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• How The Tampa Museum Prepared For A Hurricane

  10-10-2024 21:15 via artnews.com
  
  “Our facility has been designed to withstand a direct hit from a category three on the second floor, we just completed a 25,000 square-foot renovation, which brought up to code the first floor for a direct hit at a Category Four,” Tomor told ARTnews. “So we’re ready.” – ARTnews
  
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• The Majorette Dancing Of HBCUs Is Going Mainstream

  10-10-2024 21:03 via dancemagazine.com
  
  “At historically Black colleges and universities in the American South, the real stars of any football game are the majorettes. Their signature dance style … (combines) the precision of a kick line with the winking sensuality of burlesque. … More recently, majorette dance has entered the mainstream, taking center stage on reality television series, movies, and social media apps.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• FBI returns Monet painting stolen by Nazis to family of the Jewish owners

  10-10-2024 20:51
  
  Agents were ‘honored’ to give back the piece as hundreds of thousands of stolen cultural objects remain unreturnedA Claude Monet pastel looted from a Jewish couple by Nazis in the second world war was returned to the family’s descendants, officials said on Wednesday.Adalbert “Bela” and Hilda Parlagi purchased the artwork, titled Bord de Mer, at an Austrian art auction in 1936. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Parlagis had to flee and they left their p
  
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• The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked, Taken Down

  10-10-2024 20:44 via wired.com
  
  An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the organization confirmed the incident. – Wired
  
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• Who Invented The Marvel Multiverse? Look Back To Balzac

  10-10-2024 20:32 via theconversation.com
  
  I believe the first person to master the fictional multiverse was the 19th-century French novelist, Honoré de Balzac, in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy, 1829-1847). – The Conversation
  
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• Cleanup On Aisle 3! DVD-Rental Company Goes Bankrupt, Strands Its Retail Boxes Across America

  10-10-2024 20:15 via wsj.com
  Redbox’s parent filed for bankruptcy in the summer, saying it lacked the cash to buy the rights to many new releases, and the kiosk operator subsequently went out of business. It left 24,000 movie vending machines still in the field. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Jamaican Diaspora Is Reclaiming Patwa (Patois)

  10-10-2024 20:07 via bbc.com
  
  The immigrants to Britain and North America who speak the island’s creolized language have usually discouraged their children and grandchildren from using it, believing that complete command of proper English was necessary for the young people to get ahead. Now many of those grown-up children and grandchildren are reconnecting with Patwa. – BBC
  
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• Monet Pastel Stolen By Nazis Returned To Family Generations Later

  10-10-2024 19:15 via apnews.com
  
  Adalbert Parlagi and his son Franz kept meticulous ownership and search records. After Franz’s death in 2012, Françoise Parlagi stumbled upon her father’s cache of documents, including the original receipt from her grandfather’s purchase of the Monet pastel. – AP
  
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• The One Media Figure Everyone Trusts Is The Weatherman

  10-10-2024 19:01 via msn.com
  Especially Denis Phillips in Tampa, where — in a state where climate denialism is spreading, encouraged by the Governor and his party — for 30 years viewers have respected and paid attention to him, regardless of their own leanings. Especially during hurricane season. – Slate (MSN)
  
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• Manhattan’s Trinity Church Bells Host Musicians In Ringing Contest

  10-10-2024 18:44 via gothamist.com
  Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity Church tower and strike eight bells in a complex, intricate order for the national Trinity Striking Competition, a demonstration of skill in the 17th-century art of change ringing. – Gothamist
  
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• Call in Anish Kapoor for an HS2 monument | Brief letters

  10-10-2024 18:44
  
  What to do on HS2 | Women who start war | Tory leadership race | The comfort of Corbyn | A Labour shakeup The answer to the question of what to do on HS2 (Nils Pratley on finance, 7 October) depends on the opportunity cost. Everything that can be done is affordable, but if the Treasury insists that the price of more for HS2 is child poverty, cold pensioners, unbuilt hospitals and more obstacles to compensation for victims of injustice (Chagos, contaminated blood, post office, Grenfell etc) then
  
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• New Toronto Opera Festival

  10-10-2024 18:35 via ludwig-van.com
  
  Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival is Toronto’s first-ever festival to combine opera and musical theatre in a celebration of Canadian creators and performers. – Ludwig Van
  
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• Using Mali’s Traditional Theater As Psychiatric Treatment

