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• When The Bauhaus Took On Ballet

  04-03-2025 21:01 via thisiscolossal.com
  
  Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. – Colossal
  
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• Against The Encroachment Of AI On Creativity

  04-03-2025 20:15 via thebaffler.com
  
  The Brutalist’s AI touch-up fits the broader culture’s fetishization of perfection and flattening, but image filters and technologies like Auto-Tune consciously draw attention to their artificiality, almost making a virtue of it, which is not at all the case with the film’s deployment of AI. – The Baffler
  
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• Interjections — Those Little Junk Words We Toss Into Conversation — Serve An Important Purpose

  04-03-2025 20:05 via knowablemagazine.org
  
  “For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins of language when speakers aren’t as articulate as they’d like to be. But these little words may be much more important than that.” – Knowable Magazine
  
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• The New Cultural Critique: Anti-Fans

  04-03-2025 19:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  Anti-fans, as pop-culture scholars have termed them, are similar to hate-watchers: consumers who become fixated on what frustrates them. Both groups tend to target something in the zeitgeist, but unlike hate-watchers, anti-fans tend to construct something new out of their annoyance or contempt. – The Atlantic
  
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• Our Times Can Be Understood As A New Kind Of Cultural Revolution

  04-03-2025 19:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  Unlike the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, which imposed ideology on their populaces by means of culture and entertainment, America’s current reality is the overturning of the political order by the country’s entertainers. Washington today can be understood only as a product of show business, not of law or policy. – The Atlantic
  
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• Proposal for a Billboard

  04-03-2025 19:25 via artsjournal.com
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• The Curious Case Of Francis Bacon’s Friend Barry

  04-03-2025 19:15 via nytimes.com
  
  For over a decade before that spring day in 1992, Barry Joule, a Canadian handyman with a rock-star mane, had been one of Bacon’s helpers, doing odd jobs around the artist’s London home and driving him to exhibitions. – The New York Times
  
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• Bong Joon Ho Intends To Destroy Yet Another Genre

  04-03-2025 19:04 via nytimes.com
  
  As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy it.” With his first English-language film, Mickey 17, he is taking aim at science fiction. – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Delayed George Lucas Museum’s CEO To Step Down

  04-03-2025 18:45 via artnews.com
  
  Jackson-Dumont’s departure comes just months after the museum quietly delayed its opening from this year to 2026. The museum has now delayed its opening three times. – ARTnews
  
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• America’s Oldest University Is Threatened. Can It Survive?

  04-03-2025 18:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Harvard is the flagship of American higher education …and what started as a crisis of speech and authority on campus has grown into a fear that internal conflict, amplified by outside pressures, can run it and the whole fleet of American universities aground. – The New Yorker
  
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• Jack Vettriano obituary

  04-03-2025 18:16
  
  Bestselling Scottish painter loved by the public but dismissed by the art establishment and cultural criticsIn the oil paintings that made Jack Vettriano famous and rich, the women are slim and wear evening dress, the men are chiselled and in tuxes, don homburg hats and long coats, and kiss the necks of their dates. In the world of Vettriano, who has died aged 73, couples dress up for the beach, drive classic cars, smoke late night cigarettes and drink whisky for carnal courage.The artist defend
  
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• The Main Oscars Message? Hollywood Is Afraid

  04-03-2025 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  I feel for public figures in a way: damned if they do, damned if they don’t. After Sunday night, the film industry looks craven and weak – on the other hand, as Ricky Gervais memorably pointed out when he hosted the Golden Globes in 2020: “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. – The Guardian
  
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• The Case For Playing Tchaikovsky With Period Strings And Bows

  04-03-2025 18:06 via thestrad.com
  
  David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: “In the early days of recorded classical music, string players exclusively used gut strings. Musicians like Leopold Auer and Fritz Kreisler achieved a full, sustained sound closer to Tchaikovsky’s era than today’s practices.”  – The Strad
  
