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• An Indigenous Perspective On Frida Kahlo

  11-07-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically: “Kahlo, born to an affluent German father and mestiza mother (Spanish and Purépecha), adopted the popular fetishization and sanitization of the Tehuana favored by the cosmopolitan bourgeois, intellectual, and artistic circles of Mexico City.” – HyperallergicHyperallergic
  
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• Men Still Don’t Read Women

  11-07-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This remains true, with big financial and other consequences: “Why does this matter? For a start, it narrows men’s experiences of the world.” – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Is This 51,000-Year-Old Giant Deer Bone Carving Art?

  11-07-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Depends on whom you ask. “Dr. Terberger prefers to call it a complex decoration, perhaps a precursor to art.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Chekhov, Munro, And Endings That Change It All

  11-07-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you want to be surprised, to have everything recast for you in light of new information, read Alice Munro’s stories to their ends. – LitHubLitHub
  
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• Thomas Cleary, Who Translated Classic Works Of Eastern Philosophy, 72

  11-07-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cleary “translated scores of Buddhist, Taoist, ancient Chinese and other texts into English, greatly broadening access to these works in the West.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Will Indie Films Survive The Pandemic?

  11-07-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Independent film producers don’t have studios’ deep pockets – and “a loss of insurance coverage and a surge in production costs have created a heavy burden.” – Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
  
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• Charles Lutyens obituary

  11-07-2021 19:06
  
  My husband, Charles Lutyens, who has died aged 87, was responsible for one of the largest mosaic murals in the British Isles by a single artist, a work entitled the Angels of the Heavenly Host that was created in the 1960s for the interior of the newly consecrated church of St Paul’s in Bow, London.At 800 sq feet it took him five years to complete, from 1963 to 1968, and was made from tesserae of 700 different colours he ordered from the Venetian island of Murano and which arrived at the c
  
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• How To Have A Massive Hit In England

  11-07-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Get your men’s sports teams to play well, and the rest follows. – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Are We In The Metaverse Now?

  11-07-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Have you played Animal Crossing during the pandemic? Zoomed into work? You’re in it. (We’re all in it.) – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• The NYer Short Story Cat Person Goes Viral Again

  11-07-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This time the discourse is about whether writers can, or should, use real-life details in their fiction. – The Guardian (UK) The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Despite The Headlines, There Is No Debate Over Actual Critical Race Theory

  11-07-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CRT critics “aren’t arguing against anti-racist thinkers. They aren’t arguing against critical race theorists. These critics are arguing against themselves.” – The AtlanticThe Atlantic
  
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• Celebrating LA’s Spoken Word And Poetry Culture

  11-07-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Summertime tells the stories of “a diverse community of young artists who turned to poetry as a way of coping with hardship.” – Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
  
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• Making Dance More Visible At The Venice Biennale – And Always

  11-07-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor is out to change how we all see, and feel, dance, especially after living through the pandemic. – The Observer (UK)The Guardian
  
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• One Of The Last Members Of Auschwitz’s Women’s Orchestra Has Died

  11-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Esther Bejarano played the accordion in the orchestra and then “dedicated her life to music and to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism.” – France24France 24
  
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• Taking Photographic Inspiration From Ovid

  11-07-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Metamorphoses is the classic work on nature and change, in both of which we’ve all been immersed for months. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Basque museum snaps up ‘forgotten’ retelling of Picasso’s Guernica

  11-07-2021 15:06
  
  Agustín Ibarrola’s 1977 version was painted as part of campaign to get the original returned from New YorkThe grief-wracked mother is still there, cradling her dead child 84 years on, as is the fallen soldier with his stigmata and the horse with its silent screams.However, the Guernica now on its way to a museum in the Basque country is not Pablo Picasso’s monochrome howl of anti-fascist fury but a retelling of the work intended to help bring the original to the market town wh
  
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• Basque country hails ‘forgotten’ retelling of Picasso’s Guernica

  11-07-2021 15:06
  
  Agustín Ibarrola’s 1977 version was painted as part of campaign to get the original returned from New YorkThe grief-snapped mother is still there, cradling her dead child 84 years on, as is the fallen soldier with his stigmata and the horse with its silent screams.However, the Guernica now on its way to a museum in the Basque country is not Pablo Picasso’s monochrome howl of anti-fascist fury but a retelling of the work intended to help bring the original to the market town wh
  
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• Four Years After Deadly Rally, Lee Statue Is Gone

  11-07-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues four years after white supremacists marched, and murdered, to keep them up. – SlateSlate
  
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• We Will Soon Be Able To Fix Our Own Phones

  11-07-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Drop your phone? At long last, we’ll all be legally allowed to repair it. – The VergeThe Verge
  
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• Paula Rego review – stunning is an understatement

  11-07-2021 14:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Violence, eroticism and oppression converge as Rego’s deeply ambiguous work goes straight for the subconscious in this mesmerising seven-decade retrospectiveA girl in voluminous skirts wrestles a dog to the ground. It lies on its back, startled and gasping, helpless as the poor mutt submitting to heavy chains in the neighbouring painting, or the dog having its throat shaved with an open razor in the next.A fourth painting, very famous, shows another girl – though
  
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• A Famous Guitar Joins The Museum Of London

  11-07-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Clash’s smashed guitar isn’t trash – it’s treasure. – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian
  
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• Cannes Away From Cannes Is Safer, And No COVID Tests

  11-07-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But a critic sees a lot fewer movies that way. – Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
  
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• Man Arrested For Trying To Peddle Fake Basquiats And Harings

  11-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The FBI said, “Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the difference between real art and a forgery.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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