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• Vincent Valdez: the controversial artist tackling racism, violence and America

  11-11-2024 20:18
  
  Artist rose to prominence for his Ku Klux Klan painting and now his provocative, powerful work is on exhibitionIn 2015, artist Vincent Valdez released his imposingly large painting The City I. The controversy that swiftly ignited upon its release had long been brewing even as Valdez was painting it. The 30ft black and white work shows over a dozen hooded Klansmen gathering rather portentously in the middle of the night. The painting, which many initially critiqued for unnecessarily referencing a
  
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• Rationalizing: The Art Of Procrastination (As Explained By Artists)

  11-11-2024 20:15 via lithub.com
  
  I have guitars in my writing room. But I don’t think of it as “procrastinating” but as, you know, “getting ready.” – LitHub
  
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• Prominent Italian Dealer Arrested For Trafficking Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts

  11-11-2024 19:44 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Prosecutors say Edoardo Almagià kept a list of trafficked antiquities in his NYC apartment, hidden inside a Renaissance-era chest beneath a marble statue of a deer. – Smithsonian
  
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• It’s Official: AI Has Broken The Way We Will Find Things Online

  11-11-2024 19:14 via theatlantic.com
  
  Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s future. – The Atlantic
  
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• Does More Education Fend Off Cognitive Decline? Study Says No

  11-11-2024 18:44 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  Although education is linked to better cognitive skills and health, it does not appear to alter the brain’s physical structure in the long run. Researchers suggest that any initial structural impact may be temporary or too small to detect with MRI technology. – Neuroscience News
  
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• Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Music Director Suddenly Quits After Only Four Months

  11-11-2024 18:31 via wkbn.com
  According to a press release, Sergey Bogza has resigned due to “personal, health and family reasons.” – WKBN
  
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• Azerbaijan “Repurposes” Copyright To Suppress Public Artwork

  11-11-2024 18:16 via hyperallergic.com
  
  By making claim of copyright on images of public art it doesn’t like, the country “disappears” images from the public record. – Hyperallergic
  
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• St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Chief To Step Down

  11-11-2024 18:02 via startribune.com
  
  John Limbacher’s time as president, which began in 2016, has been marked by balanced budgets, even through the pandemic, which walloped performing arts organizations across the country. This year, he has faced criticism from the orchestra’s musicians. – The Star-Tribune (MPLS)
  
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• Study: Listeners’ Recall Of Earworm Songs Are Extraordinarily Accurate, Down To The Pitch

  11-11-2024 17:44 via psypost.org
  Of the usable recordings, 44.7% matched the original song’s pitch exactly. Expanding the margin slightly, nearly 69% of recordings were within one semitone of the original pitch. This degree of accuracy is much higher than would be expected by random chance. – Psypost
  
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• Neuroscience Unlocks How Our Brains React To Movie Scenes

  11-11-2024 17:32 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  Using machine learning on data from the Human Connectome Project, the research mapped areas that respond to diverse audio-visual stimuli. The findings could inform future studies on how individual brain responses vary with age or cognitive disorders. – Neuroscience News
  
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• When Garfunkel And Simon Met Up A Few Weeks Ago, For Lunch

  11-11-2024 17:00 via thetimes.com
  
  “Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him. Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake up the nice guy image of Simon & Garfunkel. Y’know what? I was a fool!” – The Sunday Times (UK)
  
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• Ann Patchett On Revisiting Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto, Twenty Years On

  11-11-2024 16:30 via lithub.com
  
  The idea came as she was copying annotations she’d made for Tom Lake. “In the copying, I could see what I had done and what it was worth. Wouldn’t there be readers who would want to see a book taken apart in order to show how it had been put together?” – LitHub
  
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• Why Is A Biden Appointee Removing Negative Events From The National Archives Exhibits?

