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• A Stolen Van Equals A Canceled Run For A British Show In Development For Two Years

  06-08-2023 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  “The play 5 Years, which took about two years to produce and features unique hologram technology, was set to be staged in Nottingham and Sheffield. Founder of the company Beck Gadsby estimated she had lost £30,000, saying it was ‘absolutely devastating.'” – BBC
  
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• Inanna, The World’s First Literary Hero

  06-08-2023 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  You might also know her as Ishtar. In either case, she was a hero before that upstart Gilgamesh came on the scene. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Ink big: 30 people to get tattoo of one letter of human rights declaration

  06-08-2023 16:00
  
  International art project will visit Manchester, where 30 people will be tattooed with one letter of 1948 UN documentThirty people in Manchester will have one letter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights tattooed on them as part of an international art project arriving in the UK for the first time.The project intends to tattoo the 1948 document on to the skins of 6,773 people, one letter at a time. The tattoos are 1cm squared, and people aged between 18 and 30 in the UK have been invited
  
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• Digital Replicas Already Fill Our Screens

  06-08-2023 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Can the actors’ unions negotiate protections against things that have already happened? “It’s not a question of technology. … It’s a question of who has the power in the relationship.” – The New York Times
  
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• Norway Takes On Meta’s Ads And Wins

  06-08-2023 15:30 via wired.com
  
  How to defeat Zuckerberg? Well, money talks. – Wired
  
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• Dancers Across The Country Vogue At Gas Stations In Resistance After A Murder

  06-08-2023 15:00 via latimes.com
  
  “The protests centered on vogue as resistance. The dance style, born out of the ballroom scene in Harlem in the 1980s as a source of joy and expression, became a response to a stabbing feared to be an attack on queerness and Blackness.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Anna Netrebko Sues The Met For Lost Wages

  06-08-2023 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Netrebko, fired by the opera house for her support of Vladimir Putin, “accuses the Met of discriminating against her because she is Russian; of issuing ‘defamatory’ statements about her in the press; and of breaching contracts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Tracing Freud on the Acropolis review – Freud’s big fat Greek guilt complex

  06-08-2023 14:00
  
  Freud Museum, London
  Sigmund Freud’s momentous trip to Athens in 1904, and the subsequent realisation that he might surpass his father’s achievements, is captured in this small but enthralling showIn September 1904, Sigmund Freud set out with his brother Alexander on their annual Mediterranean holiday. They were aiming for Corfu, but the heat was so intense they took a ship from Trieste to Athens instead. The two men climbed the legendary hill above the city to visit the Acropolis an
  
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• The war hero without a name: London museum hunts for Wren’s identity

  06-08-2023 14:00
  
  Only known portrait of a female second world war naval officer to go on display – but no one knows who she isThe faces of some of those who served “in peril on the sea” in the second world war are still familiar to us from portraits and archive news footage. This means a shared debt to those who served in the Royal Navy can at least be honoured, if not repaid. But many faces and names have been lost to time – especially if they were women.Now the Royal Museums Greenwich a
  
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• Honoring The Handwritten Word, By The Thousands, On The Champs-Elysees

  06-08-2023 14:00 via npr.org
  
  Traffic was blocked and 1,700 desks set up by the Arc de Triomphe, for “a public dictée. Anyone who’s studied French knows the importance of the ritual. A teacher reads out a passage, usually from French literature, and students have to write it out” – battling the complications of French. – NPR
  
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• What Michael Chabon Did During The Early Days Of COVID

  06-08-2023 13:30 via lithub.com
  
  In those quiet, terrifying times, lo these long three years ago, Chabon did what any nerd might do: He built a replica of the science fiction and fantasy section of his long-gone childhood bookstore. – LitHub
  
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• Where Have All The Villains Gone?

  06-08-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Hollywood’s sudden hostility to hostility is even playing out in cinemas now. One of the few traits shared by both Barbie and Oppenheimer is the refusal to provide their tortured title characters with a serious antagonist.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The big picture: Danish Siddiqui’s vivid image of Mumbai street life

  06-08-2023 08:00
  
  The late war photographer’s atmospheric portrait of a sleeping chicken seller provides a glimpse of real lives in the cityThe photographer Danish Siddiqui joined the Reuters agency as an intern in 2010 and a year later, at the age of 28, became its full-time stringer in Mumbai. He concentrated at first on images of the city’s streets – colleagues recall how he often spent weeks getting to know his subjects in order to convey the truth of their lives. This picture of the chicken
  
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