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• London museum returns looted Benin City artefacts to Nigeria

  28-11-2022 19:55
  Six objects stolen by British soldiers in 19th century are handed over in ceremony at Horniman MuseumSix artefacts looted by British troops 125 years ago from Benin City, in what is now Nigeria, are being repatriated to their place of origin, increasing pressure on the British Museum to follow suit.The objects, including two 16th-century Benin Bronze plaques ransacked from the royal palace, were handed to Abba Tijani, the director general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Mo
  
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• We’re Witnessing The Death Of Bands Touring

  28-11-2022 19:31 via thedailybeast.com
  “The main problem is that fees for artists have not gone up despite the growing costs of inflation, gas prices, increased flight prices, hotels, etc. So there’s even less money to go round now, when, let’s face it, there was not very much to begin with, but now the pie is even smaller.” – The […]
  
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• Why Small Indie Bookstores Are Surviving

  28-11-2022 18:44 via theglobeandmail.com
  Now, when so many of our needs are unified and algorithm-prompted by online retail, independent bookstores offer person-to-person customization. Something, it turns out, that we are craving despite the ease of online shopping. – The Globe & Mail
  
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• Having Trouble Hearing TV Dialogue? It’s Probably Not You

  28-11-2022 18:02 via wsj.com
  As more video-production studios embrace advanced audio formats for at-home content, not every device can keep up. Plenty of viewers can’t keep up, either. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Blogs Are Personal . . . Keeping Up With a Gen Z Artist’s Recent Drawings

  28-11-2022 17:57 via artsjournal.com
  Two bats, one cat, and several people. Also have a look at this art student's previously posted drawings..
  
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• Why Does The Mythology Of The “Lost City of Atlantis” Still Fascinate?

  28-11-2022 17:31 via theguardian.com
  The confrontation is intriguing and raises many issues of which the most basic is the simple question: why has the story of Atlantis – compared with other ancient myths – maintained its popularity for so long? What is the essential attraction of the tale? – The Observer
  
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• Letter: Derrick Greaves obituary

  28-11-2022 17:24
  In the summer of 1957 Derrick Greaves helped open the exhibition Looking at People at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, organised by Paul Hogarth with Soviet funding. Greaves, Hogarth and Ruskin Spear cut the ribbon.Other artists with works on show were Carel Weight, Edward Ardizzone, the printmaker Alistair Grant and the sculptors Betty Rea and George Fullard. Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon Wants To Join The Big Movie Studios In The Theatres

  28-11-2022 17:00 via seattletimes.com
  The company says it plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies to be released in theatres – that’s 12-15 theatrical releases a year, far outstripping Netflix’s plans for cinemas. – Seattle Times (Bloomberg)
  
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• A British Filmmaking Company Had To Help Its Ukrainian Office Evacuate During The War

  28-11-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  January was bad, very bad, timing for British company Breakthru Films to open an painting animation studio in Kyiv. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• DVDs Built Netflix, But The Red And White Envelopes Are Quickly Dying

  28-11-2022 16:00 via stltoday.com
  “It might be easy to assume that anyone still paying to receive DVDs through the mail is a technophobe. … But subscribers say they stick with the service so they can rent movies that are otherwise difficult to find on streaming services.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (AP)
  
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• It’s Past Time For This Rebel Poet To Seize Her Place In History

  28-11-2022 15:45 via latimes.com
  Poet tatiana de la tierra produced one-of-a-kind chapbooks scrounged from cardboard and recycled paper, and her “writing itself was just as singular — unassimilated and unafraid even by today’s standards.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Museum Of Broadway Reveals The Show Behind The Shows

  28-11-2022 15:30 via npr.org
  Theatre history dreams: “The Broadway timeline itself is two floors filled with pictures and artifacts –costumes, props, documents – illustrating the history of New York theater from minstrelsy and vaudeville up to the present day.” – NPR
  
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• But Wait, These ‘Roman Forgeries’ Aren’t Fake At All

  28-11-2022 15:15 via nytimes.com
  There was reason to think the gold coins weren’t Roman: “A fraudster in Vienna frequently duped collectors in the 18th century, when the coins were found in Transylvania, or modern-day Romania, the researchers said.” – The New York Times
  
