“The most difficult products are the ones that have a human face, because getting skin tones and the shadows and all that stuff can be challenging. Once the paint is figured out, we make sure it functions the way we originally intended it to.” - Slate
Benítez was “an American dancer and choreographer who, as the founder of a popular Spanish dance troupe, played a major role in making New Mexico a hotbed for flamenco.” - The New York Times
The Internet Archive “is the only keeper of the internet’s first days, via the Wayback Machine. ... The archive is a huge source for Wikipedia citations, and makes a stand against publisher monopolies. Most of all? If it’s destroyed, millions and millions of cultural items could be lost to history.” - LitHub
A new exhibition shows how local architects in Ghana and India took the British idea of tropical modernism and turned it into a symbol of postcolonial self-determination and self-rule. - Hyperallergic
“By the late 1980s, Tikkun had established itself as an outlet for writers who shared his conviction that some form of Palestinian self-determination was not just morally correct but also Israel’s best way forward.” - The New York Times
He tried the United States for a while, but then a spot opened in Japan - and, like many other Chinese intellectuals, he’s found his spot in a country closer to home, with a changing immigration policy. - Associated Press
Just as Boomer nostalgia influenced Gen-X for far longer than it perhaps should have, Gen-Zers (and the rest of us) will have years of Millennial-influenced pop culture in our lives. - Fast Company
Winslet is playing Lee Miller, a photojournalist in WWII (and also the lover of Man Ray and a model for Vogue). She wanted another woman to direct, though “potential investors had been ‘patronising’ in their dismissal of Lee as 'a woman’s story.’” - The Observer (UK)
“This gives Disney a stronger foothold in the challenging Indian market while supporting Reliance's expansion efforts. It also pits the new entertainment behemoth against popular rivals such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Sony and 50-odd other streaming platforms.” - BBC
“Music industry experts and copyright law attorneys say the cases, as well as Trump’s decision to continue playing certain songs despite artists’ requests that he desist, underscore the complex legalities of copyright infringement in today’s digital, streaming and licensing era.” - Washington Post
Horn created performance-oriented works in the 1960s that “envisioned new possibilities for women’s bodies, outfitting her participants with appendages that caused them to seem more like animals.” Later, she created “objects made from metal, liquid, mirrors, and more that seemed not quite human yet not quite inorganic.” - ARTnews
Check the map. “Florida and Texas have the most bans in place, with 2647 and 1469 in place respectively. Thankfully the number of Little Free Libraries is higher in both states: Florida has 2886, and Texas has 2373.” - LitHub
That’s what Janet Malcolm did for Sylvia Plath in 1994, and thirty years later, that’s what Alexis Pauline Gumbs decided on for a new book about poet and essayist, publisher and teacher Audre Lorde. - The Atlantic
With his group, Brasil ’66, “some of the songs were in Portuguese, some were in English, but all of them were driven along by Mr. Mendes’s piano and infectious Brazilian rhythms, with the vocals wafting like a summer breeze.” - Washington Post
“The light of Matt Carr’s headlamp only goes so far while he’s crawling in one of the air shafts beneath the seats of the Music Box Theatre. His hazmat suit, face mask, goggles and knee pads all click and swish and trap heat as his headway kicks up dust.” - Chicago Sun-Times
