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• Barbara Kruger On Life In The Digital World

  17-03-2022 22:31 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “I don’t sue people. I will let all these corporations who are old-school robber barons do that. I think copyrights are euphemisms for corporate control on a certain level. Remember when Napster lost its first big lawsuit and the record industry thought it won? Guess what? It didn’t.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• We’re Studying How Literature Is Preserved (It May Be Important)

  17-03-2022 22:01 via scientificamerican.com
  
  “Thinking about how cultural heritage survives seems like a useful thing to do, because right now—among many other things—that’s one of the important things threatened by things like climate change.” – Scientific American
  
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• Why Do So Many Operas Kill Off Women?

  17-03-2022 21:32 via limelightmagazine.com.au
  
  Of the top 20 most performed operas worldwide in the 2017–2018 season according to Operabase.com, 75 percent feature female characters who were dead by the end of the opera. – Limelight
  
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• Study: Listeners Wearing Headphones Are More “Persuadable” Than Those Listening Through Speakers

  17-03-2022 21:01 via insideradio.com
  
  The driver of this greater bond with listeners is the idea that headphones make it sound like the voices are inside one’s head, meaning they “trigger a feeling of greater closeness to the person speaking to you.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Badger Bates: ‘I feel like I’m very lucky, even though I’m no millionaire’

  17-03-2022 17:30
  
  The Barkandji artist shares the story behind the giant steel serpent he has made for the 2022 Sydney biennale, and how it feeds into his wider fight for water rightsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastAfter the floods, the Barka (Darling River) looks “beautiful” again, says Barkandji artist William “Badger” Bates. So recognisable with his bush hat and grey moustache, the 74-year-old has dedicated his artistic life to saving the Barka. Foll
  
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• Long-lost Canova sculpture bought for couple’s garden could fetch £8m

  17-03-2022 16:52
  
  Recumbent Magdalene, an art world ‘sleeping beauty’, was identified in 2002 after it was bought for £5,200It was one of the last marble sculptures completed by the great Italian artist Antonio Canova before his death in 1822 and depicts Mary Magdalene in a state of ecstasy.But Maddelena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene) – originally commissioned by the then British prime minister, Lord Liverpool – became an art world “sleeping beauty” as her authorship was
  
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• Michael MacLeod obituary

  17-03-2022 15:36
  
  My friend Michael MacLeod, who has died aged 93, was an art historian with a strong interest in the work of the British artist Thomas Hennell. His book, Thomas Hennell: Countryman, Artist and Writer (1988), was the first to be published on his subject, and persuasively presented Hennell as an artist of rare achievement.Michael was born in Eltham, south-east London, to Frances (nee Wix) and Norman MacLeod, a captain in the First Gurkha Rifles who subsequently became first secretary at the British
  
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• ‘It’s artwashing’: can galleries wean themselves off Russian oligarch loot?

  17-03-2022 15:00
  
  For years, Russian billionaires have had a huge presence in the art world, whether as collectors, benefactors or board members. Now, however, the glitz has worn offLast December in Moscow, dozens of international art world luminaries stepped out of the snow and into the vast, pristine galleries of GES-2, a new art centre. Located in a converted power station just a short walk from the Kremlin, the institution was funded by oligarch Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation. The westerners weren&
  
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• Elite auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London

  17-03-2022 11:44
  
  Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams call off June auctions during traditional ‘Russian Art Week’Russia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have cancelled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to western sanctions on Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine.The auction houses hold sales of Russian art in June and November in periods known as “Russian Art Week&rdquo
  
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• Vladimir Putin knows the power of stories. With a better one, we can beat him | Jo Nesbø

  17-03-2022 08:00
  
  I faced Russia’s wrath for my novel and TV series, Occupied. The Kremlin knows art can tell the truth about war – and it fears thatIn 2015, the first season of the adaptation of my novel Occupied was broadcast on Norwegian television. The series depicts a Russian occupation of Norway, something that is tacitly accepted by the EU and the United States as a way to restart oil production facilities that had been shut down by the green Norwegian government.My aim for the show was to focu
  
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• Third time lucky? Melbourne’s Rising festival announces 2022 lineup after two years of delays

  17-03-2022 06:00
  
  Arts festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021, but organisers have high hopes for this year, which will see 801 artists, musicians and theatre companies present 84 projectsThe first attempt to launch Melbourne’s Rising festival – an amalgamation of the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night – was cancelled in 2020 due to the first coronavirus wave. The second attempt lasted just one day, when the Victorian government enforced a seven-day lockdown; within five days
  
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• ‘It’s good to be alive’: groundbreaking New Zealand artist brings light and joy to city streets

  17-03-2022 04:56
  
  Sallie Culy, who has Williams Syndrome, is the first artist with an intellectual disability to exhibit in Wellington’s public art Lightbox programme“It’s good to be alive,” artist Sallie Culy says as she finishes a ham and cheese sandwich at one of the many cafes she visits most days in Wellington. “It really is good to be alive.”Sallie’s words, like much of how she interacts with the world, are life-affirming. As a person, and as an artist, she celebrat
  
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