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• The Oneida Nation Puts Up A Glowing Art Show

  19-12-2021 22:00 via wbur.org
  
  But it’s not for winter warmth – the giant purple and green tipis are meant to draw attention to the disproportionate affects of the pandemic waves on Native peoples. – WBUR
  
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• Saturday Night Live’s Last Show Of The Year Represented Just How Bleak Things Feel

  19-12-2021 21:30 via theatlantic.com
  
  Especially in New York, where last-minute omicron-variant cancellations led to a very strange night. “The rigid format—with every sketch introduced by one of the performers reading a hastily written lead-in—yielded a disconcerting, even apocalyptic, atmosphere.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Why People Who Aren’t Rich Can’t Stop Watching Real Housewives And Succession

  19-12-2021 21:00 via usatoday.com
  Basically? Schadenfreude. (And there’s a lot more sociological analysis in this article – yes, in USA Today.) – USA Today
  
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• Eve Babitz’s Words Had A Powerful, Frank Effect On Los Angeles

  19-12-2021 20:30 via variety.com
  
  Her books – like Eve’s Hollywood and Sex and Rage – brought new views of the city to those outside, and her frank, fresh voice became a hit with younger generations in the 2010s after a Vanity Fair profile of the elusive author, who has died at 78. – Variety
  
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• Buildings Become ‘Sky Gardens’ With Designers Who Bring Humans And Nature Back Together

  19-12-2021 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  OK, sure, we may not want too much forest or savannah in our skyscrapers, but some is good for humans. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Joys Of The Baghdad Book Fair

  19-12-2021 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Patrons savor the chance to browse aisles of paperbacks and hardcovers stacked on tables in pavilions from different countries. … To revel in what to many Iraqis is the true, enduring character of Baghdad.” – The New York Times
  
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• Building A Tutu That Can Stand Up To ‘Nutcracker’ Demands Takes A Long Time

  19-12-2021 19:00 via cincinnati.com
  Ask a wardrobe supervisor: “To build a singular tutu it’s 80-100 hours. … There’s 15 yards of tulle, and 10-14 layers, depending on the tutu.” Now imagine the number of tutus on stage for Nutcracker. – Cincinnati Enquirer
  
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• The Dramatic Trust Fall Of Going To Theatre In 2021

  19-12-2021 18:30 via latimes.com
  
  “We have to trust that most people no longer venture out while sick, that they are not manufacturing fake proof of vaccination, that they are careful and considerate with their health in the course of their daily lives.” It’s a tall ask. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Richard Rogers, Who Turned Architecture Inside Out And Altered The Skylines Of Paris And London

  19-12-2021 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed the Pompidou (with Renzo Piano), the Millennium Dome, and Lloyd’s of London, has died at 88. He had “an enthusiasm for the efficiencies of technology [and] modular construction and a commitment to the more humane side of architecture.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Wildest Parties Of Art History

  19-12-2021 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As our holiday parties go on yet another COVID-19 hiatus, might as well look at parties painted by the greats. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Inside The First Manhattan Bookstore Owned By An Asian American Woman

  19-12-2021 17:00 via lithub.com
  
  Owner Lucy Yu made the decision “to embark on this journey—now, in the midst of a pandemic, on the heels of so much anti-Asian hatred” because what else has kept people going during the pandemic but stories – and community? – LitHub
  
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• YouTube TV Loses Disney, ESPN, ABC Content Over Dispute

  19-12-2021 16:30 via latimes.com
  
  It’s about money, of course, but subscribers – especially sports fans – may not care about the reasons. “The outage came during an ESPN broadcast of a Lakers-Minnesota Timberwolves game, upsetting some basketball fans.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Wide-Angle Vision And Broad Legacy Of bell hooks

  19-12-2021 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how hooks’s books and other writing worked: “Sometimes people say things, or write things, that so capture your experience that you forget never not knowing it or thinking it.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Is Such A Great Actor Such A Not-Great Director?

  19-12-2021 15:30 via slate.com
  
  “As a movie star, George Clooney is a happy warrior, always ready with a thoughtful quote or charming anecdote, and he’s the rare celebrity whose political acumen matches his outspokenness.” But his directorial career is “bereft of personality and devoid of substance.” – Slate
  
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• How A Sculpture Became A God Again

  19-12-2021 15:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  You can thank the FBI – and also the people of Nepal, who restored the temple and convinced others that the deity had not left the broken sculpture. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Chris Noth Accused By Third Woman Of Sexual Assault

  19-12-2021 14:30 via thedailybeast.com
  A now-30-year-old tech executive has texts and other evidence from the alleged assault in 2010, by the then-35-year-old The Sex and the City star. (The actor was dropped by his talent agency on Friday.) – The Daily Beast
  
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• Los Angeles’s Iconic Cinerama Dome To Reopen Under New Ownership

  19-12-2021 14:00 via latimes.com
  
  “The Cinerama Dome first opened in 1963. The venue survived a demolition scare in 1998, when a proposal by Pacific Theatres would have stripped the dome and replaced it with restaurants and a movie multiplex” – and now, too, the pandemic. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude review – old masterpieces, new illusions

  19-12-2021 14:00
  
  National Gallery, London
  By inserting 21st-century black people into classic European paintings, Wiley questions the ownership of landscape, history and art – though Photoshop has its limitsThe African American art star Kehinde Wiley is probably most famous for his official portrait of Barack Obama, tieless and relaxed yet deeply pensive in his chair. Emerald foliage floats around him, entwining his ankles and bursting into jewel-bright blossoms that symbolise his Kenyan and Hawaiian herit
  
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• The Rockettes Are Canceled For The Season

  19-12-2021 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The COVID-caused cancellation comes at an terrible time for the performers and staff. Many other shows are canceling for the weekend or week as well. In November, the NYT published an article about the workers’ worries about Radio City’s COVID-19 protocol. – The New York Times
  
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• Bridgerton Plus TikTok Stars Equals A Grammy Nomination

  19-12-2021 13:00 via variety.com
  
  There is no Bridgerton musical, and yet … the pandemic lack of Broadway “left room for voters to be more adventurous, opening the door to a nomination for concept albums including The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear that went viral thanks to TikTok.” – Variety
  
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• Sylvère Lotringer obituary

  19-12-2021 12:17
  
  Critic and writer who launched postmodern French theory in the US but became better known for his role in his wife’s memoir I Love DickIt was the misfortune, or perhaps privilege, of the critic, writer and professor Sylvère Lotringer, who has died aged 83, to be best known not as the man who launched postmodern French theory to America, but for his supporting role in his second wife’s 1997 semi-fictional epistolary memoir about her erotic obsession with another man.In I Love D
  
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