Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now*

Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 12:42 UTC

New co write with the talented Sharon Yam, on Hong Kong, my first for New Lines, great experience with the publication newlinesmag.com/argument/say...

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 22:43 UTC

I give up 😁

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 17:57 UTC

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

Watching Tibetan films today

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

@BerlinPhil and Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the Berlin Phil’s digitalconcerthall.com right now. Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 (Leningrad). A perfect work for this moment, exploring how individuals can (or cannot) survive against savage, unremittingly violent political power.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] May 17, 2024 at 13:18 UTC

Reading Alice Munro: this is an excerpt from “Heirs of the Living Body”, in LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN. Munro is not just one of “our” greatest writers; she is one of the greatest writers.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 01:26 UTC

Ivy League colleges now prostitute their prestige, students, & faculty to support massive investment fund capital & the billionaires whose money the same colleges solicit, now with many strings attached (influence on hiring, student discipline etc), This has to end. 2/2

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 01:26 UTC

The root of the problem that leads US Ivy League colleges to precipitously call in riot police to violently break up peaceful student protests is the metastases of their endowments: colleges have become name plates for hedge funds. 1/x

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

Also in Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Filippino Lippi’s fresco of gambolling angel-musicians and suave youths.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 11:58 UTC

Hot Jesus. A relatively unknown Michelangelo hiding in the Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome. Great ass, but isn’t his head a bit small? (not an Easter post, purely a coincidence).

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 10:07 UTC

Also in Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Filippino Lippi’s fresco of gambolling angel-musicians and suave youths.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 25, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

Maurizio Pollini is gone. His Apollonian playing transmuted into music the kind of ideal world his CP roots imagined was possible. His Beethoven Piano Sonata, Op. 111 is the greatest recording I know. It shocked me, beckoning me into a world more perfect than any of us deserves.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 22, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

But the new security law, hastily rushed through Legco, was impossible to ignore. Friends watched a superb actor sentence to years in prison. But another, blacklisted actor is working again. As authorities attempt to subsume HK into just one part of the Greater Bay Area, much is still possible. 3/3

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 22, 2024 at 11:41 UTC

I met with a range of filmmakers, some seeing sustained possibilities of better cooperation with China (not my kind of analysis, but interesting to hear), some determined to go ahead and create a new space for good work, some cautious, some lowering their profiles as much as possible. 2/x

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 22, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

I was in Hong Kong last week doing some research. Strange mixed moods. Filmart (the annual movie, trade fair) pretended all was normal (although the Chinese commercial film presence was massively dominant). HAF eliminated documentaries, to avoid trouble. M+ seems brilliant and vigorous, for now. 1/x

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 08:25 UTC

Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s health infrastructure, its collusion with the US gov’t in crippling UNRWA, on top of the murder of over 30,000 thousand mostly women & children, add up to a shockingly frank display of genocide. Israel will liquidate this ghetto until the US stops them.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 13:15 UTC

Reflecting on my current (and long past) experience, no one is *ever* early for a meeting in Beijing. Being 45 minutes late is completely normal: all one has to do is wave one’s hands, shrug, and say “traffic”, as if that’s a totally unpredictable, unexpected phenomenon here.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 17, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

Best simple foods in Beijing: youpochemian & roujiamo. Classics from Xi’an: oil seared spicy noodles & fatty pork in crispy bun. I can find them in Toronto, but not the same. I was favoured with a grudgingly pleasant comment from the charmingly grumpy granny at the cash: “You speak decent Chinese”.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

There’s a Leonardo currently visiting Shanghai. Quite surprised to finally see his La Scapigliata (from Parma, plus a bunch of weirdly fetishistically militarized drawings of his from Milan) in a show surrounding Leonardo with a few 16C masterpieces from the Shanghai Museum’s own collection.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 06, 2024 at 06:17 UTC

Arrived in Shanghai. I always love the old buildings here, how strollable the city centre is.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 00:26 UTC

New York’s newest super-tall super-thin skyscrapers, towering over Central Park South, are a dystopia. They flaunt super-excessive wealth in a concrete, visible way. That’s their meaning. And their aggression.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 25, 2024 at 04:00 UTC

New York City ballet were brilliant tonight. @saramearns brought gorgeous subtle simmering autonomy to her role in Alexei Ratmansky’s Odesa. The ballet is about submission, make violence & female rebellion, but its gender crimes now reverberate with Russian crimes. The dancing is crazy impassioned.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 22:23 UTC

Flight from Toronto did a tour of Manhattan before we landed at LaGuardia. I’ve never flown that approach before.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 18, 2024 at 03:00 UTC

Disused old maple sugar shack on an abandoned golf course. This area, near Delta, Ontario, used to be famous for its maple syrup.

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 17, 2024 at 03:46 UTC

My WeChat feed is filling up with short clips about Navalny, Russians denouncing Putin. Are Chinese friends indirectly making a point, while this little window remains open?

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 12, 2024 at 00:15 UTC

It's hard to understand the @nytimes disaster: it covers Trump slavishly, covers Biden churlishly, and spends so much ink/pixels & prestige attacking trans people. Elite self-identification -- "we are the elite and will remain so, no matter what" -- is this a sufficient explanation?

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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now* @shellyk.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 11, 2024 at 19:36 UTC

I can’t stop thinking about the Van Gogh paintings from the Musée d’Orsay show. They’re obsessing me. Photographs don’t capture the kind of psychic hold they have on one. They capture, they seize your eyes and brain when you’re in a room with them. Two closeups that try to show some textures.

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