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• In His 80s, Claude Monet Developed A Visual Superpower

  05-12-2024 21:05 via news.artnet.com
  
  When cataracts had rendered him almost completely blind, Monet finally agreed to the eye surgery he had been avoiding for years. When he recovered, he evidently gained the ability to see ultraviolet light, and thereby could see colors normally invisible to human eyes. – Artnet
  
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• Lessons Learned From A Century Of Hollywood Box Office Flops

  05-12-2024 20:32 via literaryreview.co.uk
  There are three rules for avoiding a cinematic flop.Rule one: don’t pick a title that is boring, misleading or hard to pronounce. – Literary Review
  
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• What Do Right-Wing Media And Improv Theater Have In Common? A Lot

  05-12-2024 20:03 via theconversation.com
  
  Two researchers of information ecosystems find that the structures and mechanisms of improv theater and the right-wing media ecosystem are surprisingly similar — which explains why the latter’s followers become so devoted. – The Conversation
  
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• Workers Found More Than 1000 Artifacts Under Notre Dame

  05-12-2024 19:44 via artnews.com
  
  It would have been unfathomable to dig up the famous cathedral before the fire. However, archaeologists now had the chance per a French law on preventative archaeology, which can be used “to detect and undertake the scientific study of archaeological remains. – ARTnews
  
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• Anonymous Donor Gives Millions To Milwaukee Museum To Make Admission Free To Kids

  05-12-2024 19:32 via artnews.com
  
  The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment that will fund the admission waiver in perpetuity. The gift went into effect the day of the museum’s official announcement on December 3. – ARTnews
  
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• Reviving George Washington Carver’s Patented Prussian Blue Pigment

  05-12-2024 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  His recipe for making blue pigment from the clay soil of Alabama is of one of the few things the great African-American inventor patented. Yet he never commercialized the process. Now, for the art triennial Prospect.6 in New Orleans, Amanda Williams has painted some structures in Carver blue. – CNN
  
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• How Our Weird Obsession With Youth And Beauty Blinds Us To Real Meaning

  05-12-2024 18:44 via msn.com
  With a crazed sense of humor and geysers of gore, these works demand recognition of simple and obvious facts: that looks aren’t everything and that everyone is going to die. Some will even be lucky enough to grow old. Why keep torturing ourselves to deny the truth? – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Doctor Is In: What Is The Health Of That Painting?

  05-12-2024 18:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Just as it is with a medical doctor, discretion is part of Suzanne Siano’s business model — she does not reveal to anyone what works she has inspected or conserved. Some of the paintings in the Grand Palais booths were familiar to her as former patients, but she was mum on which ones. – The New York Times
  
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• Tennessee Museum Asks Visitors To Sign Waiver Before Viewing Show Criticized By Republicans

  05-12-2024 18:15 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “By suggesting that some works may be construed as hate speech and requiring visitors to sign a waiver, the sign not only misrepresents the purpose of the exhibit but also undermines the intent of the artists and the curatorial process.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• How The Chinese Communist Party Overhauled The Nation’s Comic Books

  05-12-2024 17:58 via historytoday.com
  Lianhuanhua, read by children and adults alike, are palm-sized books with two or three lines of text and one image per page, and they became hugely popular in the early 20th century. But their storylines, often traditional tales, frequently incorporated magic and the supernatural — anathema to Mao Zedong Thought. – History Today
  
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• Report: Workers In The Music Sector Will Lose One Quarter Of Their Incomes To AI In The Next Five Years

  05-12-2024 17:44 via theguardian.com
  The report concluded that while the AI boom will substantially enrich giant tech companies, creators’ rights and income streams will be drastically reduced unless policymakers step in. – The Guardian
  
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• Inside The Race To Rebuild Notre Dame

  05-12-2024 17:31 via wsj.com
  While the people of France supported the effort in the immediate aftermath—within days of the fire, there were donations of more than $900 million—the years that followed were beset by pushback, controversy and outrage. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Art, Politics, Trump

  05-12-2024 17:27 via artsjournal.com
  A favourite old book of mine from my childhood is Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation, which goes along with his television series. It is old-school history of western civilisation, observant and wise. In his first chapter he travels to those monasteries around Ireland and Great Britain – Skellig Michael, Iona, Lindisfarne (pictured above) – where in the sixth and seventh centuries monks were able to preserve and to create great works of writing and art, saving them from the Viki
  
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• How Taylor Swift’s Tour Has Changed The Concert Business

  05-12-2024 17:14 via wsj.com
  Music executives say Swift has raised the bar for the concert industry, not just with ticket and merchandise sales, but conceptual ambition, stage production, wardrobe and news-cycle penetration. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• A New Kind Of Music Therapy? Music Could Help Change The Way You See Your Past

  05-12-2024 17:05 via theconversation.com
  
  “People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research my team and I published suggests music may do more than just trigger memories – it might even change how you remember them.” – The Conversation
  
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• What It Takes To Be An Orchestra Librarian

  05-12-2024 16:31 via sfcv.org
  “They obtain scores and parts, consult with conductors and concertmasters, check the music for accuracy, ensure that page turns are realistic, and make corrections as necessary. … Can you get the mute out fast enough? Who’s going to need more time to turn a page?” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• A Way To Teach Pointe Work That Won’t Wreck Dancers’ Feet

  05-12-2024 16:04 via bachtrack.com
  
  Lynne Charles, artistic director of English National Ballet School, has developed a method she calls 4Pointe. “There are all these methods … but there’s no pre-pointe teaching … the balance as you go through your foot. I’ve developed exercises for specific parts of the foot and put them in a specific order.” – Bachtrack
  
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• What’s The Point Of Being A Theater Critic? This Is.

  05-12-2024 15:32 via msn.com
  “Why would anyone want to be a critic? As I’ve admitted before, it wasn’t in my case an aspiration but a series of accidents that only in retrospect seem inevitable.” Charles McNulty explains how it happened as well as the principles that shape his criticism. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Once and Future Prez

  05-12-2024 15:22 via artsjournal.com
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• Speculators Gave Up On NFTs, But The Art World (Some Of It) Is Still Interested

  05-12-2024 15:03 via nytimes.com
  
  “In the last two years, even as auction prices have generally come down, ‘there’s been a growing recognition for this medium by institutions and museums,’ Michael Bouhanna, head of digital art and NFTs at Sotheby’s, said. ‘It’s in a more educational phase.'” –The New York Times
  
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• Just Too Expensive: Vancouver Art Gallery Abandons Starchitects’ Design For New Building

  05-12-2024 14:30 via cbc.ca
  
  With the estimated cost of the project having risen by 50% to C$600 million, the museum’s board decided to end work on the design by Herzog & de Meuron and to seek a new architect. – CBC
  
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• Scotland’s Desperate Arts Sector Gets An Extra £34 Million From Government

  05-12-2024 14:06 via scotsman.com
  Culture secretary Angus Robertson predicted the new funding for culture earmarked for the coming financial year would be ‘transformational” for the arts industry. Finance secretary Shona Robison said that she aims to allocate an additional £20 million for the following fiscal year. – The Scotsman
  
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