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• The Crusader Working To Audit Record Companies For What They Owe Artists

  12-02-2024 23:31 via latimes.com
  
  “A lot of artists are afraid to approach labels or even question the accuracy of royalty payments. But we’re getting like 17-cent checks. I know artists who have sold millions of records who are having a hard time in survival mode, when money could be sitting in a portal somewhere.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• This House Is Being Built By Living Trees

  12-02-2024 22:56 via fastcompany.com
  The strangeness of the building is that it’s meant to be occupied by humans, animals, and plants. The slowness of the building is that it’s made out of—made by, really—growing trees. – Fast Company
  
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• Musicians Walk Out In London After Not Being Paid

  12-02-2024 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The earlier rehearsal with the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO) had not gone well. Half of the musicians walked out in protest at the way they had been treated over the past five months, during which time none of them had been paid. – The Guardian
  
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• Just Stop Oil’s art-based protests can speak to future generations – or even the cosmos | Letters

  12-02-2024 19:28
  
  Roger Hallam responds to an article by Giovanni Aloi claiming climate protesters have fallen into big oil’s trap by attacking artI always find it interesting that when it comes to the most important question of our time – how to create a revolutionary force to stop the carbon regime – a hotchpotch of liberal professionals (scientists, lawyers, art curators, etc) seem happy to use their social privilege to appear in the mainstream media to give their two pennies’ worth on
  
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• Outi Pieski review – an entrancing artist with her heart in the Arctic Circle

  12-02-2024 17:12
  
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  From a Warholian riff on traditional Sámi dress to paintings of dark forests with eyes, Pieski mines her heritage to produce work that is both joyous and bleakHow can you keep an Indigenous cultural tradition alive in the rushing roaring modern world? How about by turning it into wallpaper? That’s what Outi Pieski does in a work that humorously restages Andy Warhol’s pop art cow wallpaper, except the repeated image here is of a woman wearing a ládjogahpir,
  
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• ‘I want to have amazing sex before the nuclear strike’: Ukrainians’ fears and desires go on show

  12-02-2024 17:09
  
  At a powerful new exhibition in Lviv, civilians ravaged by the war reveal their most secret thoughts – while others play conflict karaoke with the sounds of tanks, helicopters, sirens and bombs‘I hope my ex has been killed by a rocket,” says one message. “I feel ashamed that I miss my cats more than my own dad,” writes somebody else. “I want to kill my father for his Soviet beliefs,” confesses a third. “I can’t wank,” confides one perso
  
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