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Archaeologists Discover What They’re Calling An Ancient “Arabian Stonehenge” In Oman

The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to 80 centimeters tall that together create a pyramid and are typically found in clusters, as was the case in Zufar. - Artnet

My Color Isn’t Your Color: How We Perceive It

For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this theory isn’t really true. - The Guardian

How To Label A Deepfake? Technology Is Working On That

As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices, and museum image description guidelines all have useful tools to offer. - Wired

Silk Road Project Gets A New Executive Director

One of the major projects Ben Hartley will take on as executive director is the first national tour of “American Railroad." The multimodal project will explore the interconnected stories of Black, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish and other immigrant contributions to the U.S. transcontinental railroad. - WBUR

A Dance Critic Considers The Careful Choreography Of Charles III’s Coronation

Roslyn Sulcas: "As with the funeral rites for Queen Elizabeth II in September, the choreography of ritual surrounding the coronation was extraordinarily powerful. Almost no gesture was spontaneous; … the intent and meaning of each moment was as deliberate as an intricate dance." - The New York Times

Dance Is The Most Ephemeral Art: What Gets Left Behind

Dancers and choreographers often become unintentional collectors, accumulating valuable records of an art form with few tangible traces. And once artists are gone, families are left to be caretakers of dance history. - The New York Times

Is Colonial Williamsburg Going “Woke”? No, Says Its CEO

Absolutely, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is expanding the stories being told there to include Blacks, Native Americans, and even LGBTQ people. CEO Cliff Fleet rejects conservative criticism, saying that the Foundation is presenting "fact-based history. … Everything is going to be what actually happened." - The New York Times

Hula Is Thriving

“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in hula, in our culture, in our language, in our different traditional practices." - The New York Times

They Didn’t Light The Sydney Opera House For The Coronation, And Some Aussies Are Mad As A Cut Snake

"Citing a cost of between $80,000 and $100,000, Premier Chris Minns, whose Labor Party defeated the conservative Coalition government in a state election in March, argued the financial burden on taxpayers would have been significant and said the sails were being lit too often." - The Guardian

The Pittsburgh Symphony’s New Steinway Wasn’t Quite Doing The Job. So Steinway Sent A Techie

Every piano has a noticeably different “character” of sound. It’s the kind of thing you might think you need training to hear, but then when you’re in the room hearing a pair of pianos, it’s glaringly clear to any ear.  - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Long-Rumored, Unfinished Gabriel García Márquez Novel To Be Published Next Year

Penguin Random House will release En agosto nos vemos (We'll See Each Other in August) throughout Latin America in 2024.  The roughly 150-page book will consist of five separate sections about a protagonist named Ana Magdalena Bach (no relation to the composer). No English version has been announced. - The Guardian

Performing Arts COVID Recovery: Which Arts Are “More-Recovered” Than Others

Of the four genres, performing arts centers and ballet compete for the “most recovered” position by the end of 2022, in different ways. - TRG Arts

Liverpool And Manchester Are “Really Strong Contenders” For English National Opera’s New Base, Says CEO

"Stuart Murphy, who steps down later this year, said three potential bases would be selected by the end of May and a winner chosen by the end of this year, ... (and) that Bristol, Birmingham and Nottingham were also in the running." - The Guardian

Lost Art Deco Murals From The Empire State Building Have Re-Emerged

The two oval-shaped murals, nearly eight feet tall, are part of a set of eight painted by artist Winold Reiss in the 1930s for a Longchamps restaurant on the ground floor of the skyscraper. They were lost when the eatery was remodeled in the 1960s. - The New York Times

Angry Right-Winger Sprays Purple Paint On Artwork At Paris’s Palais De Tokyo

A visitor described as an "elderly person" vandalized Miriam Cahn's painting fuck abstraction!, which the artist and museum say is a response to human rights abuses by Russian troops in Ukraine but which conservative politicians and activists say promotes pedophilia. Cahn has decided to let the purple paint remain. - ARTnews

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