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• Unlikely Path: From TickTok To Riverdance Dancer

  25-10-2021 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Morgan Bullock: “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Am I being pranked? Is this real?’” she says. But her new journey with Riverdance is far from a joke. – Irish Times
  
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• Where Ya Going To Sell Picassos For $110 Million? Vegas, Of Course

  25-10-2021 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks that have been on display at a Las Vegas hotel for more than two decades have sold at auction for nearly $110m (£80m). The works, which were owned by MGM Resorts, featured in the Picasso Restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel. – BBC
  
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• How Joshua Vides Went From Graffiti Artist To Designing For Global Brands

  25-10-2021 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His creations have turned the former scofflaw graffitist into an illustrator and visual artist sought after by a growing list of global brands, including Adidas, Converse, Warner Bros., Google, Red Bull, EBay, Fendi, Ballentine and Mercedes-Benz. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Astonishing Growth In University Endowments Last Year — What To Do With It?

  25-10-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Washington University in St. Louis saw a 65 percent return. Duke, 56 percent. MIT, 55.5 percent (after completing a $6 billion capital campaign). Brown, 51.5 percent. Dartmouth, 46.5 percent. Yale, 40.2 percent. – Inside Higher Ed
  
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• How To Fix Social Media (Lessons From History)

  25-10-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The arrival of broadcast media at the start of the last century set off an information revolution just as tumultuous as the one we are going through today, and the way legislators, judges, and the public responded to the earlier upheaval can illuminate our current situation. – The New Atlantis
  
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• Are You Ready For Our Real-Life Dystopia?

  25-10-2021 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When you zoom out, it’s easy to see that American society is approaching a modern-day dystopia as the once sci-fi-worthy stories of environmental destruction, technological control, and loss of human rights and freedoms creep to fruition. – Wired
  
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• Facebook Employees Had Plenty Of Ideas How To Fix Facebook. But…

  25-10-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s almost cliché at this point to accuse Facebook of ignoring the impact its products have on users and society. The observation hits a little harder, however, when it comes from inside the company. – Wired
  
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• Why Did Believer Magazine Shut Down?

  25-10-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s a popular idea, these days, that all it takes is a kindly benefactor to set things right. Unfortunately, it is and will always be futile to rely on the benevolence of the wealthy, even wealthy institutions for that matter, to act in the best interest of the arts or the general public. – Gawker
  
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• Remembering Diane di Prima

  25-10-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A memorial issue of the Swiss magazine Fabrikzeitung pays tribute to her poetry.SHE WHOshe whose face we have never seen
  she whose body is a door to the world
  she whose black thighs gleam w/ oil w/
  fat & oil whose laughter is the
  earthquakes she whose inhalation is the
  end of time who can compass herround w/ his arms? who can penetrate
  to the depth of her desire? stars are the
  seed pearls she sets on her flesh they
  are the milk of her breasts & the juice of
  her love her orgasm shakes th
  
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• How The Internet Changed Photography For The Masses (And A Nostalgia For The Past)

  25-10-2021 17:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Curiously keen to recapture the not-knowing-what-the-hell-is-on-there waiting period that analog film required, young digital types have taken up the popular Dispo camera app, which forces its users to wait until 9 a.m. the following day before photos “develop” and they can view the damage. – The Atlantic
  
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• Glasgow School Of The Art, Ravaged By Fire, Decides To Rebuild Original Building

  25-10-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The school said it had looked closely at a wide range of alternatives, including a ‘do minimum’ approach, a new build on the site or elsewhere on the GSA campus, a hybrid or a full reinstatement. – The Architect’s Journal
  
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• How Facebook Has Failed Us All

  25-10-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The social media giant “has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob to attempt a violent coup.” But “the Facebook we have in the United States is actually the platform at its best.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Comments Sections Are A Toxic Stew Of Sexism, And That’s By Design

  25-10-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design problem. It’s a function of comprehensive social design, web design, workplace design, and conversation design.” – Fast Company
  
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• Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait Says There’s No Such Thing As Cancel Culture

  25-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ … I know exactly what he’d say. He’d say something hilarious and cutting. … There is no cancel culture. It only exists if you’re a whistleblower or a victim.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Vancouver Opera May Be Returning To A New Kind Of Normal

  25-10-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out felt good: “There is another life for our stuff, and another life for our company.” – Vancouver Sun
  
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• Reckoning With Monuments In The North

  25-10-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The American South isn’t the only place with iffy monuments. Consider Boston. – The New Yorker
  
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• Roman villa with world’s only Caravaggio mural up for sale

  25-10-2021 15:15
  
  Villa Aurora set to go on auction in January with opening bid of almost €500mA sprawling villa in Rome containing the only ceiling mural ever painted by the Italian master Caravaggio is being put up for sale for almost €500m (£422m).The 2.75-metre wide mural features Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte in the 16th century to adorn the ceiling in what was his alchemy laboratory at Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, better known as V
  
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• In Britain, Subtitles May Finally Be Returning After Fire

  25-10-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a west London broadcast centre on 25 September.” But some are back – only some, for instance on Great British Bake-Off. – BBC
  
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• The Chief Electrician On ‘Rust’ Blames The Film’s Armorer For The Fatal Shot

  25-10-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a Facebook post, gaffer Sergey Svetnoy wrote of holding Halyna Hutchins as she died, and he blamed the 24-year-old armorer – and the producers. “To save a dime sometimes, you hire people who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Post-Apocalyptic Book Inspired By The Events Of Charlottesville

  25-10-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson taught art for decades before her first novel was published. My Monticello was easy to imagine, she says, “because it was me nudging forward from the very real fears I had after 12 August 2017.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Potential Legal Fallout From The Fatal Shooting Of Halyna Hutchins

  25-10-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The experts weigh in – and it’s not going to go well for someone. “This doesn’t happen without negligence. There are safety protocols that are supposed to be followed. It’s really just a matter of who’s negligent and how the responsibility gets parceled out.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Inside The Phantom’s Return To Broadway

  25-10-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  So much celebration ensued – and, well, perhaps for good reason. “The show, which opened on Broadway in 1988 and has never closed, takes its first post-pandemic bow not just as a monied buttress for the industry, but as a symbol for Broadway’s own endurance.” – Variety
  
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• The Race Against Time To Save Australia’s Archives

  25-10-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Glass plate negatives, nitrite negatives, lantern slides, paper – all can disintegrate and decay. What will the digital records of these tangible archives tell humans in a century or two? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Six jailed in Spain for selling fakes of Goya and other artists online

  25-10-2021 13:56
  
  Valencia police seized 27 paintings by various artists being sold for €1.2m, 18 of which were crude forgeriesSix people have been jailed in the eastern Spanish region of Valencia after police broke up a criminal gang that was using the internet to sell crudely forged paintings attributed to artists including Francisco de Goya, José Benlliure y Gil and Nicolás Falcó.The investigation, carried out by officers from the historical heritage group of the Valencian police, beg
  
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• Songlines: the Indigenous Australian exhibition preserving 65,000 years of culture

  25-10-2021 10:00
  
  With epic pieces that take in creation myths and spread ancient knowledge, this exhibition has taken Australia by storm and is now in the UK“Of course, you can look at the paintings on the walls and appreciate them for the beautiful objects that they are,” explains Margo Neale, head of the Indigenous knowledges centre at the National Museum of Australia. “But if that’s all you appreciate them for then you will be missing out on so much.”Neale is talking about Songli
  
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