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• Deepfakes — The End Of Truth?

  18-10-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like most digital technologies, the quality of deepfakes is increasing at an alarming rate, and it is clear that even the most complex deepfake tools will be as easy to use as Instagram filters in the very near future. – Shelly Palmer
  
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• Say Goodbye To Giant Skyscrapers

  18-10-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Planning applications for tall buildings in London plummeted by a third last year. Has the age of piling people into great glass shafts, of cities competing for ever higher spires, finally come to an end? – The Guardian
  
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• The Virtual Gallery Revolution

  18-10-2021 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With technology that creates fantastical game worlds readily available, its creators could’ve set it on Tatooine if they wanted to, or at least the moon. Instead, its aesthetic might best be described as Marfa Modernism. Lots of open space and clean lines. – Wired
  
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• A Long-Missing Stone Masterpiece, Discovered In A Front yard

  18-10-2021 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It was like finding the Holy Grail. William Edmondson worked in Nashville, so who would ever dream that a piece would be in St. Louis?” – The New York Times
  
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• Diagnosing A Post-Liberal Culture

  18-10-2021 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Postliberals, as Matthew Rose argues in his new book A World After Liberalism, agree on little. They know something has gone wrong, and they suspect the origins of the problem date back several centuries. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Of Authenticity, Experience And The Right To Standing

  18-10-2021 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In my experience, when people say they need to “listen to the most affected”, it isn’t because they intend to set up Skype calls to refugee camps or to collaborate with houseless people. – The Philosopher
  
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• Repatriating cultural artefacts and rebuilding relationships | Letters

  18-10-2021 19:03
  
  Dr Ellen McAdam recalls how, in 1998, Glasgow returned the Lakota Ghost Dance shirt to the Lakota community after years of negotiation, while Mike Pitts sheds light on what’s happening behind the scenes at museumsYour article (Cambridge college to be first in UK to return looted Benin bronze, 15 October) says that “after Jesus College announced its decision to return the Benin bronze in November 2019, a host of regional museums committed to or said they were also considering returnin
  
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• The New Activism: Art Attacking The Institutions — Any Institution, Including Those Who Show The Art

  18-10-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One irony of contemporary art that critiques or transcends the institution is just how central the institution remains to it. Indeed, the complexity of the art ecosystem as a reflection of global power is at the heart of Forensic Architecture’s origin story. – The New York Times
  
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• John McWhorter On Campus Culture And The Bright Sheng Case: Radicalism Or Progressivism?

  18-10-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s not “the students’ fragility, it’s that their approach illustrates the difference between radicalism and progressivism. It’s an example of a strain of thought permeating campuses, one that blithely elides that difference in favor of preaching only “social justice.” – The New York Times
  
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• Bright Sheng And Campus Culture Run Amok? Or…

  18-10-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To some observers, it’s a case of campus “cancel culture” run amok. To others, the incident is symbolic of an arrogant academic and artistic old guard and of the deeply embedded anti-Black racism in classical music. – The New York Times
  
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• Is Hunter Biden’s Art Career A Problem?

  18-10-2021 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Experts have raised alarms that individuals might buy the artworks – expected to fetch between $75,000 and $500,000 – to try to curry favor and gain influence with Joe Biden. They also accuse Hunter of trading on his father’s name and position. – The Guardian
  
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• The Poem That Provoked An FBI Investigation

  18-10-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Dial-a-Poem received more than a million calls before it lost funding and ended in 1971. There were complaints of indecency, claims that the poems incited violence. The FBI investigated.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The New York City Council May Remove The Thomas Jefferson Statue In Its Chambers

  18-10-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Black, Latinx, and Asian councillors have been asking for its removal for two decades. – The New York Times
  
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• But Wait: IATSE Members May Not Vote To Ratify Contract

  18-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says one IATSE member who’s a dolly grip about the supposed changes, “The 10-hour turnarounds — that’s the same shit that’s already in my contract. Why would I be excited about that?” – Variety
  
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• How The IATSE Strike Was Probably Averted

  18-10-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The companies — Walt Disney Co., Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Sony Pictures Entertainment, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia — were forced to abandon their take-it-or-leave-it approach to the talks, which had been dragging on for five months.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Penelope Lively On Her Writing Career And The Difference Between Novels And Short Stories

  18-10-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lively, who’s 88: “When I started, publishers didn’t expect a breakthrough with a first or second book. They were prepared to stay with an author for a long time. They seem to be more driven by marketing now.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• ‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear

