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• How A Hit Song Behaves Like A Viral Infection

  27-09-2021 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When a disease breaks into a population you tend to see a sharp increase in infection cases and eventually it will peak at some point when it sort of makes its way through the susceptible population and starts to decline. We see that same pattern with song downloads in our data.” – CBC
  
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• What, Exactly Is “Distinctly British” TV?

  27-09-2021 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” programmes. – The Conversation
  
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• What Happened To Books? Well…

  27-09-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class dissatisfied with – and powerless to change – the mindless, capital-driven popular.” – Frieze
  
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• Science as A Value-Free Enterprise

  27-09-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It is central to science, and its claims to objectivity, that values do not override facts. An important feature of this view of science is the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic values. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Behind Yale’s Failed Singapore Venture

  27-09-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Singapore has followed its dismissal of Yale’s liberal education by introducing a Foreign Interference Act that, “under the guise of defending national sovereignty, will enable the government to designate any independent media outlet as a foreign agent and to censor its content.” – Salon
  
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• Yusef Cat Stevens Is Back. What Do We Think About That?

  27-09-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  For devotees of Stevens’s classic material, it can feel as though he’s making amends for having walked away from his music all those years ago. But is that really fair? Or true? – Washington Post
  
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• Blockbuster Hollywood Talent Deal: CAA To Buy ICM

  27-09-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Creative Artists Agency is acquiring its rival ICM Partners in a blockbuster deal that will consolidate the ranks of major Hollywood agencies as the representation industry undergoes a pandemic-era business shift. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Black Art Matters: the meaning behind the red carpet jacket

  27-09-2021 20:11
  
  Actor Chester Gregory’s jacket was a stand-out look at the Tony awards – but what did it mean?A few weeks ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Brother Vellies dress spearheaded the return of political slogans on the red carpet. The inherent contradiction of wearing a Tax the Rich ballgown at the Met Gala – one of the most opulent events in the world – made the garment divisive, but also spoke to its power as an incredibly potent piece of political dressing.Last night, th
  
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• Ban Critical Arguments About America’s History? It’s A Familiar Tactic

  27-09-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We found the same arguments used by anti-radical activists as they sought for years to ban from public schools and universities Howard Zinn’s best-selling iconoclastic introduction to the American past. – The Nation
  
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• Lubaina Himid: Tories should not meddle with museum boards

  27-09-2021 17:24
  
  Turner prize-winning artist says independent thought and debate is vital at cultural institutionsThe Turner prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid has cautioned the government against meddling in the membership of museum and gallery boards, saying independent thought and debate was vital.Himid was at 11 Downing Street to be named as the latest artist to be commissioned by the Government Art Collection to make prints that will hang on the walls of British diplomatic buildings around the world. Contin
  
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• Cultural prescription: plays, films, books and more to help you start university

  27-09-2021 11:00
  
  From Educating Rita to The Secret History, Guardian critics suggest some comfort viewing and listening to take on campusI first read Educating Rita at school although, ironically, I wasn’t taught it brilliantly. It’s the perfect play for students heading off to university – a place that should encourage freedom of thought but often promotes conformity. Every student should be more Rita.Continue reading...
  
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• Turner prize 2021: a collective effort to make art radical again

  27-09-2021 10:00
  
  Pickled cows and unmade beds: the art award has always challenged convention. But in 2021 it is going further, by abolishing individual artists altogether
  The Turner prize has given us some great characters. Grayson Perry was a little-known alternative potter before this annual competition for avant garde British art launched him as a commentator and media personality. Tracey Emin became a national sensation when she showed her unmade bed in 1999, though she lost out to Steve McQueen – yet
  
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• ‘They wanted to end masculinity’: the artist inspired by anti-sexist men’s groups

  27-09-2021 09:00
  
  Albert Potrony’s exhibition turns Gatehead’s Baltic into a giant creche, inspired by a radical Dutch playground architect and the forgotten feminist men’s movement of the early 70s
  For most parents, the ritual of pushing your child on a swing or kicking a ball with them in the park is the diametric opposite of high culture and radical politics. But artist Albert Potrony doesn’t see it that way. “Play is an amazing vehicle to explore absolutely everything,” he
  
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• ‘We will teach the British how to survive’: Indigenous Australian culture hits the UK

  27-09-2021 07:00
  
  The UK/Australia Season is the largest ever cultural exchange between the two nations, including the sacred knowledge held in songlines, a 19th-century Indigenous cricket team and uprising anthems linking Brixton to Palm IslandMargo Neale is feeling proud. “Here we are,” she says, “250 years after the British set out to colonise and civilise us, taking our culture to the British – to teach them how to survive in this fragmenting world.” Neale, an Indigenous Australi
  
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• Songlines and stolen children: lessons from Indigenous Australians

  27-09-2021 07:00
  
  The UK/Australia Season is the largest ever cultural exchange between the two nations, including shell-covered slippers, a 19th-century Indigenous cricket team and uprising anthems linking Brixton to Palm IslandMargo Neale is feeling proud. “Here we are,” she says, “250 years after the British set out to colonise and civilise us, taking our culture to the British – to teach them how to survive in this fragmenting world.” Neale, an Indigenous Australian from the Gumb
  
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• Francis Bacon estate implies artist’s friend created parts of Tate collection

  27-09-2021 07:00
  
  New book says many pieces in Barry Joule Archive bear ‘scant resemblance’ to artist’s work, but donor insists they are realThe Estate of Francis Bacon has launched an astonishing personal attack on Barry Joule, one of the artist’s friends, and the vast collection he donated to the Tate in 2004 – even implying that he created works himself.In publishing a damning study of the Barry Joule Archive (BJA), it quotes a Tate curator saying that “the hand/s that appli
  
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