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• 15 Things That Suck About Museums

  18-03-2022 19:32 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Walking around a museum can feel a little off-putting when you know that workers aren’t being paid a fair wage — and, in the case of the Penn Museum, are even subject to union busting. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Flamm arts festival aims to spark interest in unsung Cornish town of Bodmin

  26-02-2026 16:00
  Eclectic event to bring contemporary art to part of peninsula usually bypassed by tourists and art loversArt lovers usually bypass the Cornish town of Bodmin as they head to the more obvious delights of seaside galleries in places such as St Ives and Newlyn.But an eclectic festival called Flamm – Cornish/Kernewek for flame or spark – is bringing contemporary art to the hinterland of the peninsula this weekend. Highlights range from a clay sculpture of jackdaws, a reference to the loc
  
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• Nova Scotia’s Arts Sector Hit Hard By “Unprecedented” Provincial Budget Cuts

  26-02-2026 15:31 via halifaxexaminer.ca
  “Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs that put writers and artists in schools. Nova Scotia’s arts and culture sector was hit hard by cuts announced (late) yesterday by the provincial government.” – Halifax Examiner
  
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• David Hockney’s first English landscape on show for first time in almost 30 years

  26-02-2026 15:18
  English Garden, painted in 1965, is on display before it goes under the hammer with estimate of £2.5m-£3.5mDavid Hockney’s first English landscape, depicting a perfectly manicured Oxfordshire garden, is on show for the first time in three decades before being auctioned.Sotheby’s said the 1965 painting, English Garden, which was completed in Boulder, Colorado, was pivotal for Hockney as well as holding an important place in wider art history. Continue reading...
  
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• As The Bidding War For It Began, Warner Bros. Discovery Lost A Quarter-Billion Dollars

  26-02-2026 15:05 via hollywoodreporter.com
  In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was down 6% from the fourth quarter last year; that figure ought to satisfy Wall Street’s expectations, but an unprofitable company is generally not considered a good thing. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• ‘The sky’s the limit’: Newcastle Art Gallery unveils its ‘divisive’ $48m expansion with a blockbuster opening show

  26-02-2026 15:00
  Now the largest public gallery in NSW outside of Sydney, NAG’s new exhibition marries big names with local artists – and celebrates a changing cityGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn Friday night, the Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) is throwing open its doors and filling the road and park with giant fluffy doughnuts, live music, dancing and art in a free-for-all street party – themed “industrial disco” – that has been 16 years in the making.For the NAG t
  
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• ‘Let me in!’ The artist inviting you to protest outside major art venues he can’t access

  26-02-2026 15:00
  In Let Me In, Let Me Out, Hugo Flavelle takes audiences on a tour of galleries and theatres he has struggled in around Perth – creating a protest crossed with a mobile raveGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s just after 8pm in Perth on a balmy Tuesday night and I’m yelling at a building: “WHERE IS YOUR AUDIO DESCRIPTION?” I’m not alone – 20 or so people are part of this alfresco protest. There’s a general feeling of low-key jubilation; s
  
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• Paris’s Other Wildly Popular Museum, The Musée d’Orsay, Also Has A New Director

  26-02-2026 14:30 via lemonde.fr
  The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais. She succeeds Sylvain Amic, who died suddenly in August 2025.” – Le Monde (in English)
  
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• Refresher: What To Know About The Louvre As It Changes Directors And Navigates Crises

  26-02-2026 14:06 via apnews.com
  Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which the world’s busiest museum is facing, and why President Macron is unusually invested in all this. – AP
  
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• Short and Sweet: Teachers : Educators :: Arts Organizations : Nonprofit Arts Organizations That Deserve Donations

  26-02-2026 14:00 via artsjournal.com
  Back to the basics, because the message is only going so far. It’s up to you to save the sector from its own worst instincts.
  
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• ‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement

  26-02-2026 13:00
  The Tennessee socialist and labor organizer creates art that reflects and inspires organizers and workersThe crowd lining up to get into Tabitha Arnold’s exhibition in New York City last fall wasn’t full of the older, moneyed types one might expect to find at a Chelsea gallery opening. Instead, the small space was packed with twenty- and thirtysomethings wearing Zohran Mamdani pins, Democratic Socialists of America hats and SEIU T-shirts.If the crowd might have seemed unusual in the
  
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• Capturing a Queen review – you’ll lose your head looking at so many pictures of Anne Boleyn

  26-02-2026 12:38
  Hever Castle, KentHistorians have amassed the largest group of portraits of Henry VIII’s second wife, whom he began courting 500 years ago (and beheaded 10 years later). But do we really need a public vote on the best likeness?Royal portraits are enjoying a spike in attention at present. While art historians are salivating over the recent discovery of the Catherine of Aragon pendant, Hever Castle, the childhood home of her successor as queen, is capitalising on its Tudor connection by moun
  
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• Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize

  26-02-2026 11:00
  Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’From “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” to “one touch of nature made the whole world kin”, some of the most famous lines in William Shakespeare’s works are about the relationship between humans and the environment.It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playw
  
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• LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes review – Ian McKellen lip-syncs with precision as the artist bares his soul

  25-02-2026 23:00
  The notoriously private Manchester painter agreed in 1972 to be recorded by a young fan. The results, broadcast here for the first time, are tender, revealing – and desperately movingIn 1972 a young woman pitched up at an artist’s home to meet her idol. Angela Barratt was 27, with no experience in journalism, art criticism or interviewing blunt northern men of a different generation. LS Lowry was 84, a notoriously private painter who lived alone and increasingly at odds with a world
  
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• Is This, Scientifically, The Best Way To Learn A New Language?

