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10. Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet – Signs of LifeSydney-based string quartet FourPlay have made a name by playing versions of music by various rock and jazz artists, including Radiohead and Metallica, but they have also been working with the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman for more than a decade. Here they provide a series of wonderfully quizzical, meandering accompaniments as Gaiman recites deeply humanistic prose and poetry about truth, lies, death, Joan of Arc and the “casual genocide” of Indigenous Australians.…

Last updated: July 5th, 2023 at 12:08 UTC+02:00 Samsung has partnered with the blockchain-powered online platform Terrain.art to enrich the Art Store on The Frame lifestyle TV in India. Samsung is releasing new contemporary artwork, adding to the existing 2100+ digital art pieces that The Frame TV users can acquire through the Art Store. Samsung says that the latest collection of contemporary artworks created by young Indian artists tell a new story on folk art, textile traditions, monuments, diversity, and more.…

Do you miss LACMA? I do.The Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched more than 60 years ago as an encyclopedic place to collect and explore global art history from the last 3,000 years. Now, history has largely been abandoned.Most of the museum’s program of exhibitions and installations is limited to art made between the mid-19th century, when the rambunctious emergence of Modernism in Europe began to upend everything, and the present day. And most of that has been dedicated to art since 1945. LACMA has transitioned…

On the last day of 2019 Rafael Behr had a heart attack, a really bad one, the kind known as a “widowmaker”. As he was recovering he was told he’d need to avoid stress. Which, as a political columnist for the Guardian, given the state of things, was no easy task. This book is pitched as an attempt to find a path back to engaging with current affairs without ending up in an ambulance again.The good news is that Behr has avoided any further trips to the hospital. The bad news is that he still seems pretty annoyed. Certainly…

by Jose Miguel Soriano del Castillo and Mª Inmaculada Zarzo Llobell, The Conversation Children eat food donated by a church organisation during the great famine in the Netherlands between 1944 and 1945. Credit: Menno Huizinga/Wikimedia The Netherlands, late 1944. After the liberation from the Nazis, there were still unexpected problems to solve. Trains and river transport…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Kedge Business School, University College Dublin, University of Bath, and University of Texas at Austin published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines how the socialization of researchers—especially their commitments to particular research values and practices—impacts the types and results of gender-based research published in top-tier marketing journals.…

Obsidian collections from the site of Q’umarkaj and the surrounding region. Credit: R. HorowitzOver five hundred years ago, in the Guatemalan highlands of the Midwest, the Maya people traded goods with far less intervention from their rulers than previously believed by many archaeologists.According to a recent study published in the journalLatin American Antiquity, the K’iche’ ruling elite adopted a hands-off approach towards the procurement and trade of obsidian conducted by individuals outside their central sphere of…

10. Various artists – Luke Schneider presents Imaginational Anthem Vol XI: Chrome UniversalThis survey of the modern pedal steel guitar took the instrument beyond Nashville and Hawaii and into other worlds: ambient Americana, microtonal minimalism, sitar-like improvisations, desert blues, death metal, slow-motion jazz and much more. It features the likes of BJ Cole, Maggie Björklund, Susan Alcorn and Barry Walker Jr. Read the full review9. Takuro Okada – Betsu No JikanThe 14th album by this prolific Japanese guitarist…

Julia Holter’s mercurial career has taken her from traditional pop to chamber music, indie to electronica, the avant grade underground to the Top 20 and recently to film scores. Here, the Los Angeles-based composer has teamed up with the 36-strong Chorus of Opera North for the world premiere of her new live score for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent movie masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Holter initially performed a live soundtrack to the film in LA in 2017. This Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival…

The Xiaomi 12T Pro arrived in a Daniel Arsham Edition, the manufacturer announced today. The phone comes as a joint project with the New York-based artist who developed the device to be a “sculpture with a purpose outside of it as a functional object”. The device itself is a 12/256 GB version with a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset and 200 MP camera but the back panel is green, with copper-colored crystals that shine differently under angle. Daniel Arsham said in 20 years people who will have this phone will use it as…