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In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, the name of David Byrne’s band was Talking Heads — as the title of their 1982 live album perpetually reminds us. But their overall artistic project arguably had less to do with the head than the body, a proposition memorably underscored in Stop Making Sense, the Jonathan Demme-directed concert…
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The Complete “Everything is a Remix”: An Hour-Long Testament to the Brilliance & Beauty of Human Creativity
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Let me quote myself: “From 2010 to 2012, filmmaker Kirby Ferguson released Everything is a Remix, a four-part series that explored art and creativity, and particularly how artists inevitably borrow from one another, draw on past ideas and conventions, and then turn these materials into something beautiful and new. In the initial series, Ferguson…
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Enroll Today for Online Courses with Stanford Continuing Studies: Open Culture Readers Get 15% Off
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A heads up for Open Culture readers: This spring, Stanford Continuing Studies has a rich lineup of online courses, and they’re offering a special 15% discount to our readers. Just use the promo code CULTURE during checkout.
Serving lifelong learners everywhere, Stanford Continuing Studies will launch its spring curriculum…
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Watch the World’s First Film Made in Babylonian, the Language of Ancient Mesopotamia
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“Enable subtitles,” says the notification that appears before The Poor Man of Nippur — and you will need them, unless, of course, you happen to hail from the cradle of civilization. The short film is adapted from “a folktale based on a 2,700-year-old poem about a pauper,” says the University of Cambridge’s alumni…
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