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• ‘Burning Bridges’

  13-06-2025 19:05 via artsjournal.com
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• Don’t Blame Netflix For The End Of Cinema

  28-12-2025 22:00 via archive.ph
  If you must blame anyone, blame the Boomers, and Gen-X. “One lesson of 2025 may be that only younger people – children in particular – can save cinemas from imminent annihilation.” – Irish Times
  
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• Gary Graffman, Child Piano Prodigy Turned Renowned Teacher And Administrator, Has Died At 97

  28-12-2025 21:30 via nytimes.com
  “In 1964 Mr. Graffman canceled a booking in Jackson, Miss., after learning that the house would be segregated, leading other prominent classical artists to publicly announce that they would no longer perform in segregated halls.” – The New York Times
  
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• See Roofman, Or At Least Read Slate’s Movie Club About Everything In Film This Year

  28-12-2025 21:00 via slate.com
  Choosing only one post from these annual critic chats is a challenge, but this 10th in the series features the weirdly, deeply American Roofman (though for the sake of improving both brain and watchlist, read through the entire discussion). – Slate
  
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• Apparently, One Can Insure The Bayeux Tapestry

  28-12-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Does £800 million seem like enough? Hm. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• This Movie Season, Sad Art Dad Is Finally Being Held Responsible For His Actions

  28-12-2025 20:00 via theatlantic.com
  “Does the Sad Art Dad regret his choices? Is making great art—which, in these films, has a capacious, allegorical quality—worth ruining your relationship with your kids?” – The Atlantic
  
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• The World Is In A Reading Slump. These Podcasts Might Help

  28-12-2025 19:30 via nytimes.com
  Reading is down “thanks in large part to the number of digital distractions competing for our limited attention.” Ironically, these podcasts might help fix that. – The New York Times
  
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• Rob Reiner Was Good At Nearly Every Genre Of Film For One Reason

  28-12-2025 19:00 via lareviewofbooks.org
  “What Reiner’s vastly differing films all share is the generous and empathetic heart of their director, a deep sense of humanity, and a relentless curiosity about and love of people, in all their imperfections and quirks.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• Brigitte Bardot, Who Used Her Stardom To Help Animals But Spew Hatred Of Other Humans, Has Died At 91

  28-12-2025 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Bardot “shot to international fame in 1956 with And God Created Woman” and stayed famous as a “sex kitten” for two decades. Then she retired and became a far-right activist in France, her statements resulting “in a string of convictions for inciting racial hatred.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The ‘Craftivists’ Using Fiber Arts To Fight Back Against The Current US Regime

  28-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  “For some fiber artists, craft is inherently political. ‘Creating in a time of destruction and chaos, that is resistance in and of itself,’ said Downey. … But she thinks one of the other successes of craftivism is that “‘it centers joy’” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Nazis Plundered 175,000 Church Bells Across Europe, Changing The Sound Of Those Countries Forever

  28-12-2025 17:30 via nytimes.com
  More than 150,000 were taken, and never returned, often turned into ammunition or taken to a Glockenfriedhof, or bell cemetery. The sliver of silver lining: “A postwar ‘bell quality race’ … led to major advances in campanology.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Shakers Created A Musical Culture, And Composer Daniel Blumberg Wanted A New Movie To Reflect That Legacy

  28-12-2025 17:00 via yahoo.com
  “The entire tapestry of this film is musicalized — from the emphatic breathing, chest thumping and floor stomping that make up the worshipers’ rituals, to the songs, inspired by Shaker traditionals and performed by star Amanda Seyfried and the cast.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Kennedy Center Says It Will Sue Chuck Redd For Canceling Christmas Eve Concert After Board Adds Trump Name To Building

  28-12-2025 16:30 via npr.org
  The spokesperson at the Kennedy Center told NPR, “Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist.” – NPR
  
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• The London Eye’s Architect Has Designed A Renewable Energy AI Source

  28-12-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The tidal power station “would curve from Minehead to Watchet and use 125 underwater turbines to harness the power of the second-highest tidal range in the world” – and also become a race track for cyclists. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• There’s A Rule Broadway Insiders Follow

  28-12-2025 15:30 via msn.com
  It’s called the two-block rule, as in, if you need to trash the show, wait until you’re two blocks away. “You wouldn’t go to someone’s house and trash their cooking, so why would you do that in a theatre?” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Why It Matters That We Can Interpret Symbols In Art And Literature

  28-12-2025 15:00 via lithub.com
  “Something profound is lost when we reject the symbolic, that well-spring of human communication since an Australopithecus some three-million years ago found a pebble on the South African savannah and held onto it because the rock happened to look like a human face.” – LitHub
  
