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The Hobby Lobby Cultural Looting Case Is Really Bad, Probably Worse Than You Thought At First

For instance, stop saying Hobby Lobby was funding ISIS: That’s not true, but also, “in West Asia, most looting and most damage to cultural heritage generally is not being carried out by ISIS. This is not to belittle the horrible acts culminating in murderous violence that are committed by ISIS. Rather, the problem is ignoring the massive scale of threats to cultural heritage by focusing solely on one entity.”

What Happened To Jane Austen’s Characters After The Books Ended? Joan Aiken Knew

Perhaps you missed this, but “in her expansive set of prequels, concurrent fictions and sequels, published between 1984 and 2000, she is particularly adept at picking out the characters one would wonder about most, and writes them so well as almost to make Austen seem remiss for telling us only one side of the story.”

Will Netflix (And Other Streaming Service) Password-Sharing Go Away?

Uh-oh. If people can’t share passwords with their families, will they still want Hulu or Amazon? (Netflix seems safe.) “Companies say they accept some sharing as a way to promote their programming to potential customers, but they also take steps to curtail blatant freeloading.”

Millions Of Text Messages Use Emojis To Beg SFMOMA For Art

Wow, 2017, you do have some pleasant surprises: “It’s far more popular than the museum ever imagined, with people indulging in a long back-and-forth, binge texting. And it’s also revealed something surprising about its users — about how, and when, they want to interact with art, and how much they crave a personal connection with cultural authority.”

Truly Looking At Boyle Heights, The L.A. Neighborhood That Protested Gentrification By Galleries

Artist Star Montana: “I want people to understand the narrative of Boyle Heights. A lot of these people, they are trying to navigate how to exist in these neighborhoods. These people represent communities and neighborhoods. They exist. And they are individuals. And their stories — each one of them — their narrative is important, too. It’s important for me to sit down with them, even if it’s just for a minute.”

Tennis Movies Are Hard To Love

As Wimbledon wraps up and a new McEnroe versus Borg movie is about to come out, let’s take stock. “Cinema loves boxing and baseball, and these sports, by and large, appear to love them back. Knockout punches and home-runs, after all, provide neat movie resolutions. But tennis, for better or worse, is a long-form narrative. It ebbs and flows; it doesn’t naturally convert to bite-sized screen drama.”

Irina Ratushinskaya, Soviet Dissident Writer Who Inscribed Poetry On Soap With Burnt Matchsticks, Has Died At 63

Speaking of persistence: “Sentenced in 1983, on her 29th birthday, to the seven-year maximum term for ‘anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda,’ Ms. Ratushinskaya composed some 250 poems in prison, many drafted with burned matchsticks on bars of soap. She memorized them and smuggled them on cigarette paper through her husband to the West, where they were published, and where human rights groups indefatigably lobbied for her release.”

The Royal Shakespeare Company Is Launching Accessible ‘Chilled’ Performances

This is in addition to performances that reduce the sound volume and turn up the lights – so-called “relaxed” performances – and are aimed at slightly different audiences, for “people who feel more at ease knowing they are able to leave the auditorium at any time. These include people with dementia and people with babes in arms.”

The Newest Netflix Movie Causes Controversy About Skating Too Close To The Line On Eating Disorders

Both Marti Noxon and Lily Collins had experience with anorexia before making “To the Bone.” Does it go too far? “‘There’s a very, very, very fine line between giving information about eating disorders and disclosing too much and being triggering for individuals who are currently struggling,’ said Johanna Kandel, CEO of the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness.”