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On Saturday, Kim Hill brought the curtain down on a 38-year career at RNZ. After making her name as an unparalleled interviewer, she switched places and let Sunday Morning's Jim Mora ask her questions.

Recent genetic research suggests that Aboriginal Australians have lived on their island continent for at least 50,000 years (with some archaeological

Or anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have capacity to cascade the following

Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began (McLellan Endowed) by Dissanayake, Ellen at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0295995785 - ISBN 13:  9780295995786 - University of Washington Press - 2015 - Hardcover

Theodore Dalrymple is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal where he has written on a range of topics.

In thinking about the nature of art, I have come to believe that the art is a fundamentally social phenomenon; art exists primarily for social purposes. While there are many, many ways to “define” and understand the nature of art, and this certainly overlaps with some of them, I haven’t seen it stated in this way before. (If you have, I’d be interested in hearing about it. Update: here’s one response to this request, in the domain of music.)

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Is this weird Franken-picture really art? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement The portrait looks like the sort of blurry image of a criminal you might see on the TV news. Or an oil painting that has been rained on, reducing the features to mush. But it is, in fact, the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) artwork to be auctioned. It fetched an astonishing $432,500 in 2018. Portrait of Edmond de Belamy start...

Art Industry News: Meet the Crypto Bros Who Are the Mega-Collectors of NFT Art (and, Yes, They’re All Men) + Other Stories Plus, the Prado scoops up the earliest known work by Francisco Goya and a performing arts chief departs the West Kowloon Cultural District. April 16, 2021 Nine CryptoPunks being offered at Christies 21st Century Evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christies. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and ar...

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art announces digital publication The Strangeness of Beauty The Metamorphosis, 2020. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 46 x 55 x 10 cm. LONDON .- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is presenting The Strangeness of Beauty, an online project examining the notion of aesthetics in contemporary art. Curated by Ziba Ardalan, Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Parasol unit, the project takes place on our website and each week we present a new is...