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DANCE
IDEAS
- What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years, people he knows very closely, who he loves and defends regardless of the role they play in his stories.” – The New York Times
- How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) – Nieman Lab
- Hollywood Asks For Government Help
“The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the same side.” Will California show the studios the money? – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
- Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: “In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.” – The New York Times
- Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one day where it’s just us — Amazon has to swoop in.” – Vulture
ISSUES
- Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: “In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.” – The New York Times
- Benin Wanted Its Bronzes Back From Boston’s Museum Of Fine Arts. Instead, The Collector Yanked Them All.
The MFA’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum: “This was not the outcome anyone wanted.” – The New York Times
- Two Scholars Argue Over The Number of Penises In The Bayeux Tapestry
Oxford professor George Garnett announced in 2019 that he had counted 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England — 88 belonging to horses and five to humans. Historian Christopher Monk now argues that there is a 94th appendage; Garnett insists that that one is a scabbard. – The Guardian
- The Destruction Of Sudan’s Cultural Heritage
The looting of the Sudan National Museum is the most striking example of the destruction of cultural heritage. Dramatic images of the remains of the temple of Buhen, rescued during the UNESCO campaign and brought to the museum, suggest that they have been damaged. – Apollo
- Nelson-Atkins Museum Selects Architect For $160 Million Expansion
“A New York City firm known for integrating architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape will reimagine Kansas City’s premier museum for the next generation of visitors. … The Weiss/Manfredi architecture firm was selected to design a new wing on the west end of its campus.” – KCUR (Kansas City)
MEDIA
- How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) – Nieman Lab
- In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company Auction Off Potential Sacred Heirlooms
But the judge seems OK with it, with a caveat. “Osborne ordered Hudson’s Bay to provide him and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs with a catalogue at the soonest opportunity.” – CBC
- These Are The 250 Historical Figures To Be In Trump’s “Garden Of Heroes”
The garden, which was announced during Mr. Trump’s first term, will feature life-size renderings of “250 great individuals from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific and political heritage,” according to a news release. – The New York Times
- What’s Happening At The Kennedy Center Will Affect The History Of The Arts In The U.S.
“After all, the Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a ‘living monument’ — a place where the story of American culture plays out onstage. Whatever happens at the Kennedy Center becomes part of the history it exists to preserve.” – The Washington Post (MSN)
- Juilliard School, Planning To Go Tuition-Free, Begins Half-Billion-Dollar Fundraising Campaign
While a few programs (among them the Master of Music in historical performance and, since last year, the acting MFA) are already tuition-free, the goal is to extend that policy to the entire school. $180 million of the $550 million goal has been pledged so far. – The New York Times
MUSIC
- Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one day where it’s just us — Amazon has to swoop in.” – Vulture
- What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete
No, she wasn’t “the first great woman novelist.” There were so many great ones before her – but somehow they’re missing in our general knowledge base. Hm, wonder why! – Happy Dancing
- Revisiting The World’s First Advice Column, Which Debuted In 1691
London printer John Dunton created the Athenian Gazette, or Casuistical Mercury as a broadsheet answering questions and providing topics for patrons to discuss at coffeehouses. The questions submitted were initially about science, law, or philosophy, but it took only a few weeks for readers to start asking about personal relationships. – Literary Hub
- Seeing Both Necessity And Demand, Random House Is Publishing The U.S. Constitution
“Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, followed in November by a hardcover edition of the Federalist Papers. Both books include introductions by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham.” – AP
- There’s A Growing “Reading Crisis” In Britain: Study
“According to the report, nearly half (46%) of U.K. adults say they struggle to focus on reading due to distractions around them. That figure rises to 55% among respondents ages 16-24 and 35-44, and to 52% for respondents ages 25-34. One in three adults revealed that they multitask while reading.” – Publishers Weekly
PEOPLE
- What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years, people he knows very closely, who he loves and defends regardless of the role they play in his stories.” – The New York Times
- How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) – Nieman Lab
- Hollywood Asks For Government Help
“The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the same side.” Will California show the studios the money? – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
- Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: “In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.” – The New York Times
- Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one day where it’s just us — Amazon has to swoop in.” – Vulture
PEOPLE
- What Women Like About Acting In Almodovar’s Films
Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In): “Pedro speaks about the characters as if they were people he has already lived with for years, people he knows very closely, who he loves and defends regardless of the role they play in his stories.” – The New York Times
- How ‘Free’ Is The Press In The United States?
Turns out, for those who live in the country, their opinion about this question depends almost fully on their political party identification. (But there are also, you know, some facts.) – Nieman Lab
- Hollywood Asks For Government Help
“The lobbying effort has led to unusual alliances, particularly in the wake of the strikes, with both studios and Hollywood unions rallying on the same side.” Will California show the studios the money? – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
- Minnesota’s Hmong Community Uses Textiles To Tell All Of The Backstory
But the tale is bigger than tapestries, or story cloths: “In the Twin Cities, Hmong culture isn’t just present in the tapestries. It’s everywhere, including the first Hmong judges and state elected officials, the culinary scene, farmers markets, and the arts.” – The New York Times
- Amazon Claims It Unintentionally Set A Massive Sale On Indie Bookstore Day
Zero humans believe that claim, of course. One bookstore owner: “I just rolled my eyes and thought, Of course they did. We can’t even have one day where it’s just us — Amazon has to swoop in.” – Vulture
THEATRE
VISUAL
- When The Machines Think Of Things We Never Would Have
For better and for worse, science today is shaped by strongly human factors: economic value, political priorities, career prospects, cultural trends, and a range of human biases and beliefs. Imagine the science if all that baggage could be abandoned. – Aeon
- AI CEO: We Will Track Everything You Do
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you. Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is purely work-related. It’s not like that’s personal.” – TechCrunch
- We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…
It is not only that those wistful and innocent longings we all feel when we think of home were once subject to urgent medical intervention and scrutinised as symptoms of a fatal disease. The 17th-century medical-scientific literature possessed a weirdly inhuman and morbid philosophy of the effects of nostalgia. – Psyche
- How AI Is Changing The Job Of Design
Whether it’s Adobe apps or Figma, AI features are increasingly being built into creative tools that push designers into an era of editing and using AI as a tool, rather than having to create everything from scratch. – The Verge
- Having It All: It Doesn’t Have To Be Morality Versus Consumption
The implicit claim of Abundance is that material abundance not only makes things cheaper, easier, or higher quality, but also makes it easier for people to be better. – 3 Quarks Daily
