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• The New Rationalism Versus The Humanities

  03-03-2025 21:02 via thepointmag.com
  
  In many ways, rationalism is the result of people with STEM educations attempting to tackle questions that had long been the purview of the humanities, guided by a stubbornly autodidactic conviction that definitive answers could be reached through a rigorous application of logic untainted by psychological biases. – The Point
  
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• Canada’s Quiet, Efficient System Of Book-Banning

  03-03-2025 20:02 via thewalrus.ca
  
  Not all these phenomena constitute “banning” per se, but they all fall under what we might call the new “censorship consensus,” in which books are called upon to justify their existence through demonstrations of their moral value. – The Walrus
  
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• Brueghel painting stolen from Poland in 1974 found in local Dutch museum

  03-03-2025 19:48
  
  Art detective and magazine help crack case of Flemish masterpiece thought to have been stolen by Polish agentsA “spectacular” stolen Flemish masterpiece has been rediscovered hanging on the walls of a provincial Dutch museum thanks to the efforts of an art detective and an antiques magazine.The 17cm-wide painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger of a farmer’s wife with hot coals in one hand and a bucket of water in the other is thought to have been stolen from a Polish museum by
  
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• This Year’s Oscars Show The Hollywood Dream Still Lives

  03-03-2025 19:45 via newyorker.com
  
  If there is something that unites “Anora” and “The Brutalist,” in terms both of onscreen story and behind-the-scenes process, it’s a masterful dedication to the art of the hustle. Baker and Corbet are well versed in it, having learned to temper their outsized visions with pluck, thrift, and resourcefulness. – The New Yorker
  
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• New Zealand University Students Protest Decision To Use AI To Replace Traditional Lecture Slides

  03-03-2025 19:02 via nzherald.co.nz
  
  Three AI programs are set to replace lecture slides in the University of Auckland’s Digital Marketing 304 class when the first semester of the year begins on Monday. “Complete bull****,” one student enrolled in the course said. – New Zealand Herald
  
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• Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’

  03-03-2025 17:28
  
  The Scot painted singing butlers, ‘broads’ in bras and tough guys in suits, in works critics found lurid, chintzy, devoid of irony and often sexist. But they were also hugely popular – showing the power of ‘I get it’ artJack Vettriano: a life in picturesIn 1992, Jack Vettriano’s painting The Singing Butler was rejected by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Anyone who has seen some of the dross picked for display in the RA’s annual open submission colli
  
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• Alison Watt: From Light review – hollow heads and spectral sheets loaded with meaning

  03-03-2025 16:14
  Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London
  Watt’s bleak nothingness casts spectral shadows – it is positively strange to look this hard at things nowadaysSir John Soane was a melancholy soul. Not content with a skull as a memento mori, he acquired the stone sarcophagus of pharaoh Seti I, which gapes like the mouth to the Underworld in the shadow-filled basement of his museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Two hundred years on, at his country house at Ealing, his fellow spirit, the painter
  
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• Jack Vettriano: a life in pictures

  03-03-2025 15:40
  
  The Scottish artist – whose Singing Butler has been reproduced three million times, and who counted Jack Nicholson, Tim Rice and Terence Conran as fans – has died in France aged 73
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• Scottish painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73

  03-03-2025 14:44
  
  Artist found dead at his apartment in Nice in southern France on Saturday, his publicist saysA life in picturesEddy Frankel: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper’The self-taught Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, who became hugely popular despite being shunned by critics, has been found dead at his apartment in Nice in the south of France, his publicist has said.Vettriano, who was born Jack Hoggan on 17 November 1951 in Methil, Fife, was found on Saturday,
  
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• ‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park

  03-03-2025 11:00
  
  Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery• Photographs by Keelson StudioAt the end of a sandy path, lined with bamboo trees, lies a clearing with thousands of clay head sculptures. One is of a woman whose hair is half done, another shows a man blindfolded. Some heads have masks signifying royalty. In a small pond are dozens more sculptures, some with shackles round th
  
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• Paper tigers: how Kandinsky, Kokoschka and Klee sparked an artistic revolution

  03-03-2025 09:00
  A new show of visceral, violent and anxiety-strewn drawings reveals a history of expressionist artists seeking to make the world a better placeGerman expressionism has rarely gone out of fashion since its emergence in the early years of the 20th century, but something about it feels particularly of the moment today. Perhaps that’s not so surprising for a movement that sought to define, graphically represent and challenge a time fraught with the threat of war, economic uncertainty and cultu
  
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• Paper tigers: how Kandinsky, Kokoscha and Klee sparked an artistic revolution

  03-03-2025 09:00
  
  A new show of visceral, violent and anxiety-strewn drawings reveals a history of expressionist artists seeking to make the world a better placeGerman expressionism has rarely gone out of fashion since its emergence in the early years of the 20th century, but something about it feels particularly of the moment today. Perhaps that’s not so surprising for a movement that sought to define, graphically represent and challenge a time fraught with the threat of war, economic uncertainty and cultu
  
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