Artist Nick Cudworth’s atmospheric paintings of Bath at night on stretched canvas
Nick Cudworth is known for his portraits of celebrities and for his paintings of Bath street scenes, meticulously executed in a style similar to that of old master painters such as Vermeer. For his latest exhibition at Bath's Victoria Art Gallery, he presents over 20 of his stunning Bath night paintings in the form of giclée prints on stretched canvas. Using this new technique of reproduction allows him to bring together all his most famous [...]
First major retrospective charts five decades of work by acclaimed artist Victoria Crowe
In May 2019, Edinburgh’s City Art Centre hosts the first major study to showcase the esteemed career of one of the UK’s leading artists, Victoria Crowe. Embracing every aspect of Crowe’s practice, the exhibition will feature over 150 pieces, stemming from youthful student paintings which laid the foundation of her career to the assured landscapes and portraits of recent years. Drawing from 50 solo shows, 50 Years of Painting will trace the rise of this [...]
Assorted Medicines for the End Times
A sunrise song by Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) A good way to start the day. • Paramahansa Yogananda chanting OM There’s an added echo here but you get to hear Paramahansa saying ‘I, Paramahansa Yogananda, am praying — pray with me.’ • Hopi Radio Cowboy and Indian music and everything else under the sun, with announcements in Hopi and English, this is my absolute favorite radio station. • ‘Blessing of the Mountain Spirit’ by Joe Tohonnie, [...]
Instagram posts from Russian meddlers played a much bigger role in the 2016 election than we thought
Fewer people saw Russian content on Instagram than on Facebook, but they interacted with it a lot more. Russian trolls who tried to influence the 2016 U.S. election had more success reaching American users on Instagram than many realized. An independent study from New Knowledge, [...]
Why Sweetgreen thinks like a tech company
Co-founder Jonathan Neman tells Recode’s Kara Swisher the company is way bigger than a chain of salad restaurants: “We see this as building the food platform.” To be like other restaurants, the fast-food salad chain Sweetgreen might join the crowd in partnering with a tech [...]
Recode Daily: A Russian disinformation campaign used every major social media platform to help elect President Trump
Plus: Netflix was the highest-grossing iOS app in the world this year; CBS is giving $20 million of ousted CEO Les Moonves’s severance to workplace harassment organizations; parents prank their kids by pulling the plug on Fortnite. A Russian disinformation operation used millions of posts [...]
Facebook still hasn’t launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago
“It’s taking longer than we initially had thought.” Back in May, at the height of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, the company made a timely announcement: Facebook users would soon be able to clear the browsing history connected to their Facebook profile, meaning that the [...]