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• Across North America, 29 “Jazz Heroes”

  02-04-2025 23:26 via artsjournal.com
  Twenty-five years ago the Jazz Journalists Association began to identify and celebrate activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz as members of an “A Team,” soon renamed “Jazz Heroes.” Today the JJA announced its 2025 slate of these Heroes, 29 people across North America who put extraordinary efforts into sustaining and expanding jazz in its various forms.So who are they? Musicians who double or triple as educators, presenters and support-group organizer
  
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• John McNeill obituary

  02-04-2025 23:13
  My friend John McNeill, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was one of the UK’s leading scholars of romanesque architecture and sculpture. He published articles on romanesque architecture from across Europe, especially monastic buildings, with an interest in elements often overlooked: the beasts inhabiting romanesque arches were a particular passion.Many of those publications were for the British Archaeological Association (BAA), though he produced two excellent volumes in the Blue
  
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• April Fool’s Day Ads Used To Be Fun, And Folks Loved Them. Not Anymore. What Happened?

  02-04-2025 21:01 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  
  “When we were less assaulted by news on a daily basis — and, crucially, when we had no access to social media — April Fool adverts did manage to make us laugh.” But our relationship with truth and misinformation wasn’t quite as fraught back then as it is in 2025. – Prospect (UK)
  
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• Is Museums’ Social Media Use Dying?

  02-04-2025 20:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  While most of the 100 museums in the list grew their social media followings over the past year, this is despite almost all of them experiencing a decline in followers on X. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Detroit Opera’s “Cosi” As AI

  02-04-2025 20:15 via apnews.com
  
  “He’s actually a replica of what we see in the tech industry,” Yuval Sharon said. “There’s a messianic belief that we must transcend our own humanity and that AI is making up for all the terrible ways we behave. People really do believe that the future of humanity is robotic.” – APNews
  
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• Ed Atkins review – a harrowing medley of spiders, sinkholes and death

  02-04-2025 16:33
  
  Tate Britain, LondonUsing CGI-avatars, racks of opera costumes and a film starring Toby Jones, the artist explores the proximity of his own mortality – and oursFilled with laughter and pain, and bodies that cry and moan, suffer and sing, Ed Atkins’ exhibition at Tate Britain is populated by the unreal and the simulated, the present and the absent, the living and the dead. We go from light to dark and back again, from room to room, and constant shifts in tempo and register, swerving f
  
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• Basquiat to Delaney: inside the exhibition honouring 50 years of art in Black Paris

  02-04-2025 13:16
  
  The vast show at the Pompidou highlights how the French capital became a haven for creatives from across the diasporaHello and welcome to The Long Wave. I was in France at the weekend to check out the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, an odyssey through the generations of Black artists from across the world who found a complicated sanctuary in the city. This was supplemented with a walking tour on the life of the artist Beauford Delaney, guided by the company Entrée to Black P
  
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• Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence

  02-04-2025 12:00
  
  The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiographyIn 1966 a woman sat down at the Destruction in Art Symposium at London’s Africa Centre and invited people to cut off her clothes. It was an era when Yves Klein used naked women as paintbrushes and Allen Jones made sculptures of fetishistically dressed women posed as furniture. But Yoko Ono was in control of her own self-sacrifice. It was the third time she’d performed this pa
  
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