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• ‘My art makes a statement’: what to expect at this year’s Art Basel Miami

  07-12-2023 17:23 via theguardian.com
  The annual event brings together artists and art-loves from around the world with this year’s edition featuring a number of politically driven pieces“For me the work is about asking questions about the complexity of the world that we all share,” Canadian artist David Hartt told me, while discussing work that he is showing at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach. “The way that I inhabit a political position is through an oblique set of questions that I attempt to open u
  
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• From Jim Henson to Patricia Piccinini: Brisbane’s Fairy Tales exhibition is spooky, perverse and delightful

  05-12-2023 03:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art’s summer blockbuster harks back to the eldritch roots of classic folk tales – so think twice about taking the kidsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you’re planning to take a child to Brisbane’s new blockbuster exhibition Fairy Tales, I suggest going yourself first to check it out. How’s your kid with dripping blood, gnarly toenails and inflatable sex dolls?Fairy Tales – now on at Brisbane’s Gallery of
  
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• Anne Goodchild obituary

  03-12-2023 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  My friend Anne Goodchild, who has died aged 77, was an art historian who rose to become senior curator of the Graves art gallery in Sheffield, where she had started as a researcher back in the early 1970s. She retired in 2007, just before the introduction of legislation that would have enabled her to continue in the post she loved so much.I met Anne in 1976 when she organised a touring exhibition of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, part of a series of shows for Sheffield City art galleries devoted to 19th-
  
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• Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be…

  03-12-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Towner, Eastbourne
  In an exemplary showcase of this year’s four Turner prize contenders, Barbara Walker’s devastatingly direct Windrush scandal portraits and Jesse Darling’s antic take on broken Britain lead the fieldThe winner of the Turner prize 2023 will be announced at the seaside on Tuesday 5 December. This is one of Tate’s colonising years, when it sends the prize out to benefit the provinces. Eastbourne follows Liverpool, Gateshead, Derry, Glasgow, Hull, Margate an
  
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• From a 100-mile city to a desert ski resort: why is Saudi Arabia spending billions on architectural ‘gigaprojects’?

  03-12-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Saudi crown prince is creating wildly ambitious projects masterminded by renowned architects, curators and designers. The upshot is either progressive modernisation or image-laundering, depending who you ask“We think we can help change the situation here,” says Iwona Blazwick, who for 21 years was director of the Whitechapel art gallery in London, “particularly for women.” She’s wearing, like many westerners working in Saudi Arabia, a stylish version of the abay
  
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• NGV Triennial 2023 review: plenty of showstoppers – and cheek – in another blockbuster show

  02-12-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  With more than 120 artists including Tracey Emin, Yoko Ono and David Shrigley, there’s something for everyone at Melbourne’s major art event. Just don’t try to see it all at onceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere are two teens standing in the central court of NGV International: a girl texting and, a small distance away, a boy with hands in pockets. They’re 12-foot tall and they’re black, and they’re on display as part of the third edition of NGV
  
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• Shake things up this Christmas: your guide to the best culture for the festive season

  02-12-2023 12:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Thinking of treating yourself to some Christmas entertainment? Our critics unwrap the best film, music, art, dance and theatre events of the seasonArabian NightsBristol Old Vic, to 6 January
  This production exploring the power of storytelling has a cracking team, with writer Sonali Bhattacharyya (Chasing Hares, Young Vic), director Blanche McIntyre (All’s Well That Ends Well, RSC) and puppetry designer Samuel Wilde (I Want My Hat Back, Little Angel). It looks set to be a playful adaptation
  
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• ‘Every time I visit this sculpture park, there is something beautiful to capture’: Jennifer Cheung’s best phone picture

  02-12-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The photographer found that a 15th-century castle formed a perfectly incongruous backdrop for a flock of pink sheepJennifer Cheung first visited Wanås Konst sculpture park, in Knislinge, Sweden, on the day of her elopement. On the way to the church where her husband’s grandparents had married decades before, the almost-weds stopped for a brief visit. That was in 2013, and whenever she returns to Sweden from her home in LA, she tries to revisit. She shot this image, with a 15th-centur
  
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• From There’s Something in the Barn to Peter Gabriel: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  02-12-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Evil elves ruin a perfectly pleasant Norwegian B&B, while the former Genesis frontman finally shows his working-outThere’s Something in the Barn
  Out now
  Moving to a new country to open a B&B is not the sort of endeavour that ever seems to go terribly well in horror films. In this Norwegian horror-comedy, the barn attached to a Scandinavian dream home comes fully stocked with mystical elves who must be kept happy or else. And guess what? They aren’t, with undesirable consequen
  
