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Vinyl Is A Perfect Medium For Discovering Classical Music

Why? "The rough edges of a medium are what allows us to get a grip on it. When I hold a record in my hands, there’s no getting around its physicality, its presence, its here-ness." - Washington Post

Why Netflix Movies Look So Weird

It's technical: The company "requires narrative feature films made for Netflix be shot on cameras with a 'true 4K UHD sensor.'" - Fast Company

An Investigation Into Sony Music Australia Yields Hordes Of Complaints

More than 40 former employees have contacted the investigating law firm "since allegations of a toxic workplace culture first aired and its Australian chief executive was removed in June." - The Guardian (UK)

At Last, Bringing A Native Perspective To The Met

Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) lives to "show you how a 19th-century ceramic, textile, carving or painting is made and how it is connected to the contemporary works." - The New York Times

Anti-History Is On The Rise

History needs context - but not according to a certain faction on the American right-wing political spectrum. - The Atlantic

Creating An Opera About The Ugly Side Of Desire

Composer Amanda Feery got a range of advice about composing her first opera, and she decided to ignore almost all of it. - Irish Times

The New TV Series ‘Schmigadoon’ Tries To Sing Away Problems Of American Musicals

And that only works because its musical-theatre-loving creator writes all of its songs - every single one. - American Theatre

The Language That Poetry Shares With Comic Books

Eve Ewing, multihyphenate creative person (and sociology prof), calls writing poetry and writing comic books her most meaningful "cross-pollination." - The New York Times

An Indigenous Perspective On Frida Kahlo

Basically: "Kahlo, born to an affluent German father and mestiza mother (Spanish and Purépecha), adopted the popular fetishization and sanitization of the Tehuana favored by the cosmopolitan bourgeois, intellectual, and artistic circles of Mexico City." - Hyperallergic

Men Still Don’t Read Women

This remains true, with big financial and other consequences: "Why does this matter? For a start, it narrows men’s experiences of the world." - The Guardian (UK)

Is This 51,000-Year-Old Giant Deer Bone Carving Art?

Depends on whom you ask. "Dr. Terberger prefers to call it a complex decoration, perhaps a precursor to art." - The New York Times

Chekhov, Munro, And Endings That Change It All

If you want to be surprised, to have everything recast for you in light of new information, read Alice Munro's stories to their ends. - LitHub

Thomas Cleary, Who Translated Classic Works Of Eastern Philosophy, 72

Cleary "translated scores of Buddhist, Taoist, ancient Chinese and other texts into English, greatly broadening access to these works in the West." - The New York Times

Will Indie Films Survive The Pandemic?

Independent film producers don't have studios' deep pockets - and "a loss of insurance coverage and a surge in production costs have created a heavy burden." - Los Angeles Times

How To Have A Massive Hit In England

Get your men's sports teams to play well, and the rest follows. - The Guardian (UK)

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