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Lego Set To Release Its Largest-Ever Set, Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona

News of the upcoming set, part of the company’s Architecture series, was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven true in the past. - Dezeen

Compelling Video Games About Managing Stores???

Retro Rewind is the latest in a category called “store simulators”—games that basically create bottled versions of hourly-wage drudgery. Set in the ’90s, the game tasks players with such activities as stocking shelves, manning the checkout counter, and balancing the daily books. - The Atlantic

50 Years Ago, This Fairuz Song Became Lebanon’s Great Anthem Of Hope. Now The Lebanese Are Feeling Ambivalent About It.

Through year after year and decade after decade of turmoil, Fairuz’s “Bahebak Ya Lebnan” (“I Love You, Lebanon”) inspired hope and pride in the nation’s resilience. Now many Lebanese associate the song with tragedy, and younger people see the lyrics’ promises as a hollow fantasy. - The Guardian

Ben Affleck’s Company (Which Netflix Just Bought) Says It Can Save “Millions” In Production Costs

The reductions made possible by InterPositive‘s technology would be “substantial” on below-the-line production, “conservatively” reaching at least 10% to 20%, the application said. - Deadline

Trump And The Golden Idol In His Proposed “Library”

There is one recent development upon which we really should all agree — erecting a gold statue of President Trump in the middle of his proposed presidential library is a No Good, Very Bad Idea. - Los Angeles Times

You Can’t Sell Famous Stolen Art. So Why Steal It?

The items stolen are clearly valuable. But, as an expert in the governance of criminal markets, I can tell you acquiring the goods is only the first step. Turning this loot into cash is fraught with risk. - The Conversation

Why Are Arguments About “Project Hail Mary” All Over Social Media?

“With the movie’s release came a flurry of social media posts, as audiences debated everything one could possibly imagine to be a potential topic for debate. (Those) included … the film’s quality, the book’s quality, the frequency and success of the jokes, its perceived political perspective, … Gosling’s project choices and the directors’ track records, to name a smattering.” - The Hollywood Reporter

How The Publishing World Works Systemically

Yes, literature is structured by institutions that serve their own self-interest, but that self-interest requires a lot of other people to give them their labor at a very low cost. And that can only happen if the business does enough to maintain this glow of prestige. - Woman of Letters

Met Museum’s First-Ever Native American Curator Resigns

Patricia Norby had been hired to great fanfare, as both the first person to hold the role at the Met and the first Native American to be hired as a curator by the institution. Her appointment was seen as both a watershed and as a response to criticism from various Native American tribes. - ARTnews

Roundabout Theatre Company Reopens Todd Haimes Theatre On Broadway

The Todd Haimes Theatre is one of five spaces owned by Roundabout, including Studio 54 and the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. The current production of “Fallen Angels” will mark its official opening on April 19, and will run in a limited engagement through June 7. - Broadway News

Melvin Edwards, Influential Sculptor Of Steel Assemblages, Has Died At 88

“Working primarily with found steel objects, Edwards created masses of hooks, chains, and beams, some of which were abstracted beyond recognition. His titles … tended to be forceful, referring to anti-Black violence, Malcolm X, African cultures, and even American-led wars in Vietnam and Iraq.” - ARTnews

Growing Recognition: Our Arts Models Need Reinvention

We now operate in a landscape of cultural abundance – of content, of participation and of alternative platforms for meaning-making (if not direct investment). Yet many institutions continue to move at a different tempo, governed by inherited structures that assume a kind of centrality that no longer exists. The result is not just inefficiency, but misalignment. - ArtsHub

Australia’s New Idea For Arts Funding

Creative Australia is testing a new model for financing organisations to be named the Creative Industries Impact Fund, by working with donors to raise capital against government funds. - AAP

A Short History Of Pedantry

The academic humanities today broadly maintain the same basic sense of what history is and of the value of studying it that Renaissance humanists developed in their polemics against medieval scholasticism. - Hedgehog Review

The First Dance Artist Robert Rauschenberg Ever Choreographed Is Being Revived

Pelican, as it’s titled, will be staged on a roller-skating rink — just as the original was in 1963 and 1965. - Artnet

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