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• It Seems Andy Warhol Never Actually Said, “I Want To Be A Machine”

  03-01-2025 20:51 via news.artnet.com
  
  And what he did, in fact, say — during a 1963 interview for a feature about Pop art in ARTnews — was not about art at all, though an interventionist (and uptight) editor made it seem otherwise. Warhol was actually talking about sexuality. – Artnet
  
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• Eye-Tracking Study: How Children See Art Differently

  03-01-2025 20:46 via theconversation.com
  
  The children provided with child-focused, narrative-driven labels engaged with the artworks in ways we did not see at all with those who read adult-focused descriptions. They directed their gaze towards key elements of the paintings highlighted by the playful descriptions, and spent more time examining them. – The Conversation
  
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• Pop Musicians Are Trying To Make Touring More Eco-Friendly

  03-01-2025 20:31 via variety.com
  
  There’s a groundswell of artists — notably Billie Eilish and Coldplay — changing how concerts are staged from the bottom up. These eco-minded musicians are following in the lighter-carbon footsteps of the Dave Matthews Band and Jack Johnson, who led the charge in the 2010s with their green riders and sustainability initiatives. – Variety
  
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• Using Theatre To Connect Russian Refugee Kids With Their American Counterparts

  03-01-2025 20:05 via americantheatre.org
  
  Theatremaker and professor Irina Kruzhilina’s project, SpaceBridge, involved a series of theatre workshops with 11 Russian refugees aged 10 to 14, recruited from the New York shelters where they lived, and eight young American volunteers. – American Theatre
  
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• Ten Most-Interesting Museum Acquisitions Of 2024

  03-01-2025 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  We’ve parsed through museum acquisitions lists and compiled 10 notable additions to United States institutional collections in 2024. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Bringing It All Back Home

  03-01-2025 19:27 via artsjournal.com
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• Why The Rock ‘N Roll Hall Of Fame Shouldn’t Exist

  03-01-2025 19:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  The Hall of Fame is about old and dead people; rock’n’roll is about the young and living. The Hall of Fame tries to reform rock’n’roll, tame it, reduce it to bland, middle-American family entertainment; it drains all the sexiness and danger and rebelliousness out of it. – The Atlantic
  
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• UK Proposes Spending £46 Million On Statue Of Queen Elizabeth. Should It?

  03-01-2025 18:44 via artnews.com
  
  Such a staggering budget may seem to befit the late queen, a towering figure of British history, but why is so much money being thrown at this statue when the country is still gripped by austerity? – ARTnews
  
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• How Researchers Stitched Together 8000 Images To Reveal Medieval Painting In A Church

  03-01-2025 18:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
   The image was created by digitally stitching more than 8,000 photographs of the curving walls, taken in the crawl space behind the panelling which could not be dismantled as it forms part of the choir stalls.  – The Art Newspaper
  
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• A brush with Britain’s first abstract artist | Brief letters

  03-01-2025 18:26
  
  Contenders for the title | Yellow snow | Fluffy jelly | Sunday tea | Tiling with condensed milkRe the hunt for Britain’s first abstract artist (Letters, 29 December), how about a mention for Jacob Kramer’s Rite of Spring of 1920, or better still, Helen Saunders’ 1915 work Abstract Multicoloured Design?
  Dr Michael ParaskosSenior teaching fellow in art history, Imperial College London• You again report on a “yellow snow warning” (1 January). The regular appearanc
  
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• Where’s The Art Market Going In 2025?

  03-01-2025 18:15 via artnews.com
  
   If the market woes of 2024 continue, expect 2025 to winnow the field of art fairs, auction houses, and galleries. Lest we forget, the art world has expanded greatly in the last decade. This year will likely decide how much of that new infrastructure the market can actually support. – ARTnews
  
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• Uncovering The Angels At Boston’s Old North Church

  03-01-2025 18:03 via apnews.com
  
  “The painted angels … once were among the defining features of Old North Church when they were painted around 1730. But officials at the church … painted over the angels in 1912 with thick coats of white paint, part of an austere renovation that restorationists are trying to reverse.” – AP
  
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• Amid Media Viewership Declines, E! News Surges With 11 Billion Views In 2024

  03-01-2025 17:44 via deadline.com
  
  The success was led by Instagram, which was up 49% to 5.6B video views, according to internal data from NBCUniversal. – Deadline
  
