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• As Climate Change Destroys Paleolithic Cave Art, France Opens A Museum Of Reproductions

  12-06-2022 22:30 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Cosquer cave is “an underground grotto off the coast of Marseille that was once home to more than 500 works of prehistoric art.” Now 150 remain, and climate change is rapidly destroying access (and the paintings themselves). But a new museum gives everyone access. – Artnet
  
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• The Irish Writer And Artist Who Created Countless East German Books

  12-06-2022 22:00 via bbc.com
  
  Elizabeth Shaw had quite a life: “From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast’s York Street, via the London Blitz to four decades spent as an artist in communist East Germany, hers is a remarkable 20th century life story.” – BBC
  
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• This Women’s Social Club Changed Literature And Art, But Its Members Kept It Quiet

  12-06-2022 21:30 via lithub.com
  
  “Guest speakers, frequently invited, included Margaret Sanger, the poet Amy Lowell, Emma Goldman speaking on ‘Anarchy,’ and Edith Ellis, a lesbian writer in an open marriage with the scandalous sexologist Havelock Ellis, speaking on the topic of ‘Love.'” There were even “husbands’ evenings,” when men were allowed. – LitHub
  
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• A 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman Is Reunited With A Painting Looted By The Nazis

  12-06-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Her father, a doctor who resisted Nazi orders, “had stored the painting in the Amsterdam Bank in Arnhem, thinking it would be safe there. But the Nazis broke into the vaults and seized it, amid widespread looting, destruction and devastation.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Looks Like Dance Classes Improve Your Memory

  12-06-2022 20:30 via neurosciencenews.com
  
  That’s a summary, but: “Latinos age 55 and over who participated in a culturally relevant Latin dance program for eight months significantly improved their working memory compared with peers in the control group who attended health education workshops.” – Neuroscience News
  
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• Why So Many Art Critics Find Women’s Bodies Monstrous

  12-06-2022 20:00 via aeon.co
  
  In the 1970s, “there was a backlash against [the] reclaiming of the naked body, from feminist polemicists campaigning against pornography, to feminist artists and critics who were concerned that any image of a nude woman would play right into the male gaze.” Is social media criticism similar now? – Aeon
  
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• Will Jennifer Hudson Get Her EGOT At The Tonys Tonight?

  12-06-2022 19:30 via npr.org
  It all depends on the voters, of course, but there’s a good chance: “Hudson was a producer for A Strange Loop, which is nominated for best musical.” (More Tonys predictions and wishes? The New York Times and Vulture have you covered.) – NPR
  
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• Burnt books and blackened stumps: Dark Mofo brings Tasmania’s ‘forest genocide’ indoors

  12-06-2022 19:30
  
  At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckageGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastThrough the black heavy curtains underground at Mona, it takes a second to regain your senses. Ashen debris, dust and ochre line a landscape of utter degradation, with blackened tree trunks and charred, hacked stumps, and the meaty, smoky smell of bushfire singeing your nos
  
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• Portland Art Museum Repatriates Nine Tlingit Objects To Their Clan In Alaska

  12-06-2022 19:00 via orartswatch.org
  Luella Knapp, a member of the clan, said, “As a caretaker of these clan items, it is an honor. Receiving them back, one by one, brings back the spirit of the person who wore them. We are so happy to have them returned to Wrangell’s Naanya.aayí.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• Tony Knipe obituary

  12-06-2022 18:30
  
  My friend Tony Knipe, who has died aged 80, was a painter, curator and teacher who made an important contribution to visual arts in the north-east of England.Born in Swansea, he was the son of John Knipe, a sergeant major in the army, and Olwen (nee Goodwin), a shop manager. He attended Clevedon college in Swansea before joining the merchant navy – but left after becoming ill during the 1957-58 Asian flu pandemic, suffering bouts of pneumonia, and then having to have part of his left lung
  
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• Paula Rego, Artist Who Had A Breakout Moment Alongside Hockney, Has Died At 87

  12-06-2022 18:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  A teenaged Rego fled Portugal for London at her parents’ urging when dictator Salazar came to power. Her series of paintings about women suffering after illegal botched abortions is considered to have helped Portugal legalize the medical procedure in 2007. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The World Of Comic Books Is Kinda Old And White

  12-06-2022 18:00 via latimes.com
  
  But Milestone Media is trying to change that. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Norway Finally Gets Its National Museum, Which Is Opening With An Exhibit Of Reindeer Skulls

  12-06-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  “The tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls, the flesh and tissue boiled and scrubbed off and the bone polished to a shine, hangs like a huge flag in what the curator Randi Godø says is a statement about the museum’s intention to newly reflect all aspects” of Norway. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• ‘I am amazed’: 101 year-old Dutch woman reunited with painting looted by Nazis

