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• Art, science and a reef made of sugar: an exploration of climate change

  08-07-2022 22:00
  
  Ken and Julia Yonetani’s works began with QUT scientists, exploring impacts of farming on the environmentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailKen and Julia Yonetani’s work exposes hidden connections of capitalism and overconsumption to environmental collapse, plays with eroticism and anxiety, and references the Greek gods of love and death, Eros and Thanatos.But their series of works, Dysbiotica, began when they spat into a vial.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of mus
  
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• What Was (Or What Is) The Chitlin Circuit?

  08-07-2022 16:01 via atlasobscura.com
  
  It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many great musicians and actors got their start.  It still exists, on a smaller scale, as a touring circuit for Black-oriented popular plays and music. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace The Originals?  In Fact, Someone’s Doing Exactly That.

  08-07-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from Carrara marble; those copies would go to London as the originals returned to Athens. Not everyone is on board with this plan. – The New York Times
  
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• A Battle Breaks Out Over Who Gets To Design And Make Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman Monument

  08-07-2022 15:03 via news.artnet.com
  
  When Wesley Wofford’s touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent version. Some Black artists are furious that they didn’t even get to submit designs; officials say they can’t just turn Wofford’s idea over to someone else. – Artnet
  
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• As Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership Collapsed, British TV News Got Very, Very Weird

  08-07-2022 14:34 via variety.com
  
  Featured on the commercial networks’ coverage this week: a “Government Resignations Ticker”, an anti-Brexit campaigner belting “Bye Bye Boris”, a discussion of the Tories’ future set to “Yakety Sax” (played at actor Hugh Grant’s request), a star cameo by 10 Downing Street’s resident cat, and a psychic pig. – Variety
  
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• Actor James Caan Dead At 82

  08-07-2022 14:05 via msn.com
  
  “(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond his macho exterior, a versatile performer of wry expressiveness and unexpected vulnerability.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Turner’s turn-ons and Freud’s family affair – the week in art

  08-07-2022 13:00
  
  The great landscape artist’s lesser known erotic art goes on show while Lucian Freud is at Sigmund’s house and Jay Jopling’s White Cube crew are off to the countryside – all in your weekly dispatchBetween the Sheets: Turner’s Nudes
  JMW Turner is famous for landscapes but he also loved to paint erotica. His secret stash of sensuality gets an airing at the house he designed for himself near his beloved River Thames.
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• Warning: Current Streaming Model Is Rotten, Must Change

  08-07-2022 00:01 via deadline.com
  
  The longer that this new “business model” is allowed to operate, the harder it will be to change. I often think about how 25 years ago the introduction of the DVD became a cautionary lesson in when you choose to fight.  – Deadline
  
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