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• What Math Says About Who Will Win The Oscars Tonight

  25-04-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A dubious proposition, but a possible one: “If numbers or data or statistics can provide any ounce of entertainment, there’s no better time than the present.” (If you’re a betting person, bet on Nomadland to take it all.) – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• No, No One’s Going To Watch The Oscars

  25-04-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broadcast TV ratings have been declining for years, and this ceremony will be no different – and won’t mean anything about the actual movies involved. “I have long thought that the thing the Oscars needs most is one of those old Christmas special sets, with the cool living room sofa, the baby grand and that front door through which all the guests enter. Especially this year, when, until recently, so many of us have been unable to cross any threshold but our own. What better wa
  
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• The International Booker Shortlist Is Out

  25-04-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ready to read? The shortlist for the international prize, which is for a book translated into English in Britain and Ireland, features a couple of authors who write in French. The list includes science fiction, memoir, and more. Chair of the judges for the shortlist, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, said, “This is a fantastically vigorous and vital aspect of the way fiction is being written at the moment — people are really pushing the boundaries.” – The New York Times
  
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• How To Enjoy Yet Another Online-Ish Awards Show

  25-04-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Embrace the absurdity: “Look, things are going to get weird. There was a small fire within the first 15 minutes of the Emmys. (It started as a bit, but then a slightly panicked Jennifer Aniston could not put out the flames with an extinguisher.) In the closing moments at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Black Eyed Peas wore pants with glowing crotches as they belted out ‘I Gotta Feeling,’ with lyrics encouraging everyone to ‘party every day.’ (Not something any
  
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• When Lesbian Writers Made Paris The Center Of Modernist Thought

  25-04-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  A biographer says of Natalie Barney and her wealthy, artistic circle: “They were destined, if you like, to break away. I think of modernism as this break from old ways of writing, old ways of seeing, and old ways of being. Of course, to be lesbian or to be gay, you have to break away because look at the patriarchal models, look at the Christian models. You can’t look at the Bible! I mean … leave it, move on. And they did move on in a really trailblazing way.” – Sl
  
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• Joy of finally seeing art up close in post-lockdown London gallery hop

  25-04-2021 14:40 via theguardian.com
  
  West End galleries that are allowed to open welcome eager visitors starved of art during CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLucy Sparrow thinks she spoke 15 words a day in the depths of lockdown. As she dispenses artworks to an eager public from the mad felt chemist’s shop she has created, she says she is making up for it big time.“It is all the words I should have said in the last year concentrated down to three weeks,” she said. “I&rs
  
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• Enough with the imperial nostalgia and identity politics. Let museums live | Tristram Hunt

  25-04-2021 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As cultural spaces are set to open again, critics from left and right need to get out of the wayThe past fortnight of frenzied shopping has led Bernard Donoghue, boss of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, to ask: “Why is H&M open, but not the V&A?” Or, indeed, massage parlours and gyms, but not the People’s History Museum or Castle Howard. You can watch snooker at the Sheffield Crucible, but still not enjoy the Ruskin Collection at Sheffield Museum. In Fran
  
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