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• Why Are We So Attracted To Disaster Stories?

  31-05-2022 23:32 via thedailybeast.com
  
  Maybe we rubberneck over disasters because we are bored by our relatively cushy safety. Or maybe we can’t avoid the threats as they creep up on us, which only encourages more distraction.  – The Daily Beast
  
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• Writer Who Wrote About Killing Husband Is Convicted Of Killing Husband

  31-05-2022 23:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Ms. Brophy, who had written self-published romance novels, had once speculated in a 2011 blog post that a wife who kills her spouse must be “ruthless” and “very clever” because she is likely to become a prime suspect. – The New York Times
  
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• How They Lifted A Historic Times Square Theatre Thirty Feet

  31-05-2022 22:25 via nytimes.com
  
  The theater, which weighs 14 million pounds, is a protected landmark, meaning the structure, from the stage to the balcony, had to be moved without suffering as much as a crack in the delicate plasterwork adorning ceilings, arches and box seats. – The New York Times
  
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• The Problem With Times Square

  31-05-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The more crowded Times Square becomes with visitors, the more off-putting it is for the white-collar office workers who now have the choice to work from home. – The New York Times
  
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• The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It

  31-05-2022 21:31 via nytimes.com
  
  The root is simple: The internet is broken because the internet is a business. While the issues are various and complex, they are inextricable from the fact that the internet is owned by private firms and is run for profit. – The New York Times
  
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• The U.S. Military Has An Enormous Art Collection

  31-05-2022 21:04 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “Each of the five branches of the US military (the air force, army, coast guard, marines and navy) has its own collection, curator and exhibition schedule. Most of the works in these collections do not show violence … (but rather) enlisted soldiers’ day-to-day routines.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Has NYC Finally Gotten serious About Prosecuting The Illegal Antiquities Trade?

  31-05-2022 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “That’s unheard of. It used to be a gentleman’s sport done by gentleman for gentleman. Now these gentleman and gentlewomen of the trade are getting hand-cuffed. People who have wings of museums named after them aren’t accustomed to being handcuffed and that has had an impact.” – The Guardian
  
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• Wisconsin May Lose NEA Money Because GOP Legislators Won’t Provide Matching Funds

  31-05-2022 20:01 via tonemadison.com
  
  “Every year, the NEA parcels out federal funding to state-level arts agencies … to distribute as individual grants. The states have to match this money. For the latest round of these grants, the Arts Board is waiting for the state to put up its share of the match.” – Tone (Madison, WI)
  
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• Three things with Paul Bui: ‘It was a much-needed escape from a white, heteronormative town’

  31-05-2022 19:49
  
  In our weekly interview about objects, the creative director to the stars tells us about his old, ‘cringe’ poetry, and the graphic novel he’d save from a burning houseRead more Three things interviews hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastPaul Bui’s career spans fashion, music and community work. He has served as creative director of London style magazine The Face, edited Australian fashion bible Oyster Mag and recently founded Community
  
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• Garrison Keillor’s Next Act

  31-05-2022 19:32 via saturdayeveningpost.com
  
  “I feel like I’m starting a new life as a writer,” he says to me. “What I have is a pleasure in writing that is greater than it used to be. That may be a rare occurrence for a writer. Most of the ones I know are kind of winding down. I don’t feel that I am.” – Saturday Evening Post
  
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• “Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)” — Yep, That’s The Title

  31-05-2022 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “Blair is played by the comedian Charlie Baker. Saddam Hussein, with moustache and cigar, is given a Groucho Marx makeover. (Playwright Harry) Hill describes the show’s Cherie Blair as ‘a cross between Lily Savage and Lili Marleen – seductive, but coarse’. And ‘we have a woman playing Osama bin Laden’.” – The Guardian
  
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• It’s no Mona Lisa, but this portrait of the Queen by a robot may well be art | Letter

  31-05-2022 19:02
  
  With a team of humans involved in supporting Ai-Da, it may be the 21st century’s iteration of the great masters’ Renaissance studios, says Rebecca KeatingYour article on the robot artist Ai-Da’s portrait of the Queen raised some interesting questions on AI’s ability to produce art (But is it art, Ma’am? Robot’s platinum jubilee Queen portrait unveiled, 27 May).Jonathan Jones, the Guardian’s art critic, argues that Ai-Da fails the Turing test, which requi
  
