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• Maybe We Shouldn’t Dismiss Magic So Quickly?

  27-05-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Despite the often blood-soaked history of the use of the term ‘magic’, we must remember that Western history is filled with thinkers who have defended its honour as good natural science – a tried-and-true technology for harnessing interactions between minds and bodies, human and otherwise. And their empirical claims were never tested more than during the centuries of plague.” – Psyche
  
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• What Amazon’s Purchase Of MGM Means For The Streaming Wars

  27-05-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s an inevitable progression, and not surprising Amazon would do it first. Unlike Netflix, it has failed to reliably produce original hits. And unlike, say, NBCUniversal, its corporate model isn’t solely entertainment. It’s also a cloud computing company, massive retailer, and grocery store chain, to name a few. It had a net income of more than $21 billion last year alone. It’s easier for Amazon to dig in the couch cushions to buy MGM and its 4,000 movies and 17,000 TV
  
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• Dozens Of Artists Commemorate Tulsa Race Riot In A City That Used Not to Let It Be Mentioned

  27-05-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “For generations, the worst event in Tulsa history wasn’t spoken about in public,” said Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum in a statement. “Today, artists are helping to educate and inform people all around the world about this tragedy—and by doing so honor the memory of our neighbors who were lost.”– Artnet
  
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• After 25 Years Leading Cincinnati Ballet, Victoria Morgan To Step Down

  27-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  As one of the very few women to lead a major ballet company, Morgan championed women choreographers long before the rest of the dance world turned its attention to the lack of equity for women in the field. It has not been unusual for more than half of a season’s offerings to be choreographed by women.– Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• Children’s authors on Eric Carle: ‘He created readers as voracious as that caterpillar’

  27-05-2021 15:43
  
  Authors from Julia Donaldson to Cressida Cowell pay tribute to the beloved author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, who has died aged 91
  The late Eric Carle has been hailed by fellow children’s writers for creating generations of readers as voracious as his best-loved creation, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.Carle, who died on Sunday at the age of 91, left behind titles including his worldwide bestselling board book – about a caterpillar who eats his way through a week’s worth of fo
  
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• ‘A kick in the balls to the male art scene’: Breaking the Mould review

  27-05-2021 15:39
  
  Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  The squidgy folds and gelatinous wobbles of work by Rachel Whiteread, Holly Hendry and others are hard to keep your hands off – and tell us much about overcoming sexist attitudes in artPerhaps it is the pandemic-induced lack of physical contact or the fact that I am alone, unsupervised in an art gallery, but I want to touch everything in Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women Since 1945. The squidgy folds of Holly Hendry’s Gut Feelings, the gelatinous wobble
  
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• ‘Workers became poker chips’: the hardship of Thatcher’s Britain – in pictures

  27-05-2021 08:00
  
  Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham’s images were made in the barren waiting rooms and corridors of the UK’s social security and unemployment officesContinue reading...
  
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• Rising festival ‘hits pause’ the day after opening as Melbourne enters lockdown

  27-05-2021 07:34
  
  Organisers of the hotly anticipated arts festival, which has already been cancelled once, say they are not making any ‘knee-jerk decisions’Melbourne’s newest major arts festival, Rising, has been thrown into turmoil the day after opening with the Victorian government announcing a seven-day statewide lockdown from Thursday night.The hotly anticipated winter arts festival opened on Wednesday after an extended wait, only to “hit pause” on Thursday as the city entered a
  
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• Tacita Dean on the pandemic: ‘We had all this free time – and I was useless!’

  27-05-2021 07:00
  
  During lockdown, the artist made this dirty postcard and little else. Now back on track, she talks about her upcoming shows – and feeling baffled by this new ‘we’re all in it together’ Britain
  “One is such a disappointment to oneself, workwise,” says Tacita Dean, sadly. This seems faintly mad – Dean is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, her work dealing with the drift of time; the play of chance; the decaying of things. Three years ago, she
  
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• Archibald prize 2021: Grace Tame, Ben Quilty, Kate Ceberano and more – in pictures

  27-05-2021 03:30
  
  The 52 finalists of this year’s Archibald prize were revealed at the Art Gallery of NSW on Thursday morning – the first batch in the prize’s 100-year history to achieve gender parity among the artists. A painting of Kate Ceberano by Kathrin Longhurst took home the coveted packing room prize. On 4 June, the winning painting will be announced, which comes with a $100,000 prize, and will be awarded to the best portrait of a person ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or p
  
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• Archibald prize 2021: Grace Tame, Ben Quilty, Eryn Jean Norvill and more – in pictures

  27-05-2021 03:30
  
  The 52 finalists of this year’s Archibald prize were revealed at the Art Gallery of NSW on Thursday morning – the first batch in the prize’s 100-year history to achieve gender parity among the artists. A painting of Kate Ceberano by Kathrin Longhurst took home the coveted packing room prize. On 4 June, the winning painting will be announced, which comes with a $100,000 prize, and will be awarded to the best portrait of a person ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or p
  
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• Why Does Social Media Make Us Feel Bad? There’s Science For That!

  27-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Concerns around social media have become mainstream, but researchers have yet to elucidate the specific cognitive mechanisms that explain the toll it takes on our psychological wellbeing. New advances in computational neuroscience, however, are poised to shed light on this matter. – Aeon
  
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