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Nighthawks Article/Are You Using That Chair Article

What is Nighthawks?

Who did it, what does it depict

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  • Edward Hopper
  • American realist painter and printmaker, widely known for his oil paintings, but equally skilled at watercolors and printmaking (etching)
  • Career benefited from marriage to fellow artist Josephine Nivison
  • A minor-key artist who showed complete verity in his portrayed America
  • Unconsciously painting the loneliness of a large city
  • In an all night diner, three customers sit at a counter opposite a server
  • Tightly organized and spare in details, harmonious geometric shapes, glow of the diner’s electric lighting
  • These capture a serene, beautiful but enigmatic scene
  • Inspired by a restaurant Hopper saw on Greenwich Avenue in New York, but not a real place
  • One of the most reproduced paintings in art history
  • Shows isolation, thrown together as a group but also locked within themselves
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Are You Using That Chair Article

What is Are You Using That Chair?

Who did it and what does it depict

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  • Banksy
  • Recognized as an artist not shy from depicting the reality of our modern societies
  • Parody of Nighthawks, a threatening chubby man only wearing Union Jack underwear is pointing angrily at the diner
  • Two plastic chairs lie on the street, at it looks like he threw them at the window (depicted as cracked)
  • May represents the angry British working class demanding a seat at the elite’s table
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams Article

What is the Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

Who did it and what does it depict

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  • Austrian painter Gottfried Gelnwein
  • Nighthawks parody
  • The four people are Elivs Presley, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Humphrey Bogart (all famous 20th century American stars)
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Nighthawks Revisited Article

What is Nighthawks Revisited?

Who did it and what does it depict

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  • Red Grooms
  • Shows a scene like Nighthawks, but it is more colorful, there is one more person in the diner, the background is more chaotic and bright, likely daytime, the whole drawing is more crude and comical
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Moebius Article

What are three more parodies of Nighthawks?

What are they?

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  • Moebius’ take on Nighthawks, showing a futuristic scene like the diner being on another planet, and the people are looking through the glass at an alien being
  • Homage in the Simpsons episode “Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment”
  • Lego reimagining by an unknown artist which features a Storm Trooper and possibly Indiana Jones
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Diorama Article

Who is Aaron Delehanty?

Proffession, education, current work location

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  • Makes dioramas
  • Studied studio art and painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and San Fransisco Art Institute
  • Working at the Rochester Museum and Science Center in upstate New York
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Diorama Article

What is a diorama?

Definition and intention(s)

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  • Freeze-framed vignettes of animals and people in their habitats
  • The intention is to create a precise time capsule for the depicted environment
  • Born from the desire to protect nature
  • Inspire people to protect the ecosystems they see in the dioramas
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Diorama Article

What dioramas has Aaron Delehanty worked on?

Location and date

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  • Southern China 5500 BC
  • Africa 1986
  • 6th grade New York Native American tribes
  • Restoring 1838 Rochester
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Diorama Article

What is the history of the diorama?

Who started it, what came before, when, where, how

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  • Until the late 1900s taxidermied animals were displayed in glass cabinets
  • Carl Akeley, taxidermist at the Milwaukee Field Museum 1890
  • “Akeley method”: custom and precise artificial environment for a group of animals
  • Akeley later worked at the Field Museum in Chicago and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
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Diorama Article

What is the diorama’s connection to conservation?

People related, why, how, what is ironic

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  • Akeley and Theodore Roosevelt
  • Both taxidermists and conservationists
  • Started from the idea of showing endangered ecosystems to the public
  • Ironic because taxidermy was considered protecting the environment through dioramas
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Diorama Article

How are dioramas made?

People consulted, steps taken

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  • Early taxidermists went to far locations to collect specimens
  • Now days, heavy research is needed to provide verisimilitude
  • Sources such as satellite imagery and videos, books and journal articles
  • Consult botanists, zoologists, anthropologists and archaeologists
  • Done by scientists, sculptors, taxidermists, carpenters, muralists and painters
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Diorama Article

What was the striped hyena diorama?

