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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Rem Koolhaas Discovers The Countryside (And Comes Off As A City Rube) by Artsjournal

Having spent 50 years theorizing about cities, he grew annoyed by how much time his fellow urbanists spend theorizing about cities. So he pulled on his wellies and went tromping out into the…

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Shocking: How Easily Humans Are Getting Intimate With AI by Artsjournal

We're witnessing a major shift in traditional social life, but it's not because we're always online, or because our tech is becoming conscious, or because we're getting AI lovers like Samant…

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Just In Time For Coronavirus? Video Conferencing Is Getting A Makeover by Artsjournal

From virtual backgrounds to hide the dirty dished in your sink to AI-powered smoothing of video over iffy connections, video-conferencing services are trying to make the experience more vivi…

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Anne Midgette: The Placido Domingo Case by Artsjournal

"Domingo is, indeed, irreplaceable " because the world no longer has a place for this particular kind of artist, who has done so much to help the field and so much to harm it. And it may wel…

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Director Says Apple Won't Let Its Products Be used By Bad Guys In Movies by Artsjournal

Knives Out and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has said that Apple won't let the bad guys in movies use iPhones. "Apple… they let you use iPhones in movies but " and this is very pivot…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Hollywood Celebrates Harvey Weinstein Verdict by Artsjournal

Actresses and activists celebrated Monday when a New York jury found the producer guilty on two counts, in a decision that could send him to jail for up to 25 years.  " The Daily Beast

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New Right Wing Director Of Warsaw's Contemporary Art Center Cancels Shows, Cuts Funding by Artsjournal

The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art is now seen by many in Poland's contemporary art community as a new front in the country's culture wars, as the ruling Law and Justice party…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]

Neuroscientists Study Blind Pianist's Brain And Discover How It Rewired Itself by Artsjournal

"Pretty remarkable. His entire brain is stimulated by music. His visual cortex is activated throughout. It seems like his brain is taking that part of the tissue that's not being stimulated …

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Finally: A Serious Attempt To Cut Down Money Laundering In Art? by Artsjournal

"There has long been concern over the ease with which suspect funds can be laundered through the buying and selling of art. Now, at last, we are seeing a concerted attempt to get to grips wi…

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Why We're Both Repelled And Drawn To Disgusting Things by Artsjournal

"We need to account for the fact that we chase after disgust. Our attraction to disgust is hardly modern. The grotesque fascinated painters from the Renaissance to Goya, with his visages of …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:36PM[SHARE]

So Far California's New Gig Economy Law Is A Disaster For Theatres And Actors by Artsjournal

No one is arguing that theatre artists don't deserve to be paid or shouldn't be treated well. As Susie Medak, managing director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, pointed out, there's simply a f…

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Some Advice From The Ancients On Dealing With "Alternative" Facts by Artsjournal

From teaching Greek texts I have become increasingly convinced that the Theogony's narrator quotes the Muses not merely to evade responsibility for telling an unknown story nor to praise the…

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Blake Gopnik's New Bio Of Warhol: A Case For His Enduring Influence by Artsjournal

It is hard now to recapture the shock of 1962 when the iterations of Campbell's soup went on display at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (New York wasn't interested). But the cumulative effe…

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Steve Bannon Wants To Set Up National Bootcamp In Ancient Italian Monastery. The Ministry Of Culture Is Trying To Block Him by Artsjournal

The Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI), a Catholic lobby group run by the British conservative Benjamin Harnwell, was granted a 19-year lease on the building by the ministry of culture two y…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:18PM[SHARE]
Monday, February 24, 2020

Is It Possible To Enjoy The Instagram "Museum" Without Your Phone? by Artsjournal

Specifically, the Ice Cream "Museum," which is all about shareable selfies. After all, what's the point of going if not to take appealing pictures? " New York Magazine

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Trump Administration Is Moving National Archives Out Of Seattle. Native Americans Are Furious by Artsjournal

"The U.S. government made us paper Indians " our ancestors are here," Jack proclaimed last week at Sand Point. To close and remove the archives is to physically remove the ancestors (word is…

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New Pew Study: Experts Believe Tech Will Weaken Democracy by Artsjournal

Some 49% of these respondents say use of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation in the next decade, 33% say use of technology will mostly stren…

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Did Internet Pioneers Blow It When It Comes To Free Speech? by Artsjournal

Increasingly, I'm hearing from politicians, activists, and people like my journalist friend who say that maybe we 1990s-era internet activists blew it. The story goes that we were so shortsi…

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Director, Indiana University Cinema by Artsjournal

One of the nation's most prestigious movie houses, Indiana University Cinema (IU Cinema) presents and examines the world's most entertaining, fascinating, and thought-provoking films and inv…

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The Streaming Wars Are Bringing On A New Media Dystopia by Artsjournal

The return to piracy is both a bit of a meme and a bit of a reality. And its return is absolutely the result of a market that giant companies have built to intentionally trap customers into …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]

Behind The US Government's Algorithm That Denied Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman A Visa To Enter by Artsjournal

Two days before Weizman, a professor at London's Goldsmiths College, was due to fly to the US from Britain, he received an email from the US Embassy telling him that the visa waiver on his B…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]

Construction Of Trump's Border Wall Is Endangering Ancient Heritage by Artsjournal

"This turn of events has been both somehow shocking and predictable. In June of 2019, archaeologists surveyed some of the area awaiting construction, which would include replacing existing f…

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What Is Liberalism? (Whatever It Is, It Seems In Decline) by Artsjournal

Recent debates have tended to confuse rather than clarify matters. In left-of-center discourse, "liberalism" and "leftism" are often invoked as respective shorthand for neoliberalism and soc…

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The Globally Networked Museum " Could It Be The Museum Model For The 21st Century? by Artsjournal

Greece and Britain have the opportunity to renew their respective stories by leading the way in creating a museum for the 21st century. How it would be organised would be open to discussions…

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Lind: Blame The Elite Managers For The Rise Of Global Populism by Artsjournal

Once, Michael Lind observes, "trade unions, participatory political parties, and religious and civic organizations compelled university-educated managerial elites to share power with them or…

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Rio Carnival Taboo Broken: First Trans Woman To Lead Parade by Artsjournal

Camila Prins says she first realized she wanted to be a woman at a Carnival party at age 11, when, like the other boys, she was allowed to dress like a girl as part of the burlesque festivit…

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The sheer profusion of actors online has foreclosed their need to be real at all: the armies of bots and the Russian sockpuppets, the corporate tweeps and the AI deepfakes. One can just as e…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]

Why Still The Idea That Theatre Is Best In New York? by Artsjournal

" It's time to get our heads out of our collective asses and wake up to the fact that having a New York zip code does not make you a better actor by default.  Nor does wanting a better qu…

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Is This Pliny The Elder's Skull? by Artsjournal

Over the last few years a pool of Italian biologists, anthropologists and geochemists conducted a series of forensic tests on the skull and accompanying lower mandible, which were unearthed …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:32PM[SHARE]

The Forger As Artist " A Superfan's Show Of Work By Elmyr de Hory by Artsjournal

In the 1950s and '60s, Elmyr de Hory is believed to have forged over a thousand works by major artists. Many have been removed from museums. Others, some experts say, have not. Mark Forgy ha…

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Friday, February 21, 2020

Report: Arts Drive Tourism In Australia by Artsjournal

Australians took 12.3 million daytrips and 13.4 million overnight trips within Australia that included arts activities in 2018 " an increase of 14 percent and 20 percent respectively since 2…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:42PM[SHARE]