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• Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum

  08-02-2022 23:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin”, was unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience

  08-02-2022 23:01 via variety.com
  
  To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to test a new measurement tool it has built with iSpot.TV — and using the company’s Olympics and looming Super Bowl broadcasts as a sort of test run. – Variety
  
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• Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs Lost

  08-02-2022 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Joe Rogan Matters

  08-02-2022 22:01 via postalley.org
  
  He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel like the world is a little bit less incomprehensible and their lives are a little bit less uncontrollable. – Post Alley
  
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• Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings

  08-02-2022 21:28 via nightingalessonata.com
  Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern.  But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but others I find distracting after comparing them to recordings of certain of my favorite musicians of the past. – Nightingale Sonata
  
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• Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas

  08-02-2022 21:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there’s buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues (destroyed in 2001, the last time the Taliban were in power). He’s having the site dug up and refused orders from Kabul to stop. – Artnet
  
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• That Line Between Work And Play

  08-02-2022 20:32 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• 21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English

  08-02-2022 20:04 via newyorker.com
  
  Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken, borrowing vocabulary and syntax from several of them, most noticeably Jamaican English. Rebecca Mead writes about watching her teenage son acquire it. – The New Yorker
  
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• What Makes The Architecture Of LA’s New Stadium (and Home Of This Week’s Superbowl) So Interesting

  08-02-2022 19:29 via latimes.com
  
  “Thinking about the Getty Villa, the Getty [Center], Dodger Stadium, the cliffs in Malibu or Laguna,”shaped the way the team thought about SoFi. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics

  08-02-2022 19:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won’t get an individual medal at these games because he doesn’t have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes Laura Cappelle, the quality of his movement is extraordinary: “Every step is three-dimensional, … perfectly timed to either the melody or the bass line.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Why Netflix Is Going To Fail

  08-02-2022 18:32 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. – Ted Gioia
  
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• Parthnon' marbles’ return would be a lovely jubilee gesture | Letters

  08-02-2022 18:30
  
  The sculptures in the British Museum could be replaced by exact replicas, and it would be fitting to return them to Greece this year, says Roger Michel. Plus letters from Anna Watson, Alan Gavurin and Richard PickvanceThe Parthenon marbles have been a source of tension between Greece and England for 200 years (The Parthenon marbles belong in Greece – so why is restitution so hard to swallow?, 5 February). Lord Byron urged their return in the 1820s. Last year, Unesco did the same. Opinion p
  
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• Parthenon marbles’ return would be a lovely jubilee gesture | Letters

  08-02-2022 18:30
  
  The sculptures in the British Museum could be replaced by exact replicas, and it would be fitting to return them to Greece this year, says Roger Michel. Plus letters from Anna Watson, Alan Gavurin and Richard PickvanceThe Parthenon marbles have been a source of tension between Greece and England for 200 years (The Parthenon marbles belong in Greece – so why is restitution so hard to swallow?, 5 February). Lord Byron urged their return in the 1820s. Last year, Unesco did the same. Opinion p
  
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• Sex, stitches and psychic wounds – Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child review

  08-02-2022 18:17
  
  Hayward Gallery, London
  These sewn-together body parts – dangling from the ceiling, hung out on stands or having sex in vitrines – were created in the final decades of the artist’s long career. They are provocative, scary and marvellousA lumpen, headless couple have sex in a vitrine. The woman has flung her arm over the man but the arm is a strapped-on prosthesis, the hand a metal pincer, cast over his lumbering back. Both figures are made of stuffed black fabric and make a bul
  
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• One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age 92

  08-02-2022 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more than 1,000 films and recorded more than 25,000 songs (a figure exceeded only by her younger sister, Asha Bhosle) over a 60-year career. – The Guardian
  
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• Blak Lens: emerging Aboriginal photographers join forces – in pictures

  08-02-2022 17:30
  
  A collective of Aboriginal photographers working across different styles launches this week. Formed by Michal Jalaru Torres, Blak Lens aims to provide support for talented photographers across Australia, building a professional and cultural network to amplify each other’s work and to change perceptionsFirst Sight: emerging Indigenous photographers on identity – in pictures Continue reading...
  
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• Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games

  08-02-2022 17:28 via slate.com
  
  QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every single aspect of a game is up to snuff. – Slate
  
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• Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.

