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IDEAS
- Middle Schoolers, Blocked From Most Social Media, Turn Comments On An NPR Podcast Into A Hangout Spot
“When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, ‘We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.’” Ouch. But also, creative as heck. – The Verge
- An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing
“Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
- Former Disney CEO Bob Iger On Creativity
A culture of creativity is also a culture accepting of failure. Creativity is not a science. You can’t possibly bat 1,000. There are inevitable failures, and it’s really important to know as a culture how to process failure so that when you do, it doesn’t destroy people’s ability to continue to create. – Harvard Business Review
- Paramount Boss David Ellison’s Big Challenge: Winning Over Hollywood
The Paramount Skydance chief executive will have to work hard to repair badly frayed relations with Hollywood talent who fiercely opposed the consolidation of two historic studios as a bad deal for workers. – Los Angeles Times
- Why America Looks The Way It Does
It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker
ISSUES
- What Will Westminster Do With Banksy’s Flag Statue?
“The council said it had spent almost £60,000 on safety barriers, administration and for a security guard to keep watch over it.” – BBC
- What Happens To Your Art When You Become The Set Designer For Everything, Including The Olympics?
“In the 30 years since she won the Linbury prize for stage design in 1995, Es Devlin has established herself as a go-to set designer for highbrow theatre, international opera, global pop …, official celebrations …, fashion runways and public sculpture.” – The Guardian (UK)
- An Art Crawl, By Bike, In Melbourne
“Even as a Melbourne local and a longtime art lover I find it near impossible to keep up with the independent openings happening in my city.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Milwaukee Museum Returns Enslaved Artist David Drake’s Works To His Descendants
“Drake made and inscribed ambitious stoneware jars while enslaved in South Carolina in the 1800s, despite punishing conditions and anti-literacy laws that prevented teaching enslaved persons to read.” – The New York Times
- Correcting The Record On Lee Krasner
Krasner and Pollock were, in mid-20th-century New York, at the heart of the artistic movement that would become Abstract Expressionism. At that time, the only label more detrimental to a talented artist’s career than “woman” was the handle “wife.” – The New York Times
MEDIA
- The Checks And Balances That Could Have Saved The Kennedy Center Failed
Even as these and other construction-related lawsuits are pending, the Trump administration has proven its willingness and ability to build, renovate or destroy federal landmarks without clear authority to do so. – The Conversation
- The NAZA Filmmakers Defend Themselves And The Film At Its NY Premiere
“’These crimes that you saw are ongoing,’ Abraham said. ‘They’re ongoing because it’s what our country is doing, and because of what your country is supporting and funding.’” – The Guardian (UK)
- Meta’s New Surveillance Mascot Looks Like A Toy
It’s supposed to be for adults only, but it looks like a Tamagotchi. Will the cuddliness cause us all to forget the deep, deep creep factor? – Wired
- Major Social Media Platforms Are All Turning Down Paid Advertising For The Documentary About Elon Musk
No one will be surprised that X (formerly Twitter) won’t take the ads for Alex Gibney’s award-winning movie, but what’s up with TikTok, YouTube, and Meta? – The Hollywood Reporter
- Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Tech Writing Career?
