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• Survey: Boards Of LA’s Arts Organizations Don’t Reflect The Demographics Of The Region

  25-05-2021 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  While nearly 74% of L.A. County is nonwhite, only 19.5% of the museum board members identified as nonwhite. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What Accounts For The Enduing Popularity Of Orwell?

  25-05-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is no doubting the clarity and vigor of his prose, but when it comes to assessing his capacity to face up to grim truths, there is good reason to doubt Orwell’s claims to his having looked reality unflinchingly in the eye and told it like it was. Orwell’s friend Malcolm Muggeridge believed that while Orwell displayed “an almost painful honesty,” his grasp of what was going on in the world was often more than a little tenuous. – New Criterion
  
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• June Miles obituary

  25-05-2021 18:01
  
  My mother, June Miles, who has died aged 96, was known as a landscape, portrait and still life artist. In a review in the Cornishman in 2004, Frank Ruhrmund wrote of her that “… there is a sense of peace in her work that passes all understanding … An artist who has never courted publicity, never owned a trumpet of her own let alone blown it, June Miles must be one of the most retiring, unassuming, and consequently one of the most underrated of the many artists practising in P
  
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• Archie at 100 years: a century of the Archibald prize – in pictures

  25-05-2021 04:12
  
  This year the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates 100 years of Australia’s most celebrated portraiture prize. Arranged thematically, the exhibition Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize unearths the stories behind more than 100 artworks selected from every decade. It reflects not just how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over time, but, importantly, the changing face of Australia. • Archibald prize turns 100: love it or hate it, it reflects a cha
  
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