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• The Day A Guerrilla Artist Changed Los Angeles Freeway Signage Forever

  08-08-2021 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just after the sun came up on installation day, with video cameras rolling from various vantage points, Ankrom put on a hardhat and safety vest, hoisted a ladder up to the larger freeway sign apparatus, and climbed up to the plank with his work.” – The LAnd Magazine
  
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• New Rules Would Eliminate Red Tape In Return Of Remains To Native Tribes

  08-08-2021 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been law since 1990, but “tribes currently undergo an expensive process overseen by the museums and universities they are petitioning. Repatriation requests are processed through guidelines created by the institutions.” – The New York Times
  
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• Live Music Venues Try To Adapt To Delta Variant, New Rules

  08-08-2021 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While the music promoter Live Nation said that artists or bands themselves could set masking and vaccination requirements, some venues in places like L.A. are requiring proof of vaccination along with the county’s mask mandate. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Tate Donor Wants His Art Displayed, Or Wants It Back

  08-08-2021 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And that’s because the museum made promises about the donation of a Francis Bacon collection – promises the donor says it hasn’t kept. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Spotify Knows More About Us Than Even Facebook

  08-08-2021 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And if you don’t want the company to track literally everything you do, there are a few ways around it. – Wired
  
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• Ilona Royce Smithkin, Artist And Muse In Fashion And Art, 101

  08-08-2021 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Smithkin was “an orange-haired nonagenarian with matching two-inch eyelashes [who] caught fire in the world of fashion, starring in a documentary film and joining fashion campaigns for brands like Coach, while flinging embers into many other fields as a muse for photographers, filmmakers and entertainers.” – The New York Times
  
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• Discriminating Against A Pregnant Actor? Pay Up

  08-08-2021 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The producers claim they were concerned it might cost them money in post-production to digitally remove a baby bump. The British court was like, “Do you even know costumes and camera angles?” – BBC
  
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• A Return To Broadway, But Not To Normal

  08-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Antoinette Nwandu changed the ending of her play Pass Over before its debut as the first show to open since Broadway closed in March of 2020. “I no longer wanted to work on a play that ended with the murder of a Black man. … I want to focus on life.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Slightly Horrifying New Art Of The Double Emoji

  08-08-2021 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, Google. – Slate
  
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• When A Producer Knows What She’s Worth, But Hollywood Doesn’t

  08-08-2021 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marcia Nasatir’s “perseverance, loyalty, impressive track record and eagerness to help younger proteges (‘Why not be nice?,’ she said of her altruism. ‘It doesn’t cost you anything.’) paved the way for generations.” But that didn’t earn her the big bucks or the credit. – Washington Post
  
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• Banksy-Like Pieces Appear All Over England’s East Coast

  08-08-2021 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rather hilariously, “Banksy expert Prof Paul Gough, principal and vice chancellor of Arts University Bournemouth, said he was ‘pretty sure’ the works were by Banksy, ‘or they are very good fakes.'” – BBC
  
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• Sculptor James Earl Reid, 78

  08-08-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reid created Baltimore’s iconic statue of Billie Holiday, and took a case with important impacts on intellectual and creative property all the way to Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court. – Baltimore Sun
  
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• Stuck On Stupid

  08-08-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  When a writers’ organization makes the same, or similar, racist mistakes year after year, can it reform? The RWA’s recent choices aren’t looking good. – NPR
  
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• Marlee Matlin Says Deaf Is Not A Costume

  08-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That is, it’s not something non-Deaf actors can simply take on and off to perform various roles. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• In Ethiopia, Rebels Take Control Of UNESCO Heritage Sites

  08-08-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In one of the latest developments in a brutal civil war, “rebels from Ethiopia’s Tigray region have reportedly seized the town of Lalibela, home to UNESCO-protected 12th- and 13th-century rock-hewn churches.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Balanchine Fave Patricia Wilde Dies At 95

  08-08-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Patricia Wilde performed more than 40 roles with City Ballet, and Balanchine, who created many roles for her, “often liked to throw her into a part with little rehearsal.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video

  08-08-2021 14:00
  
  The social media platform was once a favourite of artists and photographers, but a shift towards TikTok-type videos and shopping could leave them looking for a new home onlineIn late July, hobbyist photographer and self-proclaimed “sunrise hunter” Sam Binding conducted an experiment. After visiting Somerset Lavender Farm to catch the sun peeking over the purple blossoms, the 40-year-old from Bristol uploaded the results to both Instagram and Twitter. Two days later, he used the apps&
  
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• Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers review – everyday beauty in full bloom

  08-08-2021 14:00
  
  Garden Museum, London
  The designer who became the toast of London with her floral arrangements using vegetables and weeds is celebrated too as an entrepreneur and educator in this comprehensive showWhen Miss Betsan Horlick married Mr John Coats at Southwark Cathedral on 31 October 1933, the former debutante was attended by no fewer than 16 bridesmaids, each one dressed in a cape styled to reveal a flash of its coloured lining. Five of these were blue, five were chartreuse green, and the remainin
  
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• How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis

  08-08-2021 10:45
  
  The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz Karl Bühler was in a panic, fleeing a gang of mysterious agents who had been tormenting him for months. There was only one way to escape, he thought. He must swim for it. So he plunged into the dark water, close to freezing at this time
  
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• Tate donor warns: ‘I’ll take back my £20m Francis Bacon collection’

  08-08-2021 09:30
  
  Barry Joule, a close friend of the artist, says the gallery has not kept to a pledge to stage exhibitions of the worksWhen more than 1,200 sketches, photographs and documents from the studio of Francis Bacon were donated to the Tate in 2004, it was described as one of the most generous gifts the gallery had ever received, estimated to be worth £20m. Now the donor is threatening to cancel the gift, accusing the gallery of reneging on pledges to stage exhibitions of the material.Barry Joule,
  
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