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• Smithsonian To Return Benin Bronzes

  08-03-2022 23:29 via washingtonpost.com
  A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian, Linda St. Thomas, said most of the 39 pieces would be returned. But she said it was not clear exactly how many of the bronzes were linked to the 1897 raid and that it was possible some pieces in the museum’s collection had different ownership histories. – Washington Post
  
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• Iraq’s National Museum Reopens After Three Years

  08-03-2022 23:02 via artnews.com
  
  The newly renovated national museum had closed its doors in 2019 amid escalating anti-government protests in Baghdad. Home to artifacts dating from ancient Mesopotamian, Abbasid, and Persian civilizations, the institution was originally founded in the 1920s as a part of a cultural initiative led by a British archeologist. – ARTnews
  
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• Could Technology Help Preserve Musical Theatre Voices?

  08-03-2022 22:31 via variety.com
  
  “Similar to how your iPhone nowadays tells you, ‘Oh, you listened to music a little too loudly this week; watch out, because we don’t want you to get a hearing impairment due to overuse’ — it would be the same idea [but] for the voice.” – Variety
  
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• Why Do So Many Americans Believe Things That Aren’t True? Maybe Because Of How They’re Covered?

  08-03-2022 22:01 via presswatchers.org
  
  Daily journalists, for better or for worse, are hard-wired to leap on departures from the norm, regardless of how miserable, unethical, unfair, and doomed the norm is. – Press Watchers
  
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• Blurring Lines Between Performers And Audiences

  08-03-2022 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The creative potential of the relationship between performers and audience has preoccupied Berlin-based Australian composer Cathy Milliken for decades. – The Guardian
  
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• Was This Man The Greatest Conductor Of The 20th Century? Probably. And He Was A Hot Mess.

  08-03-2022 21:02 via gramophone.co.uk
  
  “Orchestras and singers regularly surpassed themselves under his guidance,” writes David Patrick Stearns of Carlos Kleiber. “His deep immersion in whatever he conducted transcended any tradition. He gave the music all it needed, and tradition took care of itself. … Non-musical matters are another story.” – Gramophone
  
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• Countries Are Only A Social Construct

  08-03-2022 20:29 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  A common mistake is to confuse a country with its inhabitants with its government. This leads to statements that are strictly meaningless at best and deeply misleading at worst because they are category errors on the order of ‘Green ideas sleep furiously’. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Want To Watch ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’ Or ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’? You Can’t. This Group Aims To Fix That.

  08-03-2022 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  “A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to ‘locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why The Rich Stay Rich

  08-03-2022 19:34 via bookforum.com
  
  The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) would argue that it was precisely through the proliferation of such norms in our culture—wherein the inequalities of capitalism appear natural, as “senso comune” (common sense)—that the ruling classes stay as such. – BookForum
  
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• Have Audiences Forgotten How To Behave? (Or Is It Just London?)

  08-03-2022 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “Complaints about drunken, chaotic and argumentative audience behaviour have been reaching fever pitch. ‘It feels like every bloody day there’s a new debate about theatre etiquette,’ says one theatre usher. ‘And I hate to stereotype, but the worst incidents seem to happen at jukebox musicals.'” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Overwhelmed By Culture (What To Do?)

  08-03-2022 18:28 via bostonglobe.com
  
  For years now, each day has brought a torrent of new TV shows to watch, movies to see, albums to listen to, podcasts and YouTube videos and now Substack newsletters to check out. Living in the digital era has meant existing in a perpetual state of “How can I possibly get to it all?” – Boston Globe
  
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• After An Artists’ Rebellion And Board Troubles, New York’s Flea Theater Is Trying Something Completely Different

  08-03-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Now, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit theater is fighting to come back — this time with a new hybrid structure built to give complete artistic autonomy to a group of writers, directors and actors that has spoken out against the old Flea.” – The New York Times
  
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• For the children of Windrush, art is a way to preserve their forebears’ histories | Micha Frazer-Caroll

  08-03-2022 17:56
  
  A new show at Tate Britain offers some redemption to those whose past has been erased by enslavement and colonialism After the Notting Hill and Nottingham riots of 1958, which came after a series of racist attacks on Black communities, Trinidadian-born journalist and activist Claudia Jones responded by putting on a series of cultural events that would later be recognised as a precursor to Notting Hill Carnival. Jones said that she wanted the celebrations, held in St Pancras Town Hall, to “
  
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• Black families found joy in creativity – we must preserve this extraordinary legacy | Micha Frazer-Caroll

  08-03-2022 17:56
  
  I grew up on stories of blues parties, uprisings and National Front marches. It’s fitting this history now has a place at Tate BritainAfter the Notting Hill and Nottingham riots of 1958, which came after a series of racist attacks on Black communities, Trinidadian-born journalist and activist Claudia Jones responded by putting on a series of cultural events that would later be recognised as a precursor to Notting Hill Carnival. Jones said that she wanted the celebrations, held in St Pancra
  
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• Three things with Jane Caro: ‘It’s not the 80s and it never will be again’

  08-03-2022 17:30
  
  In our weekly interview about objects, the writer and commentator tells us about the bag she can’t live without, and the earrings she amassed in the 80sRead more Three things interviews hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastFor her latest novel, Jane Caro spent 18 months researching coercive control and domestic abuse. To understand its complex machinations, she spoke to survivors, judges, police, lawyers, ex-prisoners and those working in the sector.The
  
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• Sensitivity Readers? Why Publishers Need Them

  08-03-2022 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  “My background as an author is in young adult fiction, an area in which sensitivity readers are common, especially in the US, so I’m less fazed. I have also been a sensitivity reader, informally.” – The Guardian
  
