by | Dec 16, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Mirth, Weirdness
from WIRED The WIRED Guide to Memes Everything you ever wanted to know about Nyan Cat, Doge, and the art of the Rickroll. by ANGELA WATERCUTTER & EMMA GREY ELLIS MEMES AND THE internet—they’re made for each other. Not because they’re digital visual...
by | Dec 15, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from artnet Did Ancient Hebrews Get High During Temple? A New Archaeological Discovery Suggests They Did Archaeologists confirm what your Jewish friends already suspected: ancient religious services were way more fun. by Sarah Cascone Frankincense, myrrh, and…...
by | Dec 12, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from AP Charley Pride, a country music Black superstar, dies at 86 By MARK KENNEDY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgBub4H_T6s NEW YORK (AP) — Charley Pride, one of country music’s first Black superstar whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning”...
by | Dec 11, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip “Mural,” his largest painting, is back in New York for the first time in 20 years, at the Guggenheim. By Jason Farago Jackson Pollock’s 20-foot-wide “Mural”(1943), originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and...
by | Dec 9, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times No, I Am Not Getting Rid of My Thousands of CDs Our chief classical music critic writes in praise of going to a shelf, pulling out a recording and sitting down to listen. By Anthony Tommasini Credit… By Javier Jaén In the late 1970s, when...
by | Dec 8, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from AP The Dylan catalog, a 60-year rock ‘n’ roll odyssey, is sold By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan has sold publishing rights to his catalog of more than 600 songs, one of the greatest treasures in popular music, to the Universal Music Publishing...
