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• What The Universe Looks Like: A Second Copernican Revolution Is Here

  28-10-2024 19:42 via noemamag.com
  
  Just as Copernicus reimagined the architecture of our solar system five centuries ago, we are once again in a revolution that pivots on planets. A new science called astrobiology has changed the night sky. – Noema
  
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• A Sculpture Of A Desk With Poop On It Appeared On The National Mall. Is It Really Art?

  28-10-2024 19:02 via washingtonpost.com
  It is a figurative sculpture, rooted in realism, that shows an improbably large pile of human poop on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, then the highest ranking woman in the democratic system, who had to flee for her life while rioters besieged the building. – Washington Post
  
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• The Composer Who Said She Channeled Liszt

  28-10-2024 18:02 via theconversation.com
  
  Rosemary Brown produced approximately 300 musical pieces in a variety of styles, according to a list of manuscripts in the British Library. She claimed they were the creations of the spirits of composers that included Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. – The Conversation
  
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• We Can’t Seem To Agree On Anything — Except Perhaps When We Gather For Performances

  28-10-2024 17:44 via floridapolitics.com
  
  The importance of audiences gathering for live performances has been and can be a healing balm for this dark era – to unite us, even briefly. – Florida Politics
  
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• Copyright Office Rules It’s Okay To Repair Your McFlurry (And Other Things)

  28-10-2024 17:31 via arstechnica.com
  
  US Copyright Office to “grant an exemption specifically allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment—including soft serve ice cream machines similar to those available at McDonald’s. The change should “spark a flurry of third-party repair activity and enable businesses to better serve their customers.” – Ars Technica
  
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• It’s Now Illegal To Post Fake Reviews

  28-10-2024 17:15 via engadget.com
  
  The rule bans businesses from creating, buying or selling reviews and testimonials attributed to people who don’t exist, including those that are AI generated. False celebrity endorsements aren’t allowed and companies can’t pay or otherwise incentivize genuine customers to leave positive or negative reviews. – Engadget
  
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• ‘I was high, drawing my self-portrait in a toaster’: the thrilling return of graphic novelist Charles Burns

  28-10-2024 17:15
  
  The comics artist’s book Black Hole made him a cult hero, revered for his horror-tinged tales of US teens. He talks about the memory that broke chronic writer’s block – and why his books haven’t been filmedA young man sits in a kitchen with a blue felt-tip pen. He can see his reflection in a chrome toaster: tousled black hair, Oxford shirt. He sketches out a grotesque figure, a human body with a contortion of tentacles where the neck should be, then a giant cauliflower-li
  
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• Report: Art Collectors Are Changing Their Buying Habits

  28-10-2024 17:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  What comes through overall is a sense that collectors’ behaviors are are starting to shift, and not just in relation to the current market climate. – Artnet
  
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• Gaza’s Music Conservatory Burned And Its Instruments Were Destroyed. All Except One

  28-10-2024 16:44 via bbc.com
  
  “More than half of the Conservatory was burned. All the instruments were broken, thrown outside. You start seeing cases of instruments as soon as you get close to the Conservatory on the streets. Violins, we had more than 50, completely smashed. Cellos, more than 40, completely smashed.” – BBC
  
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• Why Record Shops Are Struggling Despite A Resurgence Of Interest

  28-10-2024 16:30 via euronews.com
  
  “These type of shops are like the Titanic, slowly sinking.think it will depend on when we decide to retire. We see the thinking and we know the final is inevitable.” – EuroNews
  
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• Empty New York Office Buildings Have Been Essential For This Dance Company

  28-10-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In the midst of the pandemic, one real estate management firm “said they needed tenants who would show up to work.” So the Paul Taylor Dance Company took advantage of a real estate law loophole, renovated, and moved in. – The New York Times
  
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• The Biggest Problem With Le Corbusier

  28-10-2024 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “Le Corbusier’s dream was of vast blocks of buildings as ‘machines for living.’ His bare modernism took hold of architecture schools and town-planning departments” – and his acolytes nearly destroyed most of the cities in the UK. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Susanna Clarke Changed The Literary World, And Then She Disappeared

  28-10-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell blurred the lines – long-listed for the Booker, won a Hugo – but the author herself, not too long after the surprisingly, epically popular novel came out, collapsed, unable to write for years. – The New York Times
  
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• Facebook, But For The Dead