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• How To Tell Whether Research is Trustworthy

  01-12-2023 19:29 via theatlantic.com
  Lately, however, the social-science world has become mired in controversy. Researchers themselves have started to note that many famous experiments have been debunked—such as, indeed, the Stanford prison experiment—or simply can’t be replicated. – The Atlantic
  
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• The arts are heading into a doom loop | Letters

  01-12-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Alan Davey thinks less money, less certainty in funding, and hostility to ideas leads to less risk taking and new work. Susan Jones sets out how Labour should take actionCharlotte Higgins outlines a profound truth in her stirring and timely call to save the arts (Culture is not trivial, it’s about who we are. That’s why Labour needs a plan to save the arts, 26 November). After 13 years of being a punchbag in culture wars or a punchline in sneers at the elite, cultural life and what i
  
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• John Byrne obituary

  01-12-2023 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Playwright and artist who wrote the BBC series Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin’ Heart, and plays including The Slab BoysThe work of the Scottish painter and playwright John Byrne, who has died aged 83, was all of a piece. His characters and caricatures, on stage or canvas, all stemmed from a sly, literate sense of humour, a close acquaintance with popular culture, and a fierce political independence.Byrne himself entered that realm of popular culture with two acclaimed drama series on televi
  
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• Volcanic prints, Mapplethorpe’s mates and Puerto Rico’s Palestinians – the week in art

  01-12-2023 15:54 via theguardian.com
  
  The history of 500 years of print from Picasso to Emin, Robert Mapplethorpe’s portraits of his famous friends, and the Palestinian diaspora in Puerto Rico – all in your weekly dispatchThe Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego
  Five hundred years of woodcuts, etchings and linocuts with artists including Picasso and Tracey Emin.
  • National, Edinburgh, 2 December to 25 February Continue reading...
  
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• Sunak says retaining Parthenon marbles is matter of law as he denies ‘hissy fit’

  01-12-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  PM reaffirms stance after George Osborne suggests snub to Greek counterpart was result of ‘petulance’UK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has denied having a “hissy fit” over the Parthenon marbles row and has said they cannot be returned to Greece “as a matter of law”.The prime minister this week accused his Greek counterpart of using a trip to London to “grandstand” over the issue of the ancient Greek sculptures. Continue reading...
  
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• Renowned Scottish playwright and artist John Byrne dies aged 83

  01-12-2023 13:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Byrne described as ‘one of the most inventive and versatile of all Scotland’s modern artists’The renowned artist and playwright John Byrne, whose parallel careers spanned the acclaimed BBC television series Tutti Frutti, the Slab Boys theatre trilogy and an album cover for the Beatles, has died at the age of 83.He died peacefully on Thursday with his wife, Jeanine, by his side, the Fine Art Society announced in a statement on Friday morning, describing Byrne as “one of th
  
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• John Byrne: the maverick Scottish playwright and artist was a master observer

  01-12-2023 12:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Byrne, who has died aged 83, used his life as a constant source of inspiration for exuberant plays and paintingsIf John Byrne had been known only for The Slab Boys, he would be considered one of Scotland’s great cultural figures. But Byrne, who died on Thursday aged 83, was responsible for so much more than the trilogy of plays that helped put Robbie Coltrane on the map. He created the TV series Tutti Frutti, also starring Coltrane, and was a celebrated artist, screenwriter, illustrator an
  
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• ‘Our tapestries open ears’: the South African women stitching monumental tales of love and loss

  01-12-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A collective based in Eastern Cape has tackled funerals, colonialism and HIV in massive fabric artworks. Their latest piece is a heartfelt cry against climate breakdownStanding at the foot of the giant hanging tapestry, Veronica Betani recalls the bitter period that is depicted in its colourful threads: mourning women watching over orphaned children, a hospital room filled with gaunt bodies, a burial.“This is the funeral of Mama Susan Paliso’s son,” she sighs, staring at the wo
  
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• Is Rishi Sunak using the Parthenon marbles as a distraction? Perhaps – but so are the Greeks | Marina Prentoulis

  01-12-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For both the UK prime minister and Kyriakos Mitostakis, this row is actually about nationalist politics. The sculptures are just a facadeFor Britain, renewed demands by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s prime minister, to relinquish the Parthenon marbles brings the country face to face with its colonial past. For Greece, repatriating the sculptures, which have been housed in the British Museum since 1817, is a matter of national identity.For the past 200 years, Greeks have leaned heavily on th
  
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• Nan Goldin named art world’s most influential figure

