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• Australia’s silo murals make a road trip an art odyssey – in pictures

  19-07-2021 19:30
  
  Silo art has turned the Australian outback into a vast outdoor gallery. Dotted across the country, the gigantic murals give those exploring the land an insight into the people who live there Continue reading...
  
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• The Anthony Bourdain Voice-Fake: Documentaries Have Been Faking For Some Time Now

  19-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reenactment and a voice fake actually do different versions of the same thing: Both cement a reality in your mind — the image of something or the sound of something — that didn’t happen, at least not in the way it’s presented. – VarietyVariety
  
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• On Propaganda Milton Glaser ♥ Information, Not Persuasion

  19-07-2021 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The late Milton Glaser, most famous for creating the INY logo, had a strong dose of advice more than a decade ago for the propagandists among us — the marketers, advertisers, public-relations spinners and, yes, journalists — along with citizens-at-large facing an onslaught of political campaigns.
  Milton GlaserIt is “essential for us all to question all the beliefs we cherish,” the graphic designer said in a keynote speech to a daylong ‘ganda bash, “Where the
  
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• Here’s a Counter-Factual: Social Media Is Making Us… Nicer?

  19-07-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In person, we still know how to be classy friends. But class is tricky on social media. No one can be expected to read the room when the room is planet-sized. – WiredWired
  
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• The Emotional Return To Tanglewood

  19-07-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One young musician: “What you want to do is play with people—you don’t want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud! … A lot of people have had the experience of just feeling really relieved.” – NPRNPR
  
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• Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The Journey

  19-07-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As anyone who’s read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. – LitHubLitHub
  
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• Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19 At 67

  19-07-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, “made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world.” – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus

  19-07-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The cinema owners’ association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to watch at home on Disney Plus. – VarietyVariety
  
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• Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots

  19-07-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For instance, “areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation.” – Scientific AmericanScientific American
  
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• The Friendliest Artist In America

  19-07-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pope.L is finally having a moment, “but he does not take it for granted. ‘The institution is always about itself,’ he says of museums.” – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust

  19-07-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Judy Batalion didn’t mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish – which she speaks and reads. It changed everything. – Los Angeles Review of BooksLos Angeles Review of Books
  
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• It’s A Weird Performance Summer

  19-07-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?

  19-07-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, “Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern times an even more intimate contemporary relationship with the art?” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• India’s Beautiful Single-Screen Cinemas Are Dying Out

  19-07-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The multiplex and the pandemic are a powerful one-two punch to the heart of “the talkies,” as they’re called. – NPRNPR
  
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• What’s Holding Back The Vinyl Revival?

  19-07-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Record Store Day 2 was Saturday, but between production issues and the pandemic (and Brexit, for Britain), vinyl isn’t doing as well as it should be. – The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Mat George, Co-Host Of Popular Podcast ‘She Rates Dogs,’ Killed In A Hit-And-Run At Age 26

  19-07-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mat George’s “humorous takes often drew widespread attention on Twitter. Last week, he shared a photo of his mother and Snoop Dogg.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• It’s Not Easy For ‘Diverse’ Actors To Find Good Agents

  19-07-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They basically told me they would only sign me if I permanently flat-ironed my hair. … I was like, ‘I’m Black, I can’t get rid of my hair, can’t get rid of my curves, can’t get rid of my curls.'” – Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times
  
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• A Tasmanian Writer Wins Australia’s Most Prestigious Literary Prize

  19-07-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For her seventh novel, 74-year-old Amanda Lohrey won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth.– The Guardian (UK)The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Foundations Expand Focus On Long Neglected Disabled Artists

  19-07-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but “the feedback from the first class … was frank: Do even better in the selection process.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Why are Tory councillors in Essex censoring artwork? | Tim Burrows

  19-07-2021 09:00
  
  A boorish section of the UK right doesn’t get that you don’t have to be left wing to appreciate art, even art you disagree withFrom my house in Southend I can hear giant explosions reverberating along the flat Essex fringe. These blasts, from the Ministry of Defence-owned Foulness Island at the mouth of the Thames estuary, sometimes sound like a car boot the size of a small town being repeatedly shut. Other days they make my desk vibrate and the window frames click. Recently my daugh
  
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