Philip Guston Now, a major retrospective(回顾展) of Philip Guston (1913-1980), one of Ameriea's greatest modern painters, presents the full scope of the artist's 50-year career. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Tate Modern and the Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition is on view in these museums from
March 2 through August 27,2023.
Related programs offer both in-person, and virtual opportunities to get inspired by Philip's art.
●Lectures
Introduction to the Exhibition March 5,2023,12:00 p. m.
Registration is required and opens on February 24,2023, at noon on nga. gov/lectures.
Harry Cooper,head of National Gallery of Art, presents Philip Gaston's life and work.
Philip Guston and the Mural Impulse
Spring 2023, date TBA(to be announced)
Registration is required and will be available at nga. gov/lectures.
This discussion is a unique chance to view one of Gaston's largest murals(壁画), and to hear from scholars and artists who have considered his work. The program will be introduced by Kristen Fusselle, fine arts program manager at the General Services Administration.
·Workshops
Virtual Studio
July 26,2023,10:00 a. m.
Registration is required and will be available on nga. gov/community.
Join museum educators and artists in a virtual studio session inspired by the exhibition Philip Guston Now. Virtual
Studio is designed for anyone interested in making art, and we welcome participants of all skill levels.
Recently I bought a book about signposts. Signposts aren't very interesting, you're thinking. Well, that, of course, depends on whether you happen to be lost! Ancient travelers would have been grateful for these when settlements were smaller and further apart. In winter, the ability to reach shelter for the night could be the difference between life and death.
One of the very earliest waymarks discovered is in Cumbria. Dating from Roman times, it had lain fallen until 1836, when a farmer ploughing his fields came across a sandstone shaft(碑文). There are other stone posts that have stood by roadsides for centuries. It wasn'tuntil 1697 that an act was passed declaring that guide-stones must be built.
This applied to remote parts of the country where there might be confusion as to which path led to the nearest market town. Later, with the appearance of the Royal Mail, the number rose still further. Nowadays many of these early road signs are designated(指定)as Listed Monuments.
"How times change!" Lucy, an enthusiastic walker, to whom I loaned the book,exclaimed.
"I suppose now we all rely far more upon mobile phones to guide us. "
"Yet they aren'tperfect. Whenever I go out, I prefer a map. I never have to worry about running out of battery. " "T'm always grateful to whoever is placing way-markers along the route," she added,"I suppose that however sure we are, a little outside confirmation is always welcome. "
Lucy is quite right there. Life itself can offer us a great many choices of path, and sometimes it isn't easy to know if we've chosen the best one.
Perhaps when it comes to gratitude, we should also include thanks for those people who appear in our lives when we most need them—either giving us gentle warning that we might be heading in the wrong direction, or reassurance that we are on the right track. After all, we'd be lost without them!
Scientists at Purdue University created the world's whitest paint—a discovery that not only adds yet another choice to the"which white should we paint this wall" dilemma, but also might help the climate crisis.
The paint was developed by Purdue mechanical engineering professor Xiulin Ruan and his team. It works through a passive cooling technology that offers great promises to reduce space cooling cost and global warming. "When we started this project seven years ago, we had saving energy and fighting climate change in mind,"Ruan said in a podeast(播客) episode of This Is Purdue. They wanted to create a paint that would reflect sunlight away from a building, dramatically decreasing the need for air conditioning.
Heating, cooling, and lighting account for 28 percent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. And overusing air conditioning can overwhelm a city's power grid and cause blackouts(停电). In a Queens blackout in 2006,175,000 people were left without power, which lead to 40 deaths. This paint could effectively be an alternative to air conditioners in some places.
The paint reflects 98. 1%of solar radiation while also giving out infrared(红外线的) heat. Because the paint takes in less heat from the sun than it gives out, a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without using power. Covering a roof area of 1,000 square feet with the paint could create 10 kilowatts ofcooling power, the researchers found. "That's more powerful than the air conditioners used by most houses,"Ruan told This Is Purdue.
You can't buy the paint just yet, but researchers are partnering with a company to put the paint on the market.
While individual action to fight elimate change can help save our planet, it's important to note that the vast majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions can be traced back to 100companies. Maybe we can douse(浇) those companies with this white paint, too—it could be worth a shot.
Human responses to moral dilemmas(两难选择) can be influenced by statements written by the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings indicate that users may underestimate the extent to which their own moral judgments can be influenced by the chatbot.
Sebastian Krigel and colleagues asked ChatGPT multiple times whether it is right to sacrifice (牺牲)the life of one person in order to save the lives of five others. They found that ChatGPT wrote random statements arguing both for and against sacrificing one life, indicating that it is not biased towards a certain moral stance(立场).
The authors then presented 767 U. S. participants, who were on average 39 years old, with a dilemma whether to sacrifice one person's life to save five others. Before answering, participants read a statement provided by ChatGPT arguing either for or against sacrificing one life to save five. Statements were from either a moral advisor or ChatGPT. After answering, participants were asked whether the statement they read influenced their answers.
Eighty percent of participants reported that their answers were not infuenced by the statements they read. However, the authors found that the answers participants believed they would have provided without reading the statements were still more likely to agree with the moral stance of the statement they did read than with the opposite stance. This indicates that participants may have underestimated the influence of ChatGPT's statements on their own moral judgments. 微信公众号IAI English
The authors suggest that the potential for chatbots to influence human moral judgments highlights the need for education to help humans better understand artificial intelligence. They propose that future research should design chabots that either decline to answer questions requiring a moral judgment or answer these questions by providing multiple arguments and warnings.
