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• This Emily St John Mandel Interview Is A Testament To The Power Of The Press

  18-12-2022 22:00 via slate.com
  Truly, sort of. Since the author of Station Eleven said once in an interview that she was married, she couldn’t convince Wikipedia she was now divorced – not without another published interview. – Slate
  
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• Steven Spielberg Is Sorry That Jaws Has Led To So Many Shark Deaths

  18-12-2022 21:30 via theguardian.com
  The director “has conceded that perhaps the Oscar-winning 1975 thriller was too effective at conjuring fear of the defamed creatures, admitting he is ‘truly regretful’ for any influence he has had on the world’s rapidly shrinking shark population.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade

  18-12-2022 21:00 via washingtonpost.com
  The Russian art collective’s members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled – and not once did they stop telling the world what it now knows for certain: Putin is dangerous, even deadly. – Washington Post
  
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• The Vatican Will Return Its Parthenon Fragments To Greece

  18-12-2022 20:30 via hyperallergic.com
  “The pope called the return a ‘donation’ to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to ‘follow in the ecumenical path of truth.'” – Hyperallergic
  
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• When Alexander Inarritu Went Hollywood

  18-12-2022 20:00 via latimes.com
  The director of the new film Bardo, an Oscar-winner for Birdman and The Revenant, didn’t want to leave Mexico, but, he says, “There wasn’t really a possibility for me to be a filmmaker there, which is what I most wanted to be.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Russia Is Looting Ukraine Museums’ Scythian Gold

  18-12-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  “Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to be of high value for antiquities, including Unesco world heritage sites.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• Movies Depicting Jewish American Experiences Are Few And Far Between

  18-12-2022 19:00 via nytimes.com
  “Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox but don’t go to shul regularly? Or are they ultrareligious as in The Chosen?” – The New York Times
  
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• How The Bloomsbury Group Came To Change Art And Literature In England

  18-12-2022 18:30 via lithub.com
  The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen’s parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf – and their brothers – to find, and found, a center of artistic life in London. – LitHub
  
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• Conrad Atkinson obituary

  18-12-2022 18:23
  Conrad Atkinson, who has died aged 82, was one of Britain’s most significant activist and political artists. For more than 60 years he dedicated his life to highlighting contentious sociopolitical issues, including the miners’ strikes, landmines, the Aids crisis and the Northern Ireland conflict. Silver Liberties, a work commemorating the victims of Bloody Sunday, was famously outlawed by the Ulster Museum in the 1970s.Born in Cleator Moor, Cumberland (now Cumbria), to Bridget (nee M
  
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• What Set Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Apart As A Dancer

  18-12-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, “his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a generous spirit.” – The New York Times
  
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• Taking The Music Documentary Far Behind, And Beyond, The Music

  18-12-2022 17:30 via variety.com
  As a new crop of music documentaries’ directors confirm, “Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of and a reaction to the environment.” – Variety
  
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• Adrienne Mancia, Who Brought The World In Film To New York, 95

  18-12-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  At MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was a film curator who “scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York” – and, thus, the rest of the U.S. “Her choices were crucial in expanding the horizons of American cinephiles.” – The New York Times
  
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• London’s First, Groundbreaking Arabic-Language Bookshop To Close

  18-12-2022 16:30 via npr.org
  Al Saqi, a literary institution that opened in 1978, will close at the end of 2022. One of the owners: “You’d meet Arabs in London, and they would say, when I – when my family visits from abroad, I take them to Big Ben and to Al Saqi Books.” – NPR
  
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• Evelyn Waugh’s Mansion Sells, But Superfans Living There Refuse To Leave

  18-12-2022 16:00 via lithub.com
  Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: “We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and have put in hundreds of thousands of pounds of our own money. … It’s our home and we have no plans to move.” – LitHub
  
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• Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set

  18-12-2022 15:30 via latimes.com
  She said, among other things, that on set, “Women were pitted against each other — [and] if women became friends, then we became too powerful, so you had to keep that down.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound

  18-12-2022 15:00 via vulture.com
  “What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as they do on the arrangement of surfaces along the way.” – Vulture
  
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• Storytelling May Save The Planet, If Anything Can

