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• Why Newspapers Should Revive The Vanishing Art Of Obituaries

  17-06-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  “We all know people who we think are so cool, or interesting, or exciting, but a lot of times those stories vanish if no one is there to tell them.” – Poynter
  
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• Cardiff’s Artes Mundi 9 prize to be split between six nominees

  17-06-2021 23:05
  
  Judges of Britain’s largest visual arts prize wanted to acknowledge the ‘exceptional upheaval’ of the Covid-19 pandemicOne of the most important art prizes in the UK is to be split between its six nominees after the Artes Mundi 9 judging panel said it wanted to acknowledge the “exceptional social and economic upheaval” of the Covid-19 pandemic.Artes Mundi – the Cardiff-based biennial exhibition that shows political art – will give £10,000 awards to
  
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• Hong Kong Police Raid Gallery For Showing “Seditious” Art

  17-06-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  They claimed to have received a complaint that the space was exhibiting “seditious” content—a criminal offense under Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law. – Artnet
  
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• New Press Aims At The Trump Market

  17-06-2021 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  All Seasons is staking out territory that some mainstream publishers are wary to venture into, by courting former Trump officials who staunchly supported the president through the bitter end of his administration. – The New York Times
  
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• Will Paris Supplant London As Europe’s Art Capital?

  17-06-2021 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  It could indeed happen. Christie’s is owned by François Pinault, CEO of luxury-goods conglomerate Kering (which includes, among others Yves Saint-Laurent and Gucci) and major art collector; French media magnate Patrick Drahi purchased Sotheby’s two years ago; mega-collector and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault (a rival to Jeff Bezos for the title of world’s richest man) is based in the city as well. New museums and commercial galleries keep opening in the French capital &m
  
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• Fire Destroys One Of US’s Leading Organ Makers

  17-06-2021 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sparks from a malfunctioning fan appear to have ignited sawdust at the factory of Dobson Pipe Organ Builders in Lake City, Iowa on Tuesday afternoon, starting a fire that consumed almost everything but part of the exterior walls. Among the instruments Dobson is best known for are the organs at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and Merton College, Oxford; the now-incinerated instrument under construction had been for the historic St. James
  
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• Justice Dept. Drops Trump Administration’s Case Against John Bolton And His Book

  17-06-2021 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Justice Department has closed its year-old criminal investigation into former Trump national security adviser John Bolton and dropped a related lawsuit connected to the publication of his book about the ex-President’s diplomatic bungling. The … criminal investigation had scrutinized whether Bolton’s book illegally revealed national security information, while the lawsuit had sought to grab royalties from Bolton for publishing his book without the administration&rsq
  
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• CNN Is Selling News Clips As NFTs

  17-06-2021 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an initiative called the Vault by CNN, “the WarnerMedia-owned cable news channel … will ‘mint’ NFTs on the Flow blockchain of memorable moments from CNN’s 41-year history. It will then sell them to the public as digital collectibles.” Yes, TV coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the inauguration of Donald Trump, or the death of Anna Nicole Smith could be yours. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• MacKenzie Scott Is Now A Major Arts Philanthropist, Too

  17-06-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The total of $2.7 billion in grants announced this week “marks the third time in 12 months that Scott … has issued a wave of donations worth a combined ten figures. It’s also the first time she has funded arts organizations at scale. (The latest round of recipients also includes racial justice groups, universities, and other organizations.) Absent from the list of arts recipients are big names that wealthy donors often favor, such as the Museum of Modern Art or Lincoln Center
  
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• Choreographer Cathy Marston Will Be Next Director of Zurich’s Ballet

  17-06-2021 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Particularly noted for her narrative work, … Marston will take over as new Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer for an initial period of two years, starting from the 2023-24 season. … Marston has previous directorship experience in Switzerland, having been Ballet Director at the Konzert Theater Bern from 2007-2013. There, she created several world premieres including Wuthering Heights (2009), and led the ballet from the brink of closure to a flourishing period of ensembl
  
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• Opera Australia Lost A Big Pile Of Money Last Year

  17-06-2021 14:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Opera Australia has posted a $7.1 million trading deficit for the year ended December 2020, or almost $6.5 million after bequests are included. … The company received $11.4 million in ‘absolutely critical’ JobKeeper subsidies in 2020. ‘If we hadn’t had that $11.4 million, we would have been potentially looking at a $20 million trading loss, and that would have meant us having to take more drastic action,’ says [outgoing CEO Rory] Jeffes.” &ndash
  
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• V&A museum’s new 20th and 21st Century gallery is refitted for the social justice era

  17-06-2021 09:08
  
  The refurbished space breaks the last century and a quarter into new thematic sections, with special attention paid to diversityIn November 2019, after almost 30 years, the V&A’s 20th Century gallery closed its doors. Split across the same two rooms that blend into the National Art Library, the ambition was to reopen having found a way to tell a new story of the 20th and 21st century, “focused on design and society”.The gallery was supposed to open last June. It was delayed
  
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• New York, New Music: how the city became a hotbed for music in the 80s

  17-06-2021 08:05
  
  In a new exhibition, the city’s more well-known breakout artists are celebrated alongside a richer, and lesser reported, strain of experimental musicIn Kid Creole and the Coconuts’ irrepressible 1980 song Darrio, a klatch of female backup singers bouncingly plead with the titular gentleman to get them into Studio 54. The otherwise obliging Darrio enumerates why he cannot (“That’s the only thing that money can’t buy”), before finally admitting “my kind of
  
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