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• Why I Turned Down A Queen’s Honor For Literature

  14-06-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire? Is this the title I’m asked to carry? I cannot think of anything I want less than to be a member of that empire. – The Guardian
  
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• The Modest New York Apartment That’s Home To An Amazing Art Collection

  14-06-2021 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  It belongs to Alvin Hall, 68, a broadcaster, financial educator and author, who, through good timing, taste and a bit of luck, began collecting in the 1980s and has been able to buy masterpieces by artists whose work is now worth much more. – The New York Times
  
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• A Major New Museum Rises In Orange County

  14-06-2021 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The $93 million building by Morphosis Architects, the 80-personstudio founded by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, was designed to be many things: the new home for a contemporary art museum — more than a decade in the works — that will nearly double exhibition space and raise the institution’s profile, for one. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Art Historian May Have Found Two Unknown Gentileschi Paintings In Beirut

  14-06-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  About his research at the palace, Gregory Buchakjian told Hyperallergic, “It’s a big house. There are no labels. It’s not a museum … Some paintings had labels, but they were not necessarily correct.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Naomi Wolf Was Once Highly Influential. How Did She Get So Crazy?

  14-06-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  With each subsequent decade, Wolf has injected a little more madness into the cesspool of weird that we sometimes call “the discourse.” – The New Republic
  
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• “In The Heights” Was Hyped As Summer’s First Hit. Opening Box Office Says Nope

  14-06-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Warner Bros. musical generated a wane $11.4 million from 3,456 U.S. theaters in its first four days of release, below earlier expectations suggesting the feel-good film would reach $20 million. – Variety
  
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• Antony Gormley hopes Crosby statues last 1,000 years after reset

  14-06-2021 19:04
  
  Artist personally oversaw rescue operation for his ‘industrial fossils’ after several toppled into the mudAntony Gormley says he hopes his “iron men” on a Merseyside beach will still exist in at least 1,000 years as “industrial fossils”, after helping to excavate 10 that had been subsumed by North Sea mud.One hundred cast-iron statues modelled on Gormley were installed in 2005 at Crosby beach, spread across 3km (2 miles) of the foreshore and stretching almost
  
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• 1974: The Year Los Angeles Became A Cultural Powerhouse

  14-06-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at the Atlantic and political analyst for CNN, offers 1974 as a pivotal year in which Los Angeles took center stage as a cultural broker and “transformed movies, music, television, and politics.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Grappling With The Ethics Of Regulating Artificial Intelligence

  14-06-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Scientists have to deal with this uneasy balance between being free to do what they like and needing to face the consequences of their unplanned actions, but if science is to thrive that’s the way it has to be.” – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Sorry — The Brain Is Not A Muscle That Grows Stronger With Use

  14-06-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In recent years, I.Q. scores have stopped rising or have even begun to drop in countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and Britain. Some researchers suggest that we have pushed our mental equipment as far as it can go. It may be that “our brains are already working at near-optimal capacity.” – The New York Times
  
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• In North Carolina, A New Statue Will Honor Formerly Hidden History

  14-06-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A few days ago, David Zucchino’s book on the 1898 Wilmington Massacre won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, a new statue is about to go up on the North Carolina-Wilmington campus, acknowledging and permanently memorializing the coup and massacre. The challenge for artist Dare Coulter: “‘How do you depict Black joy, resilience,”‘but also convey the horror of the massacre.” – Wilmington StarNews
  
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• Theatre In A Slowly Reopening Canada Worries It’s Being Left Behind

  14-06-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  One Vancouver AD says that his colleagues are extremely burned out – and also worried about what’s coming. On the other hand, post-pandemic: “I don’t know that it’s the same art form anymore. And that’s interesting to me.” – CBC
  
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• Sony Writes Off Artists’ Debts

  14-06-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This means that groups and single artists who were still trying to pay back debt – and thus were not eligible for royalties – can now start earning money from streaming. – BBC
  
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• Envisioning A Kinder, More Beautiful Apocalypse

  14-06-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Filmmaker Jim Mickle: “I started asking questions like, ‘What if you could make an apocalyptic story where you actually want to go to that world?’ What does that look like? And you start asking, ‘What happens if humans just disappear for 10 years and nature is suddenly allowed to thrive?’ It would probably be one of the most beautiful places you could go to.” – Slate
  
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• Cultivating Creative Community In The Midst Of The Pandemic

  14-06-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not easy to find creative community at the best of times. Sometimes you just need an outside force – say, an “art incubator.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Trying To Replicate An Unexpected, Grand Success

  14-06-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  That’s what season 2 – and sophomore novels – are all about. Overwhelming numbers for a TV series or book can scare artists off. So what’s going to happen in series 2 of Lupin? – The New York Times
  
