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• The Anti-CGI Backlash Is Here

  30-07-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And it’s earning a lot of money at the box office. For instance, “Greta Gerwig used techniques dating back to silent film and soundstage musicals to bring her fantastical, hot-pink vision of Barbieland to life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own Art Form

  09-03-2026 16:59 via hollywoodreporter.com
  I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a year from now. Soon conversations like that won’t even matter. It’s like discussing the Internet. It already is. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• UK Museums Hold Hundreds Of Thousands Of Human Remains

  09-03-2026 16:40 via theguardian.com
  An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair. – The Guardian
  
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• LiveNation Settles Antitrust Case

  09-03-2026 16:20 via politico.com
  The centerpiece of the agreement is expected to be structural changes to Live Nation’s ticketing business. Under the settlement, Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, allowing third-party sellers such as SeatGeek or Eventbrite to list tickets directly through Ticketmaster’s technology. – Politico
  
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• Preserving Church Architecture Isn’t Easy, Especially In An Era Of Digital Attendance

  09-03-2026 16:00 via npr.org
  “Sometimes people think that churches have some kind of magic ATM machine that we go to and withdraw money. And the truth is that we do not.” – NPR
  
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• This Opera Used To Be About History, And Now It’s About Today’s News

  09-03-2026 15:30 via orartswatch.org
  “History is repeating itself 70 years later, just in a different way. The government is ‘systematically trying to erase our history with the demonization of trans and non-binary community,’ Newbury said. ‘It has given itself license to hate.’” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Hollywood Turns From Movie Stars Back To Auteurs

  09-03-2026 15:00 via theatlantic.com
  An “emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The BBC Commissioned A Film About Health Care In Gaza, And Then Refused To Air It

  09-03-2026 14:45 via revealnews.org
  “All these Palestinians told us that they thought the BBC would never run our film, and we really had to try and persuade them to talk to us because they didn’t and don’t trust the BBC.” The journalists were shocked to learn that the sources were correct. – Reveal
  
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• Glasgow Used To Be An Arts Powerhouse, But It’s Losing So Many Arts Spaces

  09-03-2026 14:30 via theguardian.com
  “Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. … If you’re a young creative person studying in Glasgow today, why would you stay here after graduation?” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Best Way To Read 100 Books A Year

  09-03-2026 14:15 via slate.com
  Sure, there’s “be rich” or “have your minions do everything in life for you except reading,” but there’s also this: Read physical books. – Slate
  
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• Look At All The President’s Men, And See That Movie For What It Was

  09-03-2026 14:00 via salon.com
  It’s not really a triumphal movie about the power of journalism, but a dire warning about the future – our present. – Salon
  
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• A Top Paramount Executive Sees His Career Take A Big Hit For His Friendship With A Vegas High-Roller

  09-03-2026 13:45 via msn.com
  The Paramount Skydance president is “facing new scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with a Las Vegas high-roller and self-styled ‘fixer.’ Investigators are reviewing whether Shell leaked sensitive corporate secrets.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Performing Arts In The UK Aren’t Exactly Friendly To Working Parents

  09-03-2026 13:30 via theguardian.com
  So says a new report, which “criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result that many, in particular women, drop out.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Thaddeus Mosley, A Sculptor Who Found Fame In His Nineties, Has Died At 99

  09-03-2026 13:15 via nytimes.com
  The self-taught Mosley’s works “show as much concern for pure form as any modernist’s, and reflect the influence of Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi, two particular heroes, as well as that of pre-modern African tribal sculpture.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Privilege And Power Of Having A Writing Mentor

  09-03-2026 13:00 via service95.com
  Ashley Ford needed “a reason to believe that giving myself over to a creative life didn’t also mean condemning myself to poverty and invisibility. What I needed was that constant source of air to turn my spark of creativity into a flame I could share with the world.” – Service 95
  
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• How DOGE Used AI In An Attempt To Destroy The Humanities

  09-03-2026 12:45 via nytimes.com
  DOGE employees used ChatGPT to make their choices. “The prompt was simple: ‘Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’’ The results were sweeping, and sometimes bizarre.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Women Of Kashmir, Struggling With Climate Change, Create Art In Order To Survive

  09-03-2026 12:30 via thexylom.com
  “Afroza Bano’s hands, once calloused from planting and weaving reed mats, now grow nimble with needle and thread. But sometimes, they get pricked by sharp pins or roughened by handling coarse fabric.” – The Xylom
  
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• The Internet Is After Timothee Chalamet, Yes, But Also Jessie Buckley

  09-03-2026 12:15 via slate.com
  Buckley doesn’t like cats. Big deal, right? Well … yes. Huge deal: “I have to come out and say it: Have we all lost our minds?” Or is this a carefully orchestrated campaign to win someone else the Best Actress Oscar? – Slate
  
