10 links interessantes pela Web #046

Durante o meu tempo diário de leitura e navegação, selecionei dez links que achei interessantes, no mundo cultural e digital (e na sua intersecção). Como verás, os assuntos variam desde os Jogos Olímpicos, a Takashi Murakami, a Banksy.

1. Olympics opening ceremony: a little Gaga, a lot of spectacle, and universal uplift
   How Paris 2024’s Olympics opening ceremony set spirits – and much else – soaring, embracing the Seine, the streets and the skies. Craig McLean reports
2. Tour the Natural History Museum’s new gardens, a Jurassic lark in London
   The Natural History Museum in London has unveiled two new gardens, with resident dinosaurs, after a transformation led by architects Feilden Fowles
3. The Best Shows to See During the Paris Summer Olympics
   From Laurent Le Deunff’s faux wood sculptures to a large-scale showcase of Arab modernism, here are the most compelling shows to see during the Games
4. Eight ways Paris aims to host the most sustainable Olympics in history
   The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have been billed as the most sustainable ever. As part of our Olympic Impact series, we look at how the organisers have sought to limit emissions.
5. Saudi Arabia reveals all 15 stadiums for the 2034 World Cup
   Saudi Arabia has unveiled the stadiums that will host games at the World Cup in 10 years time, including a venue built on The Line at Neom and a stadium informed by the bark of a tree.
6. Marina Abramović’s First Show in China Features Crystal Shoes and Telepathy Phones
   Abramović claims her new crystal-based works can help you learn to communicate remotely.
7. The Olympics Drag Scene Got Christian Art History Right
   Critics of the opening ceremony betrayed their ignorance of Christianity’s pagan roots — and the real reason behind their ire toward the show.
8. Botched Restoration in Spanish Church Yields Uncanny Cherubim
   Spain’s heritage and restoration groups are asking how a touch up of a cultural monument went so wrong.
9. Takashi Murakami on Demons, Kyoto, and Superflat
   What does a 17th-century Japanese master painter have in common with a contemporary manga artist? For Takashi Murakami, their work is ‘the epitome of Superflat’.
10. Banksy’s fifth animal mural in less than a week appears in east London
    The picture of a pair of pelicans joins others depicting elephants, an ibex goat, monkeys and a wolf that have popped up on structures across the capital

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Se, durante as tuas viagens pela Web, encontrares um link que chame a tua atenção, diz-me. Vou dar uma olhadela e, se achar interessante, entrará na próxima lista.