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• Should Digital Canadian Content Be Exempt From Data Charges In Canada?

  11-05-2017 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Canada is updating its rules on promoting Canadian content. One idea? Make data streaming of Canadian shows free. A problem? It would subvert notions of net neutrality...
  
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• The Sad Decline Of Deutsche Grammophon

  11-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "At some point, the core product DG was offering wasn’t enough to cover larger overhead and administration costs, salaries and fees, advances and marketing budgets. The label reacted to this development by distancing itself further from its core classical business and looking for new customers. And so the things that made the Yellow Label special fell increasingly away. Loyal fans began to look elsewhere for their quality records. Browse through forums for classical music obsessives today,
  
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• Venice’s 19th-century Giardini Reali set to bloom with €5m makeover

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  The neglected Royal Gardens (Giardini Reali) behind St Marks Square in Venice are due to receive a makeover, starting this month. The park, which is surrounded by water, was created during the Napoleonic occupation of the city. It will be replanted and renovated by the Venice Gardens Foundation. The 5m project also calls for the restoration of the 19th-century pergola, Neo-Classical coffee house pavilion and greenhouse, as well as the historic drawbridge to St Marks Square. The gardens are due
  
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• Venice diary: Rosy Lee dispenses fortunes at the Hotel Metropole to Ai Weiwei and Gavin Turk

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  Feeling a little unsure of what the future holds? Needing a little life guidance in these troubling times? Then look no further than the Hotel Metropole, where Gavin Turk has installed his mechanical fortune-telling sculpture, Rosy Lee, who has been doing a brisk trade with Biennale visitors and will be in situ until 2 July. Put a special token in the slot and the Romany cronewho bears an uncanny resemblance to Turk himselflooms up with flashing red eyes and shimmering crystal ball, and dispens
  
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• Venice diary: riffing on Russia’s revolutionary past at the V-A-C Foundation

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  Leonid Mikhelsons V-A-C Foundation launched its new Venetian home in the Palazzo delle Zattere with a grand performative flourish during Biennale opening week. V-A-C is marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution by inviting more than two dozen contemporary artists from Russia and beyond to respond to a series of reconstructions of early Soviet objects and spaces as well as a large number of original historic works from the revolutionary period. Among those riffing on Russias revolutio
  
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• Venice diary: Chris Ofili’s poolside magic gives Victoria Miro a grand entrance

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  The surrounding streets were packed for the unveiling of Victoria Miros bijou new gallery in a 17th-century canalside building close to the Fenice Theatre. Many of the art cognoscenti were already familiar with this Venetian outpost, which had a previous incarnation as the Capricorno gallery, founded by another grande dame, Bruna Aickelin in 1971, and with a formidable reputation forged by showing the likes of Lucio Fontana, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. Peggy Guggenheim was a regular visi
  
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• Venice diary: Back to the Future with On Kawara’s One Million Years

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  Weary art lovers seeking some productive downtime away from the frenzy of Venice Biennale opening week have been volunteering to take part in On Kawaras One Million Years (Reading). This installation involves reading from two sets of eponymous volumes produced by the late artist that list, in neatly typed columns, dates one million years into future and one million years into the past. The meditation on the nature of time is taking place in the appropriately contemplative setting of the Oratori
  
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• The changing face of Harlem

  11-05-2017 23:00
  The exhibition Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC (12 May-6 August), includes 93 works by ten photographers who have focused on urban scenes. One of them, the Chilean-born and New York-based photographer Camilo Jos Vergara, chronicles the shifting fate of urban communities across the US, says E. Carmen Ramos, the exhibitions curator. Vergaras time-lapse work 65 East 125th Street, Harlem, which he shot in 197
  
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• Size matters: the large and very small art of Alighiero Boetti

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  The artistic legacy of Alighiero Boetti, whose star has been in the ascendant in recent years, is to be reassessed courtesy of Luca Massimo Barbero. The director of the art institute at the Fondazione Cini says his show dedicated to the late Arte Povera artist, which opens today (12 May) at the Fondazione Cini, will throw new light on how Boetti conceived and executed his works.
  The show, organised in collaboration with the Archivio Alighiero Boetti in Rome and the London and Paris-based T
  
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• Object lessons: a painting of Igbo spirits by Ben Enwonwu, a whimsical collage drawing by Joan Miró and a two-faced bust by Lichtenstein

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
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  16 May: Modern and Contemporary African Art OGOLO (1987) by Ben Enwonwu
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  One of seven works by the late Nigerian Modernist in the auction houses inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary African art, this painting is one of the first of some 50 Ogolo-themed works that the Goldsmiths-trained painter and sculptor produced over the final decade of his career. The work, executed in gouache, pen and ink on cardboard, depicts a funerary rite enacted at his brothers
  
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• May sales in New York will test the trade in uncertain times