Maybe it wasn’t one person, or one magazine – maybe it was just the Zeitgeist changing. Right? (Because that’s the way it always goes for “difficult” women.) – Wired
MUSIC
- Booksellers Are Sounding The Alarm About A Presidential Memorandum
“The presidential security memo issued last year specifically targets what the regime sees as leftist ideas in books, zines, and other publications, which is a major concern for all of us that care about books and freedom of expression.” – LitHub
- Rose Tremain Knows Her Generation Of Novelists Is Dying, But She’ll Keep Going As Long As She Can
“Contrary to what publishers hope and expect, serious writers don’t think obsessively about readers, or even about sales, royalties and prizes. What we talk to each other about, what we dream of, what we can’t live without is the work itself.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Ashland, Oregon, Is Known For Its Shakespeare Fest, But Now It’s Got A Murder Fest As Well
OK, you could argue that Shakespeare is a murderfest of his own, but “Mystery Fest has given cozy mystery fans a new reason to discover Ashland, attracting readers who might not otherwise have put the city on their travel list.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
- Haitian-Canadian Author’s Book Withdrawn From Goncourt Short List Over Accusations Of AI
“As critics sparred with defenders of Mr. Orélien, who is Black, over whether he was targeted because of his race and his book’s treatment of migrants, he was accused of plagiarism in earlier writings, inflaming the controversy.” – The New York Times
- A Guy Who Scammed Writers And Publishers For Years Sure Appears To Be Back, If Hidden, Online
“The messages bear the hallmarks of Bernardini’s original scheme: look-alike emails, carefully replicated fonts and signatures, fluency in industry slang and an intimate knowledge of relationships in the book world.” Then there are the poop emojis. – The New York Times
PEOPLE
- Middle Schoolers, Blocked From Most Social Media, Turn Comments On An NPR Podcast Into A Hangout Spot
“When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, ‘We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.’” Ouch. But also, creative as heck. – The Verge
- An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing
“Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
- Former Disney CEO Bob Iger On Creativity
A culture of creativity is also a culture accepting of failure. Creativity is not a science. You can’t possibly bat 1,000. There are inevitable failures, and it’s really important to know as a culture how to process failure so that when you do, it doesn’t destroy people’s ability to continue to create. – Harvard Business Review
- Paramount Boss David Ellison’s Big Challenge: Winning Over Hollywood
The Paramount Skydance chief executive will have to work hard to repair badly frayed relations with Hollywood talent who fiercely opposed the consolidation of two historic studios as a bad deal for workers. – Los Angeles Times
- Why America Looks The Way It Does
It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker
PEOPLE
- Middle Schoolers, Blocked From Most Social Media, Turn Comments On An NPR Podcast Into A Hangout Spot
“When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, ‘We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.’” Ouch. But also, creative as heck. – The Verge
- An Ohio School District Cancels A Popular Play, And The Fallout Is Ongoing
“Copley Superintendent Aimee Kirsch said the play was canceled not because of its gay themes but because the proper vetting procedure wasn’t followed.” Unh-hunh. The students cast in the canceled She Kills Monsters were offered parts in the newly approved Alice in Wonderland. – Akron Beacon Journal (Yahoo)
- Former Disney CEO Bob Iger On Creativity
A culture of creativity is also a culture accepting of failure. Creativity is not a science. You can’t possibly bat 1,000. There are inevitable failures, and it’s really important to know as a culture how to process failure so that when you do, it doesn’t destroy people’s ability to continue to create. – Harvard Business Review
- Paramount Boss David Ellison’s Big Challenge: Winning Over Hollywood
The Paramount Skydance chief executive will have to work hard to repair badly frayed relations with Hollywood talent who fiercely opposed the consolidation of two historic studios as a bad deal for workers. – Los Angeles Times
- Why America Looks The Way It Does
It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Middle Schoolers, Blocked From Most Social Media, Turn Comments On An NPR Podcast Into A Hangout Spot
“When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, ‘We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn’t have many comments.’” Ouch. But also, creative as heck. – The Verge
- Former Disney CEO Bob Iger On Creativity
A culture of creativity is also a culture accepting of failure. Creativity is not a science. You can’t possibly bat 1,000. There are inevitable failures, and it’s really important to know as a culture how to process failure so that when you do, it doesn’t destroy people’s ability to continue to create. – Harvard Business Review
- Why America Looks The Way It Does
It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker
- AI And The Flattening Of Creative Aesthetic
Like the coffee shops of 2016, widespread AI adoption is generating a massive amount of content and products that share an eerie sameness. – Noema
- Habermas’ Ideas On Public Debate
He explained the three types of discourse that characterise deliberation – moral, ethical, and pragmatic – and was clear that when it comes to the moral, there are no experts: only individuals working out, together, what’s right in a given context. – Aeon