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A celebrated antiques lover with an understated, old-guard approach, his clients included Prince Charles and Andrew Lloyd Webber. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/EI3xwcz via IFTTT

The Jewish heirs of German art dealers had argued that their ancestors were forced to sell the works, now valued at $250 million, at a discount because of persecution by the Nazis. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/VfkHxzq via IFTTT

Image via Wikimedia Commons In the legend of the Buddha, prince Siddhartha encounters the poor souls outside his palace walls and sees, for the first time, the human condition: debilitating illness, aging, death. He is shocked. As Simone de Beauvoir paraphras.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fSNc0Jo via IFTTT

Some assume that the term “nuclear family” refers to the American household as conceived of in the 1950s: a working father, stay-at-home mother, and 2.3 kids under one suburban roof. This is a misconception — “nuclear” simply implies an exclusion of extended .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RenVPQA via IFTTT

The global dealer opened a second space in South Korea’s capital just before the Frieze and Kiaf fairs, with an eye toward new artists and new buyers. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6ENJbuo via IFTTT

The art fair takes on a whole new continent this fall, showcasing more than 110 galleries in the South Korean capital. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hmq58oL via IFTTT

Lee Bul, a contemporary Korean artist, blends old traditions and new techniques. Work from her latest series, “Perdu,” will be shown at Frieze Seoul. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gEfIaN7 via IFTTT

Never was there such an exhilarating time and place to be interested in atheism than the internet of ten or fifteen years ago. “People compiled endless lists of arguments and counterarguments for or against atheism,” remembers blogger Scott Alexander. One ath.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/yPwcr1X via IFTTT

However old you may be, you’re never too old to have a children’s book read aloud to you by a pajama clad Dolly Parton. So snuggle up! Every episode of Goodnight with Dolly finds the country music icon in bed, glamorously made up as ever, reading glasses perc.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/BJ2wtxL via IFTTT

New York’s Armory Show, first launched in 1994, is considered by many to be a cornerstone of the art world calendar. This year’s edition takes place 9-11 September. Here are five artists to know. Zanele Muholi | Yancey Richardson Gallery “All I want to see is.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/mP7f9xN via IFTTT

In the wake of an F.B.I. raid, the crisis at the Orlando Museum of Art deepened amid upheaval on its board and the resignation of its interim director. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/5kEtMsD via IFTTT

In a 35-year career celebrated at MoMA this fall, the artist has concerned himself with “the poetry of looking,” blurring the line between party and protest. But, increasingly, it’s politics on his mind. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/r3CaOFE via IFTTT

Edward Hopper is as American as blue jeans, Coca-Cola, and urban alienation, and American in essentially the same way: his work is rooted deeply enough in American culture to be identifiable with it, yet shallowly enough to allow adaptability into many other .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/tnHVpU1 via IFTTT

John Coltrane talked about his playing in educational terms, seeing himself as a student and, through his playing, as a teacher of new musical forms and possibilities. His most enduring lesson may come from what some critics call his first truly iconic and mo.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/zpZi4kx via IFTTT

https://ift.tt/HtOo872 Jordan Peele’s launch from a solid comedy base with Comedy Central’s Key & Peele show to the unexpected horror film Get Out was so impressive that he’s.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2613bem via IFTTT

“Portraiture is a very old art form going back at least to ancient Egypt, where it flourished from about 5,000 years ago,” says Tate. “Before the invention of photography, a painted, sculpted, or drawn portrait was the only way to record the appearance of som.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/njEI1B9 via IFTTT

Though it may not figure prominently into the average whirlwind Eurail trip across the continent, Vienna’s role in the development of European culture as we know it can hardly be overstated. Granted, the names of none of its cultural institutions come mind as.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Bzf6Hta via IFTTT

Revisiting the landmark exhibition at MoMA, our critic finds clues to a new story line. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ugw0MYf via IFTTT

“Each of my photos is like looking at a page from my diary,” says Delfina Carmona. The Berlin-based image-maker, originally from Buenos Aires, has just published a photobook with Setanta Books. “I take self-portraits as a way to know myself, express my ideas,.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/SslU4Wh via IFTTT

Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over 3400 year old. Actually, you can – a similar tablet making r.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/IPeMk5i via IFTTT

The sale, which is expected to be the biggest in auction history for a private collection, will offer works from the Microsoft co-founder’s impressive cache that ranges from old masters to contemporary giants. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Kwh6P50 via IFTTT

Five sculptures, created by artists from underrepresented communities, will find a place in the sun at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens until Sept. 11. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gKjZOFX via IFTTT

The German-born artist brought his brand of modernism to the United States and was fascinated by all the different faces he could find here. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/6BfUjHg via IFTTT

By Katherine Connell Cinema about sex is often enriched by summer settings: escalating heat can place bodies into increasingly erotic orbits as the seeming eternity of canicular days are pit against seasonal ephemerality. While fleeting yet formative attachmen.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/WHx5o3c via IFTTT

The twenty-first century encourages us to regard ourselves as having evolved beyond heroes, to say nothing of myths. Such things were only useful in the pre-modern world, as yet unblessed by the conveniences, pleasures, and certainties of science and technolo.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/P21BLlw via IFTTT

In 2022, the advertisements and recommendations we see are defined by computers – tailor made based on a user’s search history, location or past purchases, amongst other factors. “Google’s algorithms largely determine what information you find, Amazon’s what .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xwVK9Ob via IFTTT

Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell. — Pliny the Younger A great deal of what we know — or think we know — about the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD comes filtered through modern mythologies like the 1834 novel The Last Days o.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/IK0vVLT via IFTTT

The Pop artist spent his final years taking pictures and kept them a secret. Dozens are on view in a revelatory show at the Morgan Library & Museum. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/lbNTsRf via IFTTT

Today, we can simply log onto Google Earth and, with a few clicks, look at any edifice anywhere in the world. Whilst this is completely commonplace in 2022 – it is, still, a radically new technological development. Luckily, in the 20th century, Sir Nikolaus P.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gcJEAbQ via IFTTT

The BTS leader has been championing canonical artists from his native South Korea — studying their work, buying it and sometimes talking to it. “I feel like they’re watching me,” he said. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/nTEPJyk via IFTTT

There was a time when one could hardly hope to enter polite society without knowing one’s Cabernets from one’s Pinots and one’s Chardonnays from one’s Rieslings. That time has not quite gone, exactly, and indeed, a greater variety of pleasures await the oenop.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cWUbazh via IFTTT

Kate Bush has been lying in wait for us on this side of the millennium – especially for those of us on the U.S. side of the pond, who paid too little attention when she became pop royalty in the UK (and Japan!) at the turn of the 80s. Bush was too quirky, too.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/1gJkdSA via IFTTT

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/x9E1Hjg via IFTTT

That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/riLv1u3 via IFTTT

His drawings from the early ’60s in “craggy, neurotic, ruthlessly precise ink” are on view in a remarkable museum debut at the Morgan Library. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7d1B9MV via IFTTT

A bowl of cherries surrounded by sticky footprints. A hand pressed against a screen door. Fairy lights flickering overhead, twinkling like fireflies. These are images by Cig Harvey, a British-born photographer who now lives on Maine’s Midcoast – a rural locat.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/oSZutDI via IFTTT

People suffering from dementia lose their ability to take an active part in conversations, everyday activities, and their own physical upkeep. They are prone to sudden mood swings, irritability, depression, and anxiety. They may be stricken with delusions and.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/r3VRNUG via IFTTT

In 1963, Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki” proved that a song sung in Japanese could top the charts in the United States. Not that the American recording industry was quick to internalize it: another Japanese single wouldn’t break the Billboard Top 40 for sixteen yea.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/i0EpFUb via IFTTT

As Sylvia – the heroine of Federico Fellini’s 1960 film La Dolce Vita steps off the plane in Rome – she is met by a horde of press photographers, eager to get a shot. That scene is indicative of the way cinema and photography have always been linked in a mutu.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ZAGErKP via IFTTT

We have covered it before: school districts across the United States are increasingly censoring books that don’t align with white-washed conservative visions of the world. Art Spiegelman’s Maus, The Illustrated Diary of Anne Frank, Alice Walker’s The Color Pu.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/cXA1qjw via IFTTT

