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• France Okays Modernization Of The Interior Of Notre Dame

  10-12-2021 23:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The plan is “to bring a more modern look to Notre-Dame before its planned reopening in 2024, including the installation of contemporary artworks and new lighting effects. Opponents say the changes will debase the 850-year-old cathedral and disturb the harmony of its Gothic design.” – The New York Times
  
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• How The Conversations Between Books Has Been Lost

  10-12-2021 23:01 via libertiesjournal.com
  
  The culture that connected people of my generation was popular television and music. I noticed when I traveled that bookstores were as crammed with seasonal novelties as shoe stores; and used bookstores — this has been one of the saddest developments of my lifetime — had mostly disappeared.  – Liberties Journal
  
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• ‘An inscrutable and open-ended riddle’: the life and art of Jeffrey Smart

  10-12-2021 20:00
  
  To mark a century since the birth of the late Adelaide-born artist, the National Gallery of Australia is showing 125 of his worksOne reason Jeffrey Smart paintings have gone up in price is because that’s what happens when there’s a big show, such as the one at the National Gallery of Australia celebrating 100 years since the late artist’s birth. Another reason is love. Specifically, how the love for Smart’s paintings stays unrequited because it’s never wholly fulfil
  
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• Landscapes from Obama’s portraitist and 17,000 hand-painted flowers – the week in art

  10-12-2021 15:00
  
  Kehinde Wiley is at the National Gallery, photography catches fire and Josef Albers puts the human into expressionism – all in your weekly dispatchKehinde Wiley
  Barack Obama’s official portraitist responds to the National Gallery’s landscape paintings with video art and five new canvases.
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• Circus Oz, Australia’s World-Renowned Troupe, Is Closing Down

  10-12-2021 14:05 via artshub.com.au
  
  The government agencies that provide 75% of Circus Oz’s budget told the company that it must revamp its board and governance or lose funding. The Company Members (anyone who performed with it for at least three years) rejected that demand by a 3-to-1 margin. – ArtsHub (Australia)
  
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• Meet Ms. Bobbie

  10-12-2021 13:04 via artsjournal.com
  The new Broadway revival of Company, reviewed by me in The Wall Street Journal:Two weeks after Stephen Sondheim’s death, a revival of his first great musical has arrived on Broadway. And while revivals of “Company” long ago became common—I’ve reviewed five—this one, directed by Marianne Elliott, is by definition exceptional, for it is a high-concept production originally mounted on London’s West End in whch Bobby, the seemingly confirmed bache
  
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• Accept no substitutes

  10-12-2021 13:03 via artsjournal.com
  The new stage version of Mrs. Doubtfire, reviewed by me in The Wall Street Journal:The first big-budget commodity musical to hit Broadway since the end of the Covid-19 lockdown has now opened—at a theater named after a man who despised such shows. It couldn’t be more ironic that the Stephen Sondheim Theatre is home to “Mrs. Doubtfire,” a new stage version of Chris Columbus’ 1993 screen comedy about a divorced father who dresses up as a woman and becomes n
  
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• Replay: Adam Driver sings “Being Alive”

  10-12-2021 13:02 via artsjournal.com
  Adam Driver sings “Being Alive” (from Stephen Sondheim’s Company) in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story:(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
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• Bridget Riley at 90: a master who can leave you feeling elated, liberated – and even seasick

  10-12-2021 13:00
  
  Riley swung the 60s with her reality-shifting creations. Now, in a new show to mark her 90th birthday, you can see them in all their gloryBridget Riley gave abstract art the neurological impact of a mind-altering substance six decades ago when she started painting black-and-white spirals, waves and folds that confuse perception. A new exhibition to mark her 90th birthday earlier this year is called Pleasures of Sight, but the happiness she provokes in us is really in our brains. The delight of R
  
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• ‘This is our voice’: The Uyghur traditions being erased by China’s cultural crackdown

  10-12-2021 10:00
  
  Ancient shrines, oral folklore and hip-hop cyphers are all part of a rich artistic heritage being ‘hollowed out’ in Xinjiang say Uyghur exiles and scholars On Thursday, the Uyghur Tribunal delivered its damning judgment on the human rights abuses allegedly committed by the Chinese state in Xinjiang. Over the past months this London-based people’s tribunal has heard testimony from international scholars as well as survivors of Chinese detention and “re-education camps&rdqu
  
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• Amid the pandemic, award-winning cartoons captured the public mood

  10-12-2021 08:00
  
  The Guardian’s Ben Jennings and Henny Beaumont were honoured at the Political Cartoon of the Year awards for their work Guardian cartoonists had a successful night at the Political Cartoon of the Year awards 2021.Ben Jennings was named political cartoonist of the year for his portfolio throughout a turbulent year, while Henny Beaumont won Covid cartoon of the year for Lost Generation, a cartoon published in June about the plight of young people during the pandemic.Continue reading...
  
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• Works by Turner and Lowry gifted to British nation in 2021

  10-12-2021 06:00
  
  Paintings, archives and other items worth £52m allocated by Arts Council England to museums across UKSir Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman, JMW Turner’s Walton Bridge and LS Lowry’s painting of David Lloyd George’s birthplace in Manchester are among the dozens of items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.Thanks to Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in lieu schemes, the paintings, archives and other items worth £52m
  
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• Works by Turner and Lowry donated to British nation in 2021

  10-12-2021 06:00
  
  Paintings, archives and other items worth £52m allocated by Arts Council England to museums across UKSir Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of a Woman, JMW Turner’s Walton Bridge and LS Lowry’s painting of David Lloyd George’s birthplace in Manchester are among the dozens of items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.Thanks to Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in lieu schemes, the paintings, archives and other items worth £52m
  
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• Executive Director – Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Long Island University

  10-12-2021 05:28 via artsjournal.com
  Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU invites applicants and nominations for this leadership position at one of leading regional arts organizations. LIU has engaged Management Consultants for the Arts to facilitate this search. David Mallette and Kate Scorza Ingram are the consultants leading the process. LIU leadership hopes to make a final decision by early 2022, with the new Executive Director onsite as soon thereafter as possible. A full position description with application instruction
  
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• Sacklers Sacked: Metropolitan Museum Strips Their Names from 7 Exhibition Spaces

  10-12-2021 00:57 via artsjournal.com
  Having already announced the renaming of its Southwest Wing, to the tune of $125 million, the Metropolitan Museum today
  
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• How Our Talent For Charades Facilitated Spoken Language

  10-12-2021 00:01 via psyche.co
  
  If words are arbitrary and purely a matter of convention, then how did they come to be established in the first place? In practical terms: how did our ancestors create the original words? – Psyche
  
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