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• Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge | Letter

  06-05-2022 18:48
  
  Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skylineIt was heartening to learn that Constable’s magnificent depiction of the opening of Waterloo Bridge has been restored to its original glory (Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work, 29 April). The 1817 Thames skyline that it reveals, however, is not authentic in at least one detail. In the far right of the picture, just to the we
  
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• Why Are Arts Instagram Accounts Being Targeted By Hackers?

  06-05-2022 18:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue tick (confirming authenticity) but also those with high engagement, which is often the case with creatives. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• NY Mayor Appoints Nightclub Owner To Met Museum Board

  06-05-2022 17:32 via politico.com
  
  The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s wealthiest and most influential circles. – Politico
  
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• Nijinsky’s Sister Was Even More Revolutionary Than He Was

  06-05-2022 17:01 via thenation.com
  
  And she was revolutionary in more than one way.  Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she understood — from watching Diaghilev and her brother trying to maintain dance companies in the West — how commercial pressures could be as oppressive as political ones. – The Nation
  
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• Actors’ Equity Launches Fight To Unionize All National Tours Of Broadway Shows

  06-05-2022 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the Broadway League (the association for theater owners and producers) to end the arrangement where a show may have union and nonunion tours simultaneously. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Thousands Of Unseen Andrew Wyeth Works Have Become Available For Public Viewing

  06-05-2022 16:03 via smithsonianmag.com
  
  “The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. … Both museums will display a rotating, year-round selection of Wyeth’s work” and will lend to other museums. – Smithsonian Magazine
  
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• “I Have Been Canceled”: Frank Langella Writes An Angry Rebuttal To Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct On Set

  06-05-2022 15:32 via deadline.com
  
  In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in the Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. – Deadline
  
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• American Orchestras, Still Largely White, Are Trying To Diversify. It’s Slow Going, But Here’s How They’re Working On It

  06-05-2022 15:04 via dallasnews.com
  
  There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the Sphinx Organization. Writer Tim Diovanni looks into the efforts, focusing on the Detroit, Dallas, and Fort Worth Symphonies. – The Dallas Morning News
  
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• The Publishing Industry Starts Campaigns Against The Book-Banning Trend

  06-05-2022 14:31 via publishingperspectives.com
  
  Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called “Open Books Open Doors”, while the Authors Guild has launched a Banned Books Club on the app Fable, on which users organize social media book groups. – Publishing Perspectives
  
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• After 900 Years, St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Letting Girls Into The Choir

  06-05-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Well, strictly speaking, they’re being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys’ and girls’ choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: “I accept the idea of a boys’ choir as culturally iconic, and I’d like to keep that. And I’d like girls to experience exactly the same thing.” – The Guardian
  
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• Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art

  06-05-2022 14:00
  
  Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatchDreamachine
  A hallucinatory visual experience that promises to subvert your senses. Judging by the health form you have to fill in, it’s pretty intense.
  • At various locations including London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh from 10 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Lily van der Stokker: ‘Flowers are a forbidden symbol’

  06-05-2022 12:30
  
  Beloved by the likes of John Waters, the Dutch painter’s installations seem frivolous – but there are deep questions about art hidden beneath their candy-bright facadesFlowers blossom in bursts of cartoon euphoria throughout Lily van der Stokker’s new exhibition Thank You Darling. In one rectangular mural they repeat like absent-minded doodles in the margins of school notebooks. The word “THANKS” is painted in the mural’s corner in an apparently simple bit of
  
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• What The Emmys Could Learn From Comic-Con

  06-05-2022 11:34 via variety.com
  
  Take a page from Comic-Con, D23, Apple and everyone else who has turned to fan events for big reveals and announcements. Make the Emmys the must-see event it should be by having the networks, studios and streamers save some goodies to break the Internet. – Variety
  
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• Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’

  06-05-2022 09:00
  
  Tate Liverpool
  It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophicPoor John Constable. What did he ever do except go out in the fields and paint? For that apparently harmless pursuit, it seems Tate Liverpool cannot forgive him. Its attempt to define a “radical” British landscape art keeps kicking Constable as a conveni
  
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• The Books That Are Poisonous If You Touch Them

  06-05-2022 00:01 via nationalgeographic.com
  
  These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced with arsenic. – National Geographic
  
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