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• Kashmiri Poets Say India Is Censoring Them

  05-09-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat: “In the last 30 years I have never seen this kind of suppression. … There is silence everywhere, as if the silence is the best cure for our present crisis.” – The New York Times
  
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• This Ballet Company Was Supposedly Going To Break The Mold

  05-09-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Instead, it broke a lot of dancers, leases, promises … and the founders themselves. “I’ve never seen so many lies, so many people hurt,” one choreographer said. – Vanity Fair
  
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• What Gets Lost In Opera Livestreams?

  05-09-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We were lucky to have access to livestreams from across the world in 2020. But: “Although the streamed productions I later saw live had flashes of revelation, those moments were few and far between in what was, on balance, limited by the medium: the subjective and inevitably narrow perspective of the camera, the engineered flattening of sound.” – The New York Times
  
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• Artists In Louisiana Are Trying To Help Those Harmed By Hurricane Ida

  05-09-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’t’s been a real grassroots, community-led effort,’ Abdul Aziz, a photojournalist, told Hyperallergic. ‘It’s overwhelming and beautiful, and I don’t want to say shocking, but it is incredible that we’ve been able to create this sort of de facto emergency response government.'” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Archaeology Of The Future Is Here

  05-09-2021 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Spain, an archaeology team looking at ancient Roman cities “routinely uses technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, drones and magnetometers – devices that measure magnetic fields – and over the years it has become a leader in this non-destructive way to interpret a country’s archeological heritage.” – El Pais (Spain)
  
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• Ernst Van De Wetering, Foremost Expert On Rembrandt, 83

  05-09-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Sotheby’s consultant says, “No one else alive knows as much as he did about Rembrandt; nobody else comes even close.” – The New York Times
  
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• Piecing Together Roman Frescoes From French Ruins

  05-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Arles, with thousands of pieces taken from the so-called House of the Harpist, “the fragments, some barely bigger than a fingernail, have been washed, labelled and placed into the cases to be examined one by one to see where they might fit into a bigger picture.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• On Facebook, Misinformation Gets Six Times As Much Engagement As News

  05-09-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new peer-reviewed study shows that “from August 2020 to January 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount of likes, shares, and interactions on the platform as did trustworthy news sources.” But what’s the solution? – Washington Post
  
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• A Shakespeare Company Of Black Women Wants To Transform Theatre

  05-09-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Mawa Theatre Company’s “goal is to change the industry from within, creating more space for marginalized voices in a field that is all too often dominated by privileged white men.” – Vogue
  
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• Delores Custer, 79, Who Gave Food A Style

  05-09-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Custer, a food stylist for companies like Kraft, General Mills, and Bacardi, was “able to shape the unwieldy, the drab and the formless into a crisp and dazzling best seller.” She even wrote the book on food styling – and her tool kit was famed, and feared, far and wide. – The New York Times
  
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• Michelle Yeoh Wanted To Be A Dancer, Until She Got Injured

  05-09-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Then the actor – a mega-star in the world market – decided to take up martial arts. “I just needed to learn to transfer the energy, because a lot of times in dance it’s very inward and contained. Action is more about how you deliver that energy, pushing it forward.”- The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues

  05-09-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Board members including Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, and Jurnee Smollett have resigned, making way for an entirely new board as “the group continues to grapple with allegations that it has failed women who asked for its support.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple

  05-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  But JoAnn Hunter persisted. Hunter is a “longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts very few women, and even fewer women of color.” – The New York Times
  
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• How A Canadian Actor’s Movie Got Burdened With Carrying Marvel

  05-09-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first Asian-led Marvel film “has been transformed into an unwilling test case for the future of box office blockbusters, fans’ commitment to the increasingly bloated Marvel universe, and superhero movies in general.” – CBC
  
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• Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan

  05-09-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What’s up with U.S. arts audiences? “We have been at war with and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, yet culturally it has been a blip.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Gym-Rat Maestro

  05-09-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lorenzo Viotti is working on snagging young music fans via his workout, and shirtless, social media posts. – The New York Times
  
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• Yoko Ono: Mend Piece for London; This Is the Night Mail – review

  05-09-2021 14:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Ono invites visitors to repair the world by reconstructing broken teacups, while the Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad conjures surprises from a huge private collection, with a little help from WH AudenThere is something appropriate about the piles of broken crockery that greet visitors to the autumn programme of exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London. Yoko Ono’s Mend Piece, in which gallery visitors are invited to reconstruct teacups from pottery shard
  
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• Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?

  05-09-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Climate science shows we desperately need insects to keep the planet in any kind of balance. Horror films have disagreed – but it might be time for a change. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Netflix Took A Flop And Turned It Into A Global Phenomenon

  05-09-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In its first iteration on Spanish TV, Casa de Papel, known as The Money Heist in English, started strong and then massively flopped. Then Netflix picked it up, recut it, and ordered more seasons. – Washington Post
  
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• The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health

  05-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arts can be especially beneficial for public health in five key areas: collective trauma, racism, mental health, social exclusion and isolation, and chronic disease.” – The Nation’s Health
  
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• Rich, red and rare: Hogarth’s lady back home after 100 years

  05-09-2021 10:15
  
  The artist’s portrait of the Georgian era’s richest woman is part of a new London showAn independent aristocrat, Mary Edwards of Kensington was a leading figure in 18th-century London. She was also thought to be the richest woman in the world.If her name and image are not familiar now, there are two likely reasons: first, the most important portrait of Edwards is rarely loaned out for show; and second, her story – that of a wealthy Englishwoman who deliberately turned her back
  
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