History of the animals, dates, names, funding campaign

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  • Akeley collected four striped heyenas
  • 1896
  • Somaliland
  • Not given a proper exhibit
  • Crowdfunding campaign (2015) led by Emily Graslie of the Brain Scoop YouTube chanell raised $155,165 to build a proper exhibit
  • Aaron Delehanty was one person working on the project
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Diorama Article

What was the process for the hyena diorama?

How it was made, the details, the research

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  • A lot of research went in
  • Exploring the flora, fauna, sand and rock of the region
  • Found a expedition member’s journal, Akeley’s glass negatives, studied astronomy charts
  • Depicted the morning of August 6, 1896, at 5:30 AM, at the exact GPS coordinates where the hyenas were collected
  • First made 1:10 scale model
  • Some plants included were replicas of aloe and Sansevieria trifasciata
  • Everything was scrutinized, even a ball of dung pushed by a dung beatle
  • The hyenas were refreshed (taxidermists used to use dangerous arsenic)

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Diorama Article

What was the Southern China diorama?

What did it include, what was the location, historical significance

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  • Field museum diorama
  • Hemudu, Neolithic people
  • Eastern China
  • Many incorporations of water
  • Worn and bloody floorboards
  • Community by the Yangtze River
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Diorama Article

What is the Rochester diorama?

Dates, what is being done

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  • Created in the 1940s
  • Depicting Rochester as it was in 1838
  • New technology is being added
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Diorama Article

Why are keen eyes important for dioramas?

Taking examples from the curriculum

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  • Surrounding caribou with lush greenery in a tundra
  • Examining life under a frozen pond
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Diorama Article

What was Akeley’s first diorama?

What it depicted and what it included

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  • Five muskrats
  • Contained a den, reeds, logs and sendiment
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Spanish Village Article

What is Poble Español?

Location, creation date, what is it

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  • Bottom of Montjuïc, Barcelona
  • 117 buildings from around Spain
  • Created for 1929 World’s Fair
  • Living history museum where you can feel the soul of Spain
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Spanish Village Article

What is Poble Español modeled on?

How big is it, what it is modeled on, what it includes

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  • 50,000 square metres
  • Built like an Iberian village
  • Includes typical houses, small streets, a town hall, a school, shops, restaraunts and a monastery
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Spanish Village Article

How is multimedia being included in Poble Español?

Examples from the article

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  • New arrivals area with 8 screens to plan out your stay
  • Multimedia area to feel 5 regions in Spain with all of your senses
  • Multimedia project “Fiestas”
  • Shows important events from all over Spain in 150 square meter area
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Spanish Village Article

What is the art museum in Poble Español?

Name, what you can find there

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  • Museum Fran Daurel
  • Over 300 works
  • Artists such as Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro
  • Contains a sculpture garden
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Spanish Village Article

Describe the factories in Poble Español

How many, what you can see there

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  • 20 traditional factories
  • Local craftsmen
  • Items such as leather, guitars, jewelry and glass
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Spanish Village Article

What is the history of Poble Español?

How it started, people involved, how it declined

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  • 1929 World’s Fair Barcelona
  • Blueprints designed by Puig i Cadafalch
  • Implemented by students Frances Folguera and Ramon Reventos
  • Assisted by art critic Miquel Utrillo and the painter Xavier Nogués
  • Nogues traveled to 1,600 Spanish villages for inspiration
  • Was meant to be demolished but people fought against it
  • In times of Franco and cultural suppression it declined
  • Restored since the 1990s
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Spanish Village Article

How has Poble Español been renovated?

When, how much money, improved how

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  • Art museum added in 2001
  • From 2008 to 2018 8 million euros
  • Used for modernizing
  • 2.3 million euros additionally spent on multimedia areas
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Heritage Park Article

What is Heritage Park?

What it is, where it is located, what you can find there

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  • Largest living history museum in Canada
  • Located in Calgary, Alberta
  • Over 200 exhibits
  • Activities like live theatre, a steam train and a petting zoo
  • Also shops for food, vintage finds and old toys
  • Registered charity
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Millenium City Park Article

What is Millenium City Park?

