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• When Words, And Then Truth, And Then Reality, Fall Apart

  10-11-2025 14:15 via archive.ph
  “Navigating life in an era of ‘alternative truths’ has proved to be a disorienting experience: How can people live together when truth has become whatever one would like it to be?” – Le Monde (Archive Today)
  
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• Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

  09-12-2025 22:44
  Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winnerNnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize.Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by t
  
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• Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

  09-12-2025 20:56
  The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them beginsNnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prizeNnena Kalu’s forms come at you with their almost alien unknowable presence. They bulge and bifurcate and multiply. The viewer gets caught up in all the roaring, spilling, snaggling details, and you begin to wonder about your own boundaries, the body’s begi
  
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• Anatomical exhibition includes rare Victorian-era drawing of a black body

  09-12-2025 06:00
  The work of surgeon and artist Joseph Maclise is the focus of a show at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds It is an image of an unnamed black man with his eyes closed and his innards exposed. Drawn with care and precision, the image may be the only anatomical drawing of a black body made during the Victorian age.Now it is part of a new exhibition that focuses on the work of Joseph Maclise, a surgeon and artist whose work – including his 1851 atlas Surgical Anatomy – made the hu
  
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• ‘It’s been called the greatest hip-hop film ever’: how we made cult graffiti classic Wild Style

  08-12-2025 16:02
  ‘I handed a guy a starting pistol for a stick-up scene. But instead he reached into his car and took out the sawn-off shotgun you see in the movie’I was part of the New York graffiti artists the Fabulous 5, who were primarily known for painting whole subway cars on the Lexington Avenue line. Lee Quiñones was the group’s Michelangelo. I’d been running with Jean-Michel Basquiat and wanted to take graffiti art into art spaces. I thought that an underground independent
  
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• ‘I’m a prisoner of hope’: Olafur Eliasson on using art to bring us together to save the world

  08-12-2025 15:00
  Inside Presence, the Icelandic-Danish artist’s epic new show in Brisbane, what you see changes based on where you stand or how you look – crucial when it comes to tackling the climate crisisI gasp as it comes into view: an enormous sun looming above, its surface roiling with what looks like thousands of tiny atomic explosions. It seems to notice me as well: when I stop, it stops too. It’s both awe-inspiring and unnerving.In the mirrors around the glowing orb, I spot Icelandic-D
  
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• A Spicy Gay Hockey Book Has Become A Global Phenomenon TV Show

  08-12-2025 13:30 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Reid, author of many same-sex sports romances, on Heated Rivalry’s scorching HBO debut: “It’s like I opened a door and there was on the other side a million people screaming. … It’s been really cool, but also it doesn’t feel real at all.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• How New York’s Culture Shaped Its New Mayor

  08-12-2025 13:15 via nytimes.com
  “Long before he became an unlikely political force, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was just another 20-something trying to squeeze a laugh out of his Saturday improv class in Manhattan.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why We Must Keep Reading Novels

  08-12-2025 13:00 via mattdpearce.substack.com
  “My Brilliant Friend made me angry because other media doesn’t make me feel this way — fully like a human.” – Matt Pearce
  
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• ‘When the church door opens, it’s like a miracle’: the phone app that’s a key to Italy’s religious art

  08-12-2025 08:00
  A cultural initiative in Piedmont is unlocking a trove of priceless medieval frescoes in rural churchesThe Santa Maria di Missione chapel in Villafranca Piemonte, northern Italy, stands at the end of a long cornfield. Behind it, the mountains rise gently, their outlines caressed by the sun. The colours of autumn frame the 15th-century frescoes that embellish the structure’s interior, painted by Italian artist Aimone Duce, of the Lombard school. The chapel is the municipality’s o
  
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• Behold The “Performative Reader”

  08-12-2025 07:41 via newyorker.com
  Performative reading has firmly implanted itself into the popular imagination, becoming a meme for a generation of people who, by all accounts, aren’t reading a whole lot of books. – The New Yorker
  
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• The AI that has Colonized our Creativity

  08-12-2025 06:34 via artsjournal.com
  Everyone’s talking about AI, and you’re being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
  
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• ‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale

  08-12-2025 06:00
  Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auctionThirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as “portrait of a man”.The anonymous buyer, however, knew precisely who the unnamed man in the picture was: Pascal Paoli, the 18th-century Corsican independence leader and icon of the Enlightenment. Continue reading...
  
