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• Why Writers Switch From Fiction To Nonfiction, And Back Again

  20-02-2022 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Events can overtake the imagination – and then after some decades, it’s time to re-imagine experience and reaction. Basically, “this is how life is; people have ideas, but they also have deep inner doubts about those ideas.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Add Victorian Science And Victorian Bigotry, And You Get Dracula

  20-02-2022 22:00 via lithub.com
  
  Witness a folk remedy popular in the 19th century: “If the heart of a corpse contained blood, it was believed that it showed it was living off the blood and tissue of living family members—that the corpse was preying on the living.” – LitHub
  
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• What’s Going To Happen At The Oscars?

  20-02-2022 21:30 via variety.com
  
  Only pundits know, and even they don’t really know much. “The Academy declared 276 films from 2021 as Oscar-eligible, and much of the responsibility for spotlighting films falls on bloggers and columnists.” But Film Twitter isn’t real-life voting. – Variety
  
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• A Re-Delayed Reopening On Broadway

  20-02-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The musical Mrs. Doubtfire closed temporarily because of Omicron and will not reopen until April. “The hiatus left the show’s cast, crew and musicians without work … but [the producer] said he thought it was the best way to attempt to preserve their jobs longer term.” – The New York Times
  
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• Prison Choirs Unite To Sing Beethoven’s Fidelio, An Opera About Unjust Imprisonment

  20-02-2022 20:30 via npr.org
  In this production, via recordings, “singers from six prison musical groups — a mix of over 100 men and women who are incarcerated as well as about 70 community volunteers — are the ones singing the ‘Prisoners’ Chorus.'” – NPR
  
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• How The French Rococo Inspired Disney’s Look

  20-02-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  That’s right, if you don’t like the look of Disney princesses, not to mention the talking clocks and wardrobes, you can blame Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and the French Rococo style in general. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Building Communities People Really Want

  20-02-2022 19:30 via fastcompany.com
  
  Talk less; play more. When people used their hands to build a model Los Angeles, they made “bioswales, pedestrian zones, unearthing creeks long covered over by asphalt, storage sheds and bathing facilities for homeless people, more light rail, lower curbs, urban farms.” – Fast Company
  
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• The Museum Within A Museum, Bringing A Long-Held Dream To Reality In Brazil

  20-02-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The artist Abdas do Nascimiento dreamed of a museum for Black art in his country, but “after years in exile during a military dictatorship in Brazil, he died in 2011.” Now the Black Art Museum has a temporary, but powerful, home. – The New York Times
  
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• Regular Streaming Is Crowded, And Then There’s The Fight For Anime

  20-02-2022 18:30 via vulture.com
  
  On the good side, “you no longer have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS set or rely on pirated versions of new episodes with subtitles made by fans who took liberties of their own in the translation.” On the other side, wow, so many streamers. – Vulture
  
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• An Argument About The Loan Of A Congolese Statue Escalates With The Sale Of NFTs

  20-02-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A Virginia museum has loaned the statue to Europe but won’t loan it to a gallery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so that gallery has started to sell NFTs of images of the statue. The museum is not pleased. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Does A Film Studies Prof Teach Last Year’s Complex, Not Oscar-Nominated, Palme D’Or Winner?

  20-02-2022 17:30 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  Titane is not easy to parse. “Julia Ducournau is willing to explore the strange, to show us our own bodies, soft and hard, that surprise and fail us, that are the source of pain and pleasure, leak strange fluids, grow old or ugly.” – Los Angeles Review of Books
  
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• What ‘Slave Play’ Means To The Actors In The Play

  20-02-2022 17:00 via latimes.com
  
  Antoinette Crow-Legacy says the Jeremy O. Harris play “gives me freedom to be messy and complicated and blur the lines between right and wrong.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• To Find Out How Much Medieval Literature We Lost, We’re Turning To Wildlife

  20-02-2022 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  A wildlife tracking method, specifically: “Mike Kestemont, computational text researcher at the University of Antwerp, and his colleagues used the ‘unseen species’ model, which uses a statistical approach to estimate how many species are missing from a field count.” – LitHub
  
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• There’s A Boom In Horror Right Now, Especially By Women Directors

  20-02-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s that about? “There’s a great artistic freedom in horror that’s perhaps not available in other genres. Obviously, in a drama, you can’t have a worm growing out of someone’s nostril, or something else so bold or artistic. But horror has really incredible freedom.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Uncanny Valley Has Turned Into The Trustworthy Town Square

  20-02-2022 15:30 via fastcompany.com
  
  It’s a bit alarming. “Farid and Nightingale asked participants to look at a selection of them and sort them into real and fake. Participants were correct less than half the time, with an average accuracy of 48.2%.” And even with training, the percentage doesn’t move much. – Fast Company
  
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• Playwright Sanaz Toossi On Language, Representation, And The Comic Potential Of Bleeding Onto The Furniture

  20-02-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Toossi wrote one her plays going up in New York in white-hot anger after the Trump Muslim travel ban. “If all that ever gets produced of my work is just my stories about Middle Eastern people, I don’t think I would ever be upset.” – The New York Times
  
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• What A Tennessee Ban On ‘Maus’ Means For The Artists Inspired By The Book

  20-02-2022 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  “Maus galvanized a generation of comics creators to fill bookshelves with graphic narratives about the Holocaust and its inheritance and inspired a community of thinkers to engage analytically with these stories.” Now they’re also worried and angry. – LitHub
  
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• Mark Morris Says No, Artists Are Definitely Not OK Right Now

  20-02-2022 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Morris, on dance rehearsal: “It was horrible. … Everyone was freaked out. You’re scared being next to each other, and you’re scared to talk to anybody, and as soon as you touch something it’s sanitized, and then you go home and take a shower right away.” – Washington Post
  
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• A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 review – congealing palettes, fading light and magic

  20-02-2022 14:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  From Frida Kahlo’s sickbed to Cindy Sherman’s Manhattan loft and Picasso’s 60s chateau, this superb show exploring where artists work is nothing less than a portal into their mindsIt is a chamber of the mind, a room of one’s own, a hothouse or a prison. It is an attic or an empty shop, a suburban lockup or a concrete cubicle in a disused acid factory that still takes coins for the meter and is a million miles from the white cube factory designe
  
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• The Painful Experience Of An In-Person Film Festival

  20-02-2022 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In Berlin, during the many nasal swab tests, “I look up and to the right as the technician inserts the little wand, either affecting an air of nonchalance or pretending I’ve been struck by a highly original thought. I know others make idle chitchat.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Hasn’t The City Of Los Angeles Reopened Its Arts Spaces?

  20-02-2022 13:00 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In a “totally Kafkaesque” situation, one artist’s show ran without the public ever being able to see it. “All facilities overseen by the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) remain closed, with no timeline for reopening or even a roadmap for how to get there.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Two of Nigeria’s looted Benin bronzes returned to traditional palace

  20-02-2022 00:28
  
  Colourful ceremony marks artefacts’ homecoming more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops Two Benin bronzes were returned on Saturday to a traditional palace in Nigeria, more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops, raising hopes that thousands more artefacts could finally be returned to their ancestral home.The artefacts, mostly in Europe, were stolen by explorers and colonisers from the once-mighty Benin Kingdom, now south-western Nigeria, and are am
  
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