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• Questions (& Conflicting Answers) About the $45.4-Million “Reattributed” Botticelli

  04-02-2022 23:52 via artsjournal.com
  In Sotheby’s recap of its “Masters Week,” headlined by the $45.4-million sale of its much-touted “late masterpiece by Botticelli,”
  
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• Smithsonian Chooses Founding Director For New National Latino Museum

  04-02-2022 23:28 via washingtonpost.com
  The museum, along with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, was authorized by Congress in December 2020. The museums will be the first new Smithsonian venues since the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in 2016. – Washington Post
  
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• Remembering Post Modernist Choreographer David Gordon

  04-02-2022 22:29 via dancemagazine.com
  
  He combined movement and words in ways that could be stimulating or jolting, focusing on family or fantasy, or delving into Ionesco, Shakespeare, or Aristophanes. – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Book Tour Has Gone Online (It Might Stay There)

  04-02-2022 22:02 via bbc.com
  
  Even as international travel restrictions are being lifted, some writers say they will continue to carry on with virtual events because they are more convenient and accessible. They say this has the additional benefit of leaving them with more time to focus on their craft. – BBC
  
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• Spotify’s Pickle: It Needs Rogan And Music Lovers

  04-02-2022 21:28 via wsj.com
  
  Spotify’s business needs all the podcasters it can get. Especially ones like Mr. Rogan, who draws listeners by the millions. But the threat of popular musicians drawing listeners off the platform in protest of Mr. Rogan or any other controversial podcast content can’t be dismissed, either. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?

  04-02-2022 21:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  Ben Davis: “Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman’s authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry experts such as Pat Boone, the Eisenhower-era hit-maker and conservative Christian icon.” – Artnet
  
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• What Happens To Your Brain In A Bad Breakup

  04-02-2022 20:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Love changes us so deeply—at a physiological level—that when it’s lost, we hurt more than if we had never loved at all. – The Atlantic
  
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• Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?

  04-02-2022 20:01 via historytoday.com
  Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself isn’t always very good. (Also, no cheating by calling the King James Bible literature.) – History Today
  
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• Does Duke Ellington Need A Revival?

  04-02-2022 19:29 via latimes.com
  
  Ellington’s legacy — as large and as meaningful as that of any artist in American history — remains enigmatic. We honor him, put him on stamps, name streets and buildings after him and teach him. But we still don’t know what to do with Ellington beyond keeping his best-known tunes in rotation. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?

  04-02-2022 19:03 via drb.ie
  
  “That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really was in Irish or world literary terms? And is Ulysses really a novel at all in any case?” – Dublin Review of Books
  
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• David Mallinson obituary

  04-02-2022 19:01
  
  My father, David Mallinson, who has died aged 95, began his career as an artist in London in the 1950s, at first painting only at weekends and in the evenings, while during the day he worked as a teacher. But his paintings, many of London streets and squares, soon found a ready market at the Quadrant Gallery, then in Trafalgar Square, as well as being shown at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Infl
  
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• Colin Lloyd obituary

  04-02-2022 18:44
  
  When Bradford community radio profiled my friend Colin Lloyd in 2016, the interviewer listed his occupations thus: “Teacher, printmaker, artist, drummer, musician, actor, performer, gay activist and cultural observer of Bradford, the city he grew up in and loved”. Colin, who has died aged 64 of pancreatic cancer, was a hugely creative and compassionate man.He was born in Bradford, one of seven children of Florence (nee Whittaker), a care worker, and Vincent Lloyd, then working in the
  
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• Brush up on the meaning of Beckmann’s art | Letter

  04-02-2022 18:37
  
  Cornelie Usborne disagrees with Jonathan Jones’s interpretation of Beckmann’s Die Nacht and says the painting is about war, not ‘Weimar excess’Jonathan Jones’s choice of Max Beckmann’s painting Die Nacht to illustrate “Weimar excess” was unfortunate (Bootleggers, bondage and law-breaking bashes! The scandalous history of the wild party, 31 January).Far from showing a “party from hell, with bondage, in a room that’s drunkenly shrinking&r
  
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• Canada Debates New Canadian Content Law For Streamers

  04-02-2022 18:31 via thestar.com
  
  The Online Streaming Act, introduced Wednesday, would force web firms to offer a set amount of Canadian content and invest heavily in Canada’s cultural industries, including film, television and music. – Toronto Star
  
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• In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A Sufficient Response?

  04-02-2022 18:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at “the intersection of choreography and social activism,” finding that he can help create empathy with the characters the audience is watching. But after a policeman in South Carolina shot Walter Scott, Roussève wondered if even that was enough. – Dance Magazine
  
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• John Williams At 90: Still Underrated?

  04-02-2022 17:31 via theguardian.com
  
  A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney – with five wins. Four Olympic Games fanfares. One presidential inauguration (Obama). – The Guardian
  
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• It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake” Onstage

  04-02-2022 17:02 via nytimes.com
  
  The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged one-act version of the Tchaikovsky classic before now. And this version, by Alexei Ratmansky, is based on notation of the 1895 Petipa/Ivanov original. – The New York Times
  
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• Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After That)

  04-02-2022 16:35 via variety.com
  
  The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the 81 released in each of the two years before that. The decrease appears connected to the rise of streaming, which is why it may last. – Variety
  
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• Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big Changes

  04-02-2022 16:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival’s statement says its programming henceforth “will match its capacity to support the staff and trainees who make the Festival possible.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University

  04-02-2022 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by, the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit institution located near the Golden Gate Bridge. – The New York Times
  
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• Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH

  04-02-2022 15:04 via msn.com
  
  Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities in October and was confirmed by the Senate on February 2. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent Outside London

  04-02-2022 14:31 via thestage.co.uk
  Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of the capital. Now Arts Council England means to address that imbalance — including by seeking London-based groups who want to move elsewhere. – The Stage
  
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• Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade

  04-02-2022 14:05 via whatsonstage.com
  
  Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts “found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums, galleries and recreation facilities – has halved across England since 2010.” – WhatsOnStage (UK)
  
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• Space invaders, cosmic exhibitions, and a showdown with Amazon – the week in art

  04-02-2022 14:00
  
  Suzanne Jackson hangs sculpted paintings, video art interrogates the online retail giant, and Black women rewrite the history of ceramics – all in your weekly dispatchSuzanne Jackson: In Nature’s Way …
  Space-invading, multilayered paintings with a hint of Rauschenberg in their richness, from this artist based in Savannah, Georgia.
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• Artists On Strike, A History

  04-02-2022 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  As artists become more politically active today, it is worth remembering that John Reed Clubs and New York’s Artists Union organized strikes to negotiate federal arts programs during the Great Depression. The art made in each phase of proletarian advancement thus serves to protect this history. – Hyperallergic
  
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