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• Study: There Are Cognitive Benefits To Reading Paper Books

  15-06-2026 19:21 via psypost.org
  
  Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema. – Psypost
  
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• Reimagining The Benefits Of Music In Dementia Care

  15-06-2026 19:40 via theconversation.com
  
  Music has a unique capability to engage multiple areas of the brain that can function in sync with one another. This includes areas involved in hearing and listening, movement, attention, language, emotion, memory and thinking. – The Conversation
  
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• Sagrada Familia Might Have Topped Out, But Big Challenges Ahead

  15-06-2026 19:02 via dezeen.com
  “The biggest [challenge] will be Glory Facade, which is the main facade. Maybe it will take 10 years, but we don’t yet have a fixed schedule.” – Dezeen
  
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• Fox To Acquire Roku

  15-06-2026 18:46 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The transaction combines Fox’s sports, news, and entertainment content and the Tubi streaming service with Roku’s connected TV platform, The Roku Channel, first-party data and direct relationship with more than 100 million global streaming households, the deal partners touted. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Attack: FCC Opens Early Comment Period On ABC License Renewal

  15-06-2026 18:40 via theguardian.com
  The early renewal order represents one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken against a media company, a potential regulatory death-blow to go alongside the myriad legal actions taken against the press and access restrictions placed upon journalists. – The Guardian
  
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• AI Company Makes Industry-Wide Licensing Deal

  15-06-2026 18:20 via musicbusinessworldwide.com
  
  David Israelite said the Udio agreement is the first industry-wide licensing deal struck with a major AI music company, and the first to “value songs and sound recordings equally” when it comes to AI training. – Music Business Worldwide
  
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• The Kennedy Center Sign Is Restored. But There’s A Bigger Issue

  15-06-2026 18:04 via artsjournal.com
  My biggest concern is that the Kennedy Center will remain nominally open—as in, I’ll be free to walk through the doors and perhaps buy a coffee at the cafe—but there will be few, or even no, performances to see. – Washingtonian
  
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• Behold The New Obama Library

  15-06-2026 17:40 via theatlantic.com
  
  After standing in the glow of this new South Side landmark, I admittedly feel like a buzzkill focusing on documents, kind of like visiting the Sistine Chapel and contemplating the plumbing. – The Atlantic
  
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• What The Kennedy Center Might Have Been

  15-06-2026 17:20 via artsfuse.org
  
  Imagine a scenario in which Bernstein and the Kennedys — John and Jackie both — bequeathed a proactive White House arts component prioritizing American achievement, past and present. It would have shaped the goals of the envisioned national cultural center. It almost happened. – ArtsFuse
  
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• Living ‘FridaMania’ In Kahlo’s Hometown

  15-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  “Frida died – but she didn’t pass away. She was like a rocket. She just went up and up.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why The Art Workers Coalition Still Resonates Across The Art World

  15-06-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  “Among their demands were a section of the museum dedicated to Black (and, in a later, amended statement, Puerto Rican) artists, an artist committee granted curatorial power, a ‘rental fee’ paid to artists for the exhibition of their work and free admission for all.” – The New York Times
  
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• Juneteenth Is A Big Deal In Parts Of Mexico

  15-06-2026 16:00 via nbcnews.com
  Why? It all goes back to enslaved people escaping their captors across the South, and fleeing to Spanish-controlled Florida. – NBC News
  
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• Why Are We So Obsessed With Aliens?

  15-06-2026 15:45 via npr.org
  
  “You can keep it pretty simple. There are the alien movies where the aliens come in peace and the alien movies where the aliens do not come in peace.” – NPR
  
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• The 91-Year-Old Venezuelan Artist Says No To Weaving With Electronic Machines

  15-06-2026 15:15 via nytimes.com
  “Mora, who is 91 and tiny, wearing head scarves around her weathered face, has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish traditions.” – The New York Times
  
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• Where Did This Family’s Looted Artworks Go?

