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• Special New Camera Revolutionizes Restoration Of Old Paintings

  06-07-2023 23:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The King’s College team developed a 25,000-pixel photon sensitive camera that uses a technique called macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to harness the natural fluorescence in centuries-old varnish. – The Guardian
  
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• UK Immigration Minister Tells Immigrant Detention Centers To Remove Welcoming Artwork. Leading Artists Rally To Replace It

  06-07-2023 23:01 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  Robert Jenrick told staff to paint over artistic depictions of animals etched onto the walls of Tug Haven, an asylum intake unit in Dover, Kent, in order to create a “law enforcement environment” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• How The New Director Of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum Wants To Make It More Accessible

  06-07-2023 22:32 via theartnewspaper.com
  
  His two years in Vienna—plus a Ph.D. in art history that involved study of the Habsburg collections—have given him insight into the institution he will be running. His top priority, he says, is raising the KHM’s international profile.
  
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• Las Vegas Lights Up $2.3 Billion Video Screen — World’s Largest

  06-07-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The MSG Sphere’s 580,000 sq ft fully programmable LED screen, named the Exosphere, was illuminated for pre-launch testing overnight to celebrate the Fourth of July. The show started with a welcome message, “Hello world”, followed by fireworks and stars and stripes animations. – The Guardian
  
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• Social Media Platforms Now Seem Up For Grabs

  06-07-2023 21:31 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  In a flurry of unexpected strategic decisions, holiday news dumps and pure opportunism, the social landscape suddenly looks up for grabs (at least for a certain type of platform), and its future remains unwritten. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer

  06-07-2023 20:58 via nytimes.com
  
  For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth’s Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote an extraordinary body of sacred music — large-scale and small-, in English and Latin — along with keyboard and chamber works, madrigals and solo songs. – The New York Times
  
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• Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work

  06-07-2023 20:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan (“Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it’s a pity because William Byrd is one of music history’s great figures”), Roxana Panufnik, and Nico Muhly (There’s always a Byrd for something”). – The New York Times
  
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• San Francisco Arts Funder Attack For Change Of Criteria

  06-07-2023 20:28 via sfcv.org
  Change in the leadership, direction, and procedures of the SF Grants for the Arts reduced or eliminated support for dozens of organization, big and small. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major Celebrity

  06-07-2023 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5’2″, he’d never dance romantic leads. That gave him time to do theatre and movies and TV, party with Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and become a household name. – The Guardian
  
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• Why The French Idea Of The “Good Life” Is Irrational

  06-07-2023 19:32 via aeon.co
  
  France has long been associated with a specific version of the good life, from haute cuisine to haute couture. In the global imagination, the French excel not only at putting quality before quantity, but also in distributing the finer things more widely than their Anglophone counterparts. – Aeon
  
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• Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers

  06-07-2023 19:04 via dancemagazine.com
  
  Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses “extraordinary ability.” Reviews from recognized outlets (since CIS agents aren’t usually dance experts) are just such evidence. Yet there are fewer and fewer reviews, even in major cities. – Dance Magazine
  
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• Jane O’Malley obituary

  06-07-2023 18:45
  
  My friend the painter Jane O’Malley, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a still life painter of rare skill. Utilising a spare repertoire of daily objects, including bowls, vases, jugs and flowers, Jane could conjure up an alert, vibrant composition of colour, line and form. Recurrent backdrops were provided by St Ives in Cornwall, the stark lava fields of Lanzarote and her lush garden in Ireland.It was in the little harbour town of St Ives, in the early 1970s, that Jane, then a student at
  
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• John McWhorter: My Experience With Affirmative Action

  06-07-2023 18:31 via nytimes.com
  
  It may have been a necessary compromise for a time, but it was never truly proper in terms of justice, stability or general social acceptance. – The New York Times
  
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• Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks

  06-07-2023 18:01 via msn.com
  “In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a person might gaze at across a hotel bar while winding down after a real-estate-brokers conference in Kansas City.” – MSN (Curbed)
  
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• How Dancing Helps Rewire The Brain

  06-07-2023 17:29 via wvtf.org
  
  “Dancers are better able to connect that incoming sensory information, whether it’s visually through the eyes, or through touch, and then connect that to motor output.” – WVTF
  
