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• Jasleen Kaur wins the Turner prize 2024

  03-12-2024 22:18
  
  The competition’s youngest contestant scoops the award for animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and communityJasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner prize for her work animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and community.Kaur, 38, the youngest artist on this year’s shortlist, was nominated for her exhibition Alter Altar, at Tramway in Glasgow, which featured a range of sculptures and soundscapes. Continue reading...
  
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• Turner Prize: Jasleen Kaur’s winning, welcoming ode to Glasgow

  03-12-2024 22:15
  
  Pleasure and politics collide in Kaur’s work, which invites our curiosity again and again I wanted Jasleen Kaur to win as soon as I’d seen this year’s prize show. Her work made me come back again, and simply to be there on her gigantic synthetic Axminster carpet.Kaur invites our curiosity. Pio Abad’s work, mostly made during a residency at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, is similarly rich with detail and stories, but felt illustrational, overdependent on the explanatory
  
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• When Linguists Become Crime Fighters

  03-12-2024 21:05 via thedial.world
  Forensic linguistics, as the practice is called, has been a key tool in both identifying perpetrators (most famously, the Unabomber) and exonerating the wrongly accused. – The Dial
  
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• Welsh Arts Are Disappearing In Front Of Us

  03-12-2024 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Any visiting alien would be confronted with the near collapse of a string of national institutions, including the National Theatre Wales, Welsh National Opera and S4C, the Welsh television channel. The Arts Council of Wales has suffered a 40% real-terms cut in funding since 2010. – The Guardian
  
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• Once Again, What Would Daumier Make of Trump?

  03-12-2024 20:22 via artsjournal.com
  <img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/belknap/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/daumier_honore_1-150×150-1.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Lithograph by Honoré Daumier
  
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• Why Snark Has Replaced Healthy Humor

  03-12-2024 20:15 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  Today that anger has festered to the point that we are losing sight of the real enemies of human vitality and imagination. Instead of satire, which aims at improvement, we have snark, derived from the old Low German word snarky, meaning bad-tempered. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• All Of Hollywood’s Ten Top-Grossing Films This Year Are Sequels. This Can’t Be Healthy.

  03-12-2024 20:06 via variety.com
  
  “In an industry that’s existentially threatened enough to need every theatrical hit it can get, no one in their right mind would dispute the need to make these films. … And yet … there’s something a little skewed about this picture.” Even when the sequels are better than the originals. – Variety
  
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• Study: Vinyl Records Are Far Outselling CDs

  03-12-2024 19:32 via techspot.com
  
  Data indicate “that in the US alone, vinyl sales are projected to bring in a staggering $1 billion for record labels in 2024. This means that vinyl revenues will soon surpass those of CDs, a feat that will be replicated globally.” – Techspot
  
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• A Way Forward For Arts And Culture In The New Congress?

  03-12-2024 19:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Even in Washington, DC, where the House and the Senate still come together in their steadfast support of the arts through their Subcommittees on the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, we see the twinning of cultural and natural resources. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Why They Couldn’t Make “Saturday Night Live” In L.A.

  03-12-2024 19:04 via msn.com
  “SNL has built a reputation as the way New York sees America, but it’s also always been the way America sees New York. … Like all of our institutions, SNL exists partly to be argued over and complained about, mirroring the love-hate relationship the rest of the country has with New York.” – New York Magazine (MSN)
  
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• Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome review – a wild religious masterpiece reborn

  03-12-2024 18:50
  
  National Gallery, London
  The loins of the dreaming hermit Jerome are thrust into our eyeline in a quirky painting that gets more subversive the longer you look at itIt’s a cosy tradition at the National Gallery to showcase one of its Christmassy paintings at this time of year – a Nativity, or an Adoration of the Magi perhaps. This year’s religious masterpiece is different. Parmigianino’s tall (3.5m) yet narrow painting The Vision of St Jerome is wild, quirky and gets more
  
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• Existential: Orchestras Need To Reinvigorate The Symphony

  03-12-2024 18:31 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  Concert halls need to commission young symphonists in the way that enterprising opera houses are engaging with new writers. The symphony may be dead, but it is not beyond resurrection. – The Critic
  
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• Improbable: Music Copyright Value Worldwide Now Greater Than Movie Copyright

  03-12-2024 18:15 via musicradar.com
  
  The value of global music copyright soared to a record high last year, and has overtaken the value of the cinema box office for the first time, according to a new report. – MusicRadar
  
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• Letter: Norman Ackroyd obituary

  03-12-2024 18:07
  
  In retirement I learned printmaking at Neil Woodall’s studio in Sheffield, where each year Norman Ackroyd had his set of themed etchings produced. When I tentatively showed him one of mine, he sat down with his little magnifying glass and gave the plate a serious examination.Then he said: “I should submit it to the RA summer exhibition.” It was duly accepted and hung there. His instinct was always to encourage life’s students. Continue reading...
  
