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• The Wild Projects Chris Burden Couldn’t Make

  28-02-2022 23:15 via nytimes.com
  
  They include an effort to convert a World War II British destroyer into a ship with sails (blocked by price and preservation issues), an application to hang a fishing boat on the side of the Seattle Art Museum (met with “vehement objections” from the building’s architect, according to Burden) and a plan to put a Sputnik satellite replica into orbit. – The New York Times
  
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• Climate Change — A Cultural Issue

  28-02-2022 22:26 via theconversation.com
  
  To tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis effectively, we urgently need to address cultural values relating to consumption. An important aspect of this is the role models presented on our screens and in books. – The Conversation
  
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• Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Quits Bolshoi Project

  28-02-2022 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Ratmansky, who grew up in Kyiv and danced there early in his career, immediately decided to leave Moscow, and with the help of the Bolshoi, made arrangements to travel home to New York via Warsaw, along with the rest of his international creative team. – The New York Times
  
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• The Top-Selling Global Music Group Of 2021

  28-02-2022 21:01 via bbc.com
  
  The South Korean band beat the likes of Drake and Adele to top a chart compiled by music industry body the IFPI. – BBC
  
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• Why Some Words Sound Ugly To Us

  28-02-2022 20:14 via theconversation.com
  
  This phenomenon, where the sound of a word triggers an emotion or a meaning, is referred to as “sound symbolism”. Yet the idea that there might be a link between the sound of words and their meaning flies against accepted linguistic thinking. – The Conversation
  
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• Experts: By 2030, Most Of The Internet Could Be Created By Artificial Intelligence

  28-02-2022 19:31 via futurism.com
  
  As its capabilities advance, the idea is that AI could start to generate entire online worlds, along with all the stuff that inhabits them — not to mention all the online material that’s currently mostly made by humans. – The Byte
  
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• Norman Lebrecht: The New Geffen Hall Will Be A Game-Changer

  28-02-2022 18:44 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Deborah Borda, president of the New York Philharmonic, gave me a virtual tour on Zoom the other day. What I saw leads me to believe that Geffen Hall will leave the rest of the world playing catch-up. – The Critic
  
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• Thao Nguyen Phan: ‘There’s beauty and optimism in these tragic stories’

  28-02-2022 10:00
  
  The Vietnamese artist has turned her despair at the historical injustices in her country into paintings, light sculptures, projection and film that dream of a better future“I grew up in a Buddhist family,” Thao Nguyen Phan says of her childhood in Vietnam. “Even though the religion here seems to emphasise peace and mindfulness, the land is turbulent, there is always conflict, and the environmental impact on the river has been very dramatic.” The Mekong, a vast river that
  
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