As more looted art comes back to Africa, countries have wrestled with the right way to display it. That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has found an answer. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/jyHGZkh via IFTTT

“The first tool in photography is light,” says NJAHEUT, the Belgian-Cameroonian photographer whose series What I Let Appear, Masculin Bleuté and Printemps are shown here. In all three portrait collections, the artist plays with brightness and shadow – a quali.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bpDN0Q8 via IFTTT

A decade ago, nobody interested in prestige dramatic television could have ignored Breaking Bad, Vince Gilligan’s AMC series about a downtrodden high-school chemistry teacher who becomes a calculating and savage crystal-meth dealer. Such was the critical and .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/z142yxN via IFTTT

Dolly Parton created her Imagination Library, a non-profit which gives books to millions of children every month, with her father, Robert Lee Parton, in mind. “I always thought that if Daddy had an education, there’s no telling what he could have been,” she m.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/SMPf7KC via IFTTT

Andrés Jaque, the founder and principal of the Office for Political Innovation, succeeds Amale Andraos. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RxofuWb via IFTTT

Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s new show is a multidimensional meditation on guns as weapons and as sources for her work. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/s9MOmxi via IFTTT

Tom Wiscombe’s “chapel” on Sunset Boulevard lets passers-by immerse in a streaming world projected onto LED screens outside — and an architectural storm inside. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/j12XLRA via IFTTT

The word Endling was first published in 1996 by the scientific journal Nature. It was used as a way to describe the last known individual member of a given species – like Lonesome George, the final Pinta Island tortoise, who made headlines when he died in 201.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/oVFKw0Y via IFTTT

Berlin’s 178 museums, seven symphony orchestras and three opera houses are once again up and running, along with a flourishing restaurant and nightclub scene. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/YuT5Z1q via IFTTT

Cambodia suspects many items were looted and has concerns about a former curator’s business relationship with a Met donor later accused of antiquities trafficking. The museum is seeking evidence of the claims. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/youvb8S via IFTTT

Much has been said lately about jokes that “haven’t aged well.” Sometimes it has do to with shifting public sensibilities, and sometimes with a gag’s exaggeration having been surpassed by the facts of life. As a Twitter user named Max Saltman posted not long .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/FpRTzlw via IFTTT

According to a recent survey conducted by the Texas State Teachers Association, 70% of surveyed teachers said they were seriously thinking about leaving the teaching profession. “Lingering stress from the pandemic is a factor, but it isn’t the only one. Inade.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/njsF3TV via IFTTT

Two German archaeologists use science to recreate the lost colors of antiquity. But historians debate just how authentic their version of the past really is. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/DbvelNz via IFTTT

One of the University of Michigan Library’s most prized possessions, which appeared to be a Galileo manuscript, is now thought to be the work of a 20th-century forger. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/V9lBHKY via IFTTT

Our critic finds that a new biopic series on the CW prefers contemporary clichés to exploring what actually made the artist fascinating. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7onwcXh via IFTTT

The paintings of Francis Bacon continue to trouble their viewers, not least those viewers who try to slot his work into a particular genre or movement. Bacon rose to prominence painting the human body, hardly an uncommon subject, but he did so in the middle o.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ibgUnkC via IFTTT

Land Art emerged in 1960s and 1970s. Artists began to sculpt the earth into visually striking shapes, creating structures in the landscape using natural materials such as rocks or twigs. One of the most famous examples is Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, which.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/0Pal7h6 via IFTTT

Orson Welles was only 25 years old when he directed and starred in Citizen Kane, a film still widely considered the best ever made. Even then, he’d already been a household name for at least three years, since his controversially realistic radio adaptation of.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/XxJZ1Up via IFTTT

Throughout history, determined artists have worked on available surfaces – scrap wood, cardboard, walls… Ben Wilson has created thousands of works using chewing gum as his canvas. Specifically, chewing gum spat out by careless strangers. His work has become a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Ol9KHLF via IFTTT

In her memoir, Alice Sedgwick Wohl describes growing up in a large genteel family, and refines the popular impression of her famous younger sister. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ncDFtUK via IFTTT

