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Christie’s New NFT Platform Is Called Christie’s 3.0

“This is a platform for us to more rapidly scale our digital art offerings and do more frequent emerging artists auctions and work with a more diverse array of artists and collectors.” - ARTnews

Wendell Pierce Is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman, A Role He Never Knew He Was Perfect For

"Even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of performance, the questions that obsess Willy — questions of attainment, opportunity, legacy — are questions that obsess him as well." - The New York Times

Why It’s Difficult To Grasp The Concept Of Time

Physicists and philosophers may have different approaches to the structure of time, but what unites them is a rejection of the notion that that there is a ‘now’, a present moment, that moves from the past toward the future. If that is true, and time does not really move, we are left with a question. Psyche

The Smiley Face, At 50 Years Old, Is Very Big Business

"The smiley – at least, this particular version of it – is a trademarked image. Want to use it? You gotta pay. Today, the Smiley Company is ranked one of the world's top 100 licensing businesses, with 458 licensees in 158 countries. It boasts thousands of products across 14 categories." - The Observer (UK)

The Thing About Sleep: It’s Essential

One thing that sleep researchers are pretty sure of is that every system in our body seems to be impacted by sleep. When we miss out on sleep, it impairs our circulation, our digestion, immune system, metabolism, and of course, brain function. In fact, if you go without sleep long enough, you will die. - Quanta

At 87, Choreographer Yvonne Rainer Has Created Her Final Work

"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ...  I don't know. I have no more ideas.' ... But if Hellzapoppin' proves to be her final work, she isn't taking the easy way out. Her subject is a tough one: race in America." - The New York Times

The Long Brave Effort It Takes To Get A Book Translated Into English

If anything, six years between the publication of the original text and its English translation is rather speedy, especially for a literary work whose author is not a known quantity in the United States. - LA Review of Books

Why Folks Are Flipping Out About The New Anthony Bourdain Biography

Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain.  But his ex-wife, who controls the estate, did, and Leerhsen got access to texts and emails from Bourdain's final days. - The New York Times

Mondrian’s Fanatical Pursuit Of Perfection

“Beneath the surface there was always a major concern which would compromise with nothing. Even though, like Baudelaire’s albatross, he had ‘giant wings,’ he was able to walk, provided he could walk slowly at his customary pace. But those ‘wings’ did scare off other birds.” - The Wall Street Journal

What’s Really Extraordinary About Whoopi Goldberg

"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ... Goldberg has never held anything back. She knows that this is part of her legacy, but also what it can cost her." - The New York Times Magazine

Experience Shows: Four Veteran Stage Actors Discuss The Good Things About Acting Past Age 70

"What I think is so wonderful about getting older in this work is that you learn how much you don't have to do. You learn simplicity, you learn economy, you learn you don't need to have all this energy to tell the story." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

A First Look At The Renovated David Geffen Hall (Yes, A Look) By The NY Times Architecture Critic

Michael Kimmelman won't say anything about the acoustics until there are actual concerts, but he recounts the venue's star-crossed history of expensive disappointments and assesses whether the redesigned auditorium and lobby achieve the goal of being more attractive and welcoming. - The New York Times

Dallas Public Radio Station KERA Is Buying The Daily Newspaper In Denton, Texas

"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the transaction is The National Trust for Local News — a nonprofit dedicated to keeping local news in local hands." - Inside Radio

US Securities And Exchange Commission Sues Former Execs Of MoviePass For Fraud

"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and Matheson Analytics and MoviePass, respectively, 'intentionally and repeatedly' disseminated materially false or misleading statements about the business." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

President James Madison’s Crystal Flute Gets Played By Lizzo

The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest.  Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden tweeted an invitation to the superstar, a trained flutist, to visit the collection and try out a few flutes — and Lizzo did. - CNN

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