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• Come For The Star Wars, Stay For The Kara Walker…

  05-10-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the Lucas Museum: “What would be fantastic is if people came looking for Star Wars and learn about Ralph McQuarrie and then they learn about Gentileschi,” Sandra Jackson-Dumont says. “If they come for Star Wars and leave having seen Kara Walker. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• 25-Year-Old New Play Incubator Closes

  05-10-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to a press release, the decision to shutter the 27-year-old play development mainstay was a “unanimous yet painful conclusion” of the organization’s board after “many long months of responding to pandemic-related crises and seeking paths to sustainability.” – American Theatre
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Ditches The Formal Dress

  05-10-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We’re well into the 21st century. It’s time to acknowledge that in many ways, and one of them is the way the orchestra looks on the stage,” says Philadelphia Orchestra president and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• The Future Of Tourism? Venice Uses High Tech Surveillance To Limit The Mobs

  05-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The city’s leaders are acquiring the cellphone data of unwitting tourists and using hundreds of surveillance cameras to monitor visitors and prevent crowding. Next summer, they plan to install long-debated gates at key entry points… – The New York Times
  
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• Hidden Agenda? NEH Privileges “DEIA” Support in Awarding Grants Under Biden’s “American Rescue Plan” UPDATED

  05-10-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  UPDATE: This just in—“President Biden announced his intent to nominate Shelly Lowe as the 12th Chair of the National
  
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• Inside The World Of Screen Subtitlers

  05-10-2021 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s possible for subtitles and dubs to be so seamless that they feel invisible without pushing audiovisual translators ourselves out of sight. – Zocalo Public Square
  
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• ‘Some of art’s most luxurious orgies’ – Poussin and the Dance review

  05-10-2021 17:57
  
  National Gallery, London
  So sombre Poussin was actually a hedonist? What a surprise! By dwelling on his decade in Rome, then a city revelling in raw sensuality, this show casts him as Carvaggio’s lewder cousinNicolas Poussin intimidates me. This 17th-century French artist, who spent most of his life in Rome, is so profoundly serious it can feel like you’ll never be quite grownup enough to get him. Quail before his solemn depictions of the Seven Sacraments. Melt under the severe gaze
  
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• How artefacts linked to indicted dealer ended up in Australian galleries

  05-10-2021 15:00
  
  Pandora papers shed new light on dealings of alleged antiquities smuggler Douglas LatchfordPandora papers news and reaction – live updatesSee all of our Pandora papers coverageIn 2017, Douglas Latchford was under pressure. Once feted by the Cambodian government and acclaimed as an international authority on south-east Asian antiquities, the Thai-based collector was now the subject of an investigation in the US for allegedly smuggling artefacts on a grand scale.With his reputation under scr
  
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• A nightmarish banquet of bling: Pablo Bronstein’s Hell in Its Heyday review

  05-10-2021 10:20
  
  Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
  This orgy of excess imagines Satan’s realm as a 19th-century showcase city strewn with garish monuments worthy of the most tasteless dictatorWho knew hell would be so much fun? Pink-striped cakes the size of skyscrapers teeter on gilded platters near a gigantic lobster, while masked sunbathers loll by a swimming pool, beneath an elaborate baroque diving board. Shoppers mill around a monumental statue of a lipstick, below a sweeping staircase crowned wi
  
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• Offshore loot: how notorious dealer used trusts to hoard Khmer treasures

  05-10-2021 03:00
  
  Pandora papers expose how Douglas Latchford shifted ownership of assets including plundered antiquitiesSee all of our Pandora papers coverageIn an emotional ceremony in January this year, the government of Cambodia expressed heartfelt gratitude to a British-Thai woman, Julia Latchford, for what seemed a remarkably generous offer of immense cultural importance. Latchford had agreed to give the south-east Asian country her entire collection of 125 antiquities from Cambodia’s Khmer period &nd
  
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