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• Rage Against The Pretty Little Machine

  13-07-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bonnie Lucas loves to take pretty things, cut them up, rip them apart, and then remake them into art. “The store-bought object is not meant to be cut up and dismantled. It’s highly valued in our culture. Especially by women. We take care of things, we wash things, we store them. Especially feminine and pretty things. A few people I know said, You really cut that doll up? My mother said that to me. She’s appalled that I did this, actually.” The New York Times
  
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• Good Morning

  11-01-2026 22:08 via artsjournal.com
  Today’s Highlights: History is being literalized and edited in real-time. The National Portrait Gallery has swapped its portraits of Donald Trump and removed caption text referencing his two impeachments, a move that has reignited debates over how federal institutions curate political legacy (Washington Post (Yahoo) ).In the commercial sector, the promise of digital efficiency is faltering. A new investigation reveals that while digital ticketing was supposed to end counterfeiting, it has
  
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• Golden Globes Live Updates

  11-01-2026 22:00 via latimes.com
  In case you want to know, the Los Angeles Times has you covered. (So does Variety.) – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Why Is Ticketing Fraud So Widespread – And So Hard To Fix?

  11-01-2026 21:30 via fastcompany.com
  Digital tickets fixed physical ticket counterfeiting, sure. But “digital tickets didn’t eliminate fraud. They just changed the face of it—and in the process, blew the doors open for a new generation of scammers.” – Fast Company
  
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• How A Writer Got Sucked Into The Ranks Of Broadway Superfans

  11-01-2026 21:00 via nytimes.com
  “There was what I would not call lying to my family but obfuscating about where I was and what I was doing, as if I were having an affair. (An affair would have been easier to explain.)” – The New York Times
  
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• Turns Out Movie Director Ben Wheatley Is Also Prolific Musician Dave Wheldon

  11-01-2026 20:30 via theguardian.com
  The director of indies and Meg 2: The Trench says, “Before it might have been playing games or doomscrolling. [Making music] is a more productive and creative way of calming down.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• National Portrait Gallery Swaps Trump Portraits And Removes Reference To His Two Impeachments

  11-01-2026 20:00 via yahoo.com
  The caption for the previous photo read in part, “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• Bela Tarr, Hungarian Director Beloved By Cinephiles, Has Died At 70

  11-01-2026 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “Susan Sontag once claimed she would be ‘glad to see’ Béla Tarr’s 1994 masterpiece Sátántangó ‘every year for the rest of my life.’ No small compliment given that the film is more than seven hours long.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why Are So Many Writers Dropping Out Of Adelaide’s Famous Writing Festival?

  11-01-2026 19:00 via lithub.com
  “Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns.” – LitHub
  
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• ‘Don’t Forget My Old Soul’

  11-01-2026 18:46 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/01/dont-forget-my-old-soul.html" title="‘Don’t Forget My Old Soul’” rel=”nofollow”>When I saw this eye-popping video for the first time, it bowled me over. I’ve rewatched it several times and am still marveling at it. But is this work a piece of AI-slop? Is it “kind of meaningless in [its] calculated reality,” as Doug McLennan has written of the genre?
  
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• Actor And Director Timothy Busfield Accused Of Child Sex Abuse

  11-01-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  A judge in New Mexico issued a warrant for his arrest. “Busfield was charged with two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and one count of child abuse after two child actors said he had touched them inappropriately over a period of years.” – The New York Times
  
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• Adapting A ‘Controversial’ Bestselling Book To The Screen Isn’t Easy

  11-01-2026 18:00 via slate.com
  Netflix’s adaptation of Emily Henry’s The People We Meet on Vacation has some issues. “This diminishment of each element almost entirely nukes the book’s grounded sense of Poppy’s motivations behind her noncommittal approach to life. And that’s, like, her whole thing! That’s not a conflict, but the conflict!” Oops. – Slate
  
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• This Little-Known Museum Has Old Hollywood In Its Very Bones

  11-01-2026 17:30 via yahoo.com
  “Everything we now know as ‘Hollywood,’ … the global ‘dream machine’ with all its enduring art, complicated mythology and current anxieties, began under a cedar-shingled roof where DeMille set up in a tiny corner office and actors changed costumes in horse stalls.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• Oscar-Winning ‘Crash’ Filmmaker Paul Haggis Civil Case For Rape Settles For Two Million

  11-01-2026 17:00 via artsjournal.com
  Haggis, never convicted in a criminal court, was initially ordered to pay a former publicist $7.5 million. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Thomas Paine Still Matters, 250 Years Later

  11-01-2026 16:30 via salon.com
  “The pamphlet changed the way Americans viewed government. Beginning with an origin story that echoed John Locke’s ‘Second Treatise of Government,’ Paine depicted people originally created free and equal in nature and subsequently forming representative governments to better secure their liberty and happiness.” – Salon
  
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• So X Is Suing Music Publishers, Again

  11-01-2026 16:00 via hollywoodreporter.com
  It’s a new lawsuit in a long, long battle, with opponents that are not exactly beloved. “X and the publishers have been in a legal battle for years, with the NMPA first suing the platform back in 2023 over allegations of mass copyright infringement.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• This Oregon Library Is Literally Sinking

