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• Edna O’Brien, Groundbreaking Irish Novelist, Has Died At 93

  28-07-2024 22:00 via msn.com
  “Ms. O’Brien grew up in a newly independent and staunchly Catholic Ireland with firm ideas about the roles of women, who had no lawful access to abortion, contraception or divorce. In much of her work, Ms. O’Brien limned characters who yearned to break free.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Italian Officials Ask That Tourists Not Use Public Statues For Erotic Enjoyment

  28-07-2024 21:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Grinding on a statue of Bacchus might sound fun (and, well, perhaps it was?), but the young woman who experienced that joy in Florence will be banned for life from the city – if the police find her. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Hollywood Teamsters And Other Craft Unions Come To Tentative Agreement With Studios

  28-07-2024 21:00 via msn.com
  “As of late Saturday night, the Hollywood Basic Crafts and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached agreements on six different contracts. The settlements concluded several weeks of negotiations.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• So, Are We Living In The West Wing Or Veep?

  28-07-2024 20:30 via washingtonpost.com
  
  TV show memes lit up Instagram, texts, and group chats when President Biden stepped down. “One thing someone on [the West Wing alum] text thread said is that Aaron Sorkin could never have thought this one up. … This is beyond what we were capable of imagining.” – Washington Post
  
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• Counting Down To James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday

  28-07-2024 20:00 via npr.org
  
  At Baldwin & Co in New Orleans, the founder believes “his independent bookstore sells more books by Baldwin than any other, anywhere. ‘They’re our No. 1 seller,’ he said. ‘Every single week, we have recurring orders. Every single week, we are ordering large shipments of James Baldwin books.’” – LitHub
  
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• What It Was Like Making A Documentary Of The Taliban Re-Taking Afghanistan

  28-07-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “It’s hard not to wonder – as a viewer – why the Taliban’s top brass agreed to let Nash’at shoot a fly-on-the-wall documentary of the early days of the regime. … Mansour comments coldly about Nash’at: ‘If his intentions are bad, he will die soon.’” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• On Reality Love Shows, The Setting Is The Main Character

  28-07-2024 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  While tropical island resorts are sick of the all-too-common narrative, the camera folks love the golden hour in paradise. – The New York Times
  
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• Paris exhibition celebrates global spread of surrealism

  28-07-2024 18:38
  
  Pompidou Centre show will move on to Madrid, Hamburg and Philadelphia, changing from city to cityOne hundred years ago, in a tiny studio flat in a bohemian district of Paris, a former medical student turned writer set out to define surrealism “for once and for all”. In his Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton called for a new kind of art and literature fired by the unconscious, “the dictation of thought free from any control by reason, exempt from aesthetic or moral preo
  
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• Why Local Indie Bookstores Might Never Have Hillbilly Elegy In Stock

  28-07-2024 18:30 via lithub.com
  
  And it’s not because indie bookstores hate Republicans. – LitHub
  
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• Celine Dion, Who Quit Performing Due To A Rare Autoimmune Disease, ‘Trained Like An Athlete’ For Her Olympics Performance

  28-07-2024 18:00 via self.com
  
  In April, Dion said, “I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it’s over.” Narrator voice: It was not over. – Self
  
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• After Decades Of Pleas And Laws And Lawsuits, The Museum Of Natural History Says It Will Repatriate Some Remains

  28-07-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The museum “said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thousands of tribal funerary objects, which became a top priority earlier this year in the wake of new federal regulations.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Dublin Wax Museum Is Rebooting Its Newly Unveiled Sinead O’Connor Figure

  28-07-2024 17:00 via bbc.com
  
  Just before the anniversary of the Irish singer’s death, the museum revealed the figure to a swift and furious reception. O’Connor’s brother John said “that the figure looked ‘between a mannequin and something out of the Thunderbirds.’” – BBC
  
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• Factcheck: It’s True That The Olympics Are Set In The Ratatouille Cinematic Universe

  28-07-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Apologies to this excellent post on the site formerly known as Twitter. Point is, a lot of great movies are set in Paris, so if you’re not a sportsfan (or your sport isn’t on), here’s how to keep your eyes on the City of Light. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Did The New York Times Books People Forget The Existence Of An Entire Continent?