  15-06-2026 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  “Despite evidence that Neumann did appropriate the Zoellners’ furniture and paintings, he was not convicted; in 1947 he was deported from the Netherlands as an ‘enemy subject’ under the Nazi regime, and emigrated to the United States with his family.” – El País English
  
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• As The Knicks Win, All Of New York City Becomes A Dance Stage

  15-06-2026 14:45 via nytimes.com
  “Of all the joy blooming throughout the Knicks championship run, the most visible has been the jubilant transfer of energy from body to body.” – The New York Times
  
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• Even In The UK, Music Festival Central, Costs Are Causing Collapse

  15-06-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  Womad in Glasgow “is the 20th casualty so far this year as small and independent festival operators enter another tough summer facing myriad challenges, from belt-tightening consumers becoming more picky about how they spend their cash, to soaring energy and labour costs.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• If People Aren’t Reading, Why Are Bookstores Thriving?

  15-06-2026 14:15 via lithub.com
  
  “The bookstore boom is a story about a certain educated, culturally aspirational demographic doing what it has always done, while the literacy crisis unfolds elsewhere, namely in under-resourced schools, rural communities, and households without the discretionary income to browse a charming bookshop on a Saturday afternoon.” – LitHub
  
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• Jane Yolen, Award-Winning Author Of Some 450 Books, Has Died At 87

  15-06-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  “Yolen never encountered a genre she didn’t like; among her early books was a history of kites. Yet running through almost all her writing was a strong through-line of deep psychological insight and a sense of wonder.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Spielberg Alien Movie Is Simply Irresistible In The Summer

  15-06-2026 13:45 via latimes.com
  
  According to analysts, it’s “an encouraging sign for what could be a big summer for theaters.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What Nineteenth Century American Art Star Frederic Church Is Trying To Tell Us

  15-06-2026 13:30 via artsjournal.com
  “The American art world that Church entered in the 1840s was more an aspiration than an entity. Great painting, everybody knew, was Europe’s bailiwick. American collectors bought European art, and many talented American painters hightailed it to Europe at the first opportunity.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Ruth Ozeki Knows The Power Of A Good Book

  15-06-2026 13:15 via theguardian.com
  And that good book is Charlotte’s Web. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• If You Want To Read More Books This Summer, Here’s How To Do It

  15-06-2026 13:00 via npr.org
  
  “I have this daydream where I go to the park and read under a tree. The sun is shining. It’s not too hot. The ground beneath me is comfortable. I have snacks on hand, I’m hydrated, and I am captivated by the book in front of me.” – NPR
  
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• Creativity is Dead in the 21st Century? Really?

  12-06-2026 00:01 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A piece in the Yale Review asks whether the 21st century has been a creative blank space — two decades of remixing without inventing (Yale Review). The piece is a review of a book that asserts the notion. But perhaps the invention is happening; it’s just not where we used to look.A luthier put a carbon-fiber violin onstage next to a Stradivarius and dared listeners to hear the difference (The Strad). Scientists now think metrology — measuring the physical fingerpri
  
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• Northwest Choirs – Executive Director

  11-06-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  Northwest Choirs (NWC) seeks a dynamic, mission-centered Executive Director to guide one of the country’s leading youth choral organizations into its next stage of growth, visibility, and sustainability.Serving approximately 150 young singers from across the Puget Sound region, Northwest Choirs offers rigorous music training, meaningful performance experiences, and a formative community rooted in discipline, belonging, and the pursuit of excellence.
  The next Executive Director will work i
  
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• The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly

  11-06-2026 21:03 via stanfordmag.org
  
  “’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice. Ketley, an advanced lecturer in the department of theater and performance studies and a former Guggenheim Fellow, says it’s his most popular course.” – Stanford Magazine
  
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• AMC Postpones Interactive Movie Theatre Concert Series

  11-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  The chain is partnering with live entertainment company Arena One to bring new technology to theaters. This tech would allow artists on a remote stage to see, hear and respond to the theater audience, in effect turning your local cinema into a stadium, the companies said. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs

  11-06-2026 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen — and correctly flagged another that’s been debunked.” – Artnet
  
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• Demand For Workers With Creative Skills Is Growing

  11-06-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Nearly 50% of employers are looking to expand their workforce in the next three to five years. Video games, music, design and fashion were particularly expecting to grow over that time. – The Conversation
  
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• Has The 21st Century Been A Creative Blank Space?

  11-06-2026 19:31 via yalereview.org
  
  The years from 2000 to 2025 as a period of creative emptiness and stagnation so intractable that it will be remembered (or, rather, is being remembered, through the anticipation of remembrance) as voided time, a dark age. – Yale Review
  
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