NPG Effort Raises Good Question Re: Crowdsourcing
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-30
Billy Strayhorn
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-11-29
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NPG Effort Raises Good Question Re: Crowdsourcing
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-30
Billy Strayhorn
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2014-11-29
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“The nature of the Russian regime did not change when Peter the Great made his subjects shave their beards and moved the seat of government from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Nor did it change when Lenin moved it back to Moscow. Nor has it changed since; it still ‘wants everything to tremble before it.'”
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“Netflix is doubling down on its international bet, preparing to enter markets like Australia and New Zealand next March, and snapping up the global rights for original film and television programs. But perhaps its biggest content wager is ‘Marco Polo,’ its series about the 13th-century traveler’s adventures in the court of Kublai Khan.”
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“Historically, both Appalachians and LGBTQ folks have been disenfranchised by society. Both have preconceptions that people believe about them that are largely untrue or at least unfounded. So we wanted to bring these two groups of people in the same space to recognize the similarities between themselves and create a conversation using film as the vessel.”
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“Profits from the sales of conflict antiquities are clearly partly underwriting Islamic State operations, and thus partly underwriting repression, war and genocide. And regardless of the precise numbers, that reality reinforces the need for cultural property protection, antiquities trade regulation and powerful policing.”
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“Clitheroe’s Stonyhurst College began as St Omers College there in 1593. A spokeswoman said the “dog-eared” book must have been “overlooked” when the college was ordered to leave in 1762. The Folio collects 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 known plays for the first time, and was originally printed in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death.”