Location, breif history, what it is

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  • Western shore of Longting Lake, Kaifeng, China
  • Large scale historical and cultural theme park
  • Created 1990s
  • Based off works by painter Zhang Zeduan
  • Shows the culture and history of the Song dynasty with architecture and performances
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Millenium City Park Article

What examples of architecture can you see in Millenium City Park?

Specific examples from the website

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  • Rainbow bridge
  • Upper gate to virtue
  • Kissing cloud pavillion
  • Halls near water
  • Water-centre pavillion
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Millenium City Park Article

What are some activities at Millenium City Park?

Some different types of activities seen on the website

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  • Traditional music and dancing
  • An evening show displaying traditional culture
  • Recreations of past historical events like a war, weddings and other rituals
  • Acrobatics
  • Displays of customs
  • Novel performances, like rooster fighting
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Millenium City Park Article

What other services are provided in Millenium City Park?

General examples from the website

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  • Various food options, with many shops and restaurants
  • Traditional accomodation
  • Traditional forms of transportation
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Plimoth Article 1

What is Plimoth Patuxet?

Location, basic dates, what it includes

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  • Set in 1627
  • Recreates an early pilgrim settlement
  • Includes Wampanoag village
  • Opened in the late 1940s
  • Heavily researched environment
  • Located at Plymouth MA
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Plimoth Article 1

What can you find in Plimoth Patuxet?

Types of architecture, details

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  • Traditional timber houses
  • Houses are typically furnished with working kitchens
  • Costumed intermediaries answer questions
  • Includes historical breeds of livestock
  • Wampanoag village with indigenous people showing their traditions
  • Indigenous village includes “wetu” wattle and daub huts
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Plimoth Article 1

What is the Mayflower ll?

Where and when created, what it is, when it returned, on what occasion

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  • Replica of the pilgrim ship
  • Created in the 1950s in Devon, England
  • Returned in 2020 for the 400th anniversary of it landing in Plymouth
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Plimoth Article 2

Why are Wampanoag members critizing Plimoth Patuxet?

The main points made in the article

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  • The museum has not lived up to being bi-cultural
  • The indigenous portion of the museum is small, underfunded and in terrible condition
  • The steps taken to try to change something are tone-deaf and instead the museum is going backwards
  • Staffers say that their requests for updates are rejected by museum officials
  • Some steps that were taken to make the museum bi-cultural were later removed
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Plimoth Article 2

Who are some people criticizing Plimoth Patuxet?

5 names, who they are and what they say

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  • Camille Madison, member of Aquinah Wampanoag tribe, is saying to not engage with the museum until they change
  • Paula Peters, Mashpee Wampanoag member and 20 year-long museum staff, says they have done nothing to integrate themselves with the tribes
  • Carol Pollard has a brother (Anthony Nenapashenet) Pollard who played a large part in designing the indigenous part of the museum, and says that her brother would be very dissapointed to see it in rough shape
  • Kitty Hendricks-Miller, a Mashpee Wampanoag, worries about what non-indigenous families are taking away from their visits
  • Casey Figeroa says that Plimoth Patuxet blew the Wampanoag exhibit and went backwards in the mission instead
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Plimoth Article 2

What are some ways that Plimoth Patuxet tried to become more bi-cultural?

Examples from the article

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  • For the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims arriving the name was changed from Plimoth Plantation to Plimoth Patuxet
  • Patuxet was an indigenous community near Plimoth, where the famous man Squanto helped the pilgrims, creating Thanksgiving
  • However, this did not change the attitude of the museum and the step was criticised for being tone-deaf
  • Museum spokesperson Rob Kluin said that $2 million was raised as well as several initiatives were in place to keep Native staff but would not elaborate
  • More money is being invested to expand Native education programming, and the new director of Algonquian Exhibits and Interpretation is an Aquinnah Wampanoag member
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Wax Museum Article

What is the Dreamland Wax Museum?

Location, figures, what makes it unique

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  • Downtown Boston
  • According to VP of Sales Michael Pelletz
  • Different from others because you can interact with the figures, they are fixed by an artist every day
  • Owned by Dreamz Entertainment, a Brazilian company, and the wax museum is the company’s first American venture
  • There are figures with information on all 44 presidents, Beyonce, Oprah, Elvis, Queen Elizabeth ll and famous people from Boston
  • Making one can take 4-6 months, more will be added as the museum progresses
  • They have also partnered with Cuseum to make it even more educational
  • Very good for school field trips
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Character AI Article

What is Character AI?

