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• How The Salt Lake City Tribune Escaped A Hedgefund, Went Non-Profit, And Stabilized

  30-11-2021 23:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  It’s been quite the turnaround. Utah’s largest newspaper escaped the clutches of the hedge fund Alden Global Capital in 2016 only to see its local owner, Paul Huntsman, lay off a third of staff two years later in the face of plunging ad revenue. – NiemanLab
  
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• How The Arab Spring Changed Arab Literature

  30-11-2021 23:01 via lithub.com
  
  Tied to both the 2011 revolution and, to a lesser extent, the 1952 military coup that reshaped Egyptian society, the works reflect the ways in which those upheavals affected the imaginative lens through which people relate to themselves and each other. – LitHub
  
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• Looted Ancient Sculptures From Palmyra Returned To Syria

  30-11-2021 22:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  The sculptures dating from the second or third century were smuggled into Switzerland in 2009 or 2010, before the outbreak of the Syrian war. Customs officers discovered them, along with one looted piece from Libya and five from Yemen, during a routine check at the freeport in 2013. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Met Museum Gets $125 Million To Jumpstart Modern Wing

  30-11-2021 22:23 via artsjournal.com
  The gift represents an important leap forward for the Met project, which is now expected to cost about $500 million and calls for creating 80,000 square feet of galleries and public space with an architect to be announced this winter. – The New York Times
  
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• Australian PM Introduces New Laws To Unmask Online Trolls

  30-11-2021 22:01 via reuters.com
  
  “The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people. That is not what can happen in the real world, and there is no case for it to be able to be happening in the digital world.” – Reuters
  
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• Dance Companies Rethink Asian Stereotypes In “Nutcracker”

  30-11-2021 21:29 via nytimes.com
  
  The changes are the result of a yearslong effort by performers and activists to draw attention to Asian stereotypes in “Nutcracker.” – The New York Times
  
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• David Gulpilil, Pioneering Indigenous Australian Actor, Dead At 68

  30-11-2021 21:04 via nytimes.com
  
  He became a star in his home country playing the lead in Nicholas Roeg’s Walkabout and familiar internationally for his role in Crocodile Dundee. He won acclaim and awards for other film and TV performances and helped end the use of blackface in Australia. – The New York Times
  
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• How The Guerilla Girls Got Their Groove

  30-11-2021 20:28 via glasstire.com
  
  “We discovered early on that if you could make someone who disagreed with you laugh, then you had a hook inside their brain. Once you were in there, you just might be able to change their minds about things.” – Glass Tire
  
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• Why Morocco Is Pouring Money Into Rabat’s Arts Scene

  30-11-2021 20:01 via bloomberg.com
  King Mohammed VI’s government says it’s making art accessible to more ordinary people and promoting Morocco as an island of stability; some artists and critics argue that it’s all just attempting to artwash the image of a repressive regime that keeps its censors busy. – Bloomberg CityLab
  
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• This Year’s ArtBasel Stupid Art Trick: Cheetos Dust!

  30-11-2021 19:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Because taping a goddamn banana to a wall was not enough, no, the art world needed to do something even more stupid involving food. At sea! – Hyperallergic
  
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• Afghan TV And Radio Try To Hang On Under The Taliban

  30-11-2021 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 250 media outlets have closed since the takeover; those that remain are losing their audience because people are scared of being caught listening to music or watching anything unapproved. A few brave TV stations are still employing women. – The Guardian
  
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• A Global Shortage Of Paint

  30-11-2021 18:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The pandemic has created a labor shortage of plant workers and drivers that has clogged up supply chains in the face of rising demand for paint, especially for construction and home improvement projects. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Museums must do more to acknowledge Britain’s colonial past | Letter

  30-11-2021 18:22
  
  Wendy Barnaby praises the Tate Britain curator David Bailey for addressing the legacy of slavery, and says other galleries and institutions must follow suitHurrah for Tate Britain’s David Bailey (Curator of Tate Caribbean-British exhibition says UK museums must face up to past, 29 November). I recently went to the new Humboldt Forum in Berlin, where exhibits are presented as part of the environment in which they were collected. Its Matter(s) of Perspectives exhibition uses school text
  
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• It’s A Minor Miracle No One Died On The Set Of “The Wizard Of Oz”

  30-11-2021 18:02 via slashfilm.com
  “The drama behind the scenes … would make several people’s heads melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.” Margaret Hamilton caught on fire, the Tin Man’s makeup sent Buddy Ebsen to the hospital (that’s why Jack Haley replaced him), and the snowflakes were pure asbestos. – /Film
  
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• Study: Year Into Pandemic, Audience Values Arts More

  30-11-2021 17:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  65% of respondents said they preferred in-person to online cultural activities. Only 9% favored online experiences, while a more significant 26% is defined as “digitally agnostic,” either preferring the two about equally or opting to make decisions based on content. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Is Society Failing, Post-Pandemic?

  30-11-2021 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Jill Lepore: Of course, there is such a thing as society. The question now is how the pandemic has changed it. Speculating about what might happen next requires first deciphering these statements, and where they came from. – The Guardian
  
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• When Newspapers Die, What Happens To Their Archives?

