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January 31, 2023 at 1:51 PM EST Claude Monet is famous for his 1901 painting of London’s Charing Cross Bridge. A new study says the blurry contours may have been inspired by air pollution. (Video: Getty Images / The J. Paul Getty Museum) Comment on this story Leave a comment Claude Monet was “scared.” He looked outside and saw a scene across the London landscape that worried him: no fog, clear skies. “Not even a hint of fog,” he wrote in a letter to his wife, Alice, on March 4, 1900, while the French painter was visiting London. “I was lying on my knees and could only see how all my paintings were made.” Then, he writes in translated letters shared by the Tate art museum, fires were gradually lit, and smoke and a haze of industrial pollution returned to the air. His work continued. A new study, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analyzed changes in style and color in nearly 100 paintings by Imp...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (WNDU) – The City of St. Joseph and partners are launching two programs to help upgrade Court Place Plaza and local businesses in the area. The initial concepts discussed for Court Place Plaza’s upgrades call for public seating, overhead lighting, bike racks and public art, with the goal of an active, programmed space. The upgrades are now included in the Public Spaces Community Places crowdfunding programme. They are part of the original 2020 Downtown Vision Master Plan, which you can find by clicking here. The Facade Improvement Program is a $10,000 refund to downtown businesses that want to improve their storefronts. To apply for the grant, you can click here. (Cornerstone Alliance) Cornerstone Alliance Press Release: Significant upgrades to Court Place Plaza and an optional renovation program for downtown St. Joseph business facades are key elements in economic development initiatives for placemaking in a partnership between the City of St. Joseph, the S...

The ArchDaily 2023 Building of the Year Awards Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://ift.tt/evcWA3d The 14th edition of the ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards is here and once again we are reaching out to you, our community, to evaluate the projects and select the winners. This year we have more than 4,500 projects nominated in 15 different categories. From residential, to commercial or public, each category showcases the very best in innovation, sustainability, design and functionality. The projects put together by our team have made a significant impact on the built environment and deserve recognition for their excellence. As a member of our community, we would first like to invite you to participate in the selection process by casting your vote for the building that you believe deserves to be named the winner in each category. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your say in the world of architecture, and help us celebra...

Kevin Connelly 2224 South Waccamaw Drive, Garden City Beach This beach house sits beautifully on a piece of land blissfully surrounded by the sea to the east and the inlet to the west. The address and background could not be more perfect, but the inside and outside of the house is also something worth writing about. It’s all the handiwork of Lance Griffith, owner of and interior designer at CHD Interiors. Before selling it to current owner Kevin Connelly, Griffith was the owner for the last 18 years. And while he’s dabbled in tweaking design elements here and there over the years, he’s never done an extensive renovation like this. “The house was tired,” says Griffith. “We took out fireplaces, we moved walls, we scrapped kitchens, cut bathrooms. We took every wall out of the house and added brand new sheetrock, brand new wood, wood siding, wiring, windows, fixtures and bathrooms. I mean, it was just a big renovation to get the house ready for the next 20 years and more.” The five-...

Quick take: Warner Music Group has teamed up with GameFan to launch Rhythm City on Roblox. GameFan operates the largest network of games on Roblox with over 25 million daily game sessions and over 115 million hours of engagement per month. Rhythm City blends elements of gaming with music to create a 3D experience that allows artists and audiences to define and contextualize their communities. Warner Music Group has launched a new metaverse experience on Roblox. The global entertainment and record production company partnered with leading metaverse game and content producer GameFan to create Rhythm City. Rhythm City blends elements of gaming with music to create a metaverse experience that allows artists and audiences to define and contextualize their communities. This experience is part of WMG’s web3 strategy to create new ways of engagement for music artists and their fans. The company has already announced several partnerships, mostly focusing on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In ...

I ordered what I thought was the perfect winter coat from Zara – then I discovered an annoying design flaw, people say it’s MY fault By Lydia Hawken for Mailonline Published: 08:46 EST, January 30, 2023 | Updated: 09:25 EST, January 30, 2023 A fashion influencer was left heartbroken after discovering a ‘design flaw’ with her £169 Zara winter coat – but people think she’s to blame for not spotting it sooner. Suzie Bonaldi, 31, from Brighton, recently bought a £169 longline piece of black outerwear from Zara’s recent collaboration with South Korean fashion house Ader Error. In a viral TikTok that has garnered more than 468,000 views, the style blogger explained how she was instantly drawn to the coat when she saw it on the site. She said: ‘This is all I wanted, this is to give [designer] Wardrobe NYC. It gives Hailey Bieber.’ Suzie Bonaldi, 31, from Brighton, thought this £169 black Zara coat was ‘stunning’ when she first saw it on the brand’s website Showing a photo o...

