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This Year’s Cannes Festival, Giddy Journalists Say, Was Top-Notch

Why? Perhaps because it was concentrated: "With Cannes 2020 called off, Cannes 2021 reaped the benefits of not one but two years’ worth of new movies." - Los Angeles Times

Spike Lee Reveals Palme D’Or Winner Early

Oops at Cannes: "When the jury president, Spike Lee, was asked to announce the first prize of the night, he misunderstood and read off the first-prize winner instead." - The New York Times

In Britain, Tory Councillors Censor A Public Art Exhibit

The exhibit, which used plaques on benches and Cold War rosebushes to convey info about Britain's nuclear past, was threatened with a lawsuit. - The Observer (UK)

Don’t Let Leisure Time Disappear

Alert, four-day work week advocates: "Leisure is doing things for their own sake, to pursue what one wants. We should fight the urge to reduce it to a productivity hack." - The Atlantic

What’s Getting People Back To The Cinema?

One Alamo Drafthouse audience member: "“I love movies and I have to be in the theater to see a movie. Like, to me, that’s the only way to watch movies." - Los Angeles Times

Looking For Culture To Lead The Reopening Of New York

The arts are "a major industry that employed some 93,500 people before the pandemic and paid them $7.4 billion in wages" - and are part of the lifeblood of the city. - The New York Times

The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary

Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune

Why We All Need To Pay Attention To How Artificial Intelligence Works

Each link is a small expression of intelligence, and the algorithm, even without users being aware, extracts and accumulates that intelligence in the form of fixed capital. - Nonprofit Quarterly

Painting Restoration Takes The Smile Off

The restoration work not only reveals the rogue addition of an upturned smile, but also a jarring strip of dirty sky added to make the canvas square rather than rectangular. - The Guardian

Hong Kong Book Fair Slims Down With Self-Censorship

This year, far fewer politically sensitive books are on display. Vendors are curating their books carefully to avoid violating the national security law, which Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in June 2020. - The Guardian

New Study Confirms 1972 MIT Study That Collapse Of Civilization Is Imminent

It concludes that the current business-as-usual trajectory of global civilization is heading toward the terminal decline of economic growth within the coming decade—and at worst, could trigger societal collapse by around 2040. - Vice

“Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems

The technology, which involves creating a digital clone of a real-world object or system, is revolutionising the fields of healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. It is now having a profound impact on architecture and urbanism too. - Dezeen

One Of History’s Greatest Opera Divas Was Also A Fine Composer

Pauline Viardot played duets with Chopin; thrilled Europe with her Rossini and Mozart; had George Sand as a friend and Turgenev as a lover. Berlioz and Brahms wrote for her voice. And, as we're now rediscovering, she composed impressive songs, operettas, and chamber music. - The New York Times

For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces

My research findings demonstrate how honing imagination and wonder is essential to creating cultures dedicated to innovative and responsible corporate practices demanded by a growing majority of workers. - The Conversation

At Home With The World’s Most Powerful Crossword Editor

"Will Shortz's stature in the crossword world is difficult to overstate. Observers, like the Kremlinologists of yore, speak of the 'Shortzian' and 'pre-Shortzian' eras." (He is also an absolute demon at table tennis.) - The Guardian

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