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• Another Attempt At MoviePass

  22-08-2022 23:14 via artsjournal.com
  It’s been a bumpy road, one with high highs and low lows, for MoviePass. The company shot to notoriety in 2017 by offering customers in any city the option to see one movie each day for $9.99 a month. The too-good-to-be-sustainable price point proved to be economically ruinous. – Variety
  
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• Why Are You Reading This?

  22-08-2022 22:32 via lareviewofbooks.org
  
  The white liberal reading style “has dictated that we go to writers of color for the gooey heart-porn of the ethnographic: to learn about forgotten history, harrowing tragedy, community-destroying political upheaval, genocide, trauma.” Such was the problem with the way I saw these Black writers taken up on Bookstagram.  – LA Review of Books
  
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• The rowdy satire of Gordon Hookey: ‘I don’t take my art seriously at all’

  22-08-2022 19:30
  
  The Waanyi artist is taking on the global rise of the right in his playful works, poking fun at Trump and ‘Tukka Cullsin’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn the paintings of Waanyi artist Gordon Hookey, armies of tough kangaroos and other native animals, such as possums, goannas, crocodiles and snakes, represent Australia’s Indigenous peoples. Invasive species such as cane toads and camels, meanwhile, “represent the ugliness of invasive peoples to our lands, cou
  
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• Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

  22-08-2022 18:00
  
  The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’The first survey of US artist Carolee Schneemann’s (1939-2019) work in the UK, the show celebrates a radical artist and feminist agent-provocateur, tracing her development from early paintings and assemblage to confrontational performances using her b
  
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• Flaming heck! If you’ve got money to burn, why not torch your art?

  22-08-2022 10:00
  
  From accidental conflagrations to planned incineration, nothing turns up the heat of art world commerce like a blazeDamien Hirst may not be pickling animals these days, but his latest stunt, The Currency, has caused equivalent relish and scorn. Having painstakingly created 10,000 dot paintings in 2016, Hirst is now combining three of the most annoying things in art – self-sabotage, NFTs and insane amounts of money – by offering every buyer an ultimatum: choose between the digital or
  
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