  01-12-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Photographer and campaigner against Sackler family tops ArtReview Power 100 listNan Goldin, the pioneering photographer and campaigner against the billionaires who fuelled the US opioid epidemic, has topped an annual ranking of the contemporary art world’s most influential people and organisations.Goldin, 70, took the number one spot on the ArtReview Power 100 list. This year, for the first time, the top 10 is made up entirely of artists who use their work and platforms to intervene in the
  
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• Emily Kam Kngwarray: stunning retrospective brings perspective – and agency – to an Australian great

  01-12-2023 00:38 via theguardian.com
  
  The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition contextualises the artist away from the western market, bringing us ‘the old lady’ through the prism of her country, her culture and her communityA western story is invariably grafted on to Australia’s most prominent Indigenous visual artists – a reductive paradigm through which they can be more easily understood, interpreted and written about. And as a practitioner celebrated at the vanguard of the 1970s and 80s centra
  
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• Elliott Erwitt, acclaimed American photographer, dies at 95

  30-11-2023 22:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The photographer’s storied career included defining pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon and a host of dogsElliott Erwitt, the photographer of American life, political history, starlets and humor, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his daughter Sasha confirmed to the New York Times. He was 95.Over a remarkably varied, peripatetic career spanning more than 70 years, Erwitt captured numerous famous images, ranging from the somber (Jacqueline Kennedy clutching the flag from her h
  
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• John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses

  30-11-2023 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The Box, Plymouth
  Akomfrah, who is set to represent Great Britain at next year’s Venice Biennale, tackles conquest, plague and death with this five-screen installation. But there is too much going on to concentrateThe arrival of Christopher Columbus and the conquistadors in the Americas led to the destruction of empires and civilisations and the deaths of millions in the new world – not by war, but from the waves of diseases that travelled from the old world to the new. Human contact
  
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• ‘Perfect linearity’: why Botticelli’s drawing abilities remain one-of-a-kind

  29-11-2023 19:15 via theguardian.com
  An expansive exhibition in San Francisco brings together the artist’s influential work, including five newly attributed piecesThroughout the Renaissance, drawings became an integral part of the massive paintings and frescoes that have long been associated with that period. Among other things, they were a way for artists to get a feel for how to arrange the space of a composition, and they also helped artists hone the incredibly lifelike poses that have become synonymous with masterworks fr
  
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• Still life by long-forgotten painter Clara Peeters could fetch £700,000

  27-11-2023 14:28 via theguardian.com
  Painting on copper by Flemish artist is up for auction having been in private hands for nearly a centuryA lustrous painting of a basket of flowers by an early 17th-century female artist who was written out of art history for centuries is to be sold at auction in December.The untitled still life by the Flemish painter Clara Peeters has not been seen in public for almost 100 years and has never appeared in any books. Little is known about Peeters’ life. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Even without seeing their faces, it’s storytelling’: Akbar Mehrinezhad’s best phone picture

  25-11-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The Iranian photographer, in his hometown, flashed back to his youth In Ahmad Abad, a suburb of the Iranian city of Tabriz, a gaggle of children were playing on a gas pipe. Akbar Mehrinezhad often took photographs here, on the edge of the city, drawn to the subjects he found. When he saw these children some way off in the distance, he had to move quickly. “I ran to capture it. Even without seeing their faces, it’s storytelling,” he says of his choice to focus on their shadows,
  
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• The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis seeks Augustin Family Artistic Director

  23-11-2023 04:37 via artsjournal.com
  The Augustin Family Artistic Director (Artistic Director) of The Rep will be an exceptional artist and leader with significant experience in similar roles. They will plan and implement The Rep’s vision for the future, securing its artistic and financial health in partnership with the Managing Director and reporting to and working in concert with the Board of Directors. While building on existing relationships and creating new ones, the Artistic Director will develop and maintain programs t
  
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• A dog joins a queue for ice-cream in Glasgow: Douglas Corrance’s best photograph

  22-11-2023 15:47 via theguardian.com
  ‘It was the 1980s and the city had a New York feeling. I enjoyed the orderliness of this queue – then this dog came haring past with its tongue hanging out, as if it wanted an ice-cream, too’One spring afternoon in 1983, I was walking around Glasgow with my camera. The city was changing, building up to rebranding itself in 1990 as European City of Culture. At that time, Glasgow had the same feeling as New York – there was always something going on in the streets. A lot of
  
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• ‘There’s a story of racialised exclusion’: the forgotten Chinese artist who transformed Cumbria