  10-10-2024 18:12 via apnews.com
  
  Koteba, a traditional form of theater by Mali’s largest ethnic group, the Bambara, mixes acting, singing and dancing to work through villagers’ problems and offer satire. At one of Bamako’s largest hospitals, koteba is being used to help psychiatric patients in a country desperately short of mental health professionals. – AP
  
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• Pittsburgh Ballet Advertises On Streaming Services And Sees Returns

  10-10-2024 17:30 via post-gazette.com
  Beginning last season the ballet company also began advertising its more family-friendly shows on big-name streaming services like Hulu and Disney+ and even in local movie theaters to maximize their advertising dollars. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Leif Segerstam, Admired Conductor And Astoundingly Prolific Composer, Is Dead At 80

  10-10-2024 17:02 via tinyurl.com
  
  The Finnish eccentric, known for his long white hair and beard, rotund figure and quirky personality, composed 371 symphonies, most single-movement works with colorful titles. While he guest-conducted widely when younger, in later years he kept most of his work on the podium within Finland but attracted devoted followers via recordings. – Gramophone
  
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• Two Presidents Of Project 1619 Die Within One Month, Organization To Regroup

  10-10-2024 16:33 via pilotonline.com
  “Only a few weeks after the death of Project 1619 founder and President Calvin Pearson, his successor — William Wiggins — has also died. … He had assumed the title of the organization’s president after Pearson’s death in early September.” The board says the organization’s future existence is secure. – The Virginian-Pilot
  
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• Manhattan DA’s Art Trafficking Unit’s Authority Challenged In Court By Art Institute Of Chicago

  10-10-2024 16:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The unit seized from museums and collectors 11 works by Egon Schiele; most were surrendered when agents proved the pieces had been looted by Nazis. But the Art Institute has gone to court, arguing that the Manhattan DA’s unit not only is wrong about provenance but lacks jurisdiction. – The New York Times
  
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• US Customs Seized 13 Ancient Egyptian Artifacts At JFK Airport

  10-10-2024 15:34 via artnews.com
  
  Documents filed earlier this month indicate that, in 2020-21, agents at the airport impounded a vase, jars, figurines, and other items dating from roughly 2,500 to 5,000 years ago. Collectors had evidently purchased the items via eBay. – ARTnews
  
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• Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

  10-10-2024 15:08 via apnews.com
  
  “A slow-burning literary success who won multiple awards in (Asia) and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize.” – AP
  
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• Take me to the 125 bouncing penguins! What to see at this year Frieze art fair

  10-10-2024 14:55
  The art jamboree has hit London. Here are our highlights, from therapists for self-driving cars to sweat-guzzling go-go dancers and xoloitzcuintli dogs doused in motor oilThe art fair has had an airy redesign. You now have to walk to the farthest tent to reach the grandest galleries. This forces wealthy punters to traverse Frieze London spreading love (and ideally money) as they go. For regulars, the effect is much like when a supermarket moves its stock around, and you can’t find the riga
  
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• The Real Reason That Texas School Superintendent Cancelled That High School’s “Oklahoma!”

  10-10-2024 14:39 via msn.com
  The Sherman High School’s production became a subject of nationwide controversy after a transgender boy was removed from the cast, his fellow students protested, and the district called it all off. An independent report says that the now-former superintendent was upset about “same-sex kissing” onstage. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Houston Grand Opera Music Director Patrick Summers Announces Departure

  10-10-2024 14:17 via houstonpress.com
  
  After 28 years, the conductor will depart HGO at the end of the 2025-26 season. – Houston Press
  
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• Dean & Head of School – New York Studio School

  10-10-2024 06:02 via artsjournal.com
  The Dean and Head of School (Dean) will maintain the existing standards of NYSS while remaining open to the evolution of what art can be in the 21st century. A practicing fine artist or dedicated arts professional, the Dean will encourage students to pay attention to all forms of art, past and present, in their quest to discover what is their own. In addition to teaching students and serving as the leading spokesperson of NYSS, the Dean will be responsible for all aspects of NYSS including admin
  
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• The Cabot – Executive Director

  10-10-2024 05:57 via artsjournal.com
  Reporting To: Board of DirectorsLocation: Beverly, MACompany DescriptionThe Cabot Performing Arts Center (“The Cabot”), located in Beverly, Massachusetts, serves as a cultural centerpiece for the local community, offering a wide range of artistic events, from concerts to comedy shows, theatrical productions, film screenings, and an array of community programs. With 850 seats, The Cabot has been thoughtfully restored yet modernized as a state-of-the-art venue, and now serves as a vit
  
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