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• French military funds technology to document heritage in conflict zones

  22-06-2017 23:00
  
  The French ministry of defence is funding a US-French consortium that is working to democratise the technology used to digitally document heritage sites threatened by war. A $1.1m grant, announced last month, supports a three-year project to widen access to this 3D data, so that it can be used by troops on the ground and scholars via their laptops anywhere to assess the condition of monuments and sites at risk. Peacetime applications include sites threatened by climate change and urban growth.
  
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• Why are we still so fascinated with fairies?

  03-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  They’re more than fantasy confections – they’re cultural touchstones, says one author 
  
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• The designers newly supercharged by motherhood

  03-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Designer-makers are carving new narratives after having children — in richly diverse ways
  
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• Renoir’s reputation restored at the National Gallery

  03-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The contradictions of the artist’s life and work are explored through his enduring fascination with love
  
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  03-10-2026 02:08 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Independent Acquired by Global Conglomerate Informa

  02-10-2026 23:21 via artnews.com
  
  Independent, which organizes two art fairs in New York each year—one devoted to contemporary art in the spring and the other 20th-century art in the fall—has been acquired by London-based conglomerate Informa. The sale was completed last year, meaning that both 2026 fairs were completed under Informa’s ownership.“Independent’s future is bright. With Informa as our partner, Independent is redefining what an art fair can be with the spirit of a museum exhibition and t
  
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• Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes

  02-10-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  Unionized staff at four of New York’s prominent cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, and (AFAM)—have ratified new contracts, UAW Local 2110 announced today. The Brooklyn Museum and AFAM finalized four-year contracts this week, while the Guggenheim and Jewish Museum unions ratified their agreements in September.ARTnews has contacted the museums for comment.The Brooklyn Museum’s second contract gu
  
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• Swiss Government to Fund Research into Holdings of Cultural Artifacts

  02-10-2026 21:43 via artnews.com
  
  The Swiss government will provide $2.4 million in funding for research into the provenance of objects in its museums and collections, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture announced earlier this week. Funding for 26 projects from 2027–2028 was awarded following a public call for proposals.A core focus will be on items acquired by Swiss institutions in colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. The winning projects range from initiatives involving several museums to collaborations with
  
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• How to start a theatre? Pose as a Property Developer

  02-10-2026 21:32 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Theatre director Jay Miller started the Yard, a Hackney Wick fringe theatre (and London’s coolest venue), by posing as a property developer and wearing a charity-shop tie and offering a landlord free night-watchman service in place of paid security. The three-month pop-up ran 14 years, sent Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams to the National Theatre, and has just reopened after a £7 million rebuild (The Nerve).Sixty foreign architecture firms, not one of them Albani
  
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• Kennedy Center Honors To Be Moved To An Arena

  02-10-2026 21:21 via yahoo.com
  The 49th annual awards are set to take place at Washington’s downtown arena, a Kennedy Center spokesperson said Friday. Few other details were immediately available, and an explanation for the change wasn’t given. – AP (Yahoo)
  
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• British Museum Refunds Bayeux Tapestry Visitors After Closing Early for Reception Attended by Princess Anne

  02-10-2026 21:00 via artnews.com
  
  September has been a busy month for the British Museum with the opening of the sold out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, which has attracted swarms of crowds, as well as complaints from visitors and lawsuits, too. Now, the museum now trying to rectify those missteps.On Wednesday, the museum turned away visitors halfway through the day to get ready for a gala dinner it was hosting with its long-term corporate sponsor Samsung to celebrate the “Korea” exhibition that opened on Thursday. The
  
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• Ingrid Wiener, Viennese Actionist Artist and Collaborator of Valie Export and Dieter Roth, Dies at 83

  02-10-2026 20:53 via artnews.com
  
  Viennese Actionist artist Ingrid Wiener died at the age of 83, just shy of her 84th birthday, Charim Gallery announced in an Instagram post. The gallery did not state a cause of death. For decades, Wiener shaped the Austrian art scene with her combined textile, photography, painting, and collage works, as well as through notable collaborations with the likes of Valie Export and Dieter Roth.Wiener’s tapestries integrate objects and fragments of her everyday life, among them, cutting boards,
  
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• What Laurie Anderson Knows Now That She Wishes She’d Known At Age 18

  02-10-2026 20:50 via thenerve.news
  
  Nothing, actually. “No, I’m happy with what I knew then and what I didn’t know, and I was glad to get a chance to be an idiot. … You know, I don’t mind making these blunders. I learned a lot through blunders.” – The Nerve (UK)
  
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• Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility

  02-10-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles’s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, “was always meant to be a generous civic space,” the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it “gateway” between the museum and the city.This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the publi
  
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• What’s Behind The Amazing Starchitect Building Boom In… Albania?

