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1 month ago | 
independent.co.uk | Alison Cole
CommentAdding a paltry couple of pounds to hotel bills would earn Britain’s underfunded regional museums, galleries and music venues an extra billion pounds a year – and, says Alison Cole, it would show how much we cherish our reputation as a global cultural powerhouseI’ve lost count of the government meetings I’ve attended framed by the health warning: “Sorry – there’s no money.”This is the refrain that greets beleaguered arts and cultural organisations up and down the country.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Kimberly Hatfield |Sophia Kishkovsky |Elena Goukassian |Alison Cole
It is a rare opportunity in the US to unveil a nearly 300-year-old work of art in one of the country’s most historic buildings. But historians and conservationists are doing just that as they embark on the second phase of conservation work on decorative painting that dates to the days of Paul Revere (1735-1818) inside Boston’s Old North Church during the American Revolution.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alison Cole
London has served up a sumptuous Italian Renaissance feast this winter, with two exhibitions highlighting the role of drawing in the creative process. The Royal Academy of Art’s (RA) exhibition Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504, the subject of this review, takes the rivalry between three titular titans as its focus, zooming in on the pivotal years at the start of the 16th century.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Alison Cole |Mandy Rettel |Frank N Stein |Bruno Gideon Bergheim
AbstractThe evolutionary expansion of extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules has been crucial for the establishment of cell adhesion and the transition from unicellular to multicellular life. Members of the pre-bilaterian phylum cnidaria offer an exceptionally rich perspective into the metazoan core adhesome and its original function in developmental and morphogenetic processes.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
apollo-magazine.com | Alison Cole
Detail of the recently restored frieze of the nine muses at the Warburg Institute, London, a 19th-century stone copy of a second-century Roman sarcophagus in the Louvre. Photo: courtesy Warburg Institute
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Daniel J Stadtmauer |Silvia Basanta |Jamie Maziarz |Alison Cole
AbstractHow fetal and maternal cell types have co-evolved to enable mammalian placentation poses a unique evolutionary puzzle. Here, we present a multi-species atlas integrating single-cell transcriptomes from six species bracketing therian mammal diversity.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
bendsource.com | Alison Cole
In the bountiful ocean of sagebrush that blankets Oregon's high desert, rock and mineral treasures await us. But how can we make ourselves worthy of them? And are they really ours for the taking? Rockhounding, the hobby of searching for rocks, is a deeply rooted Oregonian pastime. For decades, boisterous families and feverish old-timers have taken to the proverbial hills in search of agate, jasper, opal, petrified wood, sunstones and obsidian.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Alison Cole
In June 1994, the late composer Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou — better known as Vangelis — released his soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It would go on to become emblematic of his skills, with only a handful of soundtracks reaching a similar level of cult status. Prior to this, sci-fi film scores tended to be characterised by orchestral sound palettes.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
thetimes.com.au | Alison Cole |Sydney Conservatorium
In June 1994 the late composer Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou[1] – better known as Vangelis – released his soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It would go on to become emblematic of his skills, with only a handful of soundtracks reaching a similar level of cult status. Prior to this, sci-fi film scores tended to be characterised by orchestral sound palettes.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Alison Cole
In June 1994 the late composer Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou – better known as Vangelis – released his soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It would go on to become emblematic of his skills, with only a handful of soundtracks reaching a similar level of cult status. Prior to this, sci-fi film scores tended to be characterised by orchestral sound palettes.
