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Lit Chips
Via theparisreview.org
May 2012
Step aside, Pantone. These proposed paint chips—based on literary references—offer hues like Gulag (in honor of Solzhenitsyn), Havisham’s Complexion (Great Expectations), Esther’s Sauce (Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar), and Snot (Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden).
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Moist Maligned
Via newyorker.com
Apr 2012
For its new Twitter-based gameshow “Questioningly,” the New Yorker asked readers which English word should be eliminated from the language. “Fecund”? “Phlegm”? “Tebowing”? Nope. By an overwhelming vote, the most despised word is … “moist.”
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Yayoi in Wonderland
Via brainpickings.org
Apr 2012
A new edition of Lewis Carroll’s surreal fable Alice in Wonderland is, aptly, designed by an artist known for creating mind-bending visual worlds. Penguin Global has just published a Yayoi Kusama-designed version of the 1865 tale.
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Poetry Pulitzer
Via pulitzer.org
Apr 2012
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, announced Monday, goes to Brooklyn’s Tracy K. Smith for Life on Mars. Published by Minneapolis’ Graywolf Press, it’s decribed as a “collection of bold, skillful poems” that moves readers “to an authentic mix of joy and pain.”
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Borges at the Falls
Via minnpost.com
Apr 2012
Musing on Minneapolis’ Minnehaha Falls, Andy Sturdevant notes a 1983 visit by Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote that the “wry mythology” of our state’s lumber camps “includes remarkable creatures—creatures that no one, surely, has ever believed in.”
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Arts Rebound
Via artsusa.org
Apr 2012
After hitting an all-time low in 2009, the vitality of the arts industry, as measured by the newest National Arts Index, is rebounding. While funding remains a concern, “half of the 83 indicators used to tabulate the Index score increased” in the latest reporting period.
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NEA to Cut PBS Funding
Via nytimes.com
Apr 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts is proposing major funding cuts for arts and documentary programming. The $1 million reduction in federal funds will affect the Peabody-winning show Art:21, plus POV, Independent Lens, and others.
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Helping Harper
Via pbs.org
Apr 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird—made into the lauded film that turns 50 this year—might not have been written were it not for Joy and Michael Brown. In 1956, they gave Harper Lee a Christmas gift so she could take a “year off from your job to write whatever you please.”
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DJ Spooky at the Met
Via metmuseum.org
Apr 2012
The Met’s 2012-2013 season has a twist: Its first ever performing artist in residence will be Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, who over the course of a year will perform five times (including a participatory iPad piece), host talks, and more.