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• Why Do Some Of This Era’s Photos Look So Much Like Renaissance Paintings?

  17-01-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not an accident. Ask Reddit. “These comparisons, while often funny, also come across as shockingly honest. They push aside the veneer of the present and the sense that what we are experiencing is unique to the time we live in. What’s left are raw emotions, echoing through centuries.” – Washington Post
  
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• Helga Weyhe, Germany’s Oldest Bookseller, 98

  17-01-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The store, which has endured through the creation of Germany, two world wars, Communism, and reunification, not to mention Amazon, was a family affair. “Weyhe was a lifeline of sorts to her customers. She traveled far and wide after East Germans were generally allowed to leave for tourism, bringing back her infectious enthusiasm for the outside world. ‘She brought a little bit of the world to Salzwedel,’ Ms. Lemm said.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Do Some Mock Romance So Very Hard When It Sells Better Than Hotcakes Ever Will?

  17-01-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the UK, for instance, publishing company Mills & Boon (the company that just landed Fergie as an author) publishes 700 books a year and sells one book every 10 seconds or so (and that’s only 16 percent of the romances sold per year in the UK). Author “Annie O’Neil, the writer of 25 Mills & Boon books, said people will say to her face that the books are easy to write, that she follows a formula. ‘I say to them, ‘Have you ever fallen in love? It must be ex
  
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• The Gatsby Glut

  17-01-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hurrah for copyright expiration: There are many new editions, with introductions and critical essays by voices that haven’t been heard enough in the American canon. Then there are the graphic novels, editions with lavish new art, a novel about Nick Carraway’s life before Jay Gatsby, The Gay Gatsby (Just how is that different from the original, you may wonder? It’s overt), and, well, vampire Gatsby. We eagerly await the musicals. – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood, Like Many Americans, Has Been Looking For Villains In All The Wrong Places

  17-01-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And casting villains, that is to say law enforcement and others deeply committed to white supremacy, as heroes. But the new documentary MLK/FBI isn’t confused: it “weaves a deeply troubling portrait of King being hounded and harassed by the FBI, while the murders of his fellow activists went strangely unsolved.” – Washington Post
  
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• Artist Kim Tschang-Yuel, 91, Painter Of Water – And The Trauma Of War

  17-01-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Kim’s drops can seem to sit miraculously atop his raw canvases or be in the midst of gliding down them, leaving a trail of moisture. They glimmer with light and cast shadows, and while vividly present, they are always on the verge of evanescing.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Black Dance Company In Los Angeles Gets Serious Funding

  17-01-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black arts groups are “historically passed over for foundation funding of this magnitude,” but the Lula Washington Dance Theatre won over its grantors. The history of Black arts groups needing funding to get more funding is long and depressing – but things may be changing. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Trey Devey Shares his passion for Arts Education

  17-01-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If we are empowered with creativity, with collaboration, with all of the skills that come from practicing the arts… that will lead to the breakthrough ideas.” Trey Devey, President of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, speaks to the power of arts education. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• The Inaugural Poet, 22 Years Old, Is Probably The Youngest In US History

  17-01-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amanda Gorman will read a poem called “The Hill We Climb” at the inaugural ceremony on Wednesday (assuming it goes according to plan). “Unlike most 22-year-olds, Gorman has experience in inaugural poetry, having written one for the inauguration of Harvard’s president Larry Bacow.” – LitHub
  
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• What A New Video Game Teaches Us About The Ancient Greeks And Masculinity

  17-01-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For one thing, “we need to reorient our understanding of gender and beauty to talk about hotness in antiquity.” – Wired
  
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• The Biggest Mystery Of Bridgerton Is About That News Pamphlet

  17-01-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  What’s Lady Whistledown’s business model? Seriously: To produce and print enough scandal sheets to feed the appetite of the ton, surely Lady Whistledown owns a printing press or something. And how does she pay her workers? Also, let’s talk about that typeface. – Slate
  
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• The Musical Fantasy World Created By Teens That Has Spawned Three Concept Albums For Broadway Shows

  17-01-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, it’s partly because of TikTok and the world of duets, collaborations, and free-flowing (but in this case, very directed) creativity. But it’s so much more: “Averno [is] the setting of a sprawling, cross-platform universe over TikTok (125,000 followers), Instagram (47,000 followers), Spotify (1.4 million streams), YouTube, Twitter and Tumblr. It encompasses podcasts, livestreams, novels and short stories, TV and film scripts, an extensive alte
  
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• A workshop on marketing your workshops... / Francesca Baker / London

  17-01-2021 14:39
  Are you an artist, creative, writer, poet etc running workshops and want to know how to promote and market them? Sign up for one of three upcoming workshops where I reveal all...
  - How to raise your...
  
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• Project Coordinator / Hollybush Gardens / London

  17-01-2021 13:41
  Working as part of a small and dedicated team the principal aims of the post are to project manage/coordinate aspects of gallery work as required for Hollybush Gardens, including but not exclusive...
  
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• Material Adventures in Knitting / Rosina Godwin / London / Online

  17-01-2021 10:07
  Explore the creative potential of knitting for artwork and sculpture, using simple techniques and unconventional materials. 
   
  Workshop content: -Knitting with unconventional...
  
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• Knitted Sculpture / Rosina Godwin / London / Online

  17-01-2021 09:47
  Knitted Sculpture is an experimental workshop focusing on making three dimensional pieces using simple techniques. Workshop content: -
  Explore the sculptural possibilities of knitting using...
  
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