  08-02-2022 17:05 via sfcv.org
  
  “For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its exclusionary history. Companies large and small around the country are emphasizing newer works and new ways of performing old works.” – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III

  08-02-2022 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as “limb-different”.) The production opens at Stratford-upon-Avon in June. – The Guardian
  
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• Port Talbot says bye-bye to its Banksy as art dealer brings in a crane

  08-02-2022 16:05
  
  Much loved work that appeared in 2018 on a steelworker’s garage heads to England on the back of a lorryIt appeared one winter’s night on a steelworker’s garage, a wondrous piece of street art making points about the innocence of childhood, industrial decay and air pollution.After a three-year sojourn in the town of Port Talbot, Season’s Greetings, Wales’ first and only Banksy, was craned on to the back of a flatbed lorry and trucked out of the country. Continue read
  
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• Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was Being Built

  08-02-2022 16:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace, summer home of the late 12th-century emperor Zhangzong. Finds so far include walls, foundations, a moat, and a number of high-quality ceramics. – Artnet
  
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• Glasgow’s Burrell Collection to reopen after six-year, £68m refurbishment

  08-02-2022 15:34
  
  Digitally innovative galleries will put emphasis on community, and look at collection’s links to slave tradeOne of the best-known personal art collections ever amassed will reopen to the public in Glasgow next month after a six-year refurbishment costing £68m.The Burrell Collection, which consists of more than 9,000 objects spanning six millennia, uses digital innovation to connect 21st-century viewers to ancient artefacts. Continue reading...
  
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• A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State

  08-02-2022 15:31 via hyperallergic.com
  
  “Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, … the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists with financial need over the next three years. The program will fund the salaries of an additional 300 artists (to be hired by) community-based organizations.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”

  08-02-2022 15:03 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … ‘How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with no censorship, for $100 million bucks over four years? This is our chance to save the world.'” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Kurt Schwitters’ unknown portrait sitter identified as wartime German spy

  08-02-2022 14:50
  
  Historian finds that one of the subjects the artist painted while he was detained by the British alongside other refugees who had fled the Nazis was Ludwig Warschauer, who later confessed to espionageThe previously unknown subject of a Kurt Schwitters painting has been identified as Ludwig Warschauer, the subject of one of MI5’s very first anti-spy operations, who was sent to Britain to spy for the Gestapo.Simon Parkin made the discovery while researching his book The Island of Extraordina
  
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• The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.

  08-02-2022 14:35 via forbes.com
  
  Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry’s owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place outside the Security Council. Turns out he was just having it cleaned and conserved. He has, however, announced a new ownership plan for the artwork. – Forbes
  
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• Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New Chief Conductor

  08-02-2022 14:09 via scotsman.com
  
  The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn’t been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract there ends this August. So the BBC Scottish Symphony has gone ahead and announced Dausgaard’s successor as chief conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth. – The Scotsman
  
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• Kicking back at the regime: artists open another front in Myanmar war

  08-02-2022 11:30
  
  With the military increasing its use of informants, rappers and artists must keep their identities secret, even from one anotherEarly one morning last February, a group of young people gathered on a street corner in Myanmar armed with brushes and buckets of paint. In the faint light of dawn, they quickly completed their task and dispersed.“I felt excited and nervous. I was scared too, because I didn’t want to get caught,” says Tu Tu, a pseudonym for the group’s organiser.
  
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• Imperial War Museum to use billionaire’s gift to open new galleries

  08-02-2022 07:00
  
  More artworks, film and photos acquired after donation by foundation of UK’s richest personImages that tell the story of war and conflict over more than 100 years are to go on display for the first time next year in new Imperial War Museum galleries.A multimillion-pound donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation has enabled the museum to build art, film and photographic galleries at its London base. Acquisitions will be displayed alongside works from the museum’s existing collecti
  
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• Unesco warns of crisis in creative sector with 10m jobs lost due to pandemic

  08-02-2022 05:00
  
  Artists finding it harder than ever to make a living despite being part of one of the fastest growing industriesTen million jobs in creative industries worldwide were lost in 2020 as a result of the Covid pandemic, and the increasing digitisation of cultural output means it is harder than ever for artists to make a living, a Unesco report has said.Covid has led to “an unprecedented crisis in the cultural sector”, said Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of Unesco, the UN’s cul
  
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• Meet The Teenagers Who Started A Bookclub To Read Banned Books

  08-02-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The teen members of Kutztown’s Banned Book Club, meet every two weeks to read and discuss literature that conservatives across the country are working to ban from school libraries. – The Guardian
  
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