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• Ireland’s New National Dance Company Makes Its Debut

  13-05-2025 21:04 via rte.ie
  “Liz Roche, Artistic Director of Luail, Ireland’s all-island dance company, (writes) about the beginnings of the company, as it prepares to make its highly anticipated debut this May with Chora, a triple bill of new dance works.” – RTÉ (Ireland)
  
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• Public Radio As An Empathy Machine

  13-05-2025 20:31 via current.org
  Public radio had been explicitly understood as an empathy machine since the dawn of This American Life in 1996. If we allow synonyms for empathy, radio has been understood this way since long before that. – Current
  
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• On the frontiers of AI

  13-05-2025 20:06 via artsjournal.com
  Prelude, from The Onion:
  Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport
  Now then. A few days ago, my son googled “Franz Kafka Airport” and here is what Google AI came up with:
  Being a public spirited sort, son informed Google that they might want to tweak this a wee bit. And so I had to check this afternoon for an update, and I get something new:
  Well, it’s a start? But of course there is no “Business Week” 2009 report – t
  
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• Tim Wallis obituary

  13-05-2025 18:50
  My father, Tim Wallis, who has died aged 86, was a senior architect for Avon county and Bristol city councils. He specialised first in public housing but spent the majority of his career designing schools and colleges. Some of his better known buildings are the Michael Tippett Centre at Bath Spa University, and the Ralph Allen Building at Bath College.Tim studied architecture at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the late 1950s, learning under Colin St John Wilson. There Tim explored painting, art and
  
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• ‘I push carpet to the extreme’: The craft genius who makes tufted humanoid wearable sculptures

  13-05-2025 16:38
  Should carpet as a medium be as highly regarded as painting with oils and sculpting with marble? Anna Perach, an artist born in Ukraine, talks us through her new show inspired by Hoffman’s love triangle tale The Sandman‘I’m led by stories,” Anna Perach tells me as we sit in her sun-drenched studio at Gasworks in London. The wall behind me is stacked with a rainbow of yarns, and on her desk sit a collection of texts that point to the key themes of her work: femininity, mag
  
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• ‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz

  13-05-2025 12:12
  As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysisThere is a series by Peter Hujar in which the photographer shot groups of friends, collaborators, lovers and other members of the New York avant garde, from the 1960s to 80s. In one image – including the artists Paul Thek and Eva Hesse – the writer
  
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• ‘I marvel I have any brain cells left’: artist Patrick Dougher on drugs, drink and blowing his big break with Sade

  13-05-2025 11:00
  Dougher spent 20 years drinking, smoking and sniffing anything he could get hold of. At his lowest, he spent a month sleeping on a park bench. How did he bounce back?All stories of addiction are grim and harrowing, but Patrick Dougher’s memoir reads like a picaresque comedy at times – albeit one laced with trauma and tragedy. There are hilarious tales of eccentric characters, like the great-aunt with enormous buttocks who killed his kitten by sitting on it: “That booty made all
  
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• Koyo Kouoh 1967-2025 : ‘Ensuring the door remains wide open for those who come next’

  13-05-2025 08:00
  The first African woman to curate the Venice art biennale has died. Here we publish a piece she wrote for the Guardian after taking up the role, in which she talks about championing African and women artists and her vision for the 2026 biennaleThe pioneering art curator Koyo Kouoh has died at the age of 57. Kouoh, the first African woman to be named artistic director of the Venice Biennale, died on 10 May – just days before the title and theme of the 61st edition of the art biennale were d
  
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