  11-11-2024 16:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan and her top aides directed employees to remove certain objects and details over the past year in order to avoid angering Republican legislators and making visitors feel ‘confronted.’” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy

  11-11-2024 15:48
  
  Carabinieri and Pisa prosecutor say 38 people being investigated with about 2,100 fake artworks seizedItalian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.Thirty-eight people were placed under investigation in Italy, Spain, France and Belgium on suspicion of conspiracy to handle stolen goods, forgery and illegal sale of artwor
  
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• The Torture-Filled World Of A Social Media Moderator

  11-11-2024 15:45 via bbc.com
  
  “‘If you take your phone and then go to TikTok, you will see a lot of activities, dancing, you know, happy things,’ says Mojez, a former Nairobi-based moderator who worked on TikTok content. ‘But in the background, I personally was moderating, in the hundreds, horrific and traumatising videos.’” – BBC
  
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• A Tribute To Author Dorothy Allison, Dead At 75

  11-11-2024 15:30 via deepsouthmag.com
  
  Allison, author most famously of Bastard Out of Carolina, “taught the world about Southern and queer identity, abuse and feminism. She was a trailblazer, known for weaving the written word into powerful lessons that proved that we are not defined by where we come from.” – Deep South Magazine
  
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• As Esa-Pekka Salonen Begins His Final Year With San Francisco, The Orchestra Earns Grammy Nods

  11-11-2024 15:15 via sfchronicle.com
  “The nominations highlight two major releases from the Symphony’s in-house label, SFS Media, marking a high point in a collaboration that is about to come to an end.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Why We Turn To Crosswords When We’re In Crisis

  11-11-2024 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Perhaps you don’t want to reward The New York Times for not settling with its digital workers (they have a handy Games site here), but if you’re feeling stressed right now, there’s a reason you’re doing crosswords somewhere (or Wordle or Connections equivalents). – The New York Times
  
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• The Booker Shortlist Is, Like, Really Good

  11-11-2024 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Sure, the money’s on Percival Everett to win for his clever, excoriating James, but of the five others, four would also be worthy winners, and are worth your investment of money and/or time to read.– The Observer (UK)
  
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• Netflix Fans May Not Be At All Ready For Emilia Perez To Hit Streaming

  11-11-2024 14:30 via vulture.com
  
  “I’ll be sitting here like the Michael Jackson popcorn GIF as Jacques Audiard’s musical, a film that until now existed only in the cloistered world of prestige cinema, is instantly thrust in front of millions of streaming subscribers.” (That’s on Wednesday, in case you want to prepare yourself.) – Vulture
  
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• Talk About A Good Session Pianist

  11-11-2024 14:15 via theguardian.com
  Nicky Hopkins has played on more than 250 albums. He’s “a keyboard colossus so dexterous he gained eager employment from nearly every star of note from the classic rock world and beyond” – but rarely, if ever, got paid enough for his music. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Will The Designer Behind Tetris Ever Have Another Hit?

  11-11-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Alexey Pajitnov would love that. “Reaching the heights of a global hit like Tetris is improbable for anyone, even the creator of Tetris. But that has not stopped Pajitnov from trying.” – The New York Times
  
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• Books That Can Provide Light In The Darkness

  11-11-2024 13:45 via theguardian.com
  
  “Probably there will always remain a snobbery about the optimistic; certainly there endures the belief that optimism is inherently naive.” But if you need that, buy these books in print now, we guess. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Please, Companies, Hire Copy Editors

  11-11-2024 13:30 via variety.com
  
  Mattel’s dolls for the Wicked movie list a porn site on their box instead of the actual movie site. Oops. – Variety
  
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• Artist Kenny Scharf: ‘I’m carrying the torch for friends who couldn’t keep it going’

  11-11-2024 09:42
  
  He worked alongside Keith Haring and Andy Warhol in 1980s New York and now gets his first major institutional show in the same cityIn the mid-1980s, Kenny Scharf biked from his Queens studio to his East Village apartment every night at around 3am. The ungodly hour would allow the young artist to “bomb” the walls of Manhattan’s east side with his energetic cartoonish figures. He had grown up making oil paintings outside Los Angeles, but upon moving to New York at age 19, he was
  
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