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• How To Convince Pseudo-Science Believers Of Real Science

  23-06-2022 23:30 via nautil.us
  
  We shouldn’t be dismissive of people who believe in pseudoscience. In many cases they’re victims who have fallen for disinformation that’s been put forward by someone else, often people who stand to profit in some way. – Nautilus
  
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• Welcome to the fun house! Sharks, skaters and smelters liven up Documenta 15

  23-06-2022 17:28
  
  Various venues, Kassel, Germany
  Celebrating the power of the collective, this year’s art jamboree veers from serious to jolly to chaotic. Our critic dodges the skateboarders – and finds peace in an Indonesian rice barnOn the parched grass outside the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel, one of the oldest public museums in the world, sits a wan little black tent. Painted on one side is a statement: “The emergency has replaced the contemporary.” I’m not even certain that t
  
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• Eight convicted over theft of Banksy artwork from Paris attack site

  23-06-2022 16:14
  
  Work paying homage to victims of 2015 attack – painted on door of Bataclan concert hall – was stolen in 2019A French court has convicted eight men for the theft and handling of a Banksy painting paying homage to the victims of the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.Three men in their 30s who admitted to the 2019 theft were given prison sentences, one of four years and two of three, although they will be able to serve them wearing electronic tracking bracelets rather th
  
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• ‘There was only one possible theme’: Alison Wilding on her climate crisis Summer Exhibition

  23-06-2022 15:00
  
  Environmental change is the subject of this year’s Royal Academy show in London but, says its curator, ‘there is a celebratory aspect’Selecting the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the biggest curating jobs in the world, but it is done by artists not professional curators. This year’s boss is Alison Wilding RA, not someone you might think of as a showy or grandstanding public figure but a deeply sensitive and thoughtful abstract sculptor, who has twice been short
  
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• ‘Unwanted junk’: Earth Goddess statue prompts unholy reaction in St Austell

  23-06-2022 14:09
  
  Artist Sandy Brown hopes people will grow to love sculpture described as ‘something out of Teletubbies’Towering above a square in the Cornish town of St Austell, it is the tallest ceramic sculpture in the UK and possibly the world, a south-west of England answer to the Angel of the North.But the installation this week of Earth Goddess, which is as high as two doubledecker buses on top of each other, has provoked a reaction commensurate with its scale. Continue reading...
  
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• The King of Kowloon: my search for the cult graffiti prophet of Hong Kong

  23-06-2022 07:00
  
  For years Tsang Tsou-choi daubed his eccentric demands around Hong Kong, and the authorities raced to cover them up. But as the city’s protest movements bloomed, his words mysteriously reappearedThe secret message only appeared when the wall was drenched with rain. For weeks, I had been scouring Hong Kong for these misshapen Chinese characters, but the way they materialised out of nowhere was a shock. It was an unremarkable yellow-grey stone wall in the middle of Central, Hong Kong’s
  
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• After 47 Books, John Grisham On Writing, Hollywood, And Storytelling

  23-06-2022 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  “I can’t get a fraction of that today. You can say, Well, we choked the golden goose, but all those films made money. Then Hollywood changed. I don’t understand that world. Nobody understands that world. There’s no rules. – The New York Times
  
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