"Varvara Logvyn might look like any other open-air artist working in Kyiv’s historic Independence Square ... except she doesn’t direct her attention to a canvas, but to a large, steel antitank obstacle known as a hedgehog." - Washington Post
In 1871, a mob murdered 18 Chinese people and looted every Chinese building in what's now downtown LA. "A bronze plaque embedded in the sidewalk outside the Chinese American Museum on Los Angeles Street stands as a rare memorial. It’s smaller than a pizza box." - Los Angeles Times
"Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow and Ken Kesey – their women were inexplicable. They were often childish, petty and shallow, yet desirable. My bewilderment just seemed to be something I had to put up with until Lessing showed me I didn’t." - The Guardian (UK)
"Steadily growing in size and prestige since incubating 20 years ago in the Brooklyn apartment of co-founders Stephanie and Floyd Rance, the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival sits enviably at the confluence of Black culture, industry sea change and everyone’s dream vacation." - Washington Post
Michael Heizer's megasculpture in the Nevada desert is called City and is a mile long, half a mile wide, and the artist's masterpiece. "It had become the art-world version of ancient Atlantis, a chimera. Art-world Atlantis will shortly be accepting reservations." - The New York Times
By replacing vinyl with a different plastic, can this Dutch company get records playing again - without all of the delays, and without as much plastic waste? - BBC
"Sorting through this morass might seem too overwhelming to even consider—unless we shift how we think about the purpose of organizing information: What if the end goal was not efficient retrieval? What if, instead, the sorting process itself was imbued with meaning?" - The Atlantic
"The writers included Gay Talese, Kiran Desai, Roya Hakakian, Colum McCann, Amanda Foreman, A.M. Homes and many others; their remarks were sometimes calls to action, and sometimes highly personal." - The New York Times
No hero's journey narrative could possibly fit the times. "Writers choose to believe in the power of stories because it gives us hope. ... The problem is that some of the most urgent and lethal challenges our society is facing are too giant and unwieldy to fit." - The Guardian (UK)
Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, knows - as did one of her COVID companions, Virginia Woolf. "Perhaps we all develop methods to survive the knocks of significant illnesses, ways to pick ourselves up and face the next day and the next." - The Guardian (UK)
"Long before talking movies became the norm, women ran wild in movies. And I mean, really wild. They riotously schemed, fought and defied convention, racing and laughing their way to liberation." Then? They got left out of film history books. - The New York Times
"The group, which operated as the Buenos Aires Yoga School, was headed by 84-year-old Juan Percowicz. The group is accused of sexual trafficking, including of minors, as well as extortion and money laundering." Many of the musicians have links to Plácido Domingo. - NPR
It's a move that confirmed every pessimistic prediction about making the show for a private entity. "Some of the most notable episodes HBO Max once streamed are no longer available, including an episode that aired in 1983 and featured Big Bird confronting death." - The New York Times
The judge who allowed the trial to go forward: "While using silver duct tape to affix a banana to a wall may not espouse the highest degree of creativity, its absurd and farcical nature meets the ‘minimal degree of creativity’ needed to qualify as original." - The Observer (UK)
It''s "a movie about responsible innovation—as Chris says, about how you can’t have science without philosophy. ... Creators need to think about how their inventions will be used, and why someone wants them created in the first place." - Slate