  25-02-2026 21:02 via bbc.com
  A correspondent tries a method designed by professors of cognition to mirror language-learning in the real world. The tasks basically simulate how we would cope if dropped into a foreign country with an unknown language, simply using our innate skills to start making sense of the mysterious sounds made by everyone around us. – BBC
  
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• How One Dance Spread An Indigenous Movement Across The American West

  25-02-2026 20:05 via nationalgeographic.com
  On New Year’s Day 1889, a young Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision in which God taught him a ceremony. The Ghost Dance blended traditional teachings, earlier ritual dances, and Christian theology, promising peace and reunion with the dead, and it spread like brushfire through the Great Basin and Plains. – National Geographic
  
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• Just What/Where Is The Leisure Class?

  25-02-2026 19:48 via libertiesjournal.com
  We need to work, because survival demands it, and we need to rest, because work is tiring, but are those two possibilities really exhaustive? – Liberties Journal
  
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• AMC Says It Will Continue To Close Movie Theatres

  25-02-2026 19:31 via fastcompany.com
  For the company’s Q4 2025, which ended on December 31, AMC reported total revenue of $1.28 billion. That’s a drop of 1.4% from the $1.3 billion the company reported for the same quarter a year earlier. – Fast Company
  
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• How Instrumentalization Devalues The Meaning Of Art

  25-02-2026 19:15 via aeon.co
  It is no longer enough for universities to say that their programmes allow you to explore some of the most fundamental questions of existence. Now the questions are of a decidedly more bottom-line sort: how will philosophy help you buy a house or build your pension pot? – Aeon
  
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• Composer Éliane Radigue, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And Drone Music, Has Died At 94

  25-02-2026 19:03 via pitchfork.com
  While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned to acoustic composition in the 2000s. As one colleague put it, she “taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception.” – Pitchfork
  
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• Republican Attorneys General Oppose Netflix Warner Deal

  25-02-2026 18:44 via deadline.com
  “We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write to express our concerns that the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers will likely result in undue market concentration that stifles competition and therefore creates higher prices, lower reliability, and less innovation for one of America’s major industries.” – Deadline
  
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• The remarkable man who made Art UK possible | Letter

  25-02-2026 18:31
  Prof Robin Simon on the charity’s visionary founder, Fred HohlerI was pleased to see Art UK’s achievements mentioned in your article, but astonished that it only featured its new chair and not the remarkable man who made it all possible (‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries, 23 February). I refer to Fred Hohler, who established the Public Catalogue Foundation, a charity the work of which is now online under its register
  
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• How To Declutter Your Attention

  25-02-2026 18:31 via psyche.co
  The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object count, psychological minimalism directs attention and reduces cognitive friction. – Psyche
  
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• Longtime MTT Partner Josh Robison, 79

  25-02-2026 18:15 via msn.com
  For more than four decades, Robison was a constant at Tilson Thomas’ side – not only as spouse but as manager, adviser and strategic partner. Friends and colleagues often described him as the behind-the-scenes architect who helped turn Tilson Thomas’ artistic ambitions into lasting institutions and civic initiatives. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• CBS News Insiders Worry That “60 Minutes” As We’ve Known It Is Doomed

  25-02-2026 18:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  “As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to be ‘revolutionized’ along with it. … Recent months have seen a flurry of events that portend a very different 60 Minutes in the not-too-distant future.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Broadway Box Office Takes A Hit Because Of Storm

  25-02-2026 17:44 via hollywoodreporter.com
  Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm, as the musical fell $408,223 from the prior week. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Leaked Transcript Shows Thinking Behind University Canceling Anti-ICE Show

  25-02-2026 17:35 via artnews.com
  In the leaked transcripts, Hutzel reportedly told employees that while the school’s administration might survive the reputational fallout, the college itself could become a target of elected officials with the power to allocate—or withhold—state funding. – ARTnews
  
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• Writers, Artists Hesitate To Admit They’re Using AI

  25-02-2026 17:15 via theconversation.com
  There’s an important caveat that my colleagues and I have recently begun to explore in our research: Positive views of creative work often shift once people learn that AI was involved. – The Conversation
  
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• The Volunteer Army Documenting Museum And Park Wall Texts Before The Trump Administration Rewrites Them

  25-02-2026 17:06 via yahoo.com
  A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other organizations are scouring websites, signage, datasets and documents, treating them with the care of conservators as they resist the Trump administration’s efforts to recast the past. – The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
  
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• Paramount Increases Its Bid For Warner Bros. Yet Again

  25-02-2026 16:34 via variety.com
  New studio mogul David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has increased its unsolicited offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery from $30 to $31 in cash per share — increasing the total value of the offer (including assuming $33 billion in debt) to $111 billion. – Variety
  
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