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The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Simon Leigh’s Next Act – Superstar artist Simone Leigh revealed her plans for the U.S. pavilion at next year’s Venice Biennale. Miami Madness – The Art Angle podcast looks back on a week of art fairs in Miami through the eyes of Annie Armstrong, Artnet’s Wet Paint columnist. A New Record (of Some Kind) – NFT superstar Pak became, by one measure, the most expensive living artist of all time when some 28,000 buyers bought 266,445 units of a single digital artwork, raising $91.8 million. New Art, New Problems – Katya Kazakina investigates the new problems of showing and preserving digital art that can be changed by an artist at any time. So Long, Sacklers –…
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Incredible archival images show Chicago’s people, places and World War II soldiers during the ’40s
It’s a decade that has been called the golden age of newspaper photography. ‘We wanted to start the book in the 1940s,’ Michael Williams, one of its editors, told DailyMail.com. ‘This was an incredible period of photojournalism.’ The black-and-white photographs reveal Chicago during the decade: the soldiers going off to fight in World War II, the women who saw them off, and the parades and elation after it ended. Photojournalists took images that showed the city’s homeless, its famed Maxwell Street, which editor Richard Cahan called an incredible bazaar, and Japanese-American girls displaying their heritage after the war and forced internment. These indelible archival images – and millions of others…
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Entertainment News Roundup: Young Venezuelans attempt to break Guinness record for largest orchestra; How building Harry Potter’s world conjured its own school of magic and more

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 Youthful Venezuelans endeavor to split Guinness document for biggest orchestra 
 Venezuela on Saturday attempted to break the Guinness record for the world’s major orchestra, as 12,000 musicians played a classical piece jointly for additional than 5 minutes. The endeavor, by the country’s National Procedure of Youth and Children’s Orchestras, known as “The Technique”, would beat a Russian history set two years back and will be judged by Guinness in the upcoming 10 times. 
 How making Harry Potter’s globe conjured its have faculty of magic 
 Surrounded by “Day-to-day Prophet” front pages and books from the magical environment…
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The Sony World Photography Awards 2022 are already looking incr
(Pocket-lint) – Each year, the World Photography Organisation celebrates the very best images and photographers on the planet with the Sony World Photography Awards. We’ve already shown off the incredible images submitted to the 2021 awards and the fantastic winners that the judges selected. Now we’re seeing a tease of the images already submitted to the Sony World Photography Awards 2022. The aim is to have an exhibition at Somerset House, London in April 2022 and at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in November. In the meantime, photographers can submit photos to the competition before the deadlines close: Professional: 14 January 2022, 13:00 GMT Open: 7 January 2022, 13:00 GMT Student: 30…
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Russian actor blasts off to attempt a world first: a movie in space
MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) – A Russian actress and a movie director blasted off for the Global Area Station on Tuesday, beating Tom Cruise in the race to shoot the 1st movie in room, Business Loan. The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is established to dock at 1212 GMT at the station, which orbits Earth at an altitude of all around 220 miles (354 km). Russian point out media provided blanket and patriotic protection in the operate-up, with a countdown clock jogging on Channel One particular and news anchors framing the progress as a major breakthrough by Russia that the rest of the planet is looking at carefully. The launch to movie…