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Good morning and welcome to today’s Editra. WhiteBox experimental video series returns with guest curator. 

Today's high is 89ºF, Clear sky in New York. Tomorrow, expect 79ºF and Few clouds.

“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.” Perhaps Robert Musil meant that the imagination is a function of reason.

Around the web:

º Lost Maya stronghold against Spanish conquest discovered in Mexican jungle

º More than 200 geoglyphs discovered in Nazca Desert with help of AI

º Taylor Swift Went on Her Boyfriend’s Podcast. We Spiraled About It.

What's happening???

º Today (8/14): NY Launch of Dwelling by Emily Hunt Kivel, in conversation with Madeline Cash. Books Are Magic. 122 Montague St. Brooklyn.

º Today: Mind Palace Poetry presents: Open Mike, the roast of Carson Jordan. Mood Ring. 1260 Myrtle Ave. Brooklyn.

º Today: Luc Moullet: Anarchy in the Alps closes with Anatomy of a Relationship; The Seats of the Alcazar + Le Fantome de Longstaff; Brigitte et Brigitte; and The Smugglers. Film at Lincoln Center. 165 W 65th Street.

º Today: Who Is An Ex-Wife?. 7:00PM. McNally Jackson Seaport. 4 Fulton St.

º Friday: Launch of Dissection of the Moon by Winifred Dongyi Wang, in conversation with Matthew J. Donovan. Accent Sisters. 89 5th Ave. #702. Manhattan.

Our Latest Playlist: Grunge 51

A final thought:

What a clown. Because everybody knows.

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Best Books Ever: Musil’s Unfinished Masterwork

Credit: Aphra Natley

Best Books Ever series examines authors' singular favorite book of all time. A decadent sachertorte, a very dense topfentorte—from the culture that truly invented the... Read More

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Works on Paper: Renoirs at The Morgan This Fall

The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Auguste Renoir. Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan's new director, according to... Read More

Grunge 51

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Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613

No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum that one must be committed—that... Read More

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The Voice Behind the Curtain With Versatile Voice Actor and Singer Dédé

Valeria Krel (VK): You’re an award-nominated voice actor. How does voice acting relate to singing, if at all? Do you find the two influence each... Read More

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Pasta Queen

Credit: Aphra Natley

ROME—Allow me to introduce you to Loredana Bertè if you don’t already know her. By 1980, she had already established herself in Italy. That year,... Read More

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Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s New Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

DOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through June 21, 2025, and features a bunch... Read More

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Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

ROME—In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Read More