There are hundreds of genres(流派) of music, so while some might like one kind, others might like something completely different. Why do people like different kinds of music?
At the same time, music can also help us feel like part of a group or a culture, especially one that shares an interest in a certain kind of music.
Musie can also be nostalgic, that is, it creates a kind of longing for the past. Musicians leave behind a footprint with their music Even long after the musicians are gone, people still find something in the musicians' recordings that they can enjoy.
We may also find that the music we like is strongly tied to our memory. Maybe there was a song that someone sang to us when we were little that brings up good memories.
When we listen to music that we like,a chemical called dopamine is sometimes released in the brain, which can make us feel goodThere are some algorithms(算法) today that can help pick up on the kind of music we like. When we are streaming music,some programs will let us like or dislike songs.
People's taste in music can remain the same in their whole life or it can change many times. But the truth is, we don't know all the exact answers to why people like different kinds of music —or sports, or food, or colors. We are all different people who like different things.
A. It's music to our ears.
B. Music can be a part of our identity.
C. It becomes a miror that we are holding up.
D. They leave a permanent mark in people's lives.
E. Therefore, we might want to listen to a song on repeat.
E. Other times, we might find musie can bring up sad memories.
G. There are lots of different factors that can influence our preferences.
My two litle boys were happily playing when I watched a passenger jet(客机) explode into one of the World Trade Center towers(世贸大厦) in New York City on the television.
It took my husband, Matt, several hours to return home. I ran to the door to1 him. We held each other tightly,2 in a state of disbelief. How could this have happened in our safe 3 ?
Dinner was quieter than usual, although the kids helped keep things4 . There wasn't much 5 aside from expressions of deep sadness.
"I have a6 for you,"Matt said.
"For whom?" I asked and then remembered it was my birthday. "I don't feel much like. 7 . How about if
I open it tomorrow?"
"Okay, but you have to read this tonight. " He handed me a8 .
9/11/01
Gina:
9 today; with the horible disaste; Iwan to10 to you again, how miuchyow11 to me. The hard work that you are engaged in right now is12 , invisible and largely thankless in the short term.
But honey, please know that13 these little guys grow into men is a privilege that we should be proud to14 as we grow old together and the perfect filillmem (实现)of our15 bonds.
You are a great mom.
You are a great wi/e.
You are my best friend.
You are very pretty. Happy birthday.
—Matt
Horses, SpongeBob and the Monkey King from Chinese legend —you probably wouldn't expect to see this collection of animals, pop cultural icons and mythological creatures（fly)together in the sky, but this event happens every year in Weifang, the World Kite Capital in Shandong Province.
Kites, which were invented over 2,000 years ago in China(believe) to be the earliest flying objects created by humans. After centuries of development, kites have become one of the country's( represent) handicrafts, and kite- making technique was included in ist of China's national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
The city of Weifang is known as a global center of kite culture it is widely regarded as the birthplace of these popular flying toys. Today in Weifang, the themes of kites are (incredible) diverse, encompassing(包 含 )animals, cultural relics, myths, and legends. Besides, there are virually no limitations on the shapes or sizes of kites. which can be made(show)people's ideals and ambitions. This (diverse) can be observed at the annual Weifang International Kite Festival has been held on the third Saturday of every April since 1984. More than 10,000 participants from over 30 countries and regions around the world competethe festival every year.
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A Memorable Moment
Oh no. Coach Cafferty just said my name. For that event. The two-hundred-metre breaststroke(蛙泳) for the coming meet! Not the backstroke(仰泳)I had wished and practiced for so long!
Beads of sweat popped out over my upper lip. Morgan pressed her elbow into my side, trying to offer me moral support. But it didn't help. My stomach sank to my knees like a brick in water. Morgan tried to convince me it would be fine. "Maybe Coach has more confidence in you than you think. ""Or maybe Coach Cafferty just want to give the rest a laugh when I sink to the bottom of the pool," I thought desperately. I walked towards Coach Cafferty and told her about my inability and my sire to quit this event. She frowned and asked if it was what I really wanted.
I hesitated. Placing her and on my shoulder, she started smiling and encouraged me to push myself outside of my comfort zone.
The first practice was a disaster. I lost rhythm(节奏)on my strokes. I messed up my turns. I even had to stop and catch my breath a few times. I felt everyone was laughing at me and my stomach twisted. How could I make it within just two weeks? But once I dragged myself out of the water, exhausted and frustrated, Coach Cafferty thumbed up to me, saying I did really well and just needed more confidence in myself and more time to practice.
On the way back home, Morgan comforted me,"Dear, just ignore others. Race against yourself. Count your own strokes. Prove to yourself that you can do it. "With these words said to me almost every day, before or after each practice,something gradually changed: both how I swam the breaststroke and how I felt about the event as well as myself.
The meet finally came. I arrived at the pool hall, still a little bit worried. As each event clicked closer to mine, my knees shook. I bit my lip and looked out over the other swimmers. Morgan leaned forward. "Just swim your race. Remember, you can!"
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Paragraphl:Then the two-hundred-milestone breaststroke was announced.
Paragraph2:There was only 50 meters to go.