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  What a difference a few years make. After experiencing an over-inflated auction market, in which a most expensive painting of all time would be crowned each season, auction houses have returned to business as usual with smaller totals. Nonetheless, the season is not without its share of big-ticket works.
  A last-minute entry as we went to press was the announcement that Sothebys is selling Jean-Michel Basquiats Untitled (1982), which the house has guaranteed for more than $60m. Following a contr
  
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• Iran's presidential election casts shadow over show organised by country's leading artist

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  Parviz Tanavoli and the Lions of Iran, a long-planned exhibition in Tehran featuring works by the countrys leading artist and artefacts from his personal collection alongside loans from the National Museum of Ancient Iran of objects depicting pre-Islamic lions, could travel abroad, Tanavoli hopes.
  However, the artist fears that the show, due to open in July at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA), depends on the result of the countrys presidential election this month.
  If Rouhani wins,
  
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• Frieze New York fund helps Brooklyn Museum acquire work by Virginia Jaramillo

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  The Brooklyn Museum has acquired its first work by the septuagenarian American artist Virginia Jaramillo, who is currently showing in its groundbreaking exhibition, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 (until 17 September).The large-scale fir green curvilinear painting, Untitled (1971), was bought during the VIP preview of Frieze New York last week, thanks to the inaugural Frieze Brooklyn Museum Fund. The schemethe first of its kind for the art faircontributed $50,000. Prices for
  
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• Fake Rain Room gets permanent home in Shanghai

  11-05-2017 23:00
  A permanentand unauthorisedinstallation of falling rain similar to the internationally acclaimed Rain Room created by the design collective Random International is being installed in Shanghai.
  The fake work opens this month as part of a new $15m attraction called Jiajiale Dream Park, in the citys north-west.
  The theme parks Magic Rain Zone will charge visitors around $6, according to the website ShanghaiWow. The park will also include an optical illusion room that recalls Yayoi Kusamas Dots Obs
  
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• Archaeologists uncover ancient Egyptian princess’s tomb in Dahshur

  11-05-2017 23:00
  
  The tomb of an ancient Egyptian princess has likely been discovered by archaeologists excavating at a pyramid in the necropolis of Dahshur, 30 kilometres south of Cairo. The team, working for Egypts Ministry of Antiquities, first found the pyramid in April. Although only the inner structure remains, some architectural material was unearthed, including one inscribed block that bears religious texts and the name of the 13th Dynasty King Ameny Qemau, who reigned around 3,800 years ago and whose py
  
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• Roger Ballen at Istanbul Modern

  11-05-2017 22:35 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Three Major Toronto Performing Arts Theatres Have Merged. To What Advantage?

  11-05-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The goal is to give the merged theatres more clout in booking live stage events, no matter what producers are looking for in terms of location and audience capacity for the shows they want to bring to Toronto.
  
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• £2.3 Million Funding For Using Dance To Improve Health

  11-05-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Previous Aesop research showed how the Dance to Health programmes could address a problem that costs the NHS £2.3bn a year, as the rates of completion for dance-based alternatives to NHS exercise courses are 55% higher. An evaluation of the Dance to Health pilot programme in February 2017 also concluded that dance artists could be trained to deliver classes which were an enjoyable artistic challenge, faithful to healthcare objectives, and would deliver measurable reductions in loneliness
  
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• Writers' Union Of Canada In Disarray After Controversial Editorial On Cultural Appropriation

  11-05-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Write Magazine editor Hal Niedzviecki wrote that CanLit was “exhaustingly white and middle-class” because its producers are generally so and people tend to write what they know. “I say: Write what you don’t know. Get outside your own head. Relentlessly explore the lives of people who aren’t like you … Win the Appropriation Prize.” Some people were enraged, and the fallout was swift: WUC issued an apology, a board member resigned, TWUC’s Equit
  
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• The End Of Art? (An Interesting Existential Debate)

  11-05-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When these philosophers claim that art has ended, they are not saying that there will be no new artworks. Their claim is quite different. They are telling us that art has some kind of goal, or line of development, which has been completed; plenty more will happen in art, but there is nothing left to achieve.
  
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• Cannes Film Festival Changes Competition Rules (And They're Looking At You, Netflix)

  11-05-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Facing pressure from French theater owners upset that Netflix films would go straight to streaming, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that it would change its rules to require all future competition films to commit to distribution in French movie theaters."
  
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• Jesus, Etc.: Cecilia Alemani Discusses ‘Il Mondo Magico,’ Her Program for the Italian Pavilion

  11-05-2017 19:34 via artnews.com
  This afternoon, I was at a modest coffee shop around the corner from my rented pad in Venice and saw everyone reading the same daily paper. On the cover was a big blown-up picture of a work in the Biennale, a Christ … Read More
  
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• How Americans Prefer Watching TV (Hint: It's Still Big Screens)

  11-05-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most major platforms (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc) have been inking original content deals with TV shows, but so far; none have officially rolled out a TV video experience as unique to mobile as Snapchat, which includes vertical viewing, fast-paced production cues and tap-to-swipe navigation through scenes.
  
