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• New Reality TV Show: Can You Beat This Music App?

  10-08-2016 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beat Shazam has been picked up by Fox in the US where it will be produced by British executive Mark Brunett, and is basically a modern spin on Name That Tune, where contestants play against the music identification app to try and identify a song first. It has been a long and curious journey for Shazam but, unlike many of its peers, it is still going after 15 years, which is several lifetimes in digital music.”
  
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• Diversity In Books Isn’t Just About Writers, It’s Also About The Marketing

  10-08-2016 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If you go to most other independents, they will have a section of African-American books. But a whole bookstore filled with books on African-Americans? That’s something that people should see.”
  
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• Keith Sonnier at Whitechapel Gallery, London

  10-08-2016 23:01 via artnews.com
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• The Largest Spray-Painted Artwork In The World? (In Rio)

  10-08-2016 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The work, entitled Etnias, covers more than 30,000 square feet of a formerly abandoned warehouse in Rio’s newly reinvigorated port district. Using a wild quiltwork of brightly colored geometric shapes, it portrays the faces of five indigenous men and women from five continents.”
  
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• Peter Doig v Pete Doige: a case of mistaken artistic identity?

  10-08-2016 22:21
  
  The artist Peter Doig is currently defending himself in an unusual authentication case involving a work created by an incarcerated young manalleged to be himin the 1970s. Robert Fletcher, a retired corrections officer from Canada, has brought a $5m lawsuit against the artist for denying that he painted a work owned by Fletcher. The Chicago-based art dealer Peter Bartlow, who intended to sell the work for Fletcher, is a co-plaintiff. The pair also wants the courts to officially authenticate the
  
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• Montreal’s Classical Spree – A Way To “Save” Classical Music?

  10-08-2016 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the Virée classique, at just about the time an ordinary person starts to wonder when the concert will end, it ends. The audience disperses for lunch or some shopping or whatever, and then regroups in different combinations at another hall nearby for another shot of music.”
  
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• Can You Really Create A Standardized Test To Grade For Creativity? (Some Schools Are Trying)

  10-08-2016 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This spring, with a six-district pilot, New Hampshire joined a small but growing list of at least a half-dozen states experimenting with large-scale arts testing. Educators prefer to call the new exams “assessments,” because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The goal, though, is to create a common “test”—often in the form of a project—that can be given to students in different classrooms across the state
  
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• Three Saints In One Portrait – It All Depends On Where You Stand

  10-08-2016 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From the left, Saint Francis of Assisi decked on his Franciscan order habit clutches a crucifix with a hand bloody with stigmata; from the right, Saint Francis of Paola holds a paper that reads ‘Charitas.’ And looking straight on, there’s a weeping Saint Peter looking up at a blue sky where his airy halo mingles with the clouds.” The trick is an effect called anamorphosis.
  
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• Edinburgh Festivals Say They Need To Be More International Post-Brexit

  10-08-2016 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Veteran arts impresario Richard Demarco warned that the Brexit vote was the biggest threat to the Edinburgh Festival in its history and was a betrayal of its roots. Mr Barley admitted Brexit would mean a “seismic shift” in the UK’s cultural landscape but insisted this need not mean ‘doom and gloom’ for Edinburgh’s festivals, which are facing the prospect of public funding cuts in the next few years.”
  
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• What’s A Harpsichord For? It’s For Proving Us Wrong, Says Its Newest Star Player

  10-08-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Think the harpsichord is an inherently limited instrument, too quiet, too inexpressive, too inferior to a modern piano? That, [Mahan Esfahani] argues, implies asking the wrong question to begin with. Think a harpsichordist must naturally align with an early-music movement that awakened so much interest in his instrument? Wrong. … Think that the harpsichord is exclusively an instrument for the music of centuries past? Wrong.”
  
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• Has Los Angeles Become A Hotbed Of Contemporary Music?

