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O Superman (1981), a seven-inch single on One Ten Records. Design by Laurie Anderson and Perry Hoberman.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “…I was painting a picture of a garden at night. It had a lot of black and this green kind of coming out of the black, and I sat back, probably to take a smoke, looking at this painting, and I suddenly heard a wind<\/em> coming from the painting, and the green started to move. And I thought, ‘Oh, a moving<\/em> painting.’ And that experience led to cinema.” David Lynch<\/a> talking to Josh Hitchens about living in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n \u2022 “This is the time and this is the record of the time.” Big Science<\/em>, the album that propelled Laurie Anderson from performance artist to pop star, is 40 years old this month. Mat Colegate<\/a> recalls his confused impression that the album was the work of a West Country folk singer, while Studs Terkel<\/a> talked to Laurie Anderson about the album shortly after its release.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Kensy Cooperrider<\/a> explores a millennium of “hand mnemonics”, “the variety of techniques practised by Buddhist monks, Latin linguists, and Renaissance musicians for remembering what might otherwise elude the mind.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Ghosts in the Machine<\/em><\/a> is an exhibition being hosted by Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, for World Book Night, 2022. 93 participants contributed ghost-related images for an accompanying artist’s book<\/a> [PDF].<\/p>\n \u2022 “Sixty years after Seattle\u2019s Century 21 Exposition, world\u2019s fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the US.” Grant Wong<\/a> charts the rise and fall of world’s fairs.<\/p>\n \u2022 A trailer for Ennio: The Maestro<\/em><\/a>, a feature-length documentary about Ennio Morricone by Giuseppe Tornatore.<\/p>\n \u2022 “The film Putin doesn\u2019t want the world to see: Firebird<\/em>, a gay love story about fighter pilots<\/a>.”<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Andrei Tarkovsky<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Intersections<\/em><\/a> by Specimens.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sch\u00f6ne H\u00e4nde<\/em><\/a> (1977) by Cluster & Eno | Hands 2 Take<\/em><\/a> (1981) by The Flying Lizards | Red Hand<\/em><\/a> (1996) by Paul Sch\u00fctze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"