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• How P.T. Barnum Helped Support - Save, Even - The Nascent Animal-Rights Movement

  11-05-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The showman ultimately became a good friend and supporter of his one-time adversary, the founder of the ASPCA - and Barnum taught him some crucial points of public relations, without which the movement might have died.
  
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• A Line Is a Dot That Went for a Walk: Hamish Fulton in Venice

  11-05-2017 18:59 via artnews.com
  Navigating Venice and its biennale requires a fair amount of walking, and so it seems only proper that the British artist Hamish Fulton, who made walking the core of his art practice exactly 50 years ago, in 1967, is having … Read More
  
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• Honoring El Anatsui and Raising Money for Health Care: An Evening at Amref Health African ArtBall

  11-05-2017 18:51 via artnews.com
  Last week, New York was home to a litany of art-world galas in pursuit of funding for institutions—except for one: the Amref Health African ArtBall.Now in its second year, the event featured most of the familiar benefit trappings—from finely dressed attendees to … Read More
  
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• Honoring El Anatsui and Raising Money for Health Care: An Evening at Amref Health Africa ArtBall

  11-05-2017 18:51 via artnews.com
  Last week, New York was home to a litany of art-world galas in pursuit of funding for institutions—except for one: the Amref Health Africa ArtBall.Now in its second year, the event featured most of the familiar benefit trappings—from finely dressed attendees to … Read More
  
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• How Shakespeare Sucks Up All The Oxygen

  11-05-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "New theories about the extent of Shakespeare’s collaborative work appear to chip away at the solitary-genius monolith, but in fact they gain their intellectual and institutional traction from our very investment in that monolith. Adaptations similarly reinforce Shakespeare’s dominance even as they attempt to overwrite his social and linguistic conventions."
  
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• Curator Margot Norton Moves Up at the New Museum

  11-05-2017 18:16 via artnews.com
  After two years as associate curator, the New Museum’s Margot Norton has been promoted to curator. In her new position, she will continue to oversee and research upcoming exhibitions at the institution in downtown New York.Norton first joined the New Museum staff … Read More
  
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• Some Of The Coolest, Most Interesting Stuff In Medieval Manuscripts Is Off In The Margins

  11-05-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Humans, animals, human-animal hybrids, disembodied limbs and other parts, monkeys playing bagpipes, rabbits in a funeral procession, naked bishops - the surprises are nearly endless. What's more, says a scholar from the University of Glasgow, these drawings, doodles, and offhand notes can tell us a surprising amount about the people who wrote and read these volumes.
  
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• It ain't me babe: Dealer uncovers Dylan art forgery

  11-05-2017 17:36
  
  Auction house tells cautionary tale after £10,000 loss on ‘elaborate fake’ picture with forged signature of songwriterForgers have turned their attention to artworks created by Bob Dylan, it has emerged, after a British dealer mistakenly spent £10,000 on a hoax artwork purported to have been by the singer-songwriter.Peter Harrington, London-based specialists in antiquarian book and sketches, purchased the artwork, sold as a 1968 Dylan original, at an auction in 2014. The
  
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• Bob Dylan hoax artwork catches out UK dealer

  11-05-2017 17:36
  
  Auction house tells cautionary tale after £10,000 loss on ‘elaborate fake’ picture with forged signature of songwriterForgers have turned their attention to artworks created by Bob Dylan, it has emerged, after a British dealer mistakenly spent £10,000 on a hoax artwork purported to have been by the singer-songwriter.Peter Harrington, London-based specialists in antiquarian book and sketches, purchased the artwork, sold as a 1968 Dylan original, at an auction in 2014. The
  
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• Signs of the Times: Post-Truth, Untruth, and Superficial Deception in Venice’s Pavilions and Palazzi

  11-05-2017 17:35 via artnews.com
  If you remain haunted by the phrase “alternative facts,” here is a suggested itinerary for you at the 57th Venice Biennale.Let’s start with the Ukraine pavilion, which contains the work of Boris Mikhailov. Mikhailov has a special relationship with television. … Read More
  
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• High Museum of Art in Atlanta Names Kevin W. Tucker Chief Curator

  11-05-2017 17:33 via artnews.com
  Starting in June, Kevin W. Tucker will be the chief curator of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. In his new position, Tucker will oversee a rehang of the museum’s permanent collection set to go on view next year.Tucker was previously the … Read More
  
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• St. Louis Wants To Turn Chuck Berry's Old Home Into A Museum

  11-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The museum would anchor a "Chuck Berry Cultural District," to honor Berry, who died in March at age 90, and the area's African-American heritage.
  