Street photography isn’t really about streets – they are just the stage. Looking through images from the genre’s godfather, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) to contemporary practitioners such as Martin Parr (b. 1952) and Clarissa Bonet (b. 1986), the images .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7gBM6Q0 via IFTTT

I have often been asked if Christopher defended me because he was my close friend. The truth is that he became my close friend because he wanted to defend me. –Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie remains in critical condition after suffering multiple stab wounds wh.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/GYkF2sJ via IFTTT

The third round of funding for the year will support 226 projects across the country. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/AxIFaoR via IFTTT

There could be few more American styles of dwelling than the tract house, and few more American architects than Frank Lloyd Wright. But Wright, of course, never designed a tract house. Each of his dwellings, to say nothing of his public buildings, was in ever.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/B2blVUT via IFTTT

Librarians are champions of organization, and among its best practitioners. Books are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal system. Categories are assigned using Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Library of C.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/b0Wimeh via IFTTT

Vinitte Chen is a Shanghai-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice is influenced by an upbringing in two countries: China and Canada. Various natural landscapes, cultural norms and artistic edification shape her interactive, experimental pieces, many of .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Rfbl9vD via IFTTT

If you don’t believe chairs can be art, you’ll have to take it up with the curators, gallerists, collectors, architects, and designers around the world who spend their lives obsessing over chair design. Every major museum has a furniture collection, and every.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/vSzftQZ via IFTTT

The Body Art movement developed during the 1960s. Marina Abramović (b. 1946) and Carolee Shneemann (1939-2019) are amongst its best-known proponents, creating and capturing influential performances that pushed the limits of human endurance. Many works functio.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/tngdsbc via IFTTT

“Orpheus and the Sirens” will be sent back in September, with other ancient artworks to follow. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Bqv4PJm via IFTTT

As OMA cancels three shows, some donors shift their support — and a celebrated collection — to the Rollins Museum of Art. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/QtvkHDg via IFTTT

In 1843, the pioneering image-maker and botanist Anna Atkins released her first book: Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions. The volume, packed with detailed pictures of blue-and-white plant specimens, is considered amongst the very earliest to .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/RXIVkAq via IFTTT

American nostalgia as we know it was invented in the nineteen-seventies. Consider that decade’s preponderance of backward-looking pop-cultural phenomena: Sha Na Na; Happy Days; “Yesterday Once More”; American Graffiti, whose tagline asked “Where were you in ’.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/SaZmwbP via IFTTT

The artist turned the remote town of Marfa into a cultural pilgrimage site. Three decades after his death, the foundations charged with preserving his complicated legacy are debating how to move forward. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/t3A1QhB via IFTTT

The highest quality classical guitars handmade in the 21st century can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. This is no frivolous expense for a professional player. Put such an instrument in the hands of an amateur and you may not hear much difference be.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Aiw1dXj via IFTTT

A group of art experts have had intensive training to become part of the U.S. Army Reserve. It will be their job to help save cultural heritage in war zones. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Zdp1Nr8 via IFTTT

He’s back to making videos that poke fun at the ways of the art world, but a sprawling new show allows viewers to see how he puts it all together. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3tfHcO9 via IFTTT

At the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., a thrilling new show, “The Double,” proves the surprising power of duplication. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/LJe2Zck via IFTTT

The mid-nineteen-nineties was not a time without irony. You may recall that, back then, “alternative” rock had not only gone mainstream, but, in certain regions, had even become the most popular genre of music on the radio. That was certainly true in the Seat.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/m81OpwY via IFTTT

According to the Book of Revelation, the returning Christ arrives surrounded by seven candlesticks. In its author’s prophetic dream, “his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.” From his mouth issues “.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/9A2bOf3 via IFTTT

Rather than try to illustrate the war directly, Ukrainian curators turned to older art that inspired new emotions. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/2IUN4kb via IFTTT

There are just three weeks to go before the £10,000 Aesthetica Art Prize closes for entries on 31 August. Here is an essential guide to entering the award, in the words of our talented finalists. These short, one-minute videos offer essential insights into th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/dneLDWO via IFTTT

