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Ultra Runners Smash 2 Speed Records and 5 More Can’t-Miss Stories This Week

From the inspiring to the tragic and everything in between, ‘Adventure News of the Week’ presents a wrap-up of top news in the world of exploration and adventure. Here’s what you missed this weekend and a few things to look forward to.

It was a record-breaking weekend in ultrarunning.

On Saturday, Courtney Dauwalter (USA) became the fastest woman to run the UTMB and François D’haene (FRA) took home his fourth UTMB win, iRunFar reports. This year’s ultra trail race around Mont Blanc kicked off in Chamonix, France, on Friday, August 27. The mountainous 106.5-mile (171.5 km) course winds through France, Italy, and Switzerland and gains nearly 33,000 feet (10,000 m) of elevation in the process.

Dauwalter crossed the finish line with 22:30:54 on the clock, breaking the women’s UTMB speed record set

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Tensions About Cuts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern-day Art Are Nearing a Boiling Level + Other Stories

Art Sector Information is a each day digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art environment and art market. Here’s what you will need to know on this Friday, August 6.

Will need-TO-Read

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Embattled Vision for the Hirshhorn – Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposals to revamp the Hirshhorn’s sculpture backyard garden are not going in excess of nicely. Sugimoto suggests his initial eyesight has been altered by equally Washington D.C.’s great arts fee and public responses that pushed from any big adjustments to the authentic Brutalist backyard garden. The artist claims he won’t compromise on his concept for stacked stone dividing partitions influenced by medieval Japan, which he sees as essential to his principle, even if it means getting rid of the career. “Do you ask Picasso, ‘I really do not like this blue shade. Let us make it red’?” he mentioned. (New York Situations

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The Recorder – Regional photographer captures ‘untold stories’ of the Earth

Touring throughout the entire world, Shelburne Falls photographer Rhea Banker sinks deeply into the land she images for inspiration, shelling out time understanding about the lifestyle, background and the persons of the area she is interested in.

For the photos highlighted at the Salmon Falls Gallery, Banker dives deep into elements of New England for a hometown show. “Divergence: Shaping the Land,” will be open at the Salmon Falls Gallery, 1 Ashfield St. in Shelburne Falls, from July 2 as a result of Aug. 29.

Banker is a photographer and award-successful ebook designer. Following dwelling and performing in New York City for 30 yrs, she now tends to make her foundation in Northwestern Massachusetts. She has located inspiration for her photography in the geology of far-flung locations of the Earth, and her pursuits have taken her to the Svalbard Archipelago around the Arctic Circle, together the west coastline of Greenland,

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