What it is and comparison to ChatGPT

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  • Created by two former Google researchers
  • Uses AI similar to that of ChatGPT, in order to chat with real or fictional people
  • It isn’t on the mission to become a search engine, unlike ChatGPT
  • Clearly states that it is for fun only, and is purely made up!
  • Also everything is translated into modern English
  • It is a purely novel creation meant for entertainment
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Sandman Article

What was the Sandman diner?

Episode, creation, premise

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  • Sandman episode five, “24/7” features a terrifying finale set in a diner
  • Unlike the comic they did not have pages, a formal structure or a narrator, but they did have brilliant actors and an accurate setting
  • Neil Geiman spoke with Mike Dringenberg who drew up the original comic that inspired the episode
  • There was an old beloved Salt Lake City diner that the diner in the comic was based on
  • They even managed to reproduced the typeface and style of the menus
  • Was also inspired from Nighthawks
  • Jon Gary Steele said that recreating it was very fun
  • Steel wanted it to be a slice of Americana, it had deep dark colors, and it was dark but also beautiful, it was not too aged
  • The episode is when John Dee shows diner-goers the wish-inducing power of Morpheus’ Dreamstones, which destroys all of their inhibitions and releashes their dark, lusty and violent sides
  • It is widely regarded as one of the most desturbing moments in The Sandman
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New Moscow

What is New Moscow?

Who did it and what does it depict

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  • Yuriy Pimenov
  • The State Tretyakov Gallery
  • Shows the capital
  • Created in the midst of Stalin’s “Great Terror”
  • The city is shown as fabulous and veiled in a golden haze, shown from a convertible driven by a young woman
  • Connecting a modern city and a modern woman shows the renewal of society
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Condorito Article

What is Condorito?

Basic premise and popularity

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  • Scrappy, lazy, charming and irresponsible lothario who happens to be a condor
  • Adult, so are his jokes, also unmistakably Chilean
  • Property was bought by Televisa, and the magazine reached the rest of the Americas
  • The Argentine editition contains partial Chilean content and partial Argentine content
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Condorito Article

What is the background of Condorito?

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  • US Department of State commissioned Walt Disney to produce a movie that could be shown in South America to increase goodwill towards the US
  • Led to Saludos Amigos, a little survey of South America that showed Chile as a little mail plane named Pedro
  • 7 years later, Rene Rios Boettiger produced Condorito to define the country instead
  • Pedro the Plane was inspired by an aviator that crossed the Andes
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Condorito Article

What is world of Condorito?

Town and characters, general mood

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  • Sir Maximal Stingy
  • A Genius
  • Tin Throat
  • Yayita (Condorito’s girlfriend)
  • Her parents, Don Cuasimodo and Doña Tremebunda
  • Don Chuma
  • Huevoduro
  • Pepe Cortisona, the nemesis
  • Pelotillehue is the town
  • Dirty, vital, populated by all sorts of weirdos, and is very lived-in
  • The patron saint is basically a sandwhich saint
  • The town has an intense soccer rivalry with Buenas Peras, many stray dogs and a nice restaurant
  • Many of the jokes are very specific, like a joke regarding an unhelpful waiter at a restaurant
  • Condorito captured the Chilean character: goodwill, humor, a healthy sense of mischief and a never-ending capacity for grudges
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Condorito Article

What is the new Condorito movie?

Production, problems

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  • In 3D
  • Voiced by a Mexican actor
  • Produced by a Peruvian film company
  • Written by an Argentine
  • Directed by a Brit
  • The new Pixar version is clean, smooth and beautifully animated
  • There is almost no feature of his world, more time in a fictional ziggurat and in space
  • It also tried to get rid of the endless misogyny, even showing Tremebunda as a sympathetic character
  • Also tries to recontextualize Treme’s attractiveness
  • It disciplines Condorito
  • The movie smooths so much that it bears almost no relation to the origin
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Metropolis Article

What was the full version of Metropolis?

