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• In Australia, Aboriginal Designs May Replace Government Housing

  13-10-2024 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• David Garrard Lowe, Historian And Defender Of Neoclassical Architecture, Has Died At 91

  13-10-2024 22:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lowe’s “passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War II.” – The New York Times
  
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• Suddenly, We All Understand Bridges

  13-10-2024 21:30 via english.elpais.com
  
  Bridges in music, that is. And, of course, that’s thanks to TikTok. – El País
  
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• The Apprentice’s Distribution Troubles Point To A Very Problematic Future For Political Films

  13-10-2024 21:00 via cbc.ca
  
  “If you have companies, in this case the big corporate distribution system, that [are] willing to let that sort of culture of fear and intimidation govern their choices, then that’s a particular kind of world to live in.” – CBC
  
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• As Broadway Adjusts To Public Outcry, The Question Of How And When To Dim The Lights Goes On

  13-10-2024 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “The lights-dimming ritual, which goes back decades, has been an increasingly fraught one for the nine entities that own and operate Broadway theaters.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Immensely private’: inside great sketchbooks from history

  13-10-2024 15:00
  
  The V&A has delved into its archives to showcase the embryonic work of leading artists including Leonardo and Constable along with lesser-known talents, offering a rare insight into the artistic mindWhat was John Constable up to at 8.30am on 26 September 1814? If his sketchbook can be trusted, the great landscape painter was in Dedham Vale on the Essex-Suffolk border sketching the valley below, using quick pencil strokes to capture shadows in the foreground, trees in the middle distance and
  
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• College Campuses Seem To Be Leaving Their Support For Free Speech In The Past

  13-10-2024 13:30 via npr.org
  
  In what would have been a shocking move merely five years ago, “many college administrators rolled out new rules this fall that include getting pre-approval for posting flyers or hosting demonstrations.” – NPR
  
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• Dreamtroit Aims To Give Artists Low-Cost Places To Live In Motor City

  13-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Seven tumultuous years in the making, the nearly four-acre campus [two artists] own and have developed now has 76 studio lofts, retains its graffiti-splashed interior walls and is crowned with a steel sculpture — the Freak Beacon — inspired by the TV Tower in Berlin.” – The New York Times
  
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• Francis Bacon: Human Presence; Hyundai Commission: Mire Lee: Open Wound – review

  13-10-2024 10:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery; Tate Modern, London
  Likeness is almost beside the point as Bacon’s wild originality transcends simple portraiture. At the Turbine Hall, Mire Lee’s floating ‘skins’ are a one-hit spectacleA mist of fine dots spreads across the pale face, with its distinctive moon shape. Scimitar eyebrows rise above a lowered gaze. The half-open mouth is kissably soft, and the hair still lies in a boyish fringe. Francis Bacon is 78 years old, but has made himself
  
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• Renting art: how to bring great pictures into your home at a fraction of their cost

  13-10-2024 09:00
  
  With the right insurance and a monthly fee, you can now rent works for as little as £7.50 a weekIf the idea of spending hundreds or thousands on a painting, print or sculpture sounds like too big a commitment, you could consider renting one.“It is a way people can bring great art into their home at a fraction of the cost of buying. Many will rotate work regularly, or use it to sample work before they decide to purchase,” says Scott Phillips, the co-founder of Rise Art, a London
  
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• This Week’s Highlights

  13-10-2024 06:29 via artsjournal.com
  Good morning: Debates about whether art accessed in digital form replaces in-person physical experiences are largely over. There has been a resurgent interest in real-world experiences, and ticket prices for popular experiences have soared. Now there is scientific evidence contrasting how audiences consume art: “Commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, … the independent study used eye-tracking technology and MRI scans to record the brain activity of volunteers looking a
  
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• Sculpture by the Sea 2024: giant melanoma on Sydney beach to deliver ‘message that will be hard to ignore’

  13-10-2024 01:00
  
  Sculpture often divides opinion but it’s rare for a work to carry the claim it may save livesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSculpture has a knack of provoking debate. The medium’s ability to divide viewers on the aesthetics of a work – and often its cost to the public purse – can make sculpture a polarising subject. But it’s rare for a work to claim it may save lives.Working in the field of advertising, Sydney creative Andrew Hankin is no
  
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• ‘Celebrated again’: Portrait of German jazz-age pioneers lost after Nazi takeover returns to Berlin

  13-10-2024 01:00
  
  Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaretThey could play seven instruments each, critics hailed them as the best jazz combo in 1920s Berlin, and the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker fought to secure them as their backing band. But after the Nazi takeover, and frustrating years of exile and internment in Australia, the legacy of Weintraubs Syncopators was lost in the mists of time.Now, 100 years after their format
  
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• ‘Celebrated again’: Portrait of German jazz-age pioneers lost after Nazi takeover return to Berlin

  13-10-2024 01:00
  
  Jewish Museum in Berlin buys painting of Weintraubs Syncopators, who played the soundtrack to the Weimar cabaretThey could play seven instruments each, critics hailed them as the best jazz combo in 1920s Berlin, and the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker fought to secure them as their backing band. But after the Nazi takeover, and frustrating years of exile and internment in Australia, the legacy of Weintraubs Syncopators was lost in the mists of time.Now, 100 years after their format
  
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