  18-12-2022 14:30 via wired.com
  “The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication.” – Wired
  
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• The New Museum Of Broadway Is A Shrine To Theatre’s Hard-Fought Battles

  18-12-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Sure, it’s more sweet than serious, but “behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41 theatres – is a trouper with the battle scars to prove it.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• On Sexuality: Helen Chadwick & Penny Slinger review – radical bodies

  18-12-2022 14:00
  Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
  In an inspired pairing, the taboo-breaking 1960s and 70s work of these two British artists remains visceral and urgent todayA woman sits imprisoned in her own giant wedding cake, its tiers like manacles around her naked body. Another is lopped into parts and then badly reassembled, so that her limbs are uselessly displaced. A third lies shrouded in a white coffin, its lid open for the viewing of the corpse – except that at second glance this is not a casket.
  
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• Dear News Junkies, Here’s How To Adjust To Life Without Twitter

  18-12-2022 13:30 via theverge.com
  It’s not easy – and the long-ago murder of Google Reader by that tech company doesn’t make it easier – but there are ways. – The Verge
  
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• Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests

  18-12-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. “‘Your silence means supporting oppression and oppressors,’ she wrote.” – The New York Times
  
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• Airbrushing claim as ‘Eric Gill museum’ shuns legacy of artist and sexual abuser

  18-12-2022 11:00
  The master craftsman was once lauded in Ditchling, Sussex. Now, as the grotesque truth of his life is acknowledged, all that has changedEric Gill was one the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century – and for decades his work held pride of place in the small museum based in the village where he once lived.But after his death, details emerged of his grotesque sexual conduct – including sustained abuse of two of his daughters and his younger sister – and there has been
  
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• Top British sculptor hits back in censorship row over loan to Turkish gallery

  18-12-2022 10:00
  Turner prize-winner Tony Cragg defends decision to lend to Istanbul museum after criticism from leading Turkish artist One of Britain’s leading sculptors, Sir Tony Cragg, has defended his decision to loan a work to Istanbul’s top art museum following criticism from a prominent Turkish artist of the country’s restrictions on freedom of expression.After four years in construction, the new five-storey, 15,000 sq metre Istanbul Modern will open this year, with Cragg’s white s
  
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• Ukraine’s museums keep watch over priceless gold in bid to halt Russian looters

  18-12-2022 09:00
  Experts monitoring the loss of Scythian artefacts have been shocked at scale of theft by Putin’s forcesThe people the Greeks called Scythians were formidable warriors and nomads who dominated the Eurasian steppe for more than 1,000 years from about 800BC – long before the creation of national borders.The fabulous gold weapons and ornaments they left behind ended up in museums across the region, many of them in Ukraine. Since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February, however, much S
  
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• ‘It’s kind of crazy there wasn’t one’: inside the new Museum of Broadway

  18-12-2022 08:04
  A splashy museum in New York pays tribute to the city’s long relationship with theatre from West Side Story to HamiltonIt is a patchwork of colour and craft, its 8in squares celebrating productions from the 1980s – Annie, Cats, Chess, Carousel, Les Misérables, Macbeth, Me and My Girl, Oh! Calcutta!, Starlight Express. One square, for the musical The Rink, is signed by stars Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.But the Aids quilt, among more than a thousand objects and photographs di
  
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• Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2022

  18-12-2022 08:00
  A year of revelations spanned Arles to the African diaspora, an unsung 20th-century great, and still lifes that are anything but…Read the Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full1. CezanneTate Modern, London; October (runs until 12 March 2023)
  Epochal show of mesmerising paintings by this revolutionary Frenchman – golden apples, monumental card players, the shimmering pyramid of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a Provençal winter as spare as a Japanese watercolour. No matter how o
  
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• ‘Damaged beyond repair’: police investigate after WA troll sculpture set on fire

  18-12-2022 03:11
  Arson attack destroys one of six Giants of Mandurah by Danish artist Thomas DamboFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice are investigating after arson destroyed a wooden sculpture built in regional Western Australia by an international artist.The fire ruined one of six trolls made out of salvaged scrap wood by the Danish artist Thomas Dambo as part of his Giants of Mandurah exhibit, which was design
  
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