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• Painting Restoration Takes The Smile Off

  16-07-2021 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The restoration work not only reveals the rogue addition of an upturned smile, but also a jarring strip of dirty sky added to make the canvas square rather than rectangular. – The GuardianThe Guardian
  
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• Hong Kong Book Fair Slims Down With Self-Censorship

  16-07-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This year, far fewer politically sensitive books are on display. Vendors are curating their books carefully to avoid violating the national security law, which Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in June 2020. – The GuardianThe Guardian
  
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• New Study Confirms 1972 MIT Study That Collapse Of Civilization Is Imminent

  16-07-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It concludes that the current business-as-usual trajectory of global civilization is heading toward the terminal decline of economic growth within the coming decade—and at worst, could trigger societal collapse by around 2040. – ViceVice
  
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• “Digital Twinning” Is Revolutionizing How We Solve Problems

  16-07-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The technology, which involves creating a digital clone of a real-world object or system, is revolutionising the fields of healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. It is now having a profound impact on architecture and urbanism too. – DezeenDezeen
  
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• One Of History’s Greatest Opera Divas Was Also A Fine Composer

  16-07-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pauline Viardot played duets with Chopin; thrilled Europe with her Rossini and Mozart; had George Sand as a friend and Turgenev as a lover. Berlioz and Brahms wrote for her voice. And, as we’re now rediscovering, she composed impressive songs, operettas, and chamber music. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• For A Culture Of Innovation You Need Arts Spaces

  16-07-2021 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  My research findings demonstrate how honing imagination and wonder is essential to creating cultures dedicated to innovative and responsible corporate practices demanded by a growing majority of workers. – The ConversationThe Conversation
  
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• At Home With The World’s Most Powerful Crossword Editor

  16-07-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Will Shortz’s stature in the crossword world is difficult to overstate. Observers, like the Kremlinologists of yore, speak of the ‘Shortzian’ and ‘pre-Shortzian’ eras.” (He is also an absolute demon at table tennis.) – The GuardianThe Guardian
  
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• Brexit Has Made It A Nightmare For UK Bands To Tour Europe

  16-07-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is about whether one of the U.K.’s most successful industries, worth £111 billion a year, is allowed to prosper and contribute hugely to both our cultural and economic wealth, or crash and burn.” – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• An Arts Center In Bethlehem, Right Next To The Israeli Security Wall

  16-07-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At an old stone mansion built in the 1880s by the town registrar, his descendants operate the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Center for Art and Research, offering visual art, dance, cinema, theater, music and even urban farming workshops to residents of the West Bank. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Seriously? Producers Used AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice on Documentary

  16-07-2021 18:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The synthetic voice was created by feeding more than 10 hours of Mr Bourdain’s voice into a machine-learning system. – BBCBBC
  
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• Translating The Vocabulary Of The Online World From English

  16-07-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Speakers of other languages often have to use English for internet-specific terms; digital rights advocates find that there are no words in many other languages for things like data protection and surveillance. Here one activist writes about why and how she’s working to change that. – The NationThe Nation
  
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• Facebook Wants To Pay Video-Makers. It Could Be A Tough Sell

  16-07-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many creators — who make and profit off meme-y online content — have already flocked to rival platforms like YouTube and TikTok, which invested in digital tools for influencers far earlier and gave them ways to earn money off their viral videos. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• High-Tech Analysis Of *Exactly* How Museumgoers Look At Art

  16-07-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  At a museum in Bologna, cameras and sensors of the ShareArt system record how many people view particular works, for how long, from how far away, and where exactly they concentrate their gaze. This data could help optimize gallery layout and even the scheduling of exhibits. – Bloomberg CityLabBloomberg CityLab
  
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• This Former Public Restroom Has Become An Arts Organization

  16-07-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The little building on Chicago’s Logan Square was constructed in 1927 as a comfort station (as the euphemism of the time had it); for many years it was a tool shed. Now it’s home to film screenings, art exhibitions, concerts, and puppet shows. – Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)
  
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• Yay! We Can Go To The Movies Again! But What Does That Even Mean Anymore?