  12-06-2022 17:05
  
  Exclusive: she will sell the 1683 portrait of Steven Wolters by Caspar Netscher through Sotheby’s so her family can benefit from the proceedsAt the age of 101, a Dutch woman has been reunited with a painting that had been looted from her father by the Nazis during the second world war, but she has decided to sell it through Sotheby’s in London so that her family can benefit from the proceeds.Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck, a non-practising Baptist who joined the Dutch Resistance,
  
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• John Merriman, Who Brought Historical France To ‘Freestyle Rap’ Life, Has Died At 75

  12-06-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Merriman “plumbed dozens of French governmental archives for the information that invigorated his fast-paced books about anarchists, terrorists, leftists and ordinary people in France.” – The New York Times
  
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• In Disney’s Latest Shake-Up, Heir Apparent Peter Rice Is Summarily Fired

  12-06-2022 16:30 via latimes.com
  
  Fascinating, if you like to follow the kingpins at The Mouse: “Rice, a widely admired TV veteran, was dismissed over issues of ‘cultural fit,’ according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• ‘A Solo Among Men’

  12-06-2022 16:04 via artsjournal.com
  'I knew the orchestras were better in Germany.' — Abbie Conant
  But she didn't know how sexist they were or the ordeal she would be subjected to in Munich.‘A Solo Among Men’ was directed by Brenda Parkerson. Abbie Conant won an audition for first trombone in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. But the conductor, Sergiu Celibidache, preferred a man upfront and demoted her. Conant speaks about coping with that as she looks back at her tenacious struggle for justice.
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• Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage Seems To Be Under Coordinated Attack

  12-06-2022 16:00 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy says that as of June 9, “389 cultural heritage sites have been destroyed or damaged since the invasion began.” Is this accident or deliberate targeting? An international effort is underway to find out. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Science Itself, Not Social Media Alone, Fuels A Culture Of Disinformation

  12-06-2022 15:30 via niemanlab.org
  
  Preprints are an issue. “It’s all too easy to make outsize claims that sidestep the process of peer review. No publication should carry a standalone abstract. … [But] even scientific papers that have passed through the intended safeguards of peer review can become vectors for confusion.” – Nieman Lab
  
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• Paintings Of An Industry On Its Knees After COVID Lockdowns And Cancellations

  12-06-2022 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  What timing: Artist “Peter Keegan was commissioned to mark the 10th anniversary of the Waterside Theatre, in Aylesbury, in 2020. Within weeks, all theatres in the UK closed due to the pandemic, but the artist continued to paint.” And he painted the tentative return as well. – BBC
  
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• When An Idaho School Board Banned Books And Cut Library Funding, A Bookstore Came Through

  12-06-2022 14:30 via npr.org
  It’s no substitute for school boards heartily not banning books or libraries being funded, but Boise’s Rediscovered Books gave away copies of the banned books at a suburban coffee shop in the nearby town of Nampa. – NPR
  
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• How A New Disney Show May Change Muslim Representation On TV, Forever

  12-06-2022 14:00 via huffpost.com
  
  In the comics, Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)’s “infectious charm and steadfast strength slayed her nemeses in vivid color through the pages, her character unapologetically bucking the negative stereotypes impressed upon Muslim Americans.” The TV show may do the same. – HuffPost
  
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• Artists Could Really Use Student Loan Forgiveness Too

  12-06-2022 13:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Great that some people – including some artists who have been able to eke out a living at qualifying nonprofits or colleges – can get theirs forgiven after 10 years. But what about freelancers and those who cobble together an existence in the service of art?– Hyperallergic
  
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• Have We Run Out Of Useful Lessons From History?

  12-06-2022 13:00 via lithub.com
  
  It sure feels like that sometimes. But “if nothing ever changes, then we are all locked inside the iron cage of the present tense. … There’s no agency. No choice.” – LitHub
  
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• Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel Serpentine pavilion review – a welcoming labour of love

  12-06-2022 12:00
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  Gates uses an artist’s touch to create a dignified, Staffordshire kiln-inspired structure that celebrates community and work – and honours his late fatherLast autumn, at the Whitechapel Gallery in east London, the Chicagoan artist Theaster Gates exhibited works in clay: large, heavy, wrought objects, shaped by hand, formed with intense heat and effort. In last week’s intermittent summer sunshine, outside the Serpentine Gallery in west London, he opene
  
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• No talent required in the new and lucrative era of the gentleman amateur | Martha Gill

  12-06-2022 10:30
  
  Pierce Brosnan and Robbie Williams are modern-day dabblers gaining undue attentionThe idea that people should succeed and fail on their merits at work is a fairly modern one. Until around the end of the 19th century in Britain, it was entirely natural that the top end of all kinds of occupations – sports, the sciences, art, politics – should be filled not by the hardworking and talented but by wealthy hobbyists. “Gentlemen amateurs”, a phenomenon traceable to the 17th cen
  
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