  02-10-2026 20:29 via theguardian.com
  Sixty top architecture firms from around the world have mooted 500 eye-catching projects across Albania, sparking fury and protests. – The Guardian
  
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• Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds

  02-10-2026 20:29 via artnews.com
  
  In a new study released by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) this week, the nonprofit found that insufficient public funding is the primary threat to heritage sites around the world. It continues to surpass climate hazards and expertise gaps.The research was conducted as part of the organization’s larger nomination process for its forthcoming 2027 World Monuments Watch list, slated to be announced in February. Since 1996, WMF has published the list every two years in an effort to address fund
  
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• When A Financial Tech Company Stages An Industrial Musical On Broadway

  02-10-2026 20:02 via yahoo.com
  “Bill Pay itself was extremely meta and self-aware, a post-postmodern pageant that would have given David Foster Wallace an aneurysm. … (It) felt like an indicator of where the broader cultural zeitgeist is headed: back to a not-so-recent past where wealthy companies devoted heaping shares of their budgets toward sheer pandering.” – Slate (Yahoo!)
  
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• As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency

  02-10-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York will increase its direct support to artists, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Cultural Affairs commissioner Diya Vij announced today. Rising from $5,000 to up to $10,000, the increase doubles the funds given to artists and represents the first change in this funding stream in some 20 years.The funding comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and is distributed to each borough’s arts councils, which act as regrant partners and dole out grants to individual artists annuall
  
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• Opera Is Increasingly Expensive To Make. So How Will We Pay For It?

  02-10-2026 19:44 via sfclassicalvoice.substack.com
  
  You can look at the finances of San Francisco Opera and what has changed in the last 45 or so years to understand what the company is dealing with. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Court Upholds Thomson Reuters’ Landmark AI Copyright Win

  02-10-2026 19:31 via niemanlab.org
  The ruling marks the first federal appeals case to reject a fair use argument for using publisher content, without permission or compensation, to train a commercial AI product. – NiemanLab
  
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• Chicago’s WBEZ And The Sun-Times Merged Four Years Ago. How’s It Going?

  02-10-2026 19:15 via localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
  
  There’s that real energy of the live report of the Chicago Sun-Times, whereas WBEZ has always been a little bit more of an experience. You want to sit down and you want to capture those driveway moments where you really are connecting with people. – Medill Local News Initiative
  
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• How An Old Warehouse Furnished With Scavenged Everything Became London’s Coolest Theatre

  02-10-2026 19:03 via thenerve.news
  
  The Yard opened in an old industrial estate in July 2011; it was supposed to be a three-month pop-up but stayed for 14 years, presenting edgy stagings of classics and new work — and occasionally sending a production on to the National Theatre. Now it’s reopening after a £7 million renovation. – The Nerve (UK)
  
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• Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China

  02-10-2026 18:51 via artnews.com
  
  In advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to the White House last month, the United States quietly repatriated 58 cultural objects and artifacts to China in a ceremony that took place at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), a unit that is part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced the news on Wednesday. The following day, six additional bronze objects were also returned to China by the Manhattan District At
  
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• Let’s Get Real: Intelligence Is About More Than Optimization

  02-10-2026 18:44 via aeon.co
  That slide from engineering model to human anthropology is easy to miss. We begin by saying: this is how machines work. Then, almost without noticing, we say: this is what intelligence is. And then, more dangerously still: perhaps this is what we are. – Aeon
  
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• Calder Sculpture (His Last Work) Is Restored To US Senate Office Building

  02-10-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  The piece was the only one created by Calder to have a separate stabile and a mobile. Set against Hart’s white marble walls and filling nearly the entire nine-story atrium, it was the kind of avant-garde, modern sculpture that defined Calder’s final works. – The New York Times
  
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• Trump Explores Landmarking The Oval Office So Future Presidents Can’t Reverse His Changes

  02-10-2026 18:15 via washingtonpost.com
  In the Time interview, the president said he was exploring the possibility of a new federal designation for the Oval Office, which he suggested could protect the office from being torn down and preserve his changes to it. – Washington Post
  
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• Here Are The 2026 Dance Magazine Award Recipients

  02-10-2026 18:01 via dancemagazine.com
  “This year’s Dance Magazine Awards will honor Germaine Acogny; Ayodele Casel; Final Bow for Yellowface; Cleo Parker Robinson; and Alice Sheppard. The Lydia Joel Award — recognizing behind-the-scenes dance leaders — will go to Alicia Adams, formerly of the Kennedy Center.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Is Writing Really The Best Way To Learn?

  02-10-2026 17:44 via nytimes.com
  Writing can be useful cognitive scaffolding for memory and self-regulated learning, but the notion that it is the best process for developing thinking skills is a fairly recent idea, traceable to the 1970s writing-across-the-curriculum movement. – The New York Times
  
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• Seattle Public Library Program To Make Banned Books Available Anywhere Hits 1M Checkouts

  02-10-2026 17:31 via komonews.com
  
  Books Unbanned is designed to give young people multiple ways to access digital books regardless of where they live or what their local library can provide. The library said some participants sign up because their local libraries have been censored or underfunded. – KOMO Seattle
  
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