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What AI And An Artist Do With Children’s Cartoons

The result is probably not something you'd really want kids to watch. - Vice

The Royal British Columbia Museum Is About To Be Demolished

The claim: It's for earthquake protection. The politics: Extremely complicated. The CEO's claim: "Adding up all the issues and what it would cost to upgrade the building and fix its problems it makes more sense to build a new museum." - Toronto Star

Russian Filmmakers Are Quietly Trying To Line Up Deals At Cannes

"Despite the festival’s public posturing ... Russian buyers are meeting with top sales agents at the Marché du Film. Their numbers are substantially down, but there’s no question that Putin’s Russia is open for business on the French Riviera." - Variety

Yes, A Working Parent Can Take In A Biennial

With a lot of planning and flexibility, of course. And a sense of humor. "Let’s consider this my 'embodied perspective,' however frazzled and distracted that might be." - Hyperallergic

The Vast Majority Of People Absolutely Will Not Pay For News

Running from one free trial to another, even news junkies often think information demands to be free - to the consumer, that is. "Only 17% of respondents said they had paid for online news in the past year. ... This was, in fact, an improvement." - Nieman Lab

Amanda Claridge, The Archaeologist Who Brought Us The Ruins Of Rome, 72

Claridge "revealed the details of what, to a casual observer, might seem a homogeneous slice of the long-ago," making the ruins speak to any general reader or visitor to the Eternal City. - The New York Times

What Does It Take To Get Older Audiences Back To The Movies?

Why, just a little Downton Abbey magic, of course. - Los Angeles Times

How A 1972 Production Of Godspell Changed The Comedy World Forever

Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Victor Garber, Jayne Eastwood, Andrea Martin, and Paul Shaffer all walked into a theatre. This is a (rollicking) oral history of the experience. "Jesus starts his narration, and we look up and Andrea has a dinner roll in her mouth." - Washington Post

Zelensky And The Art Of Storytelling

The comedian-turned-president's video dispatches "have done more than win Ukraine moral and military support. They have created a serialized manifesto—one that makes the case for liberal democracy over oligarchic autocracy." - Wired

Groups Invade The Red Carpet At Cannes To Protest Violence Against Women

Sunday's group was "carrying a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held. The group, dressed in black, also set off black smoke grenades as they paused on steps in front of the Palais des Festivals." - The Guardian (UK)

Iran Tightens The Screws On Its Filmmakers

During a crackdown over general protests about food prices, the government has arrested or threatened many documentary filmmakers. The government take credit for filmmakers' success abroad - but wants to control them at home. - The New York Times

The Former KKK Warehouse That’s About To Become An Arts Center

In Fort Worth, the site of at least one brutal lynching is set to become a space for "arts and community healing." - Hyperallergic

The Attention Arms Race

All that glitters is not pepperoni. It's not just advertisers competing with each other on Instagram, it's TikTok competing with Netflix competing with YouTube competing with LEGO Star Wars competing with ... a new Stranger Things pizza app? - Fast Company

Let’s Talk About These Concert Holographs

Sure, ABBA are doing it now, but what's next - recreated Liszt concerts? (We'd probably need video for that - but who knows what the future may hold?) - The Observer (UK)

Jhumpa Lahiri Explains Why Italo Calvino Is So Beloved Outside Of Italy

"Let’s start with his Italian (or non-Italian) identity, an Italianness always tilting toward the Other. These are some biographical facts (with which he loved to play): he was born in Cuba, raised in San Remo—an extremely cosmopolitan city at the time—and married an Argentine translator." - LitHub

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