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• Designing A Mostly Happy, Hippie Sci-Fi Apolcalypse

  28-12-2025 14:30 via fastcompany.com
  For instance, in Pluribus, “the music was designed to explore the tension between the pain of individuality and the comfort of surrender.” – Fast Company
  
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• Heated Rivalry Is Not Just That Gay Hockey Show, It Also Can Teach You More About Canadian Music

  28-12-2025 14:00 via cbc.ca
  “Streaming numbers have reflected the craze, with multiple tracks from featured Canadian artists ‘jumping tens of thousands of per cent in streams and thousands of new playlist adds in a matter of days’ — most notably for Feist and Wolf Parade.” – CBC
  
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• The Guardian’s Twelve Worst Films Of The Year

  28-12-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Worth a read just for the pans: “This listless and supercilious musical – ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values – … flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler.” Ouch. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Ukrainian City Where ‘Carol Of The Bells’ Was Born Has Been Destroyed By Russia

  28-12-2025 13:00 via yahoo.com
  Pokrovsk’s displaced choir had to distill “the complex choral melody for just three singers this Christmas, down from the usual 30. Hearing the arrangement performed by three singers gives a sense of Ukraine at the moment after years of war: depleted, persistent, still beautiful.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• AI that turns Museums into Conversations: The Digital Twin

  28-12-2025 01:19 via artsjournal.com
  Museums still operate as if interpretation is a one-way stream, produced by experts and consumed by the public. Instead, imagine an exhibition that doesn’t just speak, but listens and responds.
  
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• Cheyenne King-Bails talks about the extraordinary impact of the SphinxConnect conference

  27-12-2025 19:24 via artsjournal.com
  Cheyenne King-Bails, Director of Community Experience at The Sphinx Organization, shares the value of the SphinxConnect conference and its impact on the arts community.
  
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• Dear Mayor Mamdani: Here’s Your Art Everywhere

  27-12-2025 19:03 via artsjournal.com
  Dear Mayor Mamdani, We love your love of arts for all, and we swooned when we read that your favorite museum is the art we all see and share together in the NYC subway: the “…beautiful murals and pieces of art across our subway system. And the fulfillment of art as being something for the […]
  
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• Welcome to Twenty Twenty-Six

  27-12-2025 16:01 via artsjournal.com
  Heavy winter snows whitened the trees. They turned the branches into filigrees shivering in the wind.
  
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• ‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump

  26-12-2025 16:00
  Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rightsIn early October, Tracy Wright invited a group of other women in her social circle – all fellow knitters – to gather outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in their home town of Portland, Oregon. They were “armed with their weapons of mass construction”.Donald Trump had just ordered national guard troops
  
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• ‘It’s all about love’: how a Swiss photographer’s intimate honeymoon pictures caused a scandal

  26-12-2025 08:00
  René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused a stirIn 1952, two young honeymooners checked into a small hotel in Montparnasse. An everyday story in the City of Light, perhaps. But the Swiss photographer René Groebli and his wife, Rita Dürmüller, spent their time in Paris cocooned in their room producing a series of phot
  
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• Merry Christmas

  24-12-2025 23:25 via artsjournal.com
  Today’s highlights: The traditional art market is facing a reckoning as 2025 comes to a close. There was a flood of gallery closures and downsizings this year, marking a period of “endings more than beginnings” as the industry searches for a more sustainable model (ARTnews ). In the publishing world, the mass-market paperback is–shockingly– about to disappear from the U.S. market following a major distributor’s decision to halt operations (Publishers Weekly ).
  
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• “Nothing Is Too Extravagant For Christ” — This May Be America’s Most Over-The-Top Christmas Pageant

  24-12-2025 20:50 via texasmonthly.com
  The 17,000 costume pieces are the least extravagant feature of The Gift of Christmas, the annual spectacular presented by Prestonwood Baptist Church near Dallas. On the 300-foot stage are LED screens, lasers, fireworks, trapezing elves, flying angels, and 21 animals. (And yes, shepherds, three kings, and the Holy Family. And Santa.) – Texas Monthly
  
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• Why Did So Many Art Galleries Close This Year?

  24-12-2025 20:31 via artnews.com
  Overall, when it came to galleries, the dominant vibe was one of endings more than beginnings—and it continued a building drumbeat. Those who closed or significantly downsized in 2025, after all, joined others that have expired in previous years. – ARTnews
  
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• Archaeologist Discovers A Pharaoh’s “Valley Temple”

  24-12-2025 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  “Nyuserra’s sun temple, which is located in Abu Ghurab about 10 miles south of Cairo, was composed of two parts: the previously excavated upper temple and the valley temple (alongside the Nile), which Massimiliano Nuzzolo began work on in 2024.” – Artnet
  
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