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• In 2014 A Town Painted Over A Banksy. This Time It Placed Guards To Protect A New One

  18-08-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Criticism was fierce last time, so they don’t want to take any chances. – BBC
  
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• Our AI Is Increasingly Built On Homogenized Data. That Could Be A Real Problem

  18-08-2021 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Foundational models have some very real downsides. They create “a single point of failure, so any defects, any biases which these models have, any security vulnerabilities . . . are just blindly inherited by all the downstream tasks.” – Fast Company
  
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• London’s Public Art Mound Is A Disaster. But…

  18-08-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It might seem confusing why local councils would choose to fund tourist projects like the Mound when they are getting rid of permanent spaces that serve local communities in the long rather than short term. – The Conversation
  
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• Why We Get Caught Up In Cults

  18-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It doesn’t take someone broken or disturbed to crave that structure . . . we’re wired to. And what we often overlook is that the material with which that scaffolding is built, the very material that fabricates our reality, is language.” – The Baffler
  
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• The History And Art Of The TV Opening Sequence

  18-08-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “No matter the form or style, (they’re) a key part of the viewing ritual. … They serve as the buffer zone between our world and that of the series, guiding us — as Rod Serling said — into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.” – Quartz
  
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• Why Millions Are Quitting Their “Great” Jobs

  18-08-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  These people are generally well-educated workers who are leaving their jobs not because the pandemic created obstacles to their employment but, at least in part, because it nudged them to rethink the role of work in their lives altogether. – The New Yorker
  
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• A Classical Recording Engineer Explains What Exactly He Does

  18-08-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What you think of as a good photograph of you might not actually be the truth in how it presents you – that can also be the case with sound. … It’s about presenting the (music) in somebody’s home in as convincing a manner as possible.” – Gramophone
  
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• How Leonard Bernstein Became A Cultural Icon

  18-08-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This may now seem, to younger generations, a corny, indulgent, and completely irrelevant form of grandstanding. But when you go back and watch Leonard Bernstein do it in the galvanizing documentary “Bernstein’s Wall,” it’s still cathartic. – Variety
  
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• Posthumous Art: The Ethics Of Releasing Works By Dead Creators

  18-08-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They may be unfinished, never meant for wide release, or completed by someone else. That work is then attributed to the deceased, but should it be? Philosophers Sondra Bacharach and Deborah Tollefsen explore that question, and the answer is a resounding: it’s complicated.” – JSTOR Daily
  
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• The Great Cultures Of Africa During Europe’s Dark Ages

  18-08-2021 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Suffice it to say that while Europe was experiencing its Dark Ages – a period of intellectual, cultural, and economic regression from about the 6th to 13th centuries – Africa was experiencing great civilization. – Amentii
  
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• The Obamas Have A Budding Media Empire. What Are They Hoping To Achieve With It?

  18-08-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Higher Ground, the former First Couple’s production company, is no mere vanity enterprise: in just three years, it has released three children’s series, a feature film, an Oscar-winning documentary, books, and podcasts by each Obama. And that’s just what’s already been completed. – Fast Company
  
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• Anne Bean: ‘People said Yoko Ono ruined the Beatles. I think the Beatles ruined her’

  18-08-2021 17:31
  
  The performance artist on her new 10-hour work, rethinking her distance from feminism, and why she told Malcolm McLaren her avant garde covers band was ‘unmanageable’Anne Bean has been revisiting her past. On 21 August the pioneering performance artist is taking part in a 10-hour “durational live event” as part of PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the UK. Not only did this require her to look back on five decades of practice – her past work, she tells me, is &ldqu
  
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• Riccardo Muti, Part II: Man From Another Century

  18-08-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He doesn’t do smartphones, thinks talk shows are nonsensical, and reports: “Music is rapture, it’s not understanding. Go home all you music critics!” – Gramilano
  
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• The Mysterious Phisher Haunting The Publishing World

  18-08-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For four years, someone has been impersonating dozens of agents, editors, translators, and others in the book business to get early copies of new manuscripts. Attempts to find the culprit end up going in circles, and the manuscripts never get publicly leaked. What’s going on? – New York Magazine
  
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• Why Do So Many People Get Master’s Degrees These Days, And Are They Worth The Thousands They Cost?

  18-08-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not only is the master’s degree the quintessential example of a bureaucratic credential — drably functional and frequently deeply pointless — but much of its growth has been in fields that are themselves explicitly bureaucratic,” writes William Deresiewicz. And then there are MFAs … – New York Magazine
  
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• What Happens To The Washington Monument When It Gets Struck By Lightning?

  18-08-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A timely question, because that happened last Sunday night — as it does a couple of times every year or so. The bolt damaged the obelisk’s electrical system, including its elevators; repairs take a few days. (includes video) – Artnet
  
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• Orlando Ballet Director Robert Hill Steps Down After 13 Years

  18-08-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Through years marked by mold infestations, financial turmoil, leadership changes and homelessness, artistic director Robert Hill was the constant face of Orlando Ballet. … In his tenure, … attendance has sharply increased, the ballet’s financial situation is the strongest it has been in years.” – Orlando Sentinel
  
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• Maki Kaji, Who Brought Sudoku To The World, Dead At 69

  18-08-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Kaji created the puzzle to be easy for children and others who didn’t want to think too hard. … Sudoku championships have drawn some 200 million people in 100 countries over the years.” – AP
  
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• Great Tapestry Of Scotland Gets Its Own Gallery Space

  18-08-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wait, Scotland has a historical chronicle done in needlework like the Bayeux Tapestry? Yes, but this one wasn’t completed until eight years ago, and the history it depicts runs from Robert the Bruce’s victory in 1314 to Andy Roddick’s in 2013. – The Guardian
  
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• Children’s Book About Same-Sex Parents That Caused Row In Hungary Is Now In Russia

  18-08-2021 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “(Weeks) after a Hungarian bookshop was fined for selling a children’s story about … a child with same-sex parents, the same book has been published in Russia – but with an ’18+’ label on it in deference to the country’s so-called ‘gay propaganda’ law.” – The Guardian
  
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• Snapshot: The Band performs “Tears of Rage” at Woodstock in 1969

  18-08-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Band performs “Tears of Rage,” by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel, at Woodstock in 1969. The lyrics are by Dylan. Manuel is the lead singer and wrote the music:
  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Associate Director, Mannes Prep

  18-08-2021 07:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The New School is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that promises diversity and tolerance in all areas of employment, education and access to its educational, artistic or cultural programs and activities. The New School does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, creed, sex or gender (including actual or perceived gender identity or expression or transgender status), sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, pregnancy, religion, religious
  
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• A Trick To Get Beneath The Words

  18-08-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “On the first day of every month, I pick a poem, and then I read that poem every day that month.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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