Think memoir, travel, family history, history of the world. That’s what a good cookbook is. – Literary Hub
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British Animation Is Making A(nother) Comeback
At least, it will if it can get some funding. “Much of the problem is financial – with huge challenges in securing funding for such labour-intensive work. And when British productions do manage to get funding, budgets invariably pale into insignificance compared with Hollywood.” – The Guardian (UK)
Buddhist Scholars Say Mindfulness Apps Are Only Increasing Our Reliance On Tech
Are all of those mindfulness apps easing our stress? Ha. Getting us more addicted to technology, more like. – Fast Company
Better Than The Golden Rule
The Golden Rule begins with imagining oneself as selfish, but try Mengzi instead. “Mengzian extension starts from the assumption that you are already concerned about nearby others, and takes the challenge to be extending that concern beyond a narrow circle.” – Aeon
So, Is This A Malevich Or Not?
Malevich lived and worked in Belorus – and “for 25 years [this painting] has been on display in the city of Hrodna, near the Polish border, with the label: Malevich?” But does Belorus finally have its own, or is it simply from his studio? – BBC
In DC, Increasing Access – And Audience, Maybe – At The Kennedy Center
What does Deborah Rutter really want to do with the expanded, busier, more national – perhaps – Kennedy Center? –The New York Times
Grappling With The Purpose Of The Public Library
If public libraries are not for the rich, they probably are not otherwise for the poor. To understand the public library as a benevolent form of welfare would be to entirely miss the radical potential of the institution as a political project. It isn’t utopian, nor is about culturing the masses, nor offering the marginalized a space where they mustn’t “pay for coffee.” – The Baffler
Why Do Movies About Classic Authors Have To Be So Serious… So Dull?
Let us count the ways in which we’ve been force-fed dour, vitamin-deficient biopics of our favorite authors. Why. So. Serious. On top of being ponderous, such work bristles with the insecurity of filmmakers timidly making the case for long-dead writers; every hushed scene screams the anxious question: Will people take their work seriously if we don’t present them seriously? – New York Magazine
An LA Art Colony Has Been Home To Artists For 30 Years. This Month The Rents Doubled Or Tripled…
The Santa Fe Art Colony was established in 1986 with public funds through the Community Redevelopment Agency, allowing for the adaptive reuse of factory buildings into artist studios. A 30-year agreement set rent restrictions on 85% of the 57 units. That agreement expired in 2016, but because the previous owners didn’t notify tenants of a rent increase, the city imposed a stay until 2017. After Fifteen Group purchased the property, it raised the rent on the small number of market-rate units. It notified the other residents that rent restrictions would be lifted this month. – Los Angeles Times
Fight Between Netflix And Movie Theatre Owners Led To Odd Theatre Availability Of “Irishman”
The major exhibitors typically insist on a 72-day period of exclusivity for the films that play on their screens. During the monthslong talks with Netflix over “The Irishman,” representatives of two major chains agreed independently to lower that number to around 60, according to two people familiar with the negotiations who were not authorized to discuss them publicly; Netflix signaled that it would not go above 45. And that’s where it ended. – The New York Times