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• Jeff Bezos Says He’ll Give Away Most Of His Money. So How?

  14-11-2022 23:15 via deadline.com
  “The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way,” he said. “It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work — a bunch of very smart, hard-working teammates, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren is finding the same thing — that charity, philanthropy, is very similar.” – Deadline
  
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• Science Defines The Modern Age, Right? So How Did We Get It So Wrong?

  14-11-2022 22:31 via 3quarksdaily.com
  How is it that the dawning of the age of reason, which saw science and technology become preeminent in western culture, coincided with the industrial revolution, which is turning out to be disastrous for the natural world and, quite possibly, humanity too? – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Maurice Sendak’s Dance Between Art And Music

  14-11-2022 21:46 via artforum.com
  Music was an essential ingredient in Sendak’s creative process. “The work can’t happen without music,” he said in 1994. “I think everything I’ve done is a collaboration with a composer.”  – ArtForum
  
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• Fresno Voters Approved A Measure To Spend Millions On The Arts. Now The City Is Treating It Like Slush Fund

  14-11-2022 21:01 via munroreview.com
  Measure P went before Fresno voters in November 2018 to add a 3/8th-cent increase to the sales tax for 30 years to benefit parks and arts. It appears the measure will generate $7 million in this fiscal year, and combined with a carryover from the previous year, the actual pot is $10.5 million. – Munro Review
  
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• Historically We Have Been Defined By Our Geographies. That May Be Changing

  14-11-2022 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Geopoliticians’ reluctance to reckon with the climate crisis comes from their sense that there are only two options: transcend the landscape or live with it. Either globalisation will release us from physical constraints or we’ll remain trapped by them. – The Guardian
  
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• 480,000 University Of California Academic Workers Walk Off The Job Over Pay

  14-11-2022 19:31 via latimes.com
  About 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses — who perform the majority of teaching and research at the state’s premier higher education system — walked off the job Monday morning, calling for better pay and benefits. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Joe Lycett should donate £10,000, not shred it | Brief letters

  14-11-2022 18:47
  Money better spent | Recipes for protest | A fragile ecosystem | World Cup coverageI am writing to beg Joe Lycett to donate his £10,000 to Trussell Trust food banks or any charity or school desperate for funds (Joe Lycett to shred £10,000 if David Beckham promotes World Cup in Qatar, 13 November). Shredding money when so many are in need nowadays is just wanton destruction.Ariella ListerMill Hill, London• As the person who cooked in a safe house for those going out on action dur
  
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• Why Do So Many New Movies Look Like Crap On The Big Screen?

  14-11-2022 18:44 via washingtonpost.com
  As a practical matter, turning out movies that look worse in a theater than they might on a TV screen is a real problem for an industry that desperately needs box office revenue to survive. – Washington Post
  
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• The Science Of Violins’ “Phantom Notes”

  14-11-2022 17:56 via artsjournal.com
  The team found that all violins produced combination tones, but the oldest instruments produced the strongest ones. The magnitude of the most prominent combination tone for the oldest violin, made in Bologna in 1700, was about 75 per cent larger than the one from a modern mass-produced instrument. – New Scientist
  
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• Study: Rats Move In Time To Music

  14-11-2022 17:32 via artsjournal.com
  Researchers in Japan played Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) for 10 rats, and tiny wireless accelerometers affixed to the animals’ heads revealed that the rodents subtly nodded in sync with the musical beat. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A Guide To All 25 National Book Award Finalists

  14-11-2022 17:00 via vox.com
  Which debut novel might hear its name called? Will nonfiction about viruses or chronic illness defeat Imani Perry’s sweeping take on the history of the South? And in young people’s literature, will a high school lesbian crush or a 12-year-old Chinese American in Minnesota prevail? – Vox
  
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• Designers Pushing the Envelope . ? .

  14-11-2022 16:47 via artsjournal.com
  The New York Times Magazine used to have a
  
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• Inside The Fight To Save The Unauthorized Trans Joker Movie

  14-11-2022 16:30 via latimes.com
  The director “was certain that viewers would never mistake her absurdist, autobiographical … queer coming-of-age film, in which the titular heroine battles gender dysphoria and a toxic romance with a fellow comedian, for an official DC Comics movie.” Warner Bros. disagreed. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Amazon Enables The Shady, Lucrative Book Rip-Off Business

  14-11-2022 16:00 via theatlantic.com
  Summary Culture gone wild: “I was flattered that these folks, whoever they are, had bothered to rip off my book. But I was also pissed. I was angry on behalf of any and all unsuspecting readers who had ordered a workbook, only to receive these worthless word salads.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Harvard Says It Has Hair Samples From 700 Native American Students

  14-11-2022 15:45 via hyperallergic.com
  The hair samples were taken from children at residential schools between 1930 and 1933. The Peabody Museum “apologized to Indigenous tribal nations and descendants … and indicated that it had initiated the process of returning samples to families and tribes.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• How Tech Like Spotify, Facebook, And Google Lock Us In

