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• The Mythologies About Neural Benefits Of Music

  24-05-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There is a gap between the state of research in neuroscience related to music education, and the knowledge of current and future music teachers about these findings," writes a research team from the Hanover University of Music led by Reinhard Kopiez. It reports instructors are particularly prone to accepting false assertions when they are accompanied by certain brain-related buzzwords.
  
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• The Marciano - LA's Latest Big New Private Museum

  24-05-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Like similar projects in California, Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Maryland and elsewhere, the Marciano Art Foundation isn’t exactly a museum. It’s merely a private collection open to the public. The selection is highly personal. The mission statement is freewheeling (“Through exhibiting a diverse and compelling collection … MAF aims to encourage curiosity and contemplation of art.”) The professional staff is limited, as are public hours.
  
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• Worth the pilgrimage: on Francesco de Mura at Vassar College

  24-05-2017 23:00
  
  Now at its final venue, the stunning exhibition In the Light of Naples: the Art of Francesco De Mura is the first ever show devoted to the Neapolitan Baroque painter, who lived from 1696-1782. Occupying three small galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, it features three drawings and 37 pictures by the artist, as well as one spirited bozzetto by Francesco Solimena (De Muras master from 1708 until 1729), two works by Corrado Giaquinto and one
  
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• The Bass is back: Miami Beach museum set to reopen in October after $12m renovation (and multiple delays)

  24-05-2017 23:00
  
  Miami Beachs contemporary art museum, The Bass, is due to reopen to the public on 8 October after a $12m restructuring (and a snappy rebranding that has removed Museum of Art from its name). Construction work on the project, which launched in 2015 and experienced multiple delays, roughly doubles the museums usable space. We worked within the existing footprint of the Bass museum, but we somehow were able to increase the usable square footage dramatically, says David Gauld, the projects main arc
  
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• New Orleans biennial Prospect.4 announces artist lineup and focus

  24-05-2017 23:00
  
  Theres no place like New Orleans, says Trevor Schoonmaker, the artistic director of Prospect.4, the fourth edition of the biennial-turned-triennial contemporary art event in the Louisiana city, to launch this November (16 November-25 February 2018). The theme of this edition, the Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, is a nod to the citys waterfront environment and its cultural history as the birthplace of jazz; the jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp called this art a triumph of the human spirit, a lily that
  
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• London's pioneering Wilkinson Gallery to close as owners go separate ways

  24-05-2017 23:00
  
  Wilkinson Gallery, the pioneering East End dealership that was the first in London to present solo shows by major female artists including Joan Jonas, Dara Birnbaum and Laurie Simmons, is closing at the end of July after nearly two decades.The gallery's co-owners, Amanda and Anthony Wilkinson, say that they are dissolving their partnership for personal reasons. Both are in the process of setting up separate galleries in new locations, working with a number of the artists they currentl
  
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• Importance of being eclectic at Masterpiece

  24-05-2017 23:00
  
  Masterpiece fair, according to its chairman Philip Hewat-Jaboor, is discovery. In the past, he explains, a collector could stroll up Madison Avenue or Bond Street and happen upon an objetbe it a 19th-century painting or a bronze Roman helmet, saythat tickled his fancy. You cant do that today, he says. Theres no serendipity. For the fairs eighth edition, at the Royal Hospital Chelsea (29 June-5 July), certain dealers are taking responsibility for creating those opportunities themselves. Galerie
  
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• Does Streaming Live Arts Performances Help Or Hurt Live Audiences? The Data Say...

  24-05-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Our behavioural data analysis of National Theatre (NT) Live screenings in 2014 (in partnership with Nesta, and referenced in the AEA report), showed that if anything there may be a small net increase in arts attendance in areas where there had been a screening."
  
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• Happiness Is All About Control

  24-05-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Do you want to win that tennis match? It is outside of your control. But to play the best game you can is under your control. Do you want your partner to love you? It is outside of your control. But there are plenty of ways you can choose to show your love to your partner – and that is under your control. Do you want a particular political party to win the election? It is outside of your control (unless you’re Vladimir Putin!) But you can choose to engage in political activism, and
  
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• John Riepenhoff Trucked His Homemade Beer From Milwuakee to the Whitney Gala

  24-05-2017 21:57 via artnews.com
  It’s not so often that something at the Whitney Museum of American Art calls to mind the plot of the Smokey and the Bandit, the 1977 film in which Burt Reynolds plays a stunt driver tasked with trucking 400 cases … Read More
  
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• The Great Violin Collector Of Seattle

  24-05-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Over the years he has owned eight Strads, eight del Gesùs, and 14 other instruments (violins, violas and cellos) with names such as Bergonzi, Guadagnini, Amati, Rugeri, Montagnana and Testore. His bow collection included 17 Tourtes, 14 Pecattes and seven others, most collected with the help of bow experts Paul Childs and Charles Beare."
  