Background, reception, how it was found

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  • Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is seen as one of the greatest silent films of the era
  • Made in Germnay, however, nearly bankrupted the studio
  • Paramount Pictures took control but cut parts to make it more “understandable”
  • Fernando Peña discovered a full length copy in the archives of the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires
  • He had heard of it 20 years earlier but it was very hard to get, part of a large private archive assembled by Manuel Pena Rodriguez
  • Finally found
  • Existed since Adolfo Wilson happened to be in Berlin and purchased rights immediately, returning home with reels in his luggage
  • Restoring the reels required the lates in digital technology, but the lab technicians were careless in reducing the films to a negative
  • The full version changes the tone into a more complex film which is not sci-fi, showing more sinister characters like the Thin Man
  • The Museo del Cine collection is still being explored for other famous films like My Son, The Aryan, The Crimson City and the Gilded Lily
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Metropolis Article II

What is depicted in the full Metropolis?

Premise, art, background

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  • Shows a towering city of the future, above ground beautiful, belowground workers work tirelessly for a machine
  • Inspired movies like Dark City, Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Alphaville, Escape From LA, Gattaca, Bride of Frankenstein and Dr. Strangelove
  • The Thin Man is more explored, and so is the connection between Fredersen and Rotwang
  • The director was known for being cruel to the cast and crew, not unlike the villain the movie
  • There is the plot of the Good Maria helping people, and the evil robot version of her
  • The storytelling is mainly visual, with the stranger visual effects (done by Eugene Schufftan) unlike modern ones making it look more evocative
  • It was anti-authoritarian but the Nazis liked it and offered Lang control of the film industry (he ran away), however, some techniques were inspired by Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will
  • Metropolis created a time place and characters so striking they really became a big part of the world
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Romeo and Juliet

What is the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack?

Background, creators

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  • James Fitzpatrick and Nic Raine restored and prepared a new recording
  • Nino Rota’s score
  • Franco Zeffirelli’s film Romeo and Juliet
  • Rota’s script is apparently lost, so the score was reconstructed by ear
  • The result is a much more complete rendering than was heard on hte Capitol Records soundtrack album
  • The chief attraction was the “Love Theme”
  • The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra is larger than the original group, but the score is still delicate and remains a very poignant and moving collection of music
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Duchamp Article

What is mysterious about Duchamp’s Fountain?

Mysteries, how it impacted the art world, other work

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  • Marcel Duchamp’s mass-produced urinal titled “Fountain”
  • Is it even art?
  • Some Aesthetic Decisions: A Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” (Skira) is the catalogue of an exhibition of the same name
  • Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, it focused on responses to Duchamp’s “readymades”
  • Andy Warhol and Joseph Kosuth used similar concepts
  • Duchamp’s symbols were more subtle
  • A paradox of Fountain is that it was never in shows for it’s “indecency”, but the only “original” is a photo by Alfred Stieglitz
  • It was signed R. Mutt, sounding much like the German word for poverty
  • However, ironworks Duchamp claimed to have bought the urinal from did not make the model at that time
  • Duchamp’s alter ego was a fictional character Rrose Selavy
  • Serkan Ozkaya used Etant Donnes, a dream scene with a naked female seen through a peephole, as a camera obscura, and some say the result is resembling of Rrose Selavy
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Fountain Artist Article

Who was the real artist behind Fountain?

Evidence for this and background

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  • Marcel Duchamp supposedly submitted his work Fountain, a urinal signed R Mutt, had it rejected, Alfred Stieglitz photographed it and now it’s lost
  • Should have been done by poet and artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
  • Duchamp wrote his sister Susanne a letter saying a female friend under the pseudonym RIchard Mutt sent in a porcelain urinal
  • Andre Breton attributed the work to Duchamp, but only after both the baroness and photographer died did he take credit
  • Duchamp claimed to have purchased from an ironwork company that did not produce the model at that time
  • Mutt could have represented her mutts (dogs) that she loved, also R Mutt reversed reads Mutter
  • Her mother died from uterine cancer, and the urinal has been seen as having a uterine character
  • The handwriting of the signature also matched
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Fountain Article

How is the situation with the Fountain sexist?

