Are you a member of any professional associations? https://lobste.rs/s/dm1j7b #ask #culture
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As urgent and relevant today as it ever was': The radical manifesto hidden in Georges Seurat's 1884 masterpiece
Georges Seurat's once-mocked painting Bathers at Asnières is both an "exquisite distillation of the very essence of summer" and "a modern wonder in the art of seeing".
By Kelly Grovier
The Magic of Mucha
This Czech artist’s lush, irresistible designs helped define art nouveau.
https://lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-april-2026/the-magic-of-mucha/
Illustrations made by Mucha at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44270
Sports betting has exploded across America, with a vast majority of states legalizing gambling in recent years. In fact, Americans gambled $150 billion through online sportsbooks last year. Far too many lost nearly everything. @RollingStone reports on the near-fatal consequences for a group of young men with a phone, app, and a growing addition:
The Ignorant Art Historian: View of Notre Dame
By Hal Foster
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/28/the-ignorant-art-historian-view-of-notre-dame/
Notre-Dame de Paris at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/12945
Black Americans who are attempting to trace their roots can get help from the Smithsonian. The institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) offers free genealogy sessions, both in person and online, teaching people how to interpret census records, find useful sources of information, and more. Here's more from @Smithsonianmag's Tracy Scott Forson, who got answers about her own family history from an NMAAHC session.
#History #Culture #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
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Nothing Works and Everyone Is Euphoric https://lobste.rs/s/syk1hi #culture
https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
A virtual tour of "Wouldn't It Be Nice", a contemporary art exhibition, shown as part of MK Fringe, went up on my YouTube today.
MK Fringe is an arts festival that runs alongside the main IF arts biennial cultural event in MIlton Keynes, UK.
As usual, it gives an opportunity to raise the profile of artists based in, or with links to, Milton Keynes.
See it here: https://www.youtube.com/@srfirehorseart/shorts
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Library of Congress acquires only known lyrics sketch of 'Over the Rainbow'
By Chloe Veltman
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5511391/library-of-congress-wizard-of-oz
Wizard of Oz at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/25089
Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency https://lobste.rs/s/3ay2ad #culture
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-kpi-goodhart
People Matching Artworks: A Voyeur Finds Things That Fit At The Museum
For his project People Matching Artworks, Stefan Draschan watches as visitors to museums blend with the pictures they've stopped to look at.
8 Women Composers Who Shaped the Musical World
Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice.
by Andrew Olsen
https://www.thecollector.com/women-composers-you-should-know/
Musicians at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/543
The Baftas honoring the best films of 2023 will take place Sunday. Since the first ceremony in 1949, no Black women have won the award for best actress. This story from Variety underscores the considerable work that remains regarding the UK’s “persistent issue with embracing diverse performers.” https://flip.it/8mI8jb
#Culture #Entertainment #Baftas, #Equality #Race #UnitedKingdom
The Symptomatic Surreal: Leonora Carrington exhibition explores her complex relationship with death
by Ailsa Peate
The Freud Museum is a perfect fit for the story of Carrington’s confinement and the creativity which ensued.
British comedian Michael McIntyre has a bit in which he claims that any English word can be used to describe being drunk. Now, two German linguists have tested the claim. "It is highly surprising that drunkonyms are still under-researched from a linguistic perspective," the authors wrote in their new paper, which was published in the Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. @arstechnica's @JenLucPiquant has the TL;DR.
The original research paper lists 546 synonyms for drunkenness. We want to know which of these four did NOT appear.
#Culture #BritishCulture #Drinking #Food #Alcohol #Research #Comedy
Options: (choose one)
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〈The ASEAN National Flowers〉
This series looks into the national flowers of ASEAN. I originally put this together back in 2007 when ASEAN consisted of just ten members. Now includes our newest SEAbling: Timor-Leste!
guhit.youronly.one/asean-nation...
#Culture #ASEAN #Flowers #listicles
guhit.youronly.one/asean-national...
In 1939, the Dongs, a Chinese American family, could not find a house to rent in Coronado, Calif., because of racially restrictive housing laws. Emma and Gus Thompson, a Black couple, allowed the family to rent and later buy their home. Now, the Dongs have sold that house, and are donating $5 million to Black college students. They are also working to have San Diego State University's Black Resource Center named after Emma and Gus, who was born into slavery in Kentucky. Here's more from NBC News.
#History #Culture #BlackHistory #AAPIHistory #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon @histodons #California
The trailer for Season 2 of the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast has dropped! I’m ridiculously proud of the guest list I’ve curated for us to try to make sense of the 21st century together – where we’ve been, where we’ve ended up, and where we’re going – all through the lens of art. Find out who’s joining me next and hear about the upgrades coming to this podcast. I'd love to have you as a listener!
#culture #art #writing #screenwriting #film #movies #books #writinglife
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Artist, Inventor… and Wedding Planner?
by Verity Babbs
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-leonardo-da-vinci-wedding-planner-2667830
Da Vinci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629
Vegan cheese has a horrible reputation, but engineer Magi Richani, founder of Nobell Foods in San Francisco, and microbiologist Morgan Mitchell, creator of Green Goddess Fromagerie in Guelph, Ontario, say they've nailed it. The Walrus's Nicole Schmidt looked into why it's so tricky to develop dairy-free cheese, and tried a few. It's still a topic of discussion whether you can call a non-dairy item "cheese." What do you reckon?
#Food #Cheese #Culture #Vegan #PlantBased #FoodScience #Science
Options: (choose one)
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Anne Shakespeare: Toward a Biography
Let’s check in with Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, about whom so little is known.
By: Matthew Wills
King James I and the Macbeth Witches
The ever-pragmatic Shakespeare added witches to the Scottish play to please his new patron, King James I of England.
By: Emily Zarevich
Macbeth at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1533
Today, we're beginning to federate a selection of publishers based in Germany and the U.K. We've also introduced @FlipboardDE, a new profile for the Mastodon community in Germany. In the first test, we are partnering with 21 publishers to federate their profiles and Magazines. Follow the profile to see all the stories they are posting on Flipboard, or topically curated Magazines to get coverage on specific areas of interest. Here's a blogpost that explains more.
https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-federation-in-europe-b7e2ba3651d3
#Flipboard #ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse #Germany #Deutschland #UnitedKingdom #News #Tech #Culture #Art #Politics #MastodonMigration #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb
Kathleen Jamie & Don Paterson in Conversation with Chris Agee
29 Oct, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh – £10
Ten years after the Independence Referendum, IRISH PAGES asks Scottish writers diverse Scottish writers to think about their country, & take stock of the current state of its culture & polity, language & literature, ecology & environment. How will Scotland fare in an era of momentous & unpredictable political change?
”Dress Rebelling Against Gender (DRAG). We’re not making fun of any specific gender, we are hitting on #gender itself.”
Unlocked at my #Patreon: My interview with Raemonn James, aka the #drag queen Hermajestie the Hung. https://www.patreon.com/posts/100612676