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• It’s Just Science: Some Christmas Music Really Tanks Productivity

  07-12-2025 22:00 via fastcompany.com
  Those who love torturing customers and co-workers alike might have to listen to the science. The fact is, Ariana Grande and Andy Williams are out. “On the other hand, Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ emerged as the most productivity-friendly holiday track.” – Fast Company
  
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• Gehry Was The Rare Architect Who Also Changed Music

  07-12-2025 21:30 via yahoo.com
  “The ‘Goldberg Variations’ was Gehry’s favorite work. He loved its otherworldliness and its worldliness. He loved its invitation to dance and to dream. He loved its astonishing sense of design, complex yet flowing with the ocean’s grace, its depth and its inviting surface.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• The Kennedy Center Under The 47th President: Emptier, Showier, Way More Political

  07-12-2025 21:00 via msn.com
  “What is the Kennedy Center now? For one thing, it’s getting a Trumpian revamp. He ordered new marble and the repainting of the exterior columns in austere white. Portraits of the first and second couples now hang in the center’s Hall of Nations.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Guy Cogeval, Art Historian And Curator Who Turned The Musee D’Orsay Into A Well-Traveled Blockbuster Site, Has Died At 70

  07-12-2025 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “In a country with a reverential approach to its artistic heritage, the flamboyant Mr. Cogeval — ‘deceptively reserved and genuinely eccentric,’ according to Le Figaro newspaper — was a subversive figure. He was unconcerned, even pleased, by the criticism.” – The New York Times
  
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• According To A Linguist Who Works At A Language App, Here Are 2025’s Most Mispronounced Words

  07-12-2025 20:00 via npr.org
  We all know that a lot of folks get the new mayor of New York’s name wrong – sometimes deliberately. And then there’s a museum in Paris that had a famous theft this year. But Denzel Washington? Really? – NPR
  
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• A Flash Mob Waves Ukrainian Flags As La Scala’s Grand Opening Features A Russian Opera

  07-12-2025 19:30 via artsjournal.com
  “A dozen activists from a liberal Italian party held up Ukrainian and European flags in a quiet demonstration removed from the La Scala hubub that aimed ‘to draw attention to the defense of liberty and European democracy, threatened today by (President Vladimir) Putin’s Russia.’” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Dear Ted Sarandos, We Beg Of You Not To Screw This Up

  07-12-2025 19:00 via msn.com
  Please, please, please, PLEASE do not screw this up, Netflix. We want HBO to be HBO, Warner Bros. to be Warner Bros. – and we need movie theatres. Cinemas. Big screens … maybe for your movies, Ted. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• As Slop Fills Streaming And Public Media Is Defunded, What Will Happen To PBS Kids?

  07-12-2025 18:30 via bostonglobe.com
  Parents and researchers are very worried – and rightly so. – Boston Globe
  
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• Artist Imprisoned In Iran For Six Years Says Creativity, And Sewing, Kept Her Alive

  07-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: “They can take away the world you live in, but they can’t take away what’s happening in your mind, your imagination and your creativity. Holding on to that was how we survived.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Don’t Put Hannah Arendt On A Pedestal

  07-12-2025 17:30 via nytimes.com
  “Nearly a year into a second Trump presidency and 50 years after Arendt’s death, she is still routinely invoked as the key to understanding our moment. It’s been a strange afterlife for an idiosyncratic thinker who believed that politics was inherently contingent and unpredictable.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Sphere May Be The Horrifying Future Of Entertainment For All Of Us

  07-12-2025 17:00 via slate.com
  “There is no escape in the Sphere. The walls are screens. The ceilings are screens. The floor, swooping underneath you at an impossible angle, is a screen, too.” – Slate
  
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• Mad Men’s Special Effects Foreman Has Some Things To Say About The Events Of Recent Days

  07-12-2025 16:30 via archive.ph
  Such events being HBO’s Mad Men remaster that showed a little too much. “We always tried to camouflage ourselves as much as possible, but these days they tend to just say ‘we’ll erase it in post.’ Only this time, apparently they didn’t erase us.” – The Verge (Archive Today)
  
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• Performance Professionals Are Learning From Toddlers

  07-12-2025 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  “Some artists are …making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re considering why these tiny dancers bring us such joy, and what lessons they might have for grown-ups.” – The New York Times
  
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• Four European Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation

  07-12-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from the 2026 competition. The Dutch broadcaster: “After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Changed About Hamnet Between Page And Screen

  07-12-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The book is not only made up of words but also concerns words. The author, who co-wrote the screenplay: “To make a 400-page novel into a 100-page script, there’s a lot of stripping back.”But then they had to add in more Shakespeare. – The New York Times
  
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• This Oscar Winner Has Been In The Business For More Than Six Decades

  07-12-2025 14:30 via variety.com
  Youn Yuh-jung, Oscar winner for Minari, doesn’t want to be seen as an icon, however. “In Korea, they usually say, ‘Is there any message for the younger generation?’ So I usually say, I’m not the Pope, I don’t have any message.” – Variety
  
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• According To The BBC, These Are The Ten Most Iconic Gehry Buildings

  07-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  From Spain to France to the Czech Republic and, well, Spain again, here are the BBC’s faves. – BBC
  
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