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A Journey Through Time: Exploring the History and Significance of International Animation Day
2 months, 1 week ago

A Journey Through Time: Exploring the History and Significance of International Animation Day

India Today  

International Animation Day 2024 celebrates the art of animation and inspires new talent with a global celebration. The day originated in 2002 with the first public performance of moving pictures in Paris, France, marking the beginning of a new artistic medium. International Animation Day is now celebrated in over 50 countries worldwide, fostering collaboration among animators, audiences, and industry professionals. …

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Why restoring trust in science starts with art, history and education
8 months ago

Why restoring trust in science starts with art, history and education

Salon  

For Dr. Frederic Bertley, there’s a subtle connectedness among the seemingly disparate in the world. Amid a growing American distrust of science — fueled by partisan rhetoric around COVID-19 — Bertley’s approach to solving the science-trust problem is one of radical common sense, with a Renaissance spirit. Bertley’s methods include connecting the arts and humanities to science communications aimed at …

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What kind of city is Glasgow?
1 year ago

What kind of city is Glasgow?

China Daily  

Author in front of the gate of University of Glasgow Glasgow is a city full of discoveries and surprises. Unlike London's emphasis on modernity or Edinburgh's emphasis on history, Glasgow is difficult to describe as a "flagship city", but it has a rather distinct sense of hierarchy: the 18th and 19th centuries were the heyday of Britain, during which Glasgow …

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From Roman amphitheatres to Renaissance palaces and a museum for the broken hearted, enjoy a compelling culture trip in Croatia
1 year ago

From Roman amphitheatres to Renaissance palaces and a museum for the broken hearted, enjoy a compelling culture trip in Croatia

The Independent  

From the ancient Greeks, Romans and Illyrians to the Venetians, Austrians and Hungarians, so many civilisations have left their mark on Croatia over the centuries. With this extraordinary legacy, it’s not surprising that Croatia’s culture is incredibly rich – nor that eight of the country’s 10 Unesco World Heritage Sites are cultural ones. And in the Međimurje region tucked away …

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All art is ‘art’ificial, why pick on ‘Now and Then
1 year, 1 month ago

All art is ‘art’ificial, why pick on ‘Now and Then

Hindustan Times  

I was in the inspired orbit created by the brilliantly remastered voice of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, listening to his Bahar, a spring-time, early morning raga when a pop-up appeared on the laptop informing me about a new Beatles song. John Lennon was singing: “I know it’s true/ It’s all because of you/ And if I make it through/ …

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Column: Firing an art history professor for showing students an image of the prophet Muhammad is out of line
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: Firing an art history professor for showing students an image of the prophet Muhammad is out of line

LA Times  

An art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., included Islamic artworks from the 14th and 16th century that depicted the prophet Muhammad. David Everett, Hamline’s associate vice president of inclusive excellence, wrote that her lesson was “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic.” Another email from the administration said that “respect for observant Muslim students in that classroom should …

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The Long and colorful journey of enamel
2 years, 2 months ago

The Long and colorful journey of enamel

China Daily  

About 100 pieces of Chinese enamelware are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Illuminating Chinese art history with their splendid hues, these wares bear witness to cultural exchanges going back centuries, Zhao Xu reports in New York. To a modernday person who has dabbled in the country's aesthetic history, likely candidates would be "sober" and …

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‘Farewell’—and the idea of the archive
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Farewell’—and the idea of the archive

Live Mint  

Agha Shahid Ali’s poems on memory, loss and belonging have been viewed through both a personal and political lens over the past couple of years. Titled Event, Memory, Metaphor, the show has been curated by Anish Gawande, the director of the Dara Shikoh Fellowship in India who focuses on the “global creative dialogue around Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh”, and curator …

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New Art: Hiccups in theory and practice
2 years, 6 months ago

New Art: Hiccups in theory and practice

New Indian Express  

The Black Gold on Muziris also includes a three-minute digital video projection. And later, 15 kg of peppercorns were spread over the water to create “a strange, mysterious landscape like, maybe, the moon”, says Vivan. The video image shows the floating black gold strewn over the water flowing in slow-motion. What is paradoxical here is that through the magic wand …

Forgotten histories are hiding everywhere in L.A. These artists know where to look
2 years, 9 months ago

Forgotten histories are hiding everywhere in L.A. These artists know where to look

LA Times  

This story is part of Image issue 9, “Function” a sonic and visual reminder that there ain’t no party like an L.A. party. It’s no wonder institutions like the Smithsonian, Japanese American National Museum and CSU Japanese American Digitization Project are partnering with Alan — he is a connective tissue, one who locates, anchors. And I guess she put an …

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Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history
2 years, 10 months ago

Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history

BBC  

Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history Gary Snyder Fine Art NY In 1938, a Ukrainian-born grandmother created one of art's biggest shocks – but it was attributed to the US painter Jackson Pollock. Gary Snyder Fine Art NY Janet Sobel only took up painting in later life The true story of the birth of both the "drip" technique …

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In 1997 Jim Isermann slipcovered a Minimalist cube. The rest is queer art history
3 years, 1 month ago

In 1997 Jim Isermann slipcovered a Minimalist cube. The rest is queer art history

LA Times  

Jim Isermann’s art of the past 40 years comprises a body of hybrid work celebrated as crucial to the emergence of design as a discipline as powerful as painting and sculpture. Larry Bell’s “Cube” of vacuum-coated glass, which infused the form with a shifting halation that transmits, absorbs and reflects atmospheric colored light transmuted the rigid, rational form into an …

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The Huntington Library has a history of inequity. Can it pivot toward inclusivity?
3 years, 9 months ago

The Huntington Library has a history of inequity. Can it pivot toward inclusivity?

LA Times  

Beneath every robber baron’s graceful mansion seems to lie a graveyard of questionable deeds. Christina Nielsen, director of the Huntington’s art museum, sits before “The Landmark,” a bronze sculpture by artist Enrique Martinez Celaya. “I remember having lunch with my dad, a Mexican immigrant with an eighth-grade education, at the Huntington,” recalls historian Natalia Molina, who is researching the Huntington’s …

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Blog watching: History, Art Deco and other hidden treasures to discover at the City Archives
4 years, 4 months ago

Blog watching: History, Art Deco and other hidden treasures to discover at the City Archives

Dutch News  

Amsterdive is a personal blog where Ana V. Martins writes about all things Amsterdam, art and culture, and her experiences as a local / foreigner. Getting to the City Archives by bike means cycling from the west side of town along the canal belt, which is in itself an experience, no matter how often you move past those mansions, pavement …

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What did our food look like hundreds of years ago? Art history may have the answers
4 years, 5 months ago

What did our food look like hundreds of years ago? Art history may have the answers

CNN  

CNN — What happens when a plant geneticist and an art historian walk into a museum together? As a representation of the convergence of the genetics and art history disciplines, the authors titled their crowdsourcing campaign “#ArtGenetics.” “This is the beauty of doing this kind of research today,” De Smet said. “Crowdsourcing tools will allow you to access a lot …

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Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history"
5 years, 10 months ago

Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history"

Salon  

On April Fools’ Day, 1998, the crème de la crème of the New York art scene gathered for a party in the studio of Jeff Koons. In a recent issue of "The Journal of Art Crime," an article by Charlotte Rebecca Britton entitled “Forging a Double Life: Creating an Artist for the Purpose of Fraud” looked at an unusual phenomenon: …

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