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• How Abstract Ideas Shape Our Practical Perceptions

  25-06-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  They are imbued with grandeur precisely because of their superb indifference to mundane human concerns. Having knowledge is practically useful, but why would we also need the concept of knowledge? – Aeon
  
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• Taking A Turn At The Culture Of Trees

  25-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It feels as if there has been a dendrocentric turn in culture recently; a new sensitivity to the arboreal and, more broadly, the botanical. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Do People Feel Compelled To Correct Others’ Mispronunciations?

  25-06-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why do people pronounce words differently, why does pronunciation change, and why does so-called mispronunciation upset some people to the point of making it possible (and interesting) to compile a top ten list? – The Conversation
  
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• By The Bay, Bhangra Meets Bollywood And Struts It On YouTube

  25-06-2021 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today, artists like [Northern California girl Manpreet]Toor, 31, are changing the way that bhangra and other Indian dance genres are seen, creating dances meant to be consumed online in productions that resemble professional music videos. … [This] reflects a new wave of Indian diaspora dance, a wave that has been enabled by platforms like YouTube and TikTok, and intensified during the pandemic with live performance on pause.” – The New York Times
  
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• The French Impressionists rediscovered: ‘They didn’t know their works would be masterpieces’

  25-06-2021 22:00
  
  With paintings from Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and others, National Gallery of Victoria’s new exhibition encourages audiences to look behind the blockbuster“Damned Manet! Everything he does he always hits off straight away, while I take endless pains and never get it right.”These are the words of Edgar Degas, inscribed on the wall beside a lively crayon lithograph sketched by the object of his frustration, fellow artist Édouard Manet. The picture is called The Races; in it,
  
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• John Cage, Harry Hay And LA’s Pioneering Place In Gay Rights

  25-06-2021 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gay Angelenos like to remind their counterparts to the north and east that L.A. played a crucial, perhaps decisive, role in gay-rights history. Five men sat together on the hillside in the late afternoon, imagining a world in which they did not have to hide. – The New Yorker
  
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• What You Get When You Cross Opera With Prestige TV

  25-06-2021 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Desert In is an operatic experiment. Co-produced by Long Beach Opera and by Boston Lyric Opera, which commissioned the work, the eight-episode streaming miniseries is the brainchild of LBO Artistic Director … James Darrah, composer Ellen Reid and [playwright christopher oscar] peña. … Episodes,” each with a different composer and scriptwriters, “are just 15 to 20 minutes long, but each packs a hefty dramatic and artistic punch — operatic excess redu
  
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• The Market Economy Is An Illusion — Why Neo-Liberalism Is Heavily Subsidized

  25-06-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In reality neoliberalism has depended on huge levels of government support for its entire existence. The global neoliberal economic order could easily have collapsed into a 1930s-level Great Depression multiple times over in the absence of massive government interventions. – Boston Review
  
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• Can Writers Make Money From NFTs, Too? Some Are Trying

  25-06-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “It’s hard to make sense of what the NFT creative landscape might mean for otherwise underpaid writers. At once, it’s a place for writers to experiment with form, publish and earn money directly and instantly without any traditional publishing gatekeepers. It’s also a brand-new subculture with no reliable routes to financial success or readership, cut off from a larger writing market and culture that doesn’t understand it, raising knotty questions about what elemen
  
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• The Impossibility Of Meaningful Work In Venice

  25-06-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They perfectly embody the circumstance of generations of Italians stuck in precariato (‘precarious work’), unable to work year round, to start a family, to buy or even just to rent a flat on their own.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• It Seems Philosopher John Locke Was Kind Of A Jerk

  25-06-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “John Locke is regarded today as one of England’s greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the ‘father of liberalism’. But a previously unknown memoir attributed to one of his close friends paints a different picture – of a vain, lazy and pompous man who ‘amused himself with trifling works of wit’, and a plagiarist who ‘took from others whatever he was able to take’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Jersey City Residents Question Pompidou Plans To Build Jersey Outpost

  25-06-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everyone agrees that the Pompidou is an extraordinary asset for Jersey City. But we just raised a levy on homeowners because we didn’t have the money for school funding. How can we then bring more financial debt to the table for a museum?” – Hyperbeast
  