  10-08-2016 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A grassroots new music community (or as ‘grassroots’ as anything which is tied to higher education can be) is in a true dialogue with the larger artistic culture, and the promise of the LA Philharmonic to make Los Angeles a contemporary musical destination seems to have finally taken root. An LA aesthetic has emerged, and I can’t help but notice a bit of pioneering Wild West in the raucous brew.”
  
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• Ancient Roman mosaics uncovered in Cyprus

  10-08-2016 19:17
  
  Summer has turned into a season of surprising discoveries in Cyprus, where two rare ancient mosaics have been uncovered in a span of weeks. Most recently, archaeologists working near the capital of Nicosia revealed a well-preserved fourth-century Roman scene depicting a chariot race at the Hippodrome on Tuesday, 9 August. And earlier in July, a crew working on the sewers in the coastal city of Larnaca found a second-century floor showing the labours of Hercules.
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• The Marco Polo Of The Ottoman Empire

  10-08-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His path crossed Buddhists and crusading warriors, the Bedouin and Venetian sailors, ambassadors, monks, sorcerers, and snake charmers. Along the way he wrote the Seyahatname (‘Book of Travels’), a magnificent ten-volume sprawl of fantasy, biography, and reportage that is utterly unique in the canon of travel literature, and which confirms Evliya [Çelebi] as one of the great storytellers of the seventeenth century.”
  
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• Science In The Most Abstract REALLY Needs Philosophy

  10-08-2016 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This surprisingly blunt – and very public – talk from prestigious academics is what happens when scientists help themselves to, or conversely categorically reject, philosophical notions that they plainly have not given sufficient thought to.”
  
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• An Outsider Artist’s Disneyland-In-Detroit

  10-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Dmytro] Szylak’s installation is hardly noticeable from the sidewalk in front of his former home, but if one approaches from the alley and garages of Klinger and Sobieski Streets, Hamtramck Disneyland looms like a Cubist carnival.”
  
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• Photographer explores emoji censorship and the artistic nude

  10-08-2016 17:45
  
  Keen not to alienate their hip, young customer base with anachronistic, Crimewatch-esque pixelation and black rectangles, many brands and publications have taken to censoring nudes with emoji lately.
  
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• Frederick Law Olmsted Changed The Way We Think About Parks. But His Ideas Apply On A Much Bigger Scale

  10-08-2016 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Every square inch of land on Earth has been altered by our presence. Yet in the process we have failed to follow Olmsted’s conclusions to their logical end. If his theories about public greenswards could be applied to towns and cities, why shouldn’t they be applied to the planet as a whole?”
  
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• ‘The Interpretation Of Dreams’, 1,700 Years Before Freud

  10-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Enter Artemidorus of Daldis, the world’s first true dream researcher. He was a citizen of Ephesus during the second century A.D. … He did what any good researcher would do: he went out into the field, and gathered dreams. … Artemidorius made himself into an empiricist of fantasy, and he compiled his findings in a book called the Oneirocritica, or the Interpretation of Dreams.”
  
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• Is Putting Shakespeare Into Modern English Really A Good Idea?

  10-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Linguist John McWhorter and Rutgers professor Jack Lynch, author of Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, discuss the ‘sacrilege” issue. (podcast)
  
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• Reynolds painting accepted in lieu of £4.7m inheritance tax

  10-08-2016 16:03
  
  An 18th-century portrait of 5th Earl of Carlisle hanging at Castle Howard for more than 200 years is allocated to Tate BritainAn important 18th-century portrait of the 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds has been accepted for the nation in lieu of £4.7m inheritance tax.The full-length portrait of the lavishly dressed aristocrat has hung at one of Britain’s grandest stately homes, Castle Howard in North Yorkshire – made famous as the backdrop for Brideshead Revisited &nd
  
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• In Weirdest Art Case Of The Year, Painter Says He Didn’t Paint This Work, But Owner Insists He Did And Sues Him For Lying About It

  10-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The artist Peter Doig took the stand here Monday in an odd federal court case in which the owner of a landscape painting is accusing Mr. Doig of falsely denying that he created the work while a young man in Canada.”
  
