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• Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner prize for work including Windrush tribute

  07-12-2022 20:55
  Artist wins for work including UK’s first permanent public artwork honouring Windrush generationVeronica Ryan, an artist who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts.Ryan, 66, becomes the oldest artist to win the prize. She was nominated for the Windrush sculpture, which was unveiled in Hackney, London, last year, as well as for her solo exhibition Along
  
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• Veronica Ryan is a sensational choice as Turner prize-winner

  07-12-2022 20:55
  The Montserrat-born sculptor’s mature, meditative works are the opposite of the brash art that usually impresses the judges – and cap the first Turner worth caring about in yearsVeronica Ryan is much too good to win the Turner prize – I feared. Or rather, too good for what it so often seems to be, a brash, loud, sensational crowd-pleaser.She is none of those things. Ryan’s sculptures are meditative and poetic, their meanings maturing over time instead of hitting you in th
  
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• How Diversity Makes Orchestras Better

  07-12-2022 17:24 via azcentral.com
  “For me, diversity is always a thing I like to think about as sort of necessary to enhance the vibrancy of an organization. Even in symphony orchestra. We’ll be able to play more music better. We’ll be able to connect with the community better. We’ll be able to educate the people better.” – The Arizona […]
  
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• The Tory Government Wants English National Opera To Move North, But Does The North Even Want The Company?

  07-12-2022 17:02 via inews.co.uk
  “Opinion locally is divided about whether the ENO should relocate. But the London-centricity of much outraged reaction to the story has generated irritation. … Whatever the future holds for ENO, it seems unlikely that anyone would welcome it being dragged kicking and screaming up the M6.” – iNews (UK)
  
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• British Media Giant ITV Goes All In On Streaming (And Not Everyone’s Sure It’s A Good Idea)

  07-12-2022 16:35 via hollywoodreporter.com
  This week the company launches ITVX, a free, ad-supported streaming service.  The plan is to offer 10,000 hours of content, including new material, in order to attract more viewers (and charge more for ads), but some observers think ITVX could simply cannibalize the network’s existing broadcast audience. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• US Ballet Companies Are Performing Fewer Works By Women Than Last Season, Researchers Find

  07-12-2022 16:03 via dancedataproject.com
  “Of 1075 announced works for the 2022/2023 season amongst the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically influenced companies, 27% are choreographed by women, which is a further reduction compared to the 2021-2022 season (29% choreographed by women).” – Dance Data Project
  
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• Author Dominique Lapierre Dead At 91

  07-12-2022 15:31 via msn.com
  His books — some nonfiction, some historical novels, several with co-author Larry Collins — sold 50 million copies.  Among them are Is Paris Burning? (about the city’s WWII liberation), City of Joy (about slum life in Kolkata), and Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (about that city’s 1984 chemical leak). – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Group “Concerned With Slavery Justice” Sues Smithsonian To Stop Repatriation Of Benin Bronzes

  07-12-2022 15:04 via artnews.com
  A New York-based nonprofit called the Restitution Study Group is asking a US federal court to undo the ownership transfer of the Smithsonian’s 29 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, arguing that the repatriation “denies the descendants of enslaved people in America the chance to experience their heritage.” – ARTnews
  
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• Lula Promises He Will Reopen Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Shuttered By Bolsonaro

  07-12-2022 14:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  Outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro dissolved the Ministry of Culture on his first day in office, slashed arts funding by half or more and politicized much of what remained. President-elect Luiz Inácio da Silva says that he will undo this damage, though he hasn’t yet nominated a culture minister. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Ukraine’s Culture Minister Asks Other Countries To Boycott Russian Culture (Even Tchaikovsky And Chekhov) Until The War Ends

  07-12-2022 14:05 via theguardian.com
  “Oleksandr Tkachenko argues that such a ‘cultural boycott’ would not amount to ‘cancelling Tchaikovsky’, but would be ‘pausing the performance of his works until Russia ceases its bloody invasion’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Here’s The Ukrainian Culture Minister’s Essay Calling For A Boycott Of Russian Culture

  07-12-2022 14:04 via theguardian.com
  “Russia isn’t just physically attacking Ukraine; it is also trying to destroy our culture and memory. … The Kremlin (has) made clear that culture was a tool and even a weapon in the hands of the government.” – The Guardian
  
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• Slashers, demons and head exploders: why horror revels in modern architecture

  07-12-2022 12:35
  In the 1920s, the traditional haunted house died a death – as home design became all clean lines and bright spaces. But directors soon turned these dirt-free abodes into eerie, alienating, terrifying placesThe Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is an old Victorian school that was turned inside out and filled with new modernist interiors in the late 1990s. It looks to the untrained eye like a place of dusty classrooms and tiled corridors, but inside you’ll find glass stairwells and white cube
  
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• Jane Harris obituary

  07-12-2022 11:22
  Jane Harris, who has died after a short illness aged 65, was one of Britain’s most significant abstract painters. For 30 years she explored, through a set of self-imposed rules, the perceptual qualities of the ellipse. It was a shape that, in her hands, could be both ornate and Spartan, and that, through her beautiful handling of paint, could be visually mischievous. Carefully painted in oils, each of the meticulous brushstrokes that mark out her curvilinear shapes describes both a form, t
  
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• Charlotte review – absorbing animation about a remarkable artist, murdered at Auschwitz

  07-12-2022 08:00
  Keira Knightley gives voice to Charlotte Salomon, the German-Jewish painterwho said she killed her own grandfather after he abused her, in a powerful but flawed biopicThis powerful but flawed animation depicts the brilliant German Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, creator of a remarkable series of quasi-autobiographical gouaches entitled Life? or Theatre?, painted in the period of her exile in Vichy France from 1941 to 1943, before she was taken to Auschwitz and there murdered at the age of 26; t
  
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• Will Neuroscience Be Able To Predict When (And With Whom) You’ll Fall In Love?

  07-12-2022 00:01 via theatlantic.com
  “I’m a scientist myself, but I find it a bit unsettling that a brain scientist or computer might accurately predict whom I’ll fall in love with. At the same time, I admire the spectacular progress of science in understanding human beings and where we fit in the grand scheme of things. – The Atlantic
  
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