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• Maine’s Largest Museum Plans A Big Makeover

  08-03-2022 17:02 via msn.com
  
  “The Portland Museum of Art has embarked on an $85 million project leaders say will fundamentally transform the museum, bolstering its endowment and unifying its downtown campus with a physical expansion that will more than double the museum’s current space.” – MSN (The Boston Globe)
  
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• “The Father Of Computer Art”, Charles Csuri, Dead At 99

  08-03-2022 16:35 via artnews.com
  
  “While he may never have been the subject of a proper survey at a major museum, Csuri’s status within the history of digital art is virtually uncontested.” In 1995, Smithsonian Magazine wrote that he “may be the nearest thing, in this new art form, to an Old Master.” – ARTnews
  
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• Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova: ‘You cannot play nice with Putin. He is insane. He might open fire on his own people’

  08-03-2022 16:13
  
  The Russian artist – who spent two years in a Siberian jail for singing an anti-Putin ‘punk prayer’ – is using NFTs to fight the dictator, raising $7m in five days. At a time like this, she says, only activism will keep you saneNadya Tolokonnikova is in a geographically undisclosed location, speaking to me by Zoom, in a Pussy Riot T-shirt, looking purposeful, driven and singleminded. Her feminist protest art has been deadly serious since its inception, when she founded Pu
  
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• The Ballet World Faces The (Early) Fallout From The Invasion Of Ukraine

  08-03-2022 16:03 via pointemagazine.com
  
  It’s more than resignations and cancellations. The Kiev City Ballet [sic], on tour in France when Russian forces attacked, is now stranded. A principal with Ukrainian National Ballet was warned not to return home from Rome; at least two others have traded tights for camouflage and weapons. – Pointe Magazine
  
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• World Monuments Fund’s 25 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites

  08-03-2022 15:31 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  Awkwardly, the list was finalized before Putin’s forces attacked Ukraine. The locations included range from world-renowned (Teotihuacán) to very ancient (cave paintings in the Amazon) to African Modernist (the People’s Palace in Ouagadougou) to embattled (the old cities of Beirut and Benghazi) to offbeat (Kolkata’s Chinatown). – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• Proposed Idaho Law Could See Librarians Jailed For Lending “Harmful Materials” To Kids

  08-03-2022 15:04 via boisestatepublicradio.org
  
  The state House of Representatives has approved an amendment that removes the exemption libraries, museums, and schools had from a longstanding law against exposing minors to “pornography,” including any verbal descriptions of sexual excitement, and “any other harmful material.” – Boise State Public Radio
  
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• Getty Trust Sues Investment Firm Over Loss Of $71 Million From Endowment

  08-03-2022 14:32 via artnews.com
  
  “The J. Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that oversees the Getty museum complex in Los Angeles, is suing the financial services firm Allianz Global Investors, alleging that the company ‘recklessly’ mismanaged the trust’s investment fund, resulting in ‘significant losses’ for the organization’s endowment.” – ARTnews
  
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• Staffers At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Scramble To Protect Collection In Case Of Attack

  08-03-2022 14:05 via apnews.com
  
  “In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum (in Lviv), employees placed carefully wrapped baroque pieces into cardboard boxes. A few meters away, a group walked down the majestic main staircase carrying a giant piece of sacred art, the 18th century Bohorodchany iconostasis.” – AP
  
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• Turner paintings not seen in UK for 100 years to go on show at National Gallery

  08-03-2022 12:58
  
  Two artworks of waterside scenes in Europe being lent by Frick Collection in New York for Turner on Tour exhibitionTwo oil paintings by one of Britain’s greatest artists that have not been seen in the UK for more than 100 years will go on display at the National Gallery later this year.The paintings by JMW Turner are of European scenes that feature the artist’s trademark expanses of water and sky. Continue reading...
  
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• National Portrait Gallery boosts female representation with five new self-portraits

  08-03-2022 07:00
  
  Paintings highlighting stories of women who have helped shape British culture are part of three-year project by NPGThe National Portrait Gallery has acquired five self-portraits by female artists as part of a three-year project to enhance the representation of women in its collection.The gallery, which is currently closed for a major refurbishment, said the works highlighted stories of women who have helped shape British culture. Continue reading...
  
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• Chief Revenue and Patron Officer – Detroit Opera

  08-03-2022 04:42 via artsjournal.com
  About the OpportunityDetroit Opera seeks a Chief Revenue and Patron Officer (CRPO) to ensure that the company remains deeply engaged and in service to the Detroit community, and in turn, engender support for the organization, both civically and financially. The CRPO will create and execute an annual plan with regard to patron engagement and revenue goals, all grounded in a commitment to audience-centric innovation while maintaining the company’s reputation for high artistic quality. Under
  
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• Director of Artistic Planning, Production, and Administration

  08-03-2022 04:36 via artsjournal.com
  The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is seeking a Director of Artistic Planning, Production, and Administration. This position offers a unique opportunity for an experienced, creative, and energetic individual to work closely with CMS’s Artistic Directors in virtually all areas of artistic planning for CMS’s New York City activity.The Director of Artistic Planning, Production, and Administration (DAPPA) is responsible for working with the Artistic Directors to plan, coor
  
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• Is Tourism Bad For Us?

  08-03-2022 00:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Tourism is attractive because it underwrites a desire that, when we go overseas, stuff doesn’t get too strange, risky or foreign. Increasingly, we travel not to decentre our worldviews or challenge our sensibilities, but to chillax and populate our Instagrams. – The Guardian
  
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