the outside world, … but her inner life is full of action, as she desires, dreams, and rants against the injustices of youth and sex.” – The Public Domain Review
  
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• As AI Fashion Models Cause A Sensation, It’s Time To Ponder Digital Twins

  29-04-2025 20:25 via theconversation.com
  As digital replicas of real people become more common, especially in image-based industries like fashion, urgent ethical questions are emerging. These include conversations about the future of work, compensation and identity in the cultural economy. – The Conversation
  
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• A Rabbit On The Couch In A Psychoanalyst’s Office

  29-04-2025 20:01 via theguardian.com
  “The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved … divisive and even explosive to debate.” Deborah Levy’s play 50 Minutes “explores everything from anxiety and panic to the fearful silence around a subject matter deemed taboo.” – The Guardian
  
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• The Iowa Town Where Every Other Person Seems To Be A Writer

  29-04-2025 19:44 via publicbooks.org
  Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth. The home of arguably the world’s most famous MFA program, Iowa City has authors’ plaques embedded in the sidewalk, over 100 literary readings per year, and roughly 1,000 writers in a community of 75,000. – Public Books
  
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• Metaphors Are Brilliant At Helping Us Understand Ideas. They Can Also Narrow Our Thinking

  29-04-2025 19:31 via psyche.co
  One risk is that they close down possibilities. They can shut down our thinking, coercing it to fit the shape of someone else’s comparison rather than our own. – Psyche
  
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• One Gallery’s Artists Are Dominating New York’s Museum Calendar This Spring

  29-04-2025 19:13 via nytimes.com
  The gallery’s artists are so dominant in New York’s leading museums this season that some in the art world are calling it “Hauser spring.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Dancer-Turned-Neuroscientist On Finding Flow

  29-04-2025 19:02 via dancemagazine.com
  “This passing of the boundary between ‘doing steps’ and really dancing … is truly exhilarating. I’ve experienced it many times when dance took me away from the here and now, transported me into a different reality, soothed my thoughts and calmed my mind into one single inviting trail of thought.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• New Oscars Rule For Voters: You Actually Have To Watch All The Movies In The Category!

  29-04-2025 18:44 via npr.org
   According to the Academy, they will be tracking what voters watch in the digital screening room, and then there will be a form to fill out about films seen in theaters, festivals, or private screenings. So it’s essentially the honor system. – NPR
  
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• Arts And The Trump Culture Wars

  29-04-2025 18:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  Because of the speed of the administration’s actions, arts and culture groups are scrambling to reassess the scope of their projects and find alternative streams of funding. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• The Boston Pops Phenomenon

  29-04-2025 18:15 via nytimes.com
  He came to the job young, quickly became a local celebrity, and is presiding at a time when it has proved impossible for the Pops to maintain the imperious position in American popular culture built by Fiedler from 1930 to his death in 1979, when eulogized as “the maestro of the masses.” – The New York Times
  
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• Southwest Florida Symphony Closes Down

  29-04-2025 18:04 via news-press.com
  The orchestra will remain in business through the end of its fiscal year on June 30. That coincides with the previously announced departure of the orchestra’s longtime CEO, Amy Ginsburg. The 70-musician professional orchestra marked its 64th anniversary this year. – News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida)
  
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• If AI Can Think, Should It Deserve Rights?

  29-04-2025 17:44 via nytimes.com
   Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals? – The New York Times
  
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• A Color No One Has Ever Seen Before

  29-04-2025 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  The color “olo” can’t be found on a Pantone color chart. It can be experienced only in a cramped 9-by-13 room in Northern California. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Odd Case Of A Celebrity Journalist Who Gets Impossible Interviews

  29-04-2025 17:15 via theguardian.com
  The author was a little-known English freelance journalist. The story of how he came to land his Johnny Depp story – along with a litany of other starry interviews – gives a rare insight into the engine room of celebrity journalism, and is as intriguing as the thought of Jack Sparrow tending a Somerset garden. – The Guardian
  
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• Child Damages Mark Rothko Painting In Rotterdam

  29-04-2025 17:03 via cnn.com
  “Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, after it was ‘scratched’ by a child visiting the Rotterdam gallery where it was on display. The abstract painting from 1960, which measures 7’6″ high by 8’6″ wide, was a centerpiece of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.” – CNN
  
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• New Indie Publisher, Conduit Books, Will Focus On Male Authors

  29-04-2025 16:35 via theguardian.com
  Says founder Jude Cook, “Excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a timely corrective. … (Yet now) stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic.” – The Guardian
  
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• Detroit Opera Stages “The Central Park Five” And Braces For Trump Blowback

  29-04-2025 16:01 via nytimes.com
  “(The company’s) leadership team understands the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at a pumped-up, reactive presidency. Surprisingly, the opera is partially financed by the National Endowment for the Arts, with some $40,000 of the production’s $1 million cost coming through a (previously-paid) federal grant.” – The New York Times
  
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• Civil Rights Leaders Rally Around Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum

  29-04-2025 15:36 via usatoday.com
  “A coalition … kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump administration to erase Black history. … The museum, which opened in 2016 on the National Mall, has had millions of visitors over the years.” – USA Today
  
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• San Francisco Symphony Musicians Use MTT’s Last Concerts Ever To Demand More Money

  29-04-2025 15:04 via msn.com
  At these 80th-birthday concerts for Michael Tilson Thomas, who has suffered a recurrence of an aggressive brain cancer, the musicians distributed leaflets to the audience demanding “a fair contract” and accusing SFS management of budget cuts which “jeopardize the world-renowned status Michael helped build.” – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• A Guy Walks Into a Room.