  30-11-2021 17:04 via tedium.co
  
  There’s no established procedure, alas, so the fate of the archives depends on the particular location and owner. (We’re looking at you, News Corp.) But there are some defunct newspapers whose archives have been saved, an excellent example being Denver’s Rocky Mountain News. – Tedium
  
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• The First NFTs Of Ballet (You Knew This Was Coming)

  30-11-2021 16:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Natalia Osipova of London’s Royal Ballet is selling specially-filmed of three duets with fiancé Jason Kittelberger, who says they hope to fund a new dance company with the proceeds of the sales. – The Guardian
  
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• Yannick Nézet-Séguin To Take Four Weeks Off From Conducting

  30-11-2021 16:03 via nytimes.com
  
  His sabbatical will run from Dec. 19 to Jan. 10; he has withdrawn from the Met’s January revival of The Marriage of Figaro and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Year’s concerts. – The New York Times
  
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• Mosque Dating To Earliest Decades Of Islam Uncovered In Iraq

  30-11-2021 15:35 via aljazeera.com
  
  The mud structure in the southern province of Dhi Qar is small, roughly 26 feet by 16 feet and has been dated to 679 CE, less than 50 years after the prophet Muhammad’s death. – Al Jazeera
  
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• Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2021 Is Something People Have Been Fighting About

  30-11-2021 15:02 via edition.cnn.com
  
  “Vaccine” was the choice because of repeated spikes in traffic: searches of the word this year are up 601% from 2020 and 1,048% over 2019. Also, because of the new mRNA vaccines, the word’s definition was expanded. (The runner-up Word of the Year was “insurrection.”) – CNN
  
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• The Danish Collector review – reflections of an excellent eye

  30-11-2021 15:00
  
  The Exhibition on Screen series examines the modern French paintings collected by Danish businessman Wilhelm HansenHere is a bit of a diversion from the Exhibition on Screen series’ usual practice of hanging their films around blockbuster artist names: this latest is a profile of Wilhelm Hansen, the “Danish collector” of the title, who assembled a mighty private collection of 19th-century French painting – centred on the impressionists – which was eventually donated
  
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• Ticket Sales For England’s Christmas Pantos Are Lagging, And Theatres Are Getting Nervous

  30-11-2021 14:34 via bbc.com
  
  Sales are down by a third from 2019, and research indicates that many audience members remain wary of attending while COVID case numbers are high. As with Nutcracker for American ballet companies, English theatres depend on panto income to help finance the rest of their seasons. – BBC
  
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• Germany’s New Government Appoints A High-Profile Culture Minister

  30-11-2021 14:06 via dw.com
  
  Claudia Roth, one of the Green Party’s top leaders and vice president of the federal parliament, started her career as a theater worker and later managed a German rock band. The left-leaning three-party coalition now in charge plans to make culture a high priority. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• All hail Cat Jesus! The fantastic feline artist behind Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest biopic

  30-11-2021 14:06
  
  Louis Wain’s endearing drawings of lovable cats made him a star of the Victorian era – but his work morphed into intense, delirious visions as his mental health fell apartCat Jesus, as the work is known to staff, can be found on a painted mirror in the archives of the Bethlem hospital’s Museum of the Mind. It was created by the celebrated cartoonist of comical cats and Bethlem psychiatric hospital patient Louis Wain, whose art is about to go on show here. One Christmas, Wain wa
  
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• Theater, on the record

  30-11-2021 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Here are the Wall Street Journal drama columns I wrote during my hiatus from this blog:
  • To read my review of the off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven, go here.
  • To read my reviews of Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind and the Broadway transfer of Diana, go here.
  • To read my review of Classic Stage Company’s off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, go here.
  • To read my review of the Broadway premiere
  
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• From Olafur Eliasson to Gerhard Richter: the art show aiming to unite Europe

  30-11-2021 12:57
  
  Diversity United is a travelling exhibition featuring work by 100 living artists from 34 countries – seeing this monument to liberal values moved our writer to tearsWhen it comes to outsized projects with geopolitical undertones, Walter Smerling has form. Between 2015 and 2017, the chairman of the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur (Foundation for Art and Culture) in Bonn and a German art-world statesman of sorts organised the largest ever exhibitions of Chinese art in Germany and German a
  
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• Forgotten women and Indigenous painters: the best podcasts to teach you about art

  30-11-2021 11:00
  
  Whether it is contemporary stars or overlooked artists from the past – if you want to learn more about art, there’s a podcast for thatThe premise was staring the world in the face: “Women have been expressing themselves since the beginning of time. Yet, ask around and you’ll find that most people struggle to name even one non-male artist from before the 20th century.” Over two seasons, Frieze magazine’s editor-at-large, Jennifer Higgie, has sought to fix that.
  
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• Executive Administrator of the Southeastern Piano Festival

  30-11-2021 05:53 via artsjournal.com
  The University of South Carolina School of Music is accepting applications for an Executive Administrator for the Southeastern Piano Festival (SEPF). This part-time position will begin July 1, 2022.Position Summary:Reporting to the Dean of the University of South Carolina School of Music, the Executive Administrator is a newly created position tasked with coordinating SEPF organizational activities. Areas of responsibility will include budget and day-to-day operations. The Executive Administrato
  
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• Art Basel Miami Returns – But Will Collectors?

  30-11-2021 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  As Art Basel returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center from Thursday through Saturday with 253 galleries from 36 countries and territories, it meets a pent-up demand — you could say that the supply chain for a certain kind of prestige fair has been unclogged. – The New York Times
  
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