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• A New Scan Tool May Open Up How The Brain Works

  13-10-2022 23:28 via nautil.us
  “If you talk about neuroscience and how the brain works, there’s a lot of unknowns. It’s the wild west.” Ultrafast ultrasound could trace brain signaling with great precision, documenting how circuits and groups of cells interact as the brain performs functions from perception to decision-making. – Nautilus
  
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• A Surge Of International Interest In Moden African Art

  13-10-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  The value of auction sales of contemporary and modern African art surged by 44% to a record high of $72.4m (£65.6m) last year, according to consultants ArtTactic. – BBC
  
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• Are You Selling A Product Or An Experience?

  13-10-2022 22:31 via americantheatre.org
  A hotel room lease is still a service with or without a guest.  “Art, however, does not exist until it occurs in an audience, so it is neither product nor service. It is a participatory process which requires the consumer of the process, and without whom the art becomes simply a rehearsal or paint on a canvas.” – American Theatre
  
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• Damien Hirst Burns His Work After Making NFTs

  13-10-2022 22:01 via bbc.com
  The artist told buyers who bought pieces from his latest collection to choose either the physical artwork or the NFT representing it. Those who chose the NFTs were told their corresponding physical piece would be destroyed. – BBC
  
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• Pent-Up Demand For Museums? Here’s What We Know

  13-10-2022 21:32 via colleendilen.com
  We have been tracking pent-up demand for cultural entities over the course of the pandemic. Has this demand been realized? What might this mean for cultural organizations as they continue their pandemic recoveries? Here’s what we know. – Colleen Dilenschneider
  
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• The Brevard Project: Orchestras, American Roots, and Appropriation

  13-10-2022 21:08 via artsjournal.com
  George Shirley, at the Brevard Festival, tells two Roland Hayes stories — Hayes being thrown out of a shoestore
  
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• The Very Antithesis Of A Modern Major Ballet Company: SFDanceworks

  13-10-2022 21:04 via pointemagazine.com
  Interim artistic director Dana Genshaft: “What attracted me was that SFDW felt like going camping: leaving structures of a big machine behind, self-producing, finding joy in casualness, simplicity. … (I’ve also heard our audiences express liking access and proximity, performances in a small house.)” – Pointe Magazine
  
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• Jann Wenner’s Towering Accomplishment

  13-10-2022 20:34 via freebeacon.com
  Few American magazine editors of the 20th century can match. Like Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Henry Luce of Time, Life, and Fortune, Clay Felker of New York, he conceived a hugely successful magazine ex nihilo, to satisfy a public appetite whose potential he alone saw and monetized. – Free Beacon
  
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• Gleeful Trashiness Is What Makes American Culture Fun. But The Culture Wars Have Chased Trashiness Away. So Where Has It Gone?

  13-10-2022 20:01 via nytimes.com
  Wesley Morris: “The gutter is where our popular culture began, and the gaminess lurking there is our truest guise.  … Trash is a persistent, consumptive force that’ll set up shop in any eager host. And its shamelessness went and found a new home, in American politics.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Something New: Viral Jazz?

  13-10-2022 19:32 via npr.org
  Much truer to the spirit of viral jazz is the musician who fully inhabits a given platform, allowing it to inform their creative process — for a point of comparison, someone like the jazz-conversant polymath Jacob Collier, a harmony and rhythm savant par excellence. – NPR
  
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• David Hockney painting of Mediterranean sunrise sells for £21m

  13-10-2022 19:12
  Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime has sold at auction in London for nearly three times its lower estimateA painting by David Hockney of the sun rising over the Mediterranean has been sold at auction for almost £21m, nearly three times its lower estimate.Early Morning, Sainte-Maxime, completed by the British artist in 1969, has been owned by a private individual for more than 30 years. Estimated to fetch £7m-10m, it sold in six minutes of bidding between private buyers, according to the au
  
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• Subtly As Well As Brazenly, Russian Action Movies Are Propagandizing For Putin’s Ukrainian War

  13-10-2022 19:03 via nytimes.com
  “For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and are confronted with the cartoonish heroes and villains of other cultures.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Robert Skelton obituary

  13-10-2022 18:49
  Museum curator and scholar of Indian art, whose library and archive have been given to the Courtauld InstituteRobert Skelton, who has died aged 93, was for many years a curator in the Indian department of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a leading authority on Indian painting and decorative arts in the Sultanate and Mughal periods (13th to 19th centuries). This was an age rich in cultural interaction between the Persianate court arts of the Muslim rulers and indigenous Indian artistic traditio
  
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• Why Didn’t Gaming Criticism Catch On?

