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Jun 13, 2024 | 
news.mit.edu | Anya Ventura
In the beginning, as one version of the Haudenosaunee creation story has it, there was only water and sky. According to oral tradition, when the Sky Woman became pregnant, she dropped through a hole in the clouds. While many animals guided her descent as she fell, she eventually found a place on the turtle’s back. They worked together, with the aid of other water creatures, to lift the land from the depths of these primordial waters to create what we now know as our earth.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Anya Ventura |Esmat Elhalaby
On a Wednesday morning in San Diego, the CEO of the UPS Store was sitting at his desk in a baby blue polo, waiting for the customers to arrive. “I’ll be signing paychecks and stuff, and giving them to my employees,” he told me. The CEO, who is the youngest of three and would one day like to be a professional soccer player, is in the fifth grade. His mother had pressed his name in iron-on letters on one side of his shirt; on the other side was the delivery company’s brown logo.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Chris Maggio |Anya Ventura |Liliana Colanzi
Visitors to the Niagara Falls have been charged admission since before the Civil War. Straddling the border of the United States and Canada, the three waterfalls of the Niagara River have spent more time in each nation’s history as a paid attraction than as an unadulterated natural wonder. In all those years, the appeal hasn’t changed much.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
getty.edu | Anya Ventura
Body Content You’ve endured a violent massacre, but now you’re trapped between an invading foreign army and a powerful god. Get Inspired Enjoy stories about art, and news about Getty exhibitions and events, with our free e-newsletter Subscribe now What would you do?
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
getty.edu | Anya Ventura
Body Content How do you describe a work of art? With art terms, of course! We’ve heard you, and we’re here to answer your Frequently Asked Art Questions (FAAQs). Today, let’s take a look at the Florentine Codex, recently added to Getty's online archives. But…what is a codex? Watch the video, or read on below! A codex is a Latin term that refers to a manuscript, typically handwritten and bound in book form. Books might seem like an old technology, but that wasn’t always the case.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Anya Ventura |Tod Machover
By Anya Ventura | Arts at MITIn the mid-1980s, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel VALIS in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his "pink light experience," VALIS was an acronym for "vast active living intelligence system." The metaphysical novel would become the basis for Machover's opera of the same name, which first premiered at the Pompidou Center in 1987, and was recently re-staged at MIT for a new generation.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
news.mit.edu | Anya Ventura
In the mid-1980s, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel "VALIS" in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his "pink light experience," "VALIS" was an acronym for "vast active living intelligence system." The metaphysical novel would become the basis for Machover's opera of the same name, which first premiered at the Pompidou Center in 1987, and was recently re-staged at MIT for a new generation.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Anya Ventura |Tod Machover
By Anya VenturaIn the mid-eighties, composer Tod Machover came across a copy of Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel VALIS in a Parisian bookstore. Based on a mystical vision Dick called his "pink light experience," VALIS was an acronym for "vast active living intelligence system." The metaphysical novel would become the basis for Machover's opera of the same name, which first premiered at the Pompidou Center in 1987, and was recently restaged at MIT for a new generation.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Mary Jo Bang |Anya Ventura |Fady Joudah
The grassland comes up to the edgeof the road on which I’m standing. A gunshot is easily heard. The grassland exists. My eyes seethat the land is a bannerthe wind holds up. The ground turnsunder and around and then becomesa densely forested park wherethe trees are all lying on their sides. After the hurricane came throughI couldn’t find my way out. kept coming back like a weavingI took out at night. By noon,it was yesterday again—a sketchbarely held together by a stitchor two.
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May 29, 2023 | 
news.mit.edu | Anya Ventura
In the mid-1980s, artist Pamela Z was working at Tower Records on Columbus Street in San Francisco, where one of her jobs was replacing pages in the store's Phonolog, an enormous alphabetized directory of all the music available at the time, which formed a kind of bible of pop. When she ripped one loose-leafed sheet from the book, she noticed that all the titles on that sheet began with "you." You stayed on my mind. You stole my heart.
