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August 22, 8:05 pm

Hi gang, and thanks for coming to The Cipher. We're taking you all over today! Over on Defector, we've got the WYTS for the Browns, plus Ray on Joey Votto. And at 5:45 ET on Twitch, Luis is starting up everyone's favorite stream: the World of Warcraft all-nighter. WoW! -Lauren Patriot Games Hamilton's got another fantastic report on the mood around the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Three Days At Fanatics Fest, Michael Rubin’s Hollow Monument To Sports And Culture Alex Shultz went to an attempt at "Comic Con for sports." Extremely Heavy And Incredibly Far; Or, The Saga Of The Strangest Rock At Stonehenge Sabs wrote about one of the unsung rock heroes of the ancient monument. Three Things We Liked On The Internet Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates in Vanity Fair on the Democrats' institutional shunning of Palestinians  404 Media hits the one-year mark A really cool echo An East/West Crossover This photo from Patrick Redford features Ray Ratto and a major sweetie named Mazie hanging out with Kathryn Xu, who is following her beloved White Sox around the country. She didn't even have to win a contest to see Ray! One Last Round Of Midwestern Art The Weisman Museum on the University of Minnesota campus is striking from the outside, appearing as it does to be made out of several disjointed tin cannisters. But there's nothing disorienting about the inside: You can walk right in for free and experience a tight and extremely fulfilling run of art from a collection that is both balanced and filled with memorable standouts. Right at the front, there are couple of huge World's Fair murals from 1964 right at the front, including an awesome Lichtenstein, and you're also met with a Frank Gehry glass fish, which is astonishing just as a physical object that towers over you. It's art that forces its viewer to consider the physical effort that goes into a piece, and not just the final presentation. The other picture doesn't look like art at first glance, but it's from Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s Pedicord Apts., which you can literally walk inside. It's an installation of an old, unadorned floor of a building, immersively modest but with one technological flourish—motion sensors that activate muffled sound clips when you put your ear close to a door, so you can hear like, a Cowboys game, or some other mysterious life. It's an enrapturing, transformative space inside the museum, and its nesting-doll presence inside a whole room that's packed with beautiful two-dimensional work helps complete a real treasure and triumph of free-to-access art. -Lauren Copyright © 2024 Defector Media LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via Defector Media. Our mailing address is: Defector Media 147 Prince Street, PR3/19 Brooklyn, NY 11201  Unsubscribe - Unsubscribe Preferences