  14-11-2022 15:30 via irishtimes.com
  And how they rip us, and artists, off as well. “Large firms can corner audiences and put them into a sort of corral. And because creators need to reach those audiences, these large firms can take whatever it is you have of worth.” – Irish Times
  
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• Former train station on banks of Seine to house Giacometti museum

  14-11-2022 15:22
  World’s largest collection of Swiss artist’s work will be housed in the former Gare des Invalides from 2026The Swiss Surrealist sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti is to have a new museum in a former train station in Paris after fears the world’s largest collection of his work could be moved abroad.The Giacometti Foundation will take up residence in the former Gare des Invalides, better known in postwar years as the former headquarters for Air France. Its opening is schedul
  
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• Restoring, And Unveiling, A Long Censored Nude By Artemisia Gentileschi

  14-11-2022 15:15 via theguardian.com
  And by long, we’re talking centuries. “Swirling veils and drapery were added to Allegory of Inclination about 70 years after Gentileschi painted the lifesize female nude, believed to be a self-portrait, in 1616.” – The Guardian (AP)
  
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• Elizabeth Price review – carpet-focused show is a rich weave of politics and passion

  14-11-2022 15:09
  Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
  An investigation by the Turner-winner into psychedelic rug-makers Stoddard and Templeton yields rich insights into the worlds of work and studyTo enter Elizabeth Price’s exhibition Underfoot you must first walk up a concrete spiral staircase, like a thread wound around a spool. Once you reach the top, Price’s new film clicks into being. Inverted black-and-white images of Glasgow’s Mitchell Library pop up, its reading rooms and desks juxtaposed on
  
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• ‘Magic in your own back yard’: Danish artist hides enormous trolls deep in Western Australia

  14-11-2022 15:00
  Featuring six trolls made out of salvaged scrap wood, Thomas Dambo’s Giants of Mandurah are towering tributes to sustainability, adventure and imaginationGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“I was a total headache for my parents growing up,” says Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo, perched on the trunk of a eucalyptus tree in the bushland of Mandurah, an hour south of Perth. “I had so much energy and I loved building stuff, but I was so impatient. If I had an idea,
  
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• How Did Harper Bliss Write Nearly 40 Novels In Eleven Years?

  14-11-2022 15:00 via slate.com
  Well, first of all, the romance author doesn’t think that’s quite enough: “I’m now writing my third book this year. I always aim for four. Four is like the magic number, but I don’t think it’s actually happened.” – Slate
  
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• Turning Margaret Atwood’s ‘MaddAdam’ Into Dance

  14-11-2022 14:45 via theglobeandmail.com
  Imagine making a ballet of this: “The novels that constitute the MaddAddam trilogy are set in a world where genetic engineering has produced a variety of new creatures: raccoon-skunk hybrid pets; guard dogs who look sweetly domestic but are as ferocious as wolves; and supersized pigs.” – The Globe and Mail
  
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• Alan Rubin, Co-Founder Of Washington’s Biograph Theater, Has Died At 85

  14-11-2022 14:30 via washingtonpost.com
  Rubin was a geologist before he discovered the joys of art films in San Francisco. “For nearly three decades before it went dark in 1996, the 270-seat Biograph was an oasis for a small but devoted class of film buffs.” – Washington Post
  
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• The UK’s Official Singles Chart Turns 70, And Looks Back On Its Many Controversies

  14-11-2022 14:15 via bbc.com
  There was the case of the vanishing Beatles hit, the decision around “Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead” after Margaret Thatcher’s death, and the whole question of a tie. – BBC
  
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• At HarperCollins, The People Who Make The Books Are On Strike

  14-11-2022 14:00 via npr.org
  “It’s been a long negotiation process for the approximately 250 union members. This includes people working in publicity, design, marketing and more – all the parts of putting out a book that you usually don’t see.” – NPR
  
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• To Stop Climate Activists, One Madrid Museum Is Adding A Police Presence

  14-11-2022 13:45 via hyperallergic.com
  At the Reina Sofia, “security measures have been reinforced, including the presence of undercover members of the police forces.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• The New ‘Black Panther’ Movie Sets A Box Office Record

  14-11-2022 13:30 via latimes.com
  “The highly anticipated sequel to Disney and Marvel Studios’ 2018 blockbuster Black Panther shattered the domestic opening weekend record for the month of November,” despite the pandemic and a generally sluggish box office. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Pitch perfect: books, music, art and more about football

  14-11-2022 11:00
  With the Qatar World Cup imminent, our critics offer up cultural highlights – from a damning tale of homophobia to David Peace’s Damned Utd – about the ‘beautiful game’People stream out of every corner of a smoky city in Going to the Match, a 1953 painting by the renowned master of matchstick figures LS Lowry. Everyone seems compelled by a magnetic attraction, approaching the football ground as if it contains the holy grail or a UFO. And Lowry shows us why this game
  
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