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• How Matisse Transformed His Art After His Body

  27-12-2022 23:28 via nytimes.com
  The new limitations of his body became an opportunity for renewal. There is a lesson here about what it means to care for the body, to inhabit the bodies we have not merely with acceptance and love, as we are often rightly advised to do. – The New York Times
  
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• Physicists Create Nano-Sized Music Recording

  27-12-2022 23:01 via arstechnica.com
  Physicists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) used a 3D nanolithography tool called the Nanofrazor to cut the smallest record ever. The tune they “recorded,” in full stereo no less: the first 25 seconds of “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.” – Ars Technica
  
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• Leveraging (And Investing In) The Art Markets

  27-12-2022 22:31 via news.artnet.com
  When it comes to artist-driven community work, private versus grant funding isn’t an either-or proposition. Using the art market “is not just about making sales,” said artist Edgar Arceneaux, “it’s in the associated power that comes from leveraging relationships inside it.” – Artnet
  
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• Some Of The Artists We Lost This Year

  27-12-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own — through the art they made, and through the words they said. – The New York Times
  
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• Art Platform Is Hiding Images Protesting Posting Of AI-Generated Art

  27-12-2022 20:31 via theverge.com
  ArtStation (which was acquired by Epic Games in 2021) is considered to be the leading online portfolio and community for artists working in video games, film, and comics. – The Verge
  
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• This Choreographer Wanted To Move Back Home To San Diego To Live And Work.  It Shouldn’t Have Been This Difficult.

  27-12-2022 20:02 via sandiegouniontribune.com
  “Exorbitant venue rental costs, cultural ignorance, a dismissive response to concerns of racial inequalities and funding models that make artistic careers a bleak option for survival have become a common occurrence in America’s finest city.” Just ask Jeremy McQueen, founder of the Black Iris Project. – The San Diego Union-Tribune
  
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• US Copyright Office Rules AI-Generated Art Can’t Be Copyrighted

  27-12-2022 19:32 via cbr.com
  The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has initiated a proceeding to reverse an earlier decision to grant a copyright to a comic book that was created using “A.I. art” and says copyrighted works must be created by humans to gain official copyright protection. – CBR
  
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• How A Simple Graphic Memoir Became America’s Most-Banned Book, Thus Juicing Its Sales

  27-12-2022 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  “The crusade against Gender Queer has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of (Maia) Kobabe’s royalty checks. The memoir has sold more than 96,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish, French, Polish and other languages. It’s on the racks in airports.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• The Year The Streaming Business Crashed

  27-12-2022 18:32 via theringer.com
  Streaming may be the future, but in the present, it’s not paying the bills. The subtext of the Streaming Wars always has been that the heady days of free-for-all spending wouldn’t last forever. – The Ringer
  
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• “The Whale” Was Originally A Play — A Powerful One, Say Those Who Have Done It

  27-12-2022 18:01 via yahoo.com
  Says Shuler Hensley, who’s played the 600-pound Charlie in New York and London: “It’s a brilliant ending, because audience members have constantly told me they couldn’t breathe afterwards. They didn’t know what to do, whether to applaud or get up or move because they’ve become so connected to Charlie.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• How Kindle Novel Writers Are Using ChatGPT

  27-12-2022 17:33 via theverge.com
  I figured, Hey, if I don’t know what to write, I’ll just pop something in there and it will get me going, and I’ll be right back into the book I left a week ago. It didn’t quite work out that way. – The Verge
  
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• The Coolest Archaeological Finds Of 2022

  27-12-2022 17:03 via news.artnet.com
  “There were long-lost tombs uncovered during renovations of Notre-Dame in Paris, the mosaic floors upon which Santa Claus — well okay, St. Nicholas — once trod, multiple hordes of ancient coins …, and the latest discoveries in the Amazon thanks to LiDAR, the laser-powered gift that keeps on giving.” – Artnet
  
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• #MeToo Comes To Belgium’s Flagship Art Museum

  27-12-2022 16:35 via brusselstimes.com
  “Staff at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts are speaking out against the museum’s director, Michel Draguet, after 31 of 176 employees signed an open letter condemning a toxic work culture. … Six current or former employees criticised inappropriate behaviour from the museum director.” – The Brussels Times
  
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• TikTok Conquered The Social Media World.  Now It’s Being Conquered By Geopolitics

  27-12-2022 16:02 via nytimes.com
  Here’s the story of how Zhang Yiming built the tech giant ByteDance and its star video app became a global juggernaut — only to find itself caught between U.S. concerns about data privacy and the ever-tighter rule of Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Eldest Daughter And Heir Of Pablo, Is Dead At 87

  27-12-2022 15:01 via news.artnet.com
  “When her father died in 1973, Maya took up the mantle of preserving and propelling his legacy. … It involved assembling and organizing a large archive of his oeuvre and becoming the major authenticator of his work, a task she performed thousands of times until her eyesight gave way in the mid-2010s.” – Artnet
  
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• Facing Falling Attendance, The Metropolitan Opera Will Trim Its Season And Focus On New Works

  27-12-2022 14:33 via nytimes.com
  “Hit hard by a cash shortfall and lackluster ticket sales …, the (company) said Monday that it would withdraw up to $30 million from its endowment, give fewer performances next season, and accelerate its embrace of contemporary works, which, in a shift, have been outselling the classics.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Philly Pops Settles On A New Contract And, Just Maybe, A Future

  27-12-2022 14:05 via inquirer.com
  “The Pops announced in November that it would cease operations at the end of this season. But the new tentative agreement, back-dated to this past Sept. 1, runs through Aug. 31, 2024 — suggesting that the group is eyeing a potential path to survival.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• ‘She drunkenly asked me to do her a rudeness’: painting’s most baffling titles

  27-12-2022 13:00
  Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s beguiling works have titles like Tie the Temptress to the Trojan and Alabaster for Infidels. So what if they don’t connect with what she paints – she’s hardly art’s first blabbermouth …Two girls are playing on the beach. One is dipping her foot into a black pool of water left by an ebbing grey sea. Both are turned away from us, absorbed, as so many of ’s subjects are, in thoughts to which viewers are not privy. I can’t help
  
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• The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

  27-12-2022 07:00
  Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year aheadMore from the 2023 culture preview Continue reading...
  
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• Impromptu takedown of painting in Netherlands ignites cancel culture row

  27-12-2022 06:30
  Controversial image of male Leiden University board members smoking cigars had long been topic of discussionA spur-of-the-moment decision by academic staff to take down a 1970s painting depicting male Leiden University board members smoking cigars has sparked a debate in the Netherlands over cancel culture.The artwork on the wall of a university meeting room had been a topic of discussion for years, with some students claiming that it both endorsed patriarchy and the act of smoking. Continue rea
  
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