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• Archaeologists Discover Ancient Human Remains in Pre-Incan Peruvian Temple Dedicated to Water Cult

  21-08-2024 23:07 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists recently identified the remains of four human funerary burials from approximately 3,800 years ago in a space in northern Peru associated with a water cult. The bundled funeral remains belong to two children, a teenager, and an adult. They were buried facing the Andean mountains and interred with symbolic offerings, such as stone pendants and snail shells.The remains were found nestled between mud and stone walls near a valley in Peru’s dry, coastal Viru province by the Vir&u
  
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• Noguchi Museum Workers Walk Out in Protest of New Keffiyeh Ban

  21-08-2024 22:34 via artnews.com
  
  Employees of the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, staged a walkout today in protest of a new internal dress code banning keffiyehs, which they deemed “distinctly anti-Palestinian.” This is the second staff work stoppage at the Noguchi, following an action on August 15. Some 50 workers—who, at an institution of roughly 70 employees, represent a majority of its labor force—have signed a petition demanding museum leadership rescind the policy, which was reportedly in
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Interrupted by Pro-Palestinian Protesters on ‘The Late Show’

  21-08-2024 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  “Isn’t it great to be in Chicago?” the former House speaker exclaimed in her appearance with Stephen Colbert, an apparent attempt to defuse the tension.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Interrupted by Pro-Palestinian Protesters on ‘Late Night’

  21-08-2024 20:25 via nytimes.com
  
  “Isn’t it great to be in Chicago?” the former House speaker exclaimed in her appearance with Stephen Colbert, an apparent attempt to defuse the tension.
  
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• Seven ‘Stunning’ Viking Arm Rings Discovered by Archaeology Student in Denmark

  21-08-2024 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  Seven curled silver arm rings dating to the Viking era were found by an archaeology student earlier this year in Denmark, the Mosegaard Museum announced on Monday. The Danish institution called the find “stunning.”The artifacts were unearthed south of Aarhus by the 22-year-old Dane Gustav Bruunsgaard, who had been searching the historical Viking settlement using a metal detector and a spade.It’s estimated that the rings are from 800 CE, placing them within the early Viking era
  
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• The Louvre’s First Fashion Exhibition to Celebrate the Legacy of Byzantium 

  21-08-2024 19:05 via artnews.com
  
  PARIS — Mad for 18th-century interiors, Karl Lagerfeld frequently visited the Louvre, knew its holdings by heart, and drew inspiration from its sumptuous furniture and lacquered screens.In January, some of the late German designer’s haute couture and métiers d’art creations for Chanel all that inspired will invade the storied Paris museum, which is mounting its first fashion-focused exhibition, tracing how precious objects from Byzantine times through to the Second Frenc
  
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• AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help? 

  21-08-2024 18:18 via artnews.com
  
  IF RECENT HEADLINES are any indication, one of the most pressing issues right now is the threat posed by fake or manipulated images. The wide availability of generative AI, along with the increasingly user-friendly interface of image editing software like Photoshop, has enabled most people with a computer and internet access to produce images that are liable to deceive. The potential dangers range from art forgery to identity fraud to political disinformation. The message is clear: images can mi
  
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• AI Art Valuations Are Starting to Give Some Market Players an Edge

  21-08-2024 17:14 via artnews.com
  
  Until the past few decades, the art market was a largely analog world, guided by word-of-mouth, reputation, specialized knowledge, and “context.” That traditional structure has kept information in the hands of a tight coterie of power brokers. But new technology has begun to upend that paradigm in recent years through NFT platforms, live-streamed auctions, online sales, and fractionalized assets. AI may prove to be the next step in that shift, as companies enter the market promising
  
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• Coming Soon to Jersey City: A Gleaming Home for the Symphony

  21-08-2024 17:08 via nytimes.com
  
  The New Jersey Symphony, which long lacked a permanent space, will move into a 550-seat theater that it hopes to make a hub for concerts and classes.
  
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• What ‘It Ends With Us’ Gets Wrong (and Right) About Domestic Abuse

  21-08-2024 16:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Its depiction of love-bombing and psychological abuse rings true, experts say, but other oversimplified aspects could send a dangerous message.
  