  16-07-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As people start returning to cinemas rather than watching feature films at home as their only option, A.O. Scott considers whether the distinctions between movies, television, and streaming video are collapsing for good — and what we may be losing in the process. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Netflix Is Getting Into Video Games

  16-07-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The idea is to offer video games on Netflix’s streaming platform within the next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. The games will appear alongside current fare as a new programming genre — similar to what Netflix did with documentaries or stand-up specials.” – BloombergBloomberg
  
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• Gilbert and George, obsession and a Victorian necropolis – the week in art

  16-07-2021 15:30
  
  The art duo invade Folkestone, Canaletto’s nephew studies a German castle, and Phyllida Barlow towers over a decaying cemetery – all in your weekly dispatchBellotto
  This haunting painter of sublime views was Canaletto’s nephew but the paintings gathered here obsessively study a German castle – we’re not in Venice any more.
  • National Gallery, London, from 22 July to 31 October. Continue reading...
  
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• San Francisco Symphony CEO To Leave After Four Years

  16-07-2021 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mark C. Hanson gave no reason for his decision beyond a statement that “with the San Francisco Symphony now back up and performing …, I have decided that this is the right time to pursue my next professional opportunity within a different environment.” – San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Unknown 4,000-Year-Old City In Iraq

  16-07-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The discovery was made in the area of Tell al-Duhaila, which is home to more than 1,200 archaeological sites, including the Great Ziggurat of Ur site from the Sumerian era.” – Al-MonitorAl-Monitor
  
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• Oleg Briansky, Who Founded One Of America’s Top Ballet Schools, Dead At 91

  16-07-2021 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After an impressive but short dancing career (he never fully recovered from an early knee injury), he and his wife founded the Briansky Saratoga Ballet Center in upstate New York and developed it into one of the leading summer dance academies in the U.S. – The New York TimesThe New York Times
  
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• Lear among the spruces

  16-07-2021 13:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  In today’s Wall Street Journal, I review Shakespeare & Company’s new outdoor production of King Lear, with Christopher Lloyd in the title role. Here’s an excerpt.
  *  *  *With live theater productions opening throughout America, I gave much thought to how I would break the 16-month fast from public performance that began for me after I saw Katori Hall’s “The Hot Wing King” off Broadway in March 2021, mere days before the Covid-19 lockdow
  
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• Replay: Peter and Rudolf Serkin play Schubert

  16-07-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peter and Rudolf Serkin play Schubert’s G Major Marche militaire for piano duet in a 1988 concert telecast. They are introduced by Van Cliburn:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Christian Boltanski obituary

  16-07-2021 12:55
  
  Artist who made his name through a tireless engagement with death in work based around discarded objects and imagesIn 2009, the Tasmanian art collector David Walsh commissioned a piece of work from Christian Boltanski called La Vie de CB. As the title suggested, the completion of this was to take Boltanski the rest of his life. That, in fact, was the point of it.Walsh had made his millions through gambling, Boltanski his name as an artist by a tireless engagement with death. Under the terms of t
  
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• Isabel Vasseur obituary

  16-07-2021 12:34
  
  My mother, Isabel Vasseur, who has died aged 78, was a well-known figure in public art commissioning in the UK from the 1980s onwards, and was in the vanguard of a generation of innovative curators who revitalised public art in the last decades of the 20th century.Her involvement in public art began in 1981, when she joined Eastern Arts, a publicly-funded regional arts body covering the east of England. She then went on to curate public art programmes for the Garden festivals in Glasgow in 1988
  
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• Marcus Rashford mural damage ‘not believed to be of racial nature’, say police

  16-07-2021 11:19
  
  Officers investigating damage to Manchester artwork keeping open mind over motiveThe vandalism of a mural of England footballer Marcus Rashford was “not believed to be of a racial nature”, police have said as they appealed for witnesses.The artwork was attacked hours after England’s European Championship final defeat on Sunday as Rashford and fellow players Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, suffered racist abuse on social media. Continue reading...
  
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• Restoration work wipes smile off the face of Dutch vegetable seller

  16-07-2021 07:00
  
  Painting reclaims former glory as English Heritage rights the wrongs of 19th-century additionsAt some point in the last 400 years a painting restorer probably decided the Dutch vegetable seller was far too glum and should be smiling. Now it has been put right and she is once again enigmatic.English Heritage revealed the results on Friday of a two-year conservation project to reveal the true glory of a mysterious, unsigned painting that has been in its stores for more than 60 years. Continue read
  
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