Prejudices and women and art

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  • Women are often overlooked in art
  • Work done by men is made to feel more elevated
  • Museums have ignored all the evidence that this work is actually created by a woman
  • One person said that she had created similar works but without the thinking seen in this piece
  • Some people consider her to be crazy
  • Duchamp was seen dry, witty, genius and a hero of high culture
  • There has not been official recognition of her work, though the evidence is there
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Fountain (Buddha) Article

What is Fountain (Buddha)?

Artist, background, idea

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  • Sherrie Levine
  • Appropriates works of canonical male artists to deconstruct accepted art-historical concepts
  • Levine cast a bronze replica of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
  • Challenged the universal acceptance of Duchamp’s radicalism
  • Subverts the everyday quality by casting the work in bronze, a valuable material with a strong history of sculpture
  • The title points to it’s similarity with many Buddhist sculptures
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Bidlo Article

What is Fractured Fountain?

Artist, background, idea

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  • Mike Bidlo is an appropriation artist, but he makes it clear that these are not the originals
  • Bidlo also recreated the Bottle Rack
  • Bidlo handcrafted, smashed, reassembled, and then cast into solid bronze
  • Each produced in an edition of eight signed and numbered examples
  • The same numbe in which Duchamp issued replicas of his readymades
  • The urinal was said to be smashed originally when William Glackens broke it to solve the problem of whether or not to display it
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Lipstick Urinals Article

What are the Lipstick Urinals?

Artist, background

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  • Rachel Lachowicz
  • feminist, a minimalist, post-modernist, and a conceptualist
  • Untitled (Lipstick Urinals)
  • Juxtaposes the feminine associations of color and lipstick with the appropriation of Marcel Duchamp’s overtly masculine readymade
  • Miniature urinals made from waxy bright red lipstick
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Kona Article

What is the Kona Coffee Living History Farm?

What is it

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  • Award winning history farm
  • Tells teh story of Kona’s coffee pioneers of the 20th century
  • Open experience, walk freely around coffee trees, meet a Kona Nightingale
  • Watch how farmers used the kuriba and hoshidana no make the famous coffee
  • There is a farmhouse where the homemaker goes on with their lives
  • Living history interpreters explain and tell stories
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Howick Article

What is Howick Historical Village?

Basics, approach

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  • Depicts a settlement in Auckland
  • There is a Live Day with costumed staff and volunteers, and a range of activities
  • There is a gift shop with New Zealand-made products
  • A variety of programmes, tours and workshops are available for groups and schools
  • Seen as more respected
  • However, it is also a colonial village
  • There is a research library included as well
  • Not depicting aboriginal people, depicting settlers instead, so it makes it different from Plimoth
  • Does not show connection to aboriginal people
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Spanish Day Article

What is the Old Spanish Day Fiesta?

What is it

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  • Santa Barbara is honoring the city’s heritage and traditions
  • The annual five-day festival takes place at the start of August
  • Visitors and locals are invited to learn about customs of American Indian, Spanish, Mexican and early American settlers
  • There are parades, carnivals, rodeos, music, dance, live bands and mariachi
  • There is a colorful Mexican market to feast on, there are also mercados with tacos, enchiladas, tamales and others
  • Confetti eggs are popular but is a concern for the wildlife and environment
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Timkat Article

What is the Timkat festival?

What is it, best location

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  • A spectacular festival in Ethiopia connected to the orthodox Christian festival of Epiphany
  • Annually embraced with mass baptisms at different waterfronts or sacred pools around the country
  • Most Ethiopians wear traditional white clothes draped with a netela
  • Often a rite of passage for young male priests which train very hard for a long time to be a priest, begging for food and seeking elder’s approval
  • Lalibela is the most celebrated Timkat site
  • Living cultural site
  • Addis Ababa, Gondar and Mekelle are other cities that are known for the celebration
  • The Ark of the Covenant is a golden wooden chest with two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments
  • Precious replicas are protected and brough out on this festival, covered by a sacred cloth
  • Priests wear colorful robes and embroidered umbrellas, are followed in procession by believers down to water, there is a more solemn moment of blessing at the water, then an eruption of joy occurs followed by another day of celebration for many people
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Naadam Article

What is Naadam?

