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DANCE
IDEAS
- Live Updates From The Oscars
Follow at the L.A. Times, Variety, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and more (links updated as live blogs become available). – Los Angeles Times
- This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle Times
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To The President’s Liking
Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times
- Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
“Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo warning of a possible retaliatory threat against the West Coast — particularly California — tied to escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
- Huge Anti-Merger Billboard To Circle Oscars Ceremony Today
“An anti-monopoly mobile billboard, meant to caution against the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., will circle Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. The billboard’s message is plain: ‘Call Your Agent. Speak Out. The Deal Is Not Done.’” – The Wrap
ISSUES
- This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle Times
- Eight Projects By This Year’s Pritzker Prize Winning Architect
Following the news that Smiljan Radić has won this year’s delayed Pritzker Architecture Prize, we round up eight projects from the Chilean architect’s experimental career. – Dezeen
- Why Aren’t Frank Lloyd Wright Houses Selling?
The architect’s passion for combining design and nature meant that many of his residences were built in rural areas. Because of their pedigree, they now tend to be among—if not the most—expensive property available in the communities in which they’re located. – Architectural Digest
- Oldest Surviving Photos Of Enslaved People Go To International African-American Museum
“The 1850 daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs, are of an enslaved man named Renty, his daughter Delia and five others known as Jack, Drana, Alfred, Fassena and Jem. … Harvard University turned the photos over to the International African-American Museum in Charleston after a seven-year legal fight.” – AP
- What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big enough back catalog. To date, the company has produced models for more than 200 artists. – CNN
MEDIA
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To The President’s Liking
Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times
- Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
“Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo warning of a possible retaliatory threat against the West Coast — particularly California — tied to escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
- What If Chalamet Was Just Using The Wrong Metrics?
One soprano: “Some things are made primarily for consumption, while others help form us as human beings” Ouch. – HuffPost
- Meet The Renderings Of The New Kennedy Center
Which — for the moment? — looks a lot like the old one. – Washington Post (MSN)
- Richard Grenell Out At The Kennedy Center
He leaves behind an institution that is drastically changed, and in many ways diminished, from a year ago, when Mr. Trump installed himself as chairman and filled the board with loyalists as he moved to put his imprint on the center, including what appeared on its stages. – The New York Times
MUSIC
- The Book World Seems To Have Fallen Back In Affection With Barnes And Noble
“Like all big chains, when you shop there, more of your money leaves the community than when you shop at something locally owned. … [But] anything that takes market share from Amazon is positive.” – The Atlantic
- Why Competitive High School Scrabble Has Become A Mess
It’s not just because of the intensity of the competitors, though that counts for a lot. Stefan Fatsis recounts a contested play at last year’s North American championship and the confusion arising from — let’s call it a breakdown of lexical authority. – Unabridged
- There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The result is that there is intense competition for the small slice of the review landscape that remains. – Book Work
- Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France
“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The page in question contains geometric diagrams and a passage from Archimedes’s treatise on the sphere and the cylinder, hidden beneath a layer of later religious writings.” – Artnet
- The Global Elite Have Given Up On Spelling And Grammar
The literary breaches, while trivial, highlight a reality that has become all too clear: There’s an inverse correlation between power and proper punctuation. – The Wall Street Journal
PEOPLE
- Live Updates From The Oscars
Follow at the L.A. Times, Variety, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and more (links updated as live blogs become available). – Los Angeles Times
- This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle Times
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To The President’s Liking
Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times
- Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
“Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo warning of a possible retaliatory threat against the West Coast — particularly California — tied to escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
- Huge Anti-Merger Billboard To Circle Oscars Ceremony Today
“An anti-monopoly mobile billboard, meant to caution against the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., will circle Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. The billboard’s message is plain: ‘Call Your Agent. Speak Out. The Deal Is Not Done.’” – The Wrap
PEOPLE
- Live Updates From The Oscars
Follow at the L.A. Times, Variety, New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and more (links updated as live blogs become available). – Los Angeles Times
- This Year’s Costume Design Nominees, From The Heart Of The Forest To 1950s Glam
For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle Times
- FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens To Revoke Licenses If Iran War Coverage Isn’t To The President’s Liking
Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times
- Security For The Oscars Since The Iran War Began Has Been Extended, Intensified
“Security at the ceremony has always been formidable. But this year, in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s event, federal authorities issued a memo warning of a possible retaliatory threat against the West Coast — particularly California — tied to escalating U.S.-Israel-Iran tensions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
- Huge Anti-Merger Billboard To Circle Oscars Ceremony Today
“An anti-monopoly mobile billboard, meant to caution against the impending merger between Paramount and Warner Bros., will circle Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony. The billboard’s message is plain: ‘Call Your Agent. Speak Out. The Deal Is Not Done.’” – The Wrap
THEATRE
VISUAL
- The Studio System That Backed This Year’s Likeliest Best Movie Is About To Fade Away
After missteps, Warner Bros’ new “strategy was a roaring success that evoked the studio’s prior glories and served as a reminder that if you let smart directors make great movies, even in a streaming world, audiences will go out to the theater to see them.” – Washington Post (Archive Today)
- Those Who Resist Super-Popular Culture
I’ve come to call it “hype aversion”: an avoidance of the pop-culture products that seemingly everyone insists I would like. It’s not that I’m somehow above it all or too cool (I don’t consider myself cool at all). Some people are early adopters; others are late adopters. I’m simply a weirdly resistant one. – The Atlantic
- What If A “Day Job” Is The Foundation Of An Artistic Career?
Rather than sticking our heads in the sand—and hoping that belief, alone, will be the source of motivation we need to succeed—what if we focused on doing what it takes to play the game for as long as possible? – 3 Quarks Daily
- Why You Can’t Love A Clone
- Fighting Over Art And Politics Again (And Again)
Identity, even when mobilized as a force for visibility and justice, can shield art from critique—transforming dissent into offense and rendering criticism suspect. Questioning the work risks being seen as questioning the identity. – LA Review of Books
