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• Why There Are So Few Skyscrapers In Europe

  21-06-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of the 218 skyscrapers constructed on the continent to date, 66% of them are located in just five cities – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow and Istanbul. – B1M
  
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• Champs Elysee To Be Converted To Long Park As Paris Turns Away From Cars

  21-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo hopes to bring the road back to its people by removing its outer lanes, widening pedestrian areas, planting more trees and greenery, and creating dedicated bicycle lanes. – B1M
  
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• How Disney Mishandled The Star Wars Franchise

  21-06-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Lucas’s original vision famously inspired an era of big-budget blockbuster movies whose creators, just as famously, eventually ran out of new ideas and came to rely on sequels and spin-offs. – The Atlantic
  
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• Behind The Controversy Over Canada’s First Prime Minister

  21-06-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why does a motivated minority want to erase the honors paid to his memory? John A. Macdonald stands accused by his detractors less of things he did than of things he failed to do. – The Atlantic
  
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• Bombed Beloved Bookstore In Gaza Gets Flooded With Donations To Rebuild

  21-06-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The shop, founded 21 years ago, was a much-loved part of the local community and contained tens of thousands of books in various languages covering everything from philosophy and art history to fiction and children’s books. – The Guardian
  
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• Misogynist Artwork In China Draws Furor (In A Way It Didn’t Eight Years Ago)

  21-06-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The artist proceeded to rank the women “from the prettiest to the ugliest,” stringing together around 5,000 grainy clips into a nearly eight-hour-long video with numbers at the bottom of each image to indicate the woman’s ranking. – The New York Times
  
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• Gabriel Van Aalst talks about the role of an Artistic Catalyst

  21-06-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The President & CEO of the New Jersey Symphony talks about the orchestra’s new “Artistic Catalyst” role and the importance of serving community. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• Why UK Music Festivals Are Dying

  21-06-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The problem for festivals is that preparation and planning – let alone building a site – stretches over months and often costs millions, and the current question marks hanging over festivals are making such work impossible. – The Guardian
  
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• Screens And Speakers And What we Learned During COVID

  21-06-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Screen nausea and social media compulsions are no joke, but the current self-loathing about the long year of screen time is misplaced. It was not lost time. – Wired
  
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• Rich Guy Goes To Hollywood, Improbably Makes It Big As Movie Mogul

  21-06-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  At a time of entertainment industry upheaval, David Ellison has transformed Skydance into the rarest of Hollywood businesses — a thriving, built-from-scratch, all-audiences, independent studio. – The New York Times
  
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• Italy recovers nearly 800 illegally gathered archaeological finds

  21-06-2021 19:04
  
  Pieces worth €11m returned from a Belgian collector after an investigation that began in 2017Italy has recovered hundreds of illegally gathered archeological finds from a Belgian collector dating as far back as the sixth century BC and worth €11m (£9.4m), police have said.The nearly 800 pieces “of exceptional rarity and inestimable value”, including stelae, amphorae and other items, came from clandestine excavations in Puglia in Italy’s south-eastern tip, accord
  
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• Thousands Of UK Music Fans Stuck With Tickets To Postponed Gigs As Country Locks Down Again

  21-06-2021 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The latest four-week delay to fully unlocking Covid restrictions has pushed an additional 5,000 gigs into doubt. – BBC
  
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• An Ode To Procrastination

  21-06-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  When I’m procrastinating, stalling, temporizing, I am defined at the metabolic level by the thing that I am not doing. – The Atlantic
  
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• Andrew Lloyd Weber Retreats — His West End Theatres Will Observe COVID Rules

  21-06-2021 18:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “If it were just me, I would happily risk arrest and fines to make a stand and lead the live music and theatre industry back to the full capacities we so desperately need.” – BBC
  
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• What Culture Do Nations Own and What Belongs To The World?

  21-06-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The idea that “each people makes its contribution to the culture of the world,” codified in the Hague Convention of 1954, has proved particularly compelling for international legal regimes. – The American Scholar
  
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• Claiming Your Personal Version Of English

  21-06-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Should the quality of my English matter? Last month a big English literature prize went to a novel that was written in dialect, something rural and very primitive. And what about all that authentic literature “from the streets”?N+1
  
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• Do We Really Need Public Statues?

  21-06-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  We want to mark important events and people. But which ones? And who should decide? And are we creating an unreconcileable hierarchy of what’s important (and what’s not). – Aisle Say
  
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• Diverse Inclusive Companies Have This In Common

  21-06-2021 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  We found that one particular culture style differentiated the diverse and inclusive organizations from those that were not: a learning-oriented culture. – Harvard Business Review
  
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• According To Science: Characteristics That Make Us Attractive

  21-06-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Attraction is an instinct. While it’s versatile to some extend, key aspects of perceived attractiveness seem to be inherent to our species. – Medium
  
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• Artists call for ‘white-run’ UK Chinese gallery to be defunded in racism row

  21-06-2021 15:53
  
  Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester has ‘entrenched acceptance of racist attitudes’, claim artistsArtists recruited to transform one of the UK’s leading Chinese arts centres have called for support to be withdrawn from the organisation, claiming it has an “entrenched acceptance of racist attitudes”.Seven artists of Chinese heritage have called for the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester to be defunded because of a “current a
  
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• Juilliard Students Revolt against Tuition Increase

  21-06-2021 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the institution’s leaders announced this spring that undergraduate tuition for the 2021-22 academic year would rise to $51,230 from $49,260, many students worried about having to pay more and started calling for a tuition freeze. – InsideHigherEd
  
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• Is Culture Really Mappable?

  21-06-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does culture really behave like space? If not, how are cultural relationships distorted when we convert them into spatial ones? – Cultural Analytics
  
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• A New Dance Company To Mine The Experience Of Older Dancers

  21-06-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It can take a long time to work out what your voice is, particularly in ballet. After 100 Nutcrackers, 100 Cinderellas, to get to a point where you can make decisions yourself is incredibly empowering.” –Sydney Morning Herald
  
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• Hong Kong’s Bookshops Face Tough Choices As Censorship Rules Shift

  21-06-2021 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  A lack of clarity about why certain books are suddenly off limits has complicated decisions about which titles to stock. – The New York Times
  
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• Phyllida Barlow to unveil five-metre-tall sculpture at Highgate cemetery

  21-06-2021 07:00
  
  The artist hopes the work, called Act, will challenge visitors to reappraise the famous site and its monumentsThis summer visitors to Highgate Cemetery in north London will be greeted by something that will stand out – high, wide and handsome – amid the familiar gravestones, famous follies and grand Victorian mausoleums.Phyllida Barlow – the artist who found fame in her 70s after a teaching career in which she tutored the likes of Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean and Martin Creed &n
  
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