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• New York Museums Now Required To Publicly Identify Art Stolen By Nazis

  23-08-2022 23:31 via thehill.com
  
  The new law requires that New York museums immediately place a placard or sign acknowledging Nazi-looted art. – The Hill
  
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• The Scandalous Origins Of The Family Theme Park

  23-08-2022 23:01 via bbc.com
  
  London’s Pleasure Gardens transformed the concept of leisure. Offering an environment in which societal norms could be cast aside, if only for a few hours, they captivated the public with their heady mix of culture, fashion and vice.  – BBC
  
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• Can Museums Survive If They Stay Politically Neutral?

  23-08-2022 22:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  “The democratic battles fought worldwide in the name of human rights urge museums to take an active stance towards a fair advancement of civil society. Believing that the cultural sector can remain neutral in the face of exclusion and discrimination would endanger museums’ own relevance.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Theatre On The English Coast Is Thriving Again As Demographics Change

  23-08-2022 22:01 via thestage.co.uk
  “This part of the world has seen such a fundamental demographic shift. There has been a change in who lives here, who owns property here, who visits and who goes to the theatre here – and that has a knock-on effect on producing, planning and programming.” – The Stage
  
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• Ojai: How To Create A Playwrights’ Festival That Matters

  23-08-2022 21:31 via americantheatre.org
  
  “Every Ojai play has a single plot. And that plot is: ‘Here, this thing that no one else has noticed—we have seen it as something beautiful and important. We will take this thing that has been lost, and we will show it to the world.’” – American Theatre
  
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• Melvin Edwards Unchained: Ascending from “Lynch Fragments” to “Brighter Days”

  23-08-2022 21:10 via artsjournal.com
  For better or worse, Melvin Edwards, now 85, is probably destined always to be best known for his grimly
  
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• Actors’ Equity Joins The Fight To Unionize Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club

  23-08-2022 21:01 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  Performers who work or worked at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have been picketing for months, arguing that working conditions aren’t safe, compensation is sometimes withheld, and complainants have been fired or locked out.  Now the actors’ union has come to their aid. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• How To Kill The Internet In Australia: Websites Liable For Content On Pages They Link To?

  23-08-2022 20:32 via niemanlab.org
  
  A lawsuit named Defteros v. Google argued that a website could defame someone without writing anything about them — or even knowing who they are. It was enough simply to link to another web page that contains defamatory content. – NiemanLab
  
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• The Guardian’s Dance Critic Rates Heads Of State On How They Boogie

  23-08-2022 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  If people are ragging on poor Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister who was videotaped while out partying, then Lyndsey Winship will wield her gimlet eye and keyboard to choose her top three and bottom three world-leader dance moves.  (There is a Boris in each bracket.) – The Guardian
  
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• Philadelphia Loves Its Murals. But The City Has Targeted Them For Years

  23-08-2022 19:31 via inquirer.com
  
  For young graffiti artists, their highly stylistic and calligraphic “wickets” were an alternative to gang life in communities abandoned by slumlords and the city. The city spent $3 million a year and brought in the National Guard to rid Philadelphia of graffiti. – Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• Acropolis wow: replica Parthenon to be built at National Gallery of Victoria

  23-08-2022 19:30
  
  ‘Temple of Boom’ will be covered in murals, and host performances and music through Melbourne’s summerGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastA small piece of Melbourne is set to become a mini-Acropolis, with a replica of the Parthenon to be installed at the National Gallery of Victoria this spring and covered with large-scale murals by local artists.The Temple of Boom was recently announced as the NGV architecture commission for 2022, an annual serie
  
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• Covering Kyiv’s Anti-Tank “Hedgehogs” With Traditional Ukrainian Art

  23-08-2022 19:03 via msn.com
  
  Artist Varvara Logvyn has been painting the steel obstacles, which look like giant jacks from a children’s game, in the traditional, brightly colored Petrykivka style. She describes the project as “my way to talk with the world about Ukraine, about our war, about our values.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• In Seattle: How Do You Rebuild A Creative Culture?