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• Scenes from the Venice Biennale: Day 3

  11-05-2017 17:24 via artnews.com
  Thursday at the Venice Biennale was stricken with cloudy weather and a little bit of rain, but that didn’t stop the crowds as a slew of pavilions had official openings between the Giardini and Arsenale, including those of the United … Read More
  
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• Slow and Steady: Tehching Hsieh in Venice

  11-05-2017 17:13 via artnews.com
  From September 26, 1981 to September 26, 1982, Tehching Hsieh lived outside in New York City, never seeking shelter in a building. He was 31 when he began the performance work, which he titled One Year Performance 1981–1982 (Outdoor Piece), and … Read More
  
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• The Stuff That Keeps Museum Lawyers Awake At Night

  11-05-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tax law, public art commissions, guns and people shooting them, and so on. Martha Lufkin gives an overview of the half-dozen biggest issues covered at a convention in Dallas for museum professionals sponsored by the American Law Institute and the Smithsonian Institution.
  
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• She Said Boom: The London Art World Has a Feminist Moment

  11-05-2017 17:03 via artnews.com
  On Milly Thompson, Emma Hart and Jonathan Baldock, Tala Madani, Helen Marten, Caragh Thuring, Leah Capaldi, Simon Fujiwara, ‘Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s,’ and the Guerrilla Girls Read More
  
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• Painting Politics: Philip Guston, Kerry James Marshall, and Beverly Buchanan Picture America

  11-05-2017 16:48 via artnews.com
  A week before the 2016 presidential election, Hauser & Wirth gallery opened the exhibition “Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975.” Organized by Sally Radic, of the Guston Foundation, and Musa Mayer, Guston’s daughter, the show … Read More
  
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• Andy Warhol Museum Shuffles Operations Staff, Names New Chief Curator

  11-05-2017 16:46 via artnews.com
  Two months after naming a new director, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has made further changes involving curators already installed as well as staff in other areas of the museum.José Carlos Diaz has been promoted to chief curator, … Read More
  
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• Lost in Venice? There's The Art Newspaper Biennale app for that

  11-05-2017 16:37
  
  It's hard enough finding your way to the train station in Venice, not to mention navigating around the city's renowned Biennale. So The Art Newspaper has launched an app to guide you towards what's hot and away from what's not at the prestigious event this year. Conceived around five "routes", the app offers a series of itineraries for the time-strapped Biennale visitor. They cover highlights in the Biennale's main exhibition, Viva Arte Viva, the national pavilions in the Giardini and the
  
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• The Story Of Flora Mayo, Giacometti's First Mistress

  11-05-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An attractive young department-store heiress from Denver, Flora divorced the painfully conventional husband she had been pressured to marry at 19 and took off to study art in Paris, where she met and fell in love with the sculptor. If only the story had ended there.
  
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• The Trolls Helming the Icelandic Pavilion Like Drinking Coffee and Eating Human Beings

  11-05-2017 16:19 via artnews.com
  There is still a lot to see in Venice, but I can say that the most batshit crazy pavilion I have visited so far is Iceland’s, which was put together by trolls. Yes, trolls. I will quote from the press release … Read More
  
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• Founder-Director Of Silicon Valley's Flagship Theater Company To Step Down After 50 Years

  11-05-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Robert] Kelley built TheatreWorks from a single scrappy youth theater production, Popcorn, to a community theater, then to a semiprofessional company, then to a major regional theater with an $8 million budget, 40 full-time staff members and 8,000 subscribers."
  
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• A Contemporary Art Show For Dogs, And It's Called -

  11-05-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, we're afraid so: Dogumenta. The idea comes from former Washington Post art critic Jessica Dawson, whose Yorkie/Maltese mix Rocky (pictured) accompanies her on all her gallery visits in Chelsea.
  
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• Producers Win Lawsuit Over Broadway's 'Rebecca' Fiasco, But They Don't Get Much In Damages

  11-05-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It wasn't exactly an insult from the jury of the one-dollar-in-damages type, but after a strange trial about an even stranger case of fraud, the plaintiffs were awarded less than 1% of the amount they sought.
  
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• Israel's State Broadcaster Shut Down By Netanyahu Gov't - With One Hour's Notice

  11-05-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The end of the Israel Broadcasting Authority was not a total surprise: the plan, several years in the making and legislating, was to smoothly hand over the IBA's radio and television stations next Monday (May 15) to the newly-created Israel Broadcasting Corporation (officially named Kan in Hebrew). But a decision was made - nobody's saying by whom - late Tuesday to close the IBA immediately. Staffers on the country's flagship TV news broadcast had to go on the air and announce that the show was
  
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• Morning Links: Glutton for Puns Edition

  11-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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