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• When Historic Preservation Means More Than Just Landmarking Buildings

  03-12-2024 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “So what do we mean when we designate something a landmark? It’s a trickier question than you might think. Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don’t always protect what we actually want to save.” – The New York Times
  
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• Accelerating Trend? Another Music Festival Cancels

  03-12-2024 17:44 via sfgate.com
  In 2022, Bésame Mucho’s first Los Angeles festival sold out within 12 minutes. Noting the festival’s cross-generational appeal, NBC declared that Bésame Mucho “created a cultural moment.” – SFGate
  
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• Study: ChatGPT Publisher Citations Are Often Inaccurate

  03-12-2024 17:31 via techcrunch.com
  
  “In total, ChatGPT returned partially or entirely incorrect responses on 153 occasions, though it only acknowledged an inability to accurately respond to a query seven times,” said the researchers. – TechCrunch
  
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• Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: largest ever boxing exhibition links sport and art

  03-12-2024 17:21
  
  An expansive new survey in West Palm Beach looks at the sport’s impact on culture and the many artists who have been inspired by itBoxer’s canvas, meet artist’s canvas. Sweet science, meet fine arts.That’s what happens when an art museum – namely the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach – hosts an exhibition about boxing. Titled Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, it’s billed as the largest, most in-depth exhibition on artistic representati
  
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• How AI Can Move Us From Being Productive To Being Creative

  03-12-2024 17:15 via every.to
  
  The AI’s role isn’t to automate organization; it’s to suggest connections we haven’t considered and amplify our ability to see patterns and possibilities. I like to think of it as inspiration as a service. – Every
  
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• Why America’s Regional Dance Companies Matter

  03-12-2024 17:05 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “In the performing arts, it’s often assumed that audiences consider international or ‘big-city’ imports higher quality than locally-produced talent and creativity. But for decades, regional companies have been proving that false. … While these ‘homegrown’ companies may have relatively low profiles, they’re a crucial part of the national dance landscape.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Ira Glass Says He’s Not As Nice As He Pretends To Be On The Radio

  03-12-2024 16:33 via npr.org
  
  “I contain that sort of empathetic people-pleasing person who I’m playing on the radio. … But I’m a person under weekly deadlines, and I get freaked out and tired and irritable and don’t want to talk to people and get annoyed. And I curse a lot in real life.” – NPR
  
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• Though California Shakespeare Theatre Has Shut Down, Its Scenery Shop Is Still Thriving

  03-12-2024 16:01 via msn.com
  The shop has been building sets for other Bay Area companies for several years, and when the theatre’s board closed the company in October, scenery for other shows was in progress. So the workers had a decision to make, and they made it fast. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• How Low Do Classical Music Ticket Prices Need To Be To Attract Skeptical Newcomers?

  03-12-2024 15:36 via post-gazette.com
  For many of Jeremy Reynolds’s friends, $40 was too much for taking a chance on the unfamiliar. “It’s the low end of ticket prices that will keep out the casual listener, the friend of someone who wants to go, the young couple interested in trying something new for date night.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• How One Of America’s Best Author Events Series Fell Apart And Was Put Back Together

  03-12-2024 15:04 via msn.com
  The series at the Free Library of Philadelphia regularly attracted both A-list authors and large, enthusiastic audiences. Then, this past summer, the entire Author Events staff resigned with one month’s notice but were fired the next day. Here’s a look into why that happened and what’s come since. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• Ancient Sculpture Of Roman Emperor Will Be Reunited With Its Missing Head

  03-12-2024 14:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen is sending to Turkey a 2,000-year-old head which belongs to a bronze statue of the emperor Septimius Severus. That statue, looted from an Anatolian archaeological site in the 1960s, was returned from the Met Museum last year. – The New York Times
  
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• Giving Tuesday Is Here Once Again, As Is This Popular Little Article - Just Another Gimmick?

  03-12-2024 14:01 via artsjournal.com
  (Originally posted October 2022.)
  I know. The latest data shows that Giving Tuesday is responsible for about .056% of your donations this year. And while that doesn’t sound like much, if it were multiplied by 365, you find that it is 20 times the daily rate necessary to reach your contributed revenue goals.
  But let’s take another look at that data.
  Your organization already has days where donations are higher and lower. And you’re not open for business 365 days a year, des
  
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• Elton John Says He Can No Longer See

  03-12-2024 14:00 via apnews.com
  
  Attending the London opening of the musical The Devil Wears Prada (for which he composed the score), the 77-year-old said that an infection earlier this year had left him with only limited vision in one eye. – AP
  
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• Spanish masterpiece resurfaces after being hidden for more than a century

  03-12-2024 13:45
  
  Joaquín Sorolla’s Paris Boulevard was sold to a private collector in 1890 and disappeared from public viewA painting by Joaquín Sorolla, the Spanish artist renowned for his mastery of light, is on public show for the first time since it disappeared after being sold to a private collector 134 years ago.Paris Boulevard, which was painted by Sorolla during a visit to the French capital between 1889 and 1890, shows a bustling cafe as dusk falls on the city. Its creator – an
  
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• The Imaginary Institution of India review – shocking, enlightening, and profoundly serious

  03-12-2024 10:15
  
  Barbican, London
  Covering a time of national crisis, this impeccably structured show reveals artists chronicling destruction, joy and hope for what their country might become
  There are some bruising paintings in The Imaginary Institution of India. Rameshwar Broota’s Reconstruction (1977) throbs with bureaucratic horror. Hunched in chairs at the bottom of a vast streaked canvas sit rows of compliant apelike figures – most faceless – with numbers on their chests. Above their head
  
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• Porcelain War review – beautifully rendered portrait of Ukraine’s artist-warriors

  03-12-2024 10:00
  Documentary following a ceramicist and a painter who have joined the battle to defend against the Russian invasion is perhaps a little too picturesqueCompared with the award-winning The Earth Is As Blue As an Orange from 2020, which charted a Ukrainian family’s attempt to make a film during the Russian incursion into the Donbas, this equally art-minded dispatch inches closer to the frontline. Following, and largely shot by, Kharkiv civilian soldiers Slava Leontyev and Andrey Stefanov, a ce
  
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