What is it

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  • National festival in Mongolia in July
  • Focus on horseracing, wrestling and archery
  • Connected to the nomadic Mondgols
  • Oral traditions and performing arts are important
  • Long song, overtone singing, Bie biyelgee dance, Morin khuur fiddle feature prominently
  • Special rituals and practices are followed including special costumes and tools for the events, and ritual praise songs and poems
  • Everyone is allowed and encouraged to perform, strengthening heritage and community
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Railroad Festival Article

What is the Ravenna Railroad Festival?

What is it

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  • Shows the city’s railroad heritage
  • Family-oriented
  • Children’s mini parade, mini-train rides, arts and crafts, and good food are included
  • A reunion of past and present railroad employees is held as well as exhibits
  • Kentucky
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Barbecue Article

What is the culture of barbecue around the Mid-Autumn festival?

Origins, current traditions

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  • In Taiwan, families and friends gathered around barbecues is common for the Mid-Autumn Festival
  • Dates back no more than three decades
  • Soy sauce manufacturers Wan Ja Shan Food and Kimlan Food competed to sell barbecue sauce
  • The Wan Ja Shan TV commercial featured star Chang Yung-yung which sparked the craze
  • Kimlan Food released its own comercial as well
  • Other supermarkets began to offer discounts on barbecue ingredients in the lead up to the festival
  • This eventually combined in people’s minds to represent the festival
  • However, in China it is still more traditional featuring moon cakes worshipping the moon goddes
  • The grill industry rules during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but moon cakes and pomelos are still very popular
  • It shows how advertising can affect society
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Valentines Articles

What are the Valentines traditions in Japan?

History, chocolate types, traditions, White day

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  • A Japanese-Russian chocolate company Morozoff Ltd. ran a Valentine’s Day ad
  • The same company popularized giving heart-shaped chocolates
  • Isetan department store’s Valentines sale was the most important factor
  • A loss in translation created the culture of mostly women giving chocolates
  • The emphasis on chocolate at this time is so strong that chocolate companies make HALF their annual sales the week before the holiday
  • There are four main groups: Giri-Chocolate (obligation chocolate), tomo-chocolate (friends chocolate), honmei-chocolate (favorite chocolate) and jibun-chocolate (self chocolate)
  • Nearly two decades later White Day was born, meant for men to return the favour, two or threefold even
  • Marshmellows tried and failed to be treat for white day
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Quinceanera Article

What is the quinceanera expo?

What is it, about the party

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  • The symbolic transition of a girl to womanhood
  • Families can plan for a year and save from birth
  • Small quinces are around $2-4 thousand, but dream quinces can be up to $4-15 thousand
  • Quinceanera maganize set up a quince expo for shopping for everything quince related
  • In 18 cities from LA to Chicago
  • Includes a fashion show showing the fabulous dresses and latest trends
  • Gowns can be up to $5,000, with princess dress traditions
  • Tiara ceremonies and shoe changing ceremonies are also common
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Kirk Article

What was Shatner’s deal?

Deal, with AI

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  • William Shatner was open to an AI of his Kirk being created, under one condition
  • He doesn’t want it to happen when he is alive, but if they ask his family and pay them well after he’s dead, then he advises them to say yes
  • There was a strike regarding actors having control over their likenesses in AI
  • Shatner last officially appeared in Star Trek: Generations
  • Shatner is thinking about his legacy
  • A new documentary, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
  • Shatner said that they timing was important to maintain a legacy and make the documentary in time
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AI Ghosts

What is the new Chinese resurrection AI?

What is it, creators, controversy, idea

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  • AI services used to resurrect the dead gained popularity in China
  • People can spend a great deal of money on “ghost bots”
  • Zhang Zewei founded Super Brain
  • Basic avatars are able to mimic thinking and speech patterns of the deceased
  • Set up in Jiangsu province
  • There are so many people in China, many with emotional needs, so makes it a good client base
  • AI can clone voices to build a chatbox and a digital portrait provides a profile image supporting an intelligent speech function and a 3D human model
  • The AI healing service was provided to over 600 families
  • It got mixed responses

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