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• South Texas Has A Huge Mariachi Community, And ICE Is Destroying Some Of It

  09-03-2026 12:00 via nytimes.com
  “‘For McAllen, mariachi is like the Friday Night Lights of high school,’ said Anthony Medrano, a prominent San Antonio mariachi musician. ‘There’s pride in it.’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Best Actor Race Is Weirdly Up For Grabs

  08-03-2026 21:00 via vulture.com
  “‘When there’s not unanimity in the lead acting races, it can get really weird.’ In that situation, voters stop gaming out front-runners and simply vote for their guy. Which means that truly anything can happen.” – Vulture
  
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• Romance And Romantasy Fans Are Driving A Potential Literary Shift

  08-03-2026 20:30 via slate.com
  “Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance genre is in the midst of an unprecedented boom period.” – Slate
  
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• Amazon Tried To Sponsor A Book Festival In France, And That Went About As Well As You Might Expect

  08-03-2026 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Many – most, even – of France’s booksellers pulled out of . Then the organizers got Amazon to “mutually agree” to end its sponsorship. Who thought this was a good idea in the first place? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s Such A Brutal Time For Both Theatre And Arts Journalism

  08-03-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  So what’s an NYT theatre critic to do? “There are so many things beyond our control … but somewhere amid all the hubbub, someone is making something, and you need to pay attention.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘People were carrying their dogs across the ice’: Adela Ramirez’s best phone picture

  07-03-2026 12:00
  Seeing people walking their pets in a snowstorm melted the heart ofthis New York-based photographerHad Adela Ramirez’s puggle Teddy still been alive, she would have been out walking him in the snow. Instead, she was at home, in the art studio of her New York City apartment, watching from a window. “My view consists of the Empire State Building, which is art deco, the B Altman Building, which is Italian renaissance revival, and the beautiful Church of the Incarnation, which is neo-got
  
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• From The Bride! to Harry Styles: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  07-03-2026 07:00
  Maggie Gyllenhaal gives us a new take on The Bride of Frankenstein, and the stadium-conquering pop prince is back with a new albumThe Bride!
  Out nowMaggie Gyllenhaal directs this Chicago-set gothic romance starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Per James Whale’s 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, on which it is loosely based, a lonely monster wants a mate and taps up a scientist, Dr Euphronious (Annette Bening), to create her. Continue reading...
  
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• New South Wales at Night photography exhibition – in pictures

  06-03-2026 15:00
  A new photography exhibition commissioned by the NSW night-time economy office and Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum captures the state after dark, from running clubs to nightclubs.Photographers Andrew Quilty, Tajette O’Halloran, Anthony Rigby-Smith and Jade D’Amico documented nightlife in Sydney, Wollongong and the Northern Rivers. It is showing at Parliament House until 26 March Continue reading...
  
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• Hockney scrolls through Bayeux, Brideshead gets revisited and Stubbs leads the field – the week in art

  06-03-2026 13:00
  A spectacular record of a year in Normandy, the photogenic buildings of Sir John Vanbrugh and extraordinary paintings of horses – all in your weekly dispatchStubbs: Portrait of a Horse
  George Stubbs’s emotional, sublime equine portrait Whistlejacket is rightly one of the best loved paintings in the National Gallery. This exhibition takes a closer look at what makes his paintings of horses unforgettable.• National Gallery, London, from 12 March to 31 May Continue reading...
  
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• With the advance of AI, I feel my work as an artist is no longer respected. Should I just give up? | Leading questions

  05-03-2026 22:17
  Think back to the reason you started making art, advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes, then separate this from the money or acclaimRead more Leading questionsI’m an artist in my 30s without any major success. Before the pandemic I had quite a lot of opportunities. Unfortunately Covid and then political and personal matters beyond my control shattered my work and social circles. I lost contacts and had no time for networking.My art evolved with me and has become less conceptual, mor
  
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• Development Director – The Hermitage Artist Retreat via TOC Arts Partners

  05-03-2026 21:39 via artsjournal.com
  Position ProfileThe Hermitage Artist Retreat seeks a passionate, intelligent, and driven Development Director with experience in all aspects of fundraising and donor relations to sustain and grow the organization’s highly successful development efforts. With the arrival of Andy Sandberg as the Artistic Director/CEO six years ago, the organization has flourished, growing its revenue and programming by 4X. With this growth, the Hermitage has introduced dozens of new partnerships throughout S
  
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• Meet The Woman Who Brought Helvetica To America

  05-03-2026 21:01 via news.artnet.com
  Barbara Stauffacher Solomon brought the now-standard sans-serif font back from her studies in Basel in the early 1960s, when Americans were completely accustomed to traditional typefaces likes Times New Roman and Baskerville. She then became famous for her colorful designs, interior and exterior, for the new Sea Ranch community in California. – Artnet
  
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