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STORIES ON THE NOW

FROM A NOWNESS DOCUMENTARY ON INDIA'S RURAL RAVE SCENE AND THE FIRST SC-FI MOVIE EVER ('Le voyage dans la lune'), TO A VERY RARE INTERVIEW WITH LVMH CEO BERNARD ARNAULT, AND WHY IN PARIS - ACCORDING TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES - THE CHICEST WAY TO SHOP IS AT SOMEONE ELSE'S HOME.+ MILES DAVIS PERFORMING IN TEATRO DELL'ARTE IN 1964! 


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Miles Davis Quintet,Teatro dell'Arte.Milan, October 11th, 1964.

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Some serious thinking on 'the work of art in the age of surveillance capitalism' by video essayist Brendan Morris.

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'I attempt to articulate what might be called 'a critique of the political economy of content creation.''

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Is AI going to kill us? Or take our jobs? Or is the whole thing overhyped? Depends on who you ask.VOX spent much of the spring talking to people working in AI, investing in AI, trying to build businesses in AI — as well as people who think the current AI boom is overblown or maybe dangerously misguided. They made a podcast series about the whole thing, which you can listen to over at Recode Media.

Listen to the promise and peril of AI in Vox's Recode Media podcast

1968 film detailing advancements in digital technology, featuring the 'Graphic 1' computer system at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

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The Incredible Machine

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The original new wave punk funk. A brief history of Talking Heads.

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'One of the greatest bands ever.'

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LVMH has a sprawling portfolio of brands synonymous with luxury: Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Bulgari, Celine, Tiffany & Co., Hennessy and Veuve Clicquot. Its CEO, Bernard Arnault, almost never speaks to journalists and doesn’t have the name recognition of the likes of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, but regularly vies with them for the title of richest person in the world and has an almost impossible-to-measure influence over the business world.

Listen to the very rare interview with Bernard Arnault on the Bloomberg Podcast

Why every restaurant has the same desserts.

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In the wake of David Lynch’s passing at the age of seventy-eight, Artforum revisits their 2019 video interview with the avant-garde filmmaker. In it, Lynch talks about his first love—painting—and his subsequent lifelong devotion to artmaking, from his student years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts to his move to Los Angeles to pursue cinema, or “moving paintings.”

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In Paris, the chicest way to shop is at someone else’s home.

Divya Bala investigates on the Financial Times

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Georges Méliès's 1902 'Le voyage dans la lune' we now recognize as the very first sci-fi movie.

It would hardly seem worth noting that a film from 1902 is silent and in black-and-white, but what few know is that colorized prints — laboriously hand-painted, frame by frame, on an assembly line — existed even at the time of its original release, like this one such restored version.

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