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• Why The Sale Of Bandcamp Matters To Musicians

  03-03-2022 23:28 via fastcompany.com
  
  With Bandcamp’s model, buying an album feels like an investment in both the music and the artist, and as a result it’s the best place to buy music on the web. – Fast Company
  
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• New Dr. Seuss Books Inspired By His Sketches

  03-03-2022 23:01 via deadline.com
  
  Leaving nothing to chance after the previous book banning, the new works will be written, drawn and edited by what’s described as a group of writers and artists from “diverse racial backgrounds.” – Deadline
  
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• Spotify Quits Russia

  03-03-2022 22:31 via deadline.com
  
  Spotify said Wednesday it has closed its office in Russia indefinitely because of the “unprovoked attack on Ukraine.” Social media companies with more than 500,000 daily users must have local offices in Russia, according to that country’s law. – Deadline
  
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• The First TikTok War

  03-03-2022 22:01 via newyorker.com
  
  The war has become content, flowing across every platform at once. A single tweet earned the clip more than ten million views, but it could also be found on YouTube, TikTok, and the sites of various news publications. – The New Yorker
  
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• What If The Internet Is Actually A Living Thing?

  03-03-2022 21:32 via wired.com
  
  Could it be that the internet is not best seen as a lifeless artifact, contraption, gadget, or mere tool, but as a living system, or as a natural product of the activity of a living system? – Wired
  
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• For John Cameron Mitchell, There’s Acting And “All The Other Stuff”

  03-03-2022 21:03 via vulture.com
  
  “‘Acting is what pays the bills,’ he says.” (In fact, it just paid for a house in New Orleans.) “‘All the other stuff is too experimental or unusual’ — collaborative albums, a narrative podcast featuring a singing brain tumor — ‘to actually make a living.'” – New York Magazine
  
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• Taking a Page from Baldwin: Book-Reading as a Violence Coping and Prevention Strategy

  03-03-2022 21:00 via artsjournal.com
  In 1963, James Baldwin told a LIFE magazine reporter: “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected to me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
  Baldwin, who wrote and spoke repeatedly about the
  
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• Demobbed dreamers bring back the zing – Postwar Modern review

  03-03-2022 17:17
  
  Barbican, London
  Fitting this exploding era into one show is impossible – but this fascinating exhibition is still crammed with surprises and delights, from austere pots and pans to a husband painted as cross-dressing Renaissance bride
  Sixty years after he painted it, you can still catch the reek of cheap oil paint and linseed oil coming off Leon Kossoff’s 1962 Willesden Junction, Early Morning. With its glutinous and heaving sea of wrinkled paint, Kossoff’s city is the colour
  
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• 10 enchanted gardens: beautiful and quirky spaces

  03-03-2022 13:00
  
  Our pick of truly unique gardens inspired by everything from black holes and poison to kidnap and cats According to its co-creator, Sir Roy Colin Strong: “A garden is an ever-evolving creation – like a painting that is never finished.” Strong and his wife, Julia Trevelyan Oman, started work on what was a bare, four-acre field in the mid-70s. At the time, they were both immersed in the art world: Strong as director of the National Portrait Gallery and, later, the Victoria and Al
  
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• Donatello bronzes moved in Italy for groundbreaking exhibition

  03-03-2022 12:02
  
  Renaissance works transported for first time since the artist installed them in churches 600 years agoA collection of bronzes sculpted by Renaissance master Donatello have been moved for the first time from the Italian churches where he installed them 600 years ago so that they can be displayed at a ground-breaking exhibition in FlorenceThree of the four pieces, a relief, a statue and two bronze doors, from Siena Cathedral and San Lorenzo baptistery in Florence, are also being restored to their
  
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