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Travel
BIG’s Twist Bridge Museum Opens in Norway
AFAR Media - Terry Ward
Visitors to the Norwegian capital have a new reason to venture outside of Oslo in search of art and nature. This September marked the long-awaited …
1 day ago
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Tarot
How Dali rewrote art history as a deck of tarot cards
The Telegraph - By Iona McLaren
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them,” said Salvador Dalí. “On the contrary: rationalise them, understand them thoroughly.” The Spanish artist was also a great believer
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Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin's 'predatory behaviour and colonialist mindset' highlighted by new exhibition
The Telegraph - By Patrick Sawer and Ed Southgate
To the art aficionados of the late 19th century they were primitive but beautiful savages, free of the bourgeois codes of morality that restricted the sexual availability of European women. But nearly
1 day ago
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey's Legacy: A Rallying Cry And A Gathering Place
NPR - Tom Vitale
Art Blakey was born 100 years ago, on Oct. 11, 1919, and America's homegrown music — jazz — might not sound quite like it does today if it weren't for the influence of the late drummer. "I would call Blakey's
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Culture
Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
openculture.com - by Ayun Halliday
In our experience, bird lovers fall into two general categories: And those of us who cannot resist assigning anthropomorphic personalities and …
2 days ago
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San Francisco, CA
Dr. Jane Goodall honored at Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco
abc7news.com
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Renowned chimpanzee expert Doctor Jane Goodall was honored Thursday night at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco's …
2 days ago
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Art
Asprey Has Transformed Its London Headquarters Into a Stunning Exhibition Space for Chilean Artist Guillermo Lorca’s Dreamy
artnet.com - Shannon Mahanty
The new show is the result of a collaboration with art collector and dealer Simon de Pury. In, Fires, one of Guillermo Lorca’s smaller paintings, a …
3 days ago
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Bauhaus
Celebrate 100 years of Bauhaus at these two new exhibits
Curbed - Brock Keeling
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the first Bauhaus school opening in Weimar, Germany. Bauhaus—from 1919 to 1933—brought together arts, crafts, and industry with a focus on aesthetics and objects.
4 days ago
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The first eco-warrior of design
BBC Culture - By Andrea Watson
William Morris is known for his beautiful plant patterns – but he also foretold the climate crisis. He was an environmental visionary and way ahead of his time, writes Andrea Watson You’d be forgiven thinking
September 9
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Artists
Albrecht Dürer: The painter with “a magical touch”
BBC Culture - By Kelly Grovier
Originally finding fame for his woodcuts, the 16th-Century German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer “collapses the world” between observers today and his paintings created 500 years ago. If you look very
September 19
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Art
A cast of Antony Gormley? Or a pair of giant conkers? Gormley’s RA show reviewed | The Spectator
The Spectator - Stuart Jeffries
While Sir Joshua Reynolds, on his plinth, was looking the other way, a little girl last Saturday morning was trying to prise a littler sculpture from the pavement of the Royal Academy’s courtyard. For
4 days ago
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Art
Lee Krasner on How to Be an Artist
artsy.net - Alexxa Gotthardt
Portrait of Lee Krasner, 1953. Photo by Tony Vaccaro/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.Support didn’t come easily to Lee Krasner. Compliments of her early …
4 days ago
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Culture
The Comic That Explains Where Joker Went Wrong
The Atlantic - David Sims
Alan Moore’s classic 1988 story, Batman: The Killing Joke, was an inspiration for Todd Phillips’s grim new film—but not in the one way that really mattered. For the first few decades of his existence the
5 days ago
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Japan
Tattoos in Japan: The eye-watering art thousands cross the world for
BBC News - Rebecca Seales
For Horimitsu, the sound of needles painting skin is a soft, rhythmic scratching, like a solitary cricket - "sha, sha, sha". For 30 years he has tattooed by hand in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, needing nothing but
5 days ago
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Lego
Legos and art merge in Houston Museum of Natural Science’s ‘The Art of the Brick’
houstonchronicle.com - By Allison Bagley, Correspondent
To stage “The Art of the Brick,” a traveling exhibition comprised of more than 100 works made entirely of Legos, The Houston Museum of Natural …
5 days ago
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Art
Colorful Comics Illustrate the Remarkable Life of Vincent van Gogh
My Modern Met - Emma Taggart
Iranian cartoonist Alireza Karimi Moghaddam shares his admiration for Vincent van Gogh in an ongoing comic series starring the Post-Impressionist painter. His colorful illustrations tell the story of iconic
5 days ago
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Playwrights
Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?
