The Musk-rat strikes again.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-10-21/elon-musk-tesla-cybercab-warner-bros-discovery-blade-runner-2049-lawsuit

https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/10/18/kaws-brian-donnelly-art-collection

https://archive.ph/txApa

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/science/concrete-roman-construction.html

Researchers are attempting to unearth how the Romans made cement so that they can reproduce what is apparently a much more durable, less polluting method and formula than modern concrete. This, to anyone who has gazed upon Roman ruins, aging beautifully over thousands of years, makes so much sense. Now, the challenge is for scientists to figure out just went into the Roman recipe for cement, and despite all our modern technology, there appears to be some disagreement on that score.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/21/funding-cuts-could-mean-death-of-sami-languages-say-indigenous-parliaments

The planned budget cuts, amounting to a total of about $700,000, would mean Sámi Giellagáldu will not survive beyond a year, according to Mika Saijet, its director. “It’s so dramatic. We have been in complete shock,” Saijet said. All Sámi languages are defined by Unesco as threatened or critically threatened, and this latest news comes during the second year of the UN’s so-called International Decade of Indigenous Languages.

The Swedish and Finnish governments have said they plan to withdraw funding for the preservation body, prompting Indigenous parliaments in Sweden, Finland, and Norway to warn that some of the languages concerned, including North Sámi , spoken by about 20,000 people, Pite Sámi and Uti Sámi, which have fewer than 50 speakers each, risk disappearing forever if efforts to save them are no longer funded.

ENDANGERED SAMI LANGUAGES FACE CUTBACKS TO PRESERVATION. Nine Unesco-defined endangered Sámi languages spoken across Nordic countries could completely vanish if funding cuts are made to the Sámi Giellagáldu group that preserves them, reports The Guardian.

Online opening for Siena art exhibition: sign up.

https://engage.metmuseum.org/events/elevated/virtual-events/siena-virtual-premiere

#CoSoArt

https://archive.ph/3vlfH

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-19/klamath-salmon-thriving

Finished a Hecate for Halloween. Oilf on canvas. 12 x 16

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/17/a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-wilhelmina-barns-graham-abstract-painter

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/oct/12/buying-art-at-frieze-art-fair-with-gallery-curators-tate

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/16/lady-gaga-chippy-yorkshire-english-teacher-amy-gledhill-beyonce-cultural-powerhouse

https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2024-10-17/lost-art-of-rolly-crump-disney-los-angeles

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-16/column-elon-musk-dumbest-idea-is-to-send-human-colonists-to-mars