  18-10-2021 15:29
  
  From being pelted with stones in Greece to receiving a papal welcome in Rome, the giant girl’s migrant trek from Syria to Manchester provoked powerful responsesIn Greece, far-right protesters threw things at her as she walked through the streets, local councillors voted to ban her from visiting a village of Orthodox monasteries, and protests in Athens meant her route had to be diverted. In France, the mayor of Calais raised objections to her presence.At times, the 8,000km journey across Eu
  
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• Netflix Fires One Of The Organizers Of The Trans Walkout

  18-10-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The fallout from Dave Chapelle’s special continues. The employee is Black and pregnant; Netflix says they were “terminated on suspicion of leaking metrics to the press related to the Dave Chappelle special,” but other reports say the employee spoke out against the leaks. – The Verge
  
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• Why We Can’t Speak Second Or Third Languages Without An Accent

  18-10-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As with chemistry, the important thing is not just how the elements behave in isolation, but how they come together. Each language has rules for these combinations, which native speakers (and many teachers) generally grasp but don’t or can’t explain.” – The Economist
  
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• Gilbert And George And London’s East End

  18-10-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the artists go out, they find more than their favorite cafés: “Walking is their research. They photograph graffiti, look out for curious new images of street life, which make their way into their montage prints: canisters of clubbers’ laughing gas; women in burqas.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• This Choreographer Who Won A ‘Genius’ Grant At 70, And Has Some Big Plans

  18-10-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s groundbreaking contributions have become both mainstream and topical. “An experimental dance company in Brooklyn? Nothing unusual about that now — yet Zollar was forging a new path when she founded Urban Bush Women in 1984.” – Washington Post
  
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• Dali’s ‘Lips’ Sofa Started Life As A Back-Of-The-Envelope Sketch

  18-10-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Of course it did. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Musician Solange Launches A New Free Library Of Out-Of-Print And Rare Books By Black Authors

  18-10-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Solange’s creative studio, Saint Heron, hired a community bookstore founder to “curate” the first 50 items in the library, which will be mailed to those who request them for a 45-day loan period. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Paddy Moloney, Who Died Last Week, Put Irish Music On The Map

  18-10-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Chieftains became bigger stars than the Rolling Stones in 1975, when Stanley Kubrick used their music in the movie Barry Lyndon – and that’s when they quit their day jobs to perform Irish folk music full-time. – BBC
  
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• Turns Out Amelia Earhart Was Also A Poet

  18-10-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Earhart was one of the earliest aviators, a record-setter, a college professor and well ahead of her time as a champion for women’s rights. Yet she is also one of history’s more enigmatic figures.” – Washington Post
  
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• Alan Hawkshaw, Composer Who Was Surprisingly Popular With Hip Hop Artists, 84

  18-10-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hawkshaw, who composed the theme music for several popular British TV shows, was also a pianist and Hammond organist who “ended up working at more than 7,000 recording sessions.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Just because: Noël Coward appears on What’s My Line?

  18-10-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Noël Coward appears as the mystery guest on What’s My Line? The panelists are Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Robert Preston and the host is John Daly. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on Jaunary 12, 1964:(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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• He’s a poet and the FBI know it: how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarmed the Feds

  18-10-2021 09:00
  
  After receiving hundreds of thousands of calls, the poet’s project almost broke the New York telephone exchange – leading to an FBI investigation. Will it cause similar chaos in the Instapoet era?In 1968, the poet and visual artist John Giorno was on the telephone when he was hit with an idea. It came to him that “the voice was the poet, the words were the poem, and the telephone was the venue”. He imagined utilising the telephone as a medium of mass communication, in ord
  
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• Madrid exhibition reimagines Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights for digital age

  18-10-2021 08:00
  
  Triptych’s 21st-century variations comment on technology, consumerism, sex and the planetAdam is a busy robot poring over the codes of creation. The climate disaster has imprisoned the devil in a block of ice. And a social media sinner is lashed to a hashtag for all eternity while a Terminator stalks through a charnel house hell.The Garden of Earthly Delights is once again in full, admonitory bloom. More than five centuries after it was completed, Hieronymus Bosch’s masterpiece is be
  
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• ‘It feels really natural’: Hundreds pose nude for Spencer Tunick shoot near Dead Sea

  18-10-2021 02:01
  
  US artist returns to site for third time to highlight plight of Dead Sea, which is receding by about a metre a yearHundreds of models wearing only white body paint have walked across a stark desert expanse near the Dead Sea, part of the latest photography project of American artist Spencer Tunick.The 54-year-old photographer visited the spot in southern Israel as a guest of the tourism ministry to portray for the third time the shrinking Dead Sea via nude subjects. Continue reading...
  
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