  20-11-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Li Yuan-chi was influential in British art circles of his time – but struggled to attain broader recognition. A first major exhibition of his work shines the light on his legacyKettle’s Yard in Cambridge is a particularly appropriate venue in which to stage the first major exhibition of work by the 20th-century Chinese artist Li Yuan-chia, and his many friends, collaborators and associates.The Cambridge gallery was established by collectors Jim and Helen Ede in the late 1950s as a ho
  
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• From The Hunger Games to Cary Grant: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  18-11-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The latest addition to the dystopian franchise arrives, while a biopic follows the early travails of the Bristol schoolboy who would become a Hollywood giantThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesJust when you thought it was safe to go back into the Arena. After the original trilogy wrapped up in 2015, it’s time for a return to totalitarian Panem, with Districts once more pitted against elites in the Capitol, in this adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s prequel.Saltburn
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• Louvre acquires €24m painting originally destined for rubbish tip

  15-11-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Christ Mocked by pre-Renaissance artist Cimabue subject to export ban after being found hanging in kitchenA 13th-century painting found hanging over the kitchen stove of an elderly French woman and later sold for €24m (£21m) at auction has been acquired by the Louvre after a ban on its exportation.The Paris museum says the pre-Renaissance painting, now one of the oldest works in its collection, will be the centrepiece of an exhibition in 2025 after a four-year effort to keep it in Fra
  
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• Disturbing Trend: Movies That Get Completed But Not Released

  15-11-2023 00:01 via bbc.com
  Films, it seems, are no longer being seen as works of art – or even as pieces of entertainment. They are being seen as items on a balance sheet, minor details in a global corporate strategy, and small components in a portfolio of intellectual property. – BBC
  
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• A painter, a poet, a novelist: the artists being killed in Gaza

  13-11-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The territory’s vibrant arts community was testament to Palestinian resilience, but now it is losing voices central to its spiritHer vibrant paintings of Jerusalem’s holy sites and Palestinian women wearing traditional embroidered dresses were a way to send a message to the “outside world”, the Palestinian artist Heba Zagout said in a video about her work posted online in late September.Two weeks later, the 39-year-old was killed with two of her children, Adam and Mahmoud
  
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• Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 review – a monumental social history

  12-11-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Tate Britain, London
  From Miss World to the Equal Pay Act to Reclaim the Night, via flyers and flour bombs, this extraordinary show celebrating two decades of British feminism deserves your full attentionOn 20 November 1970, American comedian Bob Hope presented the annual Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The show was broadcast live on BBC One. “It’s quite a cattle market,” was one of his winking quips. “I’ve been back there checking calves.&rdq
  
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• ‘I just love how sisterly they are. I love the mischief’: William Lepper’s best phone picture

  11-11-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  A meander through north-east London led the photographer to a fun, spontaneous moment of family bonding“Some people need directions when you’re taking their photo,” William Lepper says. “Some people just perform. Chani and Kamaria were definitely in the latter camp.”Photographer Lepper was in his local area of Walthamstow, north-east London, on a sunny August afternoon this year, passing down Pretoria Avenue. He spotted Chani and her granddaughter, Kamaria, up ahead
  
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• From Dream Scenario to the Prodigy: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  11-11-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nicolas Cage makes a welcome return in a thought-provoking comedic tale, and the noisy rave greats return to the stage Continue reading...
  
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• A Rhyl tongue-twister after a few too many | Brief letters

  10-11-2023 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Tongue twister test of intoxication | Life satisfaction in Shetland | Suella Braverman | Exhibition in the men’s loosThis is not a new idea (Tongue-twisters could be used to gauge alcohol-intoxication levels, study finds, 9 November). When I was “nobbut a lass”, in 1957, I heard an Al Read sketch on the radio in which the police said to a drunk: “Can you say Aberystwyth?” To which he replied: “No, but I can say Rhyl three times.”Kaye McGannStandlake, Oxf
  
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• Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art

  10-11-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Plus, Peter Blake talks AI in art, a dynamic look for hospital architecture and a 450-year-old look at the birth of our galaxy – all in your weekly dispatchGeorg Baselitz: Belle Haleine
  Witty, provocative and accomplished erotica by the great German artist.
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• Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou: ‘I don’t calculate … I start from nowhere’

  10-11-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ahead of a solo show in London, the ‘master of materials’ talks about using soil for pigment in his early days, how he finds inspiration in people watching – and his constant search for surpriseAt the centre of Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou’s first solo exhibition in London is a series of paintings showing politicians dressed in striped suits. It is a recurring theme stemming from his childhood.“I remember that every time I saw politicians on the TV, they were d
  
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• Make an impression: what to wear to visit an art gallery

  10-11-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Whether you’re off to a Tate or the Turner, here are some outfit suggestions to help you feel like a work of art Continue reading...
  
