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Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony

From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division’s Ceremony . The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order’s — it was their first single. From Wikipedia : “Ceremony” was one of the last Joy

In Kyoung Chun: Make Room

Transparent houses, suspended structures, and intimate paintings serve as metaphors for belonging in this exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.

Diary Comics From the 1940s

This is wonderful: a Redditor uploaded some of their grandmother’s comics that she made in the 1940s , documenting her marriage to the deployment of her husband for World War II. I never got to meet my grandma, she passed away young in 1977 but finding her 1940s sketches felt

Patterns without desires

The art expert is the fulcrum of all value and significance in the museum and auction world. Could AI supplant them? - by Noah Charney Read on Aeon

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Creating the conditions for magic

If you’re hoping for this meeting or this performance or this engagement to produce something extraordinary, why are you setting it up as if it’s ordinary? The hard work of a brainstorming session, a pitch collaboration or a negotiation happens long before most people begin. We

The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi

I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month . For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, under