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Face It, Prestige TV Is Over

"It’s a story of dizzying success, followed by hubristic overreach and cautious retreat." - The Observer (UK)

Can We Please Not Resurrect The First-Person-Industrial-Media-Complex?

Just stop (again) with the personal essay craze. - Out of Your League

Prince Harry’s Lawsuit Against The Daily Mail Publisher Is Allowed To Continue

"As well as Prince Harry, the newspaper group faces multiple claims of 'gross breaches of privacy' from Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost, Sir Simon Hughes and Baroness Doreen Lawrence." - BBC

First They Took ‘Sex’ Out Of The Title, Then They Shut Down The Whole Site

Why did G/O shut down Jezebel when millions of readers click every day? You can blame AI - and "brand safety." - 404 Media

When The Final Curtain Is Only The Beginning Of The Evening

New York theatres are finally starting to take advantage of relaxed laws around alcohol so they can be their own theatre bars. It's a new mix for a city that had weirdly puritanical laws for a long time. - The New York Times

Why Do So Many People In The U.S. Love To Forge Viking Artifacts?

Turns out you don't have to feel bad about stolen land if it was your country's land to begin with. - Slate

The Countess Who Brought Us Pasolini And Zeffirelli Has Died At 89

Marina Cicogna was Italy's first woman producer - and despite her family name and heritage, her path was far from simple. - The New York Times

Can Creativity Inspire And Transform Medicine?

"Medicine has a 'creativity problem,' ... and too many people working in health care are resigned to the status quo, the dehumanizing bureaucracy." Call in the artists! - NPR

How Film Shaped Sondheim’s Work

Sondheim loved film. "Sondheim told Secrest, 'During my formative years, movies really molded my entire view of the world.'" - American Theatre

The Frick Pittsburgh Apologizes For Postponing Islamic Art Show

The museum's executive director also apologized for the way she discussed the postponement: "There are no excuses for what I said, regardless of my intentions." - The New York Times

Hey Nintendo, Play Our Recessional Hymn

There's nothing like programming a GameBoy to play the local church organ. - BBC

Lara Parker, Who Brought Humanity To Her Undead Character, Has Died At 84

Parker "helped expand the two-dimensional portrayals of vampires and witches seen in old Hollywood B-movies" on Dark Shadows, a popular Gothic soap opera. - The New York Times

Humans Would Be Nothing Without Writing

Why? Because "complex tasks need stable, reliable, long-term memory" - and that's precisely what writing provides. - LitHub

Project To Test The Ability Of The Arts To Bring People Together

Bolstered by a $750,000, three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jar is in the vanguard of a movement seeking to capitalize on the communal powers of the visual and performing arts — what’s often referred to as “community engagement.” - Washington Post

Museum Sells Three Cezannes To Fund Operations

Markus Stegmann, the director of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, said that after subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foundation will reap 42.3 million Swiss francs from the sale of the three paintings, enough to keep the museum operating. - The New York Times

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