  29-04-2025 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Privilege, in a nutshell, from a liberal, non-Christian, ostensibly White guy.
  For the sake of argument, let’s say he’s not neon green.This is not a sermon, nor is it a definitive proclamation. I am not an expert on race relations, ethnic bias, or anything even remotely academic that might even come close to qualifying me as the “go-to” on the subject of privilege.
  I’m just a guy who writes commentary, mostly about the nonprofit arts sector and how to fix it. A lot
  
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• British Sunday Newspaper The Observer Relaunches After Being Sold By The Guardian

  29-04-2025 14:32 via pressgazette.co.uk
  “Editor-in-chief and major shareholder James Harding set out his stall in the first issue under its new Tortoise ownership on Sunday, (saying) the paper was leaning into traditions of liberalism and editorial independence which date back to its foundation in 1791.” – Press Gazette (UK)
  
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• Indiana Lawmakers Cut All State Funding For Public Radio And TV

  29-04-2025 14:00 via yahoo.com
  “The public wasn’t given a chance to testify on the 11th-hour change, quietly added to the 220-page budget bill just one day before lawmakers plan to vote on it and wrap up the 2025 legislative session.” – The Indianapolis Star (Yahoo!)
  
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• ‘I didn’t know they existed’: US exhibition highlights rarely seen Picasso artwork

  29-04-2025 11:21
  Gagosian, New YorkIn collaboration with the artist’s daughter, an ambitious new exhibition finds unusual ways to pair better-known pieces with those lesser seenHosting a showing of Pablo Picasso’s art isn’t like putting together your normal gallery exhibition. For one thing, gathering the art of the prodigious Spaniard requires a lot more overhead than most shows. As Michael Cary, the resident Picasso expert at Gagosian gallery, told me: “Picasso shows are museumy. Most o
  
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• Jeremy Deller’s fake Roman mosaic review – is that a smiley face on the ancient ship’s flag?

  29-04-2025 11:14
  North Yorkshire coast
  With its swooping whale, snapping seal and mischievous god, the artist’s tricksy new work, made with Coralie Turpin, is just one of the fun-filled elements of Scarborough’s Wild Eye coastal art trailIt would be too simple to say that Jeremy Deller is interested in history. It would be more accurate to say he’s interested in things that aren’t there; or things that were once there; or perhaps things that could have been there. Protesting miners, decea
  
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• Do Ho Suh: Walk the House review – all the des res of one man’s life, right down to the towel rails

  29-04-2025 10:00
  Tate Modern, London
  The Korean conceptualist invites us into all the spaces he’s lived in, re-created full-size in paper, polyester and fabric. It’s a bit like a vast portrait made in HomebaseHome is where the art is for Do Ho Suh. The Korean conceptualist has spent his career ruminating on and exploring the places we live in, creating ghostly, beautiful facsimiles of the houses and apartments he’s called home.And now those fragile, wispy, delicate buildings have been transport
  
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• Five UK museums ‘alive with ideas and energy’ shortlisted for Art Fund prize

  29-04-2025 09:30
  Museums in Belfast, Cardiff, Perth, Warwickshire and County Durham compete for £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year awardFive UK museums, all “alive with ideas and energy”, in Belfast, Cardiff, Perth, Warwickshire and County Durham are to compete for the world’s largest prize given to a museum.The Art Fund Museum of the Year prize offers the winner a gamechanging prize of £120,000, with £15,000 going to each of the other finalists. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The eighth wonder of the world’: China’s terracotta warriors to march on Australia for blockbuster show

  29-04-2025 05:30
  
  Perth will host huge exhibition of ancient treasures from first emperor’s tomb in June, with 40% of the artefacts leaving China for the first time everGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo thousand years ago, in a bid to conquer death itself, China’s first emperor Qin Shi Huang commissioned a city of the dead: a 49 sq km mausoleum guarded by an army of clay warriors, built to defend his tomb for eternity.When farmers near Xi’an unearthed the first clay head in 1974, th
  
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• President and CEO

  29-04-2025 02:16 via artsjournal.com
  Stamford, ConnecticutPosition Summary
  The President and CEO (CEO) of Orchestra Lumos will be an innovative leader with a passion for leading an orchestra that delivers high-quality concert experiences across numerous musical genres for the widest possible audiences in Fairfield County, CT.The CEO will provide vision and strategic direction to the institution and oversee the day-to-day operation of the orchestra, including all administrative, fundraising, audience engagement, financial control,
  
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• Managing Director, Long Wharf Theatre

  29-04-2025 02:04 via artsjournal.com
  Co-Executive with the Artistic Director, reporting jointly to the Board of DirectorsClassification: This is a full-time, exempt position
  Compensation: $150,000 annual plus benefits
  Location: Greater New Haven, CT
  Work Structure: Hybrid, in-office multiple days a week, resident in Greater New Haven
  Preferred Starting Date: August-September 2025How to Apply:Please submit your application to [email protected]. Please include “Managing Director Application” in the subject lin
  
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