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PlayStation’s Visual Arts studio hit with layoffs
PlayStation support studio Visual Arts has been hit with another round of layoffs, with several former employees sharing on social media last week that they have been let go. “Unfortunately, following a wave of layoffs, last week was my last at PlayStation,” former senior level designer at Visual Arts Daniel Bellemare wrote on LinkedIn. Senior…
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‘Life is a Grave’ asks viewers to get a little uncomfortable
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Since she was a child growing up in Union Mills, Jessi Hardesty had an interest in the macabre and death. “I’ve been interested in Halloween and spooky things since I was very little. I don’t know what it was…
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Artwork mocked the lazy and loose in traditional society
In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. This figure may look as if it’s signaling a touchdown at the Superdome, but its purpose is both humorous and instructive. Created by an artist or initiate of the Bwami…
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Art About Agriculture celebrates 40th anniversary
Art About Agriculture’s annual exhibition of agriculture and natural resource-themed artwork by Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a touring show that will be on display from Nov. 17 to Dec. 31 in Portland. The juried show in the Antoinette Hatfield Hall Rotunda at Portland’s Centers for the…
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Johnson still marching along after 45 years in the Glenn Korff School
Rose Johnson can go just about anywhere and run into someone she’s met as part of her job. Johnson has worked in the band office at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for 45 years and sees current and former band students even walking down the street in other towns. Over the years, she’s watched how the collaborative…
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‘On My Own Time’ exhibit gives local amateur artists a platform to share their work
Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Marie Luther finds beauty in her surroundings. As an accounting clerk in the College of Visual Performing Arts’ Office of Budget and Operations, she’s inspired by the little things that go unnoticed around campus, like the specific architecture of the…
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Readers Write: Gophers baseball, opioids, mining, Dean Phillips, St. Paul school board, the arts
Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• I suggest the Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team take its home games “on the road” within the friendly confines of the Gopher State, now that the squad has been kicked out of U.S. Bank…
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Museo Institute for Medical Arts in Houston Connects Western Art With Modern Medicine
Here’s what happened when a Houston eye doctor decided in the early 2000s that he would dabble in real estate and develop an office tower that would rise 10 floors and feature medical tenants, museum-style artwork and picture-perfect views of downtown Houston. That 153,000-square-foot building ultimately came to fruition in the form of the Museo…
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PlayStation support studio Visual Arts impacted by layoffs
PlayStation support studio Visual Arts (The Last of Us Part 1) has reportedly been impacted by widespread layoffs, per social media posts surfaced by VGC. Several developers have taken to LinkedIn to reveal their redundancies, with one mourning “a wave of layoffs” at the studio. “Unfortunately, following a wave of layoffs, last week was my…
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PlayStation Studios Visual Arts Has Been Hit With Layoffs
As picked up by VGC, it seems like one of PlayStation’s studios is the latest to be hit in an ongoing cycle of shutdowns and layoffs that’s permeated throughout the gaming industry in 2023. The outlet has reported that “several” developers from PlayStation Studios’ Visual Arts Group have announced their departures online following what’s claimed…
