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• Runner/Office Assistant / YM&U Group / London

  11-10-2019 12:26
  A leading management and professional services company based out of the UK and US, YM&U provides a portfolio of services to a wide range of clients consisting of leaders in...
  
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• Paramount Says It’ll Release 30 Movies A Year Post-Merger. Is That Even Possible?

  27-08-2026 15:01 via yahoo.com
  “Among creatives who spoke to TheWrap in the past week, skepticism still abounds that the studio could make good on such a lofty goal. ‘In the old days at Warner Bros. they released almost that many movies, but I don’t know if the marketplace can bear that,’ said one veteran producer.” – TheWrap (MSN)
  
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• LACMA Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach

  27-08-2026 14:36 via artnews.com
  
  “A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has filed a class action complaint against the institution over a 2025 data breach that he claims has compromised sensitive visitor and employee information, including Social Security numbers.” – ARTnews
  
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• Artist Yayoi Kusama Has Died At 97

  27-08-2026 14:00 via msn.com
  “Tenacious, obsessive and, in the eyes of her critics, relentlessly self-promoting, she became a pop-culture fixture, making brightly colored, instantly recognizable paintings, sculptures and installations that were exhibited at major museums and made her one of the world’s top-selling contemporary artists.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Artists Bring a Narrative to Life: We the People

  26-08-2026 22:25 via artsjournal.com
  We wanted to celebrate our nation, because 2026 is our 250th birthday, and also, it feels necessary in this moment. But how would we do it in a moment when celebrating living in the USA feels political, feels fraught with potential pitfalls? What could we do to bring people together across perceived differences? What would […]
  
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• Culture: The Real Costs of Being Real

  26-08-2026 22:01 via artsjournal.com
  It’s getting difficult to trust what (or who) is real in the age of AI.
  
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• Actor Tim Curry, Star Of “Rocky Horror” And “It,” Has Died At 80

  26-08-2026 21:02 via variety.com
  
  “Though Curry would forever be the face that launched a thousand Time Warp dances …, he (was) far more than a one-trick pony over a career that spanned more than a half-century.” His roles ranged from Pennywise the Clown (Stephen King’s It) to Mozart (Amadeus ,Olivier and Tony nominations) to King Arthur (Spamalot). – Variety
  
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• The NEA Has Survived. But At What Cost?

  26-08-2026 20:31 via americantheatre.org
  
  The generally inoffensive nature of these selections seems to reveal an agency that has trimmed its sails (not only financially) and ceded ground to conservative demands in order to survive. – American Theatre
  
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• Choreographer Azsure Barton Reimagines Pandora’s Box As A Parable About AI

  26-08-2026 20:04 via theguardian.com
  “Pandora … was the first woman, an Eve-like figure, created from clay and given by Zeus to Epimetheus, unbeknownst to him, as a punishment for his brother Prometheus giving humans fire. ‘One of the things I was really driven by was the fact that she was an agent of change,’ says Barton.” – The Guardian
  
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• V&A Museum Workers Vote To Strike

  26-08-2026 19:44 via bbc.com
  
  A PCS ballot registered 95% in favour of industrial action. The union did not say how many workers would be striking. It called for better pay, a cross-site policy to close public spaces when temperatures reached 30C, and for V&A East Storehouse workers “to drink and carry water at work”. – BBC
  
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• A Case For Limiting AI In Culture

  26-08-2026 19:31 via thepointmag.com
  
  If we fail to think through and delimit the role of AI in our lives, we risk undermining the intelligibility of our own guiding cultural concepts, and thus initiating a period in our own society of which it may someday be possible to say that “nothing happened.” – The Point
  
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• The Worst Year Ever To Be Alive

  26-08-2026 19:15 via theconversation.com
  
  A massive volcanic eruption in AD536 has led historians to describe it as the “worst year to be alive”. Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia were plunged into darkness for 18 months. Temperatures in the summer months fell by 1.5˚C to 2.5˚C, initiating one of the coldest decades in the past two millennia. – The Conversation
  
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• A Lost Poem Found

  26-08-2026 19:07 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/08/a-lost-poem-found.html" title="A Lost Poem Found” rel=”nofollow”>‘Born Black’ was lost
  
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• One Of Satirical Sculptors The Gao Brothers Jailed In China For Insulting “Heroes And Martyrs”

  26-08-2026 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Gao Zhen, 70, who with Gao Qiang is known for statuary of Mao Zedong such as the “Miss Mao” series of drag sculptures and a firing squad of seven Maos aiming at Jesus, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment under a law passed years after the works were made. – The Guardian
  
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• Our Misconceptions Of What Consciousness Is

  26-08-2026 18:44 via nature.com
  
  Perceiving, experiencing and thinking are inherently embodied activities. The body is not just a physical object, it is a living organism that is in constant flux. It is also part of the social, cultural and material world. – Nature
  
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• In 1939, The BBC Broadcast Sound From A 3000-Year-Old Egyptian Trumpet

  26-08-2026 18:31 via cnn.com
  
  “The trumpets of the pharaoh Tutankhamun!” booms the BBC announcer. A short intake of air and then — the blare of a trumpet which for more than 3,000 years had lain silent inside the boy-king’s tomb. – CNN
  
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• Why Is So Much New Literary Fiction So Boring?

