"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives threatens all of that, a scholar says. - Contingent Magazine
"Across Africa, literary journals managed by young writers and artists are emerging with the aim of publishing both new and established voices, collaborating across geographies." - The New York Times
U.S. prosecutors want to return "a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered more than 20 years ago from a temple." - The New York Times
Whew, this time has been weird. "It was a fun challenge, and also, it just hit differently because we were in lockdown living in our fantasy world." - Variety
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune
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