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• Pompidou Centre Plucks Head Of Picasso Museum As Its Next Leader

  25-06-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Laurent Le Bon, 52, faces a challenging term. The Paris museum is scheduled to close from 2023 to 2027 for renovations to deal with its antiquated heating and cooling system, escalators that frequently break down and asbestos in the structure that needs to be removed. – The New York Times
  
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• Meet Recycler Joe Rush, The Outrageous Outsider Artist

  25-06-2021 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “My life has been about reclaiming that nomadic spirit. All the festivals we’ve taken part in over the years are really just an echo of what happened when nomadic tribes came into the valleys in summer and partied.” – The Guardian
  
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• Bieber the icon, and photographers clicking to win – the week in art

  25-06-2021 17:08
  
  Paul Pfeiffer’s installation makes religious imagery from pop star Justin Bieber, while conceptual images by shortlisted Deutsche Börse prize contenders go on show – all in your weekly dispatchPaul PfeifferAn installation that merges Catholic religious imagery with pop to portray Justin Bieber as a suffering Christ.
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• Why Composer John Tavener Is Getting A Premiere Eight Years After He Died

  25-06-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oboist Nicholas Daniel: “This week, singer Andrew Watts and I will make our fourth attempt to give the world premiere of Sir John Tavener’s La Noche Oscura. The most surprising part of this is not that three scheduled performances have been cancelled over the last 12 difficult months, but that the work is getting its first performance [only now].” – The Guardian
  
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• Construction Of Mexico’s Maya Train Is Turning Up All Sorts Of Antiquities. Are They In Danger?

  25-06-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 932-mile railroad project, connecting cities, historical sites, and beach resorts in the Yucatan Peninsula, has turned up more than 13,000 Mayan artifacts so far, and it’s still early in the building process. The central government says it has hired 80 archaeologists and is spending millions to identify and preserve whatever historical material is discovered, but “the Mayan community fears that history will repeat itself and their cultural heritage will once again be laid bare t
  
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• Saving Australia’s Literary Heritage Before It Goes Out Of Print And Gets Pulped

  25-06-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is the unfortunate fate of most books, even literary prize-winners. … [That’s] something that Untapped: The Australian Literary Heritage Project is trying to rectify. … Untapped’s mission is to digitise 200 of Australia’s most important [out-of-print] books, preserving them for future generations and making them available through a national network of libraries.” – The Guardian
  
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• NPR Cancels ‘Ask Me Another’

  25-06-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “More than 300 stations air the show, hosted by comedian and writer Ophira Eisenberg and featuring Jonathan Coulton as in-house musician. … However, ‘despite the strong work of the team, AMA never quite found its full audience,’ [NPR SVP Anya] Grundmann wrote, ‘and because of our limited resources, we’re sunsetting the show.’ The last episode will feed the weekend of Sept. 24.” – Current
  
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• Yes, There Will Be A Cultural Olympics In Tokyo This Summer — Sort Of

  25-06-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has unveiled plans for the inaugural Olympic Agora, an exhibition and series of art installations that celebrate the ideals and spirit of the games. … Onsite installations will be complemented by a digital program, including virtual exhibitions and artist talks on the Olympic Agora website and the Olympic Museum’s social media channels.” – Artnet
  
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• West End’s Top Producers Sue UK Government To Get Results Of COVID Pilot Events

  25-06-2021 14:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Andrew Lloyd Webber and other impresarios said on Thursday they had started legal action to press Britain’s government to publish research into the safety of holding indoor events during the pandemic. A joint statement from [the plaintiffs], also including Cameron Mackintosh and Sonia Friedman, said the industry had repeatedly urged the government to spell out its reasons for keeping restrictions on audiences in place.” – Reuters
  
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• Egyptian Farmer Discovers 2,600-Year-Old Monument To Pharaoh

  25-06-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The carved sandstone stele, measuring roughly 8½ feet long by 3½ wide, holds 15 lines of hieroglyphs topped by a winged sun disc and a cartouche representing the name of the pharaoh Apries, who reigned from 589 to 570 B.C. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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