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• The History Of Books In Defining The World

  12-12-2022 23:31 via theguardian.com
  Since all reading at that time occurred out loud rather than inside one’s head, the study rooms were a modern librarian’s nightmare: no one seemed to understand the requirement to shush. Silent reading, when it eventually arrived, seemed highly suspect and slightly sneaky. – The Guardian
  
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• Rise Of The Virtual AI Girl Bands

  12-12-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  In fact, there’s mainly one big difference between them and any other pop group you might know – all 11 members are virtual characters. Non-humans, hyper-real avatars made with artificial intelligence. – BBC
  
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• Crappy Pay Is Pushing Writers Out Of Publishing

  12-12-2022 22:29 via theguardian.com
  The report shows a drop in the proportion of full-time authors from 40% of those surveyed in 2006 to just 19% today. This shows that we cannot keep relying on the assumption that people will find money from elsewhere to sustain their writing: many are leaving the profession. – The Guardian
  
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• Some Fears About The Future Of Choreography

  12-12-2022 22:01 via gramilano.com
  Difficult conversations about intention, taste, and editing are vital for the sake of developing successful new work. With focused training, and subsequent appropriate delivery happening on both sides of the studio, these imperative, complex exchanges seem all the more feasible. – Gramilano
  
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• Have We Reached The End Of Our Love Affair With Celebrity Memoirs?

  12-12-2022 21:32 via theguardian.com
  According to industry magazine the Bookseller, hardback sales of celebrity autobiographies are down compared to last year, when titles by Billy Connolly, Bob Mortimer and Dave Grohl all sold more than 100,000 copies in the period from August to November. – The Guardian
  
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• This Year’s Turner Prize Winner Is Older. Makes Sense.

  12-12-2022 21:02 via artsjournal.com
  There is something universally cheery and comforting about the phrase “oldest ever winner” – designed to put a glint in the middle-aged eye and send lapsed artists everywhere rifling through drawers for their box of watercolours. – The Guardian
  
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• Has Spotify Actually Cracked The Code To Your Musical Taste?

  12-12-2022 20:31 via theguardian.com
  “People often think about taste as being really individual,. But in the social sciences we say: ‘Ah, that’s not really true.’ Your tastes are part of a broader social patterning that extends beyond you.” – The Guardian
  
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• Has TikTok Killed The Pop Music Bridge?

  12-12-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  If you have listened to pop music at all in the past few years, you may have noticed that something is missing. The bridge – that part of the song where verse and chorus give way to an alternate section that ramps up the tension (or the fun) – is seemingly on the wane. – […]
  
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• How The Greatest Generation Of Physicists Upended The World

  12-12-2022 19:34 via wsj.com
  The era upended the world as these men and women knew it, both scientifically and socially, and they heatedly debated how to reconceptualize their discipline in light of discoveries about subatomic particles and their probabilistic behaviors. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Just Who Is Victoria Ryan, This Year’s Turner Prize Winner?

  12-12-2022 19:02 via hyperallergic.com
  The Caribbean-English artist Ryan, who is 66 years old, is the second Black woman and the oldest artist to ever win the prize, which comes with a monetary award of £25,000 (~$30,594). But for many, the artist may not be a household name. – Hyperallergic
  
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• A Century On, Looking Back At Three Classics That Were Deliberately Difficult

  12-12-2022 18:30 via bostonreview.net
  These books are deliberately, self-consciously challenging, in content and in form. They are also hard, beautiful, powerful, and brilliant. That account of their greatness and difficulty—they are great because they are difficult, and difficult because they are great—is a story that was itself invented. – Boston Review
  
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• Selfies Are Robbing Museum-Goers Of Experience

  12-12-2022 18:01 via hyperallergic.com
  I can’t help but think that the artwork people are photographing in museums is falling on myopic eyes. Museumgoers are increasingly regarding the work they find in art museums as an accoutrement to their existence, to their world. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Social Media Influencers Are Crashing Right Now

  12-12-2022 17:32 via wired.com
  What does content creation look like during a cost-of-living crisis, when more and more people are shut out of the lifestyle that luxury influencers flaunt? And how will brands, agencies, and creators themselves navigate this changing landscape? – Wired
  
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• Maybe Not This Art, But Some Art Should Be Attacked By Vandals?

  12-12-2022 17:02 via npr.org
  Every art lover, Blake Gopnik included, is aghast at the potential damage to cultural treasures. But he’s also aghast at the damage being wreaked upon the world. These works of art may not deserve to be attacked by climate activists, Gopnik says, but perhaps that’s not true of all of them. – NPR
  
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• Kindred spirits: books, music, art and more about seeing family

  12-12-2022 11:00
  From an unconventional depiction of maternal holiness to weird, festive murder-thrillers, our critics select culture for coping with the clanAs leader of 2010s indie outfit the Maccabees, Orlando Weeks’s trembly, distinctive vocals marked him out as an unusually tender frontman. His 2020 solo debut A Quickening wears this sentimentality even more proudly, immortalising the joys and nerves of first-time parenthood. Set to atmospheric piano, sleepless nights collide with twinkling milestones
  
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• Digital witness: the artists making virtual realms from lived experience

  12-12-2022 09:00
  While big tech has revealed the darker side of technology, a new exhibition in Liverpool explores how digital tools can be harnessed for goodCan technology be harnessed to help liberate rather than oppress us? Corporations are unlikely to be much use – but art might.It is this possibility that underpins Radical Ancestry, a 16-month-long programme of residencies, events and exhibitions at Fact Liverpool, an organisation that supports artists and film-makers. With a series of commissions by
  
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