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• ‘Privacy is at stake’: what would you do if you controlled your own data?

  23-09-2021 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  In an ambitious new installation, artist Refik Anadol used a 17,000 square-foot gallery to mount an immersive exhibit asking questions about online privacyThe trick of Refik Anadol’s Machine Hallucinations, a three-day public art installation at The Shed in New York City, is to transform the processing of data into surreal hypnosis. The immersive audiovisual exhibit towers over a cavernous 17,000 sq ft gallery in Hudson Yards, an outer ring of screens features a shimmering and chameleonic
  
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• Tell us: how do you feel about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries?

  23-09-2021 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  We would like to hear about what you’re enjoying most about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries now that UK coronavirus restrictions have liftedWe would like to hear about what you’re enjoying most about returning to cinemas, museums and galleries now that UK coronavirus restrictions have lifted. What films, art, or exhibits have you seen? Tell us about your experience. Continue reading...
  
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• Gold of the Great Steppe review – the breathtaking lives of history’s ‘barbarians’

  23-09-2021 15:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  From their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythical beasts, this exhibition about Kazakhstan’s ancient nomads shows the power of archaeology to revive the deadA young archer was buried around 2,700 years ago in the foothills of the Tarbagatay mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. In 2018, his bones were found preserved in the permafrost, surrounded by exquisite ornaments and weapons: beautifully observed figures of deer, finely craft
  
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• Gold of the Great Steppe review – breathtaking exhibition reveals lives of history’s ‘barbarians’

  23-09-2021 15:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  From their astounding burial mounds to their dazzling horses dressed up as mythical beasts, this exhibition about Kazakhstan’s ancient nomads shows the power of archaeology to revive the deadA young archer was buried around 2,700 years ago in the foothills of the Tarbagatay mountains of eastern Kazakhstan. In 2018, his bones were found preserved in the permafrost, surrounded by exquisite ornaments and weapons: beautifully observed figures of deer, finely craft
  
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• Forced from home: the humans and animals under threat – in pictures

  23-09-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat Continue reading...
  
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• Associate Director of Development Open Position

  23-09-2021 07:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Title: Associate Director of Development
  Reports To: Development DirectorCustomary Schedule:
  40+ hours per week, Monday – Friday
  Nights and weekends sometimes requiredAbout Alonzo King LINES Ballet:Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a celebrated contemporary ballet company that has been guided since 1982 by its uniquely global artistic vision. Collaborating with noted composers, musicians, and visual artists, Alonzo King creates works that draw on a diverse set of deeply rooted cultural tradition
  
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• Black UK artists are creating most ‘exciting’ work, says Michael McMillan

  23-09-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Playwright and curator says Black Lives Matter movement has inspired new generation of black creatorsBlack artists in the UK are producing the most “exciting” and “socially engaged” work at the moment, a leading British playwright and curator said.Michael McMillan, a London-based artist and academic who was behind the successful The West Indian Front Room, also believes the Black Lives Matter movement has inspired a new generation of black artists to work in innovative wa
  
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• Betye Saar: the brilliant artist who reversed and radicalised racist stereotypes

  23-09-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the 1970s, her art was so influential that Angela Davis credited it with launching the Black women’s movement. At 95, Saar is still creating work - and it is as arresting as everWhen the artist Betye Saar learned the Aunt Jemima brand was removing the mammy-like character that had been a fixture on its pancake mixes since 1889, she uttered two words: “Oh, finally.”Those familiar with Saar’s most famous work, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, might have expected a more dra
  
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• National Gallery of Australia orders $14m Ouroboros sculpture – its most expensive commission so far

  23-09-2021 04:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Thirteen-tonne artwork depicting a snake eating its tail will be large enough for visitors to walk throughA new sculpture by the Australian artist Lindy Lee will be the National Gallery of Australia’s most expensive commission so far, with the four-metre-high public artwork costing the gallery $14m.Ouroboros, which the NGA commissioned to mark its 40th anniversary, will be made of mirror-polished stainless steel and weigh approximately 13 tonnes, with the artist focusing on incorporating s
  
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• Jaap & Klaus to Flee to Their European Homelands, Terminating Tenuous Tenures at NY Phil & LA MOCA

  23-09-2021 00:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps “good riddance” would be an appropriate bicoastal response to the slaps in the face that culture-lovers in New
  
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• Honest Brokers And The Clement Greenberg Problem

  23-09-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Greenberg had made it clear that the single most lucrative move for a modern-day critic was to announce the newest new thing, the coming revolution that would sweep everything else aside. And he had proven so influential that… – Ted Gioia
  
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