The story of artist John Heartfield — born Helmut Franz Josef Herzfeld in Berlin in 1891 — begins like a German fairy tale. In 1899, his parents, ill and poverty-stricken, abandoned Helmut and his three siblings in a mountain cabin at Aigen, near Salzburg. Th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/StsfF6N via IFTTT

In 1958, Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward. Eight years later, he announced the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Between those two events, of course, came the Great Chinese Famine, and historians now view all three as being “gr.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wvHL6co via IFTTT

https://ift.tt/0ft8D37 The 2022 Oscar winner for Best Picture was CODA, a story about a musically inclined girl with a deaf family. Kambri Crews, herself a CODA and author of a .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/19vckJN via IFTTT

“It’s as if we’ve been looking at the world with blinkers,” observes Aindrea Emelife, a London-based art historian, author and curator who sits on the Mayor of London’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. Her latest show, BLACK VENUS is at Fotografi.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/njOYJrw via IFTTT

It is an exciting time to engage with photography. On the one hand – as we are continually reminded – the digital world is now saturated with images. Yet a photograph is arguably more potent than ever, thanks to rapidly developing camera technologies and the .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/PJZENX8 via IFTTT

The Honolulu home of Jean Charlot, a French expatriate artist, embodies his appreciation for the surrounding landscape. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/bls3XJI via IFTTT

In the first half of the 19th century, much of western culture was witnessing the birth of photography. This was shaped by the currents of Romanticism. Painters, writers and musicians were reacting to the accelerating effects of the Industrial Revolution, see.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/DmSgjRN via IFTTT

Charlie Chaplin had many high-profile fans in his day, including some of the luminaries of the early twentieth century. We could perhaps be forgiven for assuming that the writer and activist Hellen Keller was not among them, given the limitations her conditio.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7YPuXV4 via IFTTT

Damien Hirst is into NFTs. Some will regard this as a reflection on the artist, and others a reflection on the technology. Whether you take those reflections to be positive or negative reveals something about your own concept of how the art world, the busines.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Hu9leOX via IFTTT

The investigators say Georges Lotfi invited them to his storage space because he did not think they would suspect that the antiquities he kept there were stolen, an accusation he denies. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3TRDlMu via IFTTT

Many cultural institutions were not prepared to protect their collections and buildings before the Russian invasion, so ad hoc groups of arts workers and leaders stepped in to fill the breach. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Llxcd81 via IFTTT

Vessels that lessen clutter and bring style to any space. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/hVPkwcz via IFTTT

The three artists that gallerists James Payne and Joanne Shurvell have chosen to represent New York City in their series Great Art Cities Explained are as refreshing as they are surprising. Andy Warhol? Nope. Keith Haring? No. Jean-Michel Basquiat? Uh-uh. The.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/fg0MWvl via IFTTT

Thirteen minutes was an awful long time for The Ramones, since they could play an entire album of songs in a quarter of an hour. Thus, when Ramones fan Mark Gilman snuck a Super-8 sound camera into the Grenada Theater in Kansas City in July of 1978 to secretl.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/7uhQgLw via IFTTT

Dumplings are so delicious and so venerable, it’s understandable why more than one country would want to claim authorship. As cultural food historian Miranda Brown discovers in her TED-Ed animation, dumplings are among the artifacts found in ancient tombs in .. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wqW9de7 via IFTTT

One of the art world’s most important events, Documenta, is at its halfway point. So far, a tiny fraction of the art has been the main topic of conversation. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/3Pb42vj via IFTTT

Isaac Julien’s installation at the Barnes Foundation highlights the museum’s African sculptures even as it questions the ethics of their acquisition. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/rlKF20v via IFTTT

“Nairobi is going through a creative renaissance,” Thandiwe Muriu told UNESCO in 2020, referencing the city’s burgeoning experimental music scene, cultural festivals and local sense of style. The self-taught photographer was born and raised in Kenya’s capital.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/whdrHTu via IFTTT