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• ‘La Bohème’ At Attica State Prison

  10-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One man perches literally on the edge of his seat, listening with his whole body; his chest seems to swell with the singers’ every breath. Afterward, I’m not surprised when he says that, before today, ‘I didn’t know that Latinos do opera,’ but ‘for a brief fifteen minutes, I was up there, I was singing.'”
  
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• House Arrest: How One Topsy-Turvy Season at Sotheby’s Could Change the Auction World Forever

  10-08-2016 15:30 via artnews.com
  There was little fanfare when bidders arrived at Sotheby’s headquarters at 1334 York Avenue May 9 for the auction house’s Impressionist and modern evening sale. Reporters murmured about the catalogue’s bloat and lack of buzzy eight-figure works, as did the … Read More
  
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• Louvre opens up to performance art

  10-08-2016 15:15
  
  Performance pieces devised by established and emerging artists and choreographers will go on show in various courtyards of the Louvre museum this autumn as part of a new festival organised by the Fiac fair (Foire Internationale dArt Contemporain, 20-23 October).
  The Parades for Fiac project, which encompasses contemporary dance and poetry readings, launches 17 October (until 23 October) with Corbeaux, a 2014 work by the Moroccan dancer and choreographer, Bouchra Ouizguen, in the Cour Carre of t
  
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• Alberta Ballet, Working Its Way Out Of Deficit, Asks Each Supporter In The Province For $50

  10-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Alberta Ballet will be asking supporters across the province to each donate $50 to the organization over the next seven months to help weather financial hardships the company has suffered over the last few years. It’s part of a $1-million fundraising campaign launched on its 50th anniversary to help put the organization, the second-largest ballet company in Canada, on steadier ground financially after revenue fell drastically in its 2013-2014 season.”
  
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• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Makes All Regular Concerts Free For Students

  10-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, already a national leader in offering affordable concerts, said Tuesday it is offering free tickets to school and college students to unlimited concerts during the 2016-17 season. Students can go online now and order tickets a week before single tickets go on sale to the general public.”
  
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• Morning Links: Vanessa Beecroft Edition

  10-08-2016 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Soprano Patrice Munsel, 91, Star Of Opera And Television

  10-08-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At age 17, she became the youngest singer ever to debut at the Met, where she was known for soubrette and coloratura roles and sang 225 performances over 15 years. She sang popular standards on her own radio show in the 1940s, became a beloved leading lady on Broadway, and even had her own variety series, The Patrice Munsel Show, on ABC in 1957 and ’58.
  
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• The Courtroom Battle Over Kafka’s Archive Has Been Decided Once And For All

  10-08-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An eight-year legal struggle between the National Library of Israel, which claims the papers based on instructions in the will of Kafka’s friend Max Brod, and the daughters of Brod’s secretary Esther Hoffe, who insist that Brod gave their mother the papers to do with as she liked, has been ended with a decision by Israel’s Supreme Court.
  
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• Battle Cry In Birmingham: ‘Save Our Brutalism!’

  10-08-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Brutiful Birmingham Action Group (see what they did there?) is fighting an uphill struggle to preserve the city’s best examples of 1950s and ’60s concrete and glass minimalism.”
  
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• Opera Director Kay Walker Castaldo Dead At 67

  10-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[She] directed productions for Opera Company of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Colón, and New York City Opera. Since 2012, she had been associate professor at the School of Music, Theatre and Dance at the University of Michigan.” Says former Opera Company of Philadelphia chief Robert Driver, “She is probably the only director who never raised her voice.”
  
