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• University Argues It Should Never Have Bought The O’Keeffe Paintings It Wants To Sell

  19-07-2024 23:36 via nytimes.com
  
  An Indiana judge is facing that very question as Valparaiso University contends that it should be able to sell high-value paintings it owns, including a Georgia O’Keeffe landscape of the New Mexico desert, in order to finance a renovation of freshman dormitories. – The New York Times
  
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• What Art Gets Saved When The Artist Dies

  19-07-2024 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  “Whether or not the artist is internationally celebrated, the art is still valuable.” Yet, so much of it gets lost to history. – The Guardian
  
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• Boston Reconsiders What Public Art Could Be

  19-07-2024 22:24 via npr.org
  
  The city of Boston announced Thursday a major, citywide campaign to reimagine public art.  – NPR
  
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• What Stories The Literary World Tells About Itself

  19-07-2024 22:01 via granta.com
  Among publishers, editors, scholars, critics, and even writers themselves, the stories we tell about literature are more and more stories of the economy of prestige, of one generation’s preferences righteously overturning those of its predecessors. – Granta
  
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• University Of The Arts Unions File Labor Complaint

  19-07-2024 21:29 via artnews.com
  
  The complaint, filed with the National Labor Relations Board, alleges that the school declined to “furnish information” following attempts the negotiate severance pay and other matters in the wake of the school’s closure this past June. – ARTnews
  
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• On “The Gulag Archipelago” At 50

  19-07-2024 21:05 via newcriterion.com
  
  “Why doesn’t Solzhenitsyn’s catalogue of horrors grow boring? You read three volumes about boots trampling on human faces and your attention never flags. One reason is that Solzhenitsyn is a master of ironic narration. … But the nature of Solzhenitsyn’s ‘experiment in literary investigation’ explains why this book remains riveting.” – The New Criterion
  
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• Eurovision Music During War Time

  19-07-2024 20:30 via lareviewofbooks.org
  Eurovision, like the Olympics, touts itself as an apolitical event. Fans and jury members are asked to vote for the best song, not the country that sings it. But neutrality is impossible. Politics are ingrained in the event’s makeup—from the finances of hosting to the concept of the “Big Five” countries. – LA Review of Books
  
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• Béla Tarr Hates It When People Call His Films Pessimistic

  19-07-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Indeed, he says his films are comedies like Chekhov’s plays. “If you are really pessimistic, you go up to the roof and hang yourself, not wake up at four in the morning and go into the countryside to film!” – The Guardian
  
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• Trove Of 16th-Century Murano Glass Found Off The Coast Of Bulgaria

  19-07-2024 19:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  It is speculated that the glass artifacts fell from the cargo of a ship battered by a storm in the shallow, rocky area of the sea. The ship’s wreckage is expected to be discovered in the vicinity. – Artnet
  
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• The Wizardry Of Shigeru Ban, The Architect You Want When Disaster Strikes

  19-07-2024 19:06 via msn.com
  “As a virtuoso of pavilions, temporary structures, emergency shelter, and post-disaster community spaces, he’s developed designs that are quick, cheap, and clean to build, radiate elegance for as long as they last, and can later be recycled.” – Curbed (MSN)
  
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• Steppenwolf Vet Laurie Metcalf Reflects On TV Versus Theatre

  19-07-2024 18:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The need for stamina, combined with memorization and the commitment of a run. This run is short; I am used to being asked to do five or six months. But the live theater is still where I find all my creativity. The rehearsal room is the one place I love to be and where I feel most at home. – Chicago Tribune (Yahoo!)
  
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• Cross Dorothy Parker With Mae West, Have Her Date Frank Serpico And Then Run A Dive Bar. Who Do You Get?

  19-07-2024 18:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Betty Cooper, that’s who. “For decades she lived at the center of a bohemian New York that long ago faded into mythology. … Betty mingled with artists, writers and entertainers. She even had a romance with one of the most famous undercover cops of all time.” – The New York Times
  
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• Study: Why You’re More Likely To Believe Fake News From Acquaintances

  19-07-2024 17:31 via niemanlab.org
  
  So why do your weak links matter so much? One big reason is that they’re more likely than your closest friends to possess novel, salient information that you might lack. – NiemanLab
  
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• Why It’s Okay, Even Good, To Be An Adult Who Loves Disney’s Theme Parks

  19-07-2024 17:03 via msn.com
  “Disneyland is often said to be ‘fun’ or ‘an escape,’ but I wanted … to ask those who have thought critically about theme parks why these spaces matter, why millions are drawn to them and what, if any, emotional benefit they provide. One word kept coming up: play.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• ‘I thought, I’ll show you guys’: eye-popping artist Lesley Dumbrell finally gets her due at 82

  19-07-2024 17:00
  
  Since the 1950s, Dumbrell has fought sexism and conservative thinking to be recognised as one of Australia’s most respected abstract painters – and she’s nowhere near doneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAs a young art student at Melbourne’s RMIT at the end of the 1950s, Lesley Dumbrell was among a cohort of mostly women, contemplating a profession that was dominated by men. Even so, she was shocked when the head of the painting department blithely told her that
  
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• What Sadler’s Wells Has Planned For Its New East London Outpost

