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• Why Some Schools In Los Angeles Can’t Access Prop 28’s Extra Arts Education Funding

  17-10-2024 21:04 via mynewsla.com
  
  A report from the nonprofit Arts for LA says that, while many schools in California are taking full advantage of the funding offered, other schools are not — simply because they don’t have the necessary infrastructure or can’t find qualified teachers. – MyNewsLA.com
  
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• ‘A perfect harmony of geometry and the dance of shadows’: Ömer F Kuranli’s best phone picture

  11-01-2025 11:00
  
  The architectural photography artist is captivated by colour and abstract forms, and one sunny afternoon, something caught his eye …Ömer F Kuranli describes Istanbul’s Levent-Nispetiye district as a “skyscraper-filled business hub with an enclave of detached properties, home to various vibrant startups”.He says that the day he took this shot had got off to a dull start. “I had been immersed in my usual routine, but around midday I headed out wit
  
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• ‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie

  11-01-2025 10:00
  
  He’s worked with some of the biggest names in music, but his latest book claims there’s an artist in all of us. Brian Eno and co-author Bette Adriaanse discuss the myth of genius, and how to really unlock your creativityBrian Eno’s studio in Notting Hill is tucked away at the end of a cobbled mews, its facade a quarter of the normal size. The effect is like a kind of fairy-door, and as you enter, it opens on to a vast light-filled room with a spiral staircase at the centre. On
  
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• From Maria to Franz Ferdinand: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  11-01-2025 07:00
  
  Angelina Jolie portrays the peerless operatic diva while the Scottish post-punkers return with their new albumMaria
  Out nowDirected by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight, the same writer-director team behind the Diana, Princess of Wales biopic Spencer, this look at the life of opera singer Maria Callas stars Angelina Jolie and focuses on the period during which the star lived out of the public eye in Paris in the 1970s. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They created a Vegas in 10 years’: photographing the hedonistic gambling mecca of Macau

  10-01-2025 15:00
  
  Photographer Adam Lampton discusses capturing the vice, cash and sheer excess of the special administrative region of China – a place built on contradictions“I am not a huge gambler,” says Adam Lampton. “The first time I went to Macau, fresh out of grad school, I didn’t have any money to spare – it all went on camera film. People take it all very seriously, so I was too intimidated to sit down and be the white guy who didn’t know what the hell he was doi
  
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• Sketchy boozers, revolutionary futurists and the artists of tomorrow – the week in art

  10-01-2025 13:00
  
  Portraits of 100 London pubs, Marinetti’s ferocious innovation and a new generation on display – all in your weekly dispatchNew Contemporaries
  Find out how artists at the start of their careers are seeing the world, and maybe spot stars of the future.
  • ICA, London, 15 January-23 March Continue reading...
  
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• Renzo Galeotti obituary

  09-01-2025 20:59
  
  “Renzo never cavorts blindly in his art,” wrote Feliks Topolski of his friend and fellow artist, my father Renzo Galeotti, who has died aged 85. On paper, on canvas, and occasionally in sculpture, he was a creator who never saw any reason to disconnect his art from his politics and his wider sense of the world.This was most evident in his cycles of studies of the Italian communist thinker Antonio Gramsci and the author Primo Levi, but was as true of his other works, from commissioned
  
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• Christie’s auction showcases style of centenarian fashion muse Iris Apfel

  09-01-2025 17:16
  
  Lots include her trademark oversize glasses as well as outfits from Miu Miu, Dior and lifesize ostrich sculptureIris Apfel, perhaps the world’s first centenarian style icon, died last year at the age of 102. Now her clothes, art and furniture are set to be sold at Christie’s later this month in an online auction titled Unapologetically Iris.Anyone familiar with Apfel and her “more is more” style would know that it began with her trademark owl-like glasses. There are 18 pa
  
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• ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

  09-01-2025 16:18
  
  He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary lifeFilippo Tommaso Marinetti was the Elon Musk of the early 20th century, combining a joy in technological innovation with an appetite for illiberal politics. Where Musk builds rockets, Marinetti celebrated those shiny new inventions, the aeroplane and
  
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• National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend

  09-01-2025 13:10
  
  Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its historySome of the country’s greatest artists, including Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Francis Bacon, used to visit the National Gallery during the early hours of the morning for inspiration. Now, art lovers have the opportunity to follow in their footsteps during a rare, all-night opening for the gallery’s Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition this month.The London gallery an
  
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• ‘It’s our Olympic opening ceremony’: Dynamo, David Hockney and more unite for Bradford city of culture

  09-01-2025 11:00
  
  This year sees the city celebrate its rich, diverse creativity. Magician Dynamo, AKA Steven Frayne, and director Kirsty Housley discuss collaborating to shine a light on the arts of their home city – and offer hints on what to expectSlathered in mud, the magician formerly known as Dynamo emerged from a five-tonne mound of earth. It was 2022 and Steven Frayne had just buried himself alive, a magic trick that even Houdini never successfully performed. In the coffin-sized pit he dragged himse
  
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• They Live and Breathe Outside the Academy

  08-01-2025 21:54 via artsjournal.com
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• How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print

  08-01-2025 21:02 via npr.org
  
  “In (The Life of Herod the Great), Hurston looked to redefine the legacy of Herod, who reigned as king of Judaea from 37 BCE to 4 BCE. … Following Hurston’s death, the unfinished manuscript sat in a trunk that was nearly consumed in a fire. Luckily, a neighbor intervened with a hose.” – NPR
  
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• What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity

  08-01-2025 20:31 via newyorker.com
  
  Colin Furze demonstrates that in certain corners of the creative economy an individual with minimal overhead can work on select attention-catching projects and earn a generous upper-middle-class income. Beyond this relatively modest scale of activity, however, the returns on additional investment rapidly diminish. – The New Yorker
  
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• Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”

  08-01-2025 20:05 via sfcv.org
  “How can we reconcile the apparently gung-ho socialist sentiments expressed in Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the bitter disillusionment and sarcasm that explode in Symphonies No. 13 and 14? Should the issue of Shostakovich’s political convictions (or lack thereof) change the way we listen to his music anyway?” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Can Animals Make Art?

