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Can America’s Endangered Post-Modernist Buildings Be Saved?

Significant Postmodern buildings like the Abrams House in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego have already been demolished. Other beloved/reviled examples now await their fate. - Bloomberg

Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize

In a statement, the jury said: "The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein's slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question: what does a culture of subjugation, erasure and dismissal of women produce? - CBC

Study: Stereotypes Might Not Influence Us As Much As We Thought

It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when people are evaluating unambiguous behaviour. - Psyche

Humanities In Crisis? Not Really What You Think

More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and undermined by attacks from the outside. Universities generally, and the humanities more particularly, have long been a political football. - Prospect

Can You Tremble And Convulse Your Way Into Insanity? And Then Back To Sanity?

That is the question that video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser and her mother, choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, explore in their exhibition "Convulsive States." - The New York Times

Knight Foundation Chooses A New President

In her new role, Wadsworth, 50, will oversee a $2.6 billion foundation that gives millions of dollars in grants each year to arts, journalism and community organizations. - Poynter

Social Scientists Tried To Figure Out Which Words The Brits Find Most Funny And Why

Psychologists Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis "wanted to see how a word’s phonology (sound), spelling, and meaning influenced whether people found it amusing, as well as the effectiveness of incongruity theory — the idea that the more something subverts expectations, the funnier it gets." - Mental Floss

The Hollywood Actors Contract: What’s In It

Criticism is already bubbling up from a variety of quarters that the guild negotiating committee didn’t push hard enough with the CEO Gang of Four and the AMPTP on AI protections and success-based bonuses for streaming shows and movies. - Deadline

The Best Design For Public Housing Projects Was Developed In Vienna A Century Ago

The success of the Austrian capital's well-known Gemeindebauten is due not only to government funding and conscientious management. The popularity of the enormous apartment complexes is due, in large part, to their design. - Bloomberg CityLab

The Vegas Sphere Is Astonishing. But Is It Just A Novelty?

These attractions tend to lean heavily on novelty, and their shelf life can be very short — the 2021 flurry of immersive Van Gogh shows already seems to have petered out. - Axios

Nepal Bans TikTok To Protect “Social Harmony”

Communications and IT Minister Rekha Sharma said the decision was made because some content shared on the app "disturbs social harmony and disrupts family structures and social relations." Opposition politicians say the move lacks "effectiveness, maturity and responsibility." - Al Jazeera

Adapting Narnia Is Ridiculously Difficult

"The idea of Gerwig shaking the architecture with a spikier take on Narnia has a real zing to it, given how careful previous film-makers have been." - The Guardian (UK)

Read A New Play By Anna Deavere Smith: “This Ghost Of Slavery”

"For this work, Smith’s decision to blend her contemporary interviews with historical accounts of Maryland in the mid-1860s is apt. The echoes of history reverberate loudly, revealing the power of historical trauma to shape behavior in the present day." - The Atlantic

America’s (Unnecessary) Fear Of Black History: Lonnie Bunch

"In all my years doing research at the National Archives, I had never cried. …" The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and co-founder of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture writes about the implications of his research into the post-Civil War Freedmen's Bureau. - MSN (The Atlantic)

The Fisk Jubilee Singers And The Birth Of The Spiritual

Vann R. Newkirk II, based on the diaries of Ella Sheppard, the group's first pianist and composer, and on materials in the historically black university's archives, recounts how the group came together in the 1870s to help save the impoverished school — and created a great American genre of music. - MSN (The Atlantic)

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