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• As The Museum Of London Prepares To Move, The City Of London Prepares To Demolish

  28-11-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  As the museum prepares to move, the City of London would really like to demolish the old building. But “this is a test case for the argument that old buildings should be kept for the sake of the carbon embodied in their fabric.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Pirate Radio Station That Changed British Radio

  28-11-2022 14:45 via bbc.com
  “Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae music in the UK, Lepke setup a mast in his back garden and began to broadcast to a small area of West London every Sunday afternoon. DBC soon expanded to cover all styles of black music.” – BBC
  
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• How Did Alexa And The Echo Start To Drag Down Amazon?

  28-11-2022 14:30 via fastcompany.com
  In a word, sales. “Some much-heralded device innovations, like the ability to place Amazon orders via Alexa, have failed to win over a dedicated audience. In other words, Alexa does not appear to be driving incremental retail sales in any meaningful way.” – Fast Company
  
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• Stop Looking For The Next Austen

  28-11-2022 14:15 via washingtonpost.com
  “When we go in search of new Austens or Brontës, we’re imagining we’ll find novels that remind us positively of theirs. We claim we’re searching for something new, and equally original, but in effect we’re seeking out literary echoes, not wholly distinct virtuoso performances.” – Washington Post
  
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• WALL-E The Movie Got One Thing Alarmingly Correct

  28-11-2022 14:00 via slate.com
  That is the prevalence of screens. They’re just … everywhere, all the time. – Slate
  
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• When A Musician Is Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Can Fans Get Refunds?

  28-11-2022 13:45 via cbc.ca
  No, say Arcade Fire fans, or former fans as frontman Win Butler faces at least five accusations. “The ticket retailers, tour promoters, and even Arcade Fire itself aren’t offering refunds to the wider public.” – CBC
  
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• For Suzan-Lori Parks, Theatre Creates Reality Just As Much As The Reverse

  28-11-2022 13:30 via npr.org
  “Parks was on set as the writer for a TV show that had to go on hiatus when COVID hit. So she just started writing a short play a day – plays that would eventually become Plays for the Plague Year.” – NPR
  
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• The Art, Flow, And Waste Of Fast Fashion

  28-11-2022 13:15 via nytimes.com
  Or, why you might get money back for that wrong-sized T-shirt that a large online retailer doesn’t even want back. – The New York Times
  
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• When Subscription Overload Hits And You Delete Your Whole History

  28-11-2022 13:00 via theatlantic.com
  Gmail keeps asking for money, and you start deleting … everything. “I felt a sudden sense of mourning that I still have not gotten over. And yet, to my surprise, I felt something else alongside it: a conflicting sense of relief and even levity.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Retail therapy: film, art, books and more for the Christmas shopping season

  28-11-2022 11:00
  From the aristocratic boutiques of 18th-century Paris to a zombified consumerist dystopia, our culture critics help you shop till you dropGeorge A Romero’s 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead is one of the most inspired critiques of consumerism in movie history. It is about a zombie uprising caused by a virus from outer space, causing dead people to rise from the grave, driven by a hunger for living human flesh. The film satirises 1960s America’s consumerism: people existing in
  
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• Iranian artists call for boycott of cultural institutions with links to regime

  28-11-2022 09:41
  Art activism has increased in and outside the country since death of 22-year-old Mahsa AminiDozens of Iranian artists have called for an international boycott of cultural institutions run by or affiliated with the Islamic Republic in protest against the regime’s worsening human rights abuses.The call by artists, writers, film-makers and academics living in Iran and among its diaspora comes amid growing anti-government art activism by Iranians inside and outside the country after the death
  
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• British Museum works to restore ‘rare and complex’ Michelangelo drawing

  28-11-2022 08:00
  16th-century work Epifania is one of only two existing cartoons by the Italian masterOne of only two surviving Michelangelo cartoons is undergoing delicate and highly technical conservation work at the British Museum in an attempt to stabilise the fragile work for the coming decades.Epifania, created by the Italian master artist around 1550, has degraded and been subject to repeated repairs over its almost 500-year history. Now it is laid out in the museum’s state-of-the-art conservation s
  
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