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• Why We Lie - Turns Out We're Hardwired To Do It

  24-05-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lying, it turns out, is something that most of us are very adept at. We lie with ease, in ways big and small, to strangers, co-workers, friends, and loved ones. Our capacity for dishonesty is as fundamental to us as our need to trust others, which ironically makes us terrible at detecting lies. Being deceitful is woven into our very fabric, so much so that it would be truthful to say that to lie is human."
  
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• Mysterious Chemical Reaction Is Destroying Famous Masterpieces

  24-05-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conservation scientists say that tiny formations of lead-based soaps—each about a tenth of a millimeter in diameter—are threatening to mar paintings by artists ranging from Rembrandt van Rijn to Georgia O’Keeffe. A team of experts has spent years researching why these microscopic white pockmarks appear—but they can’t figure out how to stop them.
  
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• Artists Space Finds New Two-Story Home in TriBeCa

  24-05-2017 20:20 via artnews.com
  Nearly a year after leaving its long-time Greene Street gallery because of concerns relating to development, New York’s Artists Space has found a new home, at 80 White Street in TriBeCa. The new space will open to the public in … Read More
  
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• Spirits in the Air: Korakrit Arunanondchai Considers Memory in the Digital Age, at Brooklyn’s Clearing Gallery

  24-05-2017 20:06 via artnews.com
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• New Trump Budget Again Eliminates Culture Funding (But It's Unlikely To Happen)

  24-05-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A spokesperson for the NEA confirms that the president’s 2018 budget proposes the elimination of the department, and includes a request for $29 million from Congress to shut down the agency in an orderly fashion. The spokesperson says that the organization is fully funded for the fiscal year, and will continue to make 2017 grant awards and “honor all obligated grant funds made to date.”
  
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• Claim: Boston Theatre Critics Reward Unadventurous Most Popular While Art (And Artists) Suffer

  24-05-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Technological change, along with its radical re-structuring of the American economy, is decimating the business of culture and throttling artists, particularly those just starting out. Jonathan Taplin’s excellent new volume Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy explores the ways that the mind-boggling concentration of power in the hands of internet monopolies is widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, especial
  
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• 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude' Was Not An Instant Classic

  24-05-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Fifty years after the book's publication, it may be tempting to believe its success was as inevitable as the fate of the Buendía family at the story's center." It wasn't - it had many detractors in its first years, including some who dismissed it as traditionalist and anachronistic.
  
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• Jo-ey Tang to Head Up Columbus College of Art & Design’s Beeler Gallery

  24-05-2017 18:36 via artnews.com
  Artist and curator Jo-ey Tang will lead the Columbus College of Art & Design’s Beeler Gallery in Ohio. He will begin his position at the museum on June 15.Tang was previously a curator at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo, where he … Read More
  
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• How Cultural Facilities Could Better Support Artists

  24-05-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The evolution of ticketing systems and related analytical tools provides a tremendous opportunity for facilities to support artists. Facilities can provide subsidized access to these systems and additional modules that producing organizations can use to advance audience development and fundraising efforts on their own."
  
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• P.P.O.W. Now Represents Chris Daze Ellis

  24-05-2017 18:14 via artnews.com
  New York’s P.P.O.W. has added Chris Daze Ellis to its stable of artists, with plans for a solo exhibition in spring 2018. He will join a roster that includes Martha Wilson, Betty Tompkins, and the estates of David Wojnarowicz and … Read More
  
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• Aaron Copland, The Sound Of Americana, And Sen. Joe McCarthy

  24-05-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In this "United States of Anxiety" podcast, Sara Fishko talks with composer John Corigliano about how Copland developed a popular style that came to represent Americana in the popular mind and even got tied up with politics - and what happened to that style (and Copland) when the age of the Red Scare arrived.
  
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• Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery, New York

  24-05-2017 17:53 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Lyles & King Now Represents Aneta Grzeszykowska

  24-05-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  New York’s Lyles & King gallery will now represent Aneta Grzeszykowska, the Polish artist whose eerie, alluring work ponders skin, avatars, and the body in oppressive societies. With the gallery, she will join a slate that includes Chris Hood and … Read More
  
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• An Arts Administrator Questions The Adoption Of Activist Language In The Arts

  24-05-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These were folks doing really impressive work to address racism in the arts and outside of the arts. But a discomfort crept up for me in that discussion that has been a bit of gadfly in my life for some time now. In talking about my own work as an arts administrator, I was borrowing the language of activism. I also have noticed others in the field — artists, curators, administrators, philanthropic organizations — do the same thing. How might the use of activist rhetoric be a bit&hel
  
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• Marvin E Newman's best photograph – coated sunbathers in 1950s Coney Island

