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• How Memes Are Helping Redefine Kamala Harris

  25-07-2024 23:31 via theconversation.com
  
  The popularity of memes means they have become an important vehicle for political communication. In my research, I have identified four roles of memes: political mindbombs, fast-food media, everyday slang and a soothing device. – The Conversation
  
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• Struggling To Explain The Enormity Of AI

  25-07-2024 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The great discoveries of humanity have always taught us that we are not masters in our own house: Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the cosmos, Darwin spoiled our species’ idea of divine creation, Freud showed that we neither know nor control our desires. The humiliation by AI is subtler. – The Guardian
  
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• David Dorfman And The Zen Of Dance

  25-07-2024 22:32 via dancemagazine.com
  
  When you’re dancing with another person, or folk-dancing in a big group circle, or country line-dance, or disco dance—that’s how I started—you’re concentrating on being with other people, and realizing what your body is doing. You’re not scheming power trips.– Dance Magazine
  
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• New Live Recordings By Louis Armstrong

  25-07-2024 22:01 via bbc.com
  
  This month, with the release of a new album of live recordings, fresh material has been added to the ongoing debates about Armstrong’s contradictions. – BBC
  
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• Study: Most UK Adults Don’t Read For Pleasure

  25-07-2024 21:28 via theguardian.com
  The study, commissioned by the charity the Reading Agency, saw 15% of adults reporting that they have never been regular readers, and 35% saying that they are lapsed readers, meaning that they used to read regularly for pleasure, but rarely or never do now. – The Guardian
  
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• Some Old Books Can Be Literally, Physically Toxic. Some Collectors Think That’s Exciting.

  25-07-2024 21:05 via msn.com
  The pigments used in bookbinding cloth in the 19th century gave book covers some vibrant colors — hues attained with lead (blue), chromium (yellow), mercury (red), and, most poisonous of all, arsenic (green), which flakes off onto your hands. And yes, this attracts some purchasers. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Cultural Phenomenon: “Inside Out 2” Overtakes “Barbie” Box Office

  25-07-2024 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  The film, which follows the first film’s heroine as she hits puberty, has just overtaken Barbie in terms of global ticket sales, as well as becoming the fastest animated film to make $1bn (in 19 days) and is now the 13th biggest film of all time. – The Guardian
  
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• India’s Indie Films Are Getting Awards All Over The World But Can’t Get Onto Screens At Home

  25-07-2024 20:02 via msn.com
  These movies, made outside the the big studio systems, usually in languages other than Hindi, forgo Bollywood’s song-dance-melodrama formula in favor of stories about ordinary people’s lives. Since the pandemic, theaters avoid these films in favor of crowd-pleasers, while Modi’s government has intimidated streaming services away from them. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Jeremy Danziger obituary

  25-07-2024 19:44
  
  My stepfather, Jeremy Danziger, who has died aged 75, was an artist, sculptor and proud stalwart of the 20th-century art school. Faced with the rise of conceptualism, he stressed the importance of learning the fundamentals of mark-making, perspective and drawing from life. His own work, while largely abstract, was founded on these qualities.Jeremy was interested in producing art based on experiments in mathematical probability and chance. Geometry was an obsession. He frequently made his own com
  
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• The Culture-War Math On Attacks On Libraries

  25-07-2024 19:31 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Though book bans have been a familiar tactic in culture wars, today we’re witnessing an attack on libraries themselves as social institutions. There’s a reason for this escalation. – Washington Post
  
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• Toumani Diabaté, Great Master Of The West African Kora, Has Died At 58

  25-07-2024 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  “His exquisite, relaxed playing (of the 21-stringed hard) mixed the ancient and modern, as he switched from pieces that dated back hundreds of years to his own compositions that he said reflected influences ranging from other African artists to Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and Pink Floyd.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Kids Aren’t Reading Books

  25-07-2024 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  In the first half of 2024, print sales of middle reader books, intended for children ages 9 to 12, dropped by 5 percent from the same period the previous year, or 1.8 million fewer units sold, deepening a dip in the market for children’s books that’s held since 2022. – The New York Times
  
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• The Market For Romance Novels Is Booming. The Professional Organization For Romance Novelists Is Collapsing.

