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• New UK Study Documents How Tough It Is For Musicians To Make A Living

  28-07-2022 23:31 via bbc.com
  
  More artists than ever before are releasing music, the report says, but this does not mean more are successful. Analysis published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) shows the number reaching one million UK streams per month remains low, about 1,700. – BBC
  
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• Determining Cultural Quality In The Age Of Massive Data

  28-07-2022 23:01 via culturalanalytics.org
  
  As Van Dijk has observed, in our digital society, evaluation of cultural products has become synonymous with crowd evaluation. On websites or in newspapers and magazines, rating culture produces a diverse range of big data. – Journal of Cultural Analytics
  
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• Not a bouncy castle: Hadrian’s Wall fort rebuilt in wild colour

  28-07-2022 07:01
  
  Installation on remains of Roman structure in Northumberland is part of wall’s 1,900th anniversary celebrations“It is a little-known fact that the Romans invented bouncy castles,” a father tells his young, dubious daughter as they spot in the distance what could be a wildly colourful inflatable house in the remains of a fort on Hadrian’s Wall.When the family have made their 15-minute way up from the car park to the fort, they will realise the structure is neither bouncy,
  
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• Irish island gets cross promised in myth 1,500 years ago – made from cardboard

  28-07-2022 06:00
  
  Legend claims Saint Columba never came up with cross for Tory island so artist Sarah Lewtas fulfils pledgeIt is more than a thousand years late, and made of cardboard rather than stone, but the residents of Ireland’s remotest inhabited island have finally got their cross.The 6.5-metre sculpture reached Tory island, a windswept rock nine miles off Ireland’s north-west coast, on Wednesday, arguably restoring the tainted honour of a patron saint. Continue reading...
  
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• Ancient sculptures found in storage box finally returned to Mexico

  28-07-2022 04:03
  
  Consulate accepts a dozen small artworks amid worldwide movement to repatriate Indigenous itemsSmall, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico, where they are intertwined with the identity of Indigenous communities.The Albuquerque Museum Foundation celebrated the repatriation of a dozen sculptures in a ceremony on Wednesday. The local consulate of Mexico accepted Olmec greenstone sculptures, a figure from the city of Zacatecas, b
  
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