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Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”? - Alex Gendler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtkv3-endYc
Walk Inside a Surrealist Salvador Dalí Painting with This 360º Virtual Reality Video
Diamond2019-02-17T10:01:09-04:00Click on the arrows to get the full 360 degree experience. I felt as impressed as everyone else did when I saw my first 360-degree video, the technology that allows viewers to "look" in any direction they wish. But most of the 360-degree videos that became popular early simply demonstrated the concept, and as
How to Read the Good Books
Diamond2019-01-25T18:23:18-04:00From the Torah to the Quran, sacred texts can resist and reward modern readers, Adam Gopnik writes. Source: How to Read the Good Books
What Jonas Mekas Meant to the Film World
Diamond2019-01-25T18:20:50-04:00J. Hoberman remembers Jonas Mekas, the critic and avant-garde filmmaker who co-founded the magazine *Film Culture* and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and made films such as “Guns of the Trees.” Source: What Jonas Mekas Meant to the Film World
A guide to worrying in the 21st century
Diamond2019-01-25T17:48:54-04:00By Bill Gates | December 3, 2018 The human mind wants to worry. This is not necessarily a bad thing—after all, if a bear is stalking you, worrying about it may well save your life. Although most of us don’t need to lose too much sleep over bears these days, modern life does present plenty of
How We’ll Forget John Lennon – Issue 68: Context – Nautilus
Diamond2019-01-10T18:13:06-04:00A few years ago a student walked into the office of Cesar A. Hidalgo, director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon
How YouTube’s Year-in-Review ‘Rewind’ Video Set Off a Civil War – The New York Times
Diamond2018-12-15T04:16:43-04:00To many YouTubers, the video felt like evidence that YouTube the company was snubbing YouTube the community. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/technology/youtube-rewind-video.html
Marginalia Books
Diamond2018-12-14T05:25:10-04:00Marginalia Books is the first and only publisher of originally hand-annotated classics of world literature and nonfiction. Read on marginaliabooks.com/
Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum
Diamond2018-12-04T14:59:05-04:00Download Over 325 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/-HW5trqXDjk/download-325-free-art-books-getty-museum.html — Read on feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/-HW5trqXDjk/download-325-free-art-books-getty-museum.html
Creating MoMA Exhibits
Diamond2018-12-03T07:34:13-04:00slate.com/business/2018/12/how-moma-exhibitions-are-designed-and-built.html
Hilma af Klint’s Visionary Paintings
Diamond2018-11-07T20:24:16-04:00The art, fearfully esoteric and influenced by its creator’s séances and spiritualism, matches a present mood of restless searching. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/hilma-af-klints-visionary-paintings
The Deal of the Art | Jonathon Sturgeon
Diamond2018-10-19T11:01:14-04:00Sotheby’s is operating like a hedge fund, choosing to scale back on expertise and invest risk-free in performance. — Read on thebaffler.com/the-immediate-experience/the-deal-of-the-art-sturgeon