  26-08-2026 18:15 via devonhalliday.substack.com
  
  The question driving these opening pages is not: “What does it mean to live a good life?” or “What do we owe to people?” or “What can be saved from the ravages of time?” The question I hear is: “Have I impressed you yet?” – Devon Halliday
  
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• Opera Australia Is Having Some Trouble With A Major Donor

  26-08-2026 18:01 via afr.com
  
  “The future of Opera Australia’s signature event, the annual Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, is in limbo over a funding dispute with its patron, reclusive Japanese billionaire Haruhisa Handa,” who is reportedly unhappy that the event has been presenting money-making musicals rather than opera in recent years. – Australian Financial Review
  
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• US State Department Wants To Sell Kehinde Wiley Painting: “Too Woke”

  26-08-2026 17:44 via artnews.com
  
  On Monday, the New York Times reported that the State Department wants to sell the painting. Campos said in her Instagram post that the “Trump Administration and under my leadership we are turning away from globalist and woke ideologies.” – ARTnews
  
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• An All-Star Dance Company At Over-40

  26-08-2026 17:42 via gramilano.com
  
  For dancers over 40, retirement is close. A new company, WINNDance, is challenging that assumption, and it’s launching with a roster of names that most companies would kill for. – Gramilano
  
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• AI Tracks Banned From Australian Music Charts

  26-08-2026 17:16 via pbs.org
  
  Wholly AI-generated tracks will be banned from the ARIA charts from Monday next week, but some AI-assisted music will remain eligible, an ARIA statement said. – PBS
  
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• Stanley Ritchie, Dean Of Baroque Violinists In North America, Is Dead At 91

  26-08-2026 17:02 via violinist.com
  
  Following stints as assistant concertmaster of the Met Opera Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony, he took up period instruments in the 1970s and became North America’s first major soloist on Baroque violin. He was an influential teacher; virtually every period violinist in North America at some point studied with him or his students. – Violinist.com
  
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• “Appointment Viewing” Television Is Back

  26-08-2026 16:34 via variety.com
  
  “In the era of streaming, binge-watching is easier than ever. So, it seems potentially incongruous that appointment viewing — watching a television show when it first airs — is so capable of seizing the collective attention of viewers. But fandom is a powerful force, and appointment viewing has tamed the beast into something fearsome.” – Variety
  
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• HarperCollins Now Has A Manga Imprint, Kazé

  26-08-2026 16:06 via publishersweekly.com
  “The publisher is rolling out the imprint in partnership with the existing Kazé publishers in France and Germany, which distribute manga for the European market and were acquired by HarperCollins last year. Kazé US will build on that brand for American readers of all ages.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• The Web Fills Up And Empties Out

  21-08-2026 21:21 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Two numbers today, and they belong together. Traffic to the ten biggest US news sites is down by a third in two years (Press Gazette). More than a third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched show signs of machine authorship (TechCrunch). The open web is filling with writing nobody asked for and emptying of the readers who used to justify the rest.Here’s what that does downstream: a hoax claiming the Tang Dynasty never existed is picking up genuine believers on the Chin
  
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• Behold America’s First-Ever Jellyfish Museum

  21-08-2026 20:50 via artsjournal.com
  “The private Jellyfish Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida, just north of Fort Lauderdale, … was created by Alex and Yana Yanovsky, who previously developed successful aquariums in Ukraine, including their first jellyfish museum in Kyiv. The couple left those facilities behind when they fled Ukraine following the 2022 Russian invasion.” – AP
  
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• Study: Web Traffic To The 10 Biggest News Websites Has Dropped By A Third In Two Years

  21-08-2026 20:31 via pressgazette.co.uk
  Combined traffic to the ten biggest news websites in the US is down by almost a third compared to two years ago, new analysis shows. The difference was even higher across the top 50 news websites in the US, with monthly visits falling 37% since July 2024. – Press-Gazette
  
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• Weird Idea Spreads On Chinese Internet That Tang Dynasty Never Existed

  21-08-2026 20:03 via cnn.com
  
  The Tang era (618-907 CE) is considered a golden age, a period of territorial expansion, prosperity and high culture which every Chinese schoolchild learns about. Claiming it never happened is like telling Brits there was no Norman Conquest. Yet the bogus idea has caught on widely enough that China’s government is weighing in. – CNN
  
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• How The COVID Crisis Shifted Culture Funding

  21-08-2026 19:44 via culturaldata.org
  
  In 2019, arts organizations in BIPOC-majority neighborhoods of a major U.S. city received 16% less median grant funding than those in white-majority neighborhoods. By 2022, they were receiving 289% more. – SMU Cultural Data
  
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• Study: More Than One-Third Of Web Pages Created Since 2022 Show Signs Of AI

  21-08-2026 19:31 via techcrunch.com
  
  Over one-third of web pages published after the release of ChatGPT show signs of being written by AI, according to a new study from Pew Research released on Thursday. – TechCrunch
  
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