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Brian Eno turned 75 years old this past spring, but if he has any thoughts of retirement, they haven't slowed his creation of new art and music. Just last year he put out his latest solo album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, videos from whose songs we featured here on Open Culture. However compelling the official material released…
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700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
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Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly the opposite. For Nowruz, the Persian New Year, the Library of Congress has released a digital collection of its rare…
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The Lunar Codex Will Digitize the Work of 30,000 Artists, and Then Archive Them on the Moon
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There may not yet be civilization on the moon, but that doesn't mean there's no culture up there. We've previously featured the tiny ceramic tile, smuggled onto the Apollo 12 lunar lander, that bears art by the likes of Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. "Fallen Astronaut, an aluminum sculpture by…
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When the Wind Blows: An Animated Tale of Nuclear Apocalypse With Music by Roger Waters & David Bowie (1986)
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Humanity has few fascinations as enduring as that with apocalypse. We've been telling ourselves stories of civilization's destruction as long as we've had civilization to destroy. But those stories haven't all been the same: each era envisions the end of the world in a way that reflects its own immediate preoccupations. In the mid nineteen-eighties,…
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