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• British Museum Knew Of Thefts From Its Collection As Early As 2021

  22-08-2023 23:27 via bbc.com
  
  According to the PA news agency, the missing items are believed to have been taken over a “significant” period of time. Some of them reportedly ended up on eBay, being sold for considerably less than their actual estimated value. – BBC
  
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• How AI Can Help Make Books

  22-08-2023 23:03 via publishersweekly.com
  “For me, generative AI has been instrumental in tasks that previously demanded hours of effort. It’s helped me create engaging and targeted marketing copy in a fraction of the time than before, allowing me to customize and iterate on messaging manually in ways that would be nearly impossible without AI assistance.” – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Is The Revolutionary New Spatial Audio Really That New In Classical Music?

  22-08-2023 22:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Even before the comparatively meek technology of two-channel stereo sound was standard in every home, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others were using more complex mixes for works involving electronics or taped elements. – The New York Times
  
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• How AI Can Be Used To Design Public Art In Public Spaces

  22-08-2023 22:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Creating interactions in public space turns the urban space into a playful and social venue that could attract residents of all ages. However, there are challenges when designing interactive urban installations. – The Conversation
  
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• Ancient Maps – As Much For Conceiving Of The World As For Finding Your Way

  22-08-2023 21:31 via wsj.com
  
  “Fra Mauro’s map organized state-of-the-art knowledge about the world beyond Murano, but it was also art for the state. Venice was a mercantile superpower. World maps were not made for sailors, but for “intellectuals, aristocrats and members of government.” In the Venetian oligarchy, the three were much the same.” – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Welcome To Our “Polycrisis”

  22-08-2023 21:02 via aeon.co
  
  A problem becomes a crisis when it challenges our ability to cope and thus threatens our identity. In the polycrisis the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts. – Aeon
  
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• The Myth Of A Cosmopolitan Europe

  22-08-2023 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The European tendency to mistake Europe for the world – what might be called “the Eurocentric fallacy” – has obscured our understanding of the EU and its role in the world. It has led to an idealisation of European integration as a kind of cosmopolitan project: what I call the myth of cosmopolitan Europe. – The Guardian
  
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• Beyond help: Rishi Sunak’s bee portrait gets stinging criticism

  22-08-2023 18:12
  
  UK prime minister’s nursery school insect painting compared to ‘barely standing’ Tory policyAt best it nods at expressionism, for there is little realism in the picture of a bee painted by Rishi Sunak on a visit to a North Yorkshire nursery school.Missing legs, cock-eyed, the effort by Sunak attested to his schoolboy preference for maths over the arts. Yet the art of politics means he is not the first prime minister to pick up a paint brush and exploit the politics of art in th
  
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• Prisoners, cruising and Bruce Lee: how the world caught up with artist Martin Wong

  22-08-2023 13:51
  
  The Chinese-American’s queer, multilingual painting’s used to be difficult to decode. But as a new retrospective of his politically prophetic work becomes a surprise summer hit, has his time finally come? There’s a painting on show at the new Martin Wong retrospective that demands closer inspection. At first, the 1988 piece entitled Heaven depicts a circular wall, notable for the immaculate detailing on the brickwork. But gaze closer and you see a small black hole in the middle
  
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• Michael Leonard obituary

  22-08-2023 12:43
  
  My friend Michael Leonard, was has died aged 90, joined the agency Artist Partners as a jobbing illustrator in the 1950s and was constantly in demand until he decided to become a full-time painter in the early 1970s.Michael was a superb technician and produced memorable work, including covers for the Sunday Times magazine with portraits of, among others, Paul Getty and Mick Jagger. The magazine also commissioned him to imagine how celebrities might look as they aged, with results that were often
  
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