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The Day A Guerrilla Artist Changed Los Angeles Freeway Signage Forever

"Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety vest, hoisted a ladder up to the larger freeway sign apparatus, and climbed up to the plank with his work." - The LAnd Magazine

New Rules Would Eliminate Red Tape In Return Of Remains To Native Tribes

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but "tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums and universities they are petitioning. Repatriation requests are processed through guidelines created by the institutions." - The New York Times

Live Music Venues Try To Adapt To Delta Variant, New Rules

While the music promoter Live Nation said that artists or bands themselves could set masking and vaccination requirements, some venues in places like L.A. are requiring proof of vaccination along with the county's mask mandate. - Los Angeles Times

A Tate Donor Wants His Art Displayed, Or Wants It Back

And that's because the museum made promises about the donation of a Francis Bacon collection - promises the donor says it hasn't kept. - The Observer (UK)

Spotify Knows More About Us Than Even Facebook

And if you don't want the company to track literally everything you do, there are a few ways around it. - Wired

Ilona Royce Smithkin, Artist And Muse In Fashion And Art, 101

Smithkin was "an orange-haired nonagenarian with matching two-inch eyelashes caught fire in the world of fashion, starring in a documentary film and joining fashion campaigns for brands like Coach, while flinging embers into many other fields as a muse for photographers, filmmakers and entertainers." - The New York Times

Discriminating Against A Pregnant Actor? Pay Up

The producers claim they were concerned it might cost them money in post-production to digitally remove a baby bump. The British court was like, "Do you even know costumes and camera angles?" - BBC

A Return To Broadway, But Not To Normal

Playwright Antoinette Nwandu changed the ending of her play Pass Over before its debut as the first show to open since Broadway closed in March of 2020. "I no longer wanted to work on a play that ended with the murder of a Black man. ... I want to focus on life." - The New York Times

The Slightly Horrifying New Art Of The Double Emoji

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, Google. - Slate

When A Producer Knows What She’s Worth, But Hollywood Doesn’t

Marcia Nasatir's "perseverance, loyalty, impressive track record and eagerness to help younger proteges ('Why not be nice?,' she said of her altruism. 'It doesn’t cost you anything.') paved the way for generations." But that didn't earn her the big bucks or the credit. - Washington Post

Banksy-Like Pieces Appear All Over England’s East Coast

Rather hilariously, "Banksy expert Prof Paul Gough, principal and vice chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, said he was 'pretty sure' the works were by Banksy, 'or they are very good fakes.'" - BBC

Sculptor James Earl Reid, 78

Reid created Baltimore's iconic statue of Billie Holiday, and took a case with important impacts on intellectual and creative property all the way to Justice Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court. - Baltimore Sun

Stuck On Stupid

When a writers' organization makes the same, or similar, racist mistakes year after year, can it reform? The RWA's recent choices aren't looking good. - NPR

Marlee Matlin Says Deaf Is Not A Costume

That is, it's not something non-Deaf actors can simply take on and off to perform various roles. - The Guardian (UK)

In Ethiopia, Rebels Take Control Of UNESCO Heritage Sites

In one of the latest developments in a brutal civil war, "rebels from Ethiopia’s Tigray region have reportedly seized the town of Lalibela, home to UNESCO-protected 12th- and 13th-century rock-hewn churches." - Hyperallergic

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