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• Pornography or art? Outrage master Georg Baselitz’s sex prints are sublimely carnal

  09-11-2023 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
  These huge upside-down linocuts showing clothed couples having sex, with a white circle at the pivotal point, are ‘like Picasso on schnapps’Are there any limits to art’s ability to transform? Not according to Georg Baselitz, the veteran German artist who has reworked the imagery from a set of 19th-century “erotic lithographs” that many might describe as pornography. For starters, he flips the pictures upside down – his habitual
  
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• Love letters, gossip, prayers and poetry: the tapes that sustained the Somali diaspora

  09-11-2023 12:04 via theguardian.com
  
  An art project explores the cassette culture that brought news from home – while providing a vehicle for political opposition and a thriving music sceneFozia Ismail has clear memories of being summoned to the living room where the rest of her family sat on the floor huddled around a cassette player. When her mum pressed play, the voice of relatives in Somalia filled their north London flat. “I had to listen to people that I hadn’t met: uncles and aunties, and then record an awk
  
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• Picasso painting of his ‘golden muse’ sells for $139.4m in New York

  09-11-2023 09:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Femme à la montre, painted in 1932, becomes artist’s second most expensive work sold at auctionA portrait of Pablo Picasso’s “golden muse” and secret lover has sold for $139.4m (£114m) at auction in New York, making it the second most valuable work by the 20th-century artist.Femme à la montre, painted in 1932, was described by the auctioneers Sotheby’s as the “prized jewel” of about 120 artworks owned by Emily Fisher Landau, one of th
  
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• See The First Photos From The Euclid Telescope, Orbiting One Million Miles From Earth

  08-11-2023 20:57 via wired.com
  
  “These new, full-color space photos reveal spectacular snapshots of the vast structure of the cosmos, including a massive galaxy cluster in the Perseus constellation, an object nicknamed the ‘Hidden Galaxy,’ an irregularly structured galaxy, a globular cluster packed with myriad stars, and the gorgeous Horsehead Nebula.” – Wired
  
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• Rebelling Against The Traditional Book Club

  08-11-2023 20:32 via wsj.com
  
  Though traditional book clubs have been a fixture of American social life for decades, some bibliophiles think they have lost the plot. These bookworms don’t want to read books that don’t interest them. Even worse is recommending a book the rest of the group hates. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Ron DeSantis Has Wrecked The State Entity That Governs Disney World, Say Ex-Staffers

  08-11-2023 20:05 via apnews.com
  
  “Morale and trust within the (Central Florida Tourism Oversight District) has deteriorated since allies of (the Florida governor) took it over earlier this year, according to many employees who have departed in recent months saying the governing district has been politicized and cronyism now permeates the organization.” – AP
  
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• Remembering Robert Brustein And The Power of Authority And Insight

  08-11-2023 19:32 via latimes.com
  
  One didn’t read Brustein to determine which Broadway shows to buy tickets to. One read Brustein to understand a play or musical in its larger historical context and to be reminded of the artistic values that guided his judgments. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Problems With Casting Big Movie Stars In Classic Plays

  08-11-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear in the West End is getting panned, but sometimes (as with Paul Mescal and Daniel Radcliffe) they’re terrific. But half the audience comes just to see the celebrity in person, and sometimes producers blow the budget on the star while everything else looks cheap. – The Guardian
  
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• When Aaron Copland Was A Cultural Diplomat

  08-11-2023 18:19 via sfcv.org
  The State Department ran a major cultural diplomacy program during the mid-20th century, sending some of America’s most prominent performers on overseas tours. Best remembered today are visits to Communist Eastern Europe, but the program was active in Latin America as well — with Copland as its leading light. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• You Might Be Amazed At How Much Of Your Everyday Vocabulary Comes From Shakespeare

  08-11-2023 18:02 via bbc.com
  
  It’s not just the common expressions — “wild goose chase,” “cruel to be kind,” “in a pickle,” “fair play,” and lots of others. Shakespeare coined hundred of basic words we use today: “eyeball,” “bedroom,” “puppy dog,” “bedazzled,” “jaded,” and on and on. – BBC
  
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• TikTok Is Closing Down Its $1 Billion Creator Fund

  08-11-2023 17:44 via theverge.com
  
  “The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app’s viral content. … TikTok didn’t respond to questions about whether it had paid out all of the $1 billion.” – The Verge
  
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