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David Beckham defends kissing his five-year-old daughter Harper on the lips
The former Manchester United star was criticised by some fans after posting a photo with him and five-year-old daughter Harper on Instagram. Speaking during a Facebook Live interview, he said: "We want to show our kids love." David Beckham's wife Victoria was also criticised for posting a picture of herself kissing their daughter on the lips last year.
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How The Economist Thinks
Is it fair to trash The Economist? You bet it is. By Nathan J. Robinson.
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No Fluff in Their Stuff: Museum Guards Review the Whitney Biennial
It’s time to take the cork out of these untapped geysers of art criticism and let them gush! By Xavier Aaronson. (Apr 5, 2012)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Curated
Making sense of curatolatry. By Thomas Frank.
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Emma Watson fires back at 'feminist' criticism over 'topless' Vanity Fair photo
Beauty and the Beast star is baffled by critics who decried magazine photoshoot as "unfeminist". Beauty and the Beast star Emma Watson has hit back at critics who suggested she was a fake feminist because of her outfit a Vanity Fair photoshoot. The UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, who rose to fame as Hermione in Harry Potter, was attacked by British broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer over the photo, in which a small amount of her breasts can be seen.
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Pope suggests 'better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic'
Pope Francis delivered another criticism of some members of his own Church on Thursday, suggesting it is better to be an atheist than one of "many" Catholics who he said lead a hypocritical double life. In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning Mass in his residence, he said: "It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life."
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The Transcendental Face of Art
On John Berger, a writer of our time. By Joshua Sperling.
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Milo Yiannopoulos denies supporting paedophilia amid criticism over livestream
American conservatives have expressed anger at the booking of rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos as a conference speaker after footage emerged in which he discusses sex between “younger boys” and older men. In an internet livestream, Yiannopoulos, a news editor at Breitbart who was permanently banned from Twitter in July 2016 for instigating abuse of the Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones, says “you can get quite hung up on this child abuse thing”. He goes on to suggest that sex between “younger boys” and older men could be a “coming-of-age relationship...
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The Song of John Berger
"He questioned greed, monuments, glib cruelty, and received wisdom. He felt that when we look at an artist’s work we are taking in how they themselves look at everything else, and that doing so 'increases our awareness of our own potentiality.'” By Ben Ratliff.
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Ways of Seeing
John Berger
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Donald Trump calls Meryl Streep 'overrated' after Globes speech
US President-elect Donald Trump has hit back at Meryl Streep's criticism of him as she received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes. He tweeted: "Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes. "She is a Hillary flunky who lost big," Mr Trump added of the three-time Oscar-winning actress.
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A Smuggling Operation: John Berger’s Theory of Art
Robert Minto examines the theory of art expounded in “Landscapes: John Berger on Art.”
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Thomas Friedman’s ‘Thank You for Being Late’
Matt Taibbi reviews new book, 'Thank You for Being Late,' in which Thomas Friedman makes a short story long.
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The media vs. Donald Trump: why the press feels so free to criticize the Republican nominee
There is a case to be made that the media created Donald Trump. It was, reportedly, his anger at being dismissed by political pundits that led him to run for president in the first place. And it was, arguably, the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of his every utterance that powered his victory in the Republican primary. But slowly, surely, the media has turned on Trump. He still gets wall-to-wall coverage, but that coverage is overwhelmingly negative. Increasingly, the press doesn’t even pretend to treat Trump like a normal candidate...
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James Franco Is, Actually, an Artist. So Why Won’t the Art World Take Him Seriously?
In conversation with Jerry Saltz, the celebrity makes a case for his art.
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The Art of the Book Review
The timeless wit of “Advice to a Young Reviewer.” By Michael Lind.
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