Many of us avoid turning on the oven during a heatwave, but how do we feel about making cookies in a Dutch Oven heaped with glowing embers? Justine Dorn, co-creator with other half, Ron Rayfield, of the Early American YouTube channel, strives to recreate 18th.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/gl2UA76 via IFTTT

If you are a graduate of a U.S. school system, the words “Remember the Lusitania” may be as vaguely familiar to you as “Remember the Alamo.” And you may be just as fuzzy about the details. We learn roughly that the sinking of the British luxury liner was an a.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/n1EX65y via IFTTT

A self-taught designer, he started out selling necklaces on the streets of New York and battled stereotypes, racial and otherwise, throughout his career. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Mmf6VlE via IFTTT

An increasing number of institutions in Europe grapple with celebrating and institutionalizing marginalized cultures for the present, and the future. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/KksM4uQ via IFTTT

An artist’s journey to establish her position in the world took her to the shooting range and produced a bold, original show. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Vknaj96 via IFTTT

At the Mississippi Museum of Art, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates Jr., Carrie Mae Weems and others explore the personal legacy of the era-shaping movement from the rural South. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/TQ2Ktla via IFTTT

Elizabeth L. Hillman, the president of Mills College, will take over from Alice M. Greenwald, who announced in December that she planned to depart. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HoFOe3G via IFTTT

The curator of “In the Black Fantastic” at London’s Hayward Gallery describes it as a “feel-good show about death,” which also looks beyond Afrofuturism. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/Wgn8jUH via IFTTT

“She’s doing something very, very brave right now for you guys. This is a trust fall, and she picked the right people to do this with.” — Brandi Carlile introducing Joni Mitchell at the Newport Folk Festival, 2022 Comeback queen Joni Mitchell stunned fans wit.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/sVaU39L via IFTTT

Illusions, reflections and tricks of the light have long entranced us. The Victorian parlour trick Pepper’s Ghost is one such example. The technique – often used in the theatre, cinema, amusement parks, museums, television and concerts – is a way to create an.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/HO78EFJ via IFTTT

The wordless chorus has become a gimmick in sing-along balladry and throwaway pop. Done badly, it sounds like lazy songwriting or — to take a phrase from Somerset Maugham — “unearned emotion.” At its best, a wordless chorus is a moment of sublimity, expressin.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/WVd8yNm via IFTTT

Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of Blade Runner came out in 1982. It’s since become the blueprint for high-tech, neon-soaked dystopia and cyberpunk aesthetics: cities emblazoned with colourful billboards and 24-hour artificial light. Six years prior to its rel.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/eMYlyRr via IFTTT

A wide-ranging show at the Drawing Center takes on frills, arabesques and the complicated legacies of cultural appropriation. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/j7sdnKG via IFTTT

With his appointment, the museum shifts away from its two-pronged leadership structure. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/qn7b6fN via IFTTT

Some histories tell us more about their narrators than their characters. The story of tattoos in ancient Egypt is one example. While tattoos and other forms of body modification have been part of nearly every ancient culture, Egyptologists have found many mor.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/ztWxJBN via IFTTT

“We’re drowning in music,” says Michael Spitzer, professor of music at the University of Liverpool. “If you were born in Beethoven’s time, you’d be lucky if you heard a symphony twice in your lifetime, whereas today, it’s as accessible as running water.” We s.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/wFqxZ7u via IFTTT

“Twilight” could be the name of an Instagram filter. You can just picture it – shades of dusty pink giving any shot the ethereal magic of a pre-dusk evening, no matter where you are in the world. Decades before Instagram was a twinkle in the idea of a smartph.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/xt6w74U via IFTTT

Take a look at photos of Bush Tetras — a three-girl-one-guy No Wave/Post-Punk band from the early 1980s downtown Manhattan scene. Now, look at the photograph above, “Marcel Breuer and His Harem,” by Bauhaus photographer Erich Consemüller, taken sometime aroun.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/w7J4FqV via IFTTT

The slogan “You’ve come a long way, baby” still has some pop-cultural currency. But how many Americans under the age of sixty remember what it advertised? The line was first rolled out in 1968 to promote Virginia Slims, the then-new brand of cigarettes market.. from Art Life Culture https://ift.tt/WKpIHLM via IFTTT