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• Eight Essential Books About AI

  21-08-2024 16:19 via artnews.com
  
  Computer vision has been around since 1958, when Frank Rosenblatt, then a researcher at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, unveiled the Perceptron, which programed a camera to detect the location of a shape on a flash card. Yet, after an initial period of excitement, this landmark event in the history of artificial intelligence was followed by what’s known as the “AI Winter,” a period when most computer scientists’ hopes of developing machine learning past the rudiments wen
  
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• Skulptur Projekte Münster Names Czech Curatorial Collective What, How & for Whom as New Artistic Directors

  21-08-2024 16:12 via artnews.com
  
  Skulptur Projekte Münster has announced Czech curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW) as the new artistic directors for its 50th anniversary edition in 2027. Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, who comprise WHW, will be the first women to lead the sculpture-oriented exhibition in northwestern Germany, which has taken place every ten years since 1977.The news follows the death of Kasper König, Skulptur Projekte Münster’s cofounder
  
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• Skulptur Projekte Münster Names Croatian Curatorial Collective What, How & for Whom as New Artistic Directors

  21-08-2024 16:12 via artnews.com
  
  Skulptur Projekte Münster has announced Croatian curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW) as the new artistic directors for its 50th anniversary edition in 2027. Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, who comprise WHW, will be the first women to lead the sculpture-oriented exhibition in northwestern Germany, which has taken place every ten years since 1977.The news follows the death of Kasper König, Skulptur Projekte Münster’s cofoun
  
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• Saved from Collapse, William Blake’s Former Cottage to be Restored with Plans for a Museum

  21-08-2024 15:57 via artnews.com
  
  A cottage where artist and poet William Blake once lived is one step closer to being preserved as a museum. At risk of collapse, funding will be used to fix the thatched roof, the Art Newspaper reported.Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker during the Romantic era. Though he was mostly unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake was associated with some of the leading radical thinkers of his time, among them Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft.Blake lived in the cottage in Felpham vill
  
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• ‘Hannah Gadsby: Woof’ Review: A Comic’s Pet Themes

  21-08-2024 15:53 via nytimes.com
  
  In a soul-baring new show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Australian stand-up leans once again into fears, anxieties and mental health worries.
  
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• Ukrainian Artists Star in New Documentary, Frieze Sculpture Returns to London, Skulptur Projekte Münster Names Artistic Directors, and More: Morning Links for August 21, 2024

  21-08-2024 15:40 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESTHREE TIMES A LADY. Skulptur Projekte Münster has announced curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW) as its new artistic directors for 2027. The news comes following the recent death of Kasper König, who founded the sculpture-oriented exhibition in Germany. The trio of Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolov
  
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• Hard Work and Fizzy Drinks: What It Takes to Live Past 110

  21-08-2024 11:40 via nytimes.com
  
  They are called supercentenarians, and they have seen it all.
  
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• For Aja Naomi King, an Emmy Nomination Is a Seismic Event

  21-08-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The earth shook as she talked about receiving her first Emmy nod, for her role as Harriet in the Apple TV+ show “Lessons in Chemistry.” Literally.
  
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• ‘A Lot of Us Are Gone’: How the Push to Diversify Publishing Fell Short

  21-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Lisa Lucas was among the big hires meant to shake up the industry. Her departure, alongside other prominent Black editors and executives, has led some to question publishers’ pledge to diversify.
  
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• 7 Days in the Cultural Life of an Artistic Director

  21-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Violaine Huisman, who leads programming for the Crossing the Line festival, takes in dance on Little Island, a world premiere at Asia Society and “invigorating” translation projects.
  
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• ‘Dancing With the Other Arts’: The Ballets Russes’ Creative Churn - The New York Times

  21-08-2024 11:00 via news.google.com
  ‘Dancing With the Other Arts’: The Ballets Russes’ Creative Churn  The New York Times
  
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• ‘Dancing With the Other Arts’: The Ballets Russes’ Creative Churn

  21-08-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  An exhibition at the Morgan, drawn from its collection of musical manuscripts, sheds light on one of the most collaborative periods in dance.
  
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• Late Night Suspects Convention Is a ‘Bitter Pill’ for Biden

  21-08-2024 08:31 via nytimes.com
  
  “All night, Democrats were chanting ‘We love you, Joe!’ while Biden must have been thinking, ‘Um, apparently not as much as others,” Jimmy Fallon said.
  
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• News Emmys Defend Nomination of Palestinian Journalist

  21-08-2024 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A nonprofit had argued that a video from Gaza should be disqualified because the reporter had a history of “spreading antisemitism and condoning violence.”
  
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