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Yes, No, And We Give Up: The Verdicts In Harvey Weinstein’s New York Retrial

After what were reported to be extremely contentious deliberations, the jury found the disgraced producer guilty of one count of sexual assault and not guilty of a second count. The judge declared a mistrial on a count of rape after the jury deadlocked and the foreman refused to continue deliberating. - AP

“The Simpsons” Is A Wholesome, Fundamentally Moral Show.  Really.

“What critics of the prime-time cartoon either fundamentally misunderstood (or conveniently overlooked) was its core truths. Bart loved his parents. He went to church with them. The Simpsons sometimes struggled to make ends meet, and they didn’t always get along, but they stuck together. They were a typical middle-American family." - The Atlantic (Yahoo!)

The Rise Of Anonymous Visual Art Critics

Several platforms are proliferating across cyberspace, seemingly in response to a culture in mainstream art criticism that the authors perceive as risk averse. ‘No one was writing truthfully about art – it was just the same four or five legacy art magazines covering the same circuit of shows. - Frieze

Why Were The Early Seasons Of “The Simpsons” So Good? The Show Got Something Almost No Other American TV Show Got.

And that’s almost no interference from network executives. Fox was the first new broadcast TV network in decades; new execs were intimidated by multiple Oscar-winner James l. Brooks, the animated series’s producer. So talented writers got to push envelopes with their scripts and were rarely overruled. - Slate (Yahoo!)

Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently

Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. - The Conversation

Dayton Dance Company Fights To Keep Mexican Dancer In The US

“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the hoops no matter how small. The hoops get tinier and tinier but the standards and criteria are not tangible.” - Dayton Daily News

Rural Conservatives Used To Back Public Broadcasting. Now, Not So Much

According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March, 43 percent of Americans supported continuing federal funding for NPR and PBS, 24 percent backed ending funding and 33 percent were unsure. But the survey found a close correlation between partisan leans and views on funding. - Washington Post

Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series

“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement. The CSO series presented just two MusicNOW concerts this current season, most recently in March.” - Chicago Classical Review

Getty Images Suit Over AI Copyright Goes To Trial In London This Week

Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written decision from the judge expected at a later date. - AP News

Disney And Universal Sue AI Companies Over Copyright

They are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and content makers to stop AI firms from using their work as training data — or at least make them pay for it. - Washington Post

Perp Walk? Trump’s Wednesday Night Kennedy Center Event

It had the feel of a Hollywood movie premiere. Ahead of showtime, the Kennedy Center was a festival of Trump officials. - Washington Post

Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”

Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring demonstrators, Jan.6 insurrectionists, anti-Beijing Hong Kongers, and Mormons. Zachary Pincus-Roth considers what they all see in the show. - The Washington Post (MSN)

LA Arts Institutions Are Impacted By Militarization Of City’s Downtown

Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects of the civic unrest compounded by an uncertain future as thousands of National Guard troops and Marines roll into town under President Trump’s orders. - Los Angeles Times

Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free

“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service. As a company, we look at music as art, and we would never want to give away art for free. - The Hollywood Reporter

After Decades Of Trying, Republicans May Finally Get To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting Today

The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of federal funding. The bill would strip all federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - CNN

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