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• Creative Class Cities - What Ails Ye

  24-04-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "If I understand [Richard] Florida, he’s arguing that today’s troubles are a consequence of the success of a few cities such as Seattle, and especially New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. And they are also victims because of affordability. As Florida correctly puts it, these cities have 'wildly disproportionate shares' of advanced industries, startups and talent. But what really caused this?"
  
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• There Are a Lot of Open Art Museum Directorships in the United States Right Now

  26-01-2026 15:07 via artnews.com
  There’s been a lot of drama in the world of museum directors lately, headlined by the meltdown at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Perhaps just as dramatic, though, is the sheer number of open directorships at American art museums. In just the past two days, two major jobs opened up: at the Queens Museum, where Sally Tallant, who has been in the role since 2019, will depart to lead London’s Hayward Gallery; and at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, where David Brenneman, hired in
  
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• Legendary Dealer Marian Goodman Dies, Louvre Shutters Again Amid Strike: Morning Links for January 26, 2026

  26-01-2026 14:55 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The KickerGOODMAN GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Marian Goodman, the art dealer admired for her lifelong loyalty to her artists and her indifference to market trends, died on Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at 97, ARTnews reported on Sunday. In 1977, at 49, she opened Marian Goodman Gallery in Midtown Manhattan with an exhibition of Marcel Broodthaers, signaling
  
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• New £1.5m awards scheme launches to celebrate UK visual art education

  26-01-2026 08:00
  Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 to three projects every year ‘against the backdrop of 15 years of cuts’A new £1.5m awards scheme has been launched to recognise and celebrate visual art education in the UK – with £100,000 being awarded to three organisations a year for the next five years.The Freelands Foundation announced the award on Monday for recent or ongoing projects “demonstrating commitment to progressive art education approaches with demo
  
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• Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Helped This Religion Reporter Uncover Her Own Lost History

  25-01-2026 21:30 via theatlantic.com
  “Stoppard wasn’t telling a story of Nazis and gas chambers; he was exploring the psychological danger of hiding one’s Jewish identity. A month after seeing the play, I decided to fly to London in search of some of my own hidden pieces.” – The Atlantic
  
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• What To Read Now

  25-01-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  At least according to Ali Smith, whose 2024 book Gliff is such a good, terrifying book about the surveillance state that you’ll think it’s nonfiction. (Her comfort read, should anyone be looking for such a thing for some reason, is Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book.) – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Minneapolis Institute of Art Closes for Third Straight Day Amid Alex Pretti Killing, ICE Protests

  25-01-2026 20:39 via artnews.com
  The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the city’s leading art museum, announced on Sunday that it would remain closed on Sunday “for the safety of staff and visitors,” according to a statement posted to Instagram.The institution was one of many in the city to close on Friday as part of the Day of Truth and Freedom, a statewide protest organized in response to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota communities in recent weeks.On Saturday, during an ICE operati
  
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• Seattle Rep Has Rare Paid Apprenticeships, And Washington State Approves

  25-01-2026 20:30 via seattletimes.com
  “Apprentices can study one of five tracks: directing and artistic programs, lighting design, production management, scenic paint or stage management. The apprenticeships are about 10 months long.”– Seattle Times
  
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• Marian Goodman, Renowned New York Art Who Helped Bring Post-War European Avant-Garde To Prominence, Has Died At 97

  25-01-2026 20:00 via nytimes.com
  “Famously loyal to her artists, Ms. Goodman aimed to place their work in museum collections rather than in private mansions. Her priorities could amount to a thorn in the side of collectors.” – The New York Times
  
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• Not Many Actors Have A Predator Movie And An Oscar Nomination In The Same Year

  25-01-2026 19:30 via salon.com
  Elle Fanning has had quite the year. Her “ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the kind of exciting malleability that audiences forced to wade through modern cinema’s sea of sameness deserve.” – Salon
  
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• Spanish Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Julio Iglesias For Sexual Assault

  25-01-2026 19:00 via bbc.com
  “They ruled that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction and were therefore not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad involving complainants who were not Spanish citizens or residents and who had never travelled to Spain with the star.” – BBC
  
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• A Call For ‘Equal Time’ Could Have A Chilling Effect On US TV And Radio

  25-01-2026 18:31 via latimes.com
  “It’s the Trump White House’s latest salvo against the network late night talk show hosts, primarily Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel, who pound away at President Trump nightly in their monologues and offer ample airtime to his political opponents.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Gallerist Marian Goodman, Unwavering Champion of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 97

  25-01-2026 18:24 via artnews.com
  The art dealer Marian Goodman, who was revered for her enduring commitment to the artists that she represented, and for her disinclination to follow either aesthetic or business trends, died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 97. The New York Times, which first reported news of her death on Sunday, did not report a cause.In 1977, at the age of 49, Goodman opened her eponymous gallery in Midtown Manhattan with a show of the late Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers, whose con
  
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• Beatriz Gonzalez, Colombian Artist Who Turned Mass Produced Culture Into Painterly Critiques, Has Died At 93

  25-01-2026 18:00 via nytimes.com
  González, one of the foremost painters of the late 20th century, painted subjects included “the violence that permeated life in Colombia; the European ‘high culture’ that filtered its way across the Atlantic in cheap reproductions; and the in-your-face commercial aesthetic of pervasive urban advertising.” – The New York Times
  
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• At The Academy Museum, There’s No More Oral History Project Staff

  25-01-2026 17:30 via msn.com
  The museum’s union calls the cuts “a sad and reckless choice.”– Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Wait, How Exactly Did Heated Rivalry Become A Hit In Russia?