  19-07-2024 16:31 via dancemagazine.com
  “Sadler’s Wells East is due to open later this year in London’s Queen Elizabeth Park, site of the 2012 Olympic Games. The 550-seat auditorium, which sits opposite the Olympic Stadium (now home to West Ham United football club), will be the fourth stage programmed by Sadler’s Wells.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• Here’s The First Museum in The U.S. To Return Benin Bronzes To Nigeria

  19-07-2024 16:05 via artnews.com
  
  The Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa restored a brass plaque and a wooden altarpiece to the Oba of Benin, the hereditary ruler of the kingdom from which 3,000-odd art objects — now distributed among museums, mostly in Europe — were looted by British soldiers in 1897. – ARTnews
  
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• Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women

  19-07-2024 15:46
  
  Inspired by her own family, Singaporean artist Niceaunties puts aunties at the heart of the world she conjures upThere are high-rise living quarters built from stacks of Tupperware, spas where you can immerse yourself in a giant bowl of ramen and an altar where you can pay your respects to the Supreme Perm Goddess.Welcome to Auntieverse, a world built by, and ruled by aunties, filled with everything aunties love. Continue reading...
  
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• Faust In The Financial District, 1929: What’s Next From The Producers Of “Sleep No More”

  19-07-2024 15:32 via nytimes.com
  
  “A version of the Faust legend (well, several braided versions of the Faust legend), Life and Trust, which opens Aug. 1, occupies 100,000 square feet over six floors of a financial district skyscraper in New York that was once the home of the City Bank-Farmers Trust Company.” – The New York Times
  
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• New Zealand Symphony’s Ex-CEO Admits He Suddenly Resigned Due To Financial Malfeasance

  19-07-2024 15:06 via thepost.co.nz
  When Peter Biggs stepped down in April, the stated cause was ill health. He now acknowledges the reason was “grievous errors of judgment”: commuting from his country house and charging the orchestra for expensive overnight stays in Wellington while renting out the apartment he already had there. – The Post (Wellington, NZ)
  
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• British Museum’s New Director Suggests “Lending Library” Model For Repatriating Parthenon Marbles And Benin Bronzes

  19-07-2024 14:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  “We can’t give them back because of the act of parliament 1963,” said Nicholas Cullinan, “we’re not allowed to deaccession. … I would hope a partnership of some form is possible, and that is something I think we will definitely want to take forward.” – The Independent (UK)
  
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• Musicians At Welsh National Opera Authorize Strike

  19-07-2024 14:00 via thestrad.com
  
  “Orchestra members of the Welsh National Opera have voted overwhelmingly in favour of potential strike action, following threats of full-time jobs being reduced to 85% contracts by management. … The ballot was called as a result of WNO management plans to make the orchestra part-time, cutting the members’ pay by 15%.” – The Strad
  
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• Modernist Paris, a Monet adventure park and the death of life drawing – the week in art

  19-07-2024 13:00
  
  Oscar Murillo turns Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into an epic painting garden, while Goshka Macuga delves into ancient archeology, and the Paris of 1924 is revisited, which is the last time it held the Olympics – all in your weekly dispatchThe Flooded Garden
  An art adventure playground for all ages, inspired by Monet’s water lily garden and conceived by painter Oscar Murillo.• Tate Modern, London, until 26 August Continue reading...
  
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• Come As You Really Are review – Heaven is a Ford Escort clad in swirly carpet!

  19-07-2024 11:00
  From yarn bombers to doll modifiers to wood turners, this joyous show – put together by Hetain Patel and Artangel – features 14,000 pieces by diehard hobbyists in one giant gleeful celebration of personal creativitySince February, artist Hetain Patel has been gathering hobbyists from across Britain. Quilters, cosplayers and nail-art innovators. Mosaicists, ceramicists and chain-mail linkers. Doll modifiers, wood turners, scrapbookers and yarn bombers. Collectors of postcards, figurin
  
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• ‘It was magical’: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum

  19-07-2024 08:00
  
  Painting, concealed inside one of his well-known works, emerged during work for exhibition celebrating northern artAn unseen self-portrait of one of the most popular northern English artists of his generation has been discovered hidden on the back of another painting.The discovery of a new work by Norman Cornish – arguably the most famous artist to emerge from the north-east of England in the 20th century – was made during preparations for a big show of works by him and another titan
  
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• VP of Artistic Planning & Special Events – JAZZ HOUSE KiDS

  19-07-2024 04:44 via artsjournal.com
  The Vice President of Artistic Programming + Special Events (VPAP+SE) will be responsible for planning, programming and booking, revenue, budget management, and operational oversight of all JAZZ HOUSE signature performance programs and fundraising events. Reporting to the Founder + President, and in close collaboration with the Artistic Director and Associate Producer, the VPAP+SE will harness external resources to benefit and prioritize the programmatic growth and financial sustainability of th
  
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• Seeking Highly Skilled Data Specialist with experience using Salesforce

  19-07-2024 04:26 via artsjournal.com
  STG is seeking a highly skilled data specialist with experience using Salesforce, and ticketing software to join our team. In this role, you will enhance the organization’s ability to use data effectively across all departments. Your work will be critical in optimizing and evaluating the success of our programs. By making recommendations and implementing systems and procedures for improvement, you will directly contribute to our ability to communicate the value of all our programs. This is
  
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• Summer Theatre Festivals Are Facing Big Challenges

  19-07-2024 00:01 via americantheatre.org
  
  “All these challenges are an existential threat to summer theatre as we know it. I’m an optimistic person, but we are facing difficult headwinds. – American Theatre
  
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