  28-07-2024 16:00 via lithub.com
  
  Sure seems like it. But “the meteoric rise of African publishing is one of the most remarkable stories of the last 25 years. If you want to capture how the 21st century has reinvented what it means to read, write, and publish, go to African literature.” – LitHub
  
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• What The Video Game Strike Means For Big Games Like Fortnite

  28-07-2024 15:30 via fastcompany.com
  Unless the strike lasts longer than 60 days, “actors and other union members who are already under contract and working on games in development are permitted to continue work during the strike without any sort of union discipline.” – Fast Company
  
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• Slashed with a knife: the tender sculpture that hides a shocking but common crime against women

  28-07-2024 15:00
  Costanza Piccolomini was physically disfigured by her lover, the Baroque sculptor Bernini: 400 years later her story can finally be toldAround 1637, the Baroque “superstar” artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini ­created his first, and only, non-commissioned sculpture: an intimate portrait of his lover, Costanza Piccolomini. Captured for eternity, the smooth contours of her face are chiselled with a tender sensitivity, there is a softness to Costanza’s flesh, a sensuality to her sligh
  
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• Amazon Buys British Studios Where Rocky Horror Was Filmed

  28-07-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  The historic studios hosted The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Bride. And then, “Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award winning sci-fi thriller, Alien, at the studios in 1978.” – BBC
  
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• The Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies Were, Basically, Opera

  28-07-2024 14:30 via washingtonpost.com
  “Pull out the checklist: There’s music (and lots of it). There’s a cast of hundreds (or in this case, thousands) of performers. There’s grand spectacle (courtesy of director Thomas Jolly). There are fabulous costumes. There’s a narrative arc de triumph … They take, like, four hours.” – Washington Post
  
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• Alice Munro’s Biographer Knew About Her Second Husband’s Abuse Of Her Daughter

  28-07-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  And he wrote nothing about it. He didn’t add it to “the book’s 2011 update — even after Munro herself sat down with him, asked him to turn off the tape recorder and spoke to him about what happened. He said he viewed the situation ‘as a private family matter.’” – CBC
  
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• The Future Of Film With AI Already Cutting Into Reality

  28-07-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Not great: “Short of regulation or relevant union agreements, it has come down to film-makers – directors, producers, writers, visual effects and VFX artists and more – to figure out how to use it, where to draw the line.” (They’re not great line-drawers.) – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Video Game Actors Are On Strike, And Here’s What That Means

  28-07-2024 13:00 via msn.com
  Third verse, same as the first (two strikes last year): “‘We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI to the detriment of our members,’ SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement Thursday. ‘Enough is enough.’” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• ‘The marginal artist par excellence’: the pain, politics and playfulness of David Medalla

  28-07-2024 10:00
  
  LA’s Hammer Museum spotlights the Filipino artist and London art scene fixture whose recognition is overdueThe photographs on the museum wall show a frail, elderly man, posed in different ways against a tangle of bedsheets. He’s in his early 80s, and the suffering in his face is obvious. But the portraits are also whimsical: the man half-hides his face in a pile of flowers, or wears a crown and a cascade of beads. His exhausted eyes peer out from behind a patterned mask.These photogr
  
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• Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent review – definitive protest images that go beyond words

  28-07-2024 10:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  Nailing the political status quo over five decades, from Vietnam to Gaza, with irreducible simplicity, the British artist’s retrospective is also a work in progress…There is a photomontage by the great British political artist Peter Kennard that cuts straight to the quick. It shows a skeleton standing to attention before a dark sea, its neck rising into a mushroom cloud. Pale vertebrae fuse with the stuttering nuclear uprush. The explosion seems to hold a
  
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