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• What Defines Gen-Xers? Music? Movies? Books? What?

  18-08-2023 23:11 via harpers.org
  
  The aristocratic regime of my generation, who would not sell out until “selling out” was gutted of any meaning, has collapsed, yet it is survived by the surprisingly powerful rump of an earlier regime, that of our parents. – Harper’s
  
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• Lorne Michaels, Cultural Phenomenon

  18-08-2023 22:32 via longreads.com
  
  The promise of SNL under Michaels’ leadership is simple: If you are loyal to the family, you will reap handsome rewards. Over almost 50 years, that promise has come to justify a legacy of alleged workplace abuses ranging from the familiar to the shocking. – LongReads
  
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• Too Much: The “-Ification” Of Everything

  18-08-2023 22:01 via newyorker.com
  
  The suffix “-ification” (also “-ization”), usually attached to words that end in “-ify,” describes change, the process of something becoming different from what it once was, as in “gentrification” or “globalization” or “Californication.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Blowing Up Cultural Icons – Why Is Our Pop Culture So Obsessed With This Right Now?

  18-08-2023 21:50 via publicbooks.org
  
  “It has struck me lately that the recurrent frenzy of destruction of prized objects in popular culture may tell us less about our current relationship to the past than it does about our fears for the future.” – Public Books
  
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• Try It Out: The National Mall Is Filled With Monuments. Now Six New Temporary Ones

  18-08-2023 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The curators Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet have asked six artists — three women and three men; three of them Black, one Asian, one Latino, one Native — to make “prototype monuments” for the west half of the Mall, from 12th Street to the Lincoln Memorial. – The New York Times
  
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• The Long Quest To Decipher The Rapa Nui Glyphs Of Easter Island

  18-08-2023 21:05 via historytoday.com
  
  “What makes rongorongo so difficult is that … no one is quite sure whether it is a form of proto-writing or a fully fledged writing system. If the former, are the glyphs pictograms or mnemonic ‘cues’? If the latter, is the script ideographic, phonetic, or a mixture of the two?” – History Today
  
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• Study On Creativity: A Creative Dance Between Our Brain Networks

  18-08-2023 20:29 via nautil.us
  
  The key finding was that, for the eminent creators, there was a higher connectivity, both within each hemisphere, the right and left, but particularly across them—and especially in the two key networks that many studies have identified as important for creative thinking, the default mode network and the executive control network. – Nautilus
  
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• “TikTok In A Parallel Dimension”: Europe Is About To Let Users Turn Off The App’s Personalization Algorithm

  18-08-2023 20:06 via msn.com
  “The change opens the door to a strange social experiment. … ‘So much of the experience of TikTok is that weird sense that you’re being profiled—this idea that each thing that you see is somehow related to you,’ (says anthropologist) Nick Seaver. … What happens when that goes away?” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• Closed Landmark LA Theatre Unsettles Hollywood

  18-08-2023 19:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The ArcLight has become a Los Angeles mystery, the subject of speculation that befits a movie theater that was always more than just another neighborhood cinema. – The New York Times
  
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• There Goes Another: Public Theater Of San Antonio “Pauses” Its 2023-24 Season

  18-08-2023 19:06 via sanantonioreport.org
  
  As with so many other US regional theaters, a post-pandemic cash crunch to put on hold all five of its scheduled productions for the coming season and undertake a $500,000 “Save the Playhouse” emergency fundraising campaign. When performances will resume depends on how much money is raised. – San Antonio Report
  
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• Tod Machover On How AI Will Change Music

  18-08-2023 18:32 via chambermusicamerica.org
  “I think the other time when things moved really quickly was 1984,” he says—the year when the personal computer came out. Yet he sees this moment as distinct. “What’s going on in A.I. is like a major, major difference, conceptually, in how we think about music and who can make it.” – Chamber Music America
  
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• Cut-Up Experiment Published by Moloko in New Edition

  18-08-2023 18:11 via artsjournal.com
  Cut Up or Shut Up was an experiment that
  
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• Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” Is Still A Hit After 20 Years, But She Herself Is Done With Comics

  18-08-2023 18:01 via publishersweekly.com
  
  “The problem with comics is … it’s not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not getting comfortable. I like the chaos. I’m not going to live another 300 years. I have to explore everything I can before dying.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• World’s Top Chess Federation Makes Peculiar Ruling About Participation Of Transgender Players

  18-08-2023 17:33 via fastcompany.com
  Holders of women’s titles who change their genders to male would see those titles “abolished,” the federation said, while holding out the possibility of a reinstatement “if the person changes the gender back to a woman.” – Fast Company
  
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• A Double-Amputee Soldier Has Become A Star Of The Ukrainian Ballet

  18-08-2023 16:59 via msn.com
  “Oleksandr Budko, 27, has been touring the US with the United Ukrainian Ballet, dancing before audiences of up to 3,000 people with, and without, his prosthetic legs. “This choreography is about the consequences of the war, about how indomitable we are, despite the pain and losses,” he said.” – MSN (The Telegraph, UK)
  
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• Why The Dialogue On Streaming TV Is So Hard To Understand

  18-08-2023 16:33 via nytimes.com
  
  No, you’re not the only hearing person who turns on the closed captions in order to make out what’s being said. It’s a particular problem with movies originally made for theaters. Here’s an explanation of why it happens and a few ways consumers can address it. – The New York Times
  
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• An Austin Theater Company Joins A Freedom-Of-Expression Lawsuit Against Texas’s New Anti-Drag Law

  18-08-2023 16:05 via kxan.com
  “(The troupe) is part of a second lawsuit challenging a Texas law that some argue would amount to a ban on public drag performances. The VORTEX Repertory Company joined seven other plaintiffs suing Texas and local leaders to block Senate Bill 12 from going into effect next month.” – KXAN (Austin)
  
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• Israel Wants To Lend An 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Floor To The Museum Of The Bible. Archaeologists Are Alarmed.

  18-08-2023 15:31 via apnews.com
  
  Called The Megiddo Mosaic, the 3rd-century work comes from the oldest surviving Christian place of worship, located near what’s believed to be the site of Armageddon. Some scholars believe the mosaic shouldn’t be moved at all yet, for the sake of research as well as the piece’s safety. – AP
  
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• We Live In A Visual World: So More Classical Concerts Are Going Multimedia

  18-08-2023 15:04 via msn.com
  “Organizations have been presenting more concerts that integrate other disciplines, use multimedia elements and special lighting, feature music by living composers, touch on social issues and mix it up with other musical genres.” – MSN (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
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• Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Is Getting A New Three-Acre Sculpture Garden

  18-08-2023 14:32 via archpaper.com
  Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others) Sol LeWitt, Zaha Hadid, Kulapat Yantrasast, and Mark Handforth. – The Architects’ Newspaper
  
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• Belarus Labels Two 19th-Century Poems By One Of The Nation’s Great Authors As “Extremist Material”

  18-08-2023 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  The two pieces, written during an 1863 rebellion by Belarusians and Poles against the Russian Empire, are by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, whose books are taught in Belarusian schools, whose plays are still regularly produced, and who has several streets named after him. – BBC
  
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• Diane Arbus on tour, recasting a Jewish myth, and capital works – the week in art

  18-08-2023 13:00
  
  The great American photographer goes on show in Shetland, Sebastian Thomas remakes the Golem and economics gets a blockbuster – all in your weekly dispatchDiane Arbus
  The pathos of this remorseless photographer’s portraiture comes to Shetland.
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