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• British Museum receives record £1bn donation of Chinese ceramics

  13-11-2024 22:30
  
  Collection of 1,700 pieces dating from third to 20th century is highest-value gift of objects in UK museum historyThe British Museum has been given a private collection of Chinese ceramics worth about £1bn, the highest-value object donation in UK museum history.The 1,700 pieces dating from the third to the 20th century have been given permanently by the trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation. They had been on loan to the London museum since 2009. Continue reading...
  
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• Theater Festival Brings Solace To Capital Of Troubled Burkina Faso

  13-11-2024 21:04 via apnews.com
  
  The dry, landlocked West African nation used to be known for its lively cultural scene; in recent years, the country’s stability has been wrecked by extremist militias and their battles with government forces. Solace has come from the festival Récréâtrales, a festival spread across a district in the capital, Ouagadougou. – AP
  
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• Has The Internet Trapped Fiction In A No-Man’s Land?

  13-11-2024 20:44 via spikeartmagazine.com
  
  Even beyond social media, the internet seems to flatten prose. This is likely due to the distinct ways our brains interpret text – or, how they have been user-engineered to do so –when reading online. – Spike Art
  
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• Pacific Symphony Picks A New Music Director

  13-11-2024 20:32 via cultureoc.org
  
  The 45-year-old Englishman enjoys a substantial social media following; he’s a fan of multidisciplinary performances combining music with other art forms; he’s passionately devoted to developing new audiences through music education, outdoor concerts and community initiatives. – CultureOC
  
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• ‘Manetsplaining’: author describes impressionist’s ‘agonising’ act of condescension

  13-11-2024 15:15
  
  Washington Post art critic says Édouard Manet launched into ‘painful’ incident with fellow painter Berthe MorisotAlmost 140 years before a term was belatedly coined for the practice of men patronisingly setting women right on how certain things ought to be seen or done, it seems that a certain French painter had already become adept at the art of what must inevitably be called Manetsplaining.Details of this late 19th-century case of mansplaining are laid out in a new book by t
  
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