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• Art Gallery of Ontario goes from zero to number two with Diane Arbus acquisition

  24-06-2017 00:05
  
  With its acquisition announced today of 522 prints by Diane Arbus, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto has become the second biggest holder of her work in the world. As well as adding to the AGOs significant collection of photographywhich includes works by Gary Winogrand, Josef Sudek and Arnold Newmanthe acquisition is notable because before this, the museum owned no works by Arbus.
  Made possible with funds from the museum patrons Phil Lind, Sandra Simpson, Jay Smith, Jozef Straus, and Robin
  
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• What German And Austrian Orchestras Were Willing To Do Under The Third Reich

  24-06-2017 00:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "What the two orchestras had in common was a nationalistic ethos, a belief in the superiority of Austro-German musical culture that approached triumphalism. One of the darkest manifestations of this ethos was their shared reluctance to hire Jews. The Berlin Philharmonic employed only four Jewish players in 1933, while the Vienna Philharmonic contained only 11 Jews at the time of the Anschluss, none of whom was hired after 1920."
  
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