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• How Hard Is The Training To Become A Peking Opera Star? This Hard.

  07-01-2026 21:02 via apnews.com
  Zhang Wanting spent an entire semester practicing standing on one foot on a three-inch chair handle while lifting her other leg backward and leaning forward with an arched back. And that was maybe the easiest of the tricks she had to learn just with the chair, leaving aside all the other skills necessary. – AP
  
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• Insider Art Market Predictions For 2026

  07-01-2026 20:27 via artnews.com
  If nothing else, the new year will likely reveal whether the art world’s pivot to the Gulf, and auction houses’ deepening emphasis on luxury categories, were good choices. – ARTnews
  
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• New Vision For Your Car: An AI Companion

  07-01-2026 20:15 via fastcompany.com
  Across the show floor, the car emerged less as a machine and more as a companion as automakers and tech companies showcased vehicles that can adapt to drivers and passengers in real time — from tracking heart rates and emotions to alerting if a baby or young child is accidentally left in the car. – Fast Company
  
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• America’s Only Weather Museum May Have To Close Down

  07-01-2026 20:05 via artnews.com
  “The National Weather Museum and Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the only US museum dedicated to weather artifacts, said late last month that it is at risk of closing. The nonprofit, launched in the early 2000s, has relied completely on donations, grants, and partnerships for funding, and receives no federal funding.” – ARTnews
  
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• ‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

  07-01-2026 18:06
  Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that ma
  
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• Australia Post apologises for losing Aboriginal artist’s painting worth $4,000

  07-01-2026 07:09
  Bobbi Lockyer says she sent the item express post with tracking as the national postal service says the search continuesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJust before Christmas, Aboriginal artist Bobbi Lockyer packed up a precious painting she had spent more than a hundred hours on and sent it to her client.What arrived at the other end was an empty package. Continue reading...
  
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• Art could save your life! Five creative ways to make 2026 happier, healthier and more hopeful

  07-01-2026 06:00
  Engaging in creativity can reduce depression, improve immunity and delay ageing – all while you’re having funFor some reason, we have collectively agreed that new year is the time to reinvent ourselves. The problem, for many people, is that we’ve tried all the usual health kicks – running, yoga, meditation, the latest diets – even if we haven’t really enjoyed them, in a bid to improve our minds and bodies. But have any of us given as much thought to creativity
  
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