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• On “indirect” support for the arts

  10-12-2024 22:32 via artsjournal.com
  Thomas Wolf has posted a short piece on the history of the National Endowment for the Arts, whether it is likely to survive the coming second Trump administration, and the tax deduction for charitable contributions. I’m going to focus on that last bit…
  People who itemize their income tax deductions can claim contributions to registered charities. Wolf writes:The U.S. government does play the role of support to many sectors including the arts and it does so at a much higher
  
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• The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has A Problem.

  10-12-2024 21:02 via msn.com
  The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after he fled to Germany, the plane went on display at the Institute. Now Bergdoll’s daughter and granddaughter claim the museum stole the plane. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
  
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• How 20th-Century Writers Marched The Novel To Oblivion

  10-12-2024 20:31 via msn.com
  Novelists increasingly defined their craft by opposing tradition, and so placed themselves at loggerheads with most of their possible audience. There is something essentially Pyrrhic about the triumphs of “Ulysses” (1920) and “The Man Without Qualities.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan

  10-12-2024 20:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi Arabia — and, opening very soon, the company’s largest-ever work, in Abu Dhabi. And the shows are astoundingly popular. – The New York Times
  
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• Statistical Profile: Which Artists Are Being Shown In America’s Museums

  10-12-2024 19:31 via news.artnet.com
  
   I looked at more than 200 museums, and counted which artists were on view any time during December. The resulting list includes a little more than 3,400 artist names. Of these, only about 300 appear more than once—a tiny fraction. – Artnet
  
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• Striking Seattle Art Museum Guards Allege Union-Busting

  10-12-2024 19:15 via artnews.com
  
  “A full-time job should serve the basic things you need to take care of yourself, housing, food, health, even mental health. I’ve struggled to buy shoes, which I need as I spend all day in the galleries. Why should my coworkers and I have to go to Goodwill for shoes?” – ARTnews
  
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• The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken

  10-12-2024 19:04 via news.artnet.com
  
  The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms’s Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby’s is estimating its value as between $12 million and $18 million. (The current record was set in 2011: $15.9 million for the Lady Blunt Stradivarius.) – Artnet
  
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• UK Theatres Warn Of Cuts Because Of Cost Increases

  10-12-2024 18:44 via thestage.co.uk
  UK Theatre joint chief executive Claire Walker warned that “unplanned increases in staffing costs” were adding to a theatre sector already at “risk”. – The Stage
  
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• ‘Shōgun was so refreshing for the Japanese’: Takashi Murakami on his blockbusting return

  10-12-2024 16:20
  
  The superstar artist, famed for his Louis Vuitton bags and Kanye West album sleeves, is back with epic paintings riffing on the history of Japanese art. He talks cuteness, gold leaf and hara-kiri on TVIt’s Kyoto, but not as you know it. Forget cherry blossom and golden temples: study one of Takashi Murakami’s vast new paintings and you’ll notice shimmering clouds laid over the embossed outlines of cartoon skulls. It’s a reference, he says, to the city’s ancient Tori
  
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