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How Do Social Media People Create Those Art, But Make It Sports Posts?

"Oftentimes, you will see on social media people post a photo from a sports event and say, ‘Hang it in the Louvre,' as a indication that they can see something that's artistic about it. And then I come in and actually find the piece of art that sports image actually resembles.” - PBS

The Download Wars, Or, How iTunes Became Relevant Again

In the early 21st century, downloads were a thing, but now, downloading rather than streaming "is a purely performative gesture – it only ever happens as a result of some kind of factional culture war that somebody has the money and inclination to try to represent on the charts." - The Guardian (UK)

Climate Protestor Charged For Defacing African American Civil War Memorial At The National Gallery Of Art

The protestor painted on the wall next to Augustus Saint Gaudens’s Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial, not the piece itself. However: Jackson Green "has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial." - The Art Newspaper

Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Not Digital Archives When Mergers Come Into Play

In short: Don’t give up your DVDs or Blu-Rays, OK? Digital “copies” are simply rentals, as Funimation fans are discovering to their chagrin. - Wired

A Deep Dive Into Visual Artists On The Small Screen

Visual art "doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from a coffee table book, the camera can impose a distance from the art at hand – a secondary perspective that isn’t really needed.” - The Guardian (UK)

What’s Going To Happen To Southern California’s Biggest Bookstore When Its Owner Retires?

Vroman’s has been a family concern for 130 years in Pasadena and beyond. What happens next to the “community treasure”? - The New York Times

Truly, Not Just Like Every Other Decade Someone Said This, College Students Do Not Read Anymore

Was it No Child Left Behind? Common Core? COVID-19 school shutdowns? Or - as is the case for most people, from child to adult - the smart phone? - Slate

The Composer Who Coaxes Acoustic Instruments Into Playing Electronic Music

Matthew Sheeran: "The first thing you have to do is get the score translated into what I call scordatura notation, where what you hear is not what you see. I had to translate it into music for keyboard, where the octave isn’t an octave." - The New York Times

Let’s Talk About The Best Actress Nominees

In other words, how did Annette Bening get a nomination while Margot Robbie did not? - Vulture

The 40 Years It Took This Actor To Become An Overnight Success

When William Stanford Davis auditioned for Friends, he says, "I thought I knocked it out of the park. But when I called my agent … he told me that the casting department thought my audition was so terrible, I should go back to being a telemarketer." - Time

The Gay Rights Movement Smashed By The Publicity Surrounding Oscar Wilde

“The burgeoning gay rights movement in Britain was connected to wider late-Victorian movements for reform, part of a larger impulse to find new and better ways of living in the modern world. This was the intellectual nexus that was smashed by the Wilde trials.” - The Guardian (UK)

Those Who Professionally Perform Piano Duets Together, Stay Together

Or at least that’s the hope of duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, who met at the Moscow State Conservatory and who revived their piano duet career during the early days of the pandemic. - The New York Times

Romance Is Far From Dead

Romantic fiction, that is. With romances propping up the entire publishing industry, how hard could it be to write one? (Turns out writing a whole book simply isn’t that easy.) - Irish Times

All Of The Directors Guild Winners From Last Night

In 2023, some DGA wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once seemed to set that film, and its directors, on a path to many wins at the Oscars. - The Hollywood Reporter

Britain’s National Gallery Needs To Change Its Cutoff Date From 1900 To, Say, 2000

We’re almost a quarter of the way into the new century, after all, and painting didn’t die off as a great art form before Matisse, Picasso, Gwen John, Alice Neel, and David Hockney. - The Guardian (UK)

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