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Is Facebook too Conservative for Contemporary Art?
Unfortunately, Facebook’s rules against certain kinds of material, specifically nudes, threaten to censor artists who depict the human body
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Is "Mad Men" the Greatest Novel of Our Time?
I ask the above question at least halfway in earnest, and also as an excuse to write about Mad Men. (The season premiere has been delayed by contract disputes, so I have to get my fix somehow.) Mad Men is the Russian novel of TV shows. Its power derives partly from the dramatization of large-scale ... -
Classical Music Isn't Dead. It's Just Gone Indie.
Symphonic music has been written off by a generation as cloistered and irrelevant. Can the classically-trained musician ever return to mass appeal?
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Margaret Cho's Top Five Up-and-Coming Female Comics
In the male-dominated field of comedy, female comics need to stick together. In the spirit of solidarity, Margaret Cho names her favorite up-and-coming female performers.
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Why Do People Become Digital Pirates?
3 days ago
What's the Latest Development? Enabling digital piracy must be one of the least profitable theft crimes ever. By the time 'James', as we'll call him, was just 19 years old, he had begun cooperating with many elite piracy sites, using his formidable technical knowledge specifically to not sell ... Read More
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The New Hustle: Artists in the Digital Age
3 days ago
Enjoy the article, then check out the Big Think, Short Fiction Contest (#1: Sci Fi) - an Iron Chef-style event in partnership with Storiad. The Unrealized Utopia of DIY Artistic Success There was a lot of unexamined fist-pumping among the youth of 1998 when Napster "took down" the music ... Read More
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Simon Doonan's Fashion Tips For Mad Scientists
6 days ago
The hilarious swami of style and fashion egalitarian Simon Doonan, author of Gay Men Don't Get Fat, offers some efficient guidelines to personal style for the mad scientist whose mind is on loftier things. Read More
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Life's Too Short: How to Read the Right Books
7 days ago
Let’s say you’re in the top fifth percentile of avid readers, tearing through a book a week on average. With such literary gusto raising your sails, you might feel like the entire world is an open book to browse at your leisure. But in actuality, you will hardly scratch the surface of available ... Read More
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Can This Man Save the Opera?
21 days ago
In the climactic final act of Verdi's opera La traviata, the heroine Violetta is on her deathbed, stricken with tuberculosis. Suddenly her estranged lover Alfredo returns to her side and the newly reunited lovers imagine a future together. Violetta experiences a great resurgence of strength only to ... Read More
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He's Back! Is Hollywood Ready for Ricky Gervais, Round Two?
26 days ago
It was a year ago that Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe Awards and joked The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) accepts bribes. That joke certainly ruffled some feathers since a former HFPA publicist had just charged in a lawsuit that the association had accepted "payola," bribes ... Read More
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Behind the Steve Jobs Biography
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? For all that has been written about Walter Isaacson's book, Steve Jobs, and for all the people who have read it, there's plenty left to say, writes Adam Lashinsky, who is author of the upcoming, Inside Apple. Lashinsky says that in a recent interview, Isaacson ... Read More
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How the Internet will Change in 2012
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Internet industry research service Business Insider Intelligence peeks into 2012 and, among other things, predicts Google will release a $200 tablet; Facebook will hit 1 billion users; Twitter will build a huge business; Amazon will post serious losses but enjoy ... Read More
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Why Pinterest is Sparking Interest
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? For those who've heard the hype but are still in the dark, Mashable explains how Pinterest works and why the site's popularity has exploded from 1.2 million users in August to over 4 million today. A place to organize and share online images, Pinterest is also a ... Read More
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What to Expect in Tech in 2025
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? Here's how John Brandon sees the future less than 15 years from now: augmented reality will be mainstream, digital assistants will guide our every move, everything will be translated on the fly, we’ll be using digital scrolls, and some of our employees will not be ... Read More
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Next in North Korea: More Internal Instability, More External Hostility
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? The post-Kim Jong Il future of the world’s most repressive regime, North Korea, remains uncertain, writes Sung Chul Jung. But successor Kim Jong Un is likely to consolidate his political power by sticking to his father’s (and grandfather’s) strategy, often called the ... Read More
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Will Protests Spark Real Change in Russia?
about 1 month ago
What's the Latest Development? In the fortnight since the Bolotnaya rally, the Russian government response has gone from panicked to largely symbolic gestures and now to the start of something akin to actual concessions and real change, says Julia Ioffe. With thousands more at this weekend's ... Read More
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