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• Composer Bright Sheng Removed At University Of Michigan After Showing Olivier Othello Film

  07-10-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To show the film now, especially without substantial framing, content advisory and a focus on its inherent racism is in itself a racist act, regardless of the professor’s intentions. We need to acknowledge that as a community.” – Michigan Daily
  
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• Why The Oxford English Dictionary Has Added 6 Korean Words

  07-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “They show how Asians in different parts of the continent invent and exchange words within their own local contexts, then introduce these words to the rest of the English-speaking world, thus allowing the Korean wave to continue to ripple on the sea of English words.” – BBC
  
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• The Odd Contortions Of Hollywood’s New Movie Museum

  07-10-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Academy has created spaces that, as it declared last year, would “prioritize the experience of traditionally underrepresented or marginalized people.” Unfortunately, this embrace of an ideology of diversity, even in this grand, often entertaining space, too often diminishes what it seeks to enlarge. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• ‘The cover is supposed to be provocative’: the daunting task of redesigning Nirvana’s Nevermind

  07-10-2021 16:39
  
  With a lawsuit from the famous baby – now 30 years old – prompting the band to consider altering the artwork, five album artists give us their alternative takes on the grunge classicSpencer Elden, who appeared naked as a baby on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind, is suing the band, alleging sexual exploitation. He says his parents never signed a release authorising the use of the photograph, which depicts him swimming towards a dollar bill on a hook, and that its endu
  
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• Shilpa Gupta review – rousing reminder that free speech used to be a noble cause

  07-10-2021 16:26
  
  Barbican Curve, London
  With the words of dissidents pinned to walls, this thrilling new show lays bare the censoriousness of modern cultureWhen the Chinese dissident Liu Xia was under house arrest with state security guards posted at her front door, she wrote a passionate poem to her husband, Liu Xiaobo: “I’ll never give up the struggle for freedom from the oppressors’ jail, but I’ll be your willing prisoner for life.”Shilpa Gupta has typed up these translated words
  
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• Unseen Van Gogh sketches that rework scorned masterpiece to go on display

  07-10-2021 11:00
  
  Preparatory work for ‘redoing’ of The Potato Eaters – savaged in his lifetime – to feature in exhibitionA collection of Vincent van Gogh’s preparatory drawings sketched ahead of a planned “redoing” of The Potato Eaters, a masterpiece brutally slated by buyers, friends and family at the time of its painting, are being exhibited for what is believed to be first time.The Dutch artist considered his depiction of a peasant family from the village of Nuenen in
  
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