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One Week Of Made For TV Christmas Specials Is A Special Kind Of Joy, Or Maybe Torture

Basically: “These aren’t just Christmas movies: They’re like Kay Jewelers commercials on steroids; movie-length advertisements for small-town America, capitalism and twinkle lights.”

The Colorblind Artist

Children’s book illustrator Loren Long, whose mother told him immediately after he learned he was colorblind that he should still pursue the art he loved: “In general, I can’t tell the difference between the many shades of brown and green or blue and purple. They’re very similar to me. Light blue and lavender look the same, and tan and pale green are almost impossible to tell apart. My living room is a shade of gray, but if my wife had told me it was green I would have taken her word all these years.”

The Uffizzi Had A Huge Collection Of Pre-19th-Century Work By Women Hidden Away – But Now It’s Coming Out

It’s almost mind-blowing that what the Guerilla Girls have been saying for years is finally filtering to the places it needs to be: “Eike Schmidt, who became the Uffizi’s director in 2015 after a stint at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, says he drew inspiration from the Guerilla Girls, a group of feminist art activists, who told him that many museums have the works of women artists, but they’re kept in storage.”

The Guardian Claims That It’s Time For ‘Woke Cinema’

This year (2017) was just of taste of what’s to come, the paper says. There’s political entertainment on its way, including A Wrinkle in Time and Black Panther, but that’s not all (not by a long shot). “If Trump is agreed to have killed off political satire, political history could well be taking its place.”

Playwriting Her Way Out Of Despair

Lucy Kirkwood, playwright of The Children (now playing on Broadway), says she was trying for a long time to figure out how to write plays about climate change. “Then the events of Fukushima happened, the terrible disaster there. There was a retired work force that volunteered to go back to clear up the plant there. And apparently the entire country sort of voluntarily monitored their own energy usage. They managed to bring down their national energy usage just because everyone was diligent and considerate and thought about themselves as part of something bigger.”

How Does Google Maps Work? Ask A Cartographer Who Helped Design Apple Maps

Google Maps now has buildings all over the place – in small, rural towns; in capital cities; in large cities – even down to the level of their HVAC roof details. Meanwhile, Apple Maps is a tad behind: It “doesn’t have them in the majority of U.S. state capitals.” But why?

Yu Guangzhong, An Exiled Poet Who Longed For His Homeland Of China, Dies In Taiwan At 89

He was “a prominent poet, essayist and translator whose best-known work, ‘Nostalgia,’ came to symbolize the aching separation, displacement and longing for cultural unity felt by many in mainland China and in the Chinese diaspora.” Generations have memorized ‘Nostalgia,’ and it’s even been used in high levels to argue for the reunification of Taiwan with the mainland.

The Search For Cultural Reparation In France

Artist Kader Attia, who won 2016’s Prize Marcel Duchamp, has quite a lot to say (and create) about the topic – and it’s a timely discussion, timely art. “What ultimately makes the question of reparation so compelling is not its recalcitrance, but its urgency. In Europe, and France in particular, long-strained differences of culture are now bound up in a complex web of alarming social crises — systemic poverty, racism, extremism, and terrible violence — which offer no hope of simplistic conclusion.”

The Christmas Food Of Fiction

Does anything top the Christmas feast in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead”? Well, maybe if you like Turkish Delight – or perhaps, as in Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes, a Pavlova.

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