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• Mary Beard: Ancient Rome Never Disappoints

  01-06-2021 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Cambridge classics professor (and Twitter, TV, and book star) says that our desire to compare the U.S. to ancient Rome is normal – but not sensible. “Rome, in a way, doesn’t matter at all. It’s a very long time ago; no one’s going to get hurt by them. … Rome helps us stand outside ourselves. For me, Rome was a brutal and exploitative empire. But the idea of looking at a big, nasty imperial community who saw their origin in migration, in asylum, and that
  
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• The Prado Is Taking Its Art To The Streets

  01-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In replica form, that is. “Exact replicas of masterpieces from the Prado museum, including paintings by Goya, El Greco, and Fra Angelico, have been installed behind tree branches, inside airport security stations, on the sides of buildings, and along wrought-iron fences.” – Artnet
  
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• The Hollywood Bowl Is On Plan C, Full Reopen

  01-06-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  As vaccines spread and COVID-19 numbers drop, “concert and theater venues are scrambling to keep up and figure out when and how to welcome back the crowds they depend on. For the Hollywood Bowl — perhaps the most celebrated outdoor venue in the nation — that has meant making plans, and ripping them up again, as it rides rapidly changing county and state regulations and shifting public attitudes ahead of its planned July 3 opening.” – The New York Times
  
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• ‘Michelangelo of Middlesbrough’ hailed for 27,000-hour model project

  01-06-2021 19:35
  
  Lockdown hobbyist painted 1m tiny cobbles for scale model of Yorkshire town’s demolished St Hilda’s district Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhile lockdown has inspired many of us to take up new hobbies, for one Middlesbrough man, the pandemic just meant more time to devote to a mammoth project already nine years in the making.“It was business as usual,” says Steve Waller, 61, a model artist and historian known affectionately as the &ldqu
  
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• Frenchwoman gives up legal fight for return of Nazi-looted Pissarro

  01-06-2021 18:20
  
  Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, drops legal action against University of Oklahoma after being threatened with finesA French heiress has been forced to give up her battle to recover a Pissarro painting the Nazis looted from her adoptive parents.Léone-Noëlle Meyer, 81, announced on Tuesday she had been left with “no choice” but to drop legal action to retrieve La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) after she was threatened with large fine
  
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• Samson Kambalu: New Liberia review – all hail the elephants of hope

  01-06-2021 08:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford
  An Oxford don in reverse, sticky situationism and a icon of Malawian independence are among the cultural collisions explored in this Fourth Plinth contender’s show
  Here they stand, two big black elephants, their trunks raised in greeting. Elephants never forget, and these symbols of ancestral wisdom are clothed in sewn-together Oxford academic gowns, their ridiculous tassels forming the animals’ tails. Referencing the dances of the Nyau secret society of the Chewa p
  
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• Diamond geysers: A cruise through Iceland – in pictures

  01-06-2021 08:00
  
  Jessica Auer moved to a small community in Iceland’s eastern fjords to photograph the tourist boom that some see as a blessing, others a curse Continue reading...
  
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• Los Angeles Is The United States’ Largest City-State

  01-06-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Or else it’s something else. But it’s no mere city. “Los Angeles fits the city-state frame well, certainly better than it does a lot of other possibilities—if we update the model a bit. In 2010, Forbes suggested that if the criteria for a place to be considered a city-state were modernized for the 21st century, certain global capitals might qualify thanks to a few key features: a big port to sustain trade; investors from overseas; money laundering; interna
  
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