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• A Spanish Economist Gifts the U.S. with Insights on Cultural Participation

  06-07-2023 17:20 via artsjournal.com
  The 22nd International Conference on Cultural Economics hummed along nicely—with one conspicuous absence. Victoria (“Vicky”) Ateca-Amestoy, who died unexpectedly in December 2022, was much missed by the very community she had helped to shape. Over the years, Ateca-Amestoy contributed a series of landmark research papers about arts participation, including cultural heritage engagement and other topics. […]
  
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• Satire? Or Sunday School? Lily Janiak On The San Francisco Mime Troupe

  06-07-2023 17:03 via msn.com
  “When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I’m at a church pageant for a religion I don’t belong to. It’s as if it’s not supposed to be good theater; it’s supposed to be moral instruction that even a child could understand.” – MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
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• Asian-American Actors Are Finally Getting To Move Beyond Model-Minority Characters. Way Beyond.

  06-07-2023 16:35 via nytimes.com
  
  “For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and culture clash. But now … audiences are finally getting to see all dimensions of the Asian-American experience — even the weird, bad and raunchy parts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Regional Theater In The US Is In A Dire State, And It’s Not All Because Of The Pandemic

  06-07-2023 16:02 via msn.com
  “The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The confluence has theater business professionals issuing dire warnings. ‘By this time next year, I think the industry will shrink by half,'” said one consultant. – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Dallas Adopted A Cultural Plan In 2018. Where Does It Stand Post-Pandemic?

  06-07-2023 15:34 via keranews.org
  
  “By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan” — equity — “had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called ‘Big 7’ … struggled just to keep the doors open.” Now the pandemic seems to be past, but audiences have been slow to return, and the city is recalibrating. – KERA (Dallas)
  
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• Director Of Smithsonian’s Planned Women’s History Museum Has “Withdrawn”

  06-07-2023 15:01 via msn.com
  “Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post as the Smithsonian’s founding director of a new women’s history museum … ‘due to family issues that require her attention.'” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s New Twitter Competitor, Makes Its Debut

  06-07-2023 14:33 via apnews.com
  
  “Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides ‘a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.’ It went live late Wednesday in Apple and Google Android app stores.” – AP
  
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• Lagos, Peckham, Repeat review – Yoruba culture and musical craft beer

  06-07-2023 14:27
  
  South London Gallery
  The cross-cultural circuits between west Africa and south London ignite startling works – and snacks! – by artists including Yinka Shonibare and ChiiziiPeckham, boasts the South London Gallery which is located there, is sometimes called “Little Lagos” because of its strong connections to Nigeria’s biggest city. In this exhibition Lagos invades Peckham enticingly: its sounds, sights and even flavours infuse the gallery.Emeka Ogboh has worked part
  
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• One Of The World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Its Print Edition After 320 Years

  06-07-2023 14:05 via apnews.com
  “The Wiener Zeitung, which is owned by the Austrian government but editorially independent, suffered a sharp decrease in revenue after a recent law dropped a requirement for companies to pay to publish changes to the commercial registry in the print edition.” (It will continue publishing online.) – AP
  
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• An artistic phenomenon: how Albrecht Dürer revolutionised the world of design

  06-07-2023 09:00
  
  In the first major exhibition of its Dürer collection in half a century, the Manchester’s Whitworth is showcasing game-changing art by the German artist – and the objects that inspired himIndustrialists have always used their wealth to buy and collect great art. But something more was going on when the textile magnates of late 19th- and early 20th-century Manchester began to collect prints made by Albrecht Dürer.Dürer, the great artist of 15th- and 16th-century Renaiss
  
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• Executive Director – Mainframe Studios

  06-07-2023 05:06 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary The Executive Director will be a visionary arts leader, guiding Mainframe Studio’s advancement as it embarks on a new era of its development. They will have a deep understanding that the success of artists and the local creative economy is directly connected to Mainframe’s success. The Executive Director will further advance Mainframe Studios’ […]
  
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• Study: Drumming Helps Those With Autism

  06-07-2023 00:01 via bbc.com
  
  “What we see is children who learn how to play the drums aren’t afraid of making mistakes. When they stop and make a mistake in their drumming they simply pause, reset, and off they go, and it’s no big deal.” – BBC
  
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