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• Save The Brutalist Buildings, People, Because We’ll Need Them Someday

  13-08-2024 23:31 via npr.org
  
  For one thing, they’re carbon sinks. “Preserving them would really be saving carbon … little nuggets of carbon that you would be saving and reusing. It’s the most environmentally friendly thing.” – NPR
  
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• Creating Something Better From The Ashes Of A Beloved News Site

  13-08-2024 23:02 via niemanlab.org
  
  After some anger and grief, and years of frustration, this is what happens now when news sites die: “Former DCist reporter Colleen Grablick remembers fellow DCist coworker Maddie Poore asking: ‘Local news co-op, when?’” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Stans Of The Greatest Showman Movie, Rejoice

  13-08-2024 22:32 via variety.com
  
  The surprise hit film is going to be a stage musical! But you knew that. The true news is that the Hugh Jackman passion project is finally in serious development for the stage, with Disney. Do we hear the sound of a million theatre kid dreams soaring? – Variety
  
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• Nick James obituary

  13-08-2024 18:55
  
  My friend Nick James, who has died aged 75, set up a spoof art gallery in London in the early 1970s that invited the art world to take a good look at itself.He opened up his space, called simply The Gallery, in 1973 as a critique of the commercial art gallery system as it related to conceptual art, which had become all the rage a few years earlier. The Gallery’s first show consisted of some crude potato prints, followed by several exhibitions featuring the invented work of madeup conceptua
  
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• Banksy’s London artworks – in pictures

  13-08-2024 11:14
  
  The street artist’s murals have appeared across the city this month, beginning with a silhouette of a goat on the side of a building near Kew Bridge and continuing with fish swimming around a Police Box in the City of London, a rhino in Charlton and a gorilla at London ZooMeaning of new Banksy series revealed as latest London artwork emerges Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy rhino artwork in London defaced with graffiti tag

  13-08-2024 10:42
  
  Man in balaclava filmed spraying $V tag on work in south-east London, as another Banksy appears at London zooBanksy’s London artworks – in picturesOne of the nine murals put up by Banksy in London in as many days has been defaced.An image of a rhino appearing to mount a clapped-out Nissan Micra with a traffic cone on its bonnet appeared in south-east London on Monday and was confirmed as a Bansky on the artist’s Instagram account. Continue reading...
  
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• In search of Monet’s wild landscapes: a glorious art adventure in central France

  13-08-2024 08:00
  
  Rouen, Paris and London are more well-known Monet destinations, but rural La Creuse’s rugged gorges, spectacular lake and medieval castle really captivated the artistAs my train inched its way into the station at La Souterraine, some three hours south of Paris on a blisteringly hot June afternoon, the woman in the seat next to me asked: “Vous descendez ici?” Her expression seemed to say “Really? You’re getting off here?”I could see what she meant. Behind the w
  
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