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• Reconsidering The Point Of Translating Literature

  29-07-2021 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Translations exist only in their own time. While literature is out of time, translations are always, in the hapless plod of linear time, out of joint. – The Walrus
  
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• TV Pitchman Ron Popeil, 86

  29-07-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mr. Popeil’s mastery of television marketing, dating to the 1950s but spanning several decades, made him nearly as recognizable onscreen as the TV and movie stars of his era. – The New York Times
  
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• Cautionary Tale: How A Music Festival Went Horribly Wrong

  29-07-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new HBO film Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage offers a chilling demonstration of how greed, cultural rot, and the vagaries of crowd behavior can make a concert into a generation-defining thing for all the wrong reasons. – The Atlantic
  
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• Navigating The Line Between Reality And Imagination

  29-07-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To perceive the outside world, our brain combines signals entering our brains through our eyes with what we expect the world to look like based on our past experiences. This means that our perception of the outside world is strongly influenced by what we believe. – Nautilus
  
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• How Conspiracy Theorists Learn To Believe Their Own Fake News

  29-07-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When online surveyor YouGov conducted a survey asking over 8,000 US adults, “Do you believe that the Earth is round or flat?,” only 84 percent of respondents felt certain that the Earth is round. – LitHub
  
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• Asian Musicians On What They Really Face In The Classical Industry

  29-07-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “From world-famous musicians to anonymous internet commentators, discrimination toward Asian musicians contains an ugly, common tenor: In this music, they will not replace us.” – Van
  
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• Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over “Black Widow”

  29-07-2021 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the simultaneous digital rollout of “Black Widow,” saying it breaches her contract with the company to release the film in theaters first. – Washington Post
  
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• …As The Dance World Returns Without Me…

  29-07-2021 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These days, dance brings me a deep pain and pronounced lack of joy that I never fathomed it could. The excitement with which I cheer on my friends as they return to in-person performances is mixed with a bitter and, dare I say, resentful sadness.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Revolving Reputation Of Terence Rattigan, Once Britain’s Favorite Playwright

  29-07-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His fall from grace in the mid-1950s was sudden and unexpected. From the mid-1930s he’d been the darling of the West End.” Then along came the British theatre’s Angry Young Men, followed by critic Kenneth Tynan, whose savaging torpedoed Rattigan’s plays for a generation. – The Stage
  
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• Survey Of LA Artists Documents Instability

  29-07-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The results of the survey are a snapshot of the art community’s struggle for financial stability even before COVID-19 shut down galleries and museums across the city. – Los Angeles Magazine
  
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• How A Newspaper Gardening Column Became A Chronicle Of Climate Change

  29-07-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Jeff Lowenfels began writing for the Anchorage Daily News in 1976, he had not expected that one day one of his readers would grow okra there. (The pod is native to Africa.) – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Virtual Docents — The Best Museum Idea To Come Out Of The Pandemic?

  29-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum developed a way to provide guides when COVID kept them from coming in: visitors can stop at strategically placed monitors and talk with offsite docents in real time. Folks on both sides of the screen seem to love it. – Slate
  
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• Netflix CEO: The Movie Business Is In Revolution

  29-07-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   In four short years, Netflix has done more to reshape the way that movies are made, distributed and consumed than perhaps any other single company in the history of the film business. – Variety
  
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• Using Thomas Cromwell’s Papers To Reconstruct His London Mansion

  29-07-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The compound at Austin Friars, known to readers of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. But a historian has used what’s survived of Cromwell’s own archives, along with later drawings and surveys, to work out a clearer idea of what it looked like. – CNN
  
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• About that French Culture Pass…

  29-07-2021 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The French government had the idea to give teenagers a 300 Euro credit (through a phone app) to spend on “culture”. A few limits were placed upon it – a 100 Euro maximum on online subscriptions, and any video games had to be French (trade protectionism is a given in any French cultural policy) – but otherwise the youths had a pretty free hand. And with those free hands they spend roughly half their totals on Manga. The New York Times reports:
  As of this month, books repre
  
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• TikTok Is Hardly The First Place Where Black Dancers’ Moves Have Been Ripped Off

  29-07-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alas, the practice goes at least back to the days of jazz dance at the start of the 20th century, when the first legal battles over choreography were fought. – The Conversation
  
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• The Children Of Two Pathbreaking “Blaxploitation” Filmmakers Are Rescuing Their Fathers’ Work

  29-07-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We can still see Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (which launched the genre) and Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come (a reggae gangster pic and Jamaica’s first feature film), but little else they directed. Luckily, Mario Van Peebles and Justine Henzell are addressing that. – The Guardian
  
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• Sculptor George Rhoads, Who Sent Balls Through Elaborate Rube Goldberg-Style Contraptions, Dead At 95

  29-07-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His 42nd Street Ballroom, which has mesmerized passersby for decades at New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, is but one of the 300 “audio-kinetic ball machines” that he created for museums, children’s hospitals, transportation hubs, and the like. – The New York Times
  
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• US Seizes “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet”, Will Return It To Iraq

  29-07-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 3,500-year-old artifact, covered with cuneiform writing from the “dream” section of The Epic of Gilgamesh, is part of the enormous collection of objects acquired by Hobby Lobby founder Steve Green that turn out to have been illegally looted. – Artnet
  
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• 2,500-Year-Old Etching Of Last King Of Babylon Discovered In Saudi Arabia

  29-07-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Archaeologists found the 6th century BC rock carving of King Nabonidus, along with 26 lines of cuneiform, in the north of the country. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Which Countries In Europe Are Using “Vaccine Passports” For Arts Venues, And How

  29-07-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Countries across Europe are extending the use of so called vaccine passports or health passes to allow for entry into bars, cultural sites or sporting events, but some countries are employing them more than others. Here’s what you need to know.” – The Local
  
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• Richard Hutchins: the homeless artist who became an Oprah-endorsed sensation

  29-07-2021 08:35
  
  He spent years in jail and more on the street but now the 62-year-old’s artwork is selling for thousands to stars like Oprah WinfreyOn 4 April 2021, Richard Hutchins, 62, watched as a blue truck pulled into the supermarket parking lot at Ralph’s in Los Angeles. Richard had been homeless for six years. He didn’t know it then, but that blue truck was about to change his life.At the age of six, he worked in the fields after school in Georgia. He used the brown bags provided, toget
  
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• A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) – Managing Director

  29-07-2021 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) is a groundbreaking artistic incubator where artistic ambition and civic engagement unite. ACT envisions a world where the power of theatre expands our collective understanding of community and our own humanity. Since its founding in 1965, ACT has continuously made a significant contribution to the vitality of Seattle’s downtown neighborhood and arts community. ACT was Seattle’s first theatre dedicated to producing contemporary plays and, in this commitme
  
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