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• A Brief History Of May Day In America

  01-05-2025 21:02 via apnews.com
  The roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century to a turbulent and pivotal time in U.S. labor history — labor unions’ struggle for an eight-hour workday during the 1880s. Unions later recommended that workers be honored every May 1. – AP
  
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• How AI Is Transforming Book Publishing

  01-05-2025 20:31 via thefutureofthings.com
  Due to the advent of online self-publishing platforms, what once required a team of professionals—editors, graphic designers, and formatting specialists—can now be done with just a few clicks. – The Future of Things
  
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• How San Diego’s Dance Organizations Are Facing Down A Barrage Of Challenges In 2025

  01-05-2025 20:05 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  “We spoke to four local company leaders about challenges unique to dance organizations that present shows, in addition to operating schools and serving the community through outreach programs.” – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• Controversy Over Removing Books From City Library Roils Alabama Town

  01-05-2025 19:44 via al.com
   “There are two books they are leaving (in the teen section). There are some people not happy about that decision. They feel there is sexually explicit content in them. But our library board has reviewed that and didn’t feel that way.” – Alabama.com
  
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• Child Accidently Damages $50M Rothko

  01-05-2025 19:34 via abcnews.go.com
  The work in question — Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 (1960) by Mark Rothko — sustained several visible scratches in its unvarnished lower paint layer when a young child brushed against it during a visit to the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. – ABCNews
  
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• Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’

  01-05-2025 19:30
  Rapper turned MIT professor is unveiling a project of ‘en plein air rapping’, which is about outdoors-inspired music“What does it mean to record outside, not just rap outside like a cypher, but actually record outside with the intention of completing a full song completely written and inspired outdoors?” rapper Lupe Fiasco mused while discussing his latest project, Ghotiing (pronounced “fishing”). “What are the limitations and constraints? What do you ha
  
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• Wikipedia Says It Won’t Replace Human Volunteer Editors With AI

  01-05-2025 19:19 via techcrunch.com
  Instead, the Wikimedia Foundation says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them to accomplish what they need to do, without worrying about how to “technically achieve it.” – TechCrunch
  
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• The “Secret” Public Radio Service That Has Survived The Switch To Digital Signals

  01-05-2025 19:01 via niemanlab.org
  It’s a separate service which even public radio fans might not know is there: subchannel broadcasting with dedicated programming for the blind and visually impaired. – Nieman Lab
  
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• What Does Working Class Literature Look Like?

  01-05-2025 18:44 via theatlantic.com
  Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a wave of books preoccupied with our working lives, many of them focused on white-collar office jobs. – The Atlantic
  
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• How “Gatsby” Became A Literary Institution

  01-05-2025 18:31 via newyorker.com
  By some estimates, the total worldwide sales of the novel are now upward of thirty million copies. How did “Gatsby” grow so great, and why has it endured so long? – The New Yorker
  
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• UMG Posts Strong First Quarter Music Earnings

  01-05-2025 18:15 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
   UMG’s research suggests that approximately 20% of current music streaming subscribers would be willing to pay up to double the current standard price for enhanced offerings. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• André Lewis On His 30 Years At The Helm Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet

  01-05-2025 18:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  “(Artistic) vision is most clearly expressed through the repertoire you do. It was really important for us, I felt, to go into contemporary full-lengths, like we did with The Handmaid’s Tale or Dracula or Jekyll and Hyde (or) Moulin Rouge — none of that existed in my days as a dancer.” – Winnipeg Free Press
  
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• Duolingo Doubles Its Number Of Language Courses Using AI

  01-05-2025 17:44 via theverge.com
  Duolingo says that building one new course historically has taken “years,” but the company was able to build this new suite of courses more quickly “through advances in generative AI, shared content systems, and internal tooling.” – The Verge
  
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• Record $32 Million Klimt Portrait Sale Falls Through

  01-05-2025 17:31 via news.artnet.com
  After a restitution settlement that would have addressed glaring gaps in the work’s provenance failed to go ahead, the painting’s anonymous buyer pulled out of the sale last month. – Artnet
  
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• Why Academic Freedom Is Essential To A Great Country

  01-05-2025 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  What exactly is academic freedom? It is the freedom to express and debate ideas without fear of censorship or reprisal. It is the freedom to explore. It is the freedom to let the imagination wander. It is the freedom to exchange knowledge with colleagues and others. – The Atlantic
  
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• Alice Coltrane Was Not A Saint, And We’ll Lose Touch With Her Music If We Make Her One

  01-05-2025 17:03 via yahoo.com
  “Alice Coltrane, despite having been one of John’s pianists, is maneuvered into the margins by subgenre euphemisms like ‘spiritual jazz,’ by which many mean, music for hippies and poets, while mainstream jazz is for men who read Esquire and smoke performative cigars on business trips.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
  