  28-10-2024 14:45 via slate.com
  And possibly even creepier, on a privacy scale, than FB: “It is jarring when you just had a loved one pass away and you go [to Find a Grave] and you find out that their information, and not just their information, but also their photos, are available online.” – Slate
  
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• Decoding Post-Screening Hype Tweets

  28-10-2024 14:30 via vulture.com
  
  For instance: “‘I’m buzzing’: The movie is better than Madame Web.” – Vulture
  
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• Navigating The Internet In 2024

  28-10-2024 14:15 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Can a theory of “dark forests” (and how we can’t reside in them forever) help all of us? – Hyperallergic
  
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• California’s Governor Says He Wants To Save Hollywood

  28-10-2024 14:00 via latimes.com
  
  Gavin Newsom “declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total of $330 million, which would make California the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing even New York.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Can Music Play A Role In Physical Healing?

  28-10-2024 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  Perhaps not healing so much as facing pain, illness, and death. “‘Ten minutes of Schubert is the equivalent of five milligrams of oxy,’ the chief of the palliative care unit at a Paris hospital” says to one cellist. – The New York Times
  
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• Let’s Face It, Charlotte’s Web Is Emotionally Abusive

  28-10-2024 13:30 via theguardian.com
  “Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour of greatest need, the girl who owned him decided she’d rather go on the ferris wheel with Henry Fussy.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Jeri Taylor, The Woman Behind Star Trek’s Captain Janeway And Some Of Picard As Well, Has Died At 86

  28-10-2024 13:15 via variety.com
  
  Brannon Braga, the writer who took over Voyager showrunning duties from her, said, “Her memory will live on in many ways, but perhaps most of all in the character of Captain Janeway, who reflected the best dimensions of Jeri herself.” – Variety
  
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• What Play Could Possibly Lure Robert Downey Jr To Broadway?

  28-10-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A play about the future of writing – and large language models, aka AI. – The New York Times
  
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• Instagram Makes Popular Videos Look Way Better

  28-10-2024 12:30 via theverge.com
  
  And it throttles the heck out of videos with lower viewer counts. That seems fine. – The Verge
  
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• Goodbye To Society, And Hello To Democracy

  28-10-2024 12:15 via nytimes.com
  
  That’s the idea at the (former) New York Historical Society, now just New York Historical. The museum’s chief content officer knows the name isn’t perfectly grammatical, but he “likened it to the former Apple marketing campaign, ‘Think different.’” – The New York Times
  
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• October design news: a teeny tiny toffee, rag rugs and $1 watches

  28-10-2024 11:00
  
  Sculptors take part in the 10gram Challenge, arty Instagram and creative director Ramdane Touhami’s textilesThis month’s design news focuses on the simpler things in life, from rag rugs and toffees to a nice set of curtains – simple but still very special. Please make sure you also register for the Design Council’s Design for Planet festival which takes place on 6 November. It’s free to attend these online lectures which look at how design is vital to economic and e
  
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• Patron Services Manager – Grand Teton Music Festival

  28-10-2024 09:25 via artsjournal.com
  The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF) unites over 250 celebrated orchestral musicians, led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, each summer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Apply to join our full-time team as the Patron Services Manager.BACKGROUND:The concert audience is the foundation of the Grand Teton Music Festival’s impact. Like our musicians, our patrons are indispensable.The Patron Services Manager is the principal caretaker of the GTMF audience. Through thoughtful, detail-oriented serv
  
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• Dressing up as a witch at Halloween? The sickening origins of this caricature may make you think again

  28-10-2024 09:00
  
  How did the idea of a grotesque, green-skinned, broomstick-riding hag come about? It was a lethal combination of church zealots, the invention of the printing press – and male doctors contemptuous of female healersWhat comes to mind when you think of a witch? A woman with a pointed hat, hooked nose, green skin, long straggly hair and a broomstick? Perhaps she’s older, bad-tempered, evil to children, wreaks havoc. From Macbeth to The Wizard of Oz, that is how witches have been portray
  
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• Tove Jansson murals, with hidden Moomins, seen for first time in Helsinki show

  28-10-2024 07:00
  
  Paradise exhibition focuses on public works for factory walls, hospitals and nurseries – long before Moominmania took holdA white, hippo-like snout, matched in bulbosity by a well-padded paunch, no facial features bar a pair of inquisitive eyes: the simple rendering of the Finnish author Tove Jansson’s protagonist Moomintroll was key to the enduring success of her series of children’s books.However, ahead of next year’s 80th anniversary of one of the most beloved set of l
  
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