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• Restoring The Colors In An Ancient Egyptian Temple

  15-10-2024 21:06 via news.artnet.com
  
  “Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple … the Temple of Edfu, which is devoted to the falcon god Horus and situated along the Nile’s west bank, just below the river’s midway point.” – Artnet
  
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• The Unraveling Of Alice Munro

  15-10-2024 20:29 via thewalrus.ca
  
  No writer who heard it would touch it. From bookstores to biographers to journalists, the literary world had everything to gain from an untarnished Alice Munro. Open secrets require closed doors. – The Walrus
  
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• Aggressive Prediction: Music Streaming Revenue Will Double By 2030

  15-10-2024 20:15 via digitalmusicnews.com
  By the numbers, that refers to $49.7 billion in paid streaming gross revenue for 2030, nearly double 2023’s $26.4 billion, and a cool 647 million paid subscribers in emerging markets (up from 300 million in 2023), per Music in the Air. – Digital Music News
  
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• “Easy Rider,” The Messy Movie That Changed Hollywood

  15-10-2024 20:04 via bbc.com
  
  The 1969 road movie had an unusually messy shoot, thanks largely to director/star Dennis Hopper. (Co-star/producer Peter Fonda later described Hopper as “a bit of a megalomaniac.”) – BBC
  
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• Atlantic Magazine Becomes Profitable, Reports 1M Subscriptions And Returns To Monthly Print

  15-10-2024 19:44 via cnn.com
  
  It’s an everything-old-is-new-again finding that also explains the continued success of some books, luxury magazines and literary journals. – CNN
  
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• Data: How Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Recovered From Covid Shutdowns

  15-10-2024 19:32 via culturaldata.org
  
  Organizations remain very reliant on declining revenue sources. In 2022, 65% of expenses were covered by contributed revenue. However, the rate of contributed revenue growth has slowed. – SMU Data
  
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• What Alvin Ailey Built

  15-10-2024 19:14 via newyorker.com
  
  What he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black audiences—general Black audiences, like the folks Acocella probably saw applauding “Revelations”—should connect not only with their “ ’buked” and “scorned” selves onstage but with the feeling that performance can be a kind of balm, an embrace. – The New Yorker
  
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• How American Sign Language Is Transforming “American Idiot”

  15-10-2024 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “Now, this revival of that show is proving, with gusto, that American Idiot can be yet another thing: a near-scientific study of the innumerable ways to give somebody the finger.” – The New York Times
  
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• Royalties Lawsuit Against Giant Music Producer Rattles The Industry

  15-10-2024 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  In a lawsuit filed in California, attorneys representing Durst, Limp Bizkit and Flawless Records accused UMG of using software “deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including Plaintiffs’) royalties” so it can pocket the profits. – The Guardian
  
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• Japan’s Hidden Clutter Culture

  15-10-2024 18:14 via aeon.co
  
  Homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: gomi-yashiki (trash-mansions). And in areas where space is limited, cluttered residences and shops will often erupt, disgorging things onto the street in a semi-controlled jumble so ubiquitous that urban planners have a name for it: afuré-dashi (spilling-outs). – Aeon
  
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• Flat Broke And Desperate, This Artist Signed Away His Works And His Rights. Now He’s Suing To Get Them Back.

  15-10-2024 17:58 via nytimes.com
  
  Bjarne Melgaard, whose career soared in the 2010s, developed some very ill-advised habits (including crystal meth) and ran up big debts. Two investors gave him roughly $10 million in this Faustian deal — with a contract Melgaard says he was too drunk to understand at the time. – The New York Times
  
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• Study: How Authenticity Matters

  15-10-2024 17:44 via psyche.co
  
  The emotional and psychological ties people have with places contribute to their perception of authenticity. Just as much as the exposed bricks and wooden floors, it’s because of its community connections and personalised atmosphere that a centuries-old pub in London can feel more authentic than a commercialised pub in the United States. – Psyche
  
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• Young People Won’t Read Books? That’s Just Not True!

  15-10-2024 17:32 via cmsthomas.substack.com
  
  “The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical dust collector, and then complain that they aren’t playing along, it’s just not a good look for us.” – CMSThomas
  
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• Darren Walker Is New Director Of The National Gallery

  15-10-2024 17:17 via artnews.com
  
  Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one of the nation’s largest and most influential philanthropies, the Ford Foundation.
  
