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• How Blockchain Is Transforming Partnerships

  09-04-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Blockchains may radically transform many facets of business life, but they’re a tool particularly well suited for collaborations. Put simply, blockchains are digital ledgers where several people have joint control over the shared information — a feature that makes them ideal for situations where trust and information sharing are important. The technical design of blockchains makes it virtually impossible anyone to change the contents of the ledger without approval from the other par
  
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• Twyla Tharp Talks Dance With Terry Gross

  09-04-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This last year, with the pandemic and its disruptions in terms of routine, discipline, just ordinary day-to-day activities, the body doesn’t know itself at the moment. So I can’t tell you what I can ask it to do until I refamiliarize myself. And I’m in the process of doing that. … Whenever I’ve finished one of these big projects, I’m out of shape, and that’s just a given. So I’ve been in this position before, not at this age, but I know th
  
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• The Art Of Doing Nothing Architecturally. It’s A Revolution

  09-04-2021 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a world in which flamboyance and style have long determined how an architect becomes a star, this approach – doing nothing – is an act of resistance. The fact that, 30 years into their career, Lacaton and Vassal have now been awarded the built environment’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize is a revolution. As the jury put it, Lacaton and Vassal have not only renewed the legacy of modernism: they are redefining architecture itself. – The Conversation
  
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• Guilty Pleasure? What’s So Guilty About It? “Low” Culture Has Triumphed

  09-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Everything that was once considered lowbrow is now triumphant. It is still common for people to talk of “guilty” cultural pleasures—TV, dance music—about which no one has felt guilty in decades, and to apologize for them with an enthusiasm that looks a lot like pride. But the pretense of guilt is merely there to increase our pleasure; it adds the excitement of transgression to an otherwise banal activity.” – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Dana Gioia On Being An “Information Billionaire”

  09-04-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I think poetry has a social function but it’s a relatively complicated and subtle one, which is to say, the reason that we have art is, in a sense, to increase human happiness. It does that, essentially, on an individual level. A work of art awakens you. It awakens you to the possibilities of your own potential. It takes that potential, it enlarges it, it refines it, and each art does it in different ways.” – Conversations with Tyler
  
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• Parrtjima festival 2021: a dazzling display of light in Australia’s red centre – in pictures

  09-04-2021 22:00
  
  Until 18 April, the Alice Springs Desert Park in the Northern Territory is home to the world’s only Indigenous light festival: a family-friendly playground of illuminated sculptures under clear starry nights, with a light and sound show projected across two kilometres of the MacDonnell Ranges soundtracked by Electric Fields. Curated by Rhoda Roberts, this year’s festival is themed Future Kultcha: a celebration of knowledge passing from one generation to the next, featuring high-tech
  
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• Workers Start Cutting 1000 150-Year-old Oaks To Rebuild Notre Dame’s Timbers

  09-04-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Experts have felled 59 of the trees at the Villefermoy forest in the Seine-et-Marne region, and a further 26 oaks will be donated by four state-owned forests managed by the National Forestry Office. The massive restoration effort will need 1,000 French oak trees in total. – Artnet
  
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• Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby

  09-04-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in a village church cemetery on the outskirts of Liverpool that he and John Lennon used to take shortcuts through. Yes, the grave is still there, and we do know a bit of her actual biography. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• How To Draw More People Into Cities Again? Build More Culture Spaces

  09-04-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Culture has been a potent driver of Chicago for decades, of course, but this still is a unique moment, especially with the new availability of federal money. Hence it’s high time to develop some new cultural spaces and both the private and the public sectors will need to get involved. This change of emphasis, which seems to me inevitable, could be a win-win situation, creating jobs and restoring the vibrancy of the city.” – Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Even Japanese Poetry Is Getting Messed Up By Climate Change

  09-04-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The natural world has always been a key subject of Japanese verse, and there’s even an established body of words — kigo — that categorize various phenomena by season and thereby evoke particular emotions. For instance, referring to a typhoon in a poem is supposed to anchor it in the autumn. But Japan, like many other places, is now experiencing “season creep”: the cherry blossoms in Kyoto this year peaked earlier than ever in well over a millennium of recordkeeping
  
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• This Gainsborough Portrait Of An Obscure Composer Sold For £2,500 (Could Be Worth £1 Million)

  09-04-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Gainsborough had a great deal of interest in musicians and likened a picture to a piece of music, once writing: ‘One part of a Picture ought to be like the first part of a Tune; that you can guess what follows, and that makes the second part of the Tune, and so I’ve done.’” – The Guardian
  
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• Preserving Websites With User-Generated Content When Corporate Owners Want To Pull The Plug

  09-04-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After seeing yet another situation where a longstanding Yahoo-owned website [Yahoo Answers] is shutting down, I’m left to wonder if the problem is that the motivations for maintaining sites built around user-generated content simply do not favor preservation, and never will without outside influence. How can we change that motivation? Today’s Tedium, in a follow-up to the post we wrote as Yahoo Groups was getting shut down, ponders the issue from the corporate perspective.&rd
  
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• Netflix Makes Deal With Sony To Stream Its Movies (And Preclude Sony From Starting Its Own Streaming Service)

  09-04-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sony and Netflix also inked a first-look deal for movies made exclusively for streaming, boosting the slate of Netflix originals. Sony said those films will represent increased output on top of its theatrical slate, which was about 25 films in 2019. The deal also gives Netflix first look at licensing movies from Sony’s library. – Indiewire
  