slate.com - Dan Kois
Lauren Gunderson has more plays staged every year than anyone besides Shakespeare. None have ever been on Broadway.
6 days ago
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Le Corbusier
Remembering Le Corbusier & His Indian Connection On His 132nd Birth Anniversary
worldarchitecture.org - Sarbjit Bahga
"Le Corbusier's greatest contribution to twentieth-century architecture is probably that of having rediscovered man who had become lost in the …
October 6
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Culture
How to browse a used bookstore
Vox
Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of September 29, 2019. You
October 5
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Books
Clive James: ‘The most overrated books almost all emerged from a single genre – magic realism’
The Guardian - Clive James
The book I am currently reading Mostly at this stage I am rereading myself, and finding something marvellous on every page. I’ve just received the advance copies of my new book about Philip Larkin, called
October 5
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Marvel Entertainment
Martin Scorsese Says Marvel Movies Are "Not Cinema"
comicbook.com - Cameron Bonomolo
Prolific filmmaker Martin Scorsese says Marvel movies are "not cinema" and compares superhero fare to theme parks. Speaking to Empire Magazine ahead …
October 4
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China
Why China’s art market is evolving from knockoffs to new works
pbs.org - Katrina Yu
For the past week, we have been reporting on China's explosive growth and development as a world power. Tonight, we look at how Chinese artists are …
October 4
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Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama 'Infinity Room' Heads to Toledo Museum of Art as Part of 'Multi-Sensory Experience' Push -
artnews.com - Claire Selvin
Yayoi Kusama, Fireflies on the Water, 2002, mirrors, plexiglass, lights, and water. Yayoi Kusama’s infinitely popular “Infinity Room” installations are …
October 3
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Travel
Knotted postboxes have popped up across England
Lonely Planet - James Gabriel Martin
If you’re visiting the England anytime soon, you may be lucky enough to come face to face with a very curious sight; a handful of the country’s iconic vibrant red postboxes that have seemingly been looped
October 3
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Offbeat News
Amazing Continuous Bent Wire Portraits Installed Around the World in Interesting Outdoor Places
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Dutch artist Spenser Little creates amazing bent wire sculptural portraits that he installs outside windows, attached to utility poles, bridges, and …
October 2
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Philip Pullman
The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman
The New Yorker - Alexandra Schwartz
The author on writing fantasy, hating Tolkien, and the journey from innocence to experience. “Paradise Lost” might not seem like a promising conceit for a young-adult fantasy novel in which people have
September 29
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Entertainment (Australia)
Sacred white ochre discovered beneath Yirrkala art centre in Arnhem Land
abc.net.au - Jacqueline Breen
Gapan — or "white ochre" in English — is a "very sacred" thing, says Yolngu man and Yirrkala art centre worker Djuwakan 'DJ' Marika. The pale, …
September 28
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Culture
Libraries & Archivists Are Digitizing 480,000 Books Published in 20th Century That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
openculture.com - by Colin Marshall
All books in the public domain are free. Most books in the public domain are, by definition, on the old side, and a great many aren't easy to find in …
September 28
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Sculpture
Colorful Animal Sculptures Made From Plastic Trash
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Environmental artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordallo II, transforms every day trash and refuse into absolutely gorgeous, large scale, brilliantly colored …
September 23