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The World’s Biggest Theatre Award Goes To A Little Company Of Disabled Actors In Regional Australia

Back to Back, a company made up of neurodiverse and disabled performers based in Geelong, a city about an hour southwest of Melbourne, has won the International Ibsen Award, created by the Norwegian government and worth 2.5 million kroner ($286,000). - The Guardian

LA’s New Academy Movie Museum Will Rethink How It Portrays Industry Founders

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people began asking how, in a museum devoted to a diverse and varied examination of filmmaking, the people who created the industry were largely, and alarmingly, absent. - Los Angeles Times

Report: Hungarian Government Is Suppressing Artists

The report's authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists that has resulted in self-censorship. - NPR

Scientists Watch A Memory Being Formed In A Living Brain

From earlier work, they had expected the brain to encode the memory by slightly tweaking its neural architecture. Instead, the researchers were surprised to find a major overhaul in the connections. - Wired

Lab In Virginia Working To Save Ukraine Treasures

Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling imagery of Ukraine’s cultural sites to help track attacks on them. - Washington Post

The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good Pictures?

A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a landscape shot. “Its complex, interwoven set of ‘smart’ software components don’t fit together quite right,” the report stated. - The New Yorker

The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine

Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. - The Conversation

Researchers Are Using AI To Understand Animal Language

Researchers are using AI to parse the “speech” of animals, enabling scientists to create systems that, for example, detect and monitor whale songs to alert nearby ships so they can avoid collisions. - The Wall Street Journal

The Oscars And Baseball: “Fixing” Them Is Making Them Worse

Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen. But it may be that viewers are tuning out because the shows have gotten worse. - Washington Post

Universal Music Buys An Ape NFT To Lead NFT Music Group

On Friday, Universal's 10:22PM label said it paid $360,817 to purchase Bored Ape #5537 - a female character now known as Manager Noët All, to lead the group it founded in November called Kingship. - Reuters

Rare Marvel Comic Sells For $2.4 Million

The book, Marvel Comics No. 1, published in 1939, is so valuable because it is known as the pay copy, in which the publisher recorded the payments he owed to the illustrators, said Stephen Fishler, the chief executive of ComicConnect, an online comic auction house. - The New York Times

TV Ratings Giant Nielsen Rejects Private Equity Takeover Bid

Nielsen ratings were the gold standard for decades, but "the rise of streaming and mobile video has challenged the company, with its clients calling it out for its slow response to streaming." - The Hollywood Reporter

Demanding Cultural Literacy Isn’t An Inherently Conservative Position

"I wholeheartedly agree with something that the great historical sociologist Orlando Patterson said in a summer teacher seminar:  If you want to critique western culture, you must own the culture and know it from the inside." - Inside Higher Ed

Why CODA Should Indeed Win The Best Picture Oscar

"There is some sniffiness out there towards Coda as best picture material: the feeling that it’s too blatant a crowdpleaser, machine tooled to leave viewers with a warm, squishy feeling. II hits familiar beats. But Coda is a landmark in deaf culture and representation." - The Guardian (UK)

How Fans Forced A Finish To A Canceled Adaptation Of An Incomplete Jane Austen

The show was canceled in Britain, where the fan movement started - "a fan group called the Sanditon Sisterhood, which began a mass Twitter campaign." Then the Americans got involved. - The New York Times

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