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• How The Crowd Amplifies And Defines Art

  24-05-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until last year, the crowd was the trademark of the city. All through the day and night, people shoaled together, hurrying through streets, dawdling in parks, jostling at protests, concerts and football matches, like so many bees in a hive. Pre-pandemic, any film that wanted to kindle an atmosphere of eeriness needed only to show one of the world’s great cities empty of people to instantly convey disaster. – The Guardian
  
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• Was the fiddler framed? How Nero may have been a good guy after all

  24-05-2021 18:06
  
  He was a demonic emperor who stabbed citizens at random and let Rome burn. Or was he? We go behind the scenes at a new show exploding myths about the ancient world’s favourite baddieNero comes with a lurid reputation. “The main thing we know about him is his infamy,” says Thorsten Opper, curator of the first British exhibition devoted to the Roman emperor. “The glutton, the profligate, the matricide, the megalomaniac.” Also, the pyromaniac: famously, Nero “fid
  
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• How James Bond Complicates Amazon’s $9 Billion Bid To Buy MGM

  24-05-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Other companies have kicked the tires on MGM at various points during a stop-and-start sales process that has been dragging on for months. Industry insiders say that the true value of the studio is more in the $5 billion to $6 billion range along with the assumption of some debt. Even then, they are skeptical that MGM’s prize asset, its stake in the 007 franchise, can be properly monetized. – Variety
  
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• Why Conservatives Are Afraid Of The 1619 Project

  24-05-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the past five years, conservatives have been howling about the alleged censoriousness of the American left, in particular on college campuses. But the denial of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones shows that the real conflict is over how American society understands its present inequalities. – The Atlantic
  
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• Climate Change Is Erasing The World’s Oldest Art

  24-05-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Flowing water deposits minerals in the void spaces beneath the mineralized outer crust, and some of those minerals crystallize into mineral salts. As those crystals form, grow, and shrink, they push against the outer layer of mineralized limestone. Eventually, the rocky canvas where people first drew images of their world 40,000 years ago falls apart in hand-sized flakes. – Wired
  
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• Are Christie’s Warhol NFTs Fake?

  24-05-2021 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christie’s is collaborating with the Andy Warhol Foundation to stage an NFT sale comprising little-known digital art works from the Pop master’s archive. After the house announced the sale on Wednesday, some experts objected to it, claiming that the works being auctioned were essentially copies. – ARTnews
  
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• What’s The Thinking Between The UK’s Proposed Cuts In Arts Education?

  24-05-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The government’s recent proposal to cut funding for arts higher education by 50%, covering music, dance, drama and performing arts, art and design, media studies, and archaeology, appears somewhat contradictory. – The Conversation
  
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• AI Will Win, Of Course. The Question Is How Humans Will Adapt

  24-05-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is going to be massive disruption. The technology is developing very rapidly, possibly exponentially. But people are linear. When linear people are faced with exponential change, they’re not going to be able to adapt to that very easily. So clearly, something is coming… And clearly AI is going to win [against human intelligence]. It’s not even close. How people are going to adjust to this is a fascinating problem – but one for my children and grandchildren,
  
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• A Theory Of Our Identities As Our Networked Selves

  24-05-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some philosophers have pushed against such reductive approaches and argued for a framework that recognises the complexity and multidimensionality of persons. The network self view emerges from this trend. It began in the later 20th century and has continued in the 21st, when philosophers started to move toward a broader understanding of selves. Some philosophers propose narrative and anthropological views of selves. – Aeon
  
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• San Francisco’s Guaranteed Income For Artists Program Gets A Financial Boost From Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey

  24-05-2021 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  StartSmall’s gift will extend the pilot, administered by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in partnership with Mayor London Breed, in two ways. The first 130 artists will receive $1,000 monthly payments for another full year, for a total of 18 months. It will also fund a second round in which of 50 more artists will receive 18 monthly payment. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Indie Producers Form First New Hollywood Union In Decades

  24-05-2021 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 100 indie feature filmmakers have unanimously ratified its constitution, and more than 300 have signed letters of intent to join. – Deadline
  
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• Fourth plinth shortlist includes huge rocket and casts of 850 trans women

  24-05-2021 13:44
  
  Public invited to give their views as models of ideas for next Trafalgar Square installation go on displayCasts of the faces of 850 transgender women, abandoned concrete grain silos and an enormous space rocket are among artists’ ideas for the next fourth plinth commission in Trafalgar Square.Organisers of the popular contemporary art installation revealed six options on Monday, which also include a monumental jewellery tree, a curiously bumpy figure inspired by 16th century German folklor
  
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• ‘I tend to do the opposite of what people like’: unstoppable film-maker Ayo Akingbade

  24-05-2021 11:46
  
  As a young black woman in a white-dominated industry, the film-maker has faced huge obstacles. But her enigmatic, uplifting works about housing estates and gentrification are now winning awards worldwide“I was ready to shake up the world,” says Ayo Akingbade, remembering the day she graduated from film school. But she soon encountered obstacles. “People think you don’t have a voice,” she says, “because you don’t have the money, the name, or whatever.&rdq
  
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