  25-07-2024 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The Romance Writers of America has seen its membership, once more than 10,000, fall by 80% over the past five years, and the organization has filed for bankruptcy. The decline comes after a long series of conflicts, misunderstandings and missteps concerning diversity and discrimination. – The New York Times
  
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• Joy Gregory unveils billboard art project at Heathrow inspired by asylum seekers

  25-07-2024 17:32
  Artist known for photographic work was commissioned to create A Taste of Home in Terminal 4 tube stationThe UK needs more public art that confronts the major issues of the day, according to Joy Gregory, the award-winning artist who has just unveiled a new project at Heathrow airport inspired by more than 100 asylum seekers.Gregory, who is known for her photographic work and won the £110,000 Freelands award recently, was commissioned by Transport for London (Tfl) to create 24 billboards mou
  
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• Perusing Editor Robert Gottleib’s Books

  25-07-2024 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  When Mr. Gottlieb, who died last June at 92, wasn’t heartlessly lancing thousands of words out of Robert Caro’s biographical volumes or marking up the manuscripts of Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, he loved watching movies. Along the course of his career, he built a vast collection of books on Hollywood’s golden age. – The New York Times
  
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• Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Is Getting A Real Theater — Designed By A MacArthur “Genius,” No Less

  25-07-2024 17:05 via playbill.com
  
  The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as a backdrop — comes from Studio Gang, the Chicago-based architectural firm of MacArthur fellow Jeanne Gang. The structure’s opening is scheduled for summer 2026. – Playbill
  
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• Metropolitan Museum’s Attendance Numbers Are Getting Back To Normal — With One Exception

  25-07-2024 16:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  For the fiscal year just ended, US visitors totaled 5.5 million, slightly above the (pre-pandemic) figure for 2019. What’s more, just over half of those visitors were nonwhite, the highest level ever. The attendance totals for those from abroad, however, are still half of what they were before COVID. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Barnes Foundation Lays Off 12 Staffers, Including Senior Execs

  25-07-2024 16:03 via artnews.com
  
  The Philadelphia museum has eliminated a dozen positions, about 6% of its staff, over six months, despite the fact that it has a budget surplus. One ex-staffer, in the new position of Assistant Curator for Art of the African Diaspora, maintains that he was personally fired by the Barnes’s director. – ARTnews
  
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• Disneyland Avoids What Would Have Been Its First Workers’ Strike In 40 Years

  25-07-2024 15:32 via apnews.com
  
  “Disney has reached a tentative agreement with four unions representing thousands of workers at its California theme parks, including ride operators, candy makers and parking attendants. … The deal comes days after workers overwhelmingly authorized a potential strike, following months of negotiations over wages, sick leave and other benefits.” – AP
  
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• Alleged Victim At Center of New York Philharmonic Rape Scandal Reveals New Details

  25-07-2024 15:06 via msn.com
  Cara Kizer, the horn player who was denied tenure after reporting an alleged rape by associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey, says now-former CEO Gary Ginstling was the only orchestra executive ever to reach out to her since the 2010 incident. And there’s a chance she could return to the Philharmonic. – Vulture (MSN)
  
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• Dancers In Olympics Opening Ceremony Call Off Strike Threat

  25-07-2024 14:34 via usatoday.com
  
  “After negotiations between the SFA-CGT union representing performers, Paris 2024 organizers and Panam 24 (the producers of the opening ceremony) ended in a stalemate and a continued strike notice Tuesday, the union said Wednesday it accepted an offer involving increased pay for performers’ broadcasting rights.” – USA Today
  
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• John Eliot Gardiner Fired By The Board Of The Choir And Orchestra He Founded

  25-07-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While the conductor issued a subsequent statement maintaining that he had resigned, the announcement by the board said it had “made the decision that Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, will not be returning to the organisation.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘If people are upset, we’re doing something right’: the artists subverting the language of ads

  25-07-2024 09:00
  
  Collectives such as Pattern Up use the visual signifiers of well-known brands to deliver satirical statements. ‘It’s something everyone can relate to – which is dark,’ they sayLabour’s landslide win in the general election saw many Conservative MPs experience a Portillo moment. Top Tories including Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt and Jacob Rees-Mogg were unseated by discontented constituents. But, a few days before, something a wee bit different took place: a Portaloo mom
  
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• Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures

  25-07-2024 08:00
  
  From cold war subcultures to topless bridesmaids, a new exhibition at Kicken Berlin features half a century of groundbreaking images Continue reading...
  
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• How Gina Rinehart and her backers pressured the NGA to remove her portrait

  25-07-2024 07:23
  
  National Gallery of Australia director sent a warning to federal arts minister that mining billionaire was ‘rallying’ influential friends, documents revealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe director of the National Gallery of Australia sent a warning to the federal arts minister that mining billionaire Gina Rinehart was “rallying” influential friends to voice complaints about a
  
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• Lewis H. Lapham, Editor Who Resurrected Harper’s Magazine Twice, Is Dead At 89

  25-07-2024 01:22 via msn.com
  Born into a very old and eminent family (though one no longer, by his day, very rich), he wrote about the American aristocracy with skepticism and even scorn. Twice he reinvented one of the country’s oldest magazines, attracting readers, attention and respect (though never profit). – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• A Short History Of Olympics Opening Ceremonies

  25-07-2024 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  It took decades for Olympic opening ceremonies to reach this scale. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, in Athens, athletes simply entered the stadium to hear speeches and a specially composed hymn – though more than 50,000 spectators still attended. – The Conversation
  
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