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• Dive Bars That Are Backbone Of Spain’s Flamenco Scene Are Getting Wiped Out By COVID

  09-04-2021 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “These small clubs, called tablaos, have acted as a springboard for generations of flamenco artists in Spain to launch professional careers. … But that intimate setup, designed to pack the audience close to the stage, has left most tablaos unable to reopen even after Spain lifted its most severe pandemic lockdown restrictions last summer. The situation has created an existential struggle for these cherished institutions at the heart of a national art form.” – The New Yo
  
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• Back In The Theatre: “Necessity Is The Mother Of Devotion”

  09-04-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  I can report that once the rest of us were inside — 25 or so socially distanced in a black box theater that normally seats up to 99 — the evening unfolded exuberantly. It was the first of three live theatrical events I attended over the weekend, the first time in a year my schedule resembled something like the days before covid-19. I wore my mask throughout the shows, a feat that a year ago I had convinced myself would be too uncomfortable to tolerate. – Washington Post
  
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• Granta’s New List Of The Best Young Writers Working In Spanish

  09-04-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Eleven years after publishing its first collection of the finest up-and-coming authors in Spanish, Granta magazine is releasing a second volume that brings together 25 writers aged under 35 and now at work on four continents. The list includes 11 female writers and 14 male writers from Spain, Nicaragua, Cuba, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Chile, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Ecuador.” – The Guardian
  
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• Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around Permanently

  09-04-2021 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly unemployed arts workers. Those funds had been planned, and expected, to be temporary measures lasting only a couple of months. But, as the pandemic ran on and shutdowns continued, furloughs became layoffs; even now, as more Americans are getting vaccinated, much of the arts world won’t restart operations fully for more months or even the end of
  
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• An Entire 3,000-Year-Old City Has Been Uncovered In Egypt

  09-04-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Excavating in an area between large temples at Luxor, a team led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass found the ruins of an entire working city — administrative offices, residences, a bakery, and so on, all the rooms containing everyday objects — from the reign of Amenhotep III. The discovery is being likened to those of Tutankhamun’s tomb and Pompeii. – BBC
  
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• There’s Still A Tyranny Of Thinness In Ballet. It Just Gets Worded Differently.

  09-04-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today’s ballet teachers and company directors know that they can no longer simply instruct their dancers to lose weight. But that doesn’t mean they’ve relinquished their rigid, narrow vision of what a ‘good’ ballet body looks like: They simply swathe that ideal in the gauzy, feel-good messaging of today’s fitness culture.” Or they use the aesthetic ideal of “length” as camouflage or euphemism. – The Washington Post
  
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• Rachel Whiteread’s world of interiors and Francis Bacon’s dead elephants – the week in art

  09-04-2021 15:17
  
  A new show from the Turner winner, Gilbert and George share their new normal and eco-activists fight for the rights of salmon – all in your weekly dispatchRachel Whiteread: Internal Objects
  The sculptor of the hidden spaces of our lives gets to grips with her ghosts.
  • Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London, 12 April to 6 June. Continue reading...
  
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• First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster

  09-04-2021 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event businesses, thousands of desperate applicants waited eagerly to submit their paperwork right at noon, when the system was scheduled to open. And then they waited. And waited. … Shortly after 4 p.m., the Small Business Administration — which runs the initiative, the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program — abandoned its effort
  
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• Calls for full inventory of world artefacts held by Church of England

  09-04-2021 14:57
  
  Promise to repatriate Benin bronzes comes as momentum grows at other institutions on returning worksThe Church of England has been urged to open up its books on the full range of world artefacts in its possession after promising this week to repatriate two Benin bronzes.The move came amid a gathering sense of momentum around the issue of the disputed bronzes – most of which were looted by British forces in 1897.Continue reading...
  
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• One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge

  09-04-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[A] now-21-year-old Temple [University] student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple’s Rock Hall in February 2020, then forced her to touch him sexually over his clothing while he spoke of ‘eroticism.'” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio

  09-04-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 44″-by-34″ depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and had been slated for auction in Madrid with an expected value of about €1,500. Then curators at the Prado declared that there’s “sufficient stylistic and documentary evidence” to believe it might be Caravaggio’s work, and the Spanish government promptly put an export ban on it. – Artnet
  
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• Ugo Rondinone review – art with a holiday air

  09-04-2021 12:47
  
  Sadie Coles HQ, London
  The Swiss artist takes us on an effortless tour of Sea-turquoise glass horses, watercolour ocean sunsets and teetering DayGlo canvassesBlue horses made of glass and watercolour sunsets over the ocean. Abstract lumps, like the profiles of wind-smoothed rocks, towering precariously on white walls. Art with a holiday air, then. Fifteen horses, no bigger than foals, stand about in the gallery. The most important thing about them might be their equine patience and stillness. Ne
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: a barn, a bomb and a bond that united three women

  09-04-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Edith Ailsa Craig by Clare Atwood at Smallhythe PlaceThis intimate portrait of Edith (Edy) Craig provides a glimpse into the lives of three women who lived together, their home a lively and pioneering place, offering women freedom of expression in art, gender and sexuality.The daughter of celebrated actor Ellen Terry, Crai
  
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