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• Going To The Cinema Is A ‘Deeply Human Experience’ That Streaming Can Never Provide

  30-07-2023 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The beauty of going to the movies was never just about the films on the screens — it was about the way we all gathered to watch them.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Dick Van Dyke’s the loser in the sweep stakes | Brief letters

  30-07-2023 18:32
  
  Van Dyke v van Dyck | Yorkshires and custard |Ulez row | Green party | Smartphone seniorsI wish to take issue with Orlando Goodden (Letters, 27 July). From what I recall of the film Mary Poppins, Anthony van Dyck was probably closer to being a cockney chimney sweep than Dick Van Dyke.Geoff WilliamsLondon• Both my parents worked when I was at primary school in Hyde, Cheshire, so I used to avoid school dinners by having lunch with my godparents, who lived next door. Their speciality was a lar
  
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• A Brief Cultural History Of Crying While Reading

  30-07-2023 18:30 via lithub.com
  
  In the nineteenth century, “The tears were a form of praise. The femaleness of response, though, became a negative.” Until the trauma plot, and the meme “Do you even cry, bro?” – LitHub
  
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• Has Nero’s Theatre Been Found In Rome?

  30-07-2023 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  At a 15th century palace that will become a Four Seasons Hotel, “to the archaeologists’ surprise — and immense delight — the dig brought to light traces of a first-century theater that the team believes was built by Nero.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Paradox Of Vanishing Land Art

  30-07-2023 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  As Beverly Buchanan’s Marsh Ruins sink into the marsh, questions arise. “What should be done when a work is major partly because the artist invited its decay? Perhaps the Marsh Ruins challenge us to rethink the possibilities of conservation itself.” – The New York Times
  
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• You Can Read Esperanto Literature In Translation

  30-07-2023 17:00 via washingtonpost.com
  It does feel a bit ironic, but it’s good to have, for instance, Ukranian writer Vasily Eroshenko’s “set of Esperanto fairy tales — stories about mice and flowers and paper lanterns — that are quaint on the surface but also scathing critiques of Western civilization’s deficiencies” in English. – Washington Post
  
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• The Actors Hold A Star-Studded Rally In Times Square

  30-07-2023 16:30 via cbc.ca
  
  “If you can announce the highest-viewed this and the highest profits in that, then you can track our residuals. So we need to come to the table but we need to come to the table in good faith that there will be transparency.” – CBC
  
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• Pamela Blair, Original ‘Chorus Line’ Member, Has Died At 73

  30-07-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Blair sang “Looks: 10; Dance: 3,” or as it’s known to every theatre kid, “Tits and Ass.” Her character Val’s “brassy solo … was a paean to the benefits of silicone, among them the national tours Val was hired for.” – The New York Times
  
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• The US Picks Indigenous Artist Jeffrey Gibson For Venice Biennale

  30-07-2023 15:30 via npr.org
  
  This is a first. “Although Indigenous artists have shown work more broadly in Venice over the years, the last time Indigenous artists appeared in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale was in 1932 — and that was in a group setting.” – NPR
  
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• The Anti-CGI Backlash Is Here

  30-07-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  And it’s earning a lot of money at the box office. For instance, “Greta Gerwig used techniques dating back to silent film and soundstage musicals to bring her fantastical, hot-pink vision of Barbieland to life.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Dear Studios: AI Is Also Coming For You

  30-07-2023 14:30 via fastcompany.com
  OK, this sounds nightmarish: “AI doesn’t need Hollywood. It just needs itself. And AI will be able to offer audiences what Hollywood can’t: movies uniquely tailored to a single individual’s tastes.” – Fast Company
  
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• Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden; Jean Cooke: Ungardening review – women at work

  30-07-2023 14:00
  
  National Gallery; Garden Museum, London
  Designed to be seen across dining crowds at the National Gallery, Rego’s 90s mural, inspired by Crivelli’s 15th-century one, comes alive in the details. And Cooke’s candid self-portraits find respite in flowersWhen Paula Rego (1935-2022) was commissioned to paint a mural for the dining room of the new Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in 1990, it seemed a thoughtless insult. There were precedents, to be sure, from Leonardo’s Th
  
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• In Seattle, Taylor Swift Fans Cause A Mini Earthquake

  30-07-2023 14:00 via washingtonpost.com
  Well, OK, “seismic activity,” anyway. Turns out “it’s actually ‘quite common’ for humans partying to create such vibrations, sending ‘a lot of energy into the ground.’ That energy travels as sound waves through the Earth.”  – Washington Post
  
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• One Of The Things ‘Oppenheimer’ Gets Wrong Is Very American History

  30-07-2023 13:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Tossing people off their land at gunpoint and giving them only 48 hours to go? Sounds like the USA – and that’s just what government officials did to the 32 families on the land that became Los Alamos. – CBC
  
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• How The Kens’ Dancing Affects The Barbie Movie

  30-07-2023 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The dance is more than a dance: It’s an emotional release. … The choreography is a passionate expression of selfhood, a tonic that recalls the vitality and athletic grace of Gene Kelly.” – The New York Times
  
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• Liberty, equality … embroidery: the political power of textile art

  30-07-2023 12:00
  
  A series of exhibitions this summer and autumn highlight the protest woven into stitchworkEmbroidery, weaving and fabric decoration have often been dismissed as crafts rather than arts, relegated to “women’s work”. But a series of exhibitions this summer casts new light on the political power and importance of textiles in all their forms, from Brexit tea towels to dresses embellished with symbolic patterns.Palestinian embroidery is the focus of the exhibition Material Power at
  
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• Wild about the garden: inside photographer Siân Davey’s sanctuary

  30-07-2023 09:00
  
  The artist transformed a neglected patch beside her cottage, attracting a variety of visitors eager to shed their inhibitions, clothes and anxieties, and whose lives she has caught in striking images that form part of a new exhibitionThe photographer Siân Davey was “navigating a family deep in crisis” when her son Luke suggested that they transform a neglected garden outside her rented cottage into a wildflower sanctuary that would draw people in. “And, without any ambiti
  
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• Au revoir Provence, bonjour Sussex: how art and wine are reviving the quintessentially English county

  30-07-2023 09:00
  
  Home to 138 vineyards and many cultural landmarks, the region is now promoted to tourists who may be fond of southern FranceRows of vines line hillsides as far as the eye can see. And, in the shade of a grape-laden plant, a weary tourist, exhausted by a morning of gallery visits, can try a local cheese amid a landscape that has inspired a slew of renowned artists. After, of course, popping open a bottle of vintage wine, sourced from close by.These sultry days it really is that easy to set up a q
  
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