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• A Military Expert Defines What A Coup Is

  02-05-2022 23:14 via artsjournal.com
  January 6th was an extreme attack. But it was not a coup d’état. Because a coup d’état is not a demonstrative action, where you go around shouting obscenities and doing noisy things. It’s a thing where you have figured out the control levers of the system and how you can physically dominate them. – The Point
  
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• How China Built Enormous Influence Over American Entertainment

  02-05-2022 22:31 via muse.jhu.edu
  China’s growing clout in global media extends beyond movies to the entertainment industry generally. Capital investments by U.S. firms in ventures such as the Shanghai Disney Resort and the Universal Beijing Resort give Chinese officials still more levers with which to control U.S. media conglomerates. – Journal of Democracy
  
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• Influencer Culture Takes Over Academia

  02-05-2022 21:44 via salon.com
  
  In the persistent wake of the pandemic, the pressure for scholars to self-promote has only intensified. Starved for opportunities to share our latest findings at in-person conferences, we take to Twitter, Instagram, or perhaps our email signature to hype our new books and articles. – Salon
  
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• Netflix Employees Worry Company Is Unraveling

  02-05-2022 21:01 via latimes.com
  
  The company’s response have stirred a mix of angst and uncertainty among many rank-and-file workers. Some are worried that the streaming heavyweight may have hired too fast and grown complacent as subscriber growth skyrocketed in the early days of the pandemic. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Fears About Disappearing Ukrainian Culture

  02-05-2022 20:14 via artsjournal.com
  Museum curators and conservators are especially worried that because of the amount of un-digitalized catalogues and other existing print materials in archives and libraries, some very vulnerable materials are in danger of being lost completely. – Aisle Say
  
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• Bet You Didn’t Know Hyphens Were Controversial

  02-05-2022 19:29 via newyorker.com
  
  The hyphen underwent an assault from a different corner in 2007, when Angus Stevenson, an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, removed the hyphens from sixteen thousand words. – The New Yorker
  
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• Does Playing Word Games Make Us Better?

  02-05-2022 18:44 via washingtonpost.com
  At heart, they just expose our funny, brilliant, quirky humanness. We love riddles because they show how we’re “rationalization machines. We are great at finding patterns where none exist.” And if we don’t find the pattern? That’s our humanness, too. – Washington Post
  
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• Black women making a mark in the arts goes back at least a generation | Letters

  02-05-2022 18:12
  
  Black women from the 1950s and 1960s should not be forgotten and written out of history, says Anya Edmond-Pettitt, and Jennifer Henley champions the artist Sharon WaltersBernardine Evaristo rightly highlights the way that Black female artists, writers and actors are finally getting public attention (‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women, 28 April). But the belated recognition of the role of Black women in the arts and as unco
  
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• Jack the Ripper and the paper-thin case against Walter Sickert | Letters

  02-05-2022 18:09
  
  Simon Casimir Wilson says there is no connection between the killer and the artist, while Dr Anette Magnussen feels uneasy about Tate Britain’s exhibitionJonathan Jones’s review of the Walter Sickert exhibition at Tate Britain gives fresh credence to the idea that Sickert had some connection to the Jack the Ripper murders (Walter Sickert review – serial killer, fantasist or self-hater? This hellish, brilliant show only leaves questions, 26 April). In his acclaimed 2005 biograph
  
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• How Maia Kobabe’s Graphic Novel Became The Most-Banned Book In American Schools

  02-05-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Suddenly, Kobabe was at the center of a nationwide battle over which books belong in schools — and who gets to make that decision. The debate, raging in school board meetings and town halls, is dividing communities around the country and pushing libraries to the front lines of a simmering culture war. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘A sense of radical possibility’: re-examining the great migration through art

  02-05-2022 17:08
  
  In a new exhibition titled A Movement in Every Direction, the migration of Black Americans from the rural south to the urban north has inspired a range of new artworkThe way we talk about the great migration is often oversimplified, limiting it to the movement of Black Americans from the rural south to the urban north through the early and mid 20th century. But there are many more stories of the Great Migration than just this one. The new joint exhibition between the Mississippi Museum of Art an
  
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• Edinburgh show will display street photographer’s never-before-seen work

  02-05-2022 09:00
  
  University will host major survey of Robert Blomfield’s shots of student life in 1950s and 60sPreviously unseen work by a photographer who captured life in Edinburgh and has been compared to the great Henri Cartier-Bresson is to go on display at an exhibition in the city where he lived and worked.Robert Blomfield moved to Edinburgh from Yorkshire and studied medicine in the city while living a second life as a pioneering street photographer who shifted between shooting university students,
  
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• Pot heads: why everyone’s fired up about ceramics

  02-05-2022 07:00
  
  Seth Rogen and Serena Williams have joined the growing ranks of amateur potters, and fashion designers are being drawn to the wheel too. We get our hands dirty with the new ceramicistsIt’s Saturday morning and a group of women are standing in a nervous huddle, waiting to see if the vases and bowls they popped into the kiln last week have survived. “That came out really nice,” says one student. “Oh, wow!” proclaims another, holding up a small bowl. “I’m s
  
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