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• How Our Phones Have Warped The Ways We See The World

  22-05-2024 23:31 via thepointmag.com
  
  Your phone mirrors the world back to you. But what you see is the world you want to see—a “frictionless,” “responsive,” “immediate,” “obedient,” “commercialized,” “optimized” simulacrum of your own will accomplished. – The Point
  
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• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shows Signs Of Revival

  22-05-2024 23:01 via msn.com
  The reason for the return to larger-cast shows gets at the heart of what makes the 89-year-old company unique. OSF is one of the biggest nonprofit theaters in the U.S., but it’s based in Ashland, Ore., which has a population of just over 21,000 — about one-sixth the size of Berkeley. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• Cover story: Tatler unveils new portrait of Princess of Wales

  22-05-2024 17:24
  
  Painting by Hannah Uzor is a ‘portrait of strength and dignity’, says the magazineA new portrait of the Princess of Wales has been unveiled on Tatler’s July cover, with the artist behind it saying the painting was influenced by Catherine’s video about her cancer diagnosis.The painting, by the British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor, depicts Kate at the first state banquet of King Charles III’s reign during the South Africa state visit in 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Stress and failure’: Matthew Barney on his film about the sports accident that traumatised America

  22-05-2024 17:00
  
  The superstar of the avant garde has revisited a notorious football tackle that left one player paralysed. He talks about violence, ageing and how the US empire is in declineThere aren’t many people in the world who could produce a literal river of excrement and be hailed as a genius. But Matthew Barney, the 57-year-old US artist whose maximalist work often features sex, violence, testicles and shit, is one of them. The New York Times, back in 1999, called the sculptor, film-maker and perf
  
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• Roadside retro: Steve Fitch’s American motel signs – in pictures

  22-05-2024 15:53
  
  Photographer Steve Fitch has captured motel signs across the US, showing a range of styles during different decades, displayed at a new exhibition at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California. ‘What does matter is the idea of theme and variation, how a collection can be interesting because of the variety of specimens,’ Fitch said. ‘A collection of butterflies illustrates this idea, for example, and photography is such a great medium for collecting and comparing, which
  
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• At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

  22-05-2024 15:00
  
  Exclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources sayAt least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as part of a project called The Currency that was born from the idea of creating a form of money from art. Continue rea
  
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