  23-08-2022 18:25 via postalley.org
  
  Arguably, our culture of leadership is in disrepair. Our ability to recognize and celebrate excellence is in doubt. Our effectiveness at building consensus is broken. Our ability to celebrate dissent and debate (one of our greatest strengths) is damaged. How do you fix it? – Post Alley
  
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• Norah Vincent, Who Wrote A Bestseller About Living And Passing As A Man, Is Dead At 53

  23-08-2022 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. … She was a contrarian, and proud of it. … She tilted at postmodernism and multiculturalism. She argued for the rights of fetuses and against identity politics, which she saw as infantilizing and irresponsible.” – The New York Times
  
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• Michael Heiser’s Stunning Masterpiece (50 Years In The Making) Ready To Open In The Nevada Desert

  23-08-2022 17:32 via nytimes.com
  
  Half a century after Heizer stuck his first shovel in the ground, “City” is finally opening to visitors, which may be the most unbelievable thing of all. It had become the art-world version of ancient Atlantis, a chimera. – The New York Times
  
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• Bullfighting Is Fading Away In Spain.  So How Can They Repurpose All The Bullrings?

  23-08-2022 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Most of them are in city and town centers, and many are architecturally significant and can’t or shouldn’t be demolished. Yet they’re usually too small for soccer matches or rock concerts.  A few, however, have been remade into cultural centers, notably in Barcelona, Benidorm, and Tenerife. – The Guardian
  
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• Why Did Netflix Build A Gorgeous Replica Of The Sistine Chapel And Then Destroy It?

  23-08-2022 16:32 via news.artnet.com
  
  The streamer spent $5 million to build it for The Two Popes, and it seems nobody understands why it wasn’t repurposed.  (Perhaps because the Vatican doesn’t want a full-size replica under another institution’s control out there and would only license this one if it were destroyed after filming?) – Artnet
  
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• Why Did The Philadelphia Orchestra Pull Beethoven’s 9th From Its Edinburgh Concert? The Choir Wouldn’t Wear Masks.

  23-08-2022 16:03 via artsjournal.com
  The concert is the first on a 15-day tour, and the players won’t risk COVID transmission, so they asked the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to sing with masks.  The choir refused, so the Philadelphians decided to do Beethoven’s 5th instead — and some people are furious about it. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Return The Rosetta Stone To Egypt, Demands The Country’s Most Famous Archaeologist

  23-08-2022 15:34 via thenationalnews.com
  
  Says Dr. Zahi Hawass of the 2,200-year-old stele, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, “The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian identity. The British Museum has no right to show this artefact to the public.” – The National (Abu Dhabi)
  
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• Francesca Zambello Wraps Up 12 Years At Glimmerglass Opera

  23-08-2022 15:10 via nytimes.com
  
  She feels she has achieved her goals at the upstate New York summer festival: “Creating a ‘festival’ environment and focusing on our brand of theater as a bridge to diverse communities, (and) addressing complex issues through storytelling and music making.” And she’s balanced the budgets, too. – The New York Times
  
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• Zoom Kept Us Safe, But Kept Us Apart From Music

  23-08-2022 14:35 via irishtimes.com
  
  Irish musician Martin Hayes: “We need to eat, to sleep, to have shelter, to keep our bodies alive, … [but] our souls need music, art and poetry, and we need human connection. We need to be near people and we need to experience music in the space with others.” – Irish Times
  
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• A New Law Requires Museums In New York To Prominently Identify Nazi-Looted Art

  23-08-2022 14:00 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The state senator who introduced the bill said, “Today, artwork previously stolen by Nazis can be found hanging in museums around New York with no recognition of the dark paths they traveled there.” But no longer. – Hyperallergic
  
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• The Endless Possibilities Of Site-Specific Dance

  23-08-2022 00:01 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Every dance is site-specific in some sense, but, in a warming world changed by war, political upheaval and a pandemic, some choreographers forgo traditional venues entirely. Whether their work is about climate change, social dynamics, systemic oppression or community vibrance. – Dance Magazine
  
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