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• A small tourist charge could boost museums’ finances | Letters

  04-08-2024 18:09
  
  We should allow state-sponsored museums and galleries to charge admission to non-UK residents, argues Carol Varlaam Why don’t we change the law requiring free admission for all to the permanent galleries of all government-sponsored national museums? We could retain free admission for UK residents and allow – not require – museums to charge admission to non-UK visitors. Tourist numbers have increased exponentially since the law was enacted in 2001 and I doubt a modest charge wou
  
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• Mel Ramsden obituary

  04-08-2024 17:44
  
  One of the last members of the Art & Language group founded in the 1960sIn November 2014, an exhibition called Nobody Spoke opened at the Lisson Gallery in London. The show took its name from its centrepiece, an installation of 17 small chairs, each made of 10 canvases painted in black and white with haphazard images and texts.Some of these reappeared in drawings on a nearby wall; the chairs themselves starred in an adjoining 40-minute video, this time occupied by members of a German artists
  
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• When Is The Right Time To Read A Famous Book?

  04-08-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Maybe when you’re old enough to appreciate it. “It turns out, being wrong is one of the best things in life.” – The New York Times
  
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• Three things with Ken Done: ‘I bought a very large Fred Williams painting – but I sold it, which was stupid’

  04-08-2024 17:00
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the Australian artist tells us about a sorely missed artwork – and his fiercest four-legged criticGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailNo one paints Sydney Harbour like Ken Done. His joyous, brightly coloured depictions of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge have decorated doona covers and duffel bags since the 1980s, and remain loved by a new generation of Australiana appreciators.Now aged 84, Done is still painting. He ha
  
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• YouTuber And Kids Choice Award Winner MrBeast Says That Yes, He Used Racist And Homophobic Language

  04-08-2024 16:30 via msn.com
  But he was young, see? So it was just a boy being a boy! MrBeast, for those who don’t know, makes a lot of money as the person running. YouTube’s most subscribed-to channel. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Former Monk Wins The Lottery, Immediately Starts Funding Nonprofit Theatres

  04-08-2024 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Is this real? Absolutely. Roy Cockrum won Powerball in 2014, and since then has given millions to nonprofits. “The question I put to artistic directors is, ‘Is there a project you’ve always dreamed of doing that you couldn’t afford?’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Complicated Ways Ballet Teaches Women About Submission And Obedience

  04-08-2024 15:30 via vogue.com
  
  Those lessons in a particular brand of “femininity” aren’t super. Ballerinas “are taught to dance through pain, to perform roles with troubling messages, and that the gaze of an audience (historically male, but even now, certainly patriarchal) gives them worth.” – Vogue
  
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• Reclusive artist to show ‘extraordinary’ work in UK for first time in decades

  04-08-2024 15:04
  Henry Orlik withdrew from art world after early success but his surrealist-influenced paintings will now go on displayA reclusive artist whose work hung alongside masters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí has agreed to the first major exhibition of his dream-like paintings half a century after he withdrew from the art world.Henry Orlik, now 77 and living near Marlborough in Wiltshire, was in his 20s when his talent was recognised as exceptional. In the 1970s, he showed at the
  
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• The Brits Have Decided To Award Children’s Movies, At Last

  04-08-2024 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  “It is the first new film category to be introduced by Bafta for five years, and will be awarded for the first time in 2025.” – BBC
  
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• The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra And Its Union Have Come To An Agreement

  04-08-2024 14:30 via citybeat.com
  
  The CSO says that “the new agreement provides salary increases of 23% over the life of the contract, more flexible scheduling,” and “industry-leading audition and tenure practices” that will be clearly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. – CityBeat
  
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• Spend Years Writing Theatre Criticism, And Maybe Learn How To Write Plays

  04-08-2024 14:00 via americantheatre.org
  
  That formula worked for Kelundra Smith, at least. One important detail: In criticism and in theatre, “you have to have a strong pitch.”– American Theatre
  
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• How Much Did Munro’s Books Management Know About Alice Munro’s Daughter?

  04-08-2024 13:30 via cbc.ca
  
  One former employee says that keeping the info secret, and celebrating Munro, was “a gap in understanding.” The manager says that “she did not know about Alice’s response to the situation, or the ensuing criminal case, and would have made different decisions about upholding the Munro legacy.” – CBC
  
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• Ina Jaffe, Longtime And Legendary NPR Journalist, Has Died At 75

  04-08-2024 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jaffe, “an NPR correspondent for roughly 40 years who was known for her unflinching approach to journalism and was the first editor of the network’s initial iteration of the weekly national news show, Weekend Edition Saturday.” – The New York Times
  
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• British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films on show at Oscars museum

  04-08-2024 11:00
  
  John McLusky’s comic strips for the Express in the 50s and 60s came to define the character, as his son explains“You only live twice, or so it seems” – at least, that is, if you are the work of the late illustrator John McLusky, ­creator of the popular James Bond newspaper cartoon strips. His dynamic, almost-forgotten drawings brought a reliable touch of glamorous machismo into the lives of readers of the Daily Express between 1958 and 1966, and are now to stir again.
  
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• British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films gifted to Oscars archive

  04-08-2024 11:00
  John McLusky’s comic strips for the Express in the 50s and 60s came to define the character, as his son explains“You only live twice, or so it seems” – at least, that is, if you are the work of the late illustrator John McLusky, ­creator of the popular James Bond newspaper cartoon strips. His dynamic, almost-forgotten drawings brought a reliable touch of glamorous machismo into the lives of readers of the Daily Express between 1958 and 1966, and are now to stir again.
  
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• Hany Armanious: Stone Soup review – the quizzical strangeness of the everyday

  04-08-2024 10:00
  
  Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
  Creating a sense of wonder with resin casts of found objects, the Egyptian-born Australian sculptor is an inspired choice to reopen the Yorkshire gallery after an elegant refurbishmentA curved walkway seems to float in midair, above the street, like the bridge in some Japanese watercolour. Stand in the middle and you have unexpected views of the Leeds street below. It is an aerial joy, but there is a bigger purpose: which is to carry viewers from the Victorian splend
  
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