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• How Did Philosophy Get Captured By Self-Help Bromides?

  02-11-2023 22:57 via aeon.co
  
  To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to the regulations of competing discourses, trivialising knowledge as something reducible to a methodology. – Aeon
  
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• Development Director – The Hermitage Artist Retreat via TOC Arts Partners

  05-03-2026 21:39 via artsjournal.com
  Position ProfileThe Hermitage Artist Retreat seeks a passionate, intelligent, and driven Development Director with experience in all aspects of fundraising and donor relations to sustain and grow the organization’s highly successful development efforts. With the arrival of Andy Sandberg as the Artistic Director/CEO six years ago, the organization has flourished, growing its revenue and programming by 4X. With this growth, the Hermitage has introduced dozens of new partnerships throughout S
  
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• Meet The Woman Who Brought Helvetica To America

  05-03-2026 21:01 via news.artnet.com
  Barbara Stauffacher Solomon brought the now-standard sans-serif font back from her studies in Basel in the early 1960s, when Americans were completely accustomed to traditional typefaces likes Times New Roman and Baskerville. She then became famous for her colorful designs, interior and exterior, for the new Sea Ranch community in California. – Artnet
  
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• Musician Opens Jewel Box 750-Seat Music Venue In LA

  05-03-2026 20:32 via latimes.com
  In a few weeks, this site will be Pacific Electric, a new 750-capacity music venue that Ben Lovett and his venue-developer firm TVG Hospitality have been converting for six years. It’s a small but ambitious entry into a Los Angeles venue landscape that’s recovering from fire and economic woes. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Aztec Dancers Of Silicon Valley

  05-03-2026 20:06 via mercurynews.com
  “Calpulli Ocelocihuatl (is) one of roughly half-a-dozen Aztec dance groups active in San Jose. Other Aztec dance groups – some whose histories stretch back more than half a century — are also thriving along the West Coast, from Washington state down to Sacramento, Oakland, Salinas and San Diego.” – The Mercury News (San Jose)
  
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• Why Dictionaries Still Matter

  05-03-2026 19:44 via thenation.com
  The book is formal and highly structured; it seems like something from another, vaguely bygone time. Still, dictionary editors have long paid close attention to how language is used and perused—in signs, in novels, in articles and pronouncements, and lately on the Web. – The Nation
  
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• Our Culture Of Insurance Is Breaking Down

  05-03-2026 19:12 via aeon.co
  What emerged in tandem with the growth of capitalism was a system in which insurance and investment were bound together until it became integral to the economic system, seen as essential in protecting investments. This is why today you can’t get a mortgage without it. – Aeon
  
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• The British Museum Employee Who Stole More Than 300 Prints

  05-03-2026 19:04 via the-independent.com
  “Nigel Peverett, who worked at the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in the early 1970s, had remained a ‘frequent visitor’ until one day in April 1992, when he was caught.” He was prosecuted, hospitalized after a suicide attempt, and got a suspended sentence. Amazingly, he kept his employee pension. – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay

  05-03-2026 18:59 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/03/looking-back-at-nyc-with-nostalgia-and-dismay.html" title="Looking Back at NYC with Nostalgia and Dismay” rel=”nofollow”>In a newly recorded video, the noted writers Elisabeth Bronfen, Maaza Mengiste, and Christoph Keller look back at their experience of New York City with nostalgic affection — and, it must be said, with considerable dismay — from their vantage points in Switzerland and Germany.
  
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• Russia Returns To Exhibiting At The Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 18:44 via nytimes.com
  Russia will host a pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most important art event — the latest sign of the country’s will to end its pariah status in global cultural and sporting life amid the war in Ukraine. – The New York Times
  
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• How We Can Shape Our Dreams

  05-03-2026 18:31 via thewalrus.ca
  Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI) uses external stimuli to connect with a dreamer and encourage them to focus on a particular topic or theme. – The Walrus
  
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• Exiled Belarussian Theatre Brings Dissident Work To Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 18:16 via news.artnet.com
  The exhibition, titled “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.,” is a group show presenting work by Belarusian artists who works challenge the long-standing authoritative regime in their native country. – Artnet
  
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• How A Scholar Stumbled On Handwritten Notes By Galileo

  05-03-2026 18:02 via smithsonianmag.com
  Historian Ivan Malara spotted notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by the young Galileo circa 1590 in an early printed copy of the Almagest, the second-century C.E. treatise on astronomy by Ptolemy which placed the Earth at the center of the universe. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Protests Over Announcement DePaul University Will Close Its Museum

  05-03-2026 17:44 via hyperallergic.com
  The move has prompted outrage from faculty and staff, including an open letter penned by art history and philosophy faculty members and signed by more than 2,000 community members that criticized the school’s decision as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Inside The Painstaking Restoration Of A Frank Lloyd Wright House

  05-03-2026 17:31 via news.artnet.com
  The Martin House’s resurfacing as a museum—with its insides restored, and its carriage house and conservatory rebuilt to original specifications—is nothing short of a “civic miracle.” – Artnet
  
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• Colm Tóibín: Of Course AI Is A Threat To Creative Writing

  05-03-2026 17:31 via theconversation.com
  “This idea [that] no machine could ever replace my sensibility, which is so rich, varied, complex, and arising from experience and from history – that’s all rubbish. You can actually manufacture that.” – The Conversation
  
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• Chicago Art Institute Expansion Threatens Iconic Louis Sullivan Room

