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The Met Is Publicizing An Opera About Frida Kahlo In Restaurants And Cemeteries

Well, why not? "For me, it’s more about singing the music and just communicating it and making that as accessible as possible in the moment to the audience.” - The New York Times

The Head Of France’s Biggest Film Producer Is Prepared To Bow To A Right-Wing Billionaire

“The open letter, published earlier this week to coincide with the opening of the Cannes film festival, was signed by more than 600 figures, including ... Juliette Binoche.” Now the head of Canal+ says the organization will no longer work with any of the signers. - The Guardian (UK)

The Smithsonian Adds That Impeachment Language Back To The Portrait Of The Current President

"In the new wall text accompanying a portrait of Mr. Trump, the impeachments are mentioned in a list of important events from the president’s first term.” - The New York Times

Artists, Writers, And Musicians Experiencing Despair As Generative AI Collides With Art

“Musicians, artists and writers generally possess something AI does not, which is the lived human experience out of which they create. That experience includes the accidents, serendipities and epiphanies that shape our arts.” - KC Studio

What Will Win At The Tonys, And What Should Win

At least, according to The New York Times’s Helen Shaw. For instance: “When I think about the sheer old-fashioned ebullience of Cinco Paul’s Schmigadoon! — its compositional invention and depth of talent — I find myself hoping the voters will give it the laurel.” - The New York Times

The Story Of The Community College Prof Who Suddenly Found Out Her Novel Was A Pulitzer Finalist

Stacey Levine’s Mice 1961, published by a very small press in Oregon, is "a deeply weird book, a kind-of coming-of-age comedy with no easy takeaway, full of twangy dialogue that reads like an alien in a human suit going ‘hello fellow Earthlings.’”  - LitHub

The Plight Of Hollywood Has Become A Key Issue In The Los Angeles Mayoral Race

“For decades, elected officials have not had to focus on the film and TV business, let alone turn it into a campaign issue. It was simply a given that local production would continue to play a dominant role in the city’s economy.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Documentary Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom Has Died At 65

“Lindstrom, until the end of his life, was committed to portraying stories of trauma overcome. Though he possessed an exceptional grasp of cinema’s tools from cinematography to editing, Lindstrom’s greatest artistic gift was his blend of empathy and curiosity.” - Oregon ArtsWatch

For No Reason The Artist Or Anyone Else Knows, FIFA Destroys A Huge, Beloved Mural In Dallas

The massive whale mural is “'gone forever,’ Wyland told me, ... sounding at turns shattered and furious.” But why? Could be for some sports marketing, of course, since the men’s World Cup is coming soon. - Dallas Morning News

Fifty Years Later, A Documentary About The Harlem Renaissance Gets Its Debut

“The documentary centres on a cocktail party Greaves hosted at Duke Ellington’s townhouse in Harlem in August 1972 – an attempt to capture the voices of artists, writers, musicians and organisers whose work had transformed Black American culture in the 1920s.” - The Guardian (UK)

The Egyptian Mummy Buried With The Iliad

Was Greek literature a “cheat code” to the afterlife for Egyptian royals of Roman-era Egypt? - The New York Times

Our Feeds Are Products Of Stealth Marketing — And Thus, Mostly Fake

The head of one viral marketing firm says 90 percent of what we see online is advertising. And of course, “the point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.” - Vulture

Seth Rogen Says If You Want To Use AI To ‘Write’ Your Scripts, You Should Simply Stop Working As A ‘Writer’ And Go Do...

"Every time I see a video on Instagram that’s like, ‘Hollywood is cooked,’ what follows is the most stupid dog shit I’ve ever seen in my life.” - Variety

Taking Broadway On The Road, But In Baseball

This Tony-nominated actor is finding more theatrical work - and, let’s face it, likely better pay - as a member of the Savannah Bananas, playing a relief pitcher who comes on dressed as, and singing, the Phantom of the Opera. - The New York Times

The Problem With Venice

If you go to the Biennale, including this year’s intensely controversial edition, “Do you marshal skepticism or let the feelings flow? Whatever your preference, you’ll get a lot of practice.” - The Atlantic

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