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• They Shot Their Movie In A Week For $7,000. Now The Hard Part: Getting Into Theatres

  04-05-2025 22:02 via latimes.com
  
  It’s a challenge to make a film like “Burt”— and quite another to bring such a handmade film to audiences. In 2024, Burke went 0 for 28 in film festival acceptances, which made him question if “Burt” might be the final chapter of his career instead of a launching pad. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Judge Blocks Shutdown Of Institute Of Museum And Library Services

  04-05-2025 21:25 via artnews.com
  
  The news hardly comes as a surprise, given the judge’s inclination to rule against the IMLS shutdown. The temporary restraining order was issued just days ahead of a mass layoff of nearly all IMLS employees that was slated to take effect on May 4. – ARTnews
  
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• The “X” Factor Of City Ballet’s Roman Meija

  04-05-2025 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Mejia is an airborne dancer whose exuberance shines in joyful Balanchine ballets like “Stars and Stripes,” “Rubies” and “Western Symphony.” But his repertoire, especially in recent seasons, has expanded to roles that require him to be more subtle, more sophisticated. – The New York Times
  
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• Ahem… Do We Need More Male Novelists?

  04-05-2025 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Are male novelists actually in decline? Some metrics certainly say so: of all the writers to appear on the weekly Sunday Times bestseller lists for fiction hardbacks so far this year, just a third are men. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Universities Deserve Special Standing In Our Culture

  04-05-2025 20:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  It is especially ironic that, just as we began the countdown to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, with commemorations at Lexington and Concord, this contemporary battle over the future of universities took a dangerous new turn. – The Atlantic
  
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• Visionary Director Pierre Audi, 67

  04-05-2025 19:28 via nytimes.com
  Pierre Audi, the stage director and impresario whose transformation of a derelict London lecture hall into the cutting-edge Almeida Theater was the opening act in a long career as one of the world’s most eminent performing arts leaders, died on Friday night in Beijing. – The New York Times
  
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• Art Institute Of Chicago Director On Leave After Airplane Incident

  04-05-2025 19:02 via nytimes.com
  During the incident, which occurred on April 18, police were called to United Airlines flight 953 after it landed in Munich from Chicago, following reports that Rondeau had stripped off his clothes. CBS reported that the incident occurred after he drank alcohol and took prescription medication. – The New York Times
  
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• Meta’s New AI Chatbot Will Accompany You To Movie Theatres. Is This A Good Thing?

  04-05-2025 18:31 via fastcompany.com
  The chatbot, which Meta has reportedly claimed will “get audiences back in theaters,” works by sending moviegoers trivia, quips, and questions about the movie, according to the New York Times. The catch? All of this happens while the film plays in front of them. – Fast Company
  
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• The Flood Of Fakes Has Finally Broken My Mind!

  04-05-2025 18:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Fake images didn’t really bother me until I started looking at them with my kids. They wanted pictures of baby animals; at some point, Google Images started showing us A.I. creatures, ruining the whole idea, which was to marvel at the fact that these baby peacocks and baby lions actually exist. – The New Yorker
  
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• Today’s Film And TV Projects Have Embraced Diversity in Story Telling. But…

  04-05-2025 17:31 via theconversation.com
  
  In recent years, there have been increasing creative efforts to fill these historical gaps. This suggests there is a willingness, at least in some spheres, to acknowledge the long history of multiculturalism in Britain and to see people of colour in 19th-century histories. – The Conversation
  
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• David Graeber’s Rogue Anthropologies

  04-05-2025 17:02 via bookforum.com
  
  He found a way to be both a public intellectual and an academic, a scholar with the fervor of the preacher and a pundit with the depth of a teacher. – BookForum
  
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• The landscape artist who makes her paint from pearls, crystals and volcanic dust

  04-05-2025 17:00
  
  Su Yu-Xin scours mines and federal lands for materials to carefully craft her own pigments in a Los Angeles workspace that’s part studio, part science labWhile in art school in London, Su Yu-Xin calculated that most painters used one of five brands of high-end oil paint, and that each brand produced only about 60 colors.“That’s really scary,” the Slade graduate said. “It’s like all the top chefs in the world shop from the same grocery store.” Continue re
  
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• Study: Handwriting Boosts Early Reading Skills In Students

  04-05-2025 16:31 via psypost.org
  “As children write less and less by hand, we wanted to explore the impact of this on alphabetic and orthographic skills. In other words, we wanted to see whether the ability to learn letters and to assimilate and remember word structure develops differently through manual training or the use of keyboards.” – PsyPost
  
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• On Writing, Feelings And What AI Does

  04-05-2025 16:02 via thelampmagazine.com
  
  Some say that what makes the difference between human and machine writing—and what taints the latter—is that machines do not think, or intend, or mean. Their compositions, allowing that they do compose, are therefore not minded or mindful, and it is this lack that gives them their taint, as properly it should. – The Lamp
  
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• Scholarly Groups Sue Trump Administration Over NEA, NEH Cuts

  04-05-2025 15:31 via nytimes.com
  Three major scholarly groups have sued the National Endowment for the Humanities and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, arguing that the recent mass cancellation of virtually all the agency’s grants violates the law and must be reversed. – The New York Times
  
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• Sinners: A Movie Deal That Shook Hollywood

  04-05-2025 15:02 via nytimes.com
  Since the film came out, these contract stipulations have been much discussed, even controversial. That has little to do with why “Sinners” is so enthralling to watch but everything to do with the film’s central theme, and why it is so resonant: the art of the deal. – The New York Times
  
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• Judge In Meta AI Case: “I Just Don’t Understand How That Can Be Fair Use”

  04-05-2025 14:31 via arstechnica.com
  Authors may need to sharpen their case, which Chhabria warned could be “taken away by fair use” if none of the authors suing, including Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Richard Kadrey, can show “that the market for their actual copyrighted work is going to be dramatically affected.” – Ars Technica
  
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• NEA Cancels Already-Awarded Grants As Trump Administrations Moves To Shut NEA

  04-05-2025 14:02 via nytimes.com
  “It’s strange that the Trump administration is trumpeting their priorities to serve diverse America while canceling grants for our August Wilson play.” – The New York Times
  
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