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Cultureteca 28.06.20

Miscellany
Few parts of the world could keep a lid on coronavirus as cases continued to surge this week across the Americas, South Asia, and Africa while bubbling up in Europe and the Asia Pacific. Across Latin America, Chile and Peru persisted with some of the highest global caseloads per capita, rising cases in Argentina prompted a new lockdown for...

Cultureteca 10.11.19

Miscellany
In an increasingly familiar refrain, the week kicked off with Martin Scorsese having to defend his stance on comic book movies, courtesy of an opinion piece in The New York Times. In an interview with Empire magazine published last month, Scorsese had said that Marvel movies are 'not cinema', comments which provoked a fierce backlash. In the Times, Scorsese...

Ásmundarsafn and Yearning for Space

Art
Visiting Iceland earlier in the year, I caught Yearning for Space at Ásmundarsafn in the few days before the exhibition closed. Yearning for Space is the name of an Ásmundur Sveinsson sculpture from 1967, and it indexes the time when the Space Race was at its peak: set off by the successful orbiting of Sputnik 1 in October 1957, after the Soviet...