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This Summer, Have Some Curated Art With Your Large Pop Music Festival

“Lollapalooza has it all. Except art. Specifically, a big, thoughtfully curated art show. And so, this summer, Lollapalooza is getting a group exhibition so enormous that, if street artist/curator Shepard Fairey has his way, its largest murals will stay in Chicago long after the buzzsaw thump of Skrillex dislodges your brain stem.”

The Unbearable Whiteness Of MFA Programs

Junot Díaz: “I can’t tell you how often students of color seek me out during my visits or approach me after readings in order to share with me the racist nonsense they’re facing in their programs, from both their peers and their professors. In the last 17 years I must have had at least three hundred of these conversations, minimum.”

Here’s What Author Junot Díaz Asks His MIT Students To Read

“He teaches two courses within MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department, one on fantasy ‘world-building’ and one section of advanced fiction. They both seem too good to be true.”

Wait, This Small Indie Bookstore Is Opening A Fourth Spot In Manhattan?!

“‘There was an idea in the past that if you had a lot of really good books and put them on the shelves, people would come,’ Mutter says. ‘And most booksellers recognized that that doesn’t work anymore.'”

Comic Books Used To Have Black Astronauts And A Lot Of Outlaw Feminist Women – Then, Censorship

“The comics world … was a cacophonous bazaar of stories: sometimes thrilling, sometimes confusing, sometimes revolting. But that bazaar was swiftly and mercilessly dismantled in 1954 by the newly formed Comics Code Authority. It was replaced with a viciously policed shopping mall whose effects resonate today.”

British Library Unveils Newspaper Reading Room As Print Teeters On The Brink

“The collection’s oldest English-language newspaper title was published in Amsterdam in 1620 and covered news from Italy, Germany and Bohemia.”

Here’s What Happens When A Millennial Decides To Write Snail Mail Letters

“I completely forgot to check my mailbox for a good two weeks. But I had a lovely, unexpected surprise when I checked it twenty minutes ago – a perfect addition to Valentine’s Day; there’s nothing more poetic than sharing your handwriting the good, old fashioned way with a good, old friend.”

We’re Going To Lose Net Neutrality. Now What Do We Do?

“If this is the end of net neutrality as we know it, it is not the end of the line for fair and equitable Internet access. Indeed, the commission’s decision frees Americans to focus on a real long-term solution: supporting open municipal-level fiber networks.”

British House Where Vincent Van Gogh Lived Is Turning Into An Artist’s Exhibition (About Van Gogh)

“Tourism and blue plaques make houses into biographers. The past is irretrievable. All you can do is anthropomorphise a house – like looking at the empty shell of an animal.”

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