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What Happens To Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center Without Robert Wilson?
“’Bob was always saying he didn’t want Watermill to become an institution,’ said Charles Chemin, Watermill’s new artistic director. ‘He didn’t want to create a Bob Wilson school. But Watermill is filled with the vision of Bob Wilson,…
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Writers Guild of America seeks to block Paramount’s buyout of Warner
NEW YORK (AP) — The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount’s $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the…
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Former High Museum of Art executive pleads guilty in stealing over $600K from museum
Former High Museum of Art executive pleads guilty in stealing over $600K from museum | Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Mastermind of €88m Louvre heist thought they ‘could have taken more’ | Paris
Two men suspected of making off with €88m (£75m) worth of crown jewels from the Louvre museum in Paris last October have reportedly told investigators that the alleged mastermind behind the heist was disappointed by the haul and thought…
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The Paradoxical Problem Of Pernambuco Wood Bows
“The relationship between pernambuco and music is not … environmental overconsumption. It is the primary consumers of this resource, the bow makers, who have tried hardest to conserve the wood. … They have worked to document…
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Punctuation: A Generational Divide – The Atlantic
I was a novice editor, he was an experienced writer, and the first article he turned in revealed a virtuosic command of comma placement. He opened with long, slow clauses; picked up speed with shorter ones; withheld all commas for a…
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Silicon Valley’s Science Fiction Problem
Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, gave expression to this ethos in 2017 when he said: ‘We are the people who make fantasies real.’ It sounds inspiring, but it is important to know which parts of those fantasies they’re choosing, and…
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The Cliburn Gets It Wrong—Twice — The Nightingale’s Sonata
It is the very concept of a short, artificially constructed conductor competition that I question. A focus on how well individuals conduct a specific orchestra with limited repertoire at a given moment in time makes little sense to me…
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Trump Admin’s Critique Of The Smithsonian Is Laughably Wrong
Even when judged by the standards of the form, the White House’s anti-woke polemic is a shoddy piece of workmanship not unlike the peeling blue sealant in the $15 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool. – The New Republic…
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EU Commission Recommends Cancelation of Venice Biennale Grant
Over the weekend, a European Union commission followed up on its earlier threats to cancel a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event this year as its reasoning.
The European Commission…
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