  24-05-2017 17:11
  
  ‘I wanted to show well-off people the underclass – where they lived, how they lived, what they did’In 1952, I came back to New York after studying in Chicago, keen to break new ground. I decided to use colour to document what people were doing, even though colour was not what museums wanted. The other problem was that colour film was so slow. You needed fast lenses and enough sunlight. Still, I felt that I could not only succeed, but do better than what had gone before.
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• Wendy Whelan Remembers The First Time She Danced Balanchine - It Was The Day He Died

  24-05-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I went silent with shock [on hearing the news]. I have never been the type of person to burst into tears or visibly show my emotions, and my immediate thought was that I didn't have the right to feel emotional about this. I had just arrived on the scene and had no real history with the man, or his work for that matter."
  
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• Why The 'Conceptual Penis' Hoax Is Pretty Much A Flop

  24-05-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Philosopher Peter Boghossian and mathematician James Lindsay clearly hoped that their fake gender-studies paper, "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct," would go down in history as an Alan Sokal-style triumph. Phil Torres explains why their hoax proves a lot less than they'd like to think it does (and proves one thing they'd probably rather it didn't).
  
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• The Marciano Art Foundation Unpacks Blue-Chip Art, and Wigs, in Its Los Angeles Temple

  24-05-2017 16:34 via artnews.com
  The auditorium used to fit some 2,000 Freemasons. They’d perform their elaborate plays and operas there, on the first floor of the monumental Scottish Rite Masonic Temple they built on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1961. Paul and Maurice … Read More
  
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• Ex-Mayor Bloomberg Gives $75 Million To New 'Culture Shed' On Manhattan's High Line

  24-05-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "His gift, through his charitable organization Bloomberg Philanthropies, helps solidify what promises to be New York's first new cultural institution in recent memory, to be completed in spring 2019, that will present performances, concerts, visual art, music and other events. With Mr. Bloomberg's donation, $421 million will have been raised toward a $500 million capital campaign that includes start-up costs."
  
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• The Hero Librarians Of North Philadelphia

  24-05-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Columnist Mike Newall: "I visited the century-old library that sits atop Needle Park in Kensington because I'd heard its staff was the first in the city to learn how to administer the lifesaving overdose antidote Narcan."
  
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• A Protest Ballet By Cole Porter (?!) Gets A Revival

  24-05-2017 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The production, called Within the Quota, criticized restrictive immigration laws that had been passed by Congress [in the 1920s]. ... Now, to protest President Trump's anti-immigrant stance, the Princeton University Ballet is reviving the production." (includes audio)
  
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• Cincinnati World Piano Competition Shuts Down After 60 Years

  24-05-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The chief reason was financial, said Jack Rouse, chairman of the board. Despite generous donors in recent years, the competition was unable to raise the $300,000 needed to continue to exist."
  
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• Morning Links: Sarcophagus Edition

  24-05-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Gallery in JMW Turner's beloved Margate to host 2019 Turner prize

  24-05-2017 15:00
  
  Turner Contemporary, built on site of boarding house artist visited when painting there, announced as exhibition venue The Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, the seaside town where JMW Turner would come to paint the east Kent skies, will host the Turner prize in 2019. The prize, one of the most prestigious accolades in contemporary art and which comes with £40,000 in winnings, is presented at a venue outside London every other year.Continue reading...
  
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• Broadway Box Office Take Sets Another Record (Thanks To Insane Ticket Prices)

  24-05-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Box-office grosses, which have been climbing since 2013, rose 5.5 percent, to $1.449 billion, a new high, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Broadway League ... There are bargains available for all but the buzziest shows, but still: The average price paid for a Broadway ticket during the 2016-17 season was a record $109, up from $103 the previous season."
  
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• Italian Government Is Giving Away 103 Historic Buildings - Yes, For Free

  24-05-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Old houses, inns, farmhouses, monasteries and ancient castles are all up for grabs - and you won't have to pay a penny." And yes, there's a catch: "Those who take up the offer will have to commit to restoring and transforming the sites into tourist facilities, such as hotels, restaurants, or spas."
  
