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Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).
Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one’s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia’s war on Ukraine. It had its first full performance Friday in Warsaw (The New York Times).
The Bayeux Tapestry hung vertically at home and lies flat at the British Museum; it will return next summer on a slanted table, after conservators found two breaks a few millimeters long (ARTnews).
Donors to the Kennedy Center are trying to reclaim their gifts after learning of a plan that listed “destruction” among the options for its art; one said, “I want to get that sculpture out of there” (ARTnews).
Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard copyright scholar, marks fifty years of the 1976 Copyright Act, which made protection automatic: a law written for publishers now covers every photo you email a friend (Lawrence Lessig).
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic for more than 20 years and a 2008 Pulitzer finalist, has died at 66; she wrote, the Post says, from the viewpoint of a popcorn-eating moviegoer (The Washington Post).
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