  08-01-2025 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  If we take art to be something that is beautiful and consciously created – and animals consciously create things that look like art – shouldn’t we accept these productions as art, too? As Edgar Degas put it, “art is not what you see, but what you make others see”. – The Conversation
  
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• Ingesting Writing For Translation, Transformation

  08-01-2025 19:32 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  When considering writing as a function of the body, we face the work’s physical, irreplicable quality. Stories and poems can be shared, but voices cannot; languages can be shared, but consciousnesses cannot. Accepting a global literature, then, is to be inspired, instead of disturbed. – Asymptote Journal
  
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• Why Even Thinking About Utopias Seems Remote

  08-01-2025 19:15 via psyche.co
  
  When national politics is becoming increasingly polarised, global conflicts are escalating to new temperatures, and the toll of the climate catastrophe grows deadlier, the mere mention of utopia risks generating side-splitting laughter. – Psyche
  
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• What’s Ultimately Behind The Decline Of Arts Criticism? The Decline Of Its Audience.

  08-01-2025 19:01 via persuasion.community
  
  “What’s gone missing, in a society that long ago excused itself from seriousness, is a broader sense that art is urgent business, that your life, in some sense, depends on it. With that goes the mass audience. With that goes not only the possibility of meaningful criticism, but also its point.” – Persuasion
  
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• The Role Of Beauty In Science

  08-01-2025 18:44 via aeon.co
  
  Over the past three years, we have studied thousands of scientists on three different continents, asking them about the role of beauty in their work. Our research left us convinced that the core aesthetic experience science has to offer is not primarily about sensory experiences or formulas. – Aeon
  
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• Can What You Eat Change Your Brain?

  08-01-2025 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In a sense, yes. The most extraordinary property of the gut-brain axis is that it is plastic. In the same way that your brain constantly takes in new information about the world around you, strengthening or changing connections via neuroplasticity, it also adjusts to signals from inside you. – The Guardian
  
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• Pushing Back Against The Pushback Against Social Justice and Art

  08-01-2025 18:15 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  In the current climate, I would argue there are few more urgent subjects for art than identity and contemporary politics, just as was the case when the Whitney staged its groundbreaking biennial in 1993. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Sadler’s Wells East, The Buzzy New Dance Venue Opening In London’s Olympic Park

  08-01-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  “This (550-seater) is the fourth Sadler’s Wells stage, after the original site, with its 1,500-capacity main stage and 180-seat Lilian Baylis studio, and the more populist Peacock theatre in London’s West End. It’ll mean a significant boost in the amount of dance on stage in London.” – The Guardian
  
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• What MrBeast’s Game Show Says About The State Of Today’s Media

  08-01-2025 17:44 via vox.com
  
  Beast Games exists to make you hate it and other people, and for you to keep watching regardless. In this, it’s an extraordinary success. – Vox
  
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• Remembering American Avant-gardist Richard Foreman

  08-01-2025 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  Foreman’s idea of theater, born in opposition to the mainstream, was an acquired taste that some of the most rigorously inventive sensibilities couldn’t get enough of. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Broken Copyright System

  08-01-2025 17:15 via theatlantic.com
  
  If Sherlock Holmes really is the last of the classic fairy-tale heroes, he may also be the first to have been protected by modern intellectual-copyright law. – The Atlantic
  
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• Watching Master Magicians From Just Six Feet Away

  08-01-2025 17:03 via nytimes.com
  
  At the back of a magic store near the western edge of Brooklyn is the theater 69 Atlantic, where some of the world’s most skilled prestidigitators work their wonders in a space which sits only 18 spectators. – The New York Times
  
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• Even As Hollywood Contracts, L.A. Is Going Ahead With $1 Billion “Television City” Project

  08-01-2025 16:34 via msn.com
  On the site of the old CBS Television City complex, a developer plans to build 980,000 square feet of offices, sound stages, production facilities and retail space on the 25-acre property. The Los Angeles City Council approved the plan unanimously despite some heavy neighborhood opposition. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Netherlands Is Converting Its Panopticon Prisons Into Arts Hubs

  08-01-2025 16:02 via theguardian.com
  At the Koepel in Haarlem, “a cafe fills the ground floor with chatter. Above, nearly all the former cells are being rented. There’s a podcast studio, art school ateliers and gallery spaces, while the darkened cinema bar offers a more intimate charm.” – The Guardian
  
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• An All-AI-Powered FM Radio Station, Courtesy Of Rapper Lupe Fiasco

  08-01-2025 15:35 via insideradio.com
  
  Fiasco’s station, created in partnership with MIT and called “Endless LUP,” is planning to run 24/7, with music generated by AI software “trained on the intricacies of Lupe’s distinctive style. Each track will be unique, never repeated, offering listeners an endless stream of fresh, Lupe-inspired music.” – Inside Radio
  
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