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• Not Just Top Gun: US Military Has Had Editorial Control Over Thousands Of Movies

  31-05-2022 18:31 via latimes.com
  
  The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have exercised direct editorial control over more than 2,500 films and television shows. These discoveries raise questions about the government’s reach at a time when deciphering propaganda from fact has become increasingly difficult. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Once Again, France’s Government Attempts To Eliminate English From French Tech Jargon

  31-05-2022 18:02 via uk.finance.yahoo.com
  
  This time it’s about video gaming. “While some expressions find obvious translations — ‘pro-gamer’ becomes ‘joueur professionnel‘ — others seem a more strained, as ‘streamer’ is transformed into ‘joueur-animateur en direct‘.” – Yahoo! (AFP)
  
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• First Look: Pix Of Bradley Cooper As Leonard Bernstein

  31-05-2022 17:31 via variety.com
  
  “I (told Spielberg), ‘I always felt like I could play a conductor, but may I research the material and see if I can write it and direct it? Would you let me do that?’” Cooper said. – Variety
  
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• Is Thomas Heatherwick’s Tree of Trees the new Marble Arch Mound?

  31-05-2022 17:30
  
  Amid accusations of greenwashing, the designer’s steel-tree gift to the Queen appears to be a dangerously inept heir to London’s other recent urban misfire Continue reading...
  
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• Writing In “The ‘New Yorker’ Sort Of Voice” (And Knowing When To Leave It Behind)

  31-05-2022 17:04 via artsjournal.com
  “It is a voice of intelligent curiosity; it implies that the writer has synthesized a great deal of information; it confidently takes readers by the hand. … It is an effective voice for a lot of long-form journalism, but it was not for the book I was trying to write.” – Public Books
  
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• Will Rogers — A Proudly Indian Actor In John Ford’s Cowboy-Movie America

  31-05-2022 16:31 via criterion.com
  
  He was born into the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in 1879; his grandparents had survived the Trail of Tears. “Despite his consistent and very vocal pride about being Indigenous, his image did not fit with the public’s assumptions of what a Native American ought to look like.” – The Criterion Collection
  
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• How Choreographers Are Adapting The Dance Films They Made During Quarantine For Live Performance

  31-05-2022 16:03 via pointemagazine.com
  
  “What goes into transforming a work from screen to stage? What gets added, lost or modified? Pointe spoke with three choreographers to learn what made the process challenging and interesting.” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• ‘Sleep with everyone! Be embarrassing!’ – the dada baroness who shocked society

  31-05-2022 15:59
  
  She wore soup-can bras, made an explicit film with Man Ray – and may have inspired Marcel Duchamp’s upturned urinal. We explore a thrilling show celebrating the pacy life of‘The Baroness’Towering over crowds at the Venice Biennale, a fortysomething woman poses in a wild homemade costume, that includes beribboned matador pants and a hat like an upturned saucepan. In another photo, smaller and taken around 1920, she crouches on one leg like a stork, sprouting feathers and d
  
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• Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower Is Being Demolished, Yes, But Some Capsules Are Going To Museums

  31-05-2022 15:35 via apnews.com
  
  “The preservation project calls for some of the capsules to allow for real-life living in a separate locale. Those in museums will be refinished by the Kurokawa architectural office, which went over the original designs to figure out how each box could be detached with minimal damage.” – AP
  
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• Brazilian Music Legend Milton Nascimento To Give His Final Tour

  31-05-2022 15:02 via theguardian.com
  
  “As Nascimento nears his ninth decade of life, the inimitable Afro-Brazilian vocalist is preparing to retire from the stages that have made him one of South America’s most venerated troubadours.” – The Guardian
  
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• Britain Won’t Have To Have Kevin Spacey Extradited To Face Sexual Assault Charges

  31-05-2022 14:34 via abcnews.go.com
  
  “I will voluntarily appear in the U.K. as soon as can be arranged and defend myself against these charges,” said the disgraced actor in a statement, “which I am confident will prove my innocence.” – ABC News
  
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• This Guy Dressed Up As An Old Lady, Rolled His Wheelchair Into The Louvre, And Threw A Cake At The Mona Lisa

  31-05-2022 14:07 via cnn.com
  
  “Think of planet Earth, there are people destroying it,” he proclaimed as security guards dragged him away. Don’t worry: the painting’s fine, and the protective glass in front of it has been cleaned. – CNN
  
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