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• Pop goes balloon art: why Bill Clinton isn't its only grown-up fan

  10-08-2016 13:59
  
  Balloons injected much-needed joy into the US presidential campaign this month and artists are co-opting the old tricks of the party entertainer tooMasayoshi Matsumoto’s balloon animals are just like the ones you’ll remember from your childhood, only on steroids. Related: Inflated expectations: Masayoshi Matsumoto's balloon animals – in pictures I just want someone who thinks of me the way Bill Clinton thinks of balloons. pic.twitter.com/nc7M5X33Gx Related: Party’s over:
  
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• Tate adds Reynolds's aristocratic portrait to national collection

  10-08-2016 13:52
  
  Tate has acquired a valuable portrait by Joshua Reynolds depicting the fifth Earl of Carlisle. Dating from 1769, it shows Frederick Howard at the age of 20, with his beloved dog Rover at his feet. The picture has descended in the family and has always hung in Castle Howard, their mansion in North Yorkshire (the filmed setting in Brideshead Revisited). The picture has been accepted by the government in lieu of inheritance tax due of 4.7m, although its open-market value would be significantly hig
  
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• Inflated expectations: Masayoshi Matsumoto's balloon animals – in pictures

  10-08-2016 13:46
  
  Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto makes his amazingly detailed balloon animals with no glue or seals – then pops them when he’s done Continue reading...
  
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• Arts And Culture’s Contribution To UK Economy Is Up By 15 Percent In One Year, One-Third In Five Years

  10-08-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since 2010, the culture sector’s economic contribution has grown by 33%, from £20.3 billion to £27 billion in 2015. The sector is now worth 1.6% of the UK’s entire economy … The government estimates the cultural sector’s worth to the UK economy has grown by 15% alone between 2014 and 2015.”
  
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• West End Staffers Sue Britain’s Largest Theatre Owner, Alleging They’ve Been Shortchanged On Pay

  10-08-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Entertainment union BECTU is representing 38 front-of-house workers across all of [Ambassador Theatre Group’s] West End venues, claiming they have been paid less than the agreed Society of London Theatre rate.”
  
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• Sixth Duke of Westminster leaves one of the most important Old Master collections in the UK

  10-08-2016 12:57
  
  The Duke of Westminster, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, the aristocrat and property developer who died yesterday (9 August) aged 64, owned one of the most important private collections of Old Masters in the UK. The family collection includes works by artists such as Velzquez, Stubbs, Lorrain and Rembrandt.
  The property portfolio of the sixth duke covers around 300 acres in Belgravia and Mayfair in central London, but the late landowner also inherited an extensive collection of major Dutch and Flem
  
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• Major international art event aims to regenerate Armenia

  10-08-2016 12:50
  
  Unemployment and emigration may be on the rise in Armenia, but a new art initiative launching on 22 August aims to stem the brain drain and develop a road map for the cultural and economic development of the country.The Dilijan Arts Observatory will see artists, designers, cultural historians and environmental scientists convene for three weeks in and around the ancient spa town of Dilijan, once a favourite with the composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten. The observatory will h
  
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• Armenia's first major international art event aims to regenerate the region

  10-08-2016 12:50
  
  Unemployment and emigration may be on the rise in Armenia, but a new art initiative launching on 22 August aims to stem the brain drain and develop a road map for the cultural and economic development of the country.The Dilijan Arts Observatory will see artists, designers, cultural historians and environmental scientists convene for three weeks in and around the ancient spa town of Dilijan, once a favourite with the composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten. The observatory will h
  
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• Armenia's first international art event aims to regenerate the region

  10-08-2016 12:50
  
  Unemployment and emigration may be on the rise in Armenia, but a new art initiative launching on 22 August aims to stem the brain drain and develop a road map for the cultural and economic development of the country.The Dilijan Art Observatory will see artists, designers, cultural historians and environmental scientists convene for three weeks in and around the ancient spa town of Dilijan, once a favourite with the composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten. The observatory will ha
  
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• 'Grow your own chair' project challenges the consumption of materials

  10-08-2016 12:45
  
  Why buy a lawn chair when you can grow one from the dirt?
  
