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What Happened When One (Very Big) Reality TV Show At Long Last Integrated Its Casts

"The messiness on ... points to a central crisis within the 'Real Housewives' universe: Can shows predicated on entitlement and endless pot-stirring evolve into entertainment that is over-the-top and meaningfully inclusive at the same time?" (Uh ... not so far.) - Los Angeles Times

The Feud Over A Removed Painting Entirely Closes A Museum In Israel

In short, one artist's work was removed for being "antisemitic," and then other artists covered their work in protest, the museum's chief curator resigned, and now the museum has closed. - The Observer (UK)

A Poem About Suffering Was Not Wrong

A close reading of Auden's "Musée des Beaux-Arts" reveals a lot about Europe just before WWII - and, perhaps, about our own times. - The New York Times

Please Stop Calling The Artisan Oscars The ‘Tech’ Awards

And, as a matter of fact, if the Academy can't fully respect them, get them their own show. Yes, their own awards show - focused on craft skill. - Variety

NBCUniversal Is Clawing Back Its Content From Hulu

Streaming is starting to sort itself out. "The nixing of the content deal comes as Comcast tries to grow its own streaming service, Peacock. ... Peacock has 9 million paying subscribers and 24.5 million monthly active accounts, Comcast said in January. Hulu has 45.3 million subscribers." - Los Angeles Times

Writing A Novel Is Like Creating A Good Mixtape

This metaphor might not work for younger writers, but: "I was suddenly free of the 'logical order' I had thought was so important. ... It was fun. It was hard. It was like making a mixtape for the crush I had on all of my characters at once." - LitHub

Watch What You Share

Time to pull up and reconsider that lightning-fast reshare impulse: Did the Kremlin make the image you're about to share? (In one prominent case just as Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, it sure did.) - Vice

Leonard Cohen’s Entire Catalogue Has Been Sold To Hipgnosis

The Hipgnosis Songs Fund long game continues. (As Pitchfork points out, "The firm has acquired several major publishing catalogs from legacy artists, including Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Jimmy Iovine, and Neil Young.")  - Variety

The Best Independent Music Platform Has Just Blown Up Its Independence

Bandcamp was the one streamer that every fan of music trusted to take care of its artists. When people started leaving Spotify over Joe Rogan, Bandcamp was recommendation for more ethical streaming. Now? Skepticism reigns. - Slate

Why Would A Fashion Giant Need To Steal Artists’ Ideas And Work?

An intellectual property lawyer explains: "The fundamental issue, I think, is that fashion companies are under pressure to produce large volumes of new and fashionable goods, so their designers often go for the quick fix." And artists can rarely afford to pursue legal action. - The Observer (UK)

In Oscar Contender Drive My Car, The Actors Meet And Transcend The Limits Of Language

The main character is "directing a multilingual production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya with a cast composed of actors who speak English, Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, and Korean Sign Language." The actors' - and the audience's - task is to trust the rhythm and emotional response. - The Atlantic

Elena Ferrante In Conversation With Elizabeth Strout

Ferrante: "I don’t like artists who imagine themselves shamans, and I would prefer that we definitively stop making the alphabet sacred, that we complete the secularisation of literature, that we stop feeling we’re just below the gods and directly inspired by them." - The Guardian (UK)

Hollywood Is So Obsessed With Terrible Entrepreneurs Right Now

Why? Series like Inventing Anna and The Dropout "create a shared universe in which scamming and entrepreneurship meet in a chaotic portrait of American decline." - The New York Times

The Art Palace Of Lviv Has Turned Into Headquarters For Aid Arriving From Western Europe

"Aid HQ -- a palatial faux Art Nouveau exhibition and cultural centre -- runs like clockwork. Basement: medicines. Ground floor: food and a stand where displaced people can register their needs. First floor concert hall: children's clothes and toys. Second floor: supplies for newborn babies." - France 24

How Blondell Cummings Transformed Choreography

The legendary performer "called her style of dance 'moving pictures,' which drew from her love of theater, postmodern dance, performance art, television and video art and which she often recorded herself." - Yahoo News (Los Angeles Times)

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