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Are We In The Metaverse Now?

Have you played Animal Crossing during the pandemic? Zoomed into work? You're in it. (We're all in it.) - The New York Times

The NYer Short Story Cat Person Goes Viral Again

This time the discourse is about whether writers can, or should, use real-life details in their fiction. - The Guardian (UK)

Despite The Headlines, There Is No Debate Over Actual Critical Race Theory

CRT critics "aren’t arguing against anti-racist thinkers. They aren’t arguing against critical race theorists. These critics are arguing against themselves." - The Atlantic

Celebrating LA’s Spoken Word And Poetry Culture

Summertime tells the stories of "a diverse community of young artists who turned to poetry as a way of coping with hardship." - Los Angeles Times

Making Dance More Visible At The Venice Biennale – And Always

Royal Ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor is out to change how we all see, and feel, dance, especially after living through the pandemic. - The Observer (UK)

One Of The Last Members Of Auschwitz’s Women’s Orchestra Has Died

Esther Bejarano played the accordion in the orchestra and then "dedicated her life to music and to the fight against racism and anti-Semitism." - France24

Taking Photographic Inspiration From Ovid

The Metamorphoses is the classic work on nature and change, in both of which we've all been immersed for months. - The New York Times

Four Years After Deadly Rally, Lee Statue Is Gone

Charlottesville removes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues four years after white supremacists marched, and murdered, to keep them up. - Slate

We Will Soon Be Able To Fix Our Own Phones

Drop your phone? At long last, we'll all be legally allowed to repair it. - The Verge

A Famous Guitar Joins The Museum Of London

The Clash's smashed guitar isn't trash - it's treasure. - The Guardian (UK)

Cannes Away From Cannes Is Safer, And No COVID Tests

But a critic sees a lot fewer movies that way. - Los Angeles Times

Man Arrested For Trying To Peddle Fake Basquiats And Harings

The FBI said, "Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldn’t see the difference between real art and a forgery." - The New York Times

When Artists Decided To Make Pop Culture The Raw Materials For Their Work

In the 1950s and 60s artists increasingly looked at the products of pop culture as ideas and materials they could use for their own work. Louis Menand explains. - New York Review of Books

Bookshop Fined By Hungarian Government For Selling Book Featuring LGBT Families

The shop has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the picture book for featuring such families. - The Guardian

How They’re Planning To Televise The Tokyo Olympics Without Fans

Those plans include an “online cheer map” and a “fan video wall” that will be made available to TV rightsholders, and which will also be accessible via the Olympics website. - The Hollywood Reporter

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