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• Bavarian museums receive 58 top works by Mondrian, Delacroix, Beuys

  10-08-2016 12:04
  
  The Bavarian State Paintings Collections received a donation of 58 top works from the 18th to 20th centuries by artists including Eugne Delacroix, Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly, Georg Baselitz and Piet Mondrian from a former private collection assembled over many decades by the billionaire couple Christof and Ursula Engelhorn.The Engelhorns contributed their private collection to the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne. The foundation has now donated it to the State Paintings Collections, as well as enabl
  
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• Ernst Neizvestny—sculptor who stood up to Khrushchev’s criticism—has died, aged 91

  10-08-2016 11:30
  
  Ernst Neizvestny, an artist and sculptor who famously stood up against Nikita Khrushchevs denunciation of his art as degenerateand was later commissioned by the deposed Soviet leaders family to design his tombstonedied in New York on Tuesday, 9 August. He was 91.At a 1962 exhibition of avant-garde art at Moscows Manege exhibition hall, Khruschev derided the works on show with undisguised disdain as dog shit. He asked Neizvestny of his sculptures: Why do you disfigure the faces of Soviet people?
  
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• Ernst Neizvestny—sculptor who stood up to Khrushchev’s criticism—dies, aged 91

  10-08-2016 11:30
  
  Ernst Neizvestny, an artist and sculptor who famously stood up against Nikita Khrushchevs denunciation of his art as degenerateand was later commissioned by the deposed Soviet leaders family to design his tombstonedied in New York on Tuesday, 9 August. He was 91.At a 1962 exhibition of avant-garde art at Moscows Manege exhibition hall, Khruschev derided the works on show with undisguised disdain as dog shit. He asked Neizvestny of his sculptures: Why do you disfigure the faces of Soviet people?
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.09.16

  10-08-2016 09:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fifth Anniversary Highlights: Art for Art’s Sake?
  During the month of August, Engaging Matters is republishing some of the most widely read articles from the five years this blog has been in existence. … read more
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-08-09Lookback: Our Girl in Chicago on preparing to see a movie
  From 2006: I sometimes do too much fieldwork before seeing a movie, building up a whole structure of preconceptions that I then have to trundle into the theater with me a
  
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• Horny, hairy and horrifying: the scariest monsters in art

  10-08-2016 09:00
  
  From Da Vinci’s live animal mashups to a macabre giant skeleton, a horrifying history of monsters gives our writer nightmaresWant to make a monster? Well, grab a big bag, head out to the countryside, and find the strangest creatures you can: bats, dragonflies, lizards, birds, snakes. Then lock yourself in your room, kill the animals and chop them up, keeping the most interesting bits: a bat’s wings, a serpent’s tail, an owl’s eyes. Stick these together to make a terrifyin
  
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• This is our music: 20th-century US jazz greats – in pictures

  10-08-2016 08:00
  
  Photographer Ted Williams captured the musicians who made jazz into the great American art form – from superstars Billie Holiday and Miles Davis to less exalted players such as Ira Sullivan and Ray Brown Continue reading...
  
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• Untitled( in a truffaut film a teenage boy and his teenage friend see his mother kissing a man he has never seen before. the mother sees the boys and doesn’t see them when they disappear in the crowd.)

  10-08-2016 01:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  when amanda asks you if you have been seeing someone else it means that she has been seeing someone else. she has the thoughts what if he knows i have been talking to someone else; what if someone he knows saw me with him and told him about it; and what if he read the texts on my phone.
  she saw me before the dinner not wanting to wait till later. she left for it at 6. she said she would be back at nine. at ten i was angry and paranoid. i texted her. she said that she was sorry for not texting me
  
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• Poetry Versus The Machines

  10-08-2016 01:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Artificial intelligence and machine intelligence are about decreasing the length of human perception. Google autocomplete is an attempt to shorten the time and path between thought and a response — to decrease the time and path between seeing something and categorizing it or identifying it and moving on. To me what poetry in particular is so good at is defamiliarization. Increasing the length of perception.”
  
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• Breaking Shakespeare’s Grip On How Theatre Tells History

  10-08-2016 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “That Shakespearean model, with its focus on kings and the high-born, is wedded, one might argue, to the Great Man theory of history. Commoners must fight for space on Shakespeare’s stage—and it’s not obvious whether the drunkards and prostitutes who populate the tavern where Prince Hal escapes the burdens of court, for instance, serve as rehearsals for responsive sovereignty, critics of royal ideology, or comic baggage to be shed on the way to the throne.”
  
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