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• The Many Small Details That Make Up The Wes Anderson Universe

  24-03-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anderson “believed that, because even the smallest items help create a world onscreen, they needed to be ‘fully formed pieces of art and design.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Cockroach Milk, Underpants Soil Testing, A Scientific Definition Of Kissing: The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes

  11-09-2026 20:50 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “Winning work highlighted during the 36th annual award ceremony” (which was in Zurich this year rather than Boston) “included hilarious research on the aerodynamics of nose blowing, gently stepping on venomous snakes, confirming that teenagers do indeed smell worse than babies and other side-splitting scientific undertakings.” – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Toronto International Film Festival Shifts Emphasis To Film Dealmaking

  11-09-2026 20:27 via cbc.ca
  
  In a tumultuous time for the industry, this transformation could help keep TIFF in the conversation, but as ticket prices rise, what does it all mean for the heart of this festival: the filmgoing public? – CBC
  
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• The Advantages Of The Proscenium Stage

  11-09-2026 20:03 via theguardian.com
  At this point in history, many of us think of the proscenium as conventional, perhaps limiting or even dull. Yet director Dominic Dromgoole describes it as “liberatingly restrictive,” like the sonnet form or the 12-bar blues. After all, the revolutionary work done by Chekhov and Brecht happened on proscenium stages … – The Guardian
  
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• How AI Has Been Transforming China’s Movie Industry

  11-09-2026 19:44 via latimes.com
  
  The Chinese film and video industry is being transformed by AI-driven storytelling, fueled by rapid advances in video generation software, and at ground zero are the so-called micro dramas that play out on millions of smartphones. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Flock’s Vision Of Surveillance Everywhere

  11-09-2026 19:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Flock was reported to have a valuation of more than eight billion dollars, with its biggest investor being the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Around forty per cent of the United States’ law-enforcement agencies now have contracts with the company, and a reported hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitor roads in every state but Alaska. – The New Yorker
  
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• Today’s Tech Billionaires Learned The Wrong Lessons From Science Fiction

  11-09-2026 19:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  As young people, the future billionaires were spending hours (under their covers with flashlights, I imagine) consuming stories about killer robots or Mars colonies. What they seemed not to get—maybe couldn’t get—was that these were cautionary tales, stories that projected deep societal worries into space or onto a future many millennia away. – The Atlantic
  
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• Young Africans Are Sparking A Renewal Of Interest In African Languages

  11-09-2026 19:02 via apnews.com
  “Experts say the revival in some of them is driven partly by second- and third-generation Africans in the diaspora finding it easier to reconnect with their roots and communicate with older relatives, thanks to social media, online learning and entertainment.” – AP
  
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• High Tension As Charlie Kirk Statue Unveiled In Times Square

  11-09-2026 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  Shouting and a shoving match erupted as Italian-American artist Sergio Furnari unveiled his unpermitted life-size bronze memorial to slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Times Square on Thursday. – ARTnews
  
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• Auto-Tune As An Everyday Performance Tool

  11-09-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The debate has come a long way since the advent of Auto-Tune, when artists like Cher and T-Pain had hits that used the technology to turn their recorded vocals into something markedly robotic. – The New York Times
  
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• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Getting Ready To Open

  11-09-2026 18:15 via artnews.com
  
  All eyes are on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi as it prepares for opening on December 11 after two decades of delays. – ARTnews
  
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• Mexico’s First Female Professional Sculptor, Geles Cabrera, Has Died At 100

  11-09-2026 18:04 via artnews.com
  
  “When Cabrera began her long career, few other women in Mexico were taken seriously as artists, and sculpture was something that only men were expected to do. While she enjoyed some early recognition, … major institutions only started noticing her pioneering work much later in her life.” – ARTnews
  
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• A New Survey Of Readers To Find Out How They Discover Books

  11-09-2026 17:44 via publishersweekly.com
  The survey will talk to 5,000 book buyers and profile them by genre, covering how they discover books across every channel—including social media and other digital tools—where and how they buy, and their mix of print, e-book, and audio, with a deeper look at audio habits, subscription behavior, etc. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Lonnie Bunch Resignation Throws Smithsonian Into Uncharted Leadership Waters

  11-09-2026 17:31 via msn.com
  Previous searches have largely revolved around professional qualifications. This one begins after Trump has spent more than a year demanding changes to the Smithsonian’s exhibits and leadership — and as Republicans and Democrats are already staking out competing visions for Bunch’s successor. – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• US Supreme Court Orders Blue State AGs to Respond To Red State Paramount Antitrust Objections

  11-09-2026 17:15 via deadline.com
  
  The SCOTUS deadline is one day after the dozen blue states are set to argue against the David Ellison-owned Para’s desire for a $1.88 billion bond in front of a federal judge in Oakland. – Deadline
  
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• Operabase Is Acquired By Events.com

  11-09-2026 17:01 via theviolinchannel.com
  
  The go-to web platform for finding scheduling information about opera worldwide, Operabase developed the technology to convert fragmented information from different companies into a machine-readable, searchable record. Available in 31 languages, it has been online for three decades and is used by virtually the entire industry. – The Violin Channel
  
