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• The Real Questions For Movie-Makers After The Santa Fe Accident

  27-10-2021 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I start to question things I should’ve been questioning harder, earlier. Do we need this stuff? Why does recreational screen slaughter remain America’s number most influential cultural export? – Chicago Tribune
  
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• Twitter Has 211 Million Users, Up 13 Percent

  27-10-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Revenue of $1.28 billion was up 37%. Twitter sales are advertising based and saw U.S, total sales up 45% to $742 million and ad sales up 51%. – Deadline
  
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• Why Has Gender Become So Contentious Worldwide?

  27-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The attacks on so-called “gender ideology” have grown in recent years throughout the world, dominating public debate stoked by electronic networks and backed by extensive rightwing Catholic and evangelical organizations. – The Guardian
  
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• You’re Writing A Book. How Do Your Choose Names For Your Characters?

  27-10-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When it comes to writing, naming is one of the more fun problems of fiction, perhaps especially speculative fiction, where names can be as elaborate, archaic, or invented as the imaginative worlds they inhabit. – LitHub
  
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• Museum Shows With A Moral Message? Yes, Actually

  27-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  So it’s an exhibition with a pointed moral agenda. But it’s not preachy or obvious. It’s smart, it’s thoughtful, and it’s visually compelling. – Washington Post
  
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• Do Cars Belong In Art Museums?

  27-10-2021 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a “danger of treating the car as an art object in itself. It may be art, but it’s a very different kind of art than the art that is made about cars.” – Washington Post
  
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• Looking To A Play About An Earlier Epidemic To Answer A Key Question About This One

  27-10-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, Lily Janiak finds some lines that shed bright, painful light on why some people would refuse a vaccine that demonstrably saves lives. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• How Conspiracy Theories Work

  27-10-2021 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In folklore, we have this law of self-correction. So if something doesn’t quite fit, you go back to the way you heard it from 15 other people. I might be saying Jeff Bezos. But if three other people are saying Bill Gates, it’s going to be Bill Gates.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Do People Like Blood And Gore In Their Movies And TV So Much?

  27-10-2021 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There are several reasons, say researchers, most of which boil down to “Hey, adrenaline is fun when you’re not actually in danger!” And watching gory movies in a group can even be a bonding experience. – Salon
  
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• The Uninhibited Bite of Dutch Mordant

  27-10-2021 19:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  With an artist as prolific and versatile as Gerard Bellaart, it is not easy to pinpoint his “style.”Dutch Mordant, which has just been published by Moloko Print, presents images of some of his many paintings, drawings, and handmade cards issued in limited editions from his Cold Turkey Press.Dutch MordantAs I’ve written before, his large oil-on-canvas paintings bring a dream world out of hiding. And his drawings look spontaneous, evolving from one to another with a freewheeling
  
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• From genetics to allyship: how queer culture changed the family portrait

  27-10-2021 17:15
  
  A new exhibition, Kindred Solidarities, offers a perspective on how LGBTQ+ people have rewritten traditional ideas of familyIn a two-minute video produced by the artist Jamie Diamond in 2008, four women and one man gather to pose for what looks like a family portrait. They stand in front of a marble fireplace, in a room adorned with crystal chandeliers. Three of the women shift positions and adjust their hair before settling into smiling poses behind the man and the fourth woman, who are seated.
  
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• ‘Commitment to community’: defining the family within queer culture

  27-10-2021 16:49
  
  In a new exhibition, the traditional concept of family is flipped on its head as LGBTQ+ people rewrite the rulesIn a two-minute video produced by the artist Jamie Diamond in 2008, four women and one man gather to pose for what looks like a family portrait. They stand in front of a marble fireplace, in a room adorned with crystal chandeliers. Three of the women shift positions and adjust their hair before settling into smiling poses behind the man and the fourth woman, who are seated.Despite thei
  
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• ‘Joyously subversive sex goddesses’: the artists who gave witches a spellbinding makeover

  27-10-2021 14:34
  
  Thousands of women were slain after being accused of witchcraft. Don’t they deserve more than the evil cackling hag stereotype? A powerful new book blows away the satanic baby-eating mythsWe all know what a witch looks like. A gnarled old face full of warts with teeth missing and bright green skin. Then there’s the long black coat, the tall black hat and let’s not forget the sizable crooked nose, sniffing the fumes rising from a bubbling cauldron in a room festooned with cobweb
  
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