  05-03-2026 17:15 via chicago.suntimes.com
  The old Chicago Stock Exchange Building trading room — Adler & Sullivan’s gilded age space rescued from demolition 54 years ago — could be uprooted from its longtime Art Institute of Chicago home under preliminary expansion plans being considered by the museum. – Chicago Sun-Times
  
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• How Jonathan Groff Became A Now-Rare Thing: A Male Musical-Theater Superstar

  05-03-2026 17:05 via nytimes.com
  Says director Michael Mayer, “He’s now established himself as someone who can open and sustain a show. And this at a time when star power is pretty much one of the only things that can guarantee viability for a musical.” – The New York Times
  
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• 60 Years After Hollywood Abandoned It, VistaVision Is Back

  05-03-2026 16:33 via apnews.com
  While the format was quite popular in the 1950s (Vertigo and The Ten Commandments were filmed in it), the industry moved on in the 1960s and few VistaVision cameras have survived. Yet the films made in it in just the past few years include The Brutalist, Bugonia, Wuthering Heights, and One Battle After Another. – AP
  
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• Dalí Museum In Florida Announces $65 Million Expansion

  05-03-2026 16:01 via tampabay.com
  The 35,000-square-foot addition to the St. Petersburg institution, expected to begin construction this year and open in 2028, will increase exhibition space, add a dedicated learning center, and provide flexible environments for “experiential exhibitions that blend art and technology.” – Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Is This Bust Of Jesus A Michelangelo? Independent Researcher Says Yes, Scholars Are Skeptical

  05-03-2026 15:30 via apnews.com
  Valentina Salerno, an actress and novelist with no formal training in art history, says she has reviewed numerous documents indicating that the sculpture, located in a Roman church, is the work of Michelangelo. She published her findings at a non-peer-reviewed website, though she says she’s willing to let scholars examine her research. – AP
  
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• Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road

  05-03-2026 15:02 via news.artnet.com
  “As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to crisscross the country. The first of 20 planned stops — mainly in the South, with forays to the Midwest, Arizona, and Utah — was last month in Nashville.” – Artnet
  
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• Belarus Free Theatre To Appear At Venice Biennale

  05-03-2026 14:34 via artnews.com
  “The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale.” – ARTnews
  
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• ‘He paints phalluses the way others paint landscapes’: the disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Rops

  04-03-2026 08:00
  A new exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich revisits the Belgian artist whose wild women of the demimonde scandalised the belle epoque – and still shock audiences todayDuring an oppressively hot week in Paris in 1878, the bohemian Belgian artist Félicien Rops painted a picture of a woman walking her pet pig. In it, the woman is blindfolded and naked – bar some stockings, long black gloves and a jaunty feathered hat – and the pig has a cute, pink curlicue of a tail. Pornocrates
  
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• ‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it

  04-03-2026 06:00
  The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr proclaiming his dreamIn the summer of 1956, the American news magazine Life dispatched its first Black staff photographer, Gordon Parks, to Alabama, with a brief to document racial segregation in the wake of the Montgomery bus boycott. The trip was a perilous one, but Parks, then in his early 40
  
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• ‘It was very challenging’: the exhibition memorialising Black trans deaths across the US

  03-03-2026 14:45
  Artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson found an unusual way to remember those who were killed or died by suicide between 2018 and 2025Between 2021 and 2025, Black nonbinary artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson visited 91 locations across 15 states – in all of these sites a trans, gender nonconforming, or intersex individual had died, either by murder or suicide. At each site they conducted a ceremony of their own to bear witness to what had happened there.“It was very challenging in ways that I&
  
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• Deaf rage and subversive scrawling: the show where disabled artists strike back

  03-03-2026 12:25
  Though the art world is supposed to be inclusive, that isn’t the experience of many disabled creatives – and in a groundbreaking online exhibition at dis_place they have poured their frustrations into art“I had a lot of frustration about the performance of diversity, equality and inclusion,” says curator Nathalie Boobis. Feeling that the art world’s commitment to access for disabled people was often performative rather than manifesting a sincere commitment to change
  
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• Alejandro González Iñárritu on his Amores Perros art show: ‘This is an anti-AI exhibition’

  03-03-2026 11:07
  Oscar-winning director returns to his breakout 2000 hit for an exhibition seven years in the making, giving visitors a new experiential look at his debut filmAlejandro González Iñárritu, the Mexican director, has been widely celebrated for his innovative approach to storytelling. His 2000 debut, Amores Perros, was labeled a “hypertext film” for how its three main threads spiraled out of a central car crash, but were otherwise disconnected. In an interview where h
  
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• Rijksmuseum reveals painting to be early work by Rembrandt

  02-03-2026 14:17
  17th-century Dutch master’s Vision of Zacharias in the Temple to go on display this weekIt hung unrecognised on the wall of a private home for decades but now a 17th-century painting has been revealed as a Rembrandt, taking its potential value from thousands to millions of pounds.The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced on Monday that it had rediscovered an early biblical scene by the Dutch master that was once thought lost, thanks to hi-tech scanning and two years of expert analysis. Contin
  
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• Artistic Programs Manager (Part Time)

  02-03-2026 02:11 via artsjournal.com
  Gibney seeks a highly organized, dance-fluent professional to support the Founder, Artistic Director & CEO across the artistic and programmatic work of the organization, spanning Company, Center, and Community Action. The role offers close exposure to artistic planning and program development conversations within a multi-program dance organization managing concurrent performances and initiatives year-round.The ideal candidate is a strong writer and critical thinker who can produce clear writ
  
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