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• Meet The Woman Leading The Digitization Of The U.S. National Archives

  15-10-2024 17:05 via washingtonpost.com
  “It makes a weird kind of sense that the government worker who understands the value of providing online advice and information to far-flung Americans … is a woman whose hometown is a 32-hour drive from a reference desk in D.C.” – The Washington Post
  
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• University Of Texas At Dallas Is Building A New Arts District

  15-10-2024 16:33 via axios.com
  “The new district, named the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, will have two museums, a performance hall, a music building and an outdoor plaza. The Crow Museum of Asian Art … opened a second location last week on the UT Dallas campus as part of the first phase of the project.” – Axios
  
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• One Building In, UT Dallas’s Arts District Has Already Gone Awry

  15-10-2024 16:01 via artsjournal.com
  The designers of the project, the L.A. starchitect firm Morphosis, have abandoned the original plan (around a garden) for a paved pedestrian artery that will be hot most of the year. Morphosis is apparently more interested in cool-looking shapes than a building that suits its purpose. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• TikTok Bosses Know Very Well About The App’s Bad Effects On Teens, Documents Reveal

  15-10-2024 15:36 via npr.org
  
  “For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns.” – NPR
  
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• Trial For Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie Postponed Again

  15-10-2024 15:04 via apnews.com
  
  “The attempted murder trial of (Hadi Matar,) the man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack was put on hold Friday while judges consider a request to move it to another county. Jury selection had been scheduled to start on Tuesday.” – AP
  
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• Why Do Donors Ask for Irrelevant Data?

  15-10-2024 15:00 via artsjournal.com
  Could it be that you never talked to them about your nonprofit’s charitable goals and how they mesh with the donor’s? Whose fault is that?
  Photo by Damián Buonamico licensed under CC BY-2.0.
  A few weeks ago, I participated in a discussion about the arts and measuring impact in the community. As every other author does, I believed that the message that the arts are not a tax-exempt activity had been spread far and wide among nonprofit leaders. And yet, when I asked the group if
  
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• One Year After Cyberattack, British Library Is Gradually Coming Back

  15-10-2024 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  “The time it is taking us to bring our services back is an exact measure of the destructiveness of the original attack, which directly targeted our core computing infrastructure,” said CEO Roly Keating. The estimated cost of the incident is £1.6 million ($2.09 million). – ARTnews
  
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• Material Worlds review – sculpture made of carpet fluff proves textile art is cool at last

  15-10-2024 13:57
  
  Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, CoventryThis touring show celebrates once-maligned fibre in all its wildly imaginative forms, riffing on familiar yarns and fabrics to reach less obvious realms of thoughtThe art world has gone soft and is all the better for it. The UK’s galleries have undergone something tantamount to yarn-bombing over the last couple of years. There have been politically taut weavings in the exhibition Unravel at the Barbican, a suspended woven forest by Magdalena Abaka
  
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• Hurricane Helene destroyed Asheville’s flourishing arts community. Can they rebuild what was lost?

  15-10-2024 13:32
  
  The River Arts District attracted artists with cheap rents. With buildings flattened, the community fears a land grabThe arts community in Asheville, North Carolina, is piecing itself together in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.In the River Arts District, artwork was destroyed, and the buildings that once housed studios and galleries are mud-caked or crumbling. As they face the immediate challenge of survival, the community now wonders if what it once had can ever be rebuilt from the ground up
  
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• Sea rescues and green revolution – southern Italy’s foremost photo festival – in pictures

  15-10-2024 10:00
  
  Monopoli, south-east of Bari, is home to PhEST, an ambitious photo festival that sees dozens of exhibitions and events take over the old town and features artists from around the world working in different media Continue reading...
  
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• Male artists such as Damien Hirst less of a force after 40, says Tracey Emin

  15-10-2024 06:00
  
  Artist, 61, also tells The Louis Theroux Podcast that she likes ‘pomp and ceremony’ of the royal familyTracey Emin has said that most male artists including her contemporary Damien Hirst are less of a creative “force” after they reach the age of 40.Both Emin and Hirst have been Turner prize nominees, with Hirst winning the prestigious award in 1995, with his formaldehyde-preserved cow and calf, called Mother and Child, Divided, the focal piece of his exhibition that year.
  
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• Hew Locke’s British Museum looting exposé: ‘inescapably, deeply shocking’

  15-10-2024 01:01
  
  British Museum, London
  In a show full of beauty and horror, which even includes ‘Jamaica’s Elgin Marbles’, the artist places his own works alongside those plundered by Britain from long-destroyed peoples
  Part history lesson, part crime scene, Hew Locke’s What Have We Here? is filled with beauty and horror. At the heart of the show, in the Great Court Gallery of the British Museum in London, are looting and vandalism, the destruction of societies, the erasure of cultures a
  
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