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• Looks Like The Actors Might Not Go On Strike After All

  25-06-2023 22:30 via latimes.com
  
  Union president Fran Drescher to her SAG-AFTRA members: “We are having an extremely productive negotiations that are laser focused on all of the crucial issues you told us are most important to you.” Now, what about the writers? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Same People Who Don’t Like Robot Created Headlines Also Don’t Like Human Created Headlines

  25-06-2023 22:00 via niemanlab.org
  
  “What we find, then, is what we’ve previously called ‘generalized skepticism,’ whereby people are skeptical of all forms of news selection, whether done by humans or by algorithms.” So … er … should we ask dogs and cats to do this work? – Nieman Lab
  
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• Photographer Paul Ickovic, Street Photographer Across The Globe, 79

  25-06-2023 21:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “His approach was often likened to that of his hero, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others whose notion of ‘the decisive moment’ shaped modern street photography and the photojournalism that flourished in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s.” – The New York Times
  
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• At A Time Of Urgency In The Creative Arts, Britain Is Dropping The Ball

  25-06-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  But museums are trying their damnedest to pick it up. “This surely is the route through the coming AI storm: the digital age demands more, not less creativity in schools and families. It is through play and imagination that we can rise above the robots.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Can Someone Please Fix The FCC?

  25-06-2023 20:30 via theverge.com
  
  By “someone,” we mean the Senate. “Tens of millions of Americans don’t have access to high-speed broadband. Depending on who you ask, that number could be as low as 14 million or as high as 42 million because the FCC has yet to fix the maps.” – The Verge
  
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• Robert Organ obituary

  25-06-2023 18:57
  
  My friend Robert Organ, who has died aged 90, was a Realist painter whose work explored the world around him in all its beauty and oddity.His carefully constructed and richly hued paintings often told the story of his life, with large series of canvases depicting his Devon garden, the interior of his house and delectable items spread on large table tops. Other series featured French party scenes and riverscapes near his daughter’s house in France. A series of portrait drawings celebrated h
  
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• ‘I love that they’re not by an artist’: the accidental pop art found in a dollar shop

  25-06-2023 17:00
  
  In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Melbourne artist Beci Orpin shows us the hand-crafted sale signs she chanced upon at a local storeRead more Wall storiesGet Guardian Australia’s weekend culture and lifestyle emailAbout a year ago, the local dollar shop near Beci Orpin’s Brunswick studio was closing down. The Hot Potatoes store on Sydney Road, according to the Melbourne designer, illustrator and maker, was “iconic”.As the owners began their liquidation, two s
  
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• English Heritage said no to Dutch loan request for ‘fragile’ Vermeer painting

  25-06-2023 13:00
  
  Exclusive: Decision to not lend work for major exhibition taken despite assurances risk of damage was ‘negligible’, FoI revealsEnglish Heritage refused to lend one of its most precious paintings to a blockbuster Vermeer exhibition, claiming it was too fragile to travel, despite expert assurance that the risk of damage was “negligible”, documents reveal.Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum tried to gather all of Johannes Vermeer’s 37 surviving paintings in one place for the
  
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• National Portrait Gallery reopening review – a magnificent reinvention

  25-06-2023 12:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  After a three-year closure, the gallery opens its (new) doors to reveal a brilliant transformation that includes a luminous show on a British pioneer of colour photographyArchitecture critic Rowan Moore on the National Portrait Gallery reopeningThe first image is sky high and spectacular: David Bowie, turning to face the world from a silver screen in his twenties. Colossal photographs glimmer and shift in two-storey projections at the foot of the escalator. Watc
  
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• National Portrait Gallery £41.3m makeover review – a breath of fresh air

  25-06-2023 12:00
  
  Architect Jamie Fobert’s new entrance is the crowning achievement of this bold refurbishment, which opens forgotten windows and embraces the NPG’s mixed identity as temple of art-cum-tourist attractionArt critic Laura Cumming on the National Portrait Gallery reopeningThe National Portrait Gallery is a hybrid, a mongrel, a compromise – part Prado, part Madame Tussauds, a place to admire art and gawp at famous names. It’s a combination that might deprive it of the highest l
  
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• Fabritius, my father and me: how art has shaped my life

  25-06-2023 10:00
  
  In an extract from her new memoir, the Observer art critic tells the story of two paintings: one a source of comfort during a doomed affair, the other an unforgettable vision created by her fatherI love a painting that hangs in the National Gallery in London. It has to me the atmosphere of a memory or a waking dream. It shows a man seated in deep shadow at the corner of two streets, thumb to chin and fingers crooked as if nursing the remains of a cigarette, eyes down and pensive; waiting.Two mus
  
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• Art imitates life in a real explosion that almost destroyed The Goldfinch

  25-06-2023 09:00
  
  Laura Cumming’s new book tells how the work by Carel Fabritius, the Dutch artist who died in the blast in Delft, reveals eerie parallels with Donna Tartt’s novelThe Goldfinch began its strange life almost 370 years ago; a delicate, eye-catching study in oils of a small captive bird. It is one of the few surviving works of Carel Fabritius, a Dutch artist of the Delft School. In fact The Goldfinch is one of just a few works that this pupil of Rembrandt is thought to have completed duri
  
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• Paris exhibition aims to dispel myth of ‘primitive’ England in middle ages

  25-06-2023 08:00
  
  Rare treasures that escaped the destruction of the English Reformation show a country on the forefront of medieval and gothic artA new exhibition in Paris aims to show how England in the middle ages was very much part of Europe’s dynamic art, architectural, trade and culture scene between AD1000 and AD1500.Organisers said the event would discredit the “popular perception” – mainly across the Channel – that medieval England was “primitive and barbaric” wh
  
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• Stranger than the sum of his parts: Francis Bacon’s legacy, 1967

  25-06-2023 07:01
  
  Five years after his first major Tate retrospective, a critic wonders how future generations will view the artistBacon is the man of the moment,’ art critic Nigel Gosling declared in an Observer profile on 5 March 1967. ‘But will his reputation last?’ The assessment that follows is almost as intense as the full-page colour reproduction of a recent portrait of Bacon’s lover, George Dyer, that accompanies it.Bacon was 57 and, five years after his first major Tate retrospect
  
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