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• Sales Of Physical Recordings Up For First Time In 20 Years In UK — And Led By Women Artists

  03-01-2025 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Women led the way in recorded music this year, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), topping the singles chart for 34 out of the 52 weeks and accounting for half of the top 20 albums for the first time. – The Guardian
  
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• Losing The Plot: There Are Only So Many Story-Types (And We’re Good At Recycle)

  03-01-2025 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  If we think of plots in the mathematicians’ terms, as data sets whose patterns can be objectively mapped and compared, then perhaps it makes sense that even as the number of books in the world has soared, the number of plots might not have followed suit. – The New York Times
  
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• This 400-Year-Old Company Near Boston Makes The World’s Favorite Cymbals

  03-01-2025 17:06 via wbur.org
  
  No, the company wasn’t started by the Pilgrims, even though it is near Plymouth. The Avedis Zildjian Co. was founded in Istanbul in 1623 to make cymbals for the Ottoman sultan’s Janissary bands. The company was moved to the US in 1929 and is now the world’s oldest musical instrument manufacturer. – WBUR (Boston)
  
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• How The Carabinieri Busted Tomb-Raiders Right In The Center of Naples

  03-01-2025 16:34 via theguardian.com
  The thieves used the basement of a condo building as their excavation site, tunneling 26 feet under the city to find thousands of ancient and medieval objects for the black market and even the remains of an 11th-century church. Here’s how Italy’s crackerjack art police caught the villains. – The Guardian
  
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• Can “The Cleveland Of Britain” Get A Reputation Boost As The UK’s Latest “City Of Culture”?

  03-01-2025 16:01 via bbc.com
  
  Just like Cleveland, Bradford (just west of Leeds in Yorkshire) has a mighty industrial past, a de-industrialized present, notoriously grey weather, and a very grim reputation. Also like Cleveland, Bradford has champions who insist it’s underrated (especially for its South Asian community and food) and look forward to showing it off. – BBC
  
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• One Of Brazil’s Hottest Dance Scenes Is Under A Freeway Overpass In Rio

  03-01-2025 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “Charme” is a popular dance style which developed in the 1980s as the Brazilian way to party to American soul and R&B. When COVID shuttered indoor clubs, this spot in a working-class Rio suburb became the happening place for charme, and a new generation has discovered it. – The New York Times
  
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• Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules

  03-01-2025 15:02 via axios.com
  A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the Internet is an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service,” meaning that the Federal Communications Commission does not have the authority to impose regulations on it. – Axios
  
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• Gov. Kristi Noem Proposes Two-Thirds Budget Cut To South Dakota Public Broadcasting

  03-01-2025 14:33 via southdakotasearchlight.com
  
  “She approved the last six state budgets, each of which included an increase for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. The organization’s annual state funding went up 27% during that period. … Now she’s proposed a 65% reduction, which will slash state funding to just under $2 million if legislators go along with the plan.” – South Dakota Searchlight
  
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• Meet Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch For 2025

  03-01-2025 14:00 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “Whether or not you’re already familiar with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from across the dance world predict that we’ll be hearing a lot more from these artists on the verge of a breakout in 2025 and beyond.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• UFOs, Nazis, God…this is DPS’s alt-global best-of-the-year list

  03-01-2025 06:36 via artsjournal.com
  Missing out on cultural turning points is a serious New York preoccupation. But to make msuch matters more interesting, I’m expanding my alt-best-of-the-year list to a global reach based on my own incessant curiously and willingness to follow it no matter what the venue, platform or technology. I’m often in small urban churches, having to show a QR code on my phone to gain entry to the Columbia University campus or – as of the early hours of 2025 – staying up until 3 am
  
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• UFO, Nazis, God…this is DPS’s alt-global best-of-the-year list

  03-01-2025 06:36 via artsjournal.com
  Missing out on cultural turning points is a serious New York preoccupation. But to make msuch matters more interesting, I’m expanding my alt-best-of-the-year list to a global reach based on my own incessant curiously and willingness to follow it no matter what the venue, platform or technology. I’m often in small urban churches, having to show a QR code on my phone to gain entry to the Columbia University campus or – as of the early hours of 2025 – staying up until 3 am
  
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