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• Boston Merges Ballet And Virtual Reality

  14-06-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s impressively intimate: “As you stand in the middle of an undulating semi-circle of bodies, each moving with snakelike ports de bras, you discover how eye contact can change the tenor of a performance. By its very design, VR dance is meant to be this visceral. The audience is but a hair away from the action, and occasional trips and slides, and the intricacies of choreography and gesture. Pickett describes the experience as akin to ‘having the movement land on your skin&rs
  
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• Jeanne-Claude And Christo Drew Up Plans In 1962 To Wrap The Arc De Triomphe

  14-06-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now, their plans are becoming reality. According to Christo’s nephew, “A photo montage of how it would look was done but they never proposed actually doing it because they thought they would never get the necessary permission.” They’re both gone, but the permission has been given. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• When A Movie Understands A Generational Dilemma

  14-06-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the Heights might have opened to disappointing box office numbers this weekend, but those who did see it had the chance to learn about second-generation immigrants’ dreams – and, through an elderly character, reality. “The classic peril of assimilation in America is that a perceived greater belonging demands a partial loss of self,” but Abuela Claudia’s character offers more. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Healing Power Of Queer Coming Of Age Stories

  14-06-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Books can be intensely powerful for some people, especially when the books do the work of repairing past pain. “‘So many queer people ‘have been through immense pain growing up in our adolescence,’ Dr. Matos told me. Attempts by the broader culture to ‘limit who we loved, what we desire, what we do with our bodies’ abound. In these stories, then, we get the chance to imagine what it might have been like to grow up in the world depicted on the page or screen i
  
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• The Next Streaming Wars Are Coming

  14-06-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Coming to those who are interested in Spanish-language media, to be a little more precise. Disney, Netflix, and Warner Media, and Univision all have a piece of the pie – and are tugging, hard. “It’s easy to see why streamers and studios see a gold mine. Latinos consistently accounted for a disproportionate amount of moviegoing before the pandemic, yet they are severely underrepresented onscreen and behind the camera, including at Netflix” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Food Travel Shows Desperately Need New Gatekeepers

  14-06-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take Netflix’s new High on the Hog as an example: “The narrative about Black food is often one of resilience—a history of dishes and cooking passed down from one generation to the next as Black people survived subpar and inhumane conditions. While part of that is true, High on the Hog is not afraid to complicate that narrative by reconsidering Black cooking through a lens of abundance, and even luxury: It provides context around the lives that were lived before&
  
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• Everybody Plagiarizes

  14-06-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  And that’s fine. “Published authors, more often than not famous ones, have had few scruples when it comes to committing literary larceny. ‘Authors are like privateers,’ claimed Samuel Johnson, ‘always fair game for one another.'” – The Smart Set
  
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• How To Be Everywhere Online

  14-06-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  First, meme well (and second, make She Memes Well the title of your memoir). In her new book, comedian and meme power user Quinta Brunson “breaks down her journey from struggling stand-up comedian to being recognized by strangers all over the world. The book includes hilarious anecdotes about growing up in West Philadelphia, being a Black woman, dating and life after internet fame. She also gives serious thought to the evolution of memes, and how they have emerged as a powerful tool to he
  
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• ‘Cultural appropriation is a two-way thing’: Yinka Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists

  14-06-2021 13:04
  
  Picasso was so enthralled by African art, he used it to start a revolution. But did it give rise to a fantasy of Africa that still endures? British-Nigerian artist Shonibare tells us why he’s revisiting that seismic moment In 1998, in a hilarious work called Diary of a Victorian Dandy, Yinka Shonibare inserted himself, impeccably attired, into the sitting rooms, drawing rooms, billiards rooms and bedrooms of high society Victorian Britain, invariably causing a sensation in each of the perf
  
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• Ned Beatty, Prolific Actor Of Stage And Screen, 83

  14-06-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beatty’s roles “captured the full spectrum of humanity — from sincerity to villainy, buffoonery to tragedy — and made him one of the most versatile performers of his generation.” Beatty: “My great joy is throwing curveballs. Being a star cuts down your effectiveness as an actor, because you become an identifiable part of a product and somewhat predictable. … But I like to surprise the audience, to do the unexpected.” – Washington Post
  
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• Masks, monsters and masterpieces: Yinka Shonibare squares up to Picasso

  14-06-2021 07:00
  
  Picasso was so enthralled by African art, he used it to start a revolution. But did it give rise to a fantasy of Africa that still endures? British-Nigerian artist Shonibare tells us why he’s revisiting that seismic moment In 1998, in a hilarious work called Diary of a Victorian Dandy, Yinka Shonibare inserted himself, impeccably attired, into the sitting rooms, drawing rooms, billiards rooms and bedrooms of high society Victorian Britain, invariably causing a sensation in each of the perf
  
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