  13-10-2022 18:32 via clivethompson.medium.com
  Experiencing a game is weirdly different from experiencing a TV show, a movie, a play or a book. They are, to use a drab but accurate phrase, “lean back” culture. You’re the audience, experiencing the art — the artists and creators talking to you. Games, on the other hand, require you to do things. – Medium
  
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• Online art fairs changed the game for Indigenous art. Here’s how to buy it

  13-10-2022 18:30
  This weekend’s Tarnanthi Art Fair is selling works from $40 to $15,000, gathered from more than 50 art centres around Australia. And all you have to do is log onSign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningIt’s been a tough three years for many of Australia’s Aboriginal arts centres. As the pandemic unfolded, and with the Northern Territory – where many are located – implementing strict border
  
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• Spotify Has Insisted On Exclusive Rights To The Podcasts It Carries. Maybe That Wasn’t A Good Idea

  13-10-2022 18:04 via simonowens.substack.com
  The podcast industry built itself on an open ecosystem: any podcast player could make any particular podcast available.  Then Spotify, after it bought Gimlet Media, started insisting on allowing its podcasts only on its own player.  It’s a standard big-business move — and it’s backfiring. – Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter
  
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• Backlash against C4 show that may destroy works by Hitler and Picasso

  13-10-2022 17:52
  Jimmy Carr-fronted Art Trouble accused of seeking attention with something akin to book burningChannel 4 has come under fire over plans for a new show that will allow a studio audience to decide whether Jimmy Carr should destroy a painting by Adolf Hitler.As part of its latest season of programmes, the TV channel has bought artworks by a range of “problematic” artists including Hitler, Pablo Picasso, the convicted paedophile Rolf Harris and sexual abuser Eric Gill. Continue reading..
  
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• Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

  13-10-2022 09:00
  The man who created more than 250 cover images for the rock weekly has put together a book of almost 40 years of photographs of the Fall. ‘We put Manchester on the map,’ he says“All I ever wanted to do was work for NME,” recalls Kevin Cummins. “That was my dream.” It’s a dream that certainly came true. He worked with the music publication for decades, including 10 years as chief photographer, shooting more than 250 covers for the music title.His father a
  
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• Channel 4 buys painting by Hitler – and may let Jimmy Carr destroy it

  13-10-2022 07:00
  Ian Katz says new show, Art Trouble, celebrates the channel’s tradition of ‘iconoclasm and irreverence’Channel 4 has bought a painting by Adolf Hitler and will allow a studio audience to decide whether Jimmy Carr should burn it with a flamethrower.As part of its latest season of programmes, the TV channel has bought artworks by a range of “problematic” artists, including Pablo Picasso, as well as convicted paedophile Rolf Harris and sexual abuser Eric Gill. Continue
  
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• ‘This exhibition is hard and beautiful’: staging a major retrospective of Boris Mikhailov’s work

  13-10-2022 06:00
  The Ukrainian photographer’s work takes on a new prescience following the Russia’s invasionWhen Paris’s art curators met to discuss staging a major retrospective of Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov’s work, none could have guessed how prescient and tragic its eventual timing would turn out to be – or how his depictions of the poverty of the Soviet Union and the grim hardship of its aftermath would take on new meaning following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
  
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• Whimsy, Covid and a ‘self-portrait in drag’: the 2022 small sculpture prize – in pictures

  13-10-2022 01:41
  Announced on Wednesday, the sculpture prize is being displayed at Sydney’s Woollahra Gallery, which moved from council chambers to the historic St Brigid’s building at Redleaf last year. Now in its 12th year, 49 finalists were selected from more than 700 entries – with the full exhibition on show until 20 NovemberGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email Continue reading...
  
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