The value of the collection underscores its importance as the NGA faces a financial cliff in June this year when a short-term funding injection of $24.77 million ends. The gallery is considering drastic measures, including forced redundancies, closing the Canberra building two days a week, and the possible reintroduction of entry fees. Currently loading The cultural institution also faces a $265 million funding shortfall over the next 10 years to waterproof its 40-year-old building — a project essential to protecting its multibillion-dollar collection. Chiara O’Reilly, director of museum and heritage studies at the University of Sydney, said the gallery bought things, but Blue poles’ intrinsic value was indicative of modern nationhood. “That painting is a giant of American art history and now holds this incredible place in Australian cultural identity,” she said. “Part of it is the infamy it had when it was bought, it grew interest in the painting and it became something that ha...

By Jim Force | Special to Wausau Pilot & Review A person from the Stone Age three million years ago walking down a street in Wausau might not feel completely out of place. This is because the numerous murals appearing in increasing numbers on the sides of our buildings can remind us Paleolithic pedestrians of home. The social or political context of the artwork may not be understandable, but the old-timers will probably understand that there is a message somewhere between the brightly colored pictures and designs. After all, this kind of artwork has been around for a long time—with ancient pictographs traced back to the early cave dwellers and found all over the earth. According to sources such as Wall Art and Youth Murals, this type of art has been around as long as humans have walked the earth. “People scratched, carved, etched and painted them” on stone surfaces. Techniques Older murals, such as those in the Sistine Chapel, often used the “fresco” technique of applying ...

C once I’m submerged, a shower is as far as I’m usually willing to go. I don’t acknowledge the existence of bathtubs and when it comes to immersive art, I prefer to be an engaged and critically alert observer, not a participant. I made an exception for Nicholas Hytner’s Shakespeare productions at the Bridge Theater in London, although I chose to watch the scrum – with the rest of the audience as a hearty, bickering mob in Julius Caesar or a bunch of enchanted in A Midsummer Night’s Dream – from the safety of a fixed seat. I love hearing the soprano at the end of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde sing about ecstatically drowning in the currents of sound that flow from her, which she calls “the wafting universe of the world-breath”. In the opera house you can feel this sensorium beating around you, but it is only echoing air, and your head, like the singer’s, remains above the merely symbolic water. The immersion promised by a variety of art exhibitions across London is also a harmless meta...

Sentinels Multidisciplinary artist David Sheldon of Asheville grew up on the outskirts of Washington, DC and made many visits to the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. That’s where he first encountered the fiercely powerful “Guardians of Eternity” — a pair of 7-foot-tall wooden sculptures that originally flanked the entrance to a 12th-century Buddhist temple in Japan. So, when he was recently invited to create sculptures for the Artemisia Foundation’s new gallery building in Bisbee, Arizona, the “Guardians of Eternity” immediately came to mind. “I love the concept of having to confront one’s own fears before entering a sacred place,” explains Sheldon. “The guardians symbolize this to me, and I thought that when working with the concept of two sentinels, ‘standing guard’ in front of an ‘Art Temple’, visitors can – and should – challenge their perceptions and ideas about not only the world, but themselves as well. “My work in sculpture has also always had a cosmological component...

A Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT billboard in Times Square. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images) The demise of crypto companies like FTX has not only depressed the cryptocurrency market, but has raised questions about the once-thriving market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a collection of 10,000 NFTs made up of various digital monkeys, was perhaps the most emblematic symbol of last year’s NFT boom. “It got the most attention from the media,” said Andrea Baronchelli, a professor at City University of London who studies crypto and NFTs. “It exploded because of the movements of various celebrities, it was seen as a status symbol.” However, in December, the celebrities behind BAYC promotions were sued for allegedly artificially inflating the value of the NFTs. Stars such as Justin Bieber, Madonna and Paris Hilton were named in the suit, which alleged that influential figures were secretly paid to advertise the collection through misleading promotions. The ...

Manchester clothing brand accuses Primark of ‘copying its design’ – insisting it’s ‘a step too far’ By Jessica Green for Mailonline Published: 08:21 EST, January 28, 2023 | Updated: 10:24 AM EST, January 28, 2023 A Manchester brand has hit out at Primark after spotting similarities between its logo and a children’s hoodie from the store. Clothing company Hikerdelic took to Instagram earlier this month and shared a clip titled ‘Primark can’t get their own ideas again’, showing a piece of clothing from the British retailer with a similar illustration to the one used by the smaller firm is used. ‘We’ve been sitting on this for a while,’ the caption read, before adding: ‘At the end of the day, this is a business that makes hundreds of millions a year in clear profit. They don’t have to step on toes.’ “A legal battle would be a distraction and far too expensive for a small business like ours, so we decided to share it here instead,” it continued. A Manchester brand (...