  11-01-2026 15:30 via orartswatch.org
  It’s probably the busiest building downtown. But the area’s residents have voted down two library bonds. What’s next? – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Wagner Moura’s Starring Year

  11-01-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “After his breakout role as Pablo Escobar 10 years ago on Netflix’s Narcos, Moura frustrated his agents by turning down many of the high-profile, lucrative projects that came his way.” Then? The Secret Agent came along. – The New York Times
  
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• How An REM Song Helped A Doomsday Cult Member Escape

  11-01-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  “As my will to blindly obey crumbled, I began to secretly tune in to the American armed forces radio station that broadcast in Japan. … One day, ‘Losing My Religion’ came on, and I remember hearing it for the first time and freezing. I physically stopped walking.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Orlando Fully Launched Tilda Swinton’s Career

  11-01-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  And she pays the book, at least, back with a reread every few years. – The New York Times
  
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• Who Will Win Tonight’s Golden Globes?

  11-01-2026 13:30 via vulture.com
  For one thing, “Warner Bros. will swear there was absolutely no calculation involved in running One Battle After Another as a Comedy at the Globes. If so, the field just happened to shake out awfully nice for the presumed Oscar front-runner.” – Vulture
  
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• The Current Kennedy Center Heads Claim That They Broke Up With The Opera First

  11-01-2026 13:00 via variety.com
  No doubt we should believe that leadership just as much as we’d believe any questionable partner. “Opera leaders had said that it was an amicable split, and made no mention of the political turmoil causing many artists to cancel their Kennedy Center engagements.” – Variety
  
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• Marvin Curtis talks about the extraordinary documentary, The Invisible Player

  10-01-2026 19:04 via artsjournal.com
  Marvin Curtis, Immediate Past Board Chair of the South Bend Symphony shares the purpose and impact behind the documentary, The Invisible Player.
  
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• ‘The boy’s contented face, his red hair matching the pig’s – you couldn’t plan for it’: Kelli Radwanski’s best phone picture

  10-01-2026 12:00
  Remote photography didn’t dilute the intimacy of this blissful moment in the Nevada sunshineSara Weir’s five children had just woken up and were roaming their home in Nevada when this shot was taken. It was 7am and photographer Kelli Radwanski was after the morning light; Weir had another child on the way and had hired Radwanski to capture their family life. All the kids were feeling playful, ready to show off their talents, silly faces and prize possessions. As the eldest son wander
  
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• From Hamnet to Bridget Christie: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  10-01-2026 07:00
  Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley play the Shakespeares in an emotional Maggie O’Farrell adaptation, while The Change creator returns to standupHamnet
  Out nowBring the tissues for this emotional Oscar hopeful which sees Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as none other than William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, whose son Hamnet died at the age of 11. It is based on the book by Maggie O’Farrell, and Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) directs. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

  09-01-2026 18:51
  It can make us healthier, happier and live longer. Engaging in culture should be encouraged like good diet and exerciseThe second Friday in January has been dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, when we are most likely to give up our new year resolutions. Instead of denying ourselves pleasures, suggests a new batch of books, a more successful route may be adding to them – nourishing our minds and souls by making creativity as much a daily habit as eating vegetables and exercising. Rath
  
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• Did Leonardo da Vinci paint a nude Mona Lisa? I may have just solved this centuries-old mystery

  09-01-2026 16:43
  It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it outIncreased security after the recent heist has made the queues at the Louvre even slower, yet on this rainswept, very wintry morning, no one grumbles. After all, the Mona Lisa is waiting inside for all these tourists who have come from the world over. Leonardo da Vinci’s woman – swathed in dark clo
  
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• Anonymous painting bought at auction on ‘hunch’ identified as two-in-one Rubens

  09-01-2026 14:53
  Study of man often featured in works by the Flemish master reveals hidden painting of woman beneath model’s beardIs it a bald elderly man with a big bushy beard and a wine-addled stare? Or a friendly young woman with flowing locks and a crown of braids?To Belgian art dealer Klaas Muller, an answer to that question mattered less than the fact that this particular take on the duck-rabbit optical illusion was painted by one Peter Paul Rubens. Continue reading...
  
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• Hawaiian headwear, Beuys’ bathtub and Nan Goldin’s photo diaries – the week in art

  09-01-2026 13:00
  Jewels of island life go on display, Beuys introduces heroism to washtime and Nan Goldin’s classic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency reveals itself – all in your weekly dispatchHawai‘i
  Some of the most spectacular masterpieces in the British Museum, including feathered war helmets and glaring gods collected by Captain Cook, make this exhibition created in collaboration with Hawaii community leaders and artists entrancing.• The British Museum, London, from 15 January to 25 Ma
  
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• Marie Goodenough obituary

  09-01-2026 11:49
  My mother, Marie Goodenough, who has died aged 90, was a prolific painter but primarily considered herself a sculptor, mainly working in wood but also using papier-mache, fibreglass and metal. She had an original and humorous outlook; the sculpture Boris Godunov, purchased by the Andrew Duncan Clinic in Edinburgh, was a play on words, and Newspaperman, made from copies of the Scotsman, was a tribute to the art critic Edward Gage and exhibited in the Royal Glasgow Institute.Born in York, Marie wa
  
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