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• Artist Hal Hirshorn, Who Used Old-Fashioned Means To Make Unearthly Images, Has Died At 60

  04-03-2025 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “An artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, (he) nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique cameras and homemade paints to produce haunting photographs and landscape paintings.” – The New York Times
  
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• New David Byrne Immersive Theater Piece To Set Up In Historic Chicago Landmark

  04-03-2025 16:31 via axios.com
  The piece, titled Theater of the Mind and based on current research in neuroscience, will be housed in a 19,000-square-foot space inside the Reid Murdoch Building on LaSalle Street for an indefinite run. (And what was the previous David Byrne immersive theater piece? Here Lies Love, the Imelda Marcos disco musical.) – Axios
  
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• Chicago’s Brand-New Social Change Theater Festival

  04-03-2025 16:03 via wbez.org
  
  “All of the performances (are) staged readings, with actors working from scripts without the costumes and sets of a full production. The goal is to workshop brand-new plays that cover big themes, from criminal justice reform and climate change to gender identity.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Writing Opera For Children Is Serious Business (And It Can Be Lots Of Fun)

  04-03-2025 15:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera (is) like casting a spell that lets them be both big and small. Artists with highly experimental aesthetics get to embrace their silly sides and reconnect with the childlike urge to create. … As (composer Thierry) Tidrow often says, ‘They haven’t read Adorno.’” – The New York Times
  
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• Holland’s Famous Art Detective Locates Brueghel Stolen 50 Years Ago

  04-03-2025 15:04 via yahoo.com
  
  “Woman Carrying the Embers vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland in 1974. Journalists from the Dutch culture magazine Vind spotted what they suspected was the painting at an exhibition in the Netherlands last year, and they alerted art sleuth Arthur Brand. – AFP (Yahoo!)
  
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• The French Culture Pass Revisited

  04-03-2025 14:52 via artsjournal.com
  ArtReview tells us that the French Culture Pass is being put on simmer:The French Government has announced a 50 percent cut in their lauded Culture Pass, four years after its nationwide launch for young people aged fifteen to eighteen to take up cultural activities.
  The legislation, signed by Prime Minister François Bayrou, the Culture Minister Rachida Dati and other ministers, sees the pass for eighteen-year-olds reduced from €300 to €150, while the €20
  
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• French Government Cuts Funding For Culture Pass By Half

  04-03-2025 14:30 via artreview.com
  
  “The French Government has announced a 50 percent cut in their lauded Culture Pass, four years after its nationwide launch for young people aged fifteen to eighteen to take up cultural activities.” – ArtReview
  
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• See Video Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Being Stolen

  04-03-2025 14:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  “The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the court in the long-awaited criminal trial, as prosecutors explained how the men behind it smashed their way into (Blenheim) Palace … in September 2019.” – Artnet
  
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• Nonprofit Arts Success in a Changing Environment, Tip 3: Symbolism Is Cute and Clever and Performative and Futile

  04-03-2025 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  You can change the minds of the armies of pseudo-populists, but only one at a charitable time. Simple satire won’t cut it.
  Remember that 2022 Tomato Soup protest? We know who it was against. But who was it for?Over the next few years, your nonprofit arts organization will be tasked with trying to succeed in a local and national environment powered by zero-sum, anti-art, anti-intellectual, pseudo-populists that now hold sway. It is with that in mind that we start the discussion of how to be
  
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• ‘I see things in very short bursts’: blind painter Bianca Raffaella on her explosive still lifes – and being mentored by Tracey Emin

  04-03-2025 11:52
  
  Her paintings of stems and flowers, made by ‘seeing’ them through touch, give a unique perception of the world. She explains why she gave up a career in fashion to paint seriously – and why thumbs are better than brushesBianca Raffaella is showing me the huge canvases she has painted for her debut solo show Faint Memories when a strange realisation hits me. I can see these beautiful depictions of petals and stems in their full, widescreen splendour – and she can’t.T
  
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