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• Police Raid Moscow's Leading Avant-Garde Theatre, Detain Director

  24-05-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kirill Serebrennikov, famous in Russia as both a stage director and a filmmaker, was taken into custody and held for interrogation following a raid of the Gogol Center (of which he's artistic director), his apartment, and 15 other addresses. (He was released late in the day and said he was questioned as a witness.) Authorities claim that the issue is suspected embezzlement of state arts funding at the Gogol, but Serebrennikov is a well-known critic of the Kremlin's policies on freedom of express
  
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• Musée Dapper, Paris museum specialising in African art, to shut up shop

  24-05-2017 14:03
  
  The Muse Dapper in Paris will close its doors next month, with officials citing high costs and low attendance as reasons for shutting the privately funded, non-profit museum of traditional and contemporary African art.The institution moved to its current location in the 16th arrondissement in 2000. More than 50 exhibitions have been held in the space. The current show Masterpieces from Africa (until 17 June) includes ancient works from Cameroon and Mali. The museum, which has a 6 entrance fee,
  
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• How Two Guys Built A Successful Opera Festival From Scratch In A London Park

  24-05-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The essence, I think, is as little bullshit as possible - an emotional approach but with real seriousness. We agree that the audience comes first and that you carry them with you rather than forcing things down their throats." Reporter George Hall talks to Michael Volpe and James Clutton about Opera Holland Park, which puts on up to half a dozen productions every summer.
  
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• Amazon's New Book Charts Measures What's Read Rather Than What's Bought

  24-05-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Amazon Charts might open up a whole new set of bestsellers based on books actually read rather than books bought as coffee-table status symbols. But will this carry more weight with the publishing industry – and readers – than the venerable New York Times bestseller tag, which has been the go-to example of bragging rights since 1931?
  
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• Behnam Bakhtiar Award set up to promote Iranian art

  24-05-2017 13:25
  
  A new prize aimed at artists of Iranian descent has been launched in Monaco. The biennial Behnam Bakhtiar Award hopes to promote Iranian art internationally and to counteract the image of a culture and country that is too often misunderstood and criticised, says Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar, the Monaco-based Iranian artist who founded the prize.
   
  The first edition of the award, titled Future Iran, invites artists to portray their vision, hopes and dreams for the country. I believe that every ch
  
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• Turner Prize to take a trip to Margate’s Turner Contemporary in 2019

  24-05-2017 12:08
  
  The Turner Prize is on the move again, decamping to the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate in 2019. The high-profile contemporary art award is presented in alternate years at Tate Britain in London and at a regional UK venue. The Turner Prize was shown in Liverpool in 2007, Gateshead in 2011, Derry in Northern Ireland in 2013, and Glasgow in 2015.It seems even more fitting to host the prize here in Margate on the site where J.M.W. Turner was so inspired, says Victoria Pomery, the director o
  
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• Deutsche Bank plans new culture forum in central Berlin

  24-05-2017 11:30
  
  Deutsche Bank is planning to establish a new arts forum in central Berlin, primarily to exhibit its corporate collection, one of the largest in the world, encompassing 50,000 works acquired since the late 1970s.
   
  The arts centre, expected to open in mid-2018, is located in the Prinzessinnenpalais at 5 Unter den Lindenthe boulevard leading up to the Brandenburg Gate. We are working on an exciting programme, says Klaus Winker, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank, adding that it is too early to gi
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.23.17

  24-05-2017 10:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Doomsday Scenario: President Trump’s Bludgeoned Budgets for NEA, NEH, IMLS
  William “Bro” Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and an Obama appointee, clearly knew what was coming when he precipitously resigned his position yesterday, effective today. Short notice, Bro! ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-05-23The hole story
  Georg Büchner died in 1837 with his masterpiece unfinished – a masterpiece because it’s unfinished, pe
  
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• Object lessons: a Cuban vanguardian work, a Noguchi sculpture with a Hollywood history and a Ragamala miniature painting

  24-05-2017 09:00
  
  New York Christies24-25 May: Latin American Art
  Guajiro con Gallo (also known as Muchacho con Gallo) (1943) by Mariano Rodrguez(est $500,000-$700,000)
  The Cuban vanguardian painted roosters in every phase of his career, sometimes rendering the animal in the fighting rink (cockfighting remains an emblematic sport of the country). This painting shows another motif that often surfaces in the artists work: the guajiro, a Cuban term used to describe a man from the countryside or a farmer. Together,
  
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• Earth's wealthiest people – in pictures

  24-05-2017 08:00
  
  America’s biggest house, a golfing Versace addict in China, the must-have sweater for Russian it-girls … Lauren Greenfield’s photobook Generation Wealth documents 25 years of rampant global materialismContinue reading...
  
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• How The Royal Academy Came This Close To Selling Off Its Prized Michelangelo

  24-05-2017 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In December 1978 the academy’s secretary, Sidney Hutchison, wrote to Drummonds Bank (with which it had a £675,000 overdraft): “Very confidentially, if this official attempt for subsidy from the Government through the Arts Council should fail, my view is that the Academy would then have no alternative but to sell the Michelangelo Tondo for its worldwide market price, ie in the region of £6,000,000.”
  
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• How Canada's First Nations Are Reclaiming Their Stories

  24-05-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The whole notion of Canadian culture is a very peculiar thing, driven by what are referred to unfortunately in English as founding nations – the English and French – which is just so not true since there was over 300 distinct First Nations there.”
  
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