  25-01-2026 17:00 via msn.com
  “The popularity of the show has prompted calls in Russia to purge it from the internet.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• NPR Has Some Plans For Your Winter Storm Reading

  25-01-2026 16:30 via npr.org
  For instance: A cultural history of ice in the United States and Val McDermid’s new memoir, entitled Winter. – NPR
  
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• The Last Sundance In Park City

  25-01-2026 16:00 via sfchronicle.com
  This weekend, “the festival is bidding farewell to its longtime home and forging forward without its founder, Robert Redford, who died in September. Next year, it must find its footing in another mountain town, Boulder, Colo.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• BBC Admits, And Apologizes For, Homophobic Abuse Of A Presenter It Fired

  25-01-2026 15:30 via bbc.com
  “Jack Murley alleged he was called homophobic names, including ‘fairy boy’, by other staff members and told to sound ‘less gay’ on air by a manager.” – BBC
  
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• Delroy Lindo Is Getting His First Oscar Nomination At 73

  25-01-2026 15:00 via theroot.com
  Many observers expected the actor to get a nod for Da 5 Bloods (as did the actor). There’s an easy answer about why he didn’t get a nod – it even has a hashtag – but there’s a more complex question about his characters and the movies he starred in.– The Root
  
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• Renee Fleming Will No Longer Perform At The Kennedy Center

  25-01-2026 14:30 via nytimes.com
  “Fleming and the Kennedy Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday evening. The center’s website said that she had withdrawn from two May concerts with the orchestra ‘due to a scheduling conflict.’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Love Letters From Lord Byron’s Boyfrien

  25-01-2026 14:00 via theparisreview.org
  “While performing the role of the straight heartthrob in public, Byron was concealing his more complex history—no matter the sacrifice to his feelings.” – Paris Review
  
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• This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Documentaries Fight The Power

  25-01-2026 13:30 via nytimes.com
  “Each is a story about standing up to something that seems too big to confront: an authoritarian government, an abusive system, dehumanizing societal norms. Together, they show the power of nonfiction filmmaking, both amateur and professional, in those acts of resistance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Meta Hits Pause On Teens Chatting With AI Characters

  25-01-2026 13:00 via archive.ph
  Apparently, it was too hard to put parental controls on the old characters. So: “We’re pausing teen access to the current version while we focus on the new iteration. When that new iteration is available for teens, it will come with parental controls.” – The Verge (Archive Today)
  
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• ‘I want them to feel the emotion’: the pop artist capturing the excitement of the Super Bowl

  25-01-2026 13:00
  Charles Fazzino, official artist of Super Bowl LX, has carved out a unique niche with his vibrant, playful 3D creationsEager to avoid the life of a starving artist after finishing his studies at New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1977, Charles Fazzino got some straightforward advice from his father Salvatore, a shoe designer.“He said to me, ‘If you’re going to be an artist and you want to be successful, buddy, you better do something that’s different,’”
  
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• AJ Chronicles: This Week in the Great Culture Shift

  24-01-2026 22:38 via artsjournal.com
  This week, ArtsJournal looked at thousands of stories and collected 118 stories across culture. This is one person’s attempt to make sense of them.
  
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• Carlos Simon shares the ethos behind his composing process

  24-01-2026 17:54 via artsjournal.com
  Carlos Simon, Composer-in-Residence of the Kennedy Center, shares the ethos behind his composing process that impacts communities.
  
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• ‘Displaying the cloth like this showed its true beauty’: Aung Chan Thar’s best phone picture

  24-01-2026 12:00
  A beautiful lake, gorgeous fabric: how could the Myanmar photographer resist?When Aung Chan Thar was 25, he was selected to represent Myanmar as part of Asean Centre for Biodiversity’s (ACB) Young Asean Storytellers programme. A cohort of 20 young artists and writers visited Asean Heritage Parks in their own countries to tell stories of biodiversity, nature and culture.Aung first travelled to Inlay Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, known for its floating gardens, in 2022. “The
  
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• From Saipan to Take That: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

  24-01-2026 07:00
  Steve Coogan stars in a loose retelling of an infamous football falling-out, while a new Netflix doc gets nostalgic about the heyday of Gary Barlow and coSaipan
  Out nowAs the Irish national team descend on a small island in the Pacific to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, an epic falling out between manager Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan) and top player Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) is looming, in this sports drama loosely based on the infamous real-life spat. Continue reading...
  
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• Cartoonists Martin Rowson and Ella Baron at work – in pictures

  24-01-2026 07:00
  As the two cartoonists set out to draw on the same theme – ‘Trump and a world in turmoil’ – to the same deadline, Guardian photographer David Levene visited them in their studiosHow we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head Continue reading...
  
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