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• People Have Already Found Loopholes In The Oscars’ “Must Watch All Nominees To Vote” Rule

  01-05-2025 16:36 via variety.com
  “Today, some members, particularly in the Executive and Marketing and PR branches, simply press play on the Academy app to satisfy the system’s viewing requirement — then mute the audio or switch tabs. ‘The app only needs to see that you watched it,’ says one voter. ‘It doesn’t know if you’re sitting there.’” – Variety
  
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• Tony Award Nominations 2025: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Death Becomes Her’ And ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Get Ten Each

  01-05-2025 16:02 via thewrap.com
  Oh Mary!, Sunset Boulevard, John Proctor Is the Villain, George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger and others are among the nominees. (Conspicuously missing are Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal for Othello.) And, of course, Audra is nominated for, and may well win, her seventh Tony. – TheWrap
  
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• Just What-All Happens To The Sistine Chapel During A Papal Conclave?

  01-05-2025 15:35 via news.artnet.com
  For s start, it’s closed to the public, since the Chapel has been the site for the voting since 1492 and the cardinals are sequestered while deliberating. A stove and chimney for the smoke are installed, the marble mosaic floor is covered, porta-potties are installed in the next room, etc. – Artnet
  
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• Artist Behind “Blackest Black” And “Pinkest Pink” Disputes Loses Lawsuit Brought By Yves Klein’s Heirs

  01-05-2025 15:01 via news.artnet.com
  Klein’s son, along with the corporation which owns Klein’s trademarks and rights to the color International Klein Blue, sued artist Stuart Semple for infringement over Semple’s creation and marketing of an ultramarine pigment he calls “Easy Klein — Incredibly Kleinish Blue.” – Artnet
  
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• Novelist Barbara Pym Worked For British Spy Agency, Researcher Says

  01-05-2025 14:34 via theguardian.com
  Former British diplomat Claire Smith argues that, if you look carefully at correspondence from Pym’s wartime work as a censor, you’ll see evidence that she was secretly working for MI5. – The Guardian
  
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• After Bullying And Harassment Scandals, Formal Review Of BBC Finds This

  01-05-2025 14:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “A BBC review has found no evidence of a ‘toxic culture’ but a ‘minority of people whose behavior is simply not acceptable,’ the U.K. public broadcaster said on Monday.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Artist’s works resurface nearly five decades after disappearing from Berlin studio

  01-05-2025 10:52
  Exclusive: British Caribbean artist Winston Branch was distraught at loss of paintings – taken because he could not pay rentTwenty paintings by the Caribbean British abstract painter Winston Branch have been recovered after they disappeared without trace nearly five decades ago.“Those works were stolen from his studio because he wasn’t able to pay the rent back in the 1970s,” his agent, Varvara Roza, told the Guardian. “This is shocking, isn’t it?” Conti
  
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• ‘You can see affection, love, respect, rivalry’: what happens when artists paint each other?

  01-05-2025 09:00
  Ever since Raphael included Leonardo and Michelangelo in a crowd scene of one of his works, painters have had a fascination with depicting their peers, as a new exhibition revealsAs with all genres of art, portraiture has its own set of subgenres. Aside from the standard configuration of artist and model, there is the double portrait, the group portrait, the self-portrait and so on. But one other strand habitually draws freely on all the others to create its own unique sub-subgenre: when artists
  
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• Tate Modern: 25 jaw-dropping and unforgettable moments from the first 25 years

  01-05-2025 06:00
  When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. We look back at spiders, splinters, sexual dependency and sunsetsFrances Morris, then head of displays Continue reading...
  
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• Archibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in pictures

  01-05-2025 03:30
  The finalists for the 2025 Archibald prize have been revealed by the Art Gallery of NSW. Here is a selection – the full group can be seen on the gallery’s website.On 9 May the winner will be announced. The $100,000 prize is awarded to the best portrait of a person ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’ painted by an Australian resident.The finalists for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes will be on show at the AGNSW from 10 May to 17 AugustArchibald priz
  
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• Archibald prize 2025: Jason Phu portrait by Abdul Abdullah wins packing room prize

  01-05-2025 03:14
  Phu, also a 2025 Archibald finalist, was painted by his good friend Abdullah, who has won category judged by the Art Gallery of New South Wales staff each yearArchibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in picturesA portrait of the artist Jason Phu by Abdul Abdullah has won the $3,000 packing room prize at the annual Archibald prize.Phu, who is also a finalist this year with his portrait of the actor Hugo Weaving, is depicted sitting astride a horse in
  
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