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• The Day the Twin Towers Vanished in a Shroud of Ash

  11-09-2026 16:36 via artsjournal.com
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• A Whiteface Incident At Finnish National Ballet

  11-09-2026 16:33 via dancemagazine.com
  Brazilian dancer Nayara Lopes of Philadelphia Ballet spent this past season with FNB in Helsinki. In February, she was rehearsing the role of Cupid in Don Quixote when she was asked to wear white makeup for the staging. (As one might expect, she is now back in Philadelphia.) – Dance Magazine
  
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• Okay, So Maybe The Bayeux Tapestry Had A Tiny Little Bit Of Damage While Being Moved

  11-09-2026 16:05 via lemonde.fr
  As French Culture Minister Catherine Pegard put it, “A break of two threads over a length of 70 meters was reported. … So today, if we say it is in the same state after having arrived in London as it was when it left Bayeux, I think we’re not very wrong.” – Le Monde
  
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• FCC Approves Transfer Of Penn State’s NPR Station

  11-09-2026 15:30 via insideradio.com
  
  “The Federal Communications Commission has approved the transfer of WPSU’s broadcast licenses from Penn State University to news/talk WHYY Philadelphia (90.9), clearing the principal regulatory hurdle for a transaction designed to preserve public media service across central and northern Pennsylvania.” – Inside Radio
  
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• How The Smithsonian Prepared Its 9/11 Anniversary Exhibit As Trump’s White House Keeps The Pressure On

  11-09-2026 15:02 via yahoo.com
  After the attacks, Congress charged the Institution with documenting them and preserving the physical record. A quarter-century on, with the White House constantly accusing the Smithsonian of distorting American history, its 9/11 exhibit is especially fraught — and especially important. – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen In Quentin Tarantino’s First Stage Play (Wait, What?)

  11-09-2026 14:34 via deadline.com
  
  The play, titled The Popinjay Cavalier and set in Europe in the 1830s, will be produced by Sonia Friedman in London’s West End next spring. – Deadline
  
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• “A Woman Going Places” — The New Statue On London’s Fourth Plinth

  11-09-2026 14:06 via cnn.com
  
  Ten feet tall, on a 13-foot-high platform, made of bronze, painted, and striding with purpose. Tschabalala Self’s Lady in Blue is this year’s sculpture for the empty fourth column in Trafalgar Square. – CNN
  
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• The Cost of being Average

  11-09-2026 03:31 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Two stories today work the same question from opposite ends: what’s worth paying for once competence is free? Fast Company makes the blunt case that average-quality work — the reliable professional output most careers are built on — now carries close to zero market value (Fast Company). Nature takes up the other half, asking whether a machine that has mastered competence could ever produce the leap that produced relativity (Nature). If the answer stays no, the prem
  
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• San Diego Symphony To Do Its First-Ever European Tour

  08-09-2026 16:33 via msn.com
  The 116-year-old orchestra’s European debut will be in Barcelona in late April of next year, followed by performances in Toulouse, Hamburg, Paris and Dublin. Music director Rafael Payare will conduct, with pianist Javier Perianes as soloist in Spain and violinist Leonidas Kavakos featured on the remaining dates. – The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera Auditions Boa Constrictors

  08-09-2026 16:01 via apnews.com
  
  Zoe Ziegfeld, a carnival performer who plays a snake handler in the Met’s Coney Island-inspired staging of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, tried out a number of snakes for this season’s revival of the production. This time out, she settled on a sun-glow boa named Princess. – AP
  
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• AMC Settles Lawsuit Over Profit-Sharing On “The Walking Dead”

  08-09-2026 15:36 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The lawsuit, initially filed in 2022, was about the profit participation rights for the original Walking Dead series, and its first spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead. AMC says that it will pay $120 million to resolve the lawsuit, including $85 million this month, with another $35 million next year.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Summer Season At U.S. Movie Theaters Sets All-Time Box Office Record

  08-09-2026 15:04 via variety.com
  
  “Domestic ticket sales from May 1 through Labor Day on Sept. 7 stand at $4.76 billion, according to Rentrak. Revenues surpassed the long-held record set in 2013 with $4.755 billion, anchored by Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2 and Man of Steel.” – Variety
  
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• Today In French Museum Robberies: Thieves Take Renoirs From Museum On Riviera

  08-09-2026 14:32 via apnews.com
  
  Just a few days after the question of whether Pierre-Auguste Renoir was even a good artist re-entered public discussion, some “well-equipped” and “well-informed” burglars made off from two paintings from Renoir’s home in Cagnes-sur-Mer. (In their rush to escape, the thieves left two other works in the garden.) – AP
  
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• Kennedy Center Chairman That Trump Fired Buys Sculpture That Trump Had Removed

  08-09-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  David Rubenstein, the billionaire philanthropist who was chair of the Kennedy Center’s board until Trump ousted him in early 2025, has purchased the Joel Shapiro sculpture Blue, which was carted away from the Center’s grounds last week. Rubenstein will loan the work to the National Gallery’s Sculpture Garden. – The New York Times
  
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