Alasdair Macintyre

Brisbane based visual artist and ACU art lecturer Alasdair Macintyre. Hauntology proponent. Views are my own.

[Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli]

my good friend, the Adelaide philosopher Chris Mortensen, died yesterday. Parkinson’s is a bugger of a disease as it relentlessly stripped him of all life’s great pleasures, including South Australian wines – and he was a connoisseur

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🎯🎯😬 The Artworld Runs on Burnout. Can It Change? Passion has long sustained the arts. But as low pay, precarious work and constant visibility collide, many art workers are asking whether the industry is built to exhaust the people who keep it running https://t.co/jWANH5q1iy

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Only seven people in the world have seen the “greenest green.” No printer can print the color, and no camera can photograph it. No pigment or dye in the shade can exist. “Olo,” named for the combination of cone cells the color stimulates, has been described as a highly saturated teal shade. Researchers at U.C. Berkeley generated it by using lasers to target a single type of retinal cell in a manner that does not occur naturally.

Humans perceive the world with three primary colors, not because the world is fundamentally composed of three colors but because our retinas typically have three kinds of color-perceiving cone cells. Each cone cell responds to a range of wavelengths within the visible-light spectrum—roughly corresponding to red, blue, and green. Our eyes are constantly moving: when we look at a blade of grass, or a clear blue sky, or a fire truck, some combination of each of the three types of cones are being stimulated.

But what does it mean for us to see a new color, even just a few of us? Rivka Galchen talks to an array of color experts, and considers what we can learn from the prospect of a new hue—about our visual-processing system, and about the nature of color itself: https://t.co/zAjNZjBlNh

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Edward Lucie-Smith Art Critic And Poet Dies Aged 93 https://t.co/j4VAInqxEY @edwardluciesmit @Tate @SerpentineUK @NationalGallery @NPGLondon

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O atacante norueguês Erling Haaland adquiriu a edição impressa de 1594 da Heimskringla, de Snorri Sturluson — a crônica mais importante da história dos reis vikings e da cristianização da Noruega por Santo Olavo II.

O exemplar, considerado o livro mais caro já vendido no país (cerca de US$ 134 mil), foi doado integralmente à biblioteca pública de Bryne, cidade natal do jogador, para exposição permanente ao público. Um gesto que une preservação do patrimônio histórico e reforço da memória cristã da Noruega.

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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

This is impressive. The cleaning of Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, bringing this masterpiece back to life.

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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform https://t.co/Ww8ExmyGeF

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[amna @RealAmnaNawaz]

#RIP Iqbal Hussain. His work was honest and bold. Fearless and empathetic. A huge loss for the art world.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

This Is Who You Are Arguing With Online All Day

[National Gallery @NationalGallery]

A mindful way to enjoy Rembrandt’s timeless self portrait 🔍

Growing research shows that looking at a painting can improve your mood but how can you get the most from the experience? For January’s ‘Picture of the Month’, we take a closer look at Rembrandt's 'Self Portrait at the Age of 63’ with Gallery Educator, Karly Allen, and share how mindfulness approaches can help us connect with this painting.

Read the full article here: https://t.co/MxkPW5CkW2

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Awesome 👏🏼😅

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Fun Fact: The TV network initially thought the jazz score for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was a mistake. Kids’ animation “wasn’t supposed” to sound like cool West Coast jazz — but Guaraldi’s music became the special’s most enduring element.

[Alasdair Macintyre @aecap]

100% correct

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Masterpiece.

